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James Benning

Agnieszka Gratza

This review of James Benning: Decoding Fear at Kunstverein Hamburg appeared on artforum.com: View of “James Benning: Decoding Fear,” 2015. With its white walls, this latest installation of “Decoding Fear” seems the negative image of the show’s first iteration at Kunsthaus Graz, where sundry objects, texts, and projections were displayed in a dark space. In either iteration, the gallery spaces have felt as sepulchral as the immaculately white, minimally furnished twin cabins at the heart of the show. These simplified, abstract reproductions of the hermitical dwellings that Henry David Thoreau and the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski constructed at Walden Pond and … Continue reading James Benning

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Berlinale Forum 2013

Agnieszka Gratza

This report appeared on the Sight & Sound blog: 727 Days Without Karamo Justifiably billed as “the most daring section of the Berlinale”, the Forum certainly doesn’t eschew standard narrative fare and for the most part stays well within the bounds of cinematic convention. Yet even if you’re not narratively inclined, this is still the place to be. Some of the quirkiest offerings both in this strand and in its younger offshoot Forum Expanded, now in its eighth year, melded documentary and fiction, art and cinema, in a genuine attempt at forging new cinematic forms. A case in point: Anja … Continue reading Berlinale Forum 2013