LAPTALK / CPS [CURATING, ARTISTIC PRACTICE]

LAPTALK: 5 min monthly television programs on communication platforms on the Internet. Archive available on http://www.chamber.dk: – – – 1) 'Sarai' http://chamber.dk/LT_sarai.mov (first broadcast 29.03.2005); 2) 'Memefest' http://chamber.dk/LT_memefest.mov (first broadcast 29.04.2005); 3) 'Nettime' http://chamber.dk/LT_nettime.mov (first broadcast 10.05.2005); 4) 'Left Business Observer' http://chamber.dk/LT_leftbusiness.mov (first broadcast 07.06.2005); 5) 'Streamtime' http://chamber.dk/LT_streamtime.mov (first broadcast 21.06.2005); 6) 'IWT Independent World Television' http://chamber.dk/LT_iwt.mov (first broadcast 02.08.2005) – – – CPS: 60 min bi-weekly television formats for tv-tv Copenhagen, on media aesthetics and communication platforms on the Net (with Khaled D. Ramadan, Stine Høxbroe, Jane Jin Kaisen, Iben Bentzen and Ida Gron) – – – Chamber of Public Secrets programs on tv-tv: 1) 15.03.05: Otherness; 2) 29.03.05: Bridges and boundaries; 3) 12.04.05: Au pair; 4) 26.04.05: International Adoption; 5) 10.05.05: Friendship; 6) 24.05.05: Motor; 7) 07.06.05: City and People; 8) 21.06.05: Youth and Old Age; 9) 05.07.05: On the Edge; (re-run) 19.07.05: City and People; 10) 02.08.05: Dubai; 11) 16.08.05 Green Talk & Knockout Sausage; 12) 30.08.05: ShORT & ShARP; 13) 13.09.05: Wedding; (re-run) 27.09.05: ShORT & ShARP; (re-run) 11.10.05: Green Talk & Knockout Sausage; 14) 25.10.05: Fishermen; 15) 15.11.05: Singapore Rebels; 16) 29.11.05: Indonesia Remix; 17) 13.12.05: Animation; 18) 03.01.06: Video Marathon; 19) 10.01.06: Home Works III; 20) 24.01.06: Chamber Perspectives; 21) 07.02.06: Alternative TV; 22) 21.02.06: Experience Economy; 23) 07.03.06: Failures; 24) 04.04.06: Trash Horror; 25) 02.05.06: Video Games; 26) 06.06.06: How to make animation


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Comrade Alfredo Neri, 2006

performance, video, sound

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Comrade Alfredo Neri is a "performative documentary" on media representation and identity construction through the media, by Khaled D. Ramadan and Alfredo Cramerotti. The video is a constructed documentation, with real interviews and footage material, about the life of Alfredo Neri, the spokesman of the Italian fraction of the Skinhead Movement. The skinheads are affiliated with the neo-Nazis and are active in the European countries as well as in the former East Block. Neri is the representative and promoter of the Italian division of the skinheads, their international affiliations and events; in other words, the representative of the state of fear that envelops civil societies. In the documentary, he explains how the movement changed its strategy to suit contemporary global political tendencies, urging its members to operate as invisible as possible and infiltrate the political, economic, and cultural structures, with the ultimate aim to rule in Europe. They operate without being exposed and are directly affiliated with the neo-Nazi ideology. Is history about to repeat itself, changing only the outfit? The authors met Alfredo Neri during his visit to Scandinavia, on his travel to Helsingborg, Sweden, for the annual gathering of the neo-Nazi movement in Autumn 2005. – – – The film is presented after a short lecture-introduction by Khaled d. Ramadan, followed by a discussion with the audience, in which the spokesperson, takes part unexpectedly. The whole project «Comrade Alfredo Neri» questions media representation and construction of identity through a fake documentary-portrait based on real facts, presented as Part 1 of the project. The audience expects Part 2 to come after the debate; instead, the audience itself becomes Part 2, the debate, discussion and sparking of stimuli injected by the film (Part 1). – – – Presented at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen (2006), Hotel Pro Forma in Copenhagen (2006), and was part of the itinerant project «The Disappearance of the Public Space», curated by Goran Petrovic. The piece has also been shown on tv-tv Copenhagen (2006) and at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide (2008)

ISTAN-BUL, 2003

Sound, Video, Text, Prints
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Sound and video work on Istanbul's bridges connecting Asia and Europe, examples of the "representational aesthetics" of urban infrastructures. (with Iben Bentzen) Istanbul is separated in two parts by a busy gulf. What connect the Asian and the European side are the two bridges Bosphorus Bridge and Fatih Sultan Mehmet. The latest one, Fatih Sultan Mehmet, is most often exposed. It appears as a glamorous image on the front page of various brochures and tourist maps. This bridge has a positive, symbolic meaning in the sense of connecting Asia and Europe. It is a symbol of a structured city proclaiming to be a European metropolis. One thing is how the tourist brochures represent the bridge, another is what the meaning of the bridge is in people’s mind. What do the inhabitants of Istanbul on respectively the Asian and the European side think about the bridge and its importance for the city? Is there despite the physical connection a psychological division?