The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object)
Metahaven
TICK TACK, Antwerp
- Title
- The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object)
- Gallery
- TICK TACK, Antwerp
- Year
- 2024
- Duration
- 30 min
- Format & Technical
Single-channel digital film / video
- Copyright METAHAVEN
| The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object), Metahaven’s latest film work, uses essayistic, fictional, and logical motifs and patterns—including palindromes, words and phrases which read the same backward as forward—to materialize its imaginative take on a 2022 poetry collection by Eugene Ostashevsky. The film builds on Metahaven’s earlier moving image works, like Hometown (2018) and Chaos Theory (2021), investigating joy, absurdism, truth claims, and childhood. “The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object)” follows protagonist One listening to Ostashevsky’s verse. Words, sentences, idioms, and poetic conventions are dislodged and defamiliarized across historical backgrounds. One, in her turn, talks with Companion, a quirky assistant prone to mistakes, and holds Red, a plush toy red panda and transitional object, “affectionately cuddled as well as excitedly loved and mutilated.” [Sianne Ngai, “Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting,” 2012]. In so doing, in this film work, feeling is materialized whilst facing a new language to describe it. |
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Metahaven es un colectivo con sede en Ámsterdam cuyo trabajo abarca la realización de películas, el diseño y la escritura. Las obras cinematográficas de Metahaven incluyen “Chaos Theory” (2021), “Hometown” (2018), “Information Skies” (2016, nominada a los Premios del Cine Europeo) y “The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)” (2015). Metahaven ha presentado exposiciones individuales en el MoMA PS1, Nueva York; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao; ICA Londres; Museo Stedelijk Ámsterdam; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Asakusa, Tokio; Izolyatsia, Kyiv; e-flux, New York y State of Concept Atenas, entre otros. Sus películas se han proyectado en el IFFR, Docs Against Gravity, CPH:DOX, y el Museum of Modern Art, entre otros. Metahaven ha participado en exposiciones colectivas en Artists Space, Nueva York; la Bienal de Gwangju; la Bienal de Sharjah; la Bienal de Busan; Ghost:2561, Bangkok, y muchos otros. Actualmente, Metahaven son asesores artísticos en la Rijksakademie, investigadores afiliados en Antikythera y jefes de departamento en el MA de Geo-Design en la DAE.
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TICK TACK
- Address
- Mechelsesteenweg 247/13, 2018, Antwerp, Belgium
- Phone
- +32 499 10 79 57
- info@ticktack.be
- Website
- ticktack.be
TICK TACK (2019) is a destination for contemporary art in Antwerp. TT produces, presents and promotes international exhibitions and video art screenings, complemented by limited edition publications and an extensive digital archive.
Housed in the brutalist monument ‘The Sundial’, a 1955 building by architect Léon Stynen, TICK TACK occupies a historic duplex at a vivid city intersection, facing the tram stop and landscape park ‘Harmony’. The 6 meter high window functions as an interface between artists and audience, and between private and public space.
By day, TT presents exhibitions. At sunset, the window transforms into a large projection screen under the name CINEMA TICK TACK, an exclusive platform for digital and moving image works. Reaching numerous passersby and commuters on a daily basis, TT serves as a channel, stimulating a connection in an urban setting.