This Matters of Being edition explores how worlds evolve from human perception, language, and the desires cultivated by urban infrastructures.
Matters of Being is a screening program that presents experimental cinematic works by artists and independent filmmakers, and documentary films about artists, thinkers and scientists. It is an invitation to allow our minds to wander and stumble upon new associations in the illuminating darkness of the cinema setting.
Lose Voice Toolkit (2024), a 16mm film by Adele Dipasquale, will playfully demonstrate the potential of creating one’s own form of communicating. In the darkness of Alexander Köppel’s site-specific sound-installation A composition for granular presence (2023) our ears will become more attentive to our surroundings. Mateo Vega’s film tryptich Center, Ring, Mall (2023) will question uopias of progress.
After the screening of the individual works Nele Brökelmann will moderate a conversation between the artists and the audience.
Adele Dipasquale
In an undefinable place and time we see a group of children who don’t use words anymore. They might have lost them due to powerful voice-stealing magnets, or dissolved by lose-voice candies. The words seem to be lost, forgotten somewhere. So, they start to transform and develop a new system of communicating made of aerial forms, sharp gazes or shared thoughts. Looking at them, one would think that they would speak with their noses, their elbows, their pupils.
Alexander Köppel
This site specific composition for multichannel sound and light is a scene exploring the qualities of its space and different modes of relating. The piece invites to explore the edges of one’s perception. It creates a time and a space in which affects can be embraced as they occur. The work brings you to where you can tap into the more granular areas of your attention, listening and presence.
Mateo Vega
A multi-vocal triptych through peripheral sites of urban infrastructure: a data center, a ring road, and a run-down mall. All three sites were built with certain worldviews: visions of the future and US-influenced promises of progress that didn’t turn out to be the utopias they pre-sented themselves as. Through a site-specific soundtrack, 16mm and 3D images, the spaces and their implications are subjectively mapped, poeticized and questioned. A poetic materialism of decay, renewal, remembering and projecting, “Center, Ring, Mall” is perhaps a mourning, but one that desires and demands a rebirth.
Matters of Being is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.