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Truth in Transit

eteam

2008 00:50:33 United StatesEnglishColorStereo4:3Video
Tags:
Conceptual Art, Expedition/Travel, Landscape, Performance

Description

They just flew in from New York, and boy, are their arms tired... Out in the Nevada desert, against the windblown backdrop of Air Force bomber training sites, artists Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht — better known as eteam — gathered testimonials of stranded passengers, crew members, and local residents to recall an episode in the lost annals of American aviation: the 2006 "unscheduled layover" at International Airport Montello (IAM). Truth in Transit reaches beyond simple documentation. Channeling the collective imagination of its participants for their own point of departure, this video embellishes the dream of an airport through the interwoven accounts of fictional afflictions, flying, flypaper, the paranormal, and the all-too-normal.

— Jim Supanick

Truth in Transit stands out as an instance of ensemble performance, but one that is like a consensual hallucination. A body of participants, never abandoning who they are, but simply adding a second skin of theatricality and the enlistment in this grand phantasm that is IAM.

— Steve Seid

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