Three video works of the program are based on an artistic study of the boundaries of patience and the social environment in which we form and accumulate our expectations.

Anal­o­gous to the movie “Toute la mémoire du monde”, 1956, by Alain Resnais, we filmed the Bib­liothèque Na­tionale, Paris using slow track­ing shots. In a dou­ble pro­jec­tion thou­sands of stock­ing room shelves with­out books flash by and in the read­ing room the cam­era merely cap­tures a hand­ful of young peo­ple, whiling away their time. Amongst the wait­ing peo­ple the with­drawal of knowl­edge pro­vokes first signs of re­sent­ment, first signs of re­bel­lion.

“The Rise” shows the un­canny, the un­fore­seen, which lurks di­rectly under the glossy sur­face of the mod­ern en­vi­ron­ment. Mo­ments in which the fragility of the layer of civ­i­liza­tion is no­tice­able. Artists focus on the com­plex re­la­tion­ship be­tween the vi­sual lan­guage of a build­ing, its psy­cho­log­i­cal ef­fects and the po­lit­i­cal-eco­nomic re­al­ity in which it func­tions.



In “Dy­namis” Fis­cher & el Sani asked peo­ple who they ran­domly meet in the city of Thes­sa­loniki to take part in a pa­tience ex­er­cise, and in this way de­velop a col­lec­tive cul­tural per­for­mance. A so­cial bal­anc­ing act, be­tween stand­ing up and col­laps­ing. A con­stant rise and fall, fig­u­ra­tively speak­ing.