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ENFRAMING HOME II
A Multimedia Film Installation |
Germany, Bénin, Sharjah U.A.E. | 2013
SYNOPSIS
Within the longterm project enframing home, YOVO! YOVO! experiments with transformations of representations in the medium of language and image on their way of intermediation. Who is acting – who is receiving? Is it possible to crack the time and logic based linear hierarchy between operator and recipient by a mutual exchange of them? Can the line of vision become mulitidirectional? Enframing home was drawn up as an ongoing process for the exhibition “Take, Take, Take and…?” part of the Biennial Regard Bénin 2012 in West Africa. According to Thimothy Mitchell, the term enframing names (hierarchic) restructuring of spatial order in postcolonial areas. YOVO! YOVO! faces the term enframing with the word home which stands for the desire of an imaginary home and doesn´t mean a concrete geographical place. “enframing home” variates the worldwide known children´s game “chinese whispers”. There, the players give on a message from one to another, mouth to ear. During mediation mistakes happen in the transmission chain, because insufficient hearing and understanding are compensated by the subjective perception of the individual. These shiftings are bringing up a new variety of interpretations of one and the same thing. The transformation process corresponds to a multiperspective and multilingual telling. Co- authors are illustrators and graphics who shape the respective city view. Within this experimental arrangement of permanent exchange the new interpretations change the original message and vice versa.
CREDITS
description of the signs in Sharjah SALMA AHMAD, IHSAN AL-KHATEE, ARWA JUNDI, KHADIJA FIKRI, MOHAMMED AMEEN GHASSAN LATIF
experts / graphic designer in Sharjah FAHAD MALIK, ASAD ABBAS, SULAIMAN ZAMAN, NAVEED TUFAIL, AFSAL NAWAS
description of the signs in Bénin JIMAJA ALDA, JANVIER DOSSA, DAMIAN ODELUOUI, JOB GBESSO, ABROISINE DADAGLO
experts / sign painter in Bénin ADO, ADÉSIR, NICOLAS DAGUE, PAUL DANSOU, LAURENTINE HOUSSOU
description of a model house in Germany EVELY GIUS, MARIE HÄUSNER, CHRISTIAN HORNUNG, KATHARINA KÖNIG, SIMON URBSCHAT
concept YOVO! YOVO! / EYLIEN KÖNIG, MARTINA MAHLKNECHT, MARTIN PRINOTH, DORIS MARGARETE SCHMIDT
