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Space Delay

eteam

2015 01:16:00 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video
Tags:
Family, Landscape, Technology, Feature Length, Travel

Description

The sale of a plot of land marks the kickoff of an unlikely road trip in this strange American odyssey. When eteam buys an acre of the Southwestern desert on eBay, the deed fails to arrive and the pair attempt to track down the phantom seller. Children in tow, the artists embark on a noir-inspired search through Colorado, Arizona and the American West to locate the shadowy landowner and claim their portion of the vast desert.

"Land is an emitter and sucker of information. Places absorb whatever happens to their surface and store this information in various forms. Every landscape is an amazing library. Fascinated, we read, get absorbed and changed. Compelled, we add a thought and then an action. We then step back, observe, fictionalize and share the particular consequences of these interventions. And then we move on. Back to the land."

— eteam

 

eteam uses video, performance, installation and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetic universes. Through their artistic practice eteam finds ways to collaborate with people who operate on the edges of mainstream culture and the marketplace. They are drawn to those willing to experiment, cross genres and cultural boundaries, together we forge proximity and make visible the interconnections we humans share with land, animals, plants, ghosts, deities and objects. Practicing art is their way to enter the “outside,” pay close attention to the details, while trying to understand the whole.

eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves in ships, black box theaters and horse-drawn wagons.

They could not have done this without the support of Creative Capital and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Art in General, NYSCA, NYFA, Rhizome, CLUI, Taipei Artist Village, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo and MacDowell, the City College of New York, the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and the Fulbright Scholar Program, among many others. Their novel Grabeland was published by Nightboat Books in February 2020.

They received to Fulbright Scholarships to research the relationship between traditional puppetry and digital smart phones in Taiwan.

Also available from eteam is the book Buzz Cut