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Films, Video and New Media
Video Pool at ISEA 2011 curated by Tom Kohut
The Foucault of Discipline and Punish postulated a disciplinary apparatus based on the architectural surveillance and distribution of bodies in space. In the essay he wrote immediately after finishing his analysis of prisons, “Right to Life and Power over Death,” Foucault further theorized an additional dispostif to disciplinary apparati: that of the biopolitical regulation and administration of life. The videos in this program inhabit this conceptual space. From the images of confinement and surveillance in Thorneycroft’s Snare (1996), Peterson’s Threshold Economics (2011) and Olafson’s 2 B (201) through to the recoding of biological data demonstrated in Kelly’s 3 Minutes in Bejing (2009) and Takatsu”s Pompidoleum (1978), the apparati of control both discipline and regulate the body for statist, technocratic ends. However, biopolitical recoding can also be made to serve emancipatory programs, as in the overtly pro-labour Foundation (Fisher & Rice, 2007). In this video, technocratic rigidity is replaces with a fluidity that overturns the static apparatus control. The thematic of fluidity is taken up in braun’s In Frequency (2009) and Armstrong’s Electric Eggs (2005); in these videos, de-structuration and flow are offered as contrast to the disciplinary and regulative apparati of the previous videos. The drones of biological data is countered with the “wetness” of biology as matter itself.
Titles
1. Snare (6:09, 1996) – Diana Thorneycroft
2. Threshold Economics (5:29, 2011) – Hope Peterson
3. 2 B (3:55, 2011) – Freya Björg Olafson
4. 3 Minutes in Beijing (3:00, 2009) – Kevin Kelly
5. Pompidoleum (6:37, 1978) – Ryan Takatsu
6. Foundation (7:00, 2007) – Rick Fisher & Don Rice
7. In Frequency (1:50, 2009) – kelsey braun
8. Electric Eggs (3:10, 2005) – Gwen Armstrong
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