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<span></span>-sound editing to create continuity between footage from different sources—feels manipulative, I know it’s creating a feeling of artificial wholeness. but draws me in. draws attention to: who is the narrator? the video editor?<br>-changing scenes out of the airplane to the ground—hints that this is part of a larger narrative, will take place in multiple locations<br>-intimate relations to bodies through closeups of hands and feet—‘intimacy’ complicated because these are found videos<div>-coins and artifacts: history, the earth, past civilizations <br>-closeups of people looking into the camera—viewer is connected ‘intimately’ (in same contrived way as with hand and foot closeups) to individual characters, or avatars of characters.<br>-footage from many places throughout the world woven into one—narrative of some kind of global scope condensed into one audio visual experience<br>-creeping animals—what do they do?—seem to act like bystander characters uninterested in the filming or editing, or other relations set up between characters in the video and viewer. <br>-nude hikers (probably americans, somewhere in the alps?), swimmers in the cave—examples of adventure tourists. also indifferent to the sense of doom setup by the sound editing. Together with animals, many of ‘characters’ in film are pictured going about their business while the decent into the earth and the dramatic sound editing create sent of imminent destruction<br>--relationship between contrived wholeness, found material, adventure tourism, immanent destruction? who is the narrator? <br><br><br><br>On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:26 PM Daniel Lichtman <<a href="mailto:danielp73@gmail.com">danielp73@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> This is the first artwork! Look forward to responses from the moderators, and anyone on the list who would like to respond! Also, please feel free to respond to this artwork at a later date even if other works have been posted.<br>><br>> Benjamin Orlow<br>> The Ticket That Exploded<br>><br>> Video link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFayZ-6RqSQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFayZ-6RqSQ</a><br>><br>> Benjamin Orlow is a Finnish-Swedish-Russian artist based in London. He received his MFA from Goldsmiths College 2012. His work has recently been featured at the ICA in London, Kunsthalle Münster, Fahrenheit Los Angeles, The Tetley in Leeds, Phoenix Leicester and Hordaland Kunstcenter in Norway. He has attended residencies at Kunsthalle Roveredo in Switzerland, Startpoint Prize Prague and PIVO in Sao Paulo. Last year his 24-hour military-opera-ballet-film, “Horses and Ants" premiered at Sinne Gallery in Helsinki and he completed his first large-scale public sculpture in Jakobstad, Finland.<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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