The Spirit of a Thing
a single channel video installation at DAS MINSK, Potsdam
THE SPIRIT OF A THING
Equal parts reimagining, recreation, and new encounter, THE SPIRIT OF A THING speculatively explores the daily life of a musician who has been traveling on the road for decades in order to ruminate on the slippage between memory and time, truth and inner experience. Drawing inspiration from the East German leg of Louis Armstrong’s renowned 1965 European tour, TSOAT seeks to transmit the granular feelings from this moment into the present by attending to fleeting yet enduring scenes of intimacy, friendship, and ritual, while simultaneously blurring the line between fact and fiction, the contemporary and the archival.
The Spirit of a Thing will be on view at Das Minsk in Potsdam, Germany as part of the exhibition “I’ve Seen the Wall” curated by Paola Malavassi and Jason Moran from Sept. 2023 through Feb. 2024.
DIRECTOR
Darol Olu Kae
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YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
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GENRE
a single-channel video installation
CO PRODUCTION
Somesuch
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COMMISSIONED BY
Das Minsk Museum Potsdam
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US XTENDED
Welcome to the VR experience US XTENDED, a magical multi-sensory space where your emotions become the artist and your biofeedback creates an art piece of your inner world. But can you control what it will look like? Creator Michaela Pnacek will develop a prototype of this extremely exciting project together with Co-production INVR Space in Germany and York University in Toronto. Produced by JYOTI Film, funded by Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg. We are looking forward to the collaboration!
DIRECTOR
Michaela Pnacek
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YEAR OF PRODUCTION
prototype development
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GENRE
VR Experience
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CO PRODUCTION
INVR.SPACE
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FUNDERS
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
YORK University Toronto, Canada
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MARKETS
MIT Workshop
Boosterspace/Stereopsia 2022