Russia | Intima | Igor Štromajer

30 January 2009 • 16:52 0

Radiator 2009

Radiator Festival 2009
Exploits in the Wireless City
Nottingham, United Kingdom

Filed under: EXHIBITIONS, Anette Schäfer, BBC Derby Big Screen, Miles Chalcraft, Netherlands, Phoenix Leicester, Radiator, Russia, Stromajer, UK, video, Visual Foreign Correspondents

9 February 2008 • 9:39 0

VFC – Interview

The Netherlands is respectful.
Russia is corrupt.

Interview with Igor Stromajer
by Annet Dekker
– for Visual Foreign Correspondents
(originally / first published at www.visualcorrespondents.com)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2008

# project: The Netherlands is respectful. Russia is corrupt. (video)

Igor Stromajer describes himself on his website as an ‘intimate mobile communicator’. He continues: “- researches tactical emotional states and traumatic low-tech strategies. He has shown his work at more than a hundred exhibitions in forty-two countries and received a number of awards. As artist in residence he lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes. His works are included in the permanent collections of various international museums”. However impressive the list is that follows more interesting is his statement: “I believe in intimacy, individualism, emotions, frustrations, traumas, artificial, communication, impossibility, mobility, montage, radicality, sensibility, silence, strategy, tactics, tears, orgasm, concept, pleasure, fantasies, philosophy, transfer, utopia and angels. I do not believe in media, tourism and the end. [Art is a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it]”

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Filed under: ART WORKS, EXHIBITIONS, TEXTS, Amsterdam, Annet Dekker, De Balie, EU, Interview, Nanette Hoogslag, Netherlands, Russia, video, Visual Foreign Correspondents

4 February 2008 • 12:35 0

Visual Foreign Correspondents

Visual Foreign Correspondents in cooperation with De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics and De Volkskrant (Oog), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2008

— Exhibiting: The Netherlands is respectful. Russia is corrupt. by Igor Stromajer

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Filed under: EXHIBITIONS, TEXTS, Amsterdam, De Balie, EU, exhibition, Nanette Hoogslag, Netherlands, Russia, video, Visual Foreign Correspondents

1 February 2008 • 12:35 0

The NL is respectful. RUS is corrupt.

The Netherlands is respectful. Russia is corrupt.

Visual Foreign Correspondents

Urban Video
by Igor Stromajer

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2008

Co-produced by Intima Virtual Base (Slovenia), De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics, De Volkskrant (Oog) and The Netherlands Institute for Media Art

In his work The Netherlands is respectful. Russia is corrupt. Štromajer is in search of current verdicts about the different countries from Eastern and Western Europe. They take the form of stereotypical sentences and surprising quotes and run parallel across the screen. The hierarchical devide between East and West changes once you try to read the sentences. The speed of the sentences makes the words tumble and meanings become interchangeable.

Visual Foreign Corespondents is a monthly series of audiovisual artworks for the public screen and online related to The Globalised Crystal Ball, an international debating program in De Balie. Distinguished artists from around the world are invited each month to give their personal visual commentary on events and situations from their local perspective.

Curated by Nanette Hoogslag, David Garcia, Petra Heck, Nat Muller, Eric Kluitenberg.

– Annet Dekker: Interview with Igor Stromajer (for VFC)

– video: