Emil Memon
No. 1464
"Three Steps to Madness. Social Sculpture and Other Short Stories"
Artist: Emil Memon
Title: Three Steps to Madness. Social Sculpture and Other Short Stories
 
Subtitle: Audio-visual installation
Duration: 15:14
Year: 2020
Genre: Installation Art / Documentary video / Exhibition
Production: Emil Memon

 
SYNOPSIS

Document of Emil Memon's exhibition / audio-visual installation entitled "Three Steps to Madness. Social Sculpture and Other Short Stories" (Project Room SCCA, Ljubljana, 2019). It consisted of spatial installations, video projections, sculptures, posters, prints, and objects and included some remodeled older Memon works, while also displaying projects still under construction. According to the curator Barbara Borčić the exhibited works "represented the core of Memon's artistic practice, characterized by the integration of diverse media, the thematization of modernism, and the use of pop aesthetics to capture the capitalist present". Works at the exhibition: Newton, triptych installation (1993/2019); Vladimir Memon: Meje [Borders], a book of poetry and + Emil Memon: an original artwork for the cover of the book (1979); Mishima Film, series of works connected to Memon’s feature film (2015/2019): "Mishima Film Video Sculpture No. 1" in "Mishima Film Video Sculpture No. 2", "Mishima Film Still", digital C-print; The Lemon Set, series of works (2015/2019); Salvator Mundi, video sculpture (TV, plastic, 2007); Fireworks / Hot in a Disco, video (2014); Trash No. 3, plastic, found object, NYC (2017).


 


 
OTHER WORKS
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Production: Emil Memon, 2018
“On the Run, an American song” is Emil Memon’s song dealing with anguish and paranoia of American life. It is a cinematic song, lyrics describing young lovers, like in Hollywood movies, running away from the law across the vast U.S., som...
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Production: Emil Memon, 2015
Emil Memon envisaged the video on a hot day in August while sitting in Washington Square and playing with some of the music Apps on his IPad. He then layered electronics and beat and recorded the song in his friend’s Brooklyn music studio with his v...
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Emil Memon - Fireworks / Hot in a Disco (25:46)
Production: Emil Memon, 2014
Video consists of dystopian footages of the spectacle of the 4th of July Independence Day celebration on West Side of Manhattan recorded two years in the row (2012 and 2013). Each year Memom took the same spot of shooting the fireworks. Yet, it is far fro...
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Production: Emil Memon, 2013
Video "Dark Night" is a part of the set of "Music Videos", compressed works, merging music recordings with visual images as signifiers. Some of the music tracks are more Pop studio recordings with a band, some, as is the case of the "Dark Night" music tra...
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Production: E.M., 2003
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Production: Emil Memon, 1994
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Production: Emil Memon, 1983/95
Video "Blue Movie/Schizophrenia" is a shorter edited version of Emil Memon's silent movie "1983/Blue movie" shot in NYC in 1983, reconceptualized as a music video (music by Emil Memon and Robert Aaron). (Music video for Emil Memo...
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Production: Emil Memon, Pawel Wojtasik, 1983
"1983/Blue movie" was made on the basis of Memon's Diploma Work at the Florence Academy entitled 'History of Art and Non-Narrative Cinema', with references to film makers, such as Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, Maya Deren, Sergei Eisenstein an...
 
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