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FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER
Videonale 18.

On what basis do we live, think and act nowadays? And how are we shaping this basis for the future? The works of the exhibition FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER open a discourse on these questions. How does our thinking of the relationship of human beings to their environment change when we no longer see the body as solid and autonomous - as it has been the case until now - but as fluid. As fluid bodies - or "Bodies of Water", as gender researcher Astrida Neimanis puts it -
we as human beings no longer stand above nature, but in interaction with it, with the living being, with the systems that surround us.
Image: © Ida Kammerloch, Resusci Anne, 2019/2020

Alexandra Meijer-Werner

Between 1993 and 2002 Alexandra Meijer-Werner's artistic work focused on creating video installations with multiple projectors, and combining sound, texture and interaction with the public. She also produced a number of documentaries which evidence her profound interest in personal transformation and the awakening of human consciousness.

Please have a look to an introduction of her work on blinkvideo.
Image: © Eugenia Meijer-Werner

Moving Images / Moving Bodies
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curated by Ludwig Seyfarth

Research into the human body and interpersonal relationships remain central themes in video and moving image art. Artists from Bulgaria and Germany, whose work is related in content, will be shown in pairs over the next weeks. The exhibition planned for November 2020 in Sofia has been postponed until 2021. Instead, a consecutive presentation of selected films by artists from Moving Bodies/Moving Images is presented on blinkvideo.
image: © Elitsa Dimitrova

Shooting Ghosts
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curators: Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

What we propose in this programme is a highly subjective and fragmented view on current practices in moving image in the Bulgarian art scene. We focused on practices that show affinity with speculative narratives - narratives that not just record what is in front of the cinematic eye, but also capture all the ghosts that are unreachable by the apparatus, thus projecting speculative views that intend not merely to describe, but to transform the world.
image: © Veneta Androva

Featured videos

Alexandra Meijer-Werner
Kreislauf / cycle … revolution … circulation, 1997

Kreislauf is an oneiric trip about the continuous cycle of human rebirth. Our dreams create the fabric in which the threads or individual tendencies appear and disappear, only to become visible once again. The dynamic of this video is a weave of repetitions and juxtapositions of the experiences that create the dance of life. Everything is cyclic, nothing disappears; everything is perpetually mutating in landscapes of anguish and joy, violence and calm, solitude and union. The traveler is the active force of his own fate when he realizes that what is most significant in life is the act of living itself.

Björn Braun
without title (excerpt), 2012

Sandra Boeschenstein
Besuchte Linie auf Granit, 2014

I encountered the roundworm in the Alps when I attempted to repair the water catchment of the cabin after a storm. I wished for this animal found at the spring to be a visited line, then searched for potential visitors and found, just nearby, a nest of firebugs in a dried chestnut leaf, which I placed just outside of the image field. The granite slab, roundworm, bugs’ nest and a fly lived their lives within a radius of 100 meters. My part in this was to bring them into direct proximity for the duration of an hour, to focus my camera and to breathe onto the upper part of the lens, in order to increase the atmospheric depth of the picture. Finally, to come to the allegation I’ve made via the title that something was a line that actually is an animal (when normally, in a contrary approach, characteristically formed lines represent animals or the like). The combination of the simplicity in the foundation / bedrock with a simultaneous insecurity in view of scale and nature of this white line, holds my fascination.

Isabella Fürnkäs
In Ekklesia, 2015

The title, ‘In Ekklesia,’ comes from the Greek word ‘ecclesia,’ which refers to the democratic parliament that served Athens in its halcyon days by being open to male citizens every other year. Solon, an Athenian legislator and a sage, allowed all citizens to serve the parliament regardless of their social class in BC 594. The Ecclesia made decisions about war, military strategies, and all judicial and administrative issues. This work satirizes various facets of humans and machines in the 21st century, unconsciously within a dystopian environment. Isabella Fürnkäs introduces a method of combining and overlaying countless images in her work, providing the new experience of sensations that act in ambiguous flows, movements, interference, and interjection. The piece is about the new metaphysical and material connections appearing through digital conversations that are divorced from the general notion of time and space, as well as isolation and alienation. Text by Hyun Jeung Kim (Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul)

Ryan Gander
Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange) , 2008

A digital video transferred from 16 mm film shows a number of slightly differing takes of the same short sequence: A man walks over a bridge and seems to notice something over the railing to his left hand side. As he moves in for a closer inspection, the film cuts, which is then followed by another take of the same shot.

Wim Catrysse
MSR, 2014

On the Kuwait roads the journey goes in a western direction, past military bases and a line of oil transporters. Dreary sound sequences are pumped out by the radio. In the middle of rubbish heaps by the roadside a pack of wild dogs is trying to find shelter from the wind. Wim Catrysse presents the Kuwait desert both as a post-apocalyptic setting and as protagonist. During the journey, the car window is an obstacle, made even more so by the screen. The viewer, dumped in the desert, does not manage to reach it through the window. MSR, the Main Supply Route, is the main highway used to coordinate military operations in the Gulf War in 1990/91 and the War in Iraq in 2003. Filming is forbidden here, so the pack of wild dogs carries the story at first. But their behaviour keeps on bringing the desert into focus as the principal actor. Underlined by the sound track, its seeming hostility to life awakens the impression of a dystopian timelessness reminiscent of the apocalyptic scenarios in films and makes the viewer feel ill at ease. Catrysse examines conventions, both in a political-dogmatic and in a filmic sense.Nathalie Ladermann

Johanna Reich
CRAWLER, 2020

A crawler is a searchbot in the internet which Johanna Reich uses to collect special comments or phrases about the most discussed topics during the last years like A.I., climate change, digital revolution, gender and the turn of democratic systems. Johanna Reich selects several of the collected phrases composing a robot performance: self-driving projectors move across the exhibition space and project comments about a.i., gender or climate change onto the audience and architecture.

Annika Kahrs
solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic...., 2014

solid surface,with hills,valleys,craters and other topographic features,primarily made of ice„solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic features, primarily made of ice“ is set in a planetarium with a projected starry sky, in the center of which is situated a light spot, that explores the space. The Film deals with the moment, shortly before the actual visualization of pluto’s surface properties, whereas the entire cupola hall of the planetarium serves as a metaphorical projection surface of Pluto. The round light spot formally points to the shape of the celestial object and functions as placeholder for its soon arising image.

Ann Oren
The World Is Mine, 2017

In cosplay of the Japanese cyber diva Hatsune Miku, the artist moved to Tokyo, seeking an identity in the world of Miku fanatics, where she was drawn into a love affair with one of the fans. Miku is a Vocaloid, a vocal synthesizer software personified by a cute animated character. Her entire persona: lyrics, music and animation – is fan created, and that's her charm. She even performs sold out concerts as a hologram. By transforming herself into a Miku character through cosplay, Oren enters a world of real hardcore fans where fantasy is more real than reality and the differentiation between the two becomes obsolete. The film examines the performative nature of cosplaying – dressing up and playing the role of fictional characters – as a hybrid space where reality blurs into fetishistic fantasies and pop culture clichés. Combining fan-made lyrics and songs, Oren's trials and tribulations in the fictional Miku world unfolds through vague erotic episodes and encounters with characters whose ontological status remains mysterious, bringing to mind the adventures of a modern Alice in a virtual Wonderland.

Jonathan Monaghan
Den of Wolves, 2020

Den of Wolves is a seamlessly-looping video installation drawing on a range of references to weave a new multi-layered mythology. The work follows three bizarre wolves through a series of increasingly surreal retail stores as they search for the regalia of a monarch. Composed of one continuous camera shot, the work is an immersive, dreamlike journey drawing connections between popular culture, institutional authority and technological over-dependence.

Stefan Panhans
HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – H.V.Installation Mix, 2018

At transmediale, Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler show their work HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – Hybrid Version, a new project that combines film, installation, and staccato stage reading (on blinkvideo we are showing a trailer of the integrated film). With everyday racism, celebrity worship, stereotypes, and the dominating power of the economic all on the rise, precariously and flexibly traveling cultural workers of different origin deliver a sort of spoken word battle about their experiences and dreams. They constantly switch roles and, at the same time, form a choir that clashes with the rapped reports of everyday life. As in a collaborative gymnastic exercise—surrounded by scenery made up of set pieces from outfits of airports, hostels, and courier services, from self-optimization tools and game show displays—they fight for a voice and to be heard, building new alliances along the way. for more information: opening of transmediale

Mariola Brillowska
Children Of The Devil, 2011

Mariola Brillowska’s animation film relates the total collapse of the family system in the 21st century. Six cartoon episodes present an unsparing account of how children become murderers of their parents.

Julia Charlotte Richter
Point Blank, 2019

“Point Blank” refers to a film scene from "The Misfits" (1961) that is now re-enacted and further contextualized. In the original scene, the recently divorced main character Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) rises up against three worn-out cowboys and, in the middle of the desert, confronts the men with all their lacks and lost dreams. In “Point Blank”, we see a young woman wandering around in surreal desert landscapes, a journey into the remoteness of the world and her own inner life. With every step out into the desert, the girl descends into her own depths searching for a place that seems to be suitable for her emotions and words. Unlike Roslyn, the young woman now refers to absent addressees: "Liars", "Murderers" and "Dead Men" she screams and turns around wildly. The words, which spread like bullets in the air, fall back on her. Except for a faint echo, there is no resonance at this place that depicts the obsessions of a distorted, patriarchal society and has become a dramatic backdrop of yearnings within the collective history of cinema. Where Roslyn was able to elicit a terrified astonishment from the three men, the character in Julia Charlotte Richter's video remains to herself and unheard, the desert as the only witness of her manifesto, her anger and her strength.

Ulrich Polster
Frost, 2003 / 2004

The night city. Industrial ruins filmed in contrejour. Memories from childhood. Different places and times combined at the mountain. It is a hollow portrait of Eastern Europe that carries the traces of its history.

Ene-Liis Semper
FF REW, 1998

Dimitri Venkov
The Hymns of Muscovy, 2018

The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy, which is an upside down space twin of the city of Moscow. As the title of the work suggests, the journey also takes us back in time. Gliding along the surface of the planet, we look down to the sky and see historic architectural styles fly by - the exuberant Socialist Classicism aka Stalinist Empire, the laconic and brutish Soviet Modernism, and the hodgepodge of contemporary knock-offs and revivals of the styles of the past. An essential companion to this journey through time and space are Hymnic Variations on the Soviet anthem by the composer Alexander Manotskov. The anthem was written in 1943 and has undergone three editions of lyrics yet musically remained unchanged to now serve as the official anthem of the Russian Federation. Manotskov used an early recording of the anthem as source material to create three electronic variations each corresponding to an architectural style. As if in a twist of Goethe’s phrase, architecture plays its frozen music. Look closely, can you hear it?

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Works


Galleries

Galerie m Bochum
Susanne Breidenbach
Schlossstrasse 1a
44795 Bochum
Germany

Phone: +49-234-43997
E-Mail: galerie@m-bochum.com




Statement

Melanie Manchot’s practice employs photography, video and film to explore performative situations, often looking at the individual in relation to cultural and social conditions as well as to public space. Situated at the threshold between the documentary and staged events the work frequently involves the participation of strangers and articulates modes of individual and collective experiences and relations.
Across distinct projects the practice examines potential meanings and formats of portraiture and its conflicting relationships to issues of subjectivity and representation. Many of the projects involve performative processes where the camera becomes an organising principle, which structures the event. An engagement with group portraiture is a continuous thematic within the practice, questioning notions of the individual in relation to both communities and the notion of the crowd.


Biography

Born 1966, in DE
lives and works in London

Education

1990-1992 Royal College of Art, London, England, MFA in Photography
1989-1990 City University, London, England, MA in Arts & Education
1988-1989 New York University, New York

Selected solo exhibitions

2015
The Gift, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
11/18, ICA/Fig-2, London, UK
Twelve, Peckham Platform London, touring to Castlefield, Manchester; Aspex, Portsmouth; Towner, Eastbourne; Galerie m, Bochum, Germany

2014
The Hall, Its All About the Rive Festival, Plymouth, UK
Tracer, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales, UK

2013
Tracer, Baltic 39, Newcastle, UK
Leap after the Great Ecstasy, Carslaw St*Lukes, London, UK

2012
The Continuous Still, Toronto Photography Festival, New commission, Toronto, Canada
Videoart at Midnight, Screening, Babylon Cinema, Berlin, Germany

2011
Leap after The Great Ecstasy, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Gathering, Fabrica, Brighton, England
Dance (All Night, Paris), Nuit Blanche, Paris, France

2010
Celebration (Cyprus Street), The Whitechapel Gallery, London, England

2009
Celebration Studio, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Street Programme, London, England

2008
May happiness knock you over, Brighton Museum, England

2007
Shave, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Shave, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Security, Goff + Rosenthal, New York, USA
Shave, Fred (Leipzig), Spinnerei Gelaende, Leipzig, Germany

2006
Security, Fred (London), England
Moscow Girls und andere Geschichten, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

2005
Stories from Russia, The Photographers Gallery, London, England

2004
Moscow Girls, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England

2003
Love is a stranger, Leicester City Art Gallery, England

2002
Cornerhouse Manchester, England
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Focalpoint Gallery, Southend, England
University of Illinois Art Gallery, USA

2001
just one kiss?, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England
Fotogalerie in der Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany

2000
Intimate Distance, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, England

1999
look at you loving me, Poster Project, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA

1998
OUT, Poster Project, South Kensington, London, England
look at you loving me, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, England (plus book launch)

Selected group shows
2015
Twelve at Locarno Film Festival as part of Art Basel Film Programme, August 2015
The Dreamcollector in Festival of the Unconscious, Freud Museum, London
Walking Sculpture, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Boston, USA
‘WORK, REST AND PLAY - British Photography from the 1960s to today’, OCT Loft, Shenzhen, touring to Mingsheng Arts Museum, Shanghai and K11 Foundation in Wuhan
A Light Shines in the Darkness, Film and Video Umbrella touring exhibition, 7 venues, UK
Group Therapy, FACT, Liverpool, UK

2014
The Rhythm is…, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
In the Heat of the Night, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
Night Contact, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton UK
Walk On, Plymouth Art Center and Peninsula Arts, UK
Tracer in UHF42, Apexart Project at Wattan TV, Ramllah, Palestine
Dance like nobody’s watching, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Video Art Review
Walk on, mac, Birmingham, UK
Tracer in Welde Art Award, Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Germany

2013
When the Grid goes Soft, MOT, London, UK
Leap after The Great Ecstasy in STILL, Solent Gallery, Southampton, UK
Leap after The Great Ecstasy, Video Dumbo, New York, USA
Leap after The Great Ecstasy in Videonale 14, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Filmweek, Galerie Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Walk on, Touring show: Pittshanger Manor Museum, London/Nothern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland/Aberdeen Art Gallery

2012
Celebration (Cyrus Street): Canary Wharf Screening, Film and Video Umbrella/Art on the Underground, London UK
The Gathering, EMAF, Kunsthalle Osnabrueck, Germany
Situations, MAC/VAL Musee d’art contemporaine, Paris, France
Oriel Davies Open, Newtown, Wales, UK (Winner of Oriel Davies Award)
Play it again, Sam. Galerie m, Bochum Germany

2011
Wunder, Museum Deichtorhallen, Hambug, Germany
No Neutral Ground, Deutsche Botschaft, London, England
Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
East End Film Festival, London, UK
Coming of Age, Great North Musum: Hancock, Newcastle, UK
Sex Drive, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA, USA

2010
Tape Modern, Tape Club, Berlin, Germany
Journeys with no return, A Foundation, London, England
Peeping Tom, Vegas Gallery, London, England
Emporte Moi/Sweep me off my feet, MacVal, Musee d’Art Contemporaine, Paris, France
Do you see me, Galerie m, Bochum Germany. As part of the NextOne Festival, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Journeys with no return, Kurt Kurt, Berlin, Germany
Moving Portraits, Womad Artists Film Screening, England
IMPAKT, Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Lets Dance, MacVal, Musee d’Art Contemporaine, Paris, France
Another Face: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle University
Dimensions in British Contemporary Art, Touring Show, British Council Centres, India
Celebration (Cyprus Street) in: Re-location, Gallery Chelouche, Tel Aviv, Israel

2009
Kiss, Theatre de Chatelet, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Journeys with no return, Akbank Istanbul, collatoral event of the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
Neighbours, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Thessaloniki Biennale 2: Art In Times Of Uncertainty, Thessaloniki, Greece
Insomniac Promenades, Sleeping/Dreaming in contemporary art, Petach-Tikva Museum, Israel

2008
Three Colours White, Rohkunstbau, Program Galerie, Warsaw, Poland
Vollendete Zukunft, Galerie Paterre, Berlin, Germany
El cuerpo (con) sentido. Una representación visual, Centro de Historia, Zaragoza, Spain
Menschen und Orte, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Uprising, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia (Sydney Biennale programme)
Insomniac Promenades, Sleeping/Dreaming in contemporary art, Passage de Retz, Paris, France

2007
Global Feminisms, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, Mass, USA
My Vision, Reiss Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany
A question of Gesture, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and Compton Verney, Warwickshire
New Forest Pavilion, 52nd La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The Art of Growing Old, Ar/ge Kunst Bozen and Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Italy/Austria
1+1=3: Collaborations in Recent British Portraiture, Australian Museum of Photography, Sydney
Global Feminisms, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

2006
Portraits - The view behind the mask, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
Territories of Freedom, Moscow Centre For the Arts, Russia
1+1=3: Collaborations in Recent British Portraiture, Fotofreo Festival of Photography, Australiia
Anstoss Berlin, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
European Media Arts Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabruck, Germany
Summertime, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Animalcity, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Rohkunstbau: Three Colours- Blue, Schloss Gross Leuthen, Brandenburg, Germany
URP!, Ministry of Culture, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
A question of Gesture, Leipzig Opera, Germany

2005
First Moscow Biennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Art Digital. M’Ars Gallery, Mosco, Russia
Detroit International Film + Video Festival, The Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA
After Dark. Flm + Video Festival, Custard Factory, Birmingham
Anonyme Portraits, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria

2004
Polaroids, 39 Gallery, London, England
Naked, The Academy of the West of England, Bristol, England
moving images, tank.tv, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Arte et Naturaleza, Jardin Botanico, Bogota, Colombia
Under 5s, Video programme, 39 Gallery, London, England

2003
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Art Centre, Boston, USA
Furtive Gaze, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Bid, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
Of Bodies and other Things. German Photography in the 20th Century: City Gallery, Prague, Chech Republic/Deutsches Museum, Berlin/ House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
East Wing, Courtauld Institute, London, England

2002
Intimacy, The Russel Coates Museum & Art Gallery, Bournmouth, England
Odalisque, Mafuji Gallery, London, England
Sensitive Skin, Performance Festival, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, England
Welde Kunstpreis, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Germany
Frauen, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria
St James Group Ltd Photography Prize, Flowers East Gallery, London
Over Time, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London

2001
Something happened, Hasselblad Centre, Goteburg, Sweden
Don’t go to work, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England
Love me/Love me, Galerie La Peripherie, Paris, France
Video Umbrella, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, England

2000
The Insanity Benefit, Vilma Gold, London, England
Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London, England
Crossing Place, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

1998
The Whitechapel Open, London, England
The Ugly Show, Leeds Metropolitan Museum + touring
The Century of the Body, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal & Musee de l'Elysee, Switzerland
Spaete Freiheiten, Historisches Museum Bielefeld & Siemens Kulturforum, Munich, Germany

1997
Caren Golden Gallery, New York, USA

Awards/prizes/residencies:

2015
Nominated for Jarman Award
2012
Winner Oriel Davies Award
2010
Nominated for Jarman Award
Nominated for the Deutsche Boerse Photography Prize
2009
British Council Residency, Istanbul, Turkey
2007
Goethe Institute (Mexico) Production Grant
2005
British Council Travel Award
2004
Arts Coucil of England Grant
2003
Goethe Institute (Colombia) Residency
2002
Welde Kunstpreis, Germany
2001
ifa, Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen
2000
MacDowell Fellowship, USA
1999
British Council Award (Grants to Artists Scheme)
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award
1997
Arts for everyone Award, through the Arts Council of England
1992
Chesterton Award
Fuji Award

Public collections

FMAC, Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Arts Council Collection, England
Brooklyn Museum, New York. USA
Bucknell Art Gallery Collection, USA
DG Bank Collection, Germany
Mead Collection, Warwickshire University , England
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
Staedtische Gallery Wolfsburg, Germany
Unilever Collection, England


Melanie Manchot
Born 1966, in DE lives and works in London Education 1990-1992 Royal College of Art, London, England, MFA in Photography 1989-1990 City University, London, England, MA in Arts & Education 1988-1989 New York University, New York Selected solo exhibitions 2015 The Gift, Bloomberg Space, London, UK 11/18, ICA/Fig-2, London, UK Twelve, Peckham Platform London, touring to Castlefield, Manchester; Aspex, Portsmouth; Towner, Eastbourne; Galerie m, Bochum, Germany 2014 The Hall, Its All About the Rive Festival, Plymouth, UK Tracer, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales, UK 2013 Tracer, Baltic 39, Newcastle, UK Leap after the Great Ecstasy, Carslaw St*Lukes, London, UK 2012 The Continuous Still, Toronto Photography Festival, New commission, Toronto, Canada Videoart at Midnight, Screening, Babylon Cinema, Berlin, Germany 2011 Leap after The Great Ecstasy, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany Gathering, Fabrica, Brighton, England Dance (All Night, Paris), Nuit Blanche, Paris, France 2010 Celebration (Cyprus Street), The Whitechapel Gallery, London, England 2009 Celebration Studio, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Street Programme, London, England 2008 May happiness knock you over, Brighton Museum, England 2007 Shave, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Shave, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany Security, Goff + Rosenthal, New York, USA Shave, Fred (Leipzig), Spinnerei Gelaende, Leipzig, Germany 2006 Security, Fred (London), England Moscow Girls und andere Geschichten, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany 2005 Stories from Russia, The Photographers Gallery, London, England 2004 Moscow Girls, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England 2003 Love is a stranger, Leicester City Art Gallery, England 2002 Cornerhouse Manchester, England Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Focalpoint Gallery, Southend, England University of Illinois Art Gallery, USA 2001 just one kiss?, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England Fotogalerie in der Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany 2000 Intimate Distance, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, England 1999 look at you loving me, Poster Project, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA 1998 OUT, Poster Project, South Kensington, London, England look at you loving me, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, England (plus book launch) Selected group shows 2015 Twelve at Locarno Film Festival as part of Art Basel Film Programme, August 2015 The Dreamcollector in Festival of the Unconscious, Freud Museum, London Walking Sculpture, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Boston, USA ‘WORK, REST AND PLAY - British Photography from the 1960s to today’, OCT Loft, Shenzhen, touring to Mingsheng Arts Museum, Shanghai and K11 Foundation in Wuhan A Light Shines in the Darkness, Film and Video Umbrella touring exhibition, 7 venues, UK Group Therapy, FACT, Liverpool, UK 2014 The Rhythm is…, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany In the Heat of the Night, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany Night Contact, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton UK Walk On, Plymouth Art Center and Peninsula Arts, UK Tracer in UHF42, Apexart Project at Wattan TV, Ramllah, Palestine Dance like nobody’s watching, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, UK MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Video Art Review Walk on, mac, Birmingham, UK Tracer in Welde Art Award, Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Germany 2013 When the Grid goes Soft, MOT, London, UK Leap after The Great Ecstasy in STILL, Solent Gallery, Southampton, UK Leap after The Great Ecstasy, Video Dumbo, New York, USA Leap after The Great Ecstasy in Videonale 14, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany Filmweek, Galerie Wentrup, Berlin, Germany Walk on, Touring show: Pittshanger Manor Museum, London/Nothern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland/Aberdeen Art Gallery 2012 Celebration (Cyrus Street): Canary Wharf Screening, Film and Video Umbrella/Art on the Underground, London UK The Gathering, EMAF, Kunsthalle Osnabrueck, Germany Situations, MAC/VAL Musee d’art contemporaine, Paris, France Oriel Davies Open, Newtown, Wales, UK (Winner of Oriel Davies Award) Play it again, Sam. Galerie m, Bochum Germany 2011 Wunder, Museum Deichtorhallen, Hambug, Germany No Neutral Ground, Deutsche Botschaft, London, England Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany East End Film Festival, London, UK Coming of Age, Great North Musum: Hancock, Newcastle, UK Sex Drive, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA, USA 2010 Tape Modern, Tape Club, Berlin, Germany Journeys with no return, A Foundation, London, England Peeping Tom, Vegas Gallery, London, England Emporte Moi/Sweep me off my feet, MacVal, Musee d’Art Contemporaine, Paris, France Do you see me, Galerie m, Bochum Germany. As part of the NextOne Festival, Museum Folkwang, Essen Journeys with no return, Kurt Kurt, Berlin, Germany Moving Portraits, Womad Artists Film Screening, England IMPAKT, Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands Lets Dance, MacVal, Musee d’Art Contemporaine, Paris, France Another Face: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle University Dimensions in British Contemporary Art, Touring Show, British Council Centres, India Celebration (Cyprus Street) in: Re-location, Gallery Chelouche, Tel Aviv, Israel 2009 Kiss, Theatre de Chatelet, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France Journeys with no return, Akbank Istanbul, collatoral event of the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey Neighbours, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Thessaloniki Biennale 2: Art In Times Of Uncertainty, Thessaloniki, Greece Insomniac Promenades, Sleeping/Dreaming in contemporary art, Petach-Tikva Museum, Israel 2008 Three Colours White, Rohkunstbau, Program Galerie, Warsaw, Poland Vollendete Zukunft, Galerie Paterre, Berlin, Germany El cuerpo (con) sentido. Una representación visual, Centro de Historia, Zaragoza, Spain Menschen und Orte, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany Uprising, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia (Sydney Biennale programme) Insomniac Promenades, Sleeping/Dreaming in contemporary art, Passage de Retz, Paris, France 2007 Global Feminisms, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, Mass, USA My Vision, Reiss Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany A question of Gesture, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and Compton Verney, Warwickshire New Forest Pavilion, 52nd La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy The Art of Growing Old, Ar/ge Kunst Bozen and Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Italy/Austria 1+1=3: Collaborations in Recent British Portraiture, Australian Museum of Photography, Sydney Global Feminisms, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA 2006 Portraits - The view behind the mask, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany Territories of Freedom, Moscow Centre For the Arts, Russia 1+1=3: Collaborations in Recent British Portraiture, Fotofreo Festival of Photography, Australiia Anstoss Berlin, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany European Media Arts Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabruck, Germany Summertime, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany Animalcity, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Rohkunstbau: Three Colours- Blue, Schloss Gross Leuthen, Brandenburg, Germany URP!, Ministry of Culture, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy A question of Gesture, Leipzig Opera, Germany 2005 First Moscow Biennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia Art Digital. M’Ars Gallery, Mosco, Russia Detroit International Film + Video Festival, The Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA After Dark. Flm + Video Festival, Custard Factory, Birmingham Anonyme Portraits, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria 2004 Polaroids, 39 Gallery, London, England Naked, The Academy of the West of England, Bristol, England moving images, tank.tv, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England Arte et Naturaleza, Jardin Botanico, Bogota, Colombia Under 5s, Video programme, 39 Gallery, London, England 2003 Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Art Centre, Boston, USA Furtive Gaze, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA Bid, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA Of Bodies and other Things. German Photography in the 20th Century: City Gallery, Prague, Chech Republic/Deutsches Museum, Berlin/ House of Photography, Moscow, Russia East Wing, Courtauld Institute, London, England 2002 Intimacy, The Russel Coates Museum & Art Gallery, Bournmouth, England Odalisque, Mafuji Gallery, London, England Sensitive Skin, Performance Festival, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, England Welde Kunstpreis, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Germany Frauen, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria St James Group Ltd Photography Prize, Flowers East Gallery, London Over Time, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London 2001 Something happened, Hasselblad Centre, Goteburg, Sweden Don’t go to work, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, England Love me/Love me, Galerie La Peripherie, Paris, France Video Umbrella, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, England 2000 The Insanity Benefit, Vilma Gold, London, England Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London, England Crossing Place, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA 1998 The Whitechapel Open, London, England The Ugly Show, Leeds Metropolitan Museum + touring The Century of the Body, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal & Musee de l'Elysee, Switzerland Spaete Freiheiten, Historisches Museum Bielefeld & Siemens Kulturforum, Munich, Germany 1997 Caren Golden Gallery, New York, USA Awards/prizes/residencies: 2015 Nominated for Jarman Award 2012 Winner Oriel Davies Award 2010 Nominated for Jarman Award Nominated for the Deutsche Boerse Photography Prize 2009 British Council Residency, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 Goethe Institute (Mexico) Production Grant 2005 British Council Travel Award 2004 Arts Coucil of England Grant 2003 Goethe Institute (Colombia) Residency 2002 Welde Kunstpreis, Germany 2001 ifa, Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen 2000 MacDowell Fellowship, USA 1999 British Council Award (Grants to Artists Scheme) John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 1997 Arts for everyone Award, through the Arts Council of England 1992 Chesterton Award Fuji Award Public collections FMAC, Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France Arts Council Collection, England Brooklyn Museum, New York. USA Bucknell Art Gallery Collection, USA DG Bank Collection, Germany Mead Collection, Warwickshire University , England Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA Staedtische Gallery Wolfsburg, Germany Unilever Collection, England

Melanie Manchot
Dance (All Night) Paris

Artist Melanie Manchot
Year 2011
Duration 12:37 min
Technical info HD video, color/sound
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About the video

Dance (All Night) Paris presents ten dances in different styles – from tango and waltz to hip hop and rock. The dances are performed together simultaneously in a public square. The amateur dancers only hear the rhythm on their headphones. In this work, Manchot explores the act of dancing in public and the different levels of meaning generated within the experience of dancing collectively. The performance takes place at night, a time which is traditionally associated with dancing, parties and excesses. Dance (All Night) Paris was filmed in October 2011 during the annual Nuit Blanche, a nocturnal exhibition in the public realm in Paris.

Melanie Manchot - Dance (All Night) Paris
Dance (All Night) Paris presents ten dances in different styles – from tango and waltz to hip hop and rock. The dances are performed together simultaneously in a public square. The amateur dancers only hear the rhythm on their headphones. In this work, Manchot explores the act of dancing in public and the different levels of meaning generated within the experience of dancing collectively. The performance takes place at night, a time which is traditionally associated with dancing, parties and excesses. Dance (All Night) Paris was filmed in October 2011 during the annual Nuit Blanche, a nocturnal exhibition in the public realm in Paris.

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