https://gustonsondinkung.com GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG Thu, 19 May 2022 13:18:06 +0000 https://gustonsondinkung.com en https://gustonsondinkung.com/Nav Wed, 18 May 2022 10:34:05 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/Nav ︎︎︎ A Microscopic Burial ︎︎︎ Reconstruction of a Choreographic Script ︎︎︎Time Dead Time Alive&nbsp;︎︎︎ Submersion ︎︎︎ Van der Lubbes Head ︎︎︎ Time Dead Time Alive Publication ︎︎︎ The Woman, The Orphan and the Tiger ︎︎︎ The Pull of the Moon&nbsp;︎︎︎ Island of Stone ︎︎︎&nbsp;INCISIONS ︎︎︎ STUXNET in Denmark&nbsp;︎︎︎&nbsp;A Fossilized Moment of Doubt ✽&nbsp;Guston Sondin-Kung is an artist, filmmaker and writer. His work focuses on memory and the body investigated through situated knowledge. His artistic projects typically involve long term collaborative research that necessitates working across a multitude of disciplinary and discursive sites. https://gustonsondinkung.com/Info Wed, 18 May 2022 10:34:05 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/Info <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db0bfd63ea3cfe8766e7dc50c3e662392af2f66dd7770bf61abce76c9c4a01ff/Untitled_1.1.1.jpg" data-mid="153656687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db0bfd63ea3cfe8766e7dc50c3e662392af2f66dd7770bf61abce76c9c4a01ff/Untitled_1.1.1.jpg" /> Guston Sondin-Kung (1982) is an artist, filmmaker and writer. His work focuses on memory and the body investigated through situated knowledge. His artistic projects typically involve long term collaborative research that necessitates working across a multitude of disciplinary and discursive sites. He received a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a PhD from the University of Copenhagen. His work has been exhibited, screened and printed internationally at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Jeju National Museum, MASS Alexandria, Art Sonje Center,&nbsp;Kunsthal Charlottenborg,&nbsp;Les Rencontres Internationales, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, The 38th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, XIX ÍCARO, Festival Internacional de Cine, DOXA Film Festival and Videonalle 13. ︎︎︎ For further information and inquiries please contact: gsk.guston@gmail.com︎︎︎ CV︎︎︎ https://gustonsondinkung.com/A-Microscopic-Burial Wed, 18 May 2022 13:15:57 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/A-Microscopic-Burial ︎︎︎A Microscopic BurialAudio Performance 27mins (2021) <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1f89f35d27189f7089bf1fd16c45e582f81a50cb80af13f88011651208add70/Untitled_2.7.1.jpg" data-mid="142979962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1f89f35d27189f7089bf1fd16c45e582f81a50cb80af13f88011651208add70/Untitled_2.7.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bcfc0deda52f85c611df82916ce492cff5559380d66826f21a2c931019110c6/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.4.1.jpg" data-mid="142981781" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bcfc0deda52f85c611df82916ce492cff5559380d66826f21a2c931019110c6/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.4.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e16059d682d3f23ec2590073ff4a3cdcb7f87c5674f004c25fb3c4e0688b7b9/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_2.6.1.jpg" data-mid="142981792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e16059d682d3f23ec2590073ff4a3cdcb7f87c5674f004c25fb3c4e0688b7b9/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_2.6.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e1172b5f01925652976444725426d742820570c5d0f44b69687dd2224be4f99/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.10.3.jpg" data-mid="142981786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e1172b5f01925652976444725426d742820570c5d0f44b69687dd2224be4f99/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.10.3.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/190e98f0a6f7844168efda5e10f5bf56f5dd1b94b716e0238f25e78e3983c889/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.6.1.jpg" data-mid="142981783" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/190e98f0a6f7844168efda5e10f5bf56f5dd1b94b716e0238f25e78e3983c889/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.6.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fece932fa31a1b6e53912a5ef2098d86b0d0f26e3d23d57b49514da3d5decd7d/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.2.2.jpg" data-mid="142981780" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fece932fa31a1b6e53912a5ef2098d86b0d0f26e3d23d57b49514da3d5decd7d/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.2.2.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b26af9f600664c880f283396c2e3614229f7f809709663e9d84233681a5f5712/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.1.2.jpg" data-mid="142981779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b26af9f600664c880f283396c2e3614229f7f809709663e9d84233681a5f5712/Guston-Sondin-Kung_A-Microscopic-Burial_1.1.2.jpg" /> In 2019 a funeral took place in Berlin for the recently discovered microscopic remains of 300 political prisoners executed by the Nazi’s during World War II. Taking outset in this event, the audio performance The Microscopic Burial examines how the work of mourning can be composed and redistributed as a collective act that bonds through shared affinities. In the performance, oral storytelling is employed as a multi-sited mnemonic device. Additionally, it draws upon field recordings of the funeral, historical audio archives, essayistic spoken word compositions and spatialized resonant audio to produce a gathering of sounds that continue the work of mourning.&nbsp; <img width="2047" height="1150" width_o="2047" height_o="1150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/602feb7a34b8db187f75faa090bafccd094389353deb825df3075de6e8226832/Burial02-for-web.jpg" data-mid="143477458" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/602feb7a34b8db187f75faa090bafccd094389353deb825df3075de6e8226832/Burial02-for-web.jpg" /> Film Still, Burial of microscopic remains, in Berlin graveyard, Sondin-Kung, Guston (2019) <img width="2332" height="1784" width_o="2332" height_o="1784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c2dfb4eebda132ecce32c676d0af9b871e87261449ca1d6561c192e114c3cb0/Screenshot-2021-10-19-at-16.53.48.png" data-mid="143477709" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c2dfb4eebda132ecce32c676d0af9b871e87261449ca1d6561c192e114c3cb0/Screenshot-2021-10-19-at-16.53.48.png" /> Film Still, Berlin Reichshauptstadt [Berlin Imperial Capital], City streets in Berlin by unknown author (1938). Surrounded by this sympathetic sonic resonance, the participants are taken on a journey from the past to the present, from the inside to the outside, from collective electrical impulses to the bodies that make them, from the embodied to the disembodied, from the human cell to the call of a bird, from a religious prayer to a field of political affinities, from the atmosphere of the everyday to how our bodies compensate for spatialized sonic vibrations. https://gustonsondinkung.com/To-Carry-Images Thu, 19 May 2022 10:36:47 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/To-Carry-Images ︎︎︎&nbsp;To Carry Images2024 Forthcoming Publication <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/391b2aea03fe835b0ad6506711f2cc2dcc345fad8265d70cc0d1d3be02b9868b/To-Carry-Images-Monograph.jpg" data-mid="143066286" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/391b2aea03fe835b0ad6506711f2cc2dcc345fad8265d70cc0d1d3be02b9868b/To-Carry-Images-Monograph.jpg" /> “...I see my ribcage. I see the protrusions of each of my ribs and I’m putting my arm above my head in the air. When I’m doing this the ribs are poking out further. With my other arm and my pointer finger I’m touching the ribs. I’m running my finger over them and feeling each of their bumps protruding out of my ribcage.” This excerpted transcript, titled Mental Imagery 01: Ribs, is from an audio recording that I conducted in 2021 where I attempt to describe a recurring mental image in real time. The content of this and other related mental images that arose in the same period are connected to stories of genocide from the World War 2 European Holocaust that were told to me throughout my childhood as a third-generation descendant. These mental images have arrived with renewed force in tandem with a growing authoritarian, populist movement that in recent years has been sweeping the world configuring the “jew” once again as a target of vitriolic hate, violence and scapegoating. The interfacing of this internal mental imaging process with exterior shifts in the notion of “the jew”, along with the passing of the generation who directly experienced the holocaust, led me to a process of “becoming Jewish”. This, for me, has ignited a sense of responsibility to carry these images, and with them the violent and traumatic knowledge that is passing from one generation to the next. This has motivated and compelled me to understand more deeply how memory as imagery is passed trans-generationally and how artistic research and practice can map this process by articulating its insights through dialogical works of art. Furthermore, it has led me to consider how the use of this knowledge thus passed on can contribute to the resistance against ongoing and future genocide. This inquiry has necessitated working within an interdisciplinary frame that draws from the fields of moving-image artistic practice, neuroscience and memory studies. I conceptualize this approach as that of the minor specialist, someone who approaches these disciplines as an outsider from within with the aim of expanding the meaning of each disciplinary practice. This approach has been shaped by a matrix of critical analysis consisting of situated knowledge, decoloniality and substance monism.&nbsp; Doing so, I have developed a novel artistic research tool The Landscape of Embodied Imaging through which I map the emergence and transformation of images as internal and external representations as they are engaged in a communicative multigenerational dialogue. The Publication presents the Landscape of Embodied Imaging, outlining the three distinct zones of relation that comprise it: 1) Inward facing images; which serves to map the way that images enter our bodies and remain over time. These are presented through transcriptions of audio recordings (Mental Imagery 01: Ribcage; Mental Imagery 02: Fingerprint, Mental Imagery 03: Skin); 2) Externalized representations: which maps the ways in which images are inscribed externally for the purpose of reflective articulation. These are presented through experimental short stories and essayistic reflections: The birthday, The clock face, The Microscopic Burial, Holobiont Faciality, Epidemic Relations: 5G and the Microbe, Chronosomatic Imaging, and 3) Outward facing images that seek communication and dialogue beyond the self, presented through the audio performance the Microscopic burial. As a whole the dissertation conceptualizes, articulates, and demonstrates how The Landscape of Embodied Imaging produces a unique interface between subjective coordinates, communal affinities and memorial processes. This in turn creates an emergent notion of imaging referred to as Postmemory Neuro Imaging as a mode of imaging that engages in recuperative processes of epistemic reconstruction through reconnecting the relations between internal and external representations. The hope is thus that this research, beyond contributing to the matrix of disciplines that it engages, will help us comprehend some of the key memorial lessons that have been passed transgenerationally and enable us to resist ongoing and future genocides. https://gustonsondinkung.com/The-Landscape-of-Embodied-Imaging Thu, 19 May 2022 12:07:19 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/The-Landscape-of-Embodied-Imaging ︎︎︎&nbsp;The Landscape of Embodied Imaging: Diagram (2022) <img width="2400" height="1604" width_o="2400" height_o="1604" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d8276d5457c6b970ae0b2ab82fce918e3e8d4248cbb62f4ac0d018f5153190b/Landscape-of-Embodided-Imaging.jpg" data-mid="143065820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d8276d5457c6b970ae0b2ab82fce918e3e8d4248cbb62f4ac0d018f5153190b/Landscape-of-Embodided-Imaging.jpg" /> The Landscape of Embodied Imaging diagram illustrates the process of mapping how the memory of genocide is passed from generation to generation through subjective coordinates, communal affinities and memorial processes. It does so by drawing from Moving Image based artistic practice, Memory Studies and Neuroscience. This in turn creates an emergent notion of imaging referred to as postmemory neuro imaging that engaged in recuperative processes of epistemic reconstruction through reconnecting the relations between internal and external representations. The hope is that, beyond contributing to the matrix of disciplines that it engages, will help us comprehend some of the key memorial lessons that have been passed transgenerationally and enable us to resist ongoing and future genocides. <img width="14994" height="7724" width_o="14994" height_o="7724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39255f32c12f4493a8d9bc9166906d7fa7e8ca81bb9b5d128bd746123f621506/LEI-01.jpg" data-mid="153637660" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39255f32c12f4493a8d9bc9166906d7fa7e8ca81bb9b5d128bd746123f621506/LEI-01.jpg" /> <img width="14994" height="7724" width_o="14994" height_o="7724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60bad3fb5dfc77791858457333fe32655e90527ef11f9df5c2185cb7842e55c3/LEI-02.jpg" data-mid="153637661" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60bad3fb5dfc77791858457333fe32655e90527ef11f9df5c2185cb7842e55c3/LEI-02.jpg" /> <img width="14994" height="7724" width_o="14994" height_o="7724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/399ad730b93129d3e952d29b1b8ae368f24b90ba4b4749b5a04a7cbe1959f8bc/LEI-03.jpg" data-mid="153637662" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/399ad730b93129d3e952d29b1b8ae368f24b90ba4b4749b5a04a7cbe1959f8bc/LEI-03.jpg" /> <img width="14994" height="7724" width_o="14994" height_o="7724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a4ea615906a858f0fec93bf679d492ef5b5ed5a1898b0e28dbcc8e74ba30f06/LEI-04.jpg" data-mid="153637663" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a4ea615906a858f0fec93bf679d492ef5b5ed5a1898b0e28dbcc8e74ba30f06/LEI-04.jpg" /> <img width="14994" height="7724" width_o="14994" height_o="7724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a7551bf98abb0363dcb7773f18a833fe67644763c3a7deab8050086c7780b3a/LEI-05.jpg" data-mid="153637665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a7551bf98abb0363dcb7773f18a833fe67644763c3a7deab8050086c7780b3a/LEI-05.jpg" /> <img width="14994" height="7724" width_o="14994" height_o="7724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c61d764313a88982f688259c1723bb2e96b3bbc34fe054b94e9fa11d1a60b9c/LEI-06.jpg" data-mid="153637667" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c61d764313a88982f688259c1723bb2e96b3bbc34fe054b94e9fa11d1a60b9c/LEI-06.jpg" /> <img width="14994" height="7724" width_o="14994" height_o="7724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64d9fa11f6f87f966721c42b19b13e892b7529b72d973349f9d4f245d1392a37/LEI-07.jpg" data-mid="153637668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64d9fa11f6f87f966721c42b19b13e892b7529b72d973349f9d4f245d1392a37/LEI-07.jpg" /> <img width="14994" height="7724" width_o="14994" height_o="7724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd71122850351a26dcc8ed672f576b95016d2f8e34cf388e7ca376313cb61a65/LEI-08.jpg" data-mid="153637669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd71122850351a26dcc8ed672f576b95016d2f8e34cf388e7ca376313cb61a65/LEI-08.jpg" /> <img width="14994" height="7724" width_o="14994" height_o="7724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/723a674e97277e3dede05986d397c1bf3f9363907c12542b00eec9313b78d212/LEI-09.jpg" data-mid="153637671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/723a674e97277e3dede05986d397c1bf3f9363907c12542b00eec9313b78d212/LEI-09.jpg" /> https://gustonsondinkung.com/Holobiont-Faciality Thu, 19 May 2022 12:32:13 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/Holobiont-Faciality ︎︎︎&nbsp;Holobiont Faciality(2024) <img width="2200" height="1467" width_o="2200" height_o="1467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c1977a7a4d141c4ce0df8ba3d4d027bc70b74cf06f64d71f3af4deb1edb7d7f/Holobiont-Faciality-print.png" data-mid="153653366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c1977a7a4d141c4ce0df8ba3d4d027bc70b74cf06f64d71f3af4deb1edb7d7f/Holobiont-Faciality-print.png" /> This richly illustrated essayistic text that asks us what it means to see the face of the other within the frame of evolutionary collectivity as described by the microbiologist Lynn Margulis. We are taken on a journey through her concept of the holobiont (a collective genetic assemblage) by a dog named Bobby that Emmanuel Levinas met outside a work camp during World War 2. &nbsp;What develops is an intricate dialogue about historical violence, the limits of empathy, animality, collective responsibility, energy as an individuating force and what use science has in our current societies. https://gustonsondinkung.com/Reconstruction-of-a-Choreographic-Script Thu, 19 May 2022 12:42:56 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/Reconstruction-of-a-Choreographic-Script ︎︎︎ Reconstruction of a Choreographic Script (2017-2019) <img width="7360" height="4612" width_o="7360" height_o="4612" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c3c91d344469ae31d9b5b5d51fa95ff8b233dcc0f29da54b91806d54f42c5e3/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6742.jpg" data-mid="143067079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c3c91d344469ae31d9b5b5d51fa95ff8b233dcc0f29da54b91806d54f42c5e3/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6742.jpg" /> <img width="7262" height="3888" width_o="7262" height_o="3888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b04a872b3d6e544fe6be421b46262e33ad0765fc194fe5c85dd0b9eb9bb48a9/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6770.jpg" data-mid="143067084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b04a872b3d6e544fe6be421b46262e33ad0765fc194fe5c85dd0b9eb9bb48a9/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6770.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4183" width_o="7360" height_o="4183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7f6e986803b23c9878b39c44f4bcbd33867a482cfdc63499cc07874ed743910/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6758.jpg" data-mid="143067081" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7f6e986803b23c9878b39c44f4bcbd33867a482cfdc63499cc07874ed743910/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6758.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4751" width_o="7360" height_o="4751" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29ae1232615452dcbc652af240cb1aa4b3cf2244cf664c59dc5e72546d1ce9b7/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6765.jpg" data-mid="143067083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29ae1232615452dcbc652af240cb1aa4b3cf2244cf664c59dc5e72546d1ce9b7/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6765.jpg" /> <img width="7183" height="4794" width_o="7183" height_o="4794" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26939eaa56afa7281bbcd4fc984ca845f3e864f8a7950d8665d896656c6af1e3/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6710.jpg" data-mid="143067075" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26939eaa56afa7281bbcd4fc984ca845f3e864f8a7950d8665d896656c6af1e3/Guston-Sondin-Kung_Galleri-Image_photo-by-David-Stjernholm-6710.jpg" /> The backdrop of the project is the uncertain and fragmented space of my family history through the figure of my great aunt, Elfriede Mahler, an American dancer and choreographer. Accused of being a communist during the McCarthy era in the Untitled States, she fled and sought asylum in Cuba immediately following the revolution in 1959. In Cuba she became one of the founding members of the modern dance school in Havana and then relocated to Guantánamo City dedicating the rest of her life to founding and directing the dance company Danza Libre, which merges modern dance with Afro-Cuban dance traditions developed in the region. <img width="2000" height="925" width_o="2000" height_o="925" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9cfecf6560a9ad31983152196803e2e0599f532aff853a4b3cff44f34b96496/Elfride-Mahler-Archive-Photo.jpg" data-mid="143592296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9cfecf6560a9ad31983152196803e2e0599f532aff853a4b3cff44f34b96496/Elfride-Mahler-Archive-Photo.jpg" /> Archival negatives of Elfride Mahler in Guantanamo Cuba, 1972. Reconstruction of a Choreographic Script consists of a series of paper cut out collages and a multi channel video. The script created by Elfriede Mahler was originally outlined in the mid 1960s at the school of modern dance in Havana and developed through the 1990s in Guantanamo. The choreography was broken up into six acts, which told the story of European colonization and American imperialism from the perspective of labor rights in the combined styles of modernist dance, folkloric traditions and soviet inspired socialist realism. This original script no longer exists and instead the present script presented in the exhibition is built on remaining archival fragments, labanotation, oral narratives and gaps in collective memory. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8f81c188a8c5b3b03bf712afa9e906f9f28f6c10793942e67aca1208f8f62e4/IMG_3638.JPG" data-mid="143592452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8f81c188a8c5b3b03bf712afa9e906f9f28f6c10793942e67aca1208f8f62e4/IMG_3638.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efbad76227daffb9ef029cb6703fa8c2e2a607e387d46c3e257bfe7bf63e5079/IMG_3630.JPG" data-mid="143067851" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efbad76227daffb9ef029cb6703fa8c2e2a607e387d46c3e257bfe7bf63e5079/IMG_3630.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/034ffa625cd3c9ce0f50ec994fb53ebd3e76f30fe34864cc9d206a893744838e/IMG_3626.JPG" data-mid="143067830" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/034ffa625cd3c9ce0f50ec994fb53ebd3e76f30fe34864cc9d206a893744838e/IMG_3626.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a279307e0b0a436550b7e1e93519e3a6e4ce7fe4b0695802a9dac3c2667cda2a/IMG_3566.JPG" data-mid="143592637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a279307e0b0a436550b7e1e93519e3a6e4ce7fe4b0695802a9dac3c2667cda2a/IMG_3566.JPG" /> Photos of Ramiro Guerra’s personal archive, Havana 2018. https://gustonsondinkung.com/Time-Dead-Time-Alive Thu, 19 May 2022 13:07:09 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/Time-Dead-Time-Alive ︎︎︎&nbsp;Time Dead Time Alive38min single channel film (2017) <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26e25a49d8c9badb379d7f771d89e51b7d3a135eeb646cd79070ecba678d2c96/TDTA-Still-02.jpg" data-mid="143068685" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26e25a49d8c9badb379d7f771d89e51b7d3a135eeb646cd79070ecba678d2c96/TDTA-Still-02.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71d863d04a0ef2b163b595788bb74ec724b65760ed6dee48b9cdf284e37f5413/TDTA-Still-05.jpg" data-mid="143068693" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71d863d04a0ef2b163b595788bb74ec724b65760ed6dee48b9cdf284e37f5413/TDTA-Still-05.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea4046ad0523498d1c70137908e62df7744505bfe28ad3a7d06a11ceb3518e63/TDTA-Still-01.jpg" data-mid="143068684" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea4046ad0523498d1c70137908e62df7744505bfe28ad3a7d06a11ceb3518e63/TDTA-Still-01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8b268e8ee49a6aa55be35df37f35a42878ae95cce8dfbb15fd2a3397d8bb8b5/TDTA-Still-10.jpg" data-mid="143068698" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8b268e8ee49a6aa55be35df37f35a42878ae95cce8dfbb15fd2a3397d8bb8b5/TDTA-Still-10.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62ced226085024946e7af399cefdc3e5cfd41df935dff0fd64bd46f63cf06de1/TDTA-Still-09.jpg" data-mid="143068697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62ced226085024946e7af399cefdc3e5cfd41df935dff0fd64bd46f63cf06de1/TDTA-Still-09.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4840bf37308fd03d6c90993f16a3739b7e0fee29890e9897eefc808886ed97f/TDTA-Still-08.jpg" data-mid="143068695" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4840bf37308fd03d6c90993f16a3739b7e0fee29890e9897eefc808886ed97f/TDTA-Still-08.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f2fef688f82c4799917a6b6e3c80000d1ecb2098ad5259d902309fdb2cfc5e4/TDTA-Still-04.jpg" data-mid="143068690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f2fef688f82c4799917a6b6e3c80000d1ecb2098ad5259d902309fdb2cfc5e4/TDTA-Still-04.jpg" /> Time Dead Time Alive is a meditation on the legacy of Elfriede Mahler, an American dance choreographer and one of the founders of Cuba’s modern dance school that sought asylum in Cuba immediately following the revolution in 1959. Memories both personal and historical are recalled through an archive audio interview, reflections from her former students and dance from her still active company Danza Libre based in Guantánamo City. This collective act reconstitutes a woman that is gone but not missing and, in the process, illuminates the active continuum between life and death.&nbsp; https://gustonsondinkung.com/Submersion Thu, 19 May 2022 13:12:44 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/Submersion ︎︎︎&nbsp;Submersion18min single channel film (2017) <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcef3db0e7012a60539b6eebbbfe198ac25b0c4d13431c5f78a082ea9f360739/Screen-Shot-2017-01-06-at-2.41.10-PM.png" data-mid="143069672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcef3db0e7012a60539b6eebbbfe198ac25b0c4d13431c5f78a082ea9f360739/Screen-Shot-2017-01-06-at-2.41.10-PM.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43b676cb7b085b80ffb3b2375555905f682d6926428488cbca36550cae886cb5/Screen-Shot-2017-01-06-at-2.40.26-PM.png" data-mid="143069607" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43b676cb7b085b80ffb3b2375555905f682d6926428488cbca36550cae886cb5/Screen-Shot-2017-01-06-at-2.40.26-PM.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c92f6022190a53bf97a59dc0248cfc229244adeaf6c73a8ec85c04e8972d3fb/Screen-Shot-2017-01-17-at-10.26.39-AM.png" data-mid="143069715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c92f6022190a53bf97a59dc0248cfc229244adeaf6c73a8ec85c04e8972d3fb/Screen-Shot-2017-01-17-at-10.26.39-AM.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cd72021e236aceb858faf24700cd25b062de0665865440a048e71e665e57d92/Screen-Shot-2017-01-17-at-10.26.51-AM.png" data-mid="143069745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cd72021e236aceb858faf24700cd25b062de0665865440a048e71e665e57d92/Screen-Shot-2017-01-17-at-10.26.51-AM.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da35282a632816eb340def121a1c16d04fb4d2b0c89c31177f37ee69bd2c8170/Screen-Shot-2017-01-17-at-10.27.07-AM.png" data-mid="143069843" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da35282a632816eb340def121a1c16d04fb4d2b0c89c31177f37ee69bd2c8170/Screen-Shot-2017-01-17-at-10.27.07-AM.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb900cecf3db2379e5641a0d39f5406ec1ae9afb682685672834fa3fbeb7f3c8/Screen-Shot-2017-01-17-at-10.27.18-AM.png" data-mid="143069876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb900cecf3db2379e5641a0d39f5406ec1ae9afb682685672834fa3fbeb7f3c8/Screen-Shot-2017-01-17-at-10.27.18-AM.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9e357ac48e92845de1d984a47dae58dd753d682f3acac00de16dab8334c0094/Screen-Shot-2017-01-06-at-2.41.40-PM.png" data-mid="143069678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9e357ac48e92845de1d984a47dae58dd753d682f3acac00de16dab8334c0094/Screen-Shot-2017-01-06-at-2.41.40-PM.png" /> In the single channel video Submersion two young dancers perform individual movements in repetition from a choreography that was created by Elfriede Mahler titled Fuente. This choreography is considered the most technically difficult in Danza Libre’s repertoire and after mastering its movement the dancers have a foundation that can be applied to all other dances. In addition it functions as a means of memorial transfer between bodies where the dancers become fully engrossed in the historical trajectories that are informing their movement. Over the course of this repetition the dancers persist until they attain a full state of submersion. &nbsp; https://gustonsondinkung.com/Van-der-Lubbes-Head Thu, 19 May 2022 13:18:06 +0000 GUSTON SONDIN-KUNG https://gustonsondinkung.com/Van-der-Lubbes-Head ︎︎︎ Van der Lubbes Head26min two channel video installation (2018) <img width="2218" height="1362" width_o="2218" height_o="1362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5898477122a8bf8a3cc58e34ab96bfe61f41dbdda3edc66fa3949de528579dc/Guston-Sondin-Kung-Van-der-Lubbes.jpg" data-mid="143070487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5898477122a8bf8a3cc58e34ab96bfe61f41dbdda3edc66fa3949de528579dc/Guston-Sondin-Kung-Van-der-Lubbes.jpg" /> The video is part of the larger body of work titled Time Dead Time Alive. My Great Aunt Elfriede Mahler was taught by a dancer and choreographer named Edith Segal that created a dance company in the 1930s called the red dancers. It was the first communist dance company in America and had the goal of creating a new form of dance that could speak to the oppression of the working class by being presented in factories and encouraging people to join in the performance. Aesthetically it followed the Marxist conception of art as literal reality combining this with modernist ideas, which demanded the viewer’s participation in the creation of meaning. <img width="1200" height="946" width_o="1200" height_o="946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc7fdcb6e4eba99b3cfb7ecdef1366026dae13a725046330601250cfa2ac99e8/88454.HR.jpg" data-mid="143070880" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc7fdcb6e4eba99b3cfb7ecdef1366026dae13a725046330601250cfa2ac99e8/88454.HR.jpg" /> The New Dance Group performs the collective choreography Van der Lubbe’s Head, 1934. Muriel Manings and William Korff Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00). Alfredo Valente, photographer. <img width="1200" height="981" width_o="1200" height_o="981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/837539e67ae348217026c43c0d7d78a7e620308173005e452783e838943b0667/88453.HR.jpg" data-mid="143070935" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/837539e67ae348217026c43c0d7d78a7e620308173005e452783e838943b0667/88453.HR.jpg" /> Members of the New Dance Group in Improvisation, 1932. New Dance Group Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00) Through this company a choreography was created called Van der Lubbes head which took up the topic of fascism in Europe presenting the beheading of Van der Lubbe after he was blamed for the reichstag fire which later was used to eliminate the communist party and for the Nazis to gain full power over the state. This choreography was set to a poem written by Alfred Hayes and was praised for transcending the typical agitprop that had characterized the red dancers and creating a truly unique and new form of artistic expression in political dance. This choreography also became important as a model for the work of Elfriede Mahler when she left the USA and founded a dance company in Guantanamo. This video work traces this choreography through an exploration of where it is housed in the New York Public Library. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82e233c28a7c695c8f951b8a8a8aa8b0abc74cbbbc72267f1a4b83bd5f54aa68/Untitled_1.10.1.jpg" data-mid="143204799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82e233c28a7c695c8f951b8a8a8aa8b0abc74cbbbc72267f1a4b83bd5f54aa68/Untitled_1.10.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/428a48706298da25b392b5e457a16e2122ccf288dd64dd5772ad232141a2cc4c/Untitled_1.1.1.jpg" data-mid="143204780" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/428a48706298da25b392b5e457a16e2122ccf288dd64dd5772ad232141a2cc4c/Untitled_1.1.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e1f2558dc57e97afea0b302ae69a4147ef287169441bf23e94d0ac41a008220/Untitled_1.17.1.jpg" data-mid="143204807" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e1f2558dc57e97afea0b302ae69a4147ef287169441bf23e94d0ac41a008220/Untitled_1.17.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8737fa5921a2827e18b93d761da5396cdadda43df7896fbff0ace47e98ad686/Untitled_1.6.1.jpg" data-mid="143204790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8737fa5921a2827e18b93d761da5396cdadda43df7896fbff0ace47e98ad686/Untitled_1.6.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ec1f3aadf374ca559d5f309ab3b0178ea2fd279124c552480191cdd9ecbb460/Untitled_1.26.1.jpg" data-mid="143204814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ec1f3aadf374ca559d5f309ab3b0178ea2fd279124c552480191cdd9ecbb460/Untitled_1.26.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b59b6a6d860120ec15439e1113f1cd759ec2597b0958d9fc5af9df2cea5b667/Untitled_1.14.1.jpg" data-mid="143204803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b59b6a6d860120ec15439e1113f1cd759ec2597b0958d9fc5af9df2cea5b667/Untitled_1.14.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/712992483c519432b2e681a4002eff246e7970c64f7835f046fa42bb1683e2d6/Untitled_1.22.1.jpg" data-mid="143204809" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/712992483c519432b2e681a4002eff246e7970c64f7835f046fa42bb1683e2d6/Untitled_1.22.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b94efa8d8df4e20875c754ed0e7f8f97530ab73550fd632d5947228de58c9bd6/Untitled_1.25.1.jpg" data-mid="143204813" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b94efa8d8df4e20875c754ed0e7f8f97530ab73550fd632d5947228de58c9bd6/Untitled_1.25.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe49e4cf437ab6dabb456f3774b3dae2a65b1f36b31025038012c25b4fc898a1/Untitled_1.27.1.jpg" data-mid="143204815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe49e4cf437ab6dabb456f3774b3dae2a65b1f36b31025038012c25b4fc898a1/Untitled_1.27.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75b6db4491a3fa4699bac3d0e787693a2a796166e1bb502d10c85d3d95359e3b/Untitled_1.13.1.jpg" data-mid="143204802" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75b6db4491a3fa4699bac3d0e787693a2a796166e1bb502d10c85d3d95359e3b/Untitled_1.13.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79152f4835775d5927acea275cfd2c22ba7aabf7f12ca8dcc066bee9ec22d514/Untitled_1.9.1.jpg" data-mid="143204798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79152f4835775d5927acea275cfd2c22ba7aabf7f12ca8dcc066bee9ec22d514/Untitled_1.9.1.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1e0fd32fc2ddf446c2bd8bd97842b3c4d7ac9d51833a5830a8e0f05ce42684c/Untitled_1.5.1.jpg" data-mid="143204788" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1e0fd32fc2ddf446c2bd8bd97842b3c4d7ac9d51833a5830a8e0f05ce42684c/Untitled_1.5.1.jpg" /> Van der Lubbes Head, Video Stills, 2018.