For the third Close viewing this year Bambitchell will screen Terminals (1986) by Sandra Lahire from the cinenova filmcollection paired with their video Empire Symbol, Or a Man and His Mule (2015) and a performance/ video work-in-progress called The Atomic Ark to address legacies of militarism through the use of landscapes, objects and infrastructures as aesthetic interventions.
Terminals is a stream-of-consciousness collage, which asks us to look at and question the dangers of technological advances and nuclear power. "The work faster ethic is written on the door to the terminals. Hazards to fertility or risks of cancer are not criteria in setting acceptable levels of exposure to radiation at work. At the Visual Display Terminal, women are staring directly at a source of radiation. Bomb tests and waste disposal are the white man's cancer imposed on the people of the Pacific." (Sandra Lahire) "Terminal by Sandra Lahire (1986, 18 min.) is about radiation as a shadow, while the terminality of the intoxication is as the terminality of a real body." (M. Grzinic)
Bambitchell Biography:
Bambitchell is the artistic collaboration between Alexis Mitchell and Sharlene Bamboat. Their interdisciplinary works have shown at festivals and galleries internationally. By employing a wide range of media, the duo examine the complexity of attachments produced in relation to the nation-state. They are both currently in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany.
