Flanking the left side of the main film stood a small play-box version of the larger film, raised on four legs, reiterating the artifice of the projection and the position of the viewers, who also stood in a box-the darkened room itself. On the wall hangs a photograph of a girl’s arm and hand with an extra finger-a promise to the future. Projected onto an adjacent wall to the right was “Talk About Body” (2013), a short video showing a Chinese woman wearing a Muslim headscarf, sitting on a bed in a small, crowded room, answering questions put to her. To reinforce the point again, we see a Sichuan face changer perform. It is also a film about male hysteria, the symptom being the projection-and the film itself is a projection, a mirror, an artifice, a trick. The narrative is about generations, particularly the tension between middle class ambition and conformity. The players draw stylistically on Chinese soap operas, with moments of arch stillness or sudden emotion punctuating the film’s naturalism. The actors play naturalistically but against a white background that signals the story’s artifice (similarly, rain is represented by falling black feathers). The first film, “Excessive” (2015) recounts the story of how a family reacts to the daughter having an extra finger, a trivial but definite marker of otherness. In a darkened room built within the usual gallery space were two films and an installation by Tao Hui. There was no preordained way to view the “Mulberry Forrest” yet it seemed to begin and end with narrative films. Tao Hui, “Excessive”, 2015, HD video (color, sound), glass projector, silica gel, iron, wood, 112 x 59,8 x 30 cm, duration: 19:32 min, edition of 5. 1962, Gwangju, South Korea), and Prabhavathi Meppayil (b. Curated by gallery director Shi-Ne Oh, “The Mulberry Forrest” includes five artists: Pak Sheung Chuen (b. In 2008, Philip Tinari, now director of the UCCA in Beijing, curated “CYLWXZ” with Chu Yun, Liu Wei, and Xu Zhen, all from China. It was the gallery’s second exhibition devoted to Asian artists. “The Mulberry Forrest Becoming Ocean” was Esther Schipper’s last show at its Schoeneberger Ufer premises before reopening this month in the former Tagesspiegel newspaper building in Potsdamer Strasse. The gods become ghosts, and West becomes East. We have only to concentrate, to learn to watch the stone grow. And yet, as mere people subject to the will of the gods, with concentration we can ignore time and space. Time marks the process of becoming, space its stage, but neither time nor space care for the clock is a fiction, a narrative that exists only in the mind-the clock remarks not its own counting. “Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit” ( Here space becomes time) says Gurnemanz to Parsifal in Wagner’s opera. The parable encompasses notions of justice and punishment, social and political order, and the value of work, life and happiness, each measured in time and space, repetition and weight. His penance: to repeatedly push a boulder up a mountain for eternity. In the roots of Western culture, walking up a mountain begins with the Greek myth of Sisyphus, the King of Ephyra who, depending on the story, was condemned by the gods for overweening pride, wisdom, duplicity, and defiance-each shades of independence. The studio is located in Nîmes in the south of France and specializes in hardcore games especially on PC and consoles.IM Heung-soon, Tao Hui , Minjung Kim, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Pak Sheung ChuenĮsther Schipper (78-87 Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin – new address) January 20 – February 25, 2017 Midgar Studio is a small French independent development studio created in 2008 and composed of thirteen video game enthusiasts. A fearless yet adorable beast to befriend.Stunning soundtrack featuring Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger & Xenoblade Chronicles).Charismatic and unforgettable characters.Epic battles with a unique and strategic turn-based combat system.An enthralling story filled with plot twists and heart-wrenching moments.In these desperate times, a young soldier will have to face his destiny and embark on an epic journey that will change the fate of Heryon forever… Now an even greater threat has emerged : in a despicable act of war, the invaders released the Corrosion, a fatal disease turning living forms of all kinds into misshapen abominations. Years ago, the arrival of a mysterious alien force ultimately plunged the planet into an endless cataclysmic war where both magic and technology were unleashed to their worst and darkest extremes.
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