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:
- of pyranean pastoral
- of teaching
- of the bedroom
- of the car
- of the ferry
- of the hotel
- of kissing
- of life is life
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:
- Eye for Film
- Time Out (Edinburgh Festival)
- Uncut (Edinburgh Festival)
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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