• © ARSHAKE | ISSN 2283-3676
  • CONTACT
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    GAME OVER. Loading. Interview to Primavera De Filippi

    GAME OVER. Loading. Interview to Primavera De Filippi

    Never Have We Needed Art as Much as We Do Now

    Never Have We Needed Art as Much as We Do Now

    Memestetica. The Eternal September of the Art

    Memestetica. The Eternal September of the Art

    Digital Music at the Museum ZKM

    Digital Music at the Museum ZKM

    “Reactivating Videographies”. Interview to Anita Calà

    “Reactivating Videographies”. Interview to Anita Calà

    Plan B at NOME Gallery

    Plan B at NOME Gallery

    Antonio Della Guardia. For a Forthcoming Reality…  From Arshake to Stockholm

    Antonio Della Guardia. For a Forthcoming Reality… From Arshake to Stockholm

    RGB Festival 2020 in Rome

    RGB Festival 2020 in Rome

    Maker Faire Rome 2020

    Maker Faire Rome 2020

  • FRAME
    FRAME > 8 Year Long Exposure

    FRAME > 8 Year Long Exposure

    FRAME > Eclipse

    FRAME > Eclipse

    FRAME >  NUVOLA 2020

    FRAME > NUVOLA 2020

    FRAME > Skylight

    FRAME > Skylight

    FRAME > TUNNEL VISION

    FRAME > TUNNEL VISION

    FRAME > Tribute to Hyuro

    FRAME > Tribute to Hyuro

    FRAME > Road map

    FRAME > Road map

    FRAME > POLLUTION PODS

    FRAME > POLLUTION PODS

    FRAME > The Uncensored Library

    FRAME > The Uncensored Library

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Dialogo

    VIDEO POST > Dialogo

    VIDEO POST > MURMURATION

    VIDEO POST > MURMURATION

    VIDEO POST > On View

    VIDEO POST > On View

    VIDEO POST > Thought Experiment

    VIDEO POST > Thought Experiment

    VIDEO POST > A Woman with the Technology

    VIDEO POST > A Woman with the Technology

    VIDEO POST > Le sillage de la mémoire

    VIDEO POST > Le sillage de la mémoire

    VIDEO POST > NEWSPEAK

    VIDEO POST > NEWSPEAK

    VIDEO POST > Matter to Matter

    VIDEO POST > Matter to Matter

    VIDEO POST > (Un)Balance

    VIDEO POST > (Un)Balance

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • CALLS
    • ARCHIVE
    • WEBLIOGRAFIA
  • en
    • it
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    GAME OVER. Loading. Interview to Primavera De Filippi

    GAME OVER. Loading. Interview to Primavera De Filippi

    Never Have We Needed Art as Much as We Do Now

    Never Have We Needed Art as Much as We Do Now

    Memestetica. The Eternal September of the Art

    Memestetica. The Eternal September of the Art

    Digital Music at the Museum ZKM

    Digital Music at the Museum ZKM

    “Reactivating Videographies”. Interview to Anita Calà

    “Reactivating Videographies”. Interview to Anita Calà

    Plan B at NOME Gallery

    Plan B at NOME Gallery

    Antonio Della Guardia. For a Forthcoming Reality…  From Arshake to Stockholm

    Antonio Della Guardia. For a Forthcoming Reality… From Arshake to Stockholm

    RGB Festival 2020 in Rome

    RGB Festival 2020 in Rome

    Maker Faire Rome 2020

    Maker Faire Rome 2020

  • FRAME
    FRAME > 8 Year Long Exposure

    FRAME > 8 Year Long Exposure

    FRAME > Eclipse

    FRAME > Eclipse

    FRAME >  NUVOLA 2020

    FRAME > NUVOLA 2020

    FRAME > Skylight

    FRAME > Skylight

    FRAME > TUNNEL VISION

    FRAME > TUNNEL VISION

    FRAME > Tribute to Hyuro

    FRAME > Tribute to Hyuro

    FRAME > Road map

    FRAME > Road map

    FRAME > POLLUTION PODS

    FRAME > POLLUTION PODS

    FRAME > The Uncensored Library

    FRAME > The Uncensored Library

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Dialogo

    VIDEO POST > Dialogo

    VIDEO POST > MURMURATION

    VIDEO POST > MURMURATION

    VIDEO POST > On View

    VIDEO POST > On View

    VIDEO POST > Thought Experiment

    VIDEO POST > Thought Experiment

    VIDEO POST > A Woman with the Technology

    VIDEO POST > A Woman with the Technology

    VIDEO POST > Le sillage de la mémoire

    VIDEO POST > Le sillage de la mémoire

    VIDEO POST > NEWSPEAK

    VIDEO POST > NEWSPEAK

    VIDEO POST > Matter to Matter

    VIDEO POST > Matter to Matter

    VIDEO POST > (Un)Balance

    VIDEO POST > (Un)Balance

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • CALLS
    • ARCHIVE
    • WEBLIOGRAFIA
  • en
    • it
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
No Result
View All Result
Home News focus

Documenta 14 – Get to Work, You Talkers! (A Perfect Afternoon) pt 2

Pasquale Polidori by Pasquale Polidori
02/08/2017
in focus
Pasquale Polidori continues his in depth visit at Documenta 14, now currently on show in Kassel, guiding us in the exhibition hosted at the Stadtmuseum, one of the venues of an event more and more widespread in the urban territory.

…Observing the visitors in the square and enjoying a calm walk is not an excuse to shirk the responsibility of our cultural work. The fact is, we’re in no hurry. We’ve already been here other times; this is not the first visit. We were confused and anxious the first day, too when our many attempts to understand failed and we had no sense of the itinerary. We were like crazy bees who couldn’t find their way back to the hive. Things are different now. We are walking along with confidence because we don’t feel like there is a secret out there to figure out. After three weeks, we have a good idea of how to get around. So, we’re happy even if we’re just wandering around a little bored. We’re happy that we don’t owe anything to this theatre and we can get about without any sense of embarrassment or shame. I’m just saying that the part of us that still can’t grasp what’s going on resists the thorough explanations of the Chorus and Team of curators. And we almost like that. We’re practically proud of that because we’re not interested in understanding every last detail.

We’re on our way to one place we haven’t visited yet: the Stadtmuseum. The city museum is hosting six of documenta 14’s works. A small group that, given the site, develops the theme of citizenship and life in the city.

As luck would have it, the first work we see is a video by Anna Daucikova, Thirty-three Situations (2015, running time: 108 minutes). We walk into the hall. There aren’t many chairs and only two other visitors who keep us company for a bit before going elsewhere. We are left alone to concentrate on the slow and mesmerizing sequence of faces, photographs, household items and typewritten pages stuck to the windows of a home – revealing brief and schematic stories of the people observed in the streets, at customs, in aeroplanes, worksites and daily life in Russia. The Slovakian visual artist Daucikova lived there in the 1980s. She was involved in a homosexual relationship that led her to make the move to this country and was forced to keep the relationship secret. She spent time with artists and dissidents while developing a sensitive eye towards surveillance and details of human behaviour. The delicate concision of the writing is reminiscent of Raymond Carver, cut into pieces and revived, outside of the literary world, to be placed in a detective story that carefully chronicles the social dynamics regarding sexuality – especially female homosexuality. We stay about 30 minutes and leave with the intention of returning later in the week.

We are captivated by another video (Hiwa K, View from Above, 2017) where a voice tells us the story of an Iraqi political refugee while the images on the screen are close-up and ambiguous. They are of the scale model of Kassel following the 1943 bombing preserved in the next room. We also dedicate the appropriate attention to a fascinating work by Peter Friedl entitled Report (2016). This video documents actors rehearsing Kafka’s A Report to an Academy. A healthy instinct protects our personal and distinct sense of melancholy conveyed by Daucikova and it sways us from both Andreas Angelikadis’ aggressive analysis of speculation in the construction industry of Athens and Regina Jose Galindo’s unbearable fetishism for weapons. But there is no avoiding the hall featuring Hans Eijkelboom’s astonishing reportage of on the variations and constants, thousands of “human guys” photographed on city streets. Then it’s time to go. There is an experience waiting for us that would end up being extraordinary, the performance of Phia Menard at the Henschel-Hallen, a former metallurgical factory in the outskirts of Kassel.

The address we have corresponds to a locked door. So, that is unconvincing. We start looking for the real-place along with other bewildered visitors, exchanging remarks about the painful (and undemocratic) ambiguity of the directions which seem to afflict this edition of the documenta. After a walk around the immense block, we finally stumble upon the entrance: a road that reveals a fascinating, abandoned building: industrial ruins surrounded by old iron and tall, thriving weeds…

 (to be continued)…


A multimedia and multidisciplinary artist and philosopher and an experimenter with every medium (technological and otherwise) which might extend his aesthetic practise – centred particularly around language -, Pasquale Polidori embarks on the narration of a journey that starts with his visit to the exhibition and continues in a more intimistic sphere, where he reflects on the universal themes that revolve around art as a whole, and around his own way of occupying space, of reaching audiences through institutional channels (or of being kept away from them).
Previous posts:
Unity of place is (now) impossible
Documenta 14. Location and Topos. Pt. I.
 Documenta 14 – Location and Topos. Pt II
We are all servants (but the master does not exist).
Theory and Works
Documenta 14. Get to Work, You Talkers! (A perfect Afternoon) Pt 1

Documenta 14, curated by Adam Szymczyk with a team of about 18 curators
10.06-1709.2017, Kassel, Germania (and Athens, until July 16,2017)

images: (cover 1) Photo Notes 1992–2017 (2017), 270 inkjet prints, 50 × 60 cm each (2) Thirty-three Situations (2015), Digital video, color, sound, f108:56 min. (3) Hiwa K, Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue), 2017, digital video, installation view, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), documenta 14,. Photograph: Mathias Völzke

ShareTweetPin
Previous Post

Documenta 14. Get to Work, You Talkers! (A perfect Afternoon) Pt 1

Next Post

Get to Work, You Talkers! (A perfect afternoon). The End

Pasquale Polidori

Pasquale Polidori

Related Posts

GAME OVER. Loading. Interview to Primavera De Filippi
focus

GAME OVER. Loading. Interview to Primavera De Filippi

by Elena Giulia Rossi
21/01/2021
Never Have We Needed Art as Much as We Do Now
focus

Never Have We Needed Art as Much as We Do Now

by Giorgio Cipolletta
19/01/2021

CALLS

Call for submissions> STARTS Prize 2021
Calls

Call for submissions> STARTS Prize 2021

23/01/2021
Call for submissions> Live Coding Practices
Calls

Call for submissions> Live Coding Practices

10/01/2021
 Call for submissions> Locust Projects
Calls

 Call for submissions> Locust Projects

06/01/2021
Call for submissions> Re:Humanism
Calls

Call for submissions> Re:Humanism

10/11/2020
https://www.arshake.com/special-project-banner/young-italian-artists/
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Arshake

Arshake is a collaborative artistic project, blurring the borders between art, science and technology, information and production.

Menu

  • Focus
  • Video post
  • Frame
  • Special Project
  • Interview
  • Calls
  • Exhibitions

Iscriviti alla nostra newsletter

One more step - Check your email and click the confirmation link

© 2018 – ARSHAKE

No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
  • FRAME
  • VIDEO POST
  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • CALLS
    • ARCHIVE
    • WEBLIOGRAFIA
  • en
    • it

© 2018 – ARSHAKE

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.