Ephemeral Documentation


Contemporary art is open, ephemeral, interdisciplinary, multimedial, discursive, dependent on concept and context and increasingly interactive. The diversity of contemporary art requires a fastidious commitment to documentation for no other reason than at some point the work will need research and authentication by those not present at its conception and presentation. Inadequate descriptions and visualisations of eventful art works are symptomatic today even when supple means documentation are widely accessible. Efemera is committed to archival documentation of its own presentations and, here and there, to that of other artists and presenters.

Efemeral Documentace


Současné umění je otevřený, prchavý, interdisciplinární, multimediální, diskurzivní, závisí na koncepci a situaci, a stále více interaktivní. Různorodost současného umění vyžaduje náročný závazek k dokumentaci pro žádný jiný důvod, než na nějakém místě práce bude muset výzkumu a ověřování ti není přítomen na svém pojetí a prezentace. Nedostatečné popisy a vizualizace pohnuté uměleckých děl je symptomatická dnes, i když pružné znamená dokumentace jsou široce dostupné. Efemera se zavázala, že archivní dokumentaci, vlastní prezentace, a tu a tam, ve srovnání s ostatními umělci a moderátoři.
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A House On Jungmannova
(4+4+4 Days in Motion Festival) 
sign

Video documentation and analysis of the 4+4+4 Days in Motion Festival held in an abandoned building in Prague in 2006 (chapter clips follow).

Beginning
Introduction 4:00
The House 8:01
White Box Galleries 2:54
.
Ten Interventions
Do Nothing 1:16
Subtle Extension 0:46
Ironic Amplification 0:32
Imposed Amplification 2:22
Onsite Recontextualization 2:50
Offsite Recontextualization 1:13
Extreme Intervention 0:20
Amplified Dissimilarity 4:51
Self Referencing 2:40
Social Relativity 3:04
.
Conclusion
Radio Jungmann 2:16
End 1:23
Credits 0:54


View entire piece 36:47


Catacombs of Yucatan
Rooster Valley, Minnesota


cave clip
The Catacombs of Yucatan is the name given a natural limestone cave situated in the bluffs high above a tributary to the Mississippi River in south eastern Minnesota. During the Great Depression, out of desperation for money, the cave was electrified, a dance hall built, overnight cabins erected, and then all of it opened for business. Lasting only three years, 1934-36, nine former workers were tracked down, interviewed on video, and then presented along with kinetic sound sculpture and video. ...read more/see videos
Zahrada mrtvych zon
Vltavska Tram Stop
zmz

Video and print documentation from a one day festival held in Prague within the immense concrete structures positioned between the Vltavska tram stop and the Vltavska river. Includes interviews with Vaclav Cilek and rapper Vladimir 518...see brochure/videos

celik

A Czech language video of television commentator and urbana geographer Vaclav Cilek describing the land surrounding the Vltavska tram station ...see video


Vladimir 518

v518

A Czech language video of rapper and graffiti expert Vladimir 518 as he addresses the expropriated gallery venue within the concrete catacombs of the Vltavska tram stop ...see video


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Volunteer Park Archeologies
Son et Lumiere
overlyre 
Video monitors, speakers and kinetic instruments were placed amidst the plants throughout the Conservatorium. Spoken sounds consisted of plant and gardening experts divulging pre-chemical secrets of gardening, canning, seed gathering, and related life stories from the early Twentieth Century....read more
Den Horniku
(Miners Day)

miner's day

Video documentation of a festival near Kladno, The Czech Republic, of a Miner's Day Festival at the old Mayrau Mine, now a museum ...see video (10:00)

Tacoma Municipal
Dock

muny dock

An installation featuring the art of Paul Panhuysen (Holland) in the abandoned and massive 19th Century Municipal Dock in Tacoma Washington ...read more


WDCLyre97

Large basalt rocks were positioned to enhance the listening of this inlet to the Puget Sound ...see video.



lycon 6Sonic explorations of inner-city landscapes, neighborhoods and building structures using found instruments and local players, both professional and non-professional ...read more

International Space Band
The Czech Republic
isb prague route

International Space Band
Muenster, Germany
isb muenster
...read more

International Space Band
Den Bosch, Holland

den bosch
...read more

International Space Band
Caldwell, Idaho
 isb caldwell idaho