Fiction Talks #10

Pascal Gielen

The film features Anna Baumgart, who, using the found footage strategy, becomes the heroine of the famous Soviet film “The Cranes Are Flying” by Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957. The artist, using film technology, inserts her own face instead of the face learn more
The film features Anna Baumgart, who, using the found footage strategy, becomes the heroine of the famous Soviet film “The Cranes Are Flying” by Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957. The artist, using film technology, inserts her own face instead of the face of the main character Veronica, played by Tatiana Samoilova. The 3-minute 28-second video captures the learn more
Prawdziwe? Lecą żurawie / Is it real? Cranes are flying
							Anna Baumgart						
French artist Pierre Huyghe, commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation in 2003, executed an extensive project titled “Streamside Day Follies.” With access to the small abandoned town of Streamside, Huyghe literally invented traditions for this provincial town in the USA. learn more
French artist Pierre Huyghe, commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation in 2003, executed an extensive project titled “Streamside Day Follies.” With access to the small abandoned town of Streamside, Huyghe literally invented traditions for this provincial town in the USA. The project involved interconnected relationships between three elements: an imaginary community in the Hudson Valley, learn more
Streamside, 2003
							Pierre Huyghe						
Exodus 2048 Mixed-media installation – maze, 6 texts in lightboxes 40 x 40 cm (ground floor), refugee camp (clocktower) Produced by Van Abbemuseum for Be(com)ing Dutch, Eindhoven/NL, 2008  Recreated at the New Museum, New York, 2009 The project was presented learn more
Exodus 2048 Mixed-media installation – maze, 6 texts in lightboxes 40 x 40 cm (ground floor), refugee camp (clocktower) Produced by Van Abbemuseum for Be(com)ing Dutch, Eindhoven/NL, 2008  Recreated at the New Museum, New York, 2009 The project was presented at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven as part of the “Be(com)ing Dutch” exhibition, Michael Blum’s learn more
Exodus 2048
							Michael Blum						