{"id":6371,"date":"2012-10-30T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2012-10-30T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T09:51:00","slug":"ed-atkins-at-chisenhale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ed-atkins-at-chisenhale\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Atkins bei Chisenhale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6373\" title=\"Standbild aus \u00bbUs Dead Talk Love\u00ab, 2012, von Ed Atkins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/e_atkins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"651\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So beginnt Ed Atkins\u2019 Video \u2019Us Dead Talk Love\u201c \u2013 physiologisch und dissonant, erz\u00e4hlt von einem digital gerenderten, abgetrennten kahlen Kopf. Das Herzst\u00fcck von Atkins\u2019 gleichnamiger Einzelausstellung in der Chisenhale Gallery ist dieses zweikanalige digitale Video, das in der Mitte eines als Auditorium gestalteten Raums gezeigt wird. Das Video besteht gr\u00f6\u00dftenteils aus unzusammenh\u00e4ngenden Grafiken dieses wackelnden und umherirrenden Kopfes, haar\u00e4hnlichen Schn\u00f6rkeln, die \u00fcber den Bildschirm schweben, und gelegentlichen, unberechenbaren Ausbr\u00fcchen in opernhafte Mantras. Der Erz\u00e4hler scheint posthum von einer Liebesgeschichte zu berichten, vom Grab einer Zweikanal-Projektion aus (die Projektion ist sogar bewusst so ausgerichtet, dass Lichtschatten sarkophagartige Bl\u00f6cke an der Wand erzeugen). Ebenfalls in der Ausstellung zu sehen sind mehrere Tafeln, die an die gro\u00dfe Wand des Hauptraums gelehnt sind und zerzauste Kissen (sowie Schn\u00f6rkel) zeigen.<\/p>\n<p>Der Tod ist Atkins\u2019 Thema in seinen j\u00fcngsten Videos, zuletzt in \u201cA Tumour\u201d (2012), das im Bonner Kunstverein gezeigt wurde. Es ist durch und durch bizarr, n\u00fcchtern und ernsthaft inszeniert und zeichnet sich durch eine unkonventionelle Verbindung aus schr\u00e4gem Humor und beil\u00e4ufiger Nachdenklichkeit aus. Manchmal klingt Atkins\u2019 Erz\u00e4hler n\u00fcchtern, so wie ein Au\u00dferirdischer die menschliche Erfahrung der Liebe wahrnehmen und beschreiben k\u00f6nnte. Gerade die Worte \u201cdead talk\u201d im Titel k\u00f6nnten Atkins\u2019 literarischen Ansatz gut beschreiben, als w\u00e4re der Ausdruck selbst ein Verb und das Video ein Beispiel f\u00fcr \u201cdead talking\u201d. Wie in anderen Videos scheint \u201cUs Dead Talk Love\u201d eine digitale Bewegtbild-Illustration eines Textes zu sein (eine Abschrift des Textes wurde von Chisenhale am Galerietresen verkauft). Das Werk st\u00fctzt sich vor allem auf einen hoch aufgeladenen Sprachstrom; Atkins\u2019 assoziative Animation ist bewusstseinsstromartig und unzusammenh\u00e4ngend und scheint eine Verschiebung zwischen Text und Video zu inszenieren: Der animierte Erz\u00e4hler scheint die Worte auf der Tonspur manchmal nur vage auszusprechen, wie eine tr\u00e4ge und alberne Illustration semiotischer Verschiebung. \u201cIch, wie in \u2018Ich\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6374\" title=\"Ausstellungsansicht aus \u00bbUs Dead Talk Love\u00ab, 2012, von Ed Atkins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/EA_Andy_Keate_05web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Im Gegensatz zu Ryan Trecartins von YouTube inspirierten Erkundungen der konsumorientierten Gegenwart sind Atkins\u2019 Videos und Texte unverhohlen literarisch, ganz im Stil der Moderne. Atkins scheint sich Samuel Becketts Lieblingsthemen (Tod, Sex, Skatologie) sowie dessen Art, das banale Detail (ein Kissen, ein Urinal) ins Kosmische (Abwesenheit, Abf\u00e4lle) zu erheben, zu eigen gemacht zu haben. Entscheidend ist hier Schkloskian <em>Entfernung, <\/em>oder die Verfremdung des Allt\u00e4glichen: Eine Wimper erscheint pl\u00f6tzlich wie ein Schnitt quer \u00fcber den Hals einer Person (der Erz\u00e4hler wird erneut enthauptet). Es ist erfrischend zu sehen, wie diese der Technik der digitalen Animation gegen\u00fcbergestellt werden, die spielerisch und oft willk\u00fcrlich eingesetzt wird. Trotz Atkins\u2019 Verweisen auf Maurice Blanchots pr\u00e4gnante Gleichungen (ein Orgasmus = ein winziger Tod) wirkt Atkins\u201c Vokabular frech und frisch. Zu anderen Zeiten wirkt sein Text jugendlich. \u201dEin Zusammenbruch der Erfahrung, der sinnlichen Wahrnehmung\u2019 klingt wie ein Liebesgedicht aus dem Studium, das aus Phrasen der franz\u00f6sischen Ph\u00e4nomenologie (wahrscheinlich von Merleau-Ponty) zusammengesetzt ist. Interessanter sind einige von Atkins\u201c surrealistischen Assoziationen: \u201dtotes Wachsen. \/ Stalaktiten, zum Beispiel\u201c ist ein perfektes Beispiel f\u00fcr jene Art von posthumen Ansammlungen, die Atkins zu seinem Thema macht. Ich bin gespannt, wohin Atkins diese Paarungen f\u00fchrt und ob er \u00fcber die grandiosen, homerischen Themen \u2013 Tod, Sex, Liebe \u2013 hinausgehen wird. Oder verwechselt Atkins, wie sein Erz\u00e4hler, selbstbewusst \u201ddas V\u00f6llig-Nichtige mit dem Unheimlich-Wichtigen\u201c?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text: Pablo Larios<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ed Atkins<br \/>\u201cWir Toten sprechen von Liebe\u201d<br \/>Bis zum 11. November 2012<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chisenhale.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chisenhale Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Erleben Sie Ed Atkins im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Mike Sperlinger<\/strong> <strong>Dienstag, 30. Oktober, 19 Uhr<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So begins Ed Atkins&#8217; video Us Dead Talk Love &#8211; physiologically and dissonant, narrated by a digitally-rendered, severed bald head. The centrepiece of Atkins&#8217; solo show of the same name at Chisenhale Gallery is this two-channel digital video, which is screened in the middle of an auditorium styled room. 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