The Transaction Project
November 22 December 6 2003
10:00 - 18:00
Opening Friday 21 November 16:00
2000 2003, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (Lt) (See also Seminars: The lining of forgetting)
Dvds, Computers, texts, website
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas developed the TRANSACTION project, launched in 2000 on the invitation of Witte de With, Rotterdam, as a framework to trace the script of life through the history of media. Techniques of collaboration, discussion, packaging of information and dissemination of it through media channels and systems of signs are used for an investigation into gendered space. The methodology comes from transactional psychoanalysis which suggests a structure based on a drama triangle between three roles of victim, persecutor and defender. The model of a three-way dialogue between women, psychiatrists and film archive facilitates a paradigm for script analysis; it maps out the invisible territory of dispatches, becoming a kind of unpacking of closed off memories and voices. The project was shown at Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart 2000, IASPIS Stockholm 2001, Ludwig Museum Budapest 2002, Sprengels Museum Hanover, 2002, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, each time in another display.
Invited to participate in Documenta 11, TRANSACTION developed Voice Archive, reflecting the social construction and metaphysical qualities of the voice of Lithuanian women, featured through a set of samples ranging from speech and narrative to chanting and songs
The remarkable absent
November 22 – December 6 2003
10:00 - 18:00
Opening Friday 21 November 16:00
2003, 15 x 7h/u, Els Van Riel (B)
5 computers 5 projectors, 10 speakers, 1 mixing desk
'The Remarkable Absent’ ends up being a video result on a simple trip of 5 people spending 15 days travelling to Spain: 8 days on the road, 7 days staying in the country house of a friend.
5 little mini-DV camera's and a time schedule guides the behaviour of the 5 people.
Seven corresponding hours a day, the camera records about everything and anything.
The expected result will be a research on the fragile relativity of time, following a network of different, indifferent, parallel and crossing lines of action in a comparable space. Or five different views on one recognisable reality screened parallel at the same time.
