Alisa Berger
“Three Borders”
Video Installation
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Three Bordersは、Chris MarkerのLaJetée（1962年）を思い起こさせる55分の長さの映画ファウンドフッテージフィルム※1です。 それはアーティストの家族写真と他の匿名の家族写真から成っています。 マジックリアリズム※2のという手法の中で、このビデオはAlisa Bergerのユダヤ人の父親と北朝鮮人の母親という家族からの逸話を語っています。 彼らは、3世代にわたる内・外の境界の克服または構築に取り組んでいます。
※1第三者によって発見された 未編集の映像 や、既存の映像をコラージュして作られた映像など。
※2日常に存在するものが、日常には無いものと融合した作品に対して使われる芸術表現技法
会期：2018年4月19日（木）13:00 – 22:00 (スクリーニングパーティー)
2018年4月20日（金）13:00 – 20:00 ※時間が異なりますのでご注意ください。
会場：S.Y.P Art Space（〒162-0065 東京都 新宿区住吉町10-10）
企画・協力：Alisa Berger, ゲーテ・インスティトゥート, “DIE GRENZE” by Inke Arns,Thibaut de Ruyet
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このフィルムは、ゲーテ・インスティトゥート（Geethe Institute Moscow）にてInke ArnsとThibaut de Ruyetによってキュレーションされた “DIE GRENZE”というグループ展の一環として、制作されました。今回の展覧会は、東ヨーロッパ、ロシア、中央アジア、ドイツの12カ国で、2017年〜2018年に開催されます。
そしてこの作品は、ゲーテ・インスティトゥート・モスクワ（Geethe Institute Moscow）が国境を主題として委託したインスタレーションの一部でした。
展覧会「Die Grenze」は、以下のようなさまざまな種類の境界と境界を反映し探求しました。
・「領域」と言うもを含めた形または除外した場合に、文化的、個人的、社会的な分割線として「我々」を「他人」と区別するための手段。
・「境界線」はここでは、常に変化する見解ではあるが、ロシアと旧ソ連共和国、そしてドイツとヨーロッパにとって非常に現代的な問題である協定と変更のメタファーと理解されるべきである。
・ヨーロッパとアジアの地理的、文化的境界が共通の糸となっており、プロジェクトはこのテーマを芸術的観点からアプローチし、純粋に政治的経済的視点を超えて文化的次元に導いている。
Artist biography / info:
Alisa Berger is a german-korean-jewish artist and filmmaker, born 1987 in Makhachkala (Republic of Dagestan, Russia) and raised in Lviv(Ukraine) and Essen(Germany), currently lives and works in Cologne (Germany) and currently Tokyo (Japan). Alisa studied film and fine arts at Academy of Media Art Cologne (KHM) and Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá and finished with Master of Arts (M.A.). During her studies she received Best Super8 Award with her experimental film „Island Story“ at Calgary Artifact Filmfestival. With “The Astronauts’ Bodies“, her diploma film at Academy of Media Art she was invited to the renown german film festival Max Ophüls Prize, nominated for germans debut award FIRST STEPS and awarded New Directors Best Film award at the International Film Festival Uruguay and Best Screenplay at Kinofest Lünen. Her latest video art piece „Three Borders“ became part of traveling exhibition “The Border” by Goethe Institut, and was shown in several art venues in Russia, Georgia, Ukraine and Eastern Asia. Her artistic works have been presented in a wide variety of venues, festivals and museums worldwide, among them the History Museum Tbilisi, BACC – Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, MMOMA Moscow, Anthology Film Archives, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, European Media Art Festival EMAF, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Dovzhenko Film Centre, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
Since 2014 Alisa is centering her artistic work around the human body and while preparing to make a new feature film with Butoh-dance, she currently researches in Tokyo, studies at Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio and other butoh-teachers.
Alisa Berger
“Three Borders”
Video Installation
Three Borders is a 55 minute long found footage film reminiscent of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962). It consists of family photos of the artist and of other anonymous found (family) photos. In the style of Magic Realism the video narrates anecdotes from the families of Alisa Berger’s Jewish father and her North Korean mother. They address the overcoming or the construction of inner and outer borders which span three generations.
Date & Time: 19 April 2018 at 13:00-22:00 (Video Screening Party)
20 April 2018 at 13:00-20:00
Venue: S.Y.P Art Space (10-10 Sumiyoshi-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0065)
Admission Free
Support: Alisa Berger, Geethe Institute Moscow, “DIE GRENZE” by Inke Arns,Thibaut de Ruyet
“Three Borders” was produced as part of the “DIE GRENZE” group exhibition, curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyet and initiated by the Goethe Institute. The travelling exhibition will be held in 2017 – 2018 in 12 countries in Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and Germany.
The work was part of an installation, commissioned by the Goethe Institute Moscow on the subject of borders.
The exhibition „Die Grenze“ “explores and reflects boundaries and boundaries of various kinds: as a territorial inclusion or exclusion, as a cultural, personal or social dividing line, as an instrument for distinguishing” We “from the” others “or creating this dichotomy through borders. “Border” here is to be understood as a metaphor, a figure which is not static, but an object of agreements and changes – a highly contemporary issue for Russia and the former Soviet republics as well as for Germany and Europe. The geographical as well as the cultural border between Europe and Asia serves as a common thread. The project approaches this theme from the artistic point of view and directs the view beyond a purely political and economic view to the cultural dimension.
Artist biography / info:
Alisa Berger is a german-korean-jewish artist and filmmaker, born 1987 in Makhachkala (Republic of Dagestan, Russia) and raised in Lviv(Ukraine) and Essen(Germany), currently lives and works in Cologne (Germany) and currently Tokyo (Japan). Alisa studied film and fine arts at Academy of Media Art Cologne (KHM) and Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá and finished with Master of Arts (M.A.). During her studies she received Best Super8 Award with her experimental film „Island Story“ at Calgary Artifact Filmfestival. With “The Astronauts’ Bodies“, her diploma film at Academy of Media Art she was invited to the renown german film festival Max Ophüls Prize, nominated for germans debut award FIRST STEPS and awarded New Directors Best Film award at the International Film Festival Uruguay and Best Screenplay at Kinofest Lünen. Her latest video art piece „Three Borders“ became part of traveling exhibition “The Border” by Goethe Institut, and was shown in several art venues in Russia, Georgia, Ukraine and Eastern Asia. Her artistic works have been presented in a wide variety of venues, festivals and museums worldwide, among them the History Museum Tbilisi, BACC – Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, MMOMA Moscow, Anthology Film Archives, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, European Media Art Festival EMAF, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Dovzhenko Film Centre, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
Since 2014 Alisa is centering her artistic work around the human body and while preparing to make a new feature film with Butoh-dance, she currently researches in Tokyo, studies at Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio and other butoh-teachers.