André Avelãs
The work of André Avelãs – be it a performance, sculpture, installation, a recording or a combination of all of the above – explores the way in which sound is produced and how it creates meaning in relation to space and the conditions under which it is heard.
For more information about André and his work:
www.avelas.net
Neil Beloufa
Neil Beloufa uses the interview format to make videos that are disquieting mixtures of fact and fiction, utopian and dystopian. From people he meets in his travels, Beloufa creates loops that comprise many disjointed stories. His videos are then combined with found imagery and displayed upon expansive sculptures in disorienting and surprising ways to further unravel a documentarian aesthetic and our expectations of narrative.
For more information about Neil and his work:
www.nelbeloufa.com
Nathan Bennett
As an artist, I am a sculptor that makes use of photography, drawing and painting. My practice vacillates between the use of appropriated images and constructed objects for their physicality and its relationship to space and the illusionary potential of the flat surface. My work acts as a historical, negotiable and evolving idea reacting to the experience and desired of the human self as it crosses the boundaries of society and enculturation. My practice aligns subtle references to minimalism, sculpture, architecture and photography. I use post-minimalism as an object in to which I unload a visual vocabulary. Through my work, I create interactions between (pulp) culture, antiquated technological investigations, reality and fiction.
For more information about Nathan and his work:
http://registry.whitecolumns.org/view_artist.php?artist=10092
Astrid Busch
“I work site-specific, based on the exhibiton space and on influences from film and literature. My works enter into a dialogue with real space, expanding and transforming it into the fictional. New narratives arise in the viewer’s head, in which reality and fiction lie side by side. Photography is not just a picture on the wall, it becomes an intervention or an architectural part of the room and may be read as film stills from a film production whose plot remains withheld from us.”
For more information about Astrid and her work:
www.astridbusch.com
Constantin Hartenstein
Constantin Hartenstein (*1982 in Herzberg, Germany) is an installation and video artist living and working in Berlin. His works deal with architectural appearances of spaces within the context of icons, mass media and fast forward consumer culture. He studied “Experimental Media” at the University of the Arts Berlin in the classes of Prof. Maria Vedder and Prof. Heinz Emigholz where he graduated with honors in 2009. In 2010, he was awarded the “Meisterschüler” degree at the HBK Braunschweig where he studied “Fine Arts” with Prof. Candice Breitz. Hartenstein worked for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011 as a film producer. The pavilion won the Golden Lion for Best National Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2011, presenting the work of Christoph Schlingensief. In 2012, he is an artist in resident in New York granted by Triangle Arts Association (USA) as well as an artist in resident at the Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California (USA). His works have been exhibited and screened at international galleries and institutions such as Volksbühne Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, transmediale and at the Herzliya Bienal (IL).
For more information about Constantin and his work:
www.constantinhartenstein.com
Chelsea Knight
My work looks at power and its authorship: my videos and performances combine documentary and fiction to examine contemporary social systems. The characters in my videos and performances explore and enact their relationships to predetermined or inherited systems —sometimes constructed, sometimes preexisting. Their resistance to or compliance with these spaces and relationships develops through improvisation. My aim as an artist is to set up a triangle of language, ideology and the body, arriving at the vulnerability and commutability of the body even as our views are formed, solidified and articulated.
For more information about Chelsea and her work:
www.chelseaknight.com
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‘Runaway Cape-Cart’ is an investigation in both individual and communal concepts of ‘nest/home/community’ as a temporary shelter, through a task of ‘nesting’ a mobile habitat and performing it.
