„They were crying all the time, but there is no reason […] except that I made them cry by animate them that way. […] I didn’t hurt them.“ (Ed Atkins)
Ed Atkins ist einer der markantesten Vertreter einer Künstlergeneration, die sich mit der Allgegenwärtigkeit digitaler Medien auseinandersetzt. Mit Thomas Oberender, Intendant der Berliner Festspiele, spricht der Künstler über Theatralität, Realismus und Melancholie in seiner Ausstellung „Old Food“, die im Gropius Bau im Rahmen der Programmreihe Immersion vom 29. September 2017 bis 7. Januar 2018 zu sehen war.
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“They were crying all the time, but there is no reason […] except that I made them cry by animate them that way. […] I didn’t hurt them.” (Ed Atkins)
Ed Atkins is one of the most distinctive representatives of a generation of artists explicitly responding to digital media’s ever-increasing ubiquity. The artist talks to Thomas Oberender, Artistic Director of the Berliner Festspiele, about theatricality, realism and melancholy in his exhibition “Old Food”, which was shown at the Gropius Bau as part of the Immersion programme series from 29 September 2017 to 7 January 2018.
For more information about “Old Food” go to: [ Ссылка ]
