Montag, 23. August 2010

Riverine Zones Video Installation at Ostrale 27.8. - 19.9. 2010 Dresden









Ostrale 2010
Zentrum für zeitgenössiche Kunst
http://www.ostrale-zentrum.eu



Internationale Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Künste
27.8. - 19.9. 2010 Dresden



Opening OSTRALE`010
The OSTRALE`010 opens on Friday, 27th of Auguststarting 6 p.m. Untill the 19th of September 152 national and international artists show their work. On every weekend you can experience 115 performing artists in the OSTRALE.xtra programme.


+ Riverine Zones
Videoinstallation von Philipp Geist

Riverine Zones

Water and time are the constants of Philipp Geist’s oeuvre. The artist, autodidact and Berliner by choice works on an international level in a range of media, including video-installation, audio-visual performance, painting and photography. Much of his work deals with the integration of space, sound and the moving image.

The room-sized video-installation Riverine Zones takes the viewer on a discovery through international rivers. Geist’s work allows us to encounter a familiar world from which we are simultaneously removed. Using an underwater camera he explores the various parts of the river: its surface, the riverbed and the deep and shallow waters. With a view from the water he also includes the riverside or „riverine“, which lends its name to the project.

Rivers are part of our environment. We see them from cars, experience them on pleasure boats or sit on their banks. We have an idea of what they look like beneath the surface. Documentaries on fish and underwater plants supply us with the images. But who knows what really happens in their depths, when no one is collecting data, recording documentaries – when the camera’s viewfinder is not hunting rare species and geological formations. Riverine does not focus on photorealist imagery or on capturing nature in real time; it only follows a partly documentary approach. Whoever encounters the Riverine Zones’ video installation is captivated by an alternative place and time with its own laws and movements.

Nevertheless, Geist’s films do not show random details of life in a river or fortuitous recordings. Philipp Geist stands by the riverside or on a bridge and guides the camera. It goes down a long rope and floats in the waves of the river. Currents and eddies have a strong influence on the camera’s activity, so pan shots and movements that are regularly used on land are not possible in this situation. However, the artist views the camera’s take on a monitor that stands next to him and can therefore decide on how long and how to film.

Used in this way, the camera encounters many creatures, stones and debris, or simply looks into the void. We see floating particles, bubbles or just impenetrable grey. To a certain extent, these images have a documentary aesthetic and are rather alien, crude, pixelated, blurred, colour intensive, but also monochrome. The camera takes us into an underwater world we never knew, a world that is created by the camera itself. Besides the particular recording and operating methods, it is also the use of diverse underwater cameras, which with their rather simple design and occasional use of light emitters portray the underwater world in an alienated way. Geist’s cameras achieve an entirely novel colouration and overexposure of the created images.

We feel cut of from life above the water, plunged and submerged into an immediate parallel world. Even when Geist films the riverside with his camera submerged halfway, the otherwise known environment becomes estranged through this change of perspective and since the familiar sounds from the outside world are missing. The artist adds a monotonous underwater sound to his images. While viewing his work the viewer feels like a swimmer, resurfacing repeatedly, still disoriented due to unfamiliar sounds and a diagonally upwards perspective.

Through this perspective the well-known cityscapes are experienced anew. From the recordings of 19 rivers to date, which are part of this long-term project, some films show capital cities or major cities in Europe and North America. Streams, rivers and small creeks get treated equally within the installation project that is to be extended with rivers from other continents, notably Asia and Africa.

Philipp Geist contrasts underwater worlds from different cities and places: the clear water of a river contrasts with a canal full of discarded objects, including cans, street signs and even bikes. Like a searcher, Geist traces creatures and plant life with his underwater cameras. His films bring to the fore aspects of how humans handle the precious water resources in different regions of the world. The timeliness of environmental issues and the impact of environmental protection are not being told with a wagging finger, since this has already even caused some people to stop trying. Geist shows in an unfamiliar and subtle way how nice, puzzling and worth protecting the environment is, which we are poisoning.

Apart form the confusion created through unfamiliar combinations of movements and perspectives, the viewer’s orientation is being complicated further by the way how the video recordings and stills are presented. Geist’s exhibition concepts make it possible to plunge into the visual world of various streams and rivers simultaneously. Especially, the wall encompassing projections with several video projections create this scenario. The familiar bodily connection to a place is disturbed and the partly realistic impression of the image gives the viewer the sensation of being in two places at once.

The project is always perceived anew for each exhibition space. Therefore even in smaller spaces the films can be shown on monitors, which are placed on top of each other or next to one another. This way a new spatiality is created. The geometrical, fixed and technical format of the monitors gives the river, respectively the water with its typical traits of naturalness, fluidity and intangibility, a frame and a shape.

Other modes of presentation make it possible to integrate video stills as photographic works. They can support the space in various ways. For example video stills can be strung together in such a way, they create wallpaper made of river images, presenting in its density a kaleidoscope of snapshots of the river. Again the organic motifs are contrasted with a structure that allows complete immersion and creates simultaneity. Time is frozen and the water has come to stagnation. In this way we can quietly observe what the eye cannot perceive normally. Structures and formations of movements, but also play of light and random forms emerge that would not have been discovered without the camera. Once again photography has captured the ephemeral in a wider sense and not only time, but also the water.

Another component of the project is the use of Google Earth satellite images. They mark the place where the camera was let into the water. A relatively precise localisation of the underwater films is being made, with the area close to the river also shown from a bird eye’s perspective. The shots are presented in a meandering formation on the wall. This way Philipp Geist illustrates the idea of a network he follows when he is collecting his rivers. One river literally flows into the other, as the cuttings of the respective rivers are joined together. Monitors are placed in-between – in sizes no bigger than the photographs – to complement the macro perspective of the satellite imagery with a micro perspective from the underwater pictures.

The video stills are published as editions. For further information please view:

Text by Viola Fissek

(Translation: Julia Gwendolyn Schneider)


The Author

Viola Fissek studied European Ethnology and English language and literature in Berlin and London. She works as an author, travel writer and translator in Berlin. Her main interests lie in the history of cities, fashion and everyday life and in biographical studies.

Besides working for a Berlin advertising agency and for an art book publisher she writes project- and press texts about Philipp Geist’s works since 2003 and supports his installation projects in terms of content and concepts.



Dienstag, 10. August 2010

Abbadia San Salvatore Video Installation Photos by Philipp Geist at Abbazia del San Salvatore (InMedialRes Festival 2010)

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Italy, Monte Amiata

Chiesa Abbazia



Abbadia San Salvatore//Toscana@Italia
August 4th 2010 / Mercoledì 4

Abbadia San Salvatore, Italy
Amiata Festival Outdoor Video Installation

22:00 - Video-installazione di Philipp Geist - Abbazia del San Salvatore

Philipp Geist, nato nel 1976 a Witten, cresciuto a Weilheim (Obb.), vive dal 1999 a Berlino. I lavori di Philipp Geist sono riconosciuti a livello internazionale; come anche le sue performance Audio-Visive, i Dipinti e le Fotografie. In occasione del compleanno del Re Bhumibol di Bangkok, Philipp Geist ha realizzato un'imponente installazione sulla facciata del palazzo reale, un'ora di performance cui hanno assistito circa 3 milioni di visitatori.



http://www.inmedialres.com/



Philipp Geist, nato nel 1976 a Witten, cresciuto a Weilheim (Obb.), vive dal 1999 a Berlino. I lavori di Philipp Geist sono riconosciuti a livello internazionale; come anche le sue performance Audio-Visive, i Dipinti e le Fotografie.

In occasione del compleanno del Re Bhumibol di Bangkok, Philipp Geist ha realizzato un'imponente installazione sulla facciata del palazzo reale, un'ora di performance cui hanno assistito circa 3 milioni di visitatori.

Tra i maggiori festival cui Geist è stato invitato come video installatore, si ricordano inoltre: "Mutek Festival 2010" di Montreal; 2002 - Pinacoteca d’Arte Moderna, Monaco; 2004 - Sonar Festival, Barcellona; Dissonanze Festival, Roma; 2005 - Winterzauber, Video-Installazione, Zurigo; 2006 - Salon Noir, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlino; 2007 - Riverine Videoinstallation, Three Walls Gallery, Chicago; Videoinstallation Time Lines Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma; 2008 - Kulturforum, Berlino; Time Fades, Ahrenshoop, Kurhaus, Broken Time Lines, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop; Video-installazione e Fotografia, Riverine, Bucarest; Weilheimer Stadtmuseum Lighting Times; Urban Screens – Riverine Movie Screening, Australia Melbourne; Harmating Galerie Ruf Fotoarbeiten; white8, Gallery Personale Fotografica & Immagini Video, Vienna; Ahrenshoop Neues Kunsthaus Riverine Zones Connected Installation; Video Installazione esterna, Bukarest.

I lavori di Philipp Geist sono caratterizzati da una complessa integrazione tra spazio, suono e immagine in movimento.




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Sonntag, 1. August 2010

NEWSLETTER August 2010 Monte Amiata Festival InMedia(L)Res 2010 / Dresden Groupshow Ostrale 2010 / Ahrenshoop Neues Kunsthaus Solo Show

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Philipp Geist/ Videogeist NEWSLETTER August 2010
http://www.p-geist.de
http://www.videogeist.de

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DATES
1.) Italy, Monte Amiata/ Abbadia San Salvatore Festival InMedia(L)Res 2010
2.) Dresden, Ostrale 2010 Groupshow
3.) Ahrenshoop, Neues Kunsthaus Solo Exhibition/ Kuenstlerstipendium Lukas

REVIEW
4.) Kronach Leuchtet (Germany) Zeitenlichter/ Time Lights (Installations & Exhibitions)
5.) Montepulciano (Italy) Piazza Grande Video Mapping Installation 35° CANTIERE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE
6.) Oberwesel Rheinpartie 2009 LIQUID MEMORY - PHILIPP GEIST
7.) Montreal Mutek TIME DRIFTS & Milano A/V Live NOCCI | Geist Movie ONLINE
8.) Installation Movie Milano (Italy) Nocci & Geist

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I.) Italy, Monte Amiata
Festival InMedia(L)Res 2010
August 4th 2010 / Mercoledì 4
Abbadia San Salvatore//Toscana@Italia
Chiesa Abbazia

http://www.inmedialres.com/philipp-geist.html
http://www.inmedialres.com/mercoledi-4.html
http://www.inmedialres.com/

Abbadia San Salvatore, Italy
Amiata Festival Outdoor Video Installation

August 4th 2010
22:00 - Video-installazione di Philipp Geist - Abbazia del San Salvatore
Philipp Geist, nato nel 1976 a Witten, cresciuto a Weilheim (Obb.), vive dal 1999 a Berlino. I lavori di Philipp Geist sono riconosciuti a livello internazionale; come anche le sue performance Audio-Visive, i Dipinti e le Fotografie. In occasione del compleanno del Re Bhumibol di Bangkok, Philipp Geist ha realizzato un'imponente installazione sulla facciata del palazzo reale, un'ora di performance cui hanno assistito circa 3 milioni di visitatori.

http://www.inmedialres.com/

Philipp Geist, nato nel 1976 a Witten, cresciuto a Weilheim (Obb.), vive dal 1999 a Berlino. I lavori di Philipp Geist sono riconosciuti a livello internazionale; come anche le sue performance Audio-Visive, i Dipinti e le Fotografie.
In occasione del compleanno del Re Bhumibol di Bangkok, Philipp Geist ha realizzato un'imponente installazione sulla facciata del palazzo reale, un'ora di performance cui hanno assistito circa 3 milioni di visitatori.
Tra i maggiori festival cui Geist è stato invitato come video installatore, si ricordano inoltre: 'Mutek Festival 2010' di Montreal; 2002 - Pinacoteca d'Arte Moderna, Monaco; 2004 - Sonar Festival, Barcellona; Dissonanze Festival, Roma; 2005 - Winterzauber, Video-Installazione, Zurigo; 2006 - Salon Noir, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlino; 2007 - Riverine Videoinstallation, Three Walls Gallery, Chicago; Videoinstallation Time Lines Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma; 2008 - Kulturforum, Berlino; Time Fades, Ahrenshoop, Kurhaus, Broken Time Lines, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop; Video-installazione e Fotografia, Riverine, Bucarest; Weilheimer Stadtmuseum Lighting Times; Urban Screens - Riverine Movie Screening, Australia Melbourne; Harmating Galerie Ruf Fotoarbeiten; white8, Gallery Personale Fotografica & Immagini Video, Vienna; Ahrenshoop Neues Kunsthaus Riverine Zones Connected Installation; Video Installazione esterna, Bukarest.
I lavori di Philipp Geist sono caratterizzati da una complessa integrazione tra spazio, suono e immagine in movimento.


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2.) Dresden (Germany) Ostrale 2010 (Groupshow)
27.8. - 19.9. 2010 Dresden

Zentrum für zeitgenössiche Kunst
http://www.ostrale.de/en/index.html

Internationale Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Künste


Riverine Zones
Videoinstallation von Philipp Geist
http://www.riverine.videogeist.de


Artists of the OSTRALE`010
The Jury of the OSTRALE`010 has finished the selection procedure. Andrea Hilger, Dr. Martin Müller, Dorota Kabiesz, Jan Heinke and Andreas Hetfeld selected 150 artists from more than 700 applications of national and international contemporary art. The choosen artists will present their work from 27th of august until 19th of september.

artist schedule ...

Groupshow/ Artist List
http://www.ostrale.de/en/news/kuenstlerliste.html


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3.) Ahrenshoop (Germany) Solo Show / Einzelausstellung Philipp Geist

19. September- 1. November 2010
Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop

Ausstellung Riverine Bodden Zones

Philipp Geist - Fotografie - Video - Multimedia
Video - Installationen mit Arbeitsergebnissen des zweimonatigen Stipendiums im Künstlerhaus Lukas

Die Projektausstellung zeigt Arbeiten des Berliner Künstlers Philipp Geist, darin Ergebnisse seines zweimonatigen Aufenthaltsstipendiums, das er 2010 im Künstlerhaus Lukas antreten wird. Auf diese Weise erfahren die in Ahrenshoop arbeitenden Stipendiaten nicht nur eine größere Öffentlichkeit und Einbeziehung in den Ort, neueste und absolut aktuelle Tendenzen künstlerischer Entwicklung können so aufgespürt und präsentiert werden.

Eröffnung der Ausstellung am 18. September 2010 um 17 Uhr Vernissage mit A/V Live Performance mit Fabrizio Nocci (Italienischer Komponist)

19.09. - 01.11.2010
täglich geöffnet von 10 -18 Uhr

http://www.neues-kunsthaus-ahrenshoop.de/

Projektausstellung (Riverine: Bodden Zones)

Philipp Geist - Fotografie - Video - Multimedia
Video - Installationen mit Arbeitsergebnissen des zweimonatigen
Stipendiums im Künstlerhaus Lukas

Die Projektausstellung zeigt Arbeiten des Berliner Künstlers Philipp Geist, darin Ergebnisse seines zweimonatigen Aufenthaltsstipendiums, das er 2010 im Künstlerhaus Lukas antreten wird. Auf diese Weise erfahren die in Ahrenshoop arbeitenden Stipendiaten nicht nur eine größere Öffentlichkeit und Einbeziehung in den Ort, neueste und absolut aktuelle Tendenzen künstlerischer Entwicklung können so aufgespürt und präsentiert werden.

Unter dem Titel RIVERINE Bodden Zones erweitert Philipp Geist sein Video-Wasser-Projekt im Ort und der Umgebung von Ahrenshoop und zeigt Videoaufnahmen und Videostandbilder von nationalen und internationalen Fliessgewässern. Mit Unterwasser-Video- kameras filmt er die Welt unter der Wasseroberfläche. Die künstlerische Auseinander- setzung mit dem allgegenwärtigen Element Wasser ist ein Kontaktversuch mit unserer unmittelbaren und doch fernen Realität. Geist zeigt einen Teil dieser Realität auf, der für uns üblicherweise verborgen bleibt.

Geist versteht RIVERINE Bodden Zones als ein kontinuierliches Projekt, das weltweit Flüssen auf Vergessenes, Verdrängtes oder schlicht Unbekanntes erforscht. Um das lebensnotwen- dige Element Wasser in all seinen Facetten zu beleuchten, sollen dabei je nach Eigenheit des Flusses auch ethnologische, religiöse, politische und vor allem umweltpolitische Aspekte in Erscheinung gebracht werden.

Die Installation besteht aus Aufnahmen von urbanen Flüssen, kleinen Bächen und großen Strömen in einer gleichberechtigten Gegenüberstellung, deren Ästhetik teils dokument-arisch, teils fremdartig, grob und pixelig, teils fehlbelichtet, unscharf, farbintensiv oder auch monochrom wirkt. Ohne die übliche Fernsehästhetik zu bedienen, erlauben sie dem Betrachter einen realen aber zeitgleich irritierenden Einblick. Vormals Bekanntes wird zu einer Landschaft des Surrealen. In seiner Video-Raum-Installation stellt Philipp Geist die Flüsse per Videoprojektion oder Monitor dar, und ergänzt diese wahlweise mit meter-langen, im Raum schwebenden Bahnen aus aneinander gereihten Unterwasser- Video-standbildern, oder aber mit flächen füllenden Bildreihen. Je nach den räumlichen und technischen Gegebenheiten können die Unterwasserfilmsequenzen auf einem oder mehreren Monitoren präsentiert werden, oder über eine oder zahlreiche Videopro- jektionen. Auch ob, wie viele und in welcher Form und Anordnung die Videostandbilder gezeigt werden, entscheidet der Künstler jeweils in Bezug auf den Ausstellungsraum

http://www.neues-kunsthaus-ahrenshoop.de

Das NEUE KUNSTHAUS befindet sich in Trägerschaft des ?Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop e. V.", dies gemeinsam mit dem Künstlerhaus Lukas. Der Trägerverein wird unterstützt durch das Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Mecklenburg Vorpommern, den Landkreis Nordvorpommern, der Sparkasse Vorpommern und zahlreichen privaten Förderern - besonders durch die Mitglieder des Freundeskreis Neue Kunst hat Freunde


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4.) REVIEW Installation Photos
Kronach LEUCHTET (Oberfranken) Light Fesival Review / Rückblick

21/22. JULI 2010
Festung Rosenberg
ZEITENLICHTER / TIME LIGHTS
Video-Licht-Sound Installation von PHILIPP GEIST mit der Schauspielerin ULRIKE MAHR

Zeitenlichter / Time Lights Festung Rosenberg (Kroanch)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157624549406010/with/4815441366/

http://www.videogeist.de/GeistKronachRosenberg.html
http://www.videogeist.de

Presse
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/4815441366/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/4815439256/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/4749067582/in/set-72157624549406010/


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5.) REVIEW Installation Movie / Photos
Montepulciano (Italia) Review / Rückblick

Festival Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte Montepulciano
Montepulciano (Italy) Piazza Grande / Duomo Facade
Video Mapping Installation by Philipp Geist with Nocci & Tetraktis 2010

Movie
http://www.vimeo.com/13771613

Installations Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157624444912407/with/4825323784/

Video Mapping Installation by Philipp Geist
http://www.videogeist.de / http://www.p-geist.de

with Music by
percussion quartet
Tetraktis
http://www.tetraktis.org/

composer
Fabrizio Nocci
http://www.myspace.com/ncco1


'What's Happening?!'
Electroacustic VideoConcert

Festvial Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte Montepulciano
http://www.fondazionecantiere.it/


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6.) REVIEW Installation Movie / Photos
Rheinpartie 2009 LIQUID MEMORY - PHILIPP GEIST
in Oberwesel / Kulturstiftung Hütte
http://www.vimeo.com/13247244

LIQUID MEMORY - PHILIPP GEIST
Outdoor - Video - Installation
in Oberwesel / Kulturstiftung Hütte

Luminale - Rheinpartie 'auf zu neuen ufern'
02 - 04. Oktober 2009
http://www.rheinpartie.com

Liquid Memory / Riverine Zones
Video-installations of Philipp Geist (Berlin), monastery gardens of family Hütte,
Monastery gardens and sacristy, Oberstr. 11
http://www.videogeist.de/liquid_memory_geist.html


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7.) REVIEW Installation Movie / Photos
Montreal/ MUTEK 2010 Festival

TIME DRIFTS by Philipp Geist

Video Mapping & Light Installation June 2th - 6th 2010
Place des Arts (Place des Festivals)

Montreal 'Time Drifts' Video Mapping & Light Installation
by Philipp Geist at MUTEK FESTIVAL 2010 (HD Long)
http://www.vimeo.com/12816319

Installation Views Time Drifts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157624201623490/with/4671545403/

Interview Le Lien Multimedia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trYuHIXmJ84

Installation Views/ Review
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/pgeist/tags/timedrifts/
http://www.videogeist.de/GeistMutek2010.html
http://beta.mutek.org/festivals/montreal/2010/artists/455-philipp-geist
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgeist/sets/72157624201623490/
http://bit.ly/dqrhXF


MUTEK the EXTRA_MUROS program of outdoor media art and installations by PHILIPP GEIST, MELISSA MONGIAT and MOUNA ANDRAOS was frequented by more than 40,000 people. With all its different initiatives in outdoor programming, MUTEK demonstrated that it could leave its special fingerprint on the Quartier des Spectacles by putting digital creativity on the centre stage.

Thank you Montreal :-) Thank you MUTEK Montreal for a great festival!! Thanks for the support Goethe-Institut Montréal, Quartier des spectacles, Montréal , Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Thank you Hugues Monfroy, Alain Mongeau, Olivier Ouellet, Antoine Lortie-Ouellet, Viola, Elian, H.G.Geist and Nicole Gingras.


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8.) REVIEW Installation Movie
Milano (Italy)

16 giugno 2010
Teatro Franco Parenti

Watch A/V SEt ONLINE
NOCCI | GEIST Milano 2010
http://www.vimeo.com/12673836
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQBM0yfXxMo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ZTdDI2QcA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj7w9AoUPQ4

PHILIPP GEIST + FABRIZIO NOCCI (DE/IT) live media performance
composer fabrizio nocci (rome/ italy)
http://www.myspace.com/ncco1
visual artist philipp geist (berlin/ germany)
http://www.videogeist.de



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