English title: F66 Ghost Ship
Director: Florian Zeyfang
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Biography: Florian Zeyfang born 1965 in Stuttgart, Germany. 1987 to 1993 at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. 1997/8 at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, currently Professor for Video/Installation at the Art Academy in Umeå, Sweden. In his texts, videos and installation work, the Berlin based artist, videomaker and writer Florian Zeyfang critically looks at the connotations of a globalized world of media signs and at the consequences for the society and the individual, taking into account historic aspects of both art and political movements. His projects are conceived within different forms of the moving image: film, video, slide projection, animation. Spacious installations as well as slide series ("slow films") form an important part of his discussion of “time-based media.” Florian Zeyfang regularly takes part in exhibitions nationally and abroad, recently in Kunstverein Köln, at A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Artists Space, New York; at the 2nd Tirana Biennale, at ICA Moscow, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunstverein Hannover, at the 6th Werkleitz Biennale in Halle and at the KW Berlin. Furthermore, the artist curates projects for institutions like CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warschau, sala rekalde in Bilbao, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, the 8th Havanna Biennale, the foto festival in Houston, in the Museum for Applied Arts Wien, in the MAK Schindlerhaus in Los Angeles and the Swiss Institute in New York. Currently, Florian Zeyfang works on exhibition projects ranging between Art and experimental film (“Poor Man´s Expression”, Berlin 2006; “1,2,3 Avant-Gardes”, Warschau/Stuttgart/Bilbao 2006-2008).
Lisa Schmidt-Colinet and Alexander Schmoeger are architects and live in Vienna. Since 2001 Schmidt-Colinet/Schmoeger and Florian Zeyfang have collaborated on exhibitions and projects. Together with Eugenio Valdés Figueroa they published “Pabellón Cuba,” an extensive reader on art, architecture, and film in Cuba.
Country: Germany
Year: 2010
Synopsis: Deploying a slow, continuous cross-fade spanning five minutes between two versions of the same archival image, F66 Geisterschiff confronts these images with two text excerpts from Witold Gombrowicz’ “The Events on the Brig Banbury.” Both image versions, registered in the photo archive of the Västerbotten museum under the name F66 and without the mention of an author, no longer exist and are now but a witness for the decay of a photograph: fifty years ago it was still possible to make a print from the original glass negative. This print, however, did not resemble the negative but, like a solarization, speaks more to a process of decay. The coating of the glass negative itself has slowly dissolved. Furthermore, the harbor featured in the two images was destroyed by a fire more than a hundred years ago.
(Image: Västerbotten Fotoarchiv / Text: Witold Gombrowicz "Die Ereignisse auf der Brigg Banbury." / Audio Charlemagne Palestine "Schlongo!!!daLUVdrone)
Forum participation year: 2010
