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May 24, 2011

Alicia Framis
SECRET STRIKE
(Tate Modern, 2006)
Video

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Tate Modern is an icon of culture, exhibitions that take place in the
museum have an input in what happens in the rest of the Art World and
also in the art market. At the same time it is a place where performance
is takes place. I thought it was important to make a performance
concerning the everyday life of this building and the people who work in
it. We stopped in every floor, the ones that were opened for public and
the private ones. We worked with the employees and the visitors who
became a part of the performance. As we stopped the culture for a while
we saw this big machine of production and creativity working. It is as a
place for art that is theatrically prepared to open our emotions and our
intellect. The film tries to show what is behind the walls.

3:02am | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZYQ2Ny5O2imN

(Notes: 1)

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May 22, 2011

Alicia Framis
AUTOBAHN WITH MEMORIAL
Berlin, 1999
Photo Drawing
programme : slow down life in moments of commemoration

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he apparent incongruity of a memorial inscribed in the lines of a
speedway points to the inherent paradox of static names which the
viewer can only decipher when standing still. Memorials, and the
inscriptions they bear, are intrinsically linked to the notion of time, past
and present, of the time we take to read about the end of someone
else’s time. When confronted with a moving subject in the time and
space, they bridge the points of departure and arrival of the beholder’s
journey and the stranger’s past existence. As they slow down, drivers
experience themselves as travelers through their own lives.

2:49am | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZYQ2Ny5JxmPs

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May 20, 2011

Alicia Framis
Dreamkeeper
1997

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“Suffering form lonely nights? Phone the Dreamkeeper. She’s in town
for forty days. Wandering through the streets with her sleeping mat
wearing her star dress and Moon Shoes. If you make an appointment
she’ll come to you. For twelve hours she’ll stay by your side. As long as
you sleep, she’ll watch. In the morning she’ll pick up her mat and leave
again. Don’t ask what will happen in the period in between. It all
depends upon your dream”, wrote lneke Schwartz about Dreamkeeper.

While the person was sleeping the artist made a piece of art with
something found in the house. There was no more contact afterwards.

Beginning in Amsterdam, the project was continued in other cities.
The experience was shared solely between the artist and her client.
Nevertheless the viewer can create his own fantasy of it when looking at
the series of photo’s Framis made of the sleeper during her waking
sessions with up to seven hours exposure time. Petite mort quotidienne
this series is called, which is: the small daily death called sleep.

1:45am | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZYQ2Ny5GCW7W

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May 20, 2011