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VideoArt works available in limited edition |
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© 2005 - Entekhabi, Shahram
installation, video projection and acrylic paint on canvas ... |  | Islamic Star - 5' 30''
© 2005 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Mehmet - 1' 12''
© 2005 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Miguel - 1' 15''
© 2005 - Entekhabi, Shahram
Guerilla-guy (Miguel, 2005)
In particular, I choose to highlight those indiv ... |  | Mladen - 9' 5''
© 2005 - Entekhabi, Shahram
An unknown criminal from the Balkans - In particular, I choose to highlight those ind ... |  | Happy meal - 12' 10''
© 2003 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Mimra - 4' 49''
© 2005 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | The Salath - 8' 8''
© 2003 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | i ? - 4' 17''
© 2004 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Rockefeller Boulevard 2 - 0''
© 2004 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Alcazar - 5' 48''
© 2005 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Attenzione - 5' 48''
© 2222 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Caution - 4' 55''
© 2004 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Road Movie - 5' 6''
© 2004 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Walk Out - 38''
© 2004 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Kevin Smith Library - 3' 32''
© 2005 - Entekhabi, Shahram
... |  | Gold - 45''
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· Anita Beckers
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Iranian artist living and working in London and Berlin.
My work is always framed within an urban setting and inspired by Charles Bauderlaire's writings on the 19th century concept of the Flaneur and refuses the idea that the urban space is reserved for the practice and performance of the white, middle class, hetro-sexual male. I explore these idea via a variety of performative practices using digital media, architecture and drawings.
In particular, I choose to highlight those individuals who would ordinarily be marginalized, made invisible or forced into self-ghettoization from the urban domain such as migrant communities and their culture, particularly the communities from the Middle East and their diaspora. The question of visibility and invisibility, therefore, has been a situation that I actively explore within my practice. With reference to my earlier video work I create different scenarios of an unknown migrant figure known as 'M' who is presented in various public scenarios (2004, Rockerfeller Boulevard, 2004, Alcazar, 2004). Sometimes 'M' is walking, running or busy creating informal structures using caution tape to raise claim for his own territory. 'M' is forever on the move, mostly with his belongings in his suitcases in tow, always already aware of the fact that as a guest he may be asked to leave at any given moment.
'M' series has led me to explore further migrant prototypes such as: the Islamic fundamentalist (Islamic Star, 2005), Kurdish activist (Mehmet, 2005) Guerilla-guy (Miguel, 2005) and unknown criminal from the Balkans (Mladen, 2005). Some of these figures are having an enormous auto-aggression, burning themselves, firing a hand grenade etc. In many ways they defy the image of 'M' as this coy, polite, guest-worker contributing to German reconstruction. Furthermore, I also transfer these ideas about confrontation within my sculptures and para-architectural installations (Caution, 2001-06). These sculptures/ informal architectures are always constructed in public-spaces and always made from caution tapes suggesting ideas about safety zones and no go areas and importantly who is permitted and not within the public space. These works deal with the dual concept of performance and public space and time.
Shahram Entekhabi 2006.
Curriculum
2003 Works - Playback - London, United Kingdom
2003 Works - klaatu barada nikto - London, United Kingdom
2003 Works - fresh azan - London, United Kingdom
2003 Works - off the shore - London, United Kingdom
2003 Works - re-cy-cle - London, United Kingdom
2003 Works - wudu - London, United Kingdom
2003 Works - me peeping - London, United Kingdom
2003 Works - Herr Karl aus Nemsa - Berlin, Germany
2003 Works - the crow - London, United Kingdom
2003 Works - the salath - London, United Kingdom
2004 Works - I? - London, United Kingdom
2004 Works - 3 seconds - London, United Kingdom
2004 Works - flower - London, United Kingdom
2004 Works - happy meal - London, United Kingdom
2005 Works - mimra - London, United Kingdom
2005 Works - White Trash - London, United Kingdom
2005 Works - Attenzione - London, United Kingdom
2005 Works - mehmet - London, United Kingdom
2005 Works - miguel - London, United Kingdom
2005 Works - islamic star - London, United Kingdom
2005 Works - mladen - London, United Kingdom
2006 Works - Oghab - London, United Kingdom
2006 Works - Anarchy In the UK - London, United Kingdom
2006 Works - forward to death - London, United Kingdom
2006 Works - Bloody Paradise - London, United Kingdom
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