No podía creer que alguien tuviera la misma historia que yo es el título de la instalación que Iratxe Jaio (Markina, 1976) y Klaas van Gorkum (Delft, 1975) presentan en Uhagon Kulturgunea en Markina. Esta frase entresacada de los comentarios de Camilla, una mujer de origen surcoreano adoptada por padres daneses, sobre sus recuerdos de infancia como niña diferente, revela cómo la identidad – aquí llevada hasta su extremo más narcisista e infantil – se construye a partir de la noción de Diferencia y la confrontación con el Otro…
Zondag 4 April / Sunday April 4th, Schijnheilig presents: Bookpresentation ‘Stay Inside. Close Windows and Doors’, followed by the screening of George A. Romero’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’ (1978).
A night of gore, zombie slapstick and alienated entertainment!
When the Basque newspaper Gara containing the "Camilla" article was printed, two photographers were sent to document the process from layout to print to sale. The photoseries was then reprinted in the following edition of the newspaper.
In 2005 "Camilla" was printed in the Basque newspaper Gara, in the "Ad Hoc" space in the cultural supplement Mugalari, reserved for artistic interventions.
Flyer Project Seoul Curated by Binna Choi - Maronnier Art Center, Thursday 5 - Sunday 22 August 2004
For this project, twelve visual artists and designers each created a flyer design to be randomly inserted into daily newspapers. In Korea flyers are a highly popular medium for commercial advertising. The flyer is popular among advertisers but notorious among readers. However artistic and appealing they seem in nature and design, when they are delivered, Trojan horse-like, they are perceived as deceitful and intrusive. What is more: there are simply too many of them. This very love-hate relationship brought artists and designers together who read flyers as rich texts for the urban situation and its rich social cultural content. Eight flyers were designed, using all different sorts of visual rhetoric. The flyer, when it is not immediately discarded, may possibly trigger a critical view of reality in the attentive reader (one in five hundred on average) that generates interaction and encounters. Like a love letter, the flyer is sent carefully and secretly; perhaps some reader will sense the essential pleasure it captures.
A fictionalized biography, loosely based on the story of Camilla, a pregnant designer from Denmark, who has been living in the Netherlands for the past eight years.
