dislocate : artists

Robert Willim & Anders Weberg

ELSEWHERENESS:YOKOHAMA
This audio-visual work is intended to evoke imaginary geographies.
The film is made solely from Yokohama-related audio and video found
on the web. This material has been manipulated and composed into a
suggestive imaginary journey through an estranged landscape. The film
can be downloaded into a media player or mobile phone and enjoyed
when walking around the surroundings of Yokohama. The work deals with questions of media representations, what it means to be on a certain location, and it calls forth the sometimes whirling experiences of
elsewhereness that may characterize societies of today.

BEING THERE
An important ingredient of the tourism industry is the concept of
authenticity and the lure of the unique. Curious people, with bags
and cameras, are in search for various exciting experiences. Places
of interest are visited and documented. But the question is: What
would be the most authentic experience? Attractive places are targets
for more than travel agencies.

This art project twists the authenticity hunt. We offer a number of
audiovisual excursions beneath the gloss of the tourism rhetoric. Six
films, imagining six places. It is an attempt to disclose the nervous
system that is underlying tourist experiences.

The places we have chosen are high density, they are tourist magnets
and global hotspots. They are places associated with pleasure, but
also with terror. With the short films coupled to the different
places we want to examine the tension between pleasure and fear. The
films are made solely from clips out of tourist movies and similar
material. The clips have been twisted into a surreal atmosphere. And
the sounds accompanying the visuals is based on manipulations of one
or two sounds that are often used to give stereotypical associations
to the various places, e.g. demo sounds from sample libraries. The
audiovisual whole expresses an evocative imaginary geography.

Anders Weberg.
A seasoned filmmaker and mixed media artist. He has specialized in
the expressions that digital technologies provide. The purpose of
Anders work is to mix genres and ways of expression to explore the
potential of visual media. More info about Anders: http://
www.andersweberg.com/

Robert Willim
Cultural analyst, artist, PhD and researcher in ethnology at Lund
University. He has done research about the cultural dimensions of
digital media and the transformations of industrial society. For the
past several years he has channelled his research to mixes of
cultural analysis, music and new media art. More info about Robert:
http://www.robertwillim.com/