Concurrent Program:
Madison Brookshire: Word Film (Eastern Tires Twining) (2024 - ), 16mm film, color, silent
Slant Film (work in progress), plywood, digital projector, digital video, color, sound
Manfred Werder: [ the music of history ] (2021 - ) & [ the inscription of the sun ] (2023 - ) paper, tape, text, typewriter, voice
Life as the praxis of production of statements regarding the ever becoming of the world between unformed matter, organized inorganic being and the now is of central concern in this first collaboration between Madison Brookshire and Manfred Werder.
Speed is the result of the negotiation between the dead and the living—between primary retention and tertiary memory. (Bernard Stiegler)
Manfred Werder’s presence has been made possible in parts by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
Madison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles, where he makes films, paintings, and performances. His work invites viewers to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time. Through his work, he hopes to get closer to living. Moving between experimental film, music, and art, he often works at the edges of disciplines, frequently collaborating with musicians and composers, including Ezra Buchla, LCollective, Laura Steenberge, Mark So, and Tashi Wada. His awards include being named a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, an ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, and being an Artist in Residence at the Echo Park Film Center and the Hammer Museum.
Manfred Werder is wandering through the abundance in which he traces all possible enunciation regarding the world. His recent works [ the inscription of the sun ] and [ the music of history ] continue the practice of reflection and inscription of both found materials through the sun and typewriter and the public space through dérive. Earlier works include stück 1998 and performer series (1999- ), ten 4000 page scores whose nonrecurring and intermittent performative realizations have been ongoing since December 1997. Lives in situ.