#VOICEOVER is an online extension to a themed survey published in Kaleidoscope‘s issue 20 (Winter 2013/14), dedicated to the deployment of off-camera commentary as a conceptual device in the moving image works of a new generation of artists, including Ed Atkins, Laure Prouvost, Pilvi Takala, Hito Steyerl, Helen Marten, Camille Henrot, Ian Cheng, Mark Leckey, and Oliver Laric. The following selection of featured videos, exceptionally made available for online viewing, explores how these artists resort to the disembodied voice to find expression beyond language, elevate sound from background element to a character in its own right, and tackle issues of neutrality, animism and miscomprehension. Referencing the films of Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard while also drawing from advertising and text-to-speech, these artists use voiceover to analyze the separation of mind over body, lending the works their alternating intimacy and alienation.
Enjoy the video program.
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#VOICEOVER
An online video exhibition with:
An online video exhibition with:
Helen Marten
Orchids, or a Hemispherical Bottom, 2013
Richard Sides
The Only Way She
Could Ever Look Good
is With Distance, 2011
John Smith
Associations, 1975
Pilvi Takala
Players, 2010
Oliver Laric
Versions, 2012
Arin Rungjang
Golden Teardrop, 2013
Camille Henrot
Film Spatial, 2007
Mark Leckey
GreenScreen
RefridgeratorAction, 2011
Aurélien Froment
Pulmo Marina, 2010
Ian Cheng
Baby feat. Bali, 2013
Ed Atkins
A Primer for Cadavers, 2011
Rachel Reupke
Containing Matters of No
Very Peaceable Matter, 2009
Laure Prouvost
It, Heat, Hit, 2010
Hito Steyerl
November, 2004
#VOICEOVER: Screening
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
March 10, 7–9 pm
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
March 10, 7–9 pm
A related screening event curated by Shama Khanna will be held at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, on March 10, accompanied by a public conversation with featured artist Richard Sides. Featured video works include:
• Ed Atkins, Even Pricks, 2013, 8′
• Steve Reinke, Great Blood Sacrifice, 2010, 4′
• Peter Wachtler, Untitled, 2013, 11′
• Richard Sides, The only way she could ever look good is with distance, 2011, 8′
• Laure Prouvost, Monolog, 2011, 9′
• Andrew N. Wilson, Workers Leaving the Googleplex, 2010, 11′
• Pilvi Takala, Drive with Care, 2013, 13′
#VOICEOVER: Screening
Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan
March 14, 6–8 pm
Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan
March 14, 6–8 pm
A related screening event curated by Shama Khanna will be held at Kaleidoscope’s newly opened project space, Milan, on March 14, accompanied by a public conversation with featured artist Andrew Norman Wilson. Featured video works include:
• Ed Atkins, Even Pricks, 2013, 8′
• Steve Reinke, Great Blood Sacrifice, 2010, 4′
• Peter Wachtler, Untitled, 2013, 11′
• Richard Sides, The only way she could ever look good is with distance, 2011, 8′
• Laure Prouvost, Monolog, 2011, 9′
• Andrew N. Wilson, Workers Leaving the Googleplex, 2010, 11′
• Pilvi Takala, Drive with Care, 2013, 13′
#VOICEOVER: Essay
Under the Skin words by Shama Khanna
From Kaleidoscope Issue 20 (Winter 2013/14)
Under the Skin words by Shama Khanna
From Kaleidoscope Issue 20 (Winter 2013/14)
The memorable reveal of the man behind the curtain twiddling knobs and simulating the booming, god-like voice of Oz by rascally Toto the dog is an apt metaphor for how the authority of the voice-over crumbled towards a post-historical pluralism of voices. The persistence of enlightenment theories of the West, however—where objective knowledge of the world is key to the progress of civilization—signaled that a hierarchy between the mind and body, and the attitudes and cultures that subscribe to this way of the world, still remained: “It is the confrontation of mind with matter which brings the object into being,” reads a female voice in Duncan Campbell’s recent film It For Others (2013), underlining this power relation. Contemporary artists working with the moving image analyze this separation of mind over body. Read more.