LEVENDE ORD III - MØDET MED DET FREMMEDE ser nærmere på, hvordan den øgede migration i verden, mødet med det fremmede og tilpasningen til et nyt liv ofte resulterer i psykiske lidelser, som de færreste psykiatriske behandlingsapparater endnu kan håndtere.…
A long-lost 16mm film shows the 1939 New York World’s Fair as it really was – fun! Filmmaker and world’s fair historian, Mark Bussler (Expo: Magic of the White City, Westinghouse, Classic Game Room, Chicago 1933: A Century of Progress in Photographs) takes viewers on a raucous adventure…
I was at the lake, a small one in the depths of the forest. I was deep in an interesting conversation with two beautiful ladies about yoga. As usual I always have a camera with me in this digital era, and asked the ladies if I could record some of the conversation, and make it into a movie. We ended…
Howard Hodgkin is one of the world’s leading painters, whose art is admired both by critics and by a wide public. Beginning with a remembered experience, Hodgkin works on his seductive and complex paintings for long periods, characteristically producing richly coloured, sweeping compositions, which…
In 2003 Chris Ofili created the spectacular installation within reach for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Combining a cycle of paintings depicting lovers in a Paradise-like garden with a shimmering glass dome, Ofili plunged visitors into disorienting spaces of dense colour and enveloping…
Many of Sam Taylor-Wood’s distinctive photographs and films depict an affluent and fashionable social scene. But her concerns are often isolation and anxiety, conflict and alienation. Her art is alluring and disarming, and also frequently formally inventive. She uses multiple screens, still images…
In October 2002 Anish Kapoor completed his extraordinary sculpture Marsyas for The Unilever Series of commissions in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London. A challenging and overwhelming artwork, Marsyas is a vast red PVC membrane stretched between three massive steel rings. The title refers to a satyr…
Martin Creed is one of Britain’s most engaging contemporary artists. His self-effacing work reflects an anxiety to communicate in a world already full of too many things. So he frequently tries to produce both something and nothing, and does so in idiosyncratic ways with the modest means from everyday…
“1980’s The World of Gilbert and George is really only interesting as an unwitting document of its time, but theEYE, an extended interview on the pair, is fascinating…” Guardian Guide, 17 February, 2007 Gilbert Prousch met George Passmore at St Martin’s School of Art…
Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London’s East End. Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet…
Since winning the Turner Prize in 2003, Grayson Perry has become the nation’s favourite transvestite potter. In this film, he speaks engagingly about why he is an artist that uses ceramics and not a potter, and about the defining themes that run through his work. He explains the elaborate, labour…
An internationally acclaimed artist, Antony Gormley is best known for his monumental sculpture Angel of the North. This earth-bound figure with its massive wings shares with all of Gormley’s work a preoccupation both with the human form and with our shared spiritual potential. Antony Gormley’s…
