Yokohama in Düsseldorf

Elsewhereness:Yokohama will be screened in Düsseldorf, Germany. Yokohama was the first city to be evoked in the Elsewhereness series by me and Anders Weberg. The Yokohama piece as well as the others in the series can be watched at http://www.elsewhereness.com About the screening: Directors Lounge presents experimental films all around Japan We will participate in this [...]

Elsewhereness >> Milton Keynes

A new part of the Elsewhereness-series will be screened at The 2nd International Visual Methods Conference in Milton Keynes, UK. Statement from the conference website: ”The 2nd International Visual Methods Conference will be held at the Open University in Milton Keynes from 13th-15th September 2011. We invite academics and others who work with visual methods [...]

Himalayan Carnival Screening

Elsewhereness:Cape Town by me and Anders Weberg, and part of the City Breath project will be screened at ”The 6th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2011). It is scheduled to be played out through February 18-19-20, 2011 (…), in the sylvan spaces of Sattal Estate, just above Bhimtal, near Nainital, in the Lower Kumaon of the [...]

Screening in Durban

Elsewhereness:Cape Town by me and Anders Weberg, and part of the City Breath project will be screened at KZNS Gallery in Durban. CITY BREATH Festival of Video Poetry and Performance. 4 South African cities. 20 short experimental films. 4 minutes each. 25 January 2011, 6:00 PM until 19 February 2010 Multi-media Room, KZNSA Gallery. Link to the gallery. Link to full [...]

Images from New Orleans

Here are some snapshots from the opening of the Ethnographic Terminalia show at Du Mois Gallery in New Orleans November 19th 2010.

Jo’burg Screening

Elsewhereness:Cape town will be screened at the Bioscope in Johannesburg November 6-7, as part of the City Breath project. CITY BREATH Festival of Video Poetry and Performance 4 South African cities. 20 short experimental films. 4 minutes each. 6 November 2010, 8:00 PM 7 November 2010, 3:30 PM The Bioscope, Main Street Life, Johannesburg As screened in Cape [...]

Sublime (e)motions

A genre of gigantic public videoworks is emerging. A genre of works playing with (e)motions and the sublime. This is an interesting evolvement of the site specific and The Spectacular. The latest example by Tania Ruiz Gutierrez called Elsewhere is opening in the new traffic hub Citytunneln in Malmö, Sweden now in December. Elsewhere is [...]

Interview about Elsewhereness:Utrecht

By Sabine Niederer & Koen Poelhekke Impakt Festival 2010. As part of Impakt Online – ”The City as Interface.” http://www.impakt.nl/index.php/artworks/interview_Anders_Weberg_Robert_Will Koen Poelhekke (KP): What are your (creative) backgrounds? Robert Willim (RW): I have been working quite a while with ethnographic research and cultural analysis, currently I’m associate professor at Lund University. In this work I’ve [...]

Roundtable on Art and Anthropology in New Orleans

There will be a roundtable dicussion organized at the AAA meeting (American Anthropological Association) in New Orleans as part of the Ethnographic Terminalia art exhibition. AAA Roundtable Discussion: Ethnographic termini: moving and agitating within the borderlands of contemporary art and ethnography. Session Length: 1.75 hours Keywords: installation art, exhibition, public anthropology Saturday, November 20 at [...]

Utrecht online

A new piece of the Elsewhereness-series has been launched. It was commissioned by Impakt 2010 in Utrecht, NL. This year’s programme of Impakt online is built around the theme: ”The City as Interface”. From the website: ”For this year’s programme, Impakt Online invited artists, architects, urban planners, researchers, programmers and the like to submit their proposals [...]

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