British artist Ed Atkins in conversation with Anne Hilde Neset, director of Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Norway. The conversation took place in autumn 2019 on occasion of a new edition of our screening series SILVER SERIES, presenting a newly minted redux of works by Atkins.
In his video works, Atkins plumbs the corporeal depths of digital moving imagery. Computer generated animation, emo musical theatre, collaged stock imagery, field recording, performance capture, disease, motion graphics and starless humour muster within his videos. Atkins’ unique visual language, both melancholic and absurd, confronts the viewer with intimate, arcane visions that seem caught in a purgatory of afterwards.
For his presentation in Kunstnernes Hus’ cinema, entitled Death Mask 5, Atkins presented a specially compiled mix of works from the past decade. Sequenced and edited like a particularly adventurous provincial multiplex programme, Atkins’ assemblage featured unseen tests, trailers and teasers interspersing sections of significant works from his catalogue.
Copyright: Kunstnernes Hus, 2019
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