MARK SCHREIBER

ALOFT FROM ALOW

1 AUG - 28 SEP 2012

PERFORMANCE

FRI  17 AUG  8 p.m.


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Link :  Film (extract)

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Besprechung

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SCHIRN-Magazin

Aloft from Alow

Mark Schreibers Performance mit gefundenen, alten Dias,
Live-Zeichnungen und Sound ist von Herman Melvilles Novelle
Billy Budd inspiriert. In einer Schlüsselszene der Tragödie wird
der Seemann fälschlich eines Verbrechens angeklagt und kann,
in völliger Verzweiflung, nur stottern anstatt sich zu verteidigen.
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The work is inspired by Herman Melville’s book Billy Budd. The novel

contains a scene in which a sailor is so emotionally shocked by a false

accusation made at him for a crime that he is unable to defend himself

verbally, stuttering and making strange gurgling sounds in his desperation

to speak. He is left feeling tongue-tied and powerlessagainst the authorities

- a system he previously believed in.

The work as a performance involves old found slides which show traces

of disintegration, live drawings and organised sound. The drawings are of

bankrupt airline logos that are projected with an overhead projector onto

the wall together with the slides.The slides dating from the late 50smainly

contain images of various forms of architecture (residential houses, state

buildings), harbour scenes and views from a ship. Accompanying them are

pre-recorded vocal sounds that play with syllables, phonemes or sound

fragments that stem from made-up words. The various repetitions,

utterances and pauses form vaguely rhythmical sound structures.

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PERFORMANCE “SECRET SOCIETIES” SCHIRN-Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

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Mark Schreiber (*1970, Johannesburg) works with various sound

and visual means as he delves into ideas surrounding language,

fictions and systems. He has presented his work at Schirn Kunsthalle

Frankfurt; Kai Middendorff Galerie, Frankfurt;  Fear of the Known, South

Africa; Singuhr Hörgalerie, Berlin; Royal College of Art Galleries, London.

His audio work will be released on the label entr’acte (London /Antwerpen)

this year. He studied sound and visual art at Middlesex University, London

and Bauhaus University, Weimar. He lives and works in Frankfurt.

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More about Mark Schreiber

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