‘Patriarchal Sabbath’ – Official Selection INTERMEDIACIONES, XI International Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, MAMM Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia, 2024 8 October https://www.elmamm.org/programacion/evento/intermediaciones-xi-muestra-internacional-de-videoarte-y-cine-experimental
Patriarchal Sabbath – Official Selection – Facade Video Festival, 2024, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
The availability and cheapness of travel have diminished its meaning. Crowds of people mindlessly move from one place to another, thinking only of what they will eat, where to stay overnight, and what photos they’ll post on social media’ Private Photo Review, France, 18 September 2024
‘Patriarchal Sabbath’ – Official Selection INTERMEDIACIONES, XI International Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, Medellin, Colombia 2024 Patriarchal Sabbath is an allegory of resistance against gender inequality. Women must unleash themselves from the “male-shaped symbolic order.” Contemporary, atheistic, consumer societies are, at heart, the same as religious theocracies; all good people, still controlled by patriarchal coding.
‘Through the ruins of cabins and kiosks, and billboards promising justice and redemption, they’ve come to where the pelicans offer their blood; to gather with banners and tapestries, on carpets of flowers; a small girl stares, as each scene’s recorded, inscribed on the cluster of devices of those crowded around’. Corpus Christi: Pelican’s Blood, Private
ADAF: Athens – Cologne Posters Surrealist Vacation Resort Athens 2024 *** ADAF Darkroom @ Alphabet Art Centre curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne with Patriarchal Sabbath, 2023 15 June – 11 July 2024 launch – Saturday, 15 June 2024 – 12h (CET) Vacations in the Subconscious Surrealist Vacation Resort Athens 2024 recently shown 16/26 May
Pelican’s blood, 2024 We follow a girl, early twenties, up a station platform; her blonde hair plaited, ringed by a garland of flowers. She checks her smartphone screen as she walks ahead, her heavy costume: living embroidery, alive with roses. Next to her, a young man in rounded glasses, the contemporary imagination of a 19th
2024 – 20 years – ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival Vacations in the Subconscious Surrealist Vacation Resort Athens curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne 16/26 May 2024 @ ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival @ Festivals of the World on 17 – 21 – 25 May 2024 featuring / screening Susanne Wiegner (Germany) –
As part of the Festival’s Online programme view The Fictional by Monika K. Adler from 1 May.� In William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral, parts of a depopulated future London transform into anachronistic recreations of the past for the benefit of tourists. Around them, despite a catastrophic collapse of society, the structures of embedded establishment persist;
Set in London’s Mayfair, Monika K. Adler’s upcoming movie, ‘Sick Bacchus,’ tells a story of modern slavery. The movie’s main character, the rich and beautiful Violetta, represents a privileged group in society for whom material abundance breeds pathology. Every thing and everyone can be bought, reduced to the role of objects, made shallow and laid
