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Vita Patrick to be cont
PATRICK ALAN BANFIELD Patrick Alan Banfield The Mill, 2013 Two-screen film/one-screen film, 7:25 Min., digital 35mm, (2,35:1) stereo sound https://vimeo.com/58559396 There are two versions: a special one-channel film for viewing in cinematic context and a version with two video channels for a room installation context. The work explores poetic ways to grasp phenomena linked with capital(ism). Long tracking shots of snowy trees join tracking shots of small runlets in the forest, also set in winter. Shooting took place in Germany around Baden-Baden and South-Palatinate in January 2013. Page 2 Patrick Alan Banfield Salix, 2013 Installation with video (4k) and audio (8:06 Min.). Saw bench, light bulb, CRT screen https://vimeo.com/70070882 Installation view at Galerie 1M3 Lausanne, Switzerland The film was made over several shooting days during two months in an dystopian farmhouse in an village called Steinfeld in Southern Germany. The old couple living there, Mr. and Mrs. Schwöbel are in their 90s and have been producing baskets in the 1960s and 1970s. They are the grandparents of my expartner; my partner was against this film at first. The title of the film ‘Salix‘ refers to the latin word for (basket) willow. Cinematography by Nicolas Geissler, Sounddesign by Sascha Blank. Page 3 Patrick Alan Banfield vyLö:t, 2012 (in collaboration with Nicolas Geissler) Two screen video (digital 35mm, 2,35:1) and audio installation, 9 Min., bark mulch, stones, tree stumps, heat and humidity, camouflage nets https://vimeo.com/46938532 https://vimeo.com/57441719 (documentation) Installation view at Berlin Biennale 8, Haus am Waldsee. Photograph by Anders Sune Berg. Hot, humid air and a intense scent of a wood and plants, a feel like walking on forest soil, military camouflage nets covering the sapce and a very loud, bassy Soundtrack - those are some of the senses welcoming the visitor. The two screen video work is showing long tracking shots of civilication, concrete, brutalism blocks, strict shapes and opposes this to tracking shots of alive and dead trees, soil, plants, the nature. Sometime they are opposing each other, sometimes not. The soundtrack was done together with composer Sascha Blank from Potsdam and director of photography Nicolas Geissler is responsible for the images which were shot in forrest Taunus, Karlsruhe and Heidelberg. Page 4 Patrick Alan Banfield UHT, 2013 Iinstallation with video and audio (4:36 Min.). Pipe elements, tv monitor, special focussed loudspeaker, plinth, mirror foil https://vimeo.com/59764317 Installation view at Städelschule Rundgang 2013, Frankfurt am Main The film, named ‘Pipes‘ is looping and is shown in a very light room together with other works. Therefore a special loudspeaker, the ‘SoundTube‘ system is used to produce sound only in a very limited area. One could still hear the film‘s main song ‘Down Under‘ by Australian band ‘Men at work‘ when entering the room, though without bass. It sounded a little bit like workers who listen to radio music on a construction site nearby. Other elements of the film include Iranian foreign TV program ‘Double Standards‘ with presenter Afshin Rattansi, a satirical show often making fun of Israel and the Western world and images of an unknown tattooed man. Page 5 Patrick Alan Banfield Divine, 2014 Video installation: sculpture made out of bark and firewood, five monitors with built-in mediaplayers, three headphones, cables Films: Black Hawk Down, Ridley Scott, 2001 Professione Reporter, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975 Baustelle, Patrick Alan Banfield, 2014 (https://vimeo.com/96065885) KFS (Single channel version), Patrick Alan Banfield, 2014 (https://vimeo.com/86884552) Utah, Patrick Alan Banfield, 2014 Page 6 Patrick Alan Banfield Pow Pow, 2015 Installation with video and audio (12 Min.). Two projectors, four speakers, grained paper Film: https://vimeo.com/124671677 Installation view at Kulter A-Lab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands “Pow Pow” was mostly shot in Canada on a four week journey by car. Some additional images have been shot in the Cornish village of St. Just in England. Paintings by Glasgow-based Thomas Cameron. The film is a two-channel film consisting of two screens. Often images span over both screens and then form something new; images that within the narration of the film work on a more intuitive and emotional layer whose understanding over the course of time then forms intellectual graspable knowledge. Many images actually are artificial compositings. Page 7 Patrick Alan Banfield Philipp, 2005/2010 DV video, 4:3, 3:33 Min. https://vimeo.com/81769439 A personal and experimental diary about artist Philipp who is progressively fighting against his… And me fighting against de-constructivism. Page 8 Patrick Alan Banfield Spinne und Fliege 2, 2012 Various threads and fabrics, upholstry springs, brass nails Installation view Page 9 Patrick Alan Banfield Karung and Philipp, 2011 Digital 35mm film, 16:9, 4:15 Min. https://vimeo.com/36198115 Can chapters explain why apples and birds meet? Page 10 Patrick Alan Banfield Black box (schwarzer Raum), 2011 Installation (video, audio, Lego spaceship from 1978, acrylic domes, olfactic and tactile-kinesthetic influences, acoustic insultation, darkness, perfume) Installation view, Rundgang der Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2011 For the installation a longish room (2m * 4m) was built from wood material. The walls, the ceiling and the floor were cased with two layers: black Moleton and acoustic panels. Therefore it was almost soundproofed and made a smooth feeling when stepping on the acoustic panel ground. It smecked intensly of sweet flowers (room scent concentrate). Most visitors were afraid and cautious when entering the dark room. Objects like numerous threads and fabrics hanging from the ceiling forced the audience to keep their head down. On the left hand side of the room was something like a sculpture: a video monitor laying in the floor, covered with a wooven fabric is the basis. On each sides of the monitor were white stones which formed the supports for a piece of transparent glass (2m *1m). Upon this were Lego ‘Space Police‘ officers from 2011 and a space ship from 1978 under a acrylic dome which was illumnated from the coated video playing below. Visitors were allowed to alter the officer‘s arrangement. In the video images of a dying bumble-bee are mixed with personal footage. Together with the soundtrack - played back at full volume - visitors told they felt disoriented and threatened by intense influences. Page 11 Patrick Alan Banfield Corpus / Something, 2012 Biedermaier chair, lashing straps, gold and silver lacquer, pedestal Installation view at Rundgang der Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany A reworked Biedermeier chair (from circa 1835, mainly Walnut tree, Southern Germany) is standing on a white and grey pedestal (1,20 m*1,20m*45cm), a HMI daylight lamp (575 Watts) normally used on film sets, is focussed on the chair. Reworking was done with a master joiner from a small village called Altdorf in South Palatinate (Deutsche Weinstraße). Some wooden parts have been cut off so that the straps could be directly attached on the bolster. The straps are lacquered with real gold (24ct.) and silver lacquer. The result is anachronistical - late baroque grandiosity opposes the reversion to family values and privacy established in the Biedermaier period, influencing the bourgeoisie until today. Page 12 Patrick Alan Banfield Vogel früh, 2010 iPhone video, 4:3, 0:42 Min. https://vimeo.com/47187061 A static camera is filming the dead body of a German blackbird next to a fountain. I think it was killed by a cat. Page 13 Patrick Alan Banfield Freude Teufel Klein, 2011 DV video, 16:9, 2:30 Min. https://vimeo.com/41079714 There is one actress and the film is without dialogue. The soundtrack is made from sampled sounds around wine glasses. Page 14 Patrick Alan Banfield Corpus / 10000 kleine Patricks, 2012 Kitchen towel, gold lacquer, pure silver mixed with dirt, semen, fixed to polystyrene The silver and gold lacquer have been mixed with dirt, dust and colour leftovers. Over a period of one year semen and occasionaly blood have been placed on the kitchen towel. Page 15 Patrick Alan Banfield Practice of Dance, 2011 in collaboration with Taocheng Wang HD video, 16:9, 9:23 Min. https://vimeo.com/47200695 Installation view at Gallerie SEPTEMBER, Berlin, Germany and at de Ateliers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands A chinese dancer whose gender is unknown is dancing through the area around the station in Frankfurt am Main in the early morning between party-goers, drug addicts and prostitution, finally reaching the financial district accompanied by the piano song Love Scene Version 6. Page 16 Patrick Alan Banfield Jahrmarkt, 2010 HD video, 16:9, 01:32 Min. https://vimeo.com/41081276 Bellheim is a small town with about 8400 inhabitants in Southern Rhineland-Palatinate (Vorderpfalz). The fair used to take place two times a year, now they changed it to once a year - usually in autumn around October. The film was shot on the morning of the opening day. Page 17