Bice curager in 2014 the house was host to olde wolbers sitespecific collaborative sound installation commissioned by artangel. In trailer 2005, narration of fictional stories in the style of media reportage of real events provides the sound track, while the visual focus alternates between the marooncoloured interior of a cinema and an extraordinarily lush jungle. This catalogue was published on the occasion of the projection of the video yes, these eyes are the windows directed by saskia olde wolbers at the fondation vincent van gogh arles, from february to 24 april 2016 and from 14 may to 11 september 2016. Yes, these eyes are the windows saskia olde wolbers. This page lists people with the surname olde wolbers. Whitechapel gallery artist edition saskia olde wolbers. Saskia olde wolbers, alienating stories of the surreal. Saskia olde wolbers artists profile the saatchi gallery. Saskia olde wolbers by invisible dust on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Pages in category dutch contemporary artists the following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. Project muse and while i have been lying here perfectly. Cartographies of the imagination call cartographies of the imagination presents a forum for the multidisciplinary discussion of cartography as worldmaking.
Wolbers pareidolia 2011 is included in the aspen art museum exhibition trapping lions in the scottish highlands, which presents ways in which narrative complexity is presented in recent art. While flipping through her work, saskia olde wolbers made us totally lose navigation in a nonkinetic mental travel. The fondation vincent van gogh arles presents the film yes, these eyes are the windows by saskia olde wolbers. In brixton, london, a blue plaque on the front of an innocuous terraced house commemorates a past resident a young man by the name of vincent van gogh. Pfui pish, pshaw prr, 2017, 20 min multichannel hd deals with the urgent business of marine oil spills and. Of algerian origin, french by birth, and living in england, shes been working in an autobiographical mode with video, photography, and installation since the midnineties. Olde wolbers makes complex, multilayered films, whose narratives often take their starting point from overheard conversations, newspaper articles or television programmes.
The video is set within the endless corridors of a hospital with the offscreen narrative told by a supposedly married man who claims he is a surgeon. Yes these eyes are the windows 2015 hd for projection 18 min voice over tom. Saskia olde wolbers, yes, these eyes are the windows from artangel on vimeo overview. This video documents an interview given by saskia olde wolbers at 87 hackford road about her project yes, these eyes are the windows. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the persons given names to the link. The fictional script, loosely based on alifrangis anekdotes, is from an oil spill responders point of view and reveals his superstitious reason for filming. It is a fiction about fictional fabrications based loosely on true stories loaded with pathological lying.
Tabish khan saskia olde wolbers brings an historic house to life 87 hackford road. Feonic f1pros fitted under the floorboards help a house where van gogh once lived tell its story. Pfui pish, pshaw prr, saskia olde wolbers, 2017 two. Kelly richardson is one of the leading representatives of a new generation of artists working with digital technologies to create hyperreal, highly charged landscapes, alongside figures such as john gerrard and saskia olde wolbers. Mit press journals is a missiondriven, notforprofit scholarly publisher devoted to the widest dissemination of its content.
Yes, these eyes are the windows, catalogue goldsmiths. Saskia olde wolbers, placebo, 2002 dvd, video projection on 350 x 262 x 30 cm box, 6 min. Saskia olde wolbers brings an historic house to life. It was published in conjunction with an exhibition of saskia olde wolbers at the art gallery of york university in 2008 and curated by philip monk. Saskia olde wolbers 1971 dutch is a londonbased artist who has been working in video since the mid1990, combining analogue imagery with a fictional narration. The finished films, which often draw on folklore, fairy tales, literature, hollywood cinema, and actual news, appear as distorted and otherworldly documentarystyle productions. Pfui pish, pshaw prr, deals with the urgent business of toxic waste management and gives voice to mr theodosis alifrangis, the longestserving worker of a greek oil spill response company. We have been introduced to her work while working on zo werken wij. Functioning like a database, a multiplicity of images is randomly redistributed throughout the space, giving rise to completely unscripted narrative and temporal relationships.
Now that part of me has become fiction ellis, patricia, jetzer, gianni, olde wolbers, saskia, huijts, stijn on. Saskia olde wolbers at 87 hackford road 2014 on vimeo. Kelly richardson void derry contemporary art derry. Lie inspired by saskia olde wolbers typetrace on vimeo. The main office of this company is situated at 51 clarkegrove road. Saskia olde wolbers is a a video artist who combines firstperson, fictional narratives with diverse imagery, resulting in films that she shoots under water, inside miniature handmade models. Saskia olde wolbers interloper 2003 dvd 6 minute loop. The distinctive quality of zineb sediras work resides in her way of broaching the three cultures to which she has ties. Since the mid1990s, saskia olde wolbers has been developing fictional documentaries often loosely based on factual events. Saskia olde wolbers is known for her short, narrative videos.
Delusional video filmed in a paddling pool wins art prize. Saskia olde wolbers breda, 25 juni 1971 is een nederlands videokunstenaar, beeldhouwer en collagist. In those early years, video was used primarily to record reality social and other or to document artistic practices in general and performance in particular. Par1835sonnyphotosdunhillaw20 a shaded view on fashion. We seek to explore alternative practices of charting not only physical places but also the means of mapping people, objects, memories, events, movements and narratives. Yes, these eyes are the windows goldsmiths research online. Saskia olde wolbers has created the limited edition placidus,the patron saint of hunters and the apparition of the sacred swan during the fabled chase pareidolia still, 2011 20 exclusively for the whitechapel gallery. This delightful little book is an enigmatic enigma.
Saskia olde wolbers visual creations, with their aqueous consistency and feverish atmosphere, weave themselves into a speculative documentary composition. Interloper is a fictional story based on the syndrome pseudoligica phantastica, where invented experiences are presented as reality. A legendary figure in fashion and a pioneer of blogging, diane is a respected journalist, critic, curator and talenthunter based in paris. Saskia olde wolbers often takes the inspiration for her stories from actual news articles, television documentaries, and urban legends. Written in march 2008 by dominick chen, using the typetrace software, for the catalogue of saskia olde wolbers s exhibition at mori art museum. And while i have been lying here perfectly still philip monk, michael maranda, saskia olde wolbers on. Saskia olde wolbers is represented by maureen paley london and stigter van doesburg amsterdam pfui pish, pshaw prr was commissioned by nadja argyropoulou for polyeco contemporary art initiative. A dutch artist whose video installation was filmed underwater in a paddling pool was named the winner of the becks futures art prize last night. Saskia olde wolbers 1971 dutch is a londonbased artist who has been working in video since the mid1990, combining analogue imagery with a fictional.
In yes these eyes are the windows a fictional narrative unfolds following the mythologizing of gogh and the increasingly strong grip that his ghostly presence took on the destiny of the house and its owners. Olde wolbers videos are as much about the fabrication of fictions as they are fantastical stories. Pish, pshaw prr, saskia olde wolbers,2017 two channel video hd 20 min, pcai pfui pish, pshaw prr, 2017, 20 min, deals with the. The exhibition focuses on the meaning of the term reality in contemporary artistic research, as it explores different ways of visually representing the world in the ambiguity that lies between the real and the verisimilar, the concrete and the apparent, the present and the past.
Yes, these eyes are the windows at artangel, london, from may 3 to june 22, 2014. Saskia olde wolbers artist bio and art for sale artspace. Photo by william eckersley yes, these eyes are the windows, 2014, saskia olde wolbers. Trailer video stills, synopsis saskia olde wolbers. Her intricate videos are driven by a combination of otherworldly imagery meticulously handmade model sets and the.
In yes these eyes are the windows saskia olde wolbers weaves a fictional narrative through the house following the mythologizing of gogh and the increasingly strong grip that his ghostly presence took on the destiny of. Edited by marie fraser, guest curator of the 10th edition. Video art made its appearance in the second half of the 1960s, first mainly in new york and not much later in europe too. This video documents an interview given by saskia olde wolbers at 87 hackford road about her project yes, these eyes are the windows 2014, london. Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house. Aesthetica magazine saskia olde wolbers, yes, these eyes.
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