VIDEO: INGRIDMWANGIROBERTHUTTER

International curator Isolde Brielmaier has organized a show featuring video art in the borough of Brooklyn: INGRIDMWANGIROBERTHUTTER…Select Videos, 2006-2007…Still from Being Bamako, 2007, single-channel video, 16:50 minutes….Wed, 6/20/07 - 7/20/07 at the Rotunda Gallery.  The show also includes, in the Project Space, Duron Jackson - Revered/Reviled.

In the selection of videos exhibited, German based artist collective, INGRIDMWANGIROBERTHUTTER attempts to view Africa through different eyes. Countries within Africa tend to be thrown into one basket, seen mainly through the filters of having a history of colonialism. According to Mwangi, “They are constantly being compared with occidental systems - and are most often found to be lacking. Even as an African, it is difficult to get away from the impressions that the media leave in our minds; rigid ideas of efficiency and the ‘right kind’ of progress, negative examples of misrule, etc. These handily packaged and digestible information bites often have little to do with the reality of how millions of people live and meet the demands of daily life with vigor.” Watch videos!