On Saturday February 2nd at 12:00 pm, The Israeli Center for Digital Art will hold a one- time screening of the work Episode 3 by Renzo Marten (2009, 90 min.). The screening will be followed by a discussion with Martens, Moderated by Yehoshua Simon. The event is free of charge, please register in advanced.
Renzo Martens was born in 1973 in the Netherlands. He is a leading video artist, whose works are shown all over the world. He lives and works in Amsterdam, Brussels and Congo. Yehoshua Simon is an Israeli artist, curator and editor.
Martens has spent the past several years examining the role of the camera in places of severe political unrest, utilizing performance and satire to create metafilms that raise questions about the use of journalism and documentation. His film Episode 1 (2003), is presented in the exhibition "Into the Eye of the Storm".
For Episode 3, part of which was shown at Manifesta 7, Martens went to Congo, where he launched a two-year project that examined the exploitation of one of Africa’s major exports: images of poverty and suffering. In a characteristic mix of journalism and irony, Martens erects a blue neon billboard in one of the villages that reads ENJOY POVERTY (in English for the roaming photojournalists who might pass by) while also attempting to launch a program that would allow the continent’s poor to receive restitution for being the poster children for global poverty.
Details and registration: 03-5568792
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