Ed Atkins, Even Pricks, 2013 16:10 HD video with 5.1 surround sound 8 minutes
© All images courtesy the artist and Cabinet, London
Art, new technology, language and shifting identities
Ed Atkins in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum
3.3 2017
Stockholm
Date: Friday 3 March 2017
Time: At 18.30
Place: In the Cinema, floor 2
Admission: Admission free
Ticket: No tickets needed. No pre-booking.
Language: English
Moderna Bar is open after the conversation.
Video docmentation
In Ed Atkins’ work Even Pricks (2013), a talking chimpanzee seems to be looking straight at us from the screen. He is not staring at us, however. The monkey exists in a different, indefinable world, and the monitor screen is more like a mirror in which he observes himself. The video is full of audio-visual effects that are familiar from advertising and the movie industry. The artist is reluctantly fascinated by how these industries – like the given structures in social media – influence the way we think and interact.
In this and many other works, Ed Atkins portrays a world that seems simultaneously hyper-realistic and totally dead; where a stream of promises is constantly replaced by new ones.
Contact: Karin Malmquist, curator learning