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Yane Calovski, Hollow Land, video still, 2009.
Courtesy the artist, Het Blauwe Huis, Amsterdam, and Zak Branicka Gallery, Berlin.
In a place without history, what do we remember? This is the central question behind Yane Calovki's film "Hollow Land" (2009, 8:13 min), a video essay about Ijburg, a new city district in Amsterdam. Invited to make the district „his place“, „Hollow Land" refers to Jean-Luc Godard's short film about Lausanne, “Letter to Freddy Buache,” and its articulated impossibility of representing all facets of a city. The conclusion: "Fiction is necessity." Fictional moments in urban projects also play a significant role in Calovski's second work presented on Ebertplatz, "Master Plan“ (2008). Here, the artist takes Japanese architect Kenzo Tange's plans for Skopje's reconstruction in the wake of the 1963 earthquakes as a point of departure – a complex investigation with the ways in which the rational realm of diagrams and graphics overlaps with the mystical realm of illusions, and how plans for tomorrow age in their realization.
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