Richard Jochum Movies


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Visual Culture Tomatoes (with Sound)

Single Channel Video

New York, 2019 (with Soundtrack), TRT: 2 min 30 sec

Visual Culture Tomatoes animates a Google-search for images on "tomatoes." The result is a reflection on visual culture through the graphical interface of social media. The screencast was recorded in 2010; a new version including Sound has been created as part of a site-specific video and sound installation for the Mitte Media Festival in Berlin 2019.

Tear Crackle Split

Single Channel Video

New York, 2019

Tear Crackle Split playfully explores an image culture that senselessly reproduces itself no matter what. At what point is the united front of imagery cracking? By tearing apart representations of the material culture and world around us, the artist gives viewers the opportunity to exact revenge on the digital images that surround them.

The single channel video (TRT: 2 min 58 sec) is part of Digital Fairy Tales: Vengeance is Mine, commissed by the Leo Kuelbs Collection.

Catch (Three)

Triple Channel Video Installation

Mongolia, 2018

A sequel to Catch, Catch (Three) is performed by Alla Jie Zhang, Ronald van der Meijs, Zheng Lu, and Richard Jochum.

Stepping Up

Single Channel Video

New York, 2017

A collaboration between XiRen Wang (audio) and Richard Jochum (video) as part of Identity 0.0, commissed by Leo Kuelbs Collection

Catch

Dual Channel Video Installatioin

New York, 2017

Synopsis: In Catch, which alludes to the childhood game, two people toss cell phones between each other. The videos recorded by each of the two phones during the playful game are shown next to each other. Referring to a pervasive selfie culture, the recordings capture the players and their environment in topsy-turvy slow motion.

Tug of War

Multiple Channel Video Installatioin

New York, 2016-2017

Synopsis: Tug of War is a video installation with multiple monitors showing a man struggling to pull on the same rope from either side. While representing a self that is forcefully conflicted, the installation embodies polarization within the self rather than in the other.

One Fifth of a Huge Exhibition

Interactive Video Installation with Eye Tracking Software, Webcam, Computer

New York, 2016

Synopsis: The interactive installation shows a performer from the side holding a mirror and staring at himself. While wearing a wig, he touches his hair from time to time to make sure it sits well. Without the viewer watching, the performer continues to tend to himself with appreciation. Only when a viewer positions himself in front of the installation does the scene change and become interactive: the performer turns his face and stares straight at the onlooker, who sees him/herself in the small webcam window on the left-hand side of the monitor. After a few seconds one sees the performer blink his eyes and hears the sound of a shutter release, indicating that the installation might just haven taken an image of the viewer.

The installation responds to a surveillance and selfie culture driven by social media, which makes artists, who have always depended on audiences, compete for attention in increasingly narcissistic ways.

Yodel (Digital Fairy Tales Vol I)

Single Channel Video Installation

New York 2016

Soundtrack: Theory

Synopsis: Yodel is a playful, fast-paced stop-motion animation based on a German folk tale from the 19th century. It tells the story of two brothers, Yodel and Michael, competing for the attention and estate of their father. Michael is the first-born but Yodel is his father’s favorite. In a series of competitions, Yodel succeeds with the help of a toad who turns into a beautiful woman. In a gesture of generosity, he makes up with his brother and leaves the fatherly estate to him. Yodel is part of Volume 1 of “Digital Fairy Tales” commissioned by the Leo Kuelbs Collection.

Atlas Goes Superman (Cat Island)

Single Channel Video Installatioin

Cat Island, 2016

Look at Me! Look at Me!

Single Channel Video

Bahamas, Alt Aussee, 2016

Offering #3: Dinner!

Interactive Video, Face Recognition, Computer, Webcam, Monitor

New York 2015

All The World Futures

Video Performance

Venice, 2015

Synopsis: Atlas is a performance series that originated in the Austrian Alps and has been performed at various locations, in city-scapes, on mountain tops and on top of buildings. The ambitious theme of the Venice Biennale 2015 - All The Worlds Futures - lend itself ideally to be connected with Atlas.

What Was I Thinking?

Single Channel Video Animation

New York 2014-2015

Cinema4D programming: Erol Gunduz

Synopsis: The Crossword Project was developed as a video animation built in Cinema 4D and shown at the Filmmuseum in Frankfurt in Spring 2015 and as a wall painting at the Austrian CulturalForum in New York in Summer 2015. The work comes out of the artist’s fascination with the ubiquity and relevance of crossword puzzles for popular culture and most importantly the type of questions they address, which are answerable by providing short clues. The knowledge generated through crossword puzzles tends to be prepackaged and memorable. The Crossword Project goes beyond that. The outcome is an array of questions, unanswerable at large, absurdist or rhetorical at times, often exploratory, almost always soliciting responses that won’t fit into a rubric or short word. Finding good questions takes time and effort. The search for them reflects common ground between art, philosophy, and research.

Ashes To Ashes, Stones To Stones

Single Channel Video Installation

New York, Aegina, 2009-2014

Performance: Vassiliki Athena Vayenou

Synopsis: The video

Offering #2

Interactive Video, Face Recognition, Computer, Webcam, Monitor.

New York 2012

Programming: Kevin Bleich.

Synopsis: The video installation presents a person holding out a chalice and offering wine. Connected to facial recognition software and a sensor, the hand reaches out to the audience as it passes by. Although interactive, it is impossible to receive; henceforth, the offering continues.

Offering #1

Interactive Video, Face Recognition, Computer, Webcam, Monitor.

New York 2011

Programming: Kevin Bleich.

Synopsis: The video installation presents a person holding out a chalice and offering a host. Connected to facial recognition software and a sensor, the hand reaches out to the audience as it passes by. Although interactive, it is impossible to receive; henceforth, the offering continues.

Human Waterfall / Elevation

Single Channel Video Installation

New York 2011

Music: Loscil, "Biced".

Synopsis: The 2 min video displays a waterfall; instead of water it shows people; instead of having them fall down, they go both up and down (in this version mostly up). The flow is decelerated and continuous; the video is looped; the soundscape by Loscil amplifies the floating movement. Having served as a conceptual starting point and catalyst for Immersive Surfaces, the Human Waterfall is conceived to be put on display on a frontal wall of a museum or gallery.

Immersive Surfaces / As Above So Below

Videomapping Project Collaboration incl. Simon Anaya, Farkas Fülöp, Richard Jochum, John Moreno, John Ensor Parker, and Ryan Uzilevsky. Curated by Leo Kuelbs.

New York 2011

External Link: Immersive Surfaces

Synopsis: Immersive Surfaces has been a public video mapping projection onto the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn during the Dumbo Arts Festival from September 23 - 25, 2011. The multi-part video installation made "crowd", i.e. the connection between individuals and the greater group a main topic, while also examining notions of projected depth and the meaning of surface.

Dust, Dirt, and Scratches

Screencast Movie, 42 min

New York 2011

External links Decelerator

Synopsis: The 42 min video shows the process of digitally retouching an image hereby removing, dust, dirt, and scratches. If longing for perfection is inherent to the arts - thus creating beautiful pictures at times - it's also a futile obsession.

Collaborative Silverware, Brooklyn, Performance/Documentary, 2010

Performance documentary, 2 min 54 sec

New York 2010

External links Invisible Dog

Synopsis: The documentary captures how 2 performers are having dinner together while feeding each other publicly with elongated silverware (3 feet).

Visual Culture Tomatoes

Screencast-animation, 1 min

New York 2010

Synopsis: We live in a world of images. Visual Culture Tomates is a screen cast animation created through Cooliris representing images of tomatoes in the age of image culture. Animated screencast by cooliris and google.

Twenty Angry Dogs - Group Barking

Video and Sound Installation for Gallery Bundo, South-Korea

59 sec, looped

New York 2010

External links Gallery Bundo

Twenty Angry Dogs

Video and Sound Installation for Ban Song Gallery, South-Korea

1-2 min videos, looped

New York 2009-2010

External links Gallery Bundo · Twenty Angry Dogs draft

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Art

Video performance, 1 min 26 sec

New York 2009

Synopsis: I can't believe it's not art is a short video in which a performer is picking petals from a daisy referencing to the old childhood game: She loves me, she loves me not. By expanding the popular diversion into the field of the arts, the video adds humor to an often dreadfully serious debate about whether a certain object, image or artifact is art or not. The outcome is based on an understanding of art as a process rather than a product, a social construction rather than an isolated entity by itself.