Delete

Delete

24 April – 31 May, 2015

This animated video is part of my ongoing “Local Everywhere“ project. My experience as a contemporary nomad, a local alien, the insideroutsider, may be familiar to many “quasilocal” or“temporarily local” people all over the world. The visitor enters a dark space and sees the 3 projection panels hanging from the ceiling, with 3 partsof the reenactment video looped on the panels. The arrangement of the panels and the sound track by TGNoiz will place viewers in the middle of the scenes projected on the panels. Delete starts out from an 8 mm Christmas home movie of my family. I reshot some of its sequences and stills in Kunming, China, asking my Chinese colleagues and friends to perform the original scenes in their interpretation. In this emotionally highly intensive collaborative project the process of making the work, thinking together and working together with others, is as important as the endproduct. This working method brought new aspects into the process of interpreting and reinterpreting history and rewriting memory and forming a new concept of community bonding.

Exhibiting artist: Marianne Csáky

Venue: Inda Galéria, Project Room (1061 Budapest, Király utca 34. II/4)

Photo: Zoltán Kerekes © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive

Photo: Zoltán Kerekes © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive

Photo: Zoltán Kerekes © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive