Everything Happened So Much: Archive as Poem in an Age of Perpetual Witnessing

“There are different ways to tell a story. I wanted to think about the way we bear ongoing witness to our own lives, and how this material tells bigger stories about the material, technological and socio-economic circumstances of the past and present. I wanted to give space to the unreliable narrator and the chaos of memory. To take seriously the political dimension of telling stories through the low fidelity, poor images and unobjective close-ups that we are often left with in contrast to sovereign forms of cinema (newsreel, advertisement, video-essay). Building on these ideas, in reconnaissance and reclamation, here are 24 video-poems, as true and accurate as any other form of storytelling, or perhaps even more so.”    Jesse Darling, April 2020

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Jesse Darling, Everything happened so much: archive as poem in the age of perpetual witnessing, 2020
Toni Brell, Untitled, 2020
Lauren de Sa Naylor, Untitled, 2020
L’nique Noel, Without You, 2020
Sulaïman Majali, a dream for scheherazade, 2020
Francisca Khamis Giacoman and Levi van Gelder, i think if we show this immigration will immediately give us the visa, 2020
Cristina Planas, Academy street, 2020
Frank Wasser, Tue AM, 2020
Kamilya Kuspanova, and we’ll talk of strange dreams, 2020
Lin Li, Witnessing peace, 2020
Ibrahim kurt, poem, 2020
Samar Al Summary, Muffled Snapshots, 2020
Rozemarijn Jens, Untitled, 2020
Nestor Solano, i can be the one, 2020
Andro Eradze, Scratched Glass, 2020
Ghenwa Abou Fayad, Green Beirut, 2020
Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer, corridors, highways, 2020
Torreya Cummings, Transect 1, 2020
Pernilla Manjula Philip, The Past, 2020
Stelios Markou Ilchuk, The Gaze, 2020
_monkii, Untitled, 2020
Callum Copley, Dihedral, 2020
Louise Gholam, Thawra by proxy, 2020
Flo Ray, LUBRICANTS REBRANDED AS ANTI-SLIP, 2020