APOTHEKE
Yervant Der Parthogh47.11 - FEEDING MIA FARROW13 - 20 July 2009The recent, radical transformation of the technologies of observing and auscultating unfolding events via media such as Youtube and blogging, differentiates the production of collective memory as well as the context and meaning of 'trauma'. A vast archive of private, local, mostly confrontational events defines today's international communality, a communality which in turn is re-privatised and appropriated accordingly. The quest-ion of belonging becomes a query regarding digital memory, the resolution and framing of images, provided the images themselves remain genealogically untraceable. Mia Farrow's recent - failed hunger strike for Darfur from Connecticut , a screaming privatization of an international issue and a shift in its dissemination as of a specific local archive, triggered Yervant Der Parthogh's visit to his own archive of problematically copyrighted filmed conflicts. A visit which immediately becomes aporetic vis-a-vis the role of the viewer-author within the broader process of redistributing parts and permits in such an archive's reconstruction. Bringing together techniques from music videos, war reportage and CCTV surveillance, Yervant Der Parthogh's 47.11 - Feeding Mia Farrow synthesizes a third archive in-between public and private, briefing and alienation, in-between copyright and cultural terrorism. 47.11 -Feeding Mia Farrow thus traces supply lines to nurture the peripeteia of the archive and its uses, supply lines unadulterated by the amassing ravingly anorexic privatizations yet not that far from our domestic t.v. sets.'47.11 - Feeding Mia Farrow' is the first of a series of visits by Yervant Der Parthogh to archives and data banks. In November APOTHEKE will present his video-installation titled "Around The Silence", while he is also currently working on a photo-book titled "Walking Through Rooms And Stopping" which is to be published in early 2010.
Yervant Der Parthogh
47.11 - FEEDING MIA FARROW
13 - 20 July 2009
The recent, radical transformation of the technologies of observing and auscultating unfolding events via media such as Youtube and blogging, differentiates the production of collective memory as well as the context and meaning of 'trauma'. A vast archive of private, local, mostly confrontational events defines today's international communality, a communality which in turn is re-privatised and appropriated accordingly. The quest-ion of belonging becomes a query regarding digital memory, the resolution and framing of images, provided the images themselves remain genealogically untraceable.
Mia Farrow's recent - failed hunger strike for Darfur from Connecticut , a screaming privatization of an international issue and a shift in its dissemination as of a specific local archive, triggered Yervant Der Parthogh's visit to his own archive of problematically copyrighted filmed conflicts. A visit which immediately becomes aporetic vis-a-vis the role of the viewer-author within the broader process of redistributing parts and permits in such an archive's reconstruction. Bringing together techniques from music videos, war reportage and CCTV surveillance, Yervant Der Parthogh's 47.11 - Feeding Mia Farrow synthesizes a third archive in-between public and private, briefing and alienation, in-between copyright and cultural terrorism.
47.11 -Feeding Mia Farrow thus traces supply lines to nurture the peripeteia of the archive and its uses, supply lines unadulterated by the amassing ravingly anorexic privatizations yet not that far from our domestic t.v. sets.
'47.11 - Feeding Mia Farrow' is the first of a series of visits by Yervant Der Parthogh to archives and data banks. In November APOTHEKE will present his video-installation titled "Around The Silence", while he is also currently working on a photo-book titled "Walking Through Rooms And Stopping" which is to be published in early 2010.
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