Habitat and Utopia in Zurich
Impakt's touring program Habitat and Utopia will be screened in Zürich next week. The program will contain the filmprogram Habitat and Utopia and a discussion moderated by Dagmar Reichert - professor of Culture Sciences and participating in the discussion are: Franziska Koch - artist, Isa Stürm - architect and Patrick Huber - Director of Kunstraum Walcheturm & Videoex Festival.
Date: Thursday 20 November, 19:00
Location: Stiftung Binz39, Sihlquai 133, Zürich, Switzerland
This screening and discussion are initiated by Elodie Pong
For more information about this event, please visit: www.binz39.ch
Habitat and Utopia
Seven quests for happiness, intimacy and perfection in contemporary urban settings. From futuristic fantasies to hard social realism and from intimate and sometimes somewhat sad encounters between complete strangers to world wide happiness.
The artistic duo Al + Al from Great Britain presents a scientist who wants to put his work at the service of mankind but finds a pop-icon in his way. It is as if Al + Al want to surpass Jeroen Bosch with their bizarre and at times unfathomable worlds. Their work also seems to reverberate with the echo of a music video made 23 years earlier for 'Can you feel it' by the Jacksons. In this cosmic dream of happiness, Michael and his brothers descend on earth as demi-gods disseminating love and solidarity in the hearts of the people. Oliver Payne and Nick Relph offer a sharp contrast with their fierce and militant analysis of the social processes and political powers that determine and change the modern metropolis. Two other works take a small scale perspective on happiness. In 'Wohnhaft' by Bernard Marsch, we take an intimate look in the apartment of an obsessive collector. With her beautiful work 'What I'm Looking For', Shelly Silver shows how the meaning of the concept of intimacy is changing under the influence of urbanisation and modern means of communication. The final music video of the program is a track that will bring back happy summer memories for almost all of us: 'All I need' by Air.
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