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Rabbitsuit

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Rabbitsuit
4.20 min. 1996. 4:3 Video. DK speak
4:15:21 min. 1997. 4:3 Video. UK speak

Rabbitsuit tager udgangspunkt i en sødladen klassisk fortælling om Frk. Langøre,  en selvoptaget og forfængelig lille kanin med lange bløde ører. Hun er så optaget af at forme sin krop i skulpturelle geometriske grundformer som kuber, kugler, kegler etc., at hun i sin æstetiske selviscenesættelse helt glemmer at passe på ræven.
Videoen sammenstiller en indsmigrende, forførende, skøn billedside, et ekstatisk tempo, en sødladen historie med en vanvittig grinende fortæller og en kanin i groteske former.

 

A far too laughing storyteller tells the classic, sugary story about a self-obsessed, vain rabbit, Miss Long-ears. She is so absorbed in the process of changing her body that she, doing her self setting, forgets to watch out for the fox.
The charming seductive delicious pictures, an ecstatic tempo and a sugary story is juxtaposed the grotesque geometric primary forms of a rabbit and a laughing storyteller.

Udstillinger
1996 Le Nouveau Festival, International Cinema Video, Montreal, CA
1996 Jacta est alea / Terningerne er kastet, Aahus Kunstbygning, DK *
1997 Terningerne er kastet, Aahus Kunstbygning, DK *
1997 World Wide Video Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Melkyweg, Amsterdam, NL*
1997 ON Iceland, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS *
1997 Festivals of Festival, Short and documentary films, Århus, DK
1998 Boomerang, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, DK *
1998 Transmediale, Berlin, DE *             
2006 PETS/Mobbypet, Australian & Danish Exchange*
2018 REVISIT, Ovengaden – Institute of contemporary art, Copenhagen, DK *

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