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The Decelerator · Multi-city Video-Installation · New York Berlin Budapest· Mar 18-Apr 3, 2011
The Decelerator
Group Show. Multi-city video installation. 8 video artists and 1 audio soundtrack.
New York (AllanNederpelt); Berlin (Sur la Montagne); Budapest (Videospace).
Mar 18 - Apr 3, 2011
Curated by Leo Kuelbs, Adam Nankervis, Kozma Zsolt.
External links Leo Kuelbs· AllanNederpelt
Exhibition information
Videos by: Tomas Eller, Richard Jochum, Joao Vasco Paiva, Danielle de Picciotto, Denis Salivanov, Vadim Schaeffler, Gábor Tóth aka tgnoise, Ryan Uzilevssky
Sound by: Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten)
Concept and more information: Leo Kuelbs Collection
Curators: Leo Kuelbs, Adam Nankervis, Kozma Zsolt, Amelie Zadeh
Locations of the simultaneous exhibitions:
Budapest: Videospace Gallery (Ráday u. 56, Budapest)
New York: AllanNederpelt (60 Freeman St. Greenpoint, Brooklyn)
Berlin: Sur la Montagne (Torstrasse 170, Mitte, Berlin)
Eight video artists from Europe and the Americas will present a variety of new and existing videos and video-mapped installations. "The Decelerator" involves a subterranean sound piece commissioned for the exhibition by the German Industrial musician Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten). This sound piece, the murmuring thread, will play throughout the respective spaces. The mix of work installed within this single soundtrack, presented simultaneously in three cities, makes this an exciting and conceptually new form of exhibition, which mirrors the conversations the show hopes to broach.
Richard Jochum's single channel video installation "Dust, Dirt, and Scratches" has been created particularly for the Decelerator exhibition. "Dust, Dirt, and Scratches" is a 42min video screencast on digital cleaning. It shows the process of digitally retouching an image which is full of stains and scratches in Photoshop. The cursor turns into a wiping cloth and broom. Guided by an invisible hand, it touches the image in sections to remove stains till the spotty image becomes plain. - Recorded as a screen-cast, the movie serves as a tutorial as well as a demonstration of compulsive behavior. If longing for perfection is inherent to the arts - hereby creating beautiful pictures at times - it's also a futile obsession. For a video artist who is used to the format of movies under five minutes, Richard Jochum's screen-cast is remarkably lengthy. However, the goal is not to have the audience watch the entire movie rather than make the viewer realize that there will always one more spot that needs cleaning. And if the superficial stains are cleared, the image will still show hidden, low-lying stains.
A limited edition DVD catalog will be available at the sites for a nominal charge.