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Robert Willim & Anders Weberg

 
ELSEWHERENESS:YOKOHAMA
This audio-visual work is intended to evoke imaginary geographies. 
The film is made solely from Yokohama-related audio and video found 
on the web. This material has been manipulated and composed into a 
suggestive imaginary journey through an estranged landscape. The film 
can be downloaded into a media player or mobile phone and enjoyed 
when walking around the surroundings of Yokohama. The work deals with questions of media representations, what it means to be on a certain location, and it calls forth the sometimes whirling experiences of 
elsewhereness that may characterize societies of today.
 
BEING THERE
An important ingredient of the tourism industry is the concept of 
authenticity and the lure of the unique. Curious people, with bags 
and cameras, are in search for various exciting experiences. Places 
of interest are visited and documented. But the question is: What 
would be the most authentic experience? Attractive places are targets 
for more than travel agencies.
 
This art project twists the authenticity hunt. We offer a number of 
audiovisual excursions beneath the gloss of the tourism rhetoric. Six 
films, imagining six places. It is an attempt to disclose the nervous 
system that is underlying tourist experiences.
 
The places we have chosen are high density, they are tourist magnets 
and global hotspots. They are places associated with pleasure, but 
also with terror. With the short films coupled to the different 
places we want to examine the tension between pleasure and fear. The 
films are made solely from clips out of tourist movies and similar 
material. The clips have been twisted into a surreal atmosphere. And 
the sounds accompanying the visuals is based on manipulations of one 
or two sounds that are often used to give stereotypical associations 
to the various places, e.g. demo sounds from sample libraries. The 
audiovisual whole expresses an evocative imaginary geography.
 
Anders Weberg.
 A seasoned filmmaker and mixed media artist. He has specialized in 
the expressions that digital technologies provide. The purpose of 
Anders  work is to mix genres and ways of expression to explore the 
potential of visual media. More info about Anders: http://
www.andersweberg.com/
 
Robert Willim
Cultural analyst, artist, PhD and researcher in ethnology at Lund 
University. He has done research about the cultural dimensions of 
digital media and the transformations of industrial society. For the 
past several years he has channelled his research to mixes of 
cultural analysis, music and new media art. More info about Robert: 
http://www.robertwillim.com/
 

/ Elsewhereness:yokohama /

この映像作品が提示するのは架空の都市風景である。ウェブ上に存在する横浜に関連した音声や映像のみによってこの作品は作成された。集められた素材は加工・再構築され、別の都市へと生まれ変わった。この作品をメディアプレーヤーや携帯電話にダウンロードすれば、横浜の街を歩きながら鑑賞する事が出来る。この作品は、現代社会に欠く事の出来ない、どこか他の場所(elsewhere)との交錯感を呼び起こす。

/ Being there /

観光産業にとって真正性と特有性は重要でなコンセプトある。好奇心に溢れた人々は、カメラと旅行鞄を手に刺激的な体験を探し求める。興味を満たす場所を訪れ、記録に収める。ただ、気になる事がある。最も真正な体験とは何だろうか?魅力的な場所を求めているのは、何も旅行会社ばかりではない。この作品は、真正性の探求の在り方を揺る。そこに提示されるのは、観光客向けのレトリックに飾られた映像とサウンドの世界。6つの場所を題材にした6つの映像作品である。これは、観光という体験の背後にある感覚の構造を明らかにする試みだ。作品の題材は全て、観光客を対象に作製された映像から抽出された。ここに表現されているものは、観る者に様々な感覚を投げかける空想上の地理観である。

www.surrealscania.se  / www.beingthere.se