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Wandel

Wandel

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The video above is a short trailer. The full video “Wandel” is 3:38 long.

The title of this video, WANDEL, translated as CHANGE, may have at least two possible meanings. The first concerns climate change, while the second, connected to the first, pertains to the social and cultural changes we need to make to avoid a global environmental crisis caused by climate change.
In 1981, the Austrian poet Erich Fried wrote: “Wer will, dass die Welt bleibt, wie sie ist, will nicht, dass sie bleibt.” (Those who want the world to remain as it is, do not want it to remain). This timeless statement resonates with me as I stand with my bicycle on an infinite planet covered in asphalt. But when I start cycling, the planet comes alive, and a transformation begins. Animated images emerge, suggesting alternative energies and evolving into breathing life forms. The world revitalizes, and the planet begins to bloom again!

title: Wandel
technique: Experimental video, charcoal animation and digital animation
length: 3’38”
year: 2022
music in the first scene: “más preguntas” (excerpt) by Hernán Samá & Marcelo von Schultz (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) – link to source
music in the last scene: “The Spring” by Chad Crouch (CC BY-NC 3.0) – link to source
concept, camera, drawing, animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal

© Maria Korporal 2022

WANDEL got first-place ranking in the 10° Festiverd Venezuela: Somos Verdes, Festival Internacional de Cine y Vídeo Verde de Venezuela!

Screenings:
• Semi-Finalist in AniMate – Australia Animation Film Festival, Season 4 – 2024
• July 1-31, 2024: Canyon Flats Video Wall, City of Reno, Nevada, USA.
• May 19, 2024: Frome International Climate Film Festival, Frome, UK.
• April 26-28, 2024: Repair. Miami New Media Festival, WG Kunst, Amsterdam.
• December 2-16, 2023: Festival Nuvola Creativa, curated by Antonietta Campilongo, Villa di Massenzio, Rome.
• October 26, 2023: Pinus Sessions, São Paulo, Brazil.
• October 18 – November 10, 2023: Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France.
• October 7-29, 2023: Opening exhibition of Miami New Media Festival, IDART Lab, Miami, USA.
• June 24-25, 2023: Re:Think GAIA Festival, Video Art Miden screening with Re:Think Project at FarmaFifaPermaculture, Iroon Politechniou, Kalamata, Greece.
• April 21 – May 21, 2023: UPDATE 23, Galerie VBK Berlin.
• February 23 – March 12, 2023: T-Short Animated Film Online Festival 2023, Bizarre Competition
• February 23, 2023: Screening of 12 videos by Maria Korporal in the context of Premio Borgo Video, curated by gallery La scala d’oro, Sala Dionigi (Chiesa Valdese), Rome, Italy.
• November 10, 2022 – January 7, 2023: außer ich – inner ich / part 2, INSELGALERIE Berlin.
• November 3-18, 2022: IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival 2022 (PT), curated by Hernando Urrutia.
• October 7-9, 2022: Videomedeja 26th International New Media Art Festival, KS Svilara, Novi Sad, Serbia.
• October 3-5, 2022: 10° Festiverd Venezuela: Somos Verdes, Festival Internacional de Cine y Vídeo Verde de Venezuela.
• September 10, 2022: Under the Subway Video Art Night, St. Nicholas Park, New York City, USA.
• June 25 – July 9, 2022: FONLAD 2022, International Video Art & Performance Festival, Coimbra (PT) and online.
• June 4 – 25, 2022: Peace Letters to Ukraine 7, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles.
• May 15, 2022: M3:G3 ~ Cross encounters. Sphere, New Delhi.
• April 1 – May 20, 2022: Transformation, GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin.

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Screening of WANDEL, September 10, 2022: Under the Subway Video Art Night, St. Nicholas Park, New York City, USA, video by curator Antonio Ortuño.

Pervitin Power

Pervitin Power

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The video above is a short trailer. The full video “Pervitin Power” is 6:37 long.

Pervitin was the drug for soldiers in Nazi Germany. It is known today as Crystal Meth. In the video I take on the role of the soldier. After simulating a Pervitin shot, a change of consciousness takes place. Animations move through the space like hallucinations, culminating into a violent climax.

Screenings, selections and exhibitions:

• February 23, 2023: Screening of 12 videos by Maria Korporal in the context of Premio Borgo Video, curated by gallery La scala d’oro, Sala Dionigi (Chiesa Valdese), Rome, Italy.
• November 10, 2022 – January 7, 2023: außer ich – inner ich / part 2, INSELGALERIE Berlin.
• August 29, 2022: The Short Nights of Berlin, Kino Central Berlin.
• August 11, 2022: FilMuzik, Bird Production, Gioiosa Ionica RC, Italy.
• July 23 – September 6, 2022: Eclectic Dreams III, video art program curated by David King on VisualcontainerTV.
• April 2, 2022: TCA’s Open Screen, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, New Mexico, USA.
• March 10-27, 2022: T-Short Animated Film Online Festival 2022, online.
• November 1, 2021: ESSENCE/ABSENCE, Pavilion of The Wrong Biennale n°5, curated by Matteo Campulla.
• October 29 – November 14, 2021: Verfremdung, Gallery VBK, Berlin.

Pervitin was the drug of Nazi Germany: a methamphetamine, which increases wakefulness and physical activity, and decreases appetite. Like most addictive substances, methamphetamine can give users a feeling of pleasure, confidence, and energy beyond what they normally experience. The “meth high” involves both physical and psychological changes, which manifest themselves in euphoria and, at the same time, emotional blunting: people become less aware of their feelings. It is said to spark a great enthusiasm, as well as a feeling of confidence and omnipotence.
Pervitin was officially prescribed for soldiers and certainly contributed to the success of the Blitzkrieg and subsequent German invasions. But over time, the addiction and side effects of the drug became fatal to the German army: people, while strongly addicted, experienced the symptoms we know today such as nausea, hallucinations, and diminution of cognitive capacities, anxiety and depression.
To read more about the subject: https://thesecuritydistillery.org/all-articles/pervitin-how-drugs-transformed-warfare-in-1939-45

Pervitin is known in our time as Crystal Meth. As most people know, it is a nowadays an illegal drug which brings misery to many people.
“Meth” is also the Jewish word for “death”, and came to my mind in connection with the Prague legend of the Golem, which has fascinated me for decades. In Jewish folklore the Golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, which is entirely created from inanimate matter (usually clay or mud). It is brought to life by writing the word EMETH, meaning “truth”, on its forehead. To disable the Golem, one can erase the E from EMETH, creating METH – “death”. The legend of the Golem inspired the Czech Karel Čapek to write R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), the 1920 play that gave the word „robot“ to the world.
The formula METH-EMETH functions as a mechanical method to simulate a consciousness at will. It strongly reminds me of the Nazis practices and of other war leaders, who intend to manipulate their soldiers with narcotics, stirring up their will to assassinate. The drug puts them in a state of trance and less aware of the atrocities they commit. They act as non-human robots do. However, we ought to call this behaviour inhuman.
In my work “Pervitin Power” I try to express these thoughts. The video has been recorded in 360° in a room of the Schwerbelastungskörper, a large cylinder made of concrete in Berlin. It was built in 1941 to study the feasibility of constructing large buildings on the area’s sandy bottom, in preparation for the planned construction nearby of a massive Triumphal Arch, that Hitler wanted to build for his Germania city project. The arch was never built, but the cylinder is still there. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerbelastungsk%C3%B6rper
In this room charged with history, I take on the role of the soldier and discover that my clone is sitting opposite me. After simulating a Pervitin shot and putting on a gas mask (an original WWII item), a change of consciousness takes place. Concepts such as TRUTH, HUMAN, ROBOT, POWER, ALIEN are written on the foreheads of me and my clone. From these emerge animated drawings and images. They move through the space like hallucinations and culminate into a violent climax.

title: Pervitin Power
technique: Experimental 360° video and animation
length: 6’37”
year: 2021
music: “Unmistaken Abstract Marching Band” by Edoardo Pistolesi Somigli*
concept, camera, cast, drawing, animation, effects: Maria Korporal

© Maria Korporal 2021

* Edoardo Pistolesi Somigli is co-founder & Station Manager @ Dots Unlimited Radio, a multichannel webradio dedicated to free music, sound research and new forms of communication and language: www.duradio.net
Knob-twiddler in the field of experimental music, fond of all possible links between sound and psychology, undergoing multiple ambient/noise/psychoacoustic creative projects plus -within the scientific community- currently approaching sounds and frequencies to be applied in several alternative cognitive-behavioral therapies in the treatment of various forms of OCD, freely and originally inspired by some tests conducted by Jean Piaget in the 40s of last century. He has also collaborated with Maria Korporal in the projects The Mind’s Egg, ZoOm into my Room and Is a dot a black hole?

Invocation of the Stone

Invocation of the Stone

Recent Works & Highlights, Artist's Books, Highlights, Videos, Installations, Video Poetry, Prints & Objects, Works

Video book project by Maria Korporal.
Animated charcoal drawing and digital animation projected on a handmade book with printed text.
Text cited from the poem cyclus “Beschwörung des Steines” by Erich Fried, in “Reich der Steine”, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1986

Exhibitions:
• March 31 – April 2, 2023: “finally a bit of animation!” Japan meets Berlin – exhibition and screening, Medienwerkstatt bbk Berlin.
• April 1-24, 2022: Positions of artistic book and text production, Galerie VBK Berlin.

Video and images © Maria Korporal 2022

Short Stories

Short Stories

Recent Works & Highlights, Highlights, Videos

“Short Stories” is an immersive 360° video. You can move your mouse or finger to walk around in the room.
The short films projected on the walls are the animated charcoal drawings:
– Micro Evolution
– The Bride
– Ovolution

Click here to see the video in full screen

all artwork © Maria Korporal 2021

background sound: basement junk by monotraum – freesound CC0

Awards:
• December 16, 2022: Best Original Idea in the section Virtual Reality of Digital Media Fest, Rome, Italy.

Screenings:
• December 14-16, 2022: Digital Media Fest, Rome, Italy.
• September 5-18, 2022: Chaniartoon 2022 – International Comic & Animation Festival, Chania, Greece.

  

Lost Theatre

Lost Theatre

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“Lost Theatre” is an immersive 360° video. You can move your mouse or finger to walk around the place.
The short film projected on the wall is the animated charcoal drawing “Sea Change”.
The video has been recorded at the Schwerbelastungskörper, a large cylinder made of concrete in Berlin. It was built in 1941 to study the feasibility of constructing large buildings on the sandy ground in the area, in preparation for the planned construction nearby of a massive Triumphal Arch, that Hitler wanted to build for his Germania city project. The arch was never built, but the cylinder remained. See also Wikipedia.

Click here to see the video in full screen

all artwork © Maria Korporal 2021

background sound: flute improvisation by Laura Mello – freesound CC0

Medianautik

Medianautik

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Group exhibition in Gallery Verein Berliner Künstler
Schöneberger Ufer 57, 10785 Berlin

May 21 – June 6, 2021
Opening: Friday 21.05.2021, 19 h.
Artists Talk: Friday 28.05.2021, 19 h.

Visiting the exhibition is only possible with prior booking of an appointment and with a negative Corona test result. Therefore, we ask you to book your appointment either via e-mail: anmeldung-vbk-art@gmx.de, or by phone: +4915751142263 (from Wednesday).
In any case, there will be an online tour of the exhibition.

Participating artists:
Sandra Becker, Monika Funke Stern, Hartmut Jahn, Maria Korporal, Richard Stimmel, Sigi Torinus

Curator: Monika Funke Stern

Maria Korporal shows an installation with a special version of her projects Korporal Labyrinth and Railway Flower Labyrinth.

A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Online version of the catalogue

 

Pressetext:

Es gibt Künstler*innen, die verfolgen ihr ganzes Leben eine strenge Linie, formal und inhaltlich. Peinture pure, Sculpture pure.
Es gibt andere wie uns, die navigieren zwischen den Medien, kombinieren, intervenieren, sampeln, collagieren. Es entstehen Mischformen, Hybride. Das Navigieren erfolgt nie ohne Kompaß, nie ohne den Blick in den gesetzmäßigen Gang der Gestirne, der Berechnung der Meridiane, und so werden so neue Kontinente entdeckt, neue Formen erfunden.
Die Besucher gehen an Bord, werden interaktiv Teil der Reise.

Wir hoffen auf das persönliche Boarding am 21. Mai zur Vernissage um 19h, so die Inzidenzen es zulassen. Auf jeden Fall wird es einen Online-Rundgang im Netz geben. Ein Gespräch mit der Crew findet am 28. Mai um 19h statt (Artist Talk).

(Monika Funke Stern, Kuratorin der Ausstellung)

 

S.A.D.

S.A.D.

Recent Works & Highlights, Videos, Highlights, Video Poetry,

The video above is a short trailer. The full video “S.A.D.” is 3:25 long.

Seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.) is no longer confined to winter depression. As the climate crisis grows, this disease occurs more frequently. When the environment is disturbed, we humans also suffer from disturbance – because we are just part of the environment.
Inspired by the sonopoem of Ilaria Boffa, which deals with this current situation, Maria Korporal’s video expresses these tensions between conflict and harmony. Using animated charcoal drawing on a deformed video of the seashore, the transformation of images leads us into a haunting universe.

title: S.A.D.
technique: Experimental video and animated charcoal drawing
length: 3’25”
year: 2021
poem: “S.A.D.” written and spoken by Ilaria Boffa *
soundtrack: field recording by Ilaria Boffa *
Lucio Battisti’s song “Nessun Dolore” (No Pain) recorded at George Washington University is performed by the I-Talians band during the NeMLA conference “Writing in a different language”.
video concept, camera, charcoal animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal
© Maria Korporal 2021

Stills from the video:

 

Screenings and awards:
• April 7-20, 2023: streetside cinema – a/perture, Winston-Salem NC, USA.
• June 24-26, 2022: 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin. June 25, 22-23h: Screening of the video S.A.D. on the quay by the canal at the gallery Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch.
• Semi-finalist in the category Animation of !Flick! Film Festival 2022, UNC Greensboro, USA.
• Screening premiere on November 28, 2021: Nature and Culture – Poetry Film Festival, organized by The Poetic Phonoteque, Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Online premiere May 20, 2021: Bologna in Lettere 2021, the festival online.

Screening on the 25th of June 2022 at the Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch during the festival 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin.

 

* Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet. She has published three poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018. Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sounds.
Her work can be read and listened here: https://linktr.ee/ilariaboffaIB

Lecture and work show on sustainability and art

Lecture and work show on sustainability and art

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Video recording of the online multimedia lecture by Maria Korporal on March 18, 2021, as part of a workshop series organized by SocialArt e.V., Kulturmühle Lietzen. The conference is in German language.

The artist tells about her way of working and she shows her works
– Passing By
– Desert Tree
– Give Us Back Our Shadows
– Underwater Desert
– Among the Leaves
– Rekall
– Breathearth
– Tree Travelling
– Emergency Call Center
– Thinking with my Knee
– and some collaborative projects and activities.

socialart.eu/online%20fachtag.htm

Railway Flower Labyrinth

Railway Flower Labyrinth

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Short presentation of KORPORAL MAZE-A-MAZE, or Railway Flower Labyrinth, an interactive installation by Maria Korporal. The video above presents some moments during the first exhibition Im bewegten Labyrinth, September 2020 in Galerie LortzingART, Hannover.

New presentation:
• May 21 – June 6, 2021: Medianautik, Gallery VBK, Berlin, together with the multimedial project Korporal Labyrinth

© Maria Korporal, 2020/2021

Thinking with my Knee

Thinking with my Knee

Recent Works & Highlights, Videos, Highlights,

Homage to Joseph Beuys.
During a walk in the streets of Beuys’ city Düsseldorf, I photographed a piece of rubbish sitting on the asphalt. Later I anthropomorphised and animated it, using charcoal drawing. It changed into a spontaneously created microcosm.
Transforming the waste by using associative drawing, I want to make it clear that humanity is destroying its environment. It possesses, however, also a strong creative power, which it can use to improve the world and shape the future. To quote Joseph Beuys: “The only revolutionary force is the force of human creativity.”
The title of my video refers to Beuys‘ famous saying: “I think with my knee anyway.” He meant that rational thinking is unable to meet up with the complexity of artistic thought. That’s why good artists use to think crosswise and around corners. In other words with the knee.

title: Thinking with my Knee
technique: Digital and analogue animation with photo and charcoal drawing
length: 1’43”
year: 2021
© Maria Korporal 2021

Stills from the video:

 

Screenings and presentations:
• October 26, 2023: Pinus Sessions, São Paulo, Brazil.
• May 4-10, 2023: ANIMATIBA – Curitiba International Animation Festival, Curitiba, Brasil.
• January 13 – February 11, 2023: No Future on Mondays, SCOTTY, Berlin.
• November 23-27, 2022: Anilogue International Animation Festival, Budapest, Hungary.
• October 14, 2022 – January 16, 2023: Onda Mediale 2022, Art Web Gallery.
• June 18 – August 24, 2022: Lines Fiction, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin.
• April 29 – May 22, 2022: UPDATE 22, Galerie VBK Berlin. Video and drawing.
• April 28-29, 2022: Screening Official Selection Videograma, Teatro del Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia.
• April 23, 2022: Presentation of the book Paisajes artificiales, Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá, Colombia.
• February 2022: The video is now part of the video art collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá.
• February 17 – April 30, 2022: SOMOS+, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá, Colombia. Presentation of new works in the museum’s collection, including “Thinking with my Knee”.
• 2022: The Climate Change Memorial, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, online and several physical venues.
• October 29, 2021: Videograma, Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Bogotà, Colombia.
• July 1-4, 2021: Fest Anča International Animation Festival 2021, Official Selection, Nová synagóga Žilina, Slovakia.
• March 26 – June 4, 2021: Beuys for Future, GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin. Read the Press release by Dr. Ralf Weiß.