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STUDIO STONE AGE,
October 2022

A multimedia installation with works by:

Tristan Bera, Niki Danai Chania, Stéphane Charpentier, Florent Frizet, Hannes Livers Gutberlet, Resi Bender (Theresa Hoskins)Joshua Olsthoorn, Céline Pévrier, Matthieu Prat, Ioannis Savvaidis, Uli M Schueppel & Ella Villaumié.

“Technology is not mere tool making and tool use: it is the making of metaphors.”― James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future.

"Die ich rief, die Geister, / Werd' ich nun nicht los""The spirits that I summoned / I now cannot rid myself of again"— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

Studio Stone Age is the spatialization of a film project by Joshua Olsthoorn. The not jet released experimental film ‘Stone Age’ could be seen as an attempt to reflect on the story of technology in our era where the notion of the anthropocene is forcing us to reconsider the concept of progress in relation to sustainability. The film construct itself with almost non-stories of characters in research of meaning in a confuse environment and time. Thsi film is made in open collaboration and improvisation, with a group of individuals playing often the double role of actor/auteur. The exhibition is showcasing fragments of the film in relation with artworks from the participants, turning this into a collective exhibition format. Studio Stone Age is aiming to reopen the editing process of the film by reconfiguring the studio or cutting room where the visiter is asked to recompose its own cut.

On the closing date 21.10.2020 the composer and sound artist Ioannis Savvaidis, that was involved in the creation of the sound track from the film, will do a live performance between the ancient stones in the court yard of the Epigraphic museum. The live performance will a 30 to 40 min improvisation on themes from the film and will be framed by a choreography from Florent Frizet performed by Christina Reinhardt reenacting a scene from the film.

Hosted by Esto Associaiton in coproduction with Typical Organization and the Epigraphic Museum of Athens.
Photos by Dora Papanikita






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