IN THE WAKE OF A DEADAD: The Installation

In the Wake of a Deadad (The Installation) takes the form of 65 separate films showing the inflation of large inflatable effigies of Köttings’ Deadad and his Deadad’s Deadad (his Grandad) in various locations around the world.

Each location has a significance to his life his Deadad’s life or his Deadad’s Deadads’ life. Together they have travelled far and wide from the French Pyrenees to the Faroe Islands and from The Valley at Charlton Athletic football club to the cemeteries of Janitzio and the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico. Each film represents a year of the Deadad’s life and will be running simultaneously on 65 monitors as ‘deconstructed documentary’.

Barbican, London: May 08
The Foyer Installation of In the Wake of a Deadad is a 62 minute single screen looping version of the original 65 monitor installation and will run from Friday 9 May 2008 to Sunday 18 May 2008 at the Barbican in London. This is part of their Films from Another Planet season. In addition, Andrew's film Gallivant will be shown in Cinema 1, along with a screen talk, on Wednesday 14 May at 6.15pm

A film retrospective of Andrew Kötting's work is happening in Oberhausen on 2 May 08

To read reviews of the installation, click on the links below:

To see trailers of several of the inflations, click on the links below:

More information is available on the gallery website

IN THE WAKE OF A DEADAD: The Film

The film is a 64 minute single screen Beta Sp version of the 65 monitor installation described above and is distributed by Lux

This film will be shown at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, as part of their Hors Pistes festival on 29 March 08

To read reviews of the film, click on the links below:

It was premiered at EMAF OSNABRUCK
and has played in Rotterdam International Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
La Rochelle International Film Festival
and the Edinburgh International Film Festival

ALSO
Tank Tv are releasing OF AN ODE TO A DEADAD - separately. This 2 minute film was made in one take over a period of four hours, using a manual time-lapse facility on a Sony PD170 DV Camera. It was shot up in the Faroe Islands whilst looking down onto the small village of Tjornuvík. The voiceover is an ode to Kotting's dead father, which was written and recorded earlier in the morning in one of the small Faroese crofts that the camera looks down upon.

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