Mariëlle Videler - Love Disaster

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Love Disaster
2011

Installation consisting of
collage, a model,
performance and video.

Presented, for the first time,
by Hotel Maria Kapel

at SUPERMARKET art fair,
Kulturhuset in Stockholm,
Sweden, Februari 2011.

Supported by: by the Mondriaan Foundation and the city of Hoorn.

Thanks to: Josine Siderius, Wouter Sibum, Joost Habing, Jacob Lekkerkerker, Daniel Hofstede and
Benjamin Roth.

Love Disaster is a situation, a proposal for exchange. Our search for love and contact knows explosive forms. It may happen that this search degenerates into a disaster. The execution of a disaster happens very quickly, situations change within a few seconds. Is, with disaster entering, all vision of paradise lost?

In Love Disaster I blend the attempt to prevent with disaster. Signs, regulations, codes and standards intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks, are mixed with images and maps of disasters that took place at several party venues. Such as the Beverly Hills Supperclub (US, 1977), Santika Pub (THA, 2009), and more recently the Love Parade (GER, 2010). I transform these facts and images in an installation consisting of collage, a model, video and performances. My fascination with disaster (even more: the prevention) can be traced back to my childhood and my father being a fire officer.

Text

NEN Codes & Standards. Intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks.
Source: Staatsblad van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, 2008.

I read the full text (Dutch), from within the installation.
Duration one hour.

The video shows a fragment: length 1:36 min.


	work / news / text / credits / PLab / contact	Love Disaster 2011 Installation consisting of collage, a model, performance and video. Presented, for the first time, by Hotel Maria Kapel at SUPERMARKET art fair, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sweden, Februari 2011. Supported by: by the Mondriaan Foundation and the city of Hoorn. Thanks to: Josine Siderius, Wouter Sibum, Joost Habing, Jacob Lekkerkerker, Daniel Hofstede and Benjamin Roth.
		Love Disaster is a situation, a proposal for exchange. Our search for love and contact knows explosive forms. It may happen that this search degenerates into a disaster. The execution of a disaster happens very quickly, situations change within a few seconds. Is, with disaster entering, all vision of paradise lost? In Love Disaster I blend the attempt to prevent with disaster. Signs, regulations, codes and standards intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks, are mixed with images and maps of disasters that took place at several party venues. Such as the Beverly Hills Supperclub (US, 1977), Santika Pub (THA, 2009), and more recently the Love Parade (GER, 2010). I transform these facts and images in an installation consisting of collage, a model, video and performances. My fascination with disaster (even more: the prevention) can be traced back to my childhood and my father being a fire officer.




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		Text NEN Codes & Standards. Intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks. Source: Staatsblad van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, 2008. I read the full text (Dutch), from within the installation. Duration one hour. The video shows a fragment: length 1:36 min.