WINTER EVENT – ANTIFREEZE, 2009
HD video
Running time: 6, 10 min
Camera: Janet Biggs
The film ‘Winter Event – antifreeze’ take its point of departure in George Brecht’s performative Fluxus instruction (from 1966) with the same title. During my participation in Farm Foundation’s Arctic Circle program, an artist and scientist led expedition in the High Arctic in 2009 I interpreted this instruction through a performative act every time we went on shore, by picking up a piece of ice and holding it in my hand until it melted. Every performance in the Arctic was documented and later re-worked into the film Winter Event – antifreeze. In the film I choose to emphasize the absurdity and the humor of the situation by focusing the ‘behind the scene’ documentary material rather than highlighting the performative act that was the initial starting point. By doing so I investigated how a certain material changes through different stages of re-enactments and ‘filtering’ through different modes of material, and how this in terms of content and narrative creates different meanings and questions.
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