Impakt Works has invited artist and writer Steve Reinke.

Steve Reinke (1963 Canada) is a conceptual video artist who's works have been exhibited at museums and festivals worldwide such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Tate museum (London). He is currently associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University.

Steve Reinke’s video work is an extension of literature, focusing on performance and the voice.  His proposed work for the Impakt Residency is called Brown Candy. For Brown Candy he will continue and extend his previous works and modes of working he has deployed over the past two decades. Where earlier work was often concerned with an interrogation of desire and subjectivity, more recent work, collected under the umbrella of Final Thoughts, concerns the limits of things: discourse, experience, events and thought.

For further information about Steve Reinke's works go to:

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During his residency Steve Reinke will work on several titles simultanously. He will finish his work on Beaver Skull Magick and The Tiny Ventriloquist and start a new video essay, Brown Candy, that will include elements of his everyday life in Utrecht.

For Beaver Skull Magick, Reinke uses strands of found footage which he will weave together. The work includes an infamous internet video, video animation and archival footage of Grey Owl,  a British man who famously fooled the Canadian nation pretending to be a Native Canadian, interacting with beavers.

For the Tiny Ventriloquist Reinke continues his exploration of voice in relation to the archival and animated image. Where his video essays often feature first-person monologues in an ironic/satiric mode, The Tiny Ventriloquist will feature an extended dialogue between two narrators.

In his new work, Brown Candy, he will develop particular arguments and lines of thought. The work has a more sustained essay structure, which is a break from his former works that tend to be more aphoristic.

3-Day workshop with Steve Reinke
As part of his residency Steve Reinke will give a 3-day workshop on image- and video editing.

More information about the workshop and how to apply can be found here