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FORMOSA EXPERIMENT
28.30 min / 2014 |
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The situation on an island in the South Pacific Ocean is getting worse. Memories on dictatorship and tyranny are arising. Protests are spreading. The entire world is in turmoil. A secret experiment to shift the island is carried out. Suddenly, the island disappears together with its people. The world power of China, Russia, US and Japan blamed each other. Three new populated islands are appearing scattered around the globe. What are the consequences? An island myth is created. Women from different cultural backgrounds take a ritual bath together and associate the memories.
Embedded in a fictitious story framework of an experiment to shift the island, disappearing and appearing of islands, the film is based on conducted interviews about identity of Taiwanese people in different ages and two autobiographical stories as well. Today’s global political, economical conflicts, environmental issues and those of contemporary history are reflected in the narrative form. |
Verena Kyselka lives and works in Berlin
EDUCATION AND ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT
2007 Artist curator of the international project “Conspiracy Dwellings”, Erfurt /London, 2005-2007 Lectureship at the University Erfurt (Germany), 1998 – 2003 Studies of art and video-design at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany and Ècole Supérieur des Beaux Arts Geneva, Switzerland
AWARDS AND PROMOTED PROJECTS
2014 Artist-in-Residence,1Shanti Road Studio Gallery, Bangalore, India, 2013 Recipient of a film grant for an international film production of medienboard, Berlin, Germany, 2012 Recipient of scholarship of the Thuringian Cultural Foundation Germany, 2011 Recipient of scholarship of the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, 2010 Artist-in-Residence, 435 International Artist Village, Banciao City, T.C. Taiwan, 2009 Artist-in-Residence, Art Commune ACSL Yerevan, Armenia, 2008 Recipient of scholarship of the Thuringian Cultural Foundation Germany, 2007 The Green Island Human Rights International Artists’ Workshop, Taiwan, 2006 Hweilan International Artist Workshop, Hualien Taiwan, 2003 Artist-in-Residence, Academy of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS OF THE LAST 5 YEARS:
2013/2014 Between Retreat and Provocation, Kunsthalle Erfurt (Germany)
2013 Territories.beyound desire, Gallery futura, Berlin, Germany, Britto International Art, Shipakala Academy Dhaka, Bangladesh, re.act Performing Archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, beRuf Künstlerin, Kunsthalle Brennabor, Brandenburg, 2013/12 Dying Eyes, China Academy of Arts HangZhou, China, Museum of Medical Humanities Taipei, Taiwan, Schmiede Media Art Festival, Hallein, Austria, ExDox Film Festival,, Ambiguous Being, Tamtam Artspace; Berlin, Kuv16, Gallery of Contemporary Art, TelAviv, Israel, Hong Gah Museum Taipei, Taiwan, 2011 TRANSEUROPA Festival, Kino arsenal, Berlin, 24th STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER, Imagine the future, Artobia Art Space, Hualien, Taiwan, 2010 Bouche a’ Oreille, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, 2009 und jetzt. Künstlerinnen aus der DDR, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Germany Transcaucasian Identification, Museum of Modern Art Yerevan, Armenia, 2008 Territory of Intimacy//Forbidden Kisses, National Gallery Tirana, Albania, re.act.feminism-performance art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany |
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