live event,
Sunday, April 6th, 2014
For part one, eteam joins forces with Paul Amitai to merge history, fiction, documentation, and sci-fi through a performative reading of Amitai’s “In Between States” and eteam’s Buzz Cut. Independently published, both books explore the uncanny experience of observing foreign landscapes that are equally mundane and loaded with trace evidence from the past. It’s an exercise in “parallel storytelling” in which each artist’s overlapping images and text allow the audience to weave their own narrative through the counterpoint dialogue between the artists’ presentations.
“In Between States” examines the relationship between two adjacent sites – a post-World War II displaced persons camp and a present-day corporate industry park located outside of Frankfurt. In 2012 eteam visited the towns of Mars and Moon Township in Pennsylvania. Their approach in “Buzz Cut” is documentary, positioning themselves as cultural anthropologists who view the towns as if they were simulated environments on the planet Mars and Earth’s satellite, the Moon.
Part two approaches the theme of disappearance through excerpts of eteam’s Space Delay a work about con-artists and online identities, Track One their shortest work to date incorporating yellow cabs in Taipei and Prim Limit, the life of a dumpster in secondlife. Additionally, ghost ships, motorcycle chases and airplanes will provide a frame of reference for this section.
Part three is a discussion between eteam and Paul Amitai, moderated by Jim Supanick.
