synopsis.
Like no other place, the urban environment of Buenos Aires indicates the fragile balance between individual life plans and their dependence on global economic systems. During the peak of Argentina's economic collapse in 2001, thousands of people there lost their savings, perspectives and self-identifications without any stately protection. Consequently, fear and the absence of securities but also arising dreams and potentialities have manifested themselves in biographies, architecture and daily life. Nowadays life in Buenos Aires raises questions that mirror the European anxiety to lose financial and idealistic securities: What happens to people in an economic crisis? If the only certainty is, that you cannot rely on anything anymore, what does one dream of?
As psycho-geographic videography, the experimental documentary, explores how the events of the crisis reverberate in the materiality of the urban landscapes and in the subjectivities of the city´s people.
credits.
with: Teresa Petrana Alaguibe, Marta Bodo, Walter Christian Citzenmaier, Lic. Eduardo Grimoldi, Claudia Rosenberg, Nestor Piquero, María Graciela Ponce, César Saldaña, José Saphir, Florencia Arbós
producer: Veronika Boekelmann, Anett Vietzke and Paula Baró
assistant producer: Antonella Querzoli
interviews: Veronika Boekelmann
cinematography: Anett Vietzke
sounds: Anett Vietzke and Veronika Boekelmann
music: Timo Kreuser
concept and realisation: Anett Vietzke and Veronika Boekelmann
supported by:
Hauptstadtkulturfond (Berlin)
Fond Fritt Ord (Norway)
Norsk Kulturråd (Norway)
Goethe Institute (Munich)
thanks to:
Ignacio Sandoval
Nicolas Malusardi
Kiosk in Avenida Corrientes:
Rodolfo Freire, Gustavo Zarate, Francisco Franek.
Kiosk in Boedo:
Christian Sanchez, Gladys Varas, Susan Córdova, Lesly Córdova, Jorge Durand, Melody Sánchez, Yislei Ponce.
© VOLUMEN EXPRESS and friends 2013
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artist´s biographies.
Volumen Express and Friends
The film maker Anett Vietzke and the video and performance artist Veronika Boekelmann form part of the artist collective Volumen Express and Friends. Operating in Berlin, Oslo and Buenos Aires, Volumen Express' prize-winning works explore the borderline of documentary film, installation and performance art. Collaboratively, Anett and Veronika realized a.o. the site specific installation Tyskerjenter – War Brides (Island Hovedøya, Oslo, 2008), the documentary installation (Im)Potencia (Sophiensaele Berlin; Marstrand Festival - Black Box Theater, Oslo, 2010) or the video space installation Facades of Crisis (realized for Galerie Stadtgestalt / Serge von Arx; awarded with the Jury Award for media in space at the 24. Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expended Media 2011; shown at Club Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires in 2011). In 2009, Anett and Veronika were invited to the residency program Residencias del Sur in Buenos Aires to conduct research for Sueño y Crisis and (Im)Potencia. Further, they curated the film cycle and symposium Argentina Vice Versa - Shock and Reality in the New Argentine Cinema, presented in Cinemateket Oslo, Bergen and Verdensteatret, Tromsø in 2011.
Anett Vietzke
Born 1977 in Koenigs Wusterhausen (GDR), Anett Vietzke works as director, producer and junior curator in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Oslo as part of Volumen Express and Friends and documenary in context. Her awarded films and installations have been shown in the framework of festivals and exhibitions in Taiwan, Korea, Portugal, Canada, Argentina, Germany, Norway and Italy. Recently she is editing the experimental documentary THE FORMOSA EXPERIMENT by Verena Kyselka supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. In 2012 she has curated the Berlin part of the video art-library and film program AMBIGUOUS BEING: Who is afraid of identity? in cooperation with Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei), Kav16 Gallery (Tel Aviv) and tamtamART Gallery (Berlin/ Taipei). Anett Vietzke has studied Media Theory, Image Arts/New Media and Film and Media/ Documentary at UdK (Berlin), Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and Ryerson University (Toronto) and was a fellow of Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst between 2004 and 2009.
Veronika S. Boekelmann
Born 1978 in Tuebingen in
West-Germany, Veronika S. Boekelmann currently works
as performance and video artist between Berlin, New York and Oslo. Her prize-winning video installations have been
shown a.o. at the Moscow Biennale, New Forms Festival in Vancouver or Video Medeja
Festival in Serbia Montenegro. In 2012-13,
Veronika was invited as a fellow of the the DAAD -
German Cultural Exchange Service to a one-year stay in New York, and in 2009, she received the
one-year working grant Norsk Kunsterstipend for uprising artists in
Norway. Further, Veronika has worked as author for theater magazines, as
guest curator for the Cinemateket Oslo and as guest lecturer at the
art academy khio in Oslo and NTA in Fredrikstad. Veronika received her MA in Performance Studies from New
York University, a BA in Performance Art from the Norwegian Theater
Academy (NTA) and previously studied at the Institute for time-based
Media at the University for Arts in Berlin (UdK).
artist´s filmografies / exhibitions.
Anett Vietzke
curatorial works.
2012/ 2013 AMBIGUOUS BEING: Who is afraid of identity? videoart-library and filmscreening, in cooperation with Hong-Gah Museum (Taiwan), tamtam Art Gallery (Berlin/Taiwan) and Kav16 Community Gallery (Tel Aviv)(concept and realisation in coop with Jia Tsai Zhen and Sally Haftel Naveh
2011 ARGENTINA VICE VERSA, film cycle and symposium on New Argentine Cinema, Cinemateket Oslo, Bergen and Verdensteatret Tromsoe in coop with Norsk Filminstitut (concept and realisation in coop with Veronika Boekelmann
videoworks/ installations.
2011 CLUB CULTURAL MATIENZO, BUENOS AIRES, installation: FACADES OF CRISIS (G/NO/ARG), video/space installation, (VOLUMEN EXPRESS and friends, concept and realisation)
2011 TEN ROOMS, 24. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, installation: FACADES OF CRISIS (D/NO/ARG), video/space installation, (VOLUMEN EXPRESS and friends, concept and realisation)
2010 GALERIE STADTGESTALT, c/o Serge von Arx, Berlin, solo exhibition: FACADES OF CRISIS (D/NO/ARG), video/space installation, (VOLUMEN EXPRESS and friends, concept and realisation)
2010 SOPHIENSAELE, BERLIN: (IM)POTENCIA (G/NO/ARG), documentary theater installation (VOLUMEN EXPRESS and friends, concept, realisation, performance, video art)
2010 Black Box Teater, MARSTRAND FESTIVAL VOL. II, OSlO, festival showing: sneak preview, documentary theater installation (VOLUMEN EXPRESS and friends, concept, realisation, performance, video art)
2009 STUDIO Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires: SUEÑO Y CRISIS, pre-projekt of (IM)POTENCIA (VOLUMEN EXPRESS and friends, concept, realisation, performance, video art)
2008 HOVEDOYA ISLAND, Oslo: TYSKERJENTER (NO, 2008), site-specific theater installation (VOLUMEN EXPRESS and friends, concept consulting, videodocumentation)
2007 INTERACCESS GALLERY, ONTARIO COLLAGE OF ART AND DESIGN (OCAD) und RYERSON UNIVERSITY, Toronto, group exhibition: SANDSCAPE (CA, 2007), interactive multimedia installation (collaborative concept and realisation)
film works.
2013 THE FORMOSA EXPERIMENT, experimental documentary, ´30, HD, mixed media (editor)
2010 PROST, MEIN ENGEL, documentary,´60, HD: preview Highlights (Ludwigsburg), Tage des Dokumentarfilms (Ludwigsburg) (concept and realisation)
2007 DISTANZEN, documentary, ´56, 16 mm: Filmcollier (Baden-Baden), Film Festival Leipzig (Dok-Market), Kinski (Berlin), Max Ex (Toronto) (concept and realisation)
2006 KEIN FILM, experimental,´8, Super 16 mm: EmergeandSee Berlin, London (2008), Zwergwerk Filmfestival Oldenburg (2007) (concept and realisation)
2005 HEIMSPIEL, documentary,´20, 16 mm: Caligari Ludwigsburg (2005), Evangelische Landeskirche (Karlsruhe) (concept and realisation)
2003 EXIT, animation, ´5, DV CAM: video-award AVANCA FILM FESTIVAL (2004), NUMERO Festival, Lisbon (2004), TAIPEI GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVAL (TGHFF) (2004), SEOUL INTERNATIONAL CARTOON AND ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL (SICAF) (2004), METROPOLITAN ART PREVIEW Berlin (2003) a. o. (concept and realisation)
2002 Universität der Künste, Berlin, annual show: ARRIVALS, short film, ´10, DV (concept and realisation in coop with Veronika Boekelmann)
publications/ lectures.
2013 BILDER, DIE WIR HABEN. BILDER, DIE WIR BRAUCHEN (Images, we have. Images, we need.) lecture in the framework of the symposium and exhibition UNITED NATIONS REVISITED (Berlin) curated by Signe Theil
2012 AMBIGUOUS BEING. Who is afraid of identiy?: One never lives elsewhere (Selfpublishing)
2011 ARGENTINA VICE VERSA. lectures on the New Argentine Cinema: HFF Munich, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Artacademy Oslo, Cinemateket Oslo
2010 (IM)POTENCIA. THEATERVERLAG HOFFMANNUNDPAUL: theatertext
2008 UTOPIA 07. PRIMERO VERLAG, Munich: shortstory IN DEN RUINEN EINER ALTEN ANGST
2006 MEIN HERZ IM FREMDEN LAND. PRIMERO VERLAG, Munich: shortstory GRAUZONE
awards/ grants.
2012 Senatsverwaltung für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Berlin: exhibition grant for AMBIGUOUS BEING: Who is afraid of identiy?, videoart-library and filmscreening, in cooperation with Hong-Gah Museum (Taiwan), tamtam Art Gallery (Berlin/Taiwan) and Kav16 Community Gallery (Tel Aviv) (2012/ 2013)
2011 Senatsverwaltung für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Berlin: exhibition grant for FACHADAS EN CRISIS, Buenos Aires (G/NO/ARG, 2010 )
2011 IFA, Stuttgart/Berlin: exhibition grant for FACHADAS EN CRISIS, Buenos Aires (G/NO/ARG, 2010 )
2011 Fritt Ord, Oslo: production grant for INTRUSIÓN DE LO REAL, symposium
2011 24. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, STuttgart: jury award in the section media in space for FACADES OF CRISIS (G/NO/ARG, 2010 )
2010 Goethe Institut, Oslo: travel grant (IM)POTENCIA (G/NO/ARG, 2010)
2009 Hauptstadtkulturfond, Berlin: production grant (IM)POTENCIA (G/NO/ARG, 2010) and pre-project SUEÑO Y CRISIS (ARG, 2009)
2009 Goethe Institut, MUNICH: travel grant SUEÑO Y CRISIS (ARG, 2009)
2009 Norsk Kulturråd, Norsk Kulturråd/Scenetekst, Oslo: production grant (IM)POTENCIA and pre-project SUEÑO Y CRISIS
2009 Fritt Ord, Oslo: production grant (IM)POTENCIA and pre-project
2006 Stiftung Kunst und Kultur der Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, VER.DI, Verband des Verkehrsgewerbes Südbaden, DAF Trucks: production grant for DISTANZEN (G, 2007)
2005 AVANCA Film Festival, Porto: video award for EXIT (G, 2003)
2004 Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg: production grant for documentary HEIMSPIEL (G, 2005)
2004 - 2009 Evangelisches Studienwerk, Villigst: scholarship for Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Film and Media/ Documentary
Veronika S. Boekelmann
publications, teachings, curating.
festivals, exhibitions.
2012 Senatsverwaltung für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Berlin: exhibition grant for AMBIGUOUS BEING: Who is afraid of identiy?, videoart-library and filmscreening, in cooperation with Hong-Gah Museum (Taiwan), tamtam Art Gallery (Berlin/Taiwan) and Kav16 Community Gallery (Tel Aviv) (2012/ 2013)
2011 Senatsverwaltung für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Berlin: exhibition grant for FACHADAS EN CRISIS, Buenos Aires (G/NO/ARG, 2010 )
2011 IFA, Stuttgart/Berlin: exhibition grant for FACHADAS EN CRISIS, Buenos Aires (G/NO/ARG, 2010 )
2011 Fritt Ord, Oslo: production grant for INTRUSIÓN DE LO REAL, symposium
2011 24. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, STuttgart: jury award in the section media in space for FACADES OF CRISIS (G/NO/ARG, 2010 )
2010 Goethe Institut, Oslo: travel grant (IM)POTENCIA (G/NO/ARG, 2010)
2009 Hauptstadtkulturfond, Berlin: production grant (IM)POTENCIA (G/NO/ARG, 2010) and pre-project SUEÑO Y CRISIS (ARG, 2009)
2009 Goethe Institut, MUNICH: travel grant SUEÑO Y CRISIS (ARG, 2009)
2009 Norsk Kulturråd, Norsk Kulturråd/Scenetekst, Oslo: production grant (IM)POTENCIA and pre-project SUEÑO Y CRISIS
2009 Fritt Ord, Oslo: production grant (IM)POTENCIA and pre-project
2006 Stiftung Kunst und Kultur der Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, VER.DI, Verband des Verkehrsgewerbes Südbaden, DAF Trucks: production grant for DISTANZEN (G, 2007)
2005 AVANCA Film Festival, Porto: video award for EXIT (G, 2003)
2004 Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg: production grant for documentary HEIMSPIEL (G, 2005)
2004 - 2009 Evangelisches Studienwerk, Villigst: scholarship for Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Film and Media/ Documentary
Veronika S. Boekelmann
publications, teachings, curating.
2013 OSLO INTERNATIONAL ACTING
FESTIVAL, lecturer and panel guest
2011,12 ARGENTINA VICE VERSA, curator &
lecturer, Film cycle & symposium on the
interrelation of economic crisis, modes of production and film
esthetics in New Argentine cinema.
Cinemateket Oslo & Bergen, Verdensteatret Tromsø,
Vierte Welt Berlin, Film Academy Ludwigsburg.
2010,11 Contributions to theater
magazine NORSK SHAKESPEARE OG TEATERTIDSKRIFT.
2010 Script of (IM)POTENCIA in
Theaterverlag Hofmann-Paul, Berlin.
video & performance works.
2013 VOLKSKOERPER – THE PEOPLE'S
BODY. Video installation. NYU, New York.
2012,13,14 PRESENT PAST, Oslo, Norway.
Documentary audio-video walk with ipods to houses where Jews had been
deported from during WW II. In collaboration with the Jewish Museum
Oslo & Den Kulturelle Skolesekken.
2009,10,11,12 VI BESKYTTER LANDET (We
protect the country), Norway-tour in the frame of
Den Kulturelle Skolesekken. Interview-based lecture-performance about
Norwegian war brides.
2010,11 FACADES OF CRISIS, Galerie
Stadtgestalt, Berlin & Filmwinter Festival,
Stuttgart & Galerie Matienzo, Buenos Aires. Documentary
video/space installation.
2010 (IM)POTENCIA, Blackbox Theater
Oslo & Sophiensaele Berlin.
Documentary theater installation based
on interviews with inhabitants of Buenos Aires about the economic
crash in Argentina in 2001.
2009 DET BLINDE TEATER – BLIND
THEATRE. Nationaltheater Oslo, Samtidsfestival. Author &
performance-guide. Five audio-sensual portraits of women as guided
walk through the theater.
2009 SUBVERSIVE HANDS, Literaturhuset
Oslo, Norway. Sound-installation in the frame of Don’t Judge a Book
by its Cover curated by Edy Poppy.
2009 RECONSTRUCTION OF TYSKERJENTER,
Goethe Institute Oslo, Norway. Exhibition & life-performance.
2008 TYSKERJENTER, Island Hovedøya,
Oslo-fjord, Norwegen. Site specific theater installation set in the
archive building of the internment camp for war brides after World
War II
2008 CHERNOBYL, RFD-Gallery, Georgia,
USA. Objet Trouvé- sound-installation.
2007 I WONDER WHY THE CLOUDS ARE NOT
MOVING FASTER, Det åpnet Teater, Oslo, Norway. Solo-performance
about the subjective meaning of the term “freedom” to
subway-commuters in NYC.
2007 SCHLUCKEN - SWALLOW, Bahnhof
Bremen-Ottersberg, Projection on massage-table.
2006 DESERTIFICATION, New Forms
Festival, Vancouver, Canada. Video-projection on table, sand &
objects.
2005,07,08 CHOREOGRAPHY FOR TWO
IMPRISSONED EYES, Biennale Moscow, Videomedeja Festival,
Serbia-Montenegro, a.o. Video-installation.
2005 PRESERVED PAST, Gallery Podium,
Oslo. Performance installation.
2004 TRENDVISION, Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin. Multi-media performance with Florinda
Schnitzel.
2004 AUGUSTINE, ANTI-HOMMAGE, Dock 11,
Berlin. Solo-performance about the iconization
of hysteria.
2004 HYPERVIGILANZ, C-Base,
Transmediale, Berlin. Collaborative dance performance with Ingo Keil
& Zoe Alibert a.o.
2004 BRAIN DANCE, Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Research-project in collaboration with neurologist Dr. Thilo
Hinterberger and dancers.
2002 ARRIVALS, short film, ´10, DV (concept and
realisation in coop with Anett Vietzke)
festivals, exhibitions.
2013 OSLO INTERNATIONAL ACTING FESTIVAL
(workshop leader), Norway.
2011 FILMWINTER FESTIVAL, Stuttgart,
Germany.
2010 MARSTRAND FESTIVAL VOL II,
Blackbox, Oslo, Norway.
2009 SAMTIDSFESTIVAL, Festival for
contemporary theater, Oslo.
2009 DON’T JUDGET A BOOK BY ITS
COVER, Literaturhuset, Oslo.
2008 ZIRKULATION, Media Art Festival,
Copenhagen, Danmark.
2008 THE ART OF THE FOUND OBJECT,
RFD-Gallery, USA.
2008 MOSCOW BIENNALE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS,
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moskau.
2007 PERFORMANCE MIT MEDIENEINSATZ,
Bahnhof Ottersberg, Germany.
2006 NEW FORMS FESTIVAL, Vancouver,
Canada.
2005 CHOREO CINE FESTIVAL, Oslo,
Norway.
2005 VIDEOMEDEJA FESTIVAL, Novi Sad,
Serba-Montenegro.
2004 TRANSMEDIALE, side project,
Berlin, Germany.
2004 ROBODOCK FESTIVAL, Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
2002/3 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Rundgang and photo exhibition EITELKEIT
2002/3 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Rundgang and photo exhibition EITELKEIT
awards, grants.
2012-13 DAAD- German Cultural Exchange Service for New York stay
2012 Foundation FRITT ORD & NORSK
KULTURRÅD for PRESENT PAST
2011 JURY AWARD at 24. Filmwinter Festival - Festival for Expended Cinema
2011 BERLINER SENAT and
IFA-Exhibition for FACADES OF CRISIS
2011 FILM OG KINO and FRITT ORD for
ARGENTINA VICE VERSA
2010 HAUPTSTADT KULTURFOND BERLIN
(HKF), NORSK KULTURRÅD, FRITT ORD, GOETHE INSTITUT OSLO &
MÜNCHEN for (IM)POTENCIA & SUEÑO Y CRISIS
2009 STATENS
KUNSTNERSTIPEND, one-year work grant
2009 OSLO KOMMUNE for re-uptake of TYSKERJENTER
2008 NORSK KULTURRÅD for VI
BESKYTTER LANDET
2008 NORSK KULTURRÅD for LONGING
AWAY – 30 DAYS
2008 GOETHE INSTITUT OSLO, NORSK
KULTURRÅD, FOND FOR UTOVENDE KUNSTER – FFUK, FOND FOR LYD OG BILDE
for TYSKERJENTER
2007 NORSK KULTURRÅD SCENETEKST for the script of TYSKERJENTER
2006 FREDRIKSTAD
KOMMUNE, travel grant to Canada
2003 TU-BERLIN, ASTA travel grant to the G8 summit in Evian with indymedia
