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| According to the idea of Backlight, the main exhibition in October is a focus on how young photographers interprete their social, political and personal situation in Europe at the end of the millennium. On stage is a generation, grown up with multimedia since the very beginning of their visual experience. The postindustrial settings are responsible for their difficulty to find work and the postindustrial settings have also transformed their ideas of reality, their visual experiences and their communicative interpretation of images. Far behind the media critics of the 70th and 80th, Backlight 1999 appears as a wide and open stage in which the settings are not any longer divided into reality and fiction. Whats about orientation, identity and document when "fiction" became "reality" ? | EXHIBITION: DOCUMENT AND IDENTITY 22.10. – 08.11.99 | |
We are living in the time of multimedia, infotainment, internet and cybersex. In yesterdays´ terms it is very difficult to decide what is so called "reality". Even my grandma in 1969 was not willing to trust TV, showing two people running around on the moon. Its only TV, she sayed and it means: It is not real ! The speed of alteration still increases and acceleration is standard of contemporary life. The world of multimedia and internet is about ten years old, still a child but a powerful one that forces us to change our perceptions day by day ! More and more we find ourselfs taking media as model of reality(as it ever was?). Yes, we are not satisfied but angry if the world is not like it was presented in media. Reality and fiction has become authentic on the same level with the same value. Infotainment is one side and DW-TV (Deutsche WelleTV) claims for "the truth" and brings its information and documents onto one level with religion and faith. |
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Identity and personality are not any longer based on industrial settings, concepts of life are virtual, permanently under reconstruction and designed by global media industry.(Hundred years after the industrial grip on human body now the interchangeability of minds, necessary for the progress of capital in postindustrial, informed societies ?) Contemporary life has become a stage in which all actors permanently design and adapt new roles and interpretations. (Cindy Sherman complex) We are daily confronted with selfcon-structed and virtual identities, independent from history and traditions. Production and work has formed the identity not only of the proletarian class, unemployment and entertainment will form the identity of the informed generation. How documentary reacts to these transformation, to these fiction of reality ?
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