‘VIDEO SCALES : ED ATKINS’

The evening will put together some of Ed Atkins’ works from 2009 to 2012. These earlier videos layer found footage and digital imagery into a rich flow of mumbled monologues and clearly spoken salutations, of long lasting spheric, musical soundscapes and chippy blops, blings and cracks.  Taking into account the longings of a digitally altered self as well as the tougher facts of the Unchangeable, the work outgrows common video formats to introduce a new, direct, and intimate voice to the screen.
Ed Atkins’ work has been widely shown in solo exhibition at international institutions including the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2017), the MMK Frankfurt (2017), the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2015) and The Serpentines Gallery (2014). A collection of his writings entitled “A Primer for Cadavers” was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2016. Ed Atkins lives and works in Berlin, where he took part in the DAAD’s Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme in 2015.

The screening will be followed by a discussion between Ed Atkins and Peter Wächtler (Etablissement d'En Face).