Hotel
Video/Film, 10.00 min, HD, New York, USA, 2010
In the video ‘Hotel’ existentialism meets sensuality: The Superintendent invites four Trainees into the privacy of the ‘Hotel’, where they must undergo a series of theoretical and practical exercises, reminiscent of body art and performance lecture, administered by the Bellboy, the Superintendent and the Hotel Owner. Each Trainee is assessed according to his or her performance and willingness to submit to the Easy-to-Believe system.
The seemingly ordinary short film maneuvers into one of a live performance, captured on video, in which the setting of ‘Hotel’, as a semi private, semi public and semi personal space, becomes a metaphor for our culture: A society run by service, filled with competition and commercial interest. Beneath its surface: A lack of identity, individualism and motif. By creating a set of ‘personae’ who fully commit to this system, a comparison is drawn to psychological mechanisms and authorities in our own culture and education.
Hotel
Video/Film – 2010
HDV, 12 min
In Hotel, Marcin takes on the role of the Superintendent. She invites Four Trainees into the privacy of the hotel. Searching for fame, they must undergo a series of theoretical and practical exercises which consist of absurd physical and mental lessons administered by the Bellboy, the Superintendent and the Hotel Owner. The bizarre narrative finds contrast by existentialist content of dialogue and the sensuality of absurd actions. Consequently, the seemingly ordinary shortfilm maneuvers into a live performance captured on video. The setting of a hotel, as a semi private, semi public and semi personal space, stands as metaphor for western culture: a society run by service that is filled with competition and commercial interest. Beneath its surface there lies a lack of identity, individualism and motif. Hotel and its apparatus raises the question of a subculture’s limitations which is contrasted to the infinite territory of their ‚Inner space‘.
Hotel
Video/Film, 10.00 min, HD, New York, USA, 2010
In the video ‘Hotel’ existentialism meets sensuality: The Superintendent invites four Trainees into the privacy of the ‘Hotel’, where they must undergo a series of theoretical and practical exercises, reminiscent of body art and performance lecture, administered by the Bellboy, the Superintendent and the Hotel Owner. Each Trainee is assessed according to his or her performance and willingness to submit to the Easy-to-Believe system.
The seemingly ordinary short film maneuvers into one of a live performance, captured on video, in which the setting of ‘Hotel’, as a semi private, semi public and semi personal space, becomes a metaphor for our culture: A society run by service, filled with competition and commercial interest. Beneath its surface: A lack of identity, individualism and motif. By creating a set of ‘personae’ who fully commit to this system, a comparison is drawn to psychological mechanisms and authorities in our own culture and education.
EXHIBITIONS
S: Solo Exhibition | G: Group Exhibition | Sc: Screening
Reise nach Ägypten, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, 2012, collaboration between Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Werkstatt Bleichhäuschen, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Marl, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Dortmund, 2012 (S)
Lost in translation, Jens Fehring Gallery, Frankfurt, 2011 (G)
LECTURES
Lost in translation, artist lecture, Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 2011
Lecture and Graduate Critiques, MFA PIMA – Performance and Interactive Media Arts, Brooklyn College, New York, 2011
SPONSORS
The project is made possible by Project Funding, Art Student Council, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, 2010
