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‘.
EXHIBITIONS
S: Solo Exhibition | G: Group Exhibition | Sc: Screening
BORG Biennale, Antwerp, 2014 (G)
Out of Blink, Sarah Crown Project, New York, 2013 (G)
Reise nach Ägypten, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, 2012, collaboration between Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Werkstatt Bleichhäuschen, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Marl, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Dortmund, 2012 (S)
Queering Sex, Human Resources, Los Angeles, 2011 (G)
Lost in translation, Jens Fehring Gallery, Frankfurt, 2011 (G)
US MFA@Bezalel, Bezalel Gallery, Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, 2010 (G)
Uncontrollable Flesh, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, 2010 (Sc)
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
CATALOGS
Guillermo Creus, WE ARE:…, Brooklyn: Nuture Art, 2011.
Jens Fehring Gallery, The-Solo-Project – Solo Shows by 50 Selected Galleries, Basel: The-Solo-Project, 2011. 78–81.
SPONSORS
The project is made possible by Project Funding, Art Student Council, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, 2010.