The One Minutes – Everything happened so much: archive as poem in an age of perpetual witnessing
“There are different ways to tell a story. I wanted to think about the way we bear ongoing witness to our own lives, and how this material tells bigger stories about the material, technological and socio-economic circumstances of the past and present. I wanted to give space to the unreliable narrator and the chaos of memory. To take seriously the political dimension of telling stories through the low fidelity, poor images and unobjective close-ups that we are often left with in contrast to sovereign forms of cinema (newsreel, advertisement, video-essay). Building on these ideas, in reconnaissance and reclamation, here are 24 video-poems, as true and accurate as any other form of storytelling, or perhaps even more so.”
– Jesse Darling, April 2020
Everything happened so much is curated by Jesse Darling. Jesse Darling is an artist working in sculpture, installation, video, drawing, text, sound and performance. They live and work in Berlin.
Participating artists:
Toni Brell
Lauren de Sa Naylor
L’nique Noel
Sulaïman Majali
Francisca Khamis Giacoman and Levi van Gelder
Cristina Planas
Frank Wasser
Kamilya Kuspanova
Lin Li
Ibrahim kurt
Samar Al Summary
Rozemarijn Jens
Nestor Solano
Andro Eradze
Ghenwa Abou Fayad
Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer
Torreya Cummings
Pernilla Manjula Philip
Stelios Markou Ilchuk
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Callum Copley
Louise Gholam
Flo Ray
Images courtesy of The One Minutes Foundation
Image 2 – Lubricants Rebranded as Anti-Slip, Flo Ray, 2020 (© the artist, courtesy by The One Minutes Foundation)
