February 1 at 7 PM

FILM / GESPRÄCH

Registers, 2017
HD Video
12:30 min

Smoke & Mirrors, 2017
HD Video
9:48 min
Courtesy: der Künstler und T293, Neapel

Tris Vonna-Michell is known for his vocal live performances, dense in language and time and taking shape through film, photography and scenographic installations. In his latest two films ‘Registers’ and ‘Smoke & Mirrors’, he combines storytelling with images and audio recordings from a journey he was making to Japan in 2008. His rapid and poetic monologues are travelogues full of impressions and experiences from the urban maze of a foreign cities - endearing, overcharging, driven through transient and consumer spaces and at the same time looking for places of retreat. It is a central point of both films that images remembered and retold aren’t the same as those we see and hear.

Tris Vonna-Michell was born 1982 in Southend-on-Sea, England, and lives in Stockholm. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Recent solo exhibitions (selection): 2017 La Verrière, Brussels; 2015 Appleton Square, Lisbon, 8th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art; 2014 Turner Prize, Tate London; and 2006 Schnittraum, Cologne.

Image: Tris Vonna-Michell: Smoke & Mirrors, 2017