collected film stills

similar to an archive, film stills which contain the phrase “nothing” in the subtitles have been collected. by pushing the scissors into the film reality, the blindfold of the Žižek-like false Reality is taken off and we, due to the iconized film stills, are left alone with the arbitrary meanings of “comic book fragments”. the visual from the cine film is deconstructed and decontextualized, the vacuum of meaning behind the frame — “nothing” — becomes the new mantra

the first stage of deconstruction as a practice emanating from post-structural philosophy is usually consciousness acquired through reversal of existing value hierarchies. despite the literary critical bases it is almost a mathematical calculation, which almost automatically reveals the politicization of the familiar signifiers. by decontextualizing “nothing”, we deconstruct the normative world-view, the mediated reality

 

ringhing

 

paradisco

original estonian underground rave generation video art – it’s cheap, it’s loud, it looks like an home video, it’s a manifest contra male-dominated, post-soviet art world. created for the exhibition “private views. space re/cognized in contemporary art from estonia and britain” (curated by mare tralla and angela dimitrakaki in estonian art museum, 1998) kiwa was the only male artist on the show and chose, quite pertinently, to focus on the space most associated with male creativity. the mythology of the artist’s studio as the protected sanctuary of freedom and self-expression par excellance has risen across diverse techniques of visual signification. access to the studio means access to a celebrated subjectivity

 

nothing collected