秘密 - A Diachronic Home
"Diachronic Home"
4-channel video installation
"Vice Versa"
2-channel video installation with performance
CSA Space, Vancouver
秘密 - A Diachronic Home is a solo exhibition by Isabella Fürnkäs, featuring two works “Diachronic Home” and “Vice Versa." “Diachronic Home” is a four channel video installation. The family’s bookshelves laden with philosophical and literary works, festooned with the accretion of a life spent between cultures. These shelves serve as backdrops in the manner of still life paintings static and motionless. The contemplative silence of the shelves is disrupted by the interjection of attempts to query the world and the objects within it. Along with voices reading excerpts from Elias Canetti, Franz Kafka, Junichiro Tanizaki, Kobo Abe, Marcel Proust, Marshall McLuhan, Michel Foucault, Oscar Wilde, Robert Musil, Roland Barthes, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Samuel Beckett. Read by Juan Antonio Olivares, Kaoli Mashio, Lukas von der Gracht, Daniella Séville and filmed with Moritz Krauth and Magdalena Kita.“Vice Versa” is a two channel video installation, with monitors resting on a mattress. As in “Diachronic Home” a stream of images moves across the screens, as if recollection of half remembered dreams. A disjointed conversation between male and female voice, threads its way through the syncopated typology of the videos. Special thanks to Jordan Milner who kindly agreed to enact the performative aspect of the work on the opening night.
Curated by Steven Tong
Exhibition text by Gia Edzgveradze
Appearing in "Dirty T-Shirt Culture" publication at Verlag Kettler (2017)
http://www.verlag-kettler.de/programm/gia-edzgveradze
Exhibition pdf
http://csaspace.blogspot.de/2015/06/isabella-furnkas-diachronic-home.html
Diachronic Home - 4-channel video installation
Installed with two shelves à 3m
Video 45min in total, Surround sound
Excerpts read by: Juan Antonio Olivares, Lukas von der Gracht, Kaoli Mashio and Daniella Séville
Filmed with Moritz Krauth and Magdalena Kita
Vice Versa - Two-channel video installation, dialogue
Mattress with two 40“ flatscreens
Performance by Jordan Milner during exhibition opening (3h)
„Diachronic Home“ - voices reading excerpts from:
(Surround sound)
Elias Canetti - Die Blendung Franz Kafka - Katz und Maus (Nachgelassene Schriften)
Junichiro Tanizaki - The Secret Kobo Abe - Der verbrannte Stadtplan Marcel Proust - A la recherche du temps perdu
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media
Michel Foucault - Dits et écrits Oscar Wilde - The Artist Robert Musil - Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
Roland Barthes - Fragments d‘un discours amoureux
Ryunosuke Akutagawa - The nose Samuel Beckett - Krapp‘s Last Tape
