Crossing Over-Under Your Skin Curated by Arjon Dunnewind (Impakt Festival, The Netherlands) Thierry Geoffroy - Borders Test The Frenchman Thierry Geoffroy (AKA Colonel), interviews immigrants and indigenous Danes on the streets of Denmark, making himself understood in very imperfect English. The interviews manifest a directness that dispenses with the social niceties. The brief encounters he arranges between individuals result in very forthright vox pop exchanges. Geoffroys interventions were broadcasted primetime on national Television. Thierry Geoffroy - The Walraff Method "Excuse me, can I look like you?" In under cover work it's important to have 'no look'. Colonel has taken up the Günther Walraff method. Walraff is the German journalist who assumed a variety of identities with the aim of penetrating particular subcultures and writing about them "from the inside". So Colonel dresses Walraff-fashion, as the man with no look - a strategy for getting into conversation with people, inviting them to improvise encounters. Thierry Geoffroy - Cultural Exchange Part of the serie "The Immigrant". The active Immigrant in Denmark tries to investigate about Danish culture -in order to integrate. Heidrun Holzfeind - The Romanians Peter Plesa left Romania in 1990, walking all the way from Romania to Austria. Since 1991 he lives there together with his wife Aurelia in my grandfather's house. The Romanians portraits two "well integrated" immigrants with common aims. Their capitalist desires and apolitical view are put in contrast with their former life in Romania and the difficulties they faced when they first arrived in Austria. Julika Rudelius - Your Blood is as Red as Mine A white woman spends some time in a black community, where she talks to people about the colour of their skin, and about the photos that she makes of them. She asks; they respond. They ask; she responds, in an investigation of identity, the meaning of and the clichés around "black" and "white". The photo sessions form the starting point. Rudelius uses the act of photography to portray her models, and simultaneously uses video to 'register' this partly staged, sometimes uneasy, sometimes funny, process, so that a portrait of the photographer is created at the same time. Joanna Rytel - To Think Things You Don't Want To It's a journey inside a white Swedish woman's head while she gets to know, falls in love with, has sex with and splits with a black man. It's a wandering on the underworld of thoughts, the ones on the other side of our political correctness. It's not a journey in our obscure thoughts though, neither in the dark sides of humanity – it's a journey into our collectively suppressed and sublimated selves, with "self" understood as a complex socio-historical construction. The storyline is told in a diary format and is about the ambiguity of a white woman's racial thoughts and desires for a black man. Location: Toronto Images Festival Joseph Workman Theatre (1001 Queen West at Ossington) Toronto |
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