Patriarchal Sabbath at Fiva SPMAV
Patriarchal Sabbath by Monika K. Adler, 2023 5TH Festival Internacional de Videoarte SPMAV – Program Corpografias 21 November – 2 December 2024 A Sala de Centro de Artes da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Patriarchal Sabbath by Monika K. Adler, 2023 5TH Festival Internacional de Videoarte SPMAV – Program Corpografias 21 November – 2 December 2024 A Sala de Centro de Artes da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Pelican’s blood, The Eye of Photography, 2nd November 2024, Paris, France. Read here: https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/monika-k-adler/ Double Vision, 591 – photography blog, 1 November 2024, Germany. Read Here: https://www.591photography.com/2024/10/double-vision.html
Today in Paris! LUSTED MEN Book Launch with my photography works depicting MEN; Gallimard’s Editions Hoëbeke, Paris, France, 2024 | Les Mots a la Bouche 19H On Picture: Aeon Rose, 2023
‘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
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
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) –
The Fictional: London as Filmset, Private Photo Review, 19 April 2024, France ‘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…’ (c) Aeon Rose https://www.privatephotoreview.com/2024/04/the-fictional-london-as-filmset
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