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	ISTANBUL (TR) CAROUSEL SHOPPING MALL 25MAR.2005 14.30PM-15.30PM TOTAL TIME: 60 MINUTES

ESCALATOR-VIDEO-PROJECT

Carla Graft (1946) lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands. She is a video artist and cultural historian. Her constantly expanding archive of
images of people on escalators is a visualisation and reinterpretation of our globalized reality.

The escalator. A metaphor for a city in motion.
Vehicle of social variety. A bounded space in the open space. The dynamic of the constant. A never identical repetition. Moving perspective. Historical and cross cultural perspective. Uniqueness of the
individual. The identity of citizens makes the iden-tity of the city. The characteristics, the habits and behaviour of citizens develop faster and adopt more easily new influences. Changing identities.
The flexibility of cultural identity. The awareness
of the past. A journey into cultures. Cultures will fade in time. People will change fundamentally. The evolution of visual knowledge. Historical documents. Barcode of a social unity in un urban environment. The meaning will be unfold in time.

Carla Graft was resident at the St. Joost Academie in Breda and Ateliers 63 in Haarlem (NL) and has been awarded in 2000 the MA degree European Arts and Cultures at De Montfort University in Leicester (GB) and in 2007 the MA degree Cultural Sciences at the Open Universiteit, Heerlen (NL). She was author of Kunst in Nood (2008), a research on patronage of art benefactors in The Hague between the two World Wars.

 

 

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