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Some cool humor video images:

sadr-haghighian_5709


Image by latitudes-flickr
Embargo Embargo, 2003
Video, 0:54 min | Video, 0:54 min
Courtesy of the artist and Johann König, Berlin

The practice of Natascha Sadr Haghighian has taken the form of videos, actions, animations and sound installation and is often concerned with the dilemma of visibility and
authenticity. Her work questions the strategies of empowerment in accepted and authoritative representational structures. Her ongoing ‘Bioswap’ project, for example, seeks to deliberately confuse the notion of how biographies are used to justify who is regarded as a significant artist. The short video Embargo Embargo (2003) refers to biography with more geopolitical slant. According to the copyright specifications for Adobe software, it is illegal to download Photoshop in ‘failed states’ such as Cuba, Syria, Iran and
Sudan, and any citizen of these countries is automatically barred from using them. Elsewhere 3 (2005/7) is an experience-oriented work and an intervention into the exhibition’s soundscape where it seems as if someone is trying to break through the wall, an absence and a presence at the same time.

sadr-haghighian_5707


Image by latitudes-flickr
Embargo Embargo, 2003
Video, 0:54 min | Video, 0:54 min
Courtesy of the artist and Johann König, Berlin

The practice of Natascha Sadr Haghighian has taken the form of videos, actions, animations and sound installation and is often concerned with the dilemma of visibility and
authenticity. Her work questions the strategies of empowerment in accepted and authoritative representational structures. Her ongoing ‘Bioswap’ project, for example, seeks to deliberately confuse the notion of how biographies are used to justify who is regarded as a significant artist. The short video Embargo Embargo (2003) refers to biography with more geopolitical slant. According to the copyright specifications for Adobe software, it is illegal to download Photoshop in ‘failed states’ such as Cuba, Syria, Iran and
Sudan, and any citizen of these countries is automatically barred from using them. Elsewhere 3 (2005/7) is an experience-oriented work and an intervention into the exhibition’s soundscape where it seems as if someone is trying to break through the wall, an absence and a presence at the same time.