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RITA SOBRAL CAMPOS, Neon Medieval
The exhibition “Neon Medieval,” which can be seen at the Galerie Andreas Huber starting on March 14, shows new works by the young artist Rita Sobral Campos.
The films and sculptures, prepared especially for “Neon Medieval,” represent a moment in the narrative that Sobral Campos has conceived around Frederik: that moment in which Frederik enlists the advice of five mutually conflicting heresies. Each of these heresies, as well as Frederik himself, is presented in animations using short texts, and given visual form by various shapes and symbols. Wooden sculptures, so-called foot soldiers, serve to represent and characterize each teaching.
Inspired and enthused by the figures of Friedrich II and medieval culture, Sobral Campos spins a new story. She transforms the historical, transferring it into a fiction with no defined time frame. Like most of her works, the work exhibited here is based on a complex narrative that draws on a broad philosophical and historical context. Current discussion plays a role as well, such as references to physics or the neurosciences. The six 16mm films and four wooden sculptures in the exhibition “Neon Medieval” are a manifestation of one step of this narration. The work will be developed further and in its next presentation will end up at another point and in another form.
Installations, sculptures, drawings, animations, texts, books: in her multimedia projects and obsessive research, Rita Sobral Campos finds the possibilities to present her work in various media. The exhibits here, accompanied by short texts and glossaries, are reminiscent of science fiction or pseudo-scientific fantasy.
In her last project, “For the Madman the Neighbor is Himself,” which was two years in the making, she charted the “Cephalic Wars” and their protagonist Mr. Leader. Newsreels and short documentaries, a journal by Mr. Leader, and academic studies are simultaneously both the invention and the analysis of the same event. “In some ways it is a meditation on fate and free will,” writes the editor of the project’s book. “For the Madman the Neighbor is Himself,” which is the culmination of these examinations, has been published by Sputnik Press.
Full of references to current political developments, philosophical strains, and historical and mythological characters, Sobral Campos’s works take on the appearance of a multi-branched network–in which humorous details are revealed to attentive viewers.
Rita Sobral Campos, born in 1982, lives and works in New York City.www.galerieandreashuber.at
- artnews.org/andreashuber/?exi=38158&Rita_Sobral_Campos
Rita Sobral Campos: Frederik: A story in film, sculpture, and works on paper.
As the story goes in this ongoing project, the (female) character of Frederik is presented with five orthodoxies (“heresies” in the language of the work, echoing the religious/mystical undertone of the project itself and the historical period that inspires it) trying to spell out the cosmos. The five advisors communicate their versions to Frederik in the form of films, sculptures, and drawings which all include texts that loosely narrate these reports. Frederik—the artwork, not the fictional character—repurposes ideas taken from philosophy, literature, and science to construct a new version of knowledge. Synthesizing these together flattens the rift between fiction and nonfiction, making it clear that it isn’t nonbelief that leads these accounts: it’s a long tradition of more and less futile attempts to explain the world. —Orit Gat
2013
Frederik is an ongoing project that follows the dealings of Frederik and the five Heresies that present themselves to her. Each of these Heresies seeks to defend their view of the Universe to its most minute detail.
The project started with Neon Medieval, an exhibition at Andreas Huber Gallery, where a series of sculptures, drawings and 16mm films represented the moment in the narrative in which Frederik enlists the advice of the five mutually conflicting heresies.
Inspired and enthused by the figures of Friedrich II and medieval culture, Frederik spins a new story. She transforms the historical, transferring it into a fiction with no defined time frame. The narratives that unfold in a labyrinth of plots and shapes draw on broad philosophical and historical context, mixed with references to physics, neuroscience and comedy.
For the Madman the Neighbor Is Himself
By Rita Sobral Campos. New York: Sputnik Press, 2011
This documentary project recreates a fictional history involving a character named Mr. Leader and his involvement in an event called the Cephalic Wars. The work included in this volume produces what appear to be facsimile documents - scans, photocopies, carbon copies - that purport to give new insight into the context of the story.
INTRODUCTION
AFTER a century of neglect following the truce that ended the Cephalic Wars, the legacy of Mr. Leader’s ambition again comes to light. Recent conferences have stimulated reassessments by scholars of Leader’s larger achievement. There has been a surge of criticism of the proposed ideology, which brought to bear psychoanalytic, theological and national-historical interests. Leader’s is the story of a zealous disintegration of the individual subject - a tale of an outcast, at once terrifying, pitiful, and funny.
It is in this context that we propose a collection of documents dedicated to the life of Mr. Leader and the Cephalic Wars. In order to give a broad picture of the strange events that took place during the so-called Cephalic Wars, we have compiled never before seen excerpts of Mr. Leader’s notebooks, alongside with media coverage of the time, biographical analysis and academic studies on the subject.
This is by no means an exhaustive account of a subject that has been the inspiration for countless scholarly editions and works of fiction. It is a mere attempt to respond to the strange events that have again captivated the imagination of the public and will certainly continue to do so for generations to come. We hope that with this volume, the reader will be introduced to this fascinating period and perhaps feel compelled to pursue a more comprehensive study of the matter.
FOR THE MADMAN THE NEIGHBOR IS HIMSELF films give an unique glimpse into the events surrounding the Cephalic Wars. They include contemporary media coverage, a biographical movie and a fascinating analysis of the Games. After a century of neglect following the truce that ended the Cephalic Wars, the legacy of Mr. Leader’s ambition again comes to light. Recent conferences have stimulated reassessments by scholars of Leader’s larger achievement. There has been a surge of criticism of the proposed ideology, which brought to bear psychoanalytic, theological and national-historical interests. Leader’s is the story of a zealous disintegration of the individual subject - a tale of an outcast, at once terrifying, pitiful, and funny. This group of films illustrates this complex struggle in all of its perspectives.
X-RAY OF THE PLOT
THE LAST FAUST MYTH
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Rita Sobral Campos was born in Lisbon in 1982. She lives and works in New York. Her most recent project was Neon Medieval at Galerie Andreas Huber in Vienna. Other projects include For the Madman the Neighbor is Himself (2009–2012), which culminated in the form of a book published by Sputnik Press. She also participated in Tournament d’objet, a project by Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen; Sunday Sessions, MoMA-PS1, New York; Short Stories, Sculpture Center, New York; Poetic Things That are Political, Museu Chiado, Lisbon; and Anabasis: On Rituals of Homecoming, Ludwik Grohman Villa in Lodz, Poland. Collaborations include Artists Reading, with Isla Leaver-Yap and UNCLEHEAD, with Alexandre Singh.- bombmagazine.org/article/1000113/portfolio-4
“Police continue to investigate the recent events surrounding the statues with missing heads. The latest count of headless statues in the continent amounts to 2,058. Senior detectives are still at odds with the circumstances surrounding this wave of crimes. No details have been released regarding the prime suspects or possible motives. We will keep reporting as the story develops.”
For the Madman the Neighbor is Himself is a project that charts the conflicts of the so-called Cephalic Wars, with a particular emphasis on Mr. Leader, the main protagonist. Two years in the making, this project features several newsreels and short documentaries of the period as well as pages from the private journals of Mr. Leader.
The project culminated in the book also entitled For The Madman the Neighbor is Himself published by Sputnik Press. This field-defining collection of texts consolidates and builds momentum in the expanding area of Leaderian studies. It draws from original sources, including vivid accounts from Mr. Leader himself, as well as academic studies and media coverage of the Cephalic Wars. In some ways it is a meditation on fate and free will. The result, the first coherent account of the archfiend of Mainland, is a fascinating study in the history of the modern mind.
INTRODUCTION
AFTER a century of neglect following the truce that ended the Cephalic Wars, the legacy of Mr. Leader’s ambition again comes to light. Recent conferences have stimulated reassessments by scholars of Leader’s larger achievement. There has been a surge of criticism of the proposed ideology, which brought to bear psychoanalytic, theological and national-historical interests. Leader’s is the story of a zealous disintegration of the individual subject - a tale of an outcast, at once terrifying, pitiful, and funny.
It is in this context that we propose a collection of documents dedicated to the life of Mr. Leader and the Cephalic Wars. In order to give a broad picture of the strange events that took place during the so-called Cephalic Wars, we have compiled never before seen excerpts of Mr. Leader’s notebooks, alongside with media coverage of the time, biographical analysis and academic studies on the subject.
This is by no means an exhaustive account of a subject that has been the inspiration for countless scholarly editions and works of fiction. It is a mere attempt to respond to the strange events that have again captivated the imagination of the public and will certainly continue to do so for generations to come. We hope that with this volume, the reader will be introduced to this fascinating period and perhaps feel compelled to pursue a more comprehensive study of the matter.
FOR THE MADMAN THE NEIGHBOR IS HIMSELF films give an unique glimpse into the events surrounding the Cephalic Wars. They include contemporary media coverage, a biographical movie and a fascinating analysis of the Games. After a century of neglect following the truce that ended the Cephalic Wars, the legacy of Mr. Leader’s ambition again comes to light. Recent conferences have stimulated reassessments by scholars of Leader’s larger achievement. There has been a surge of criticism of the proposed ideology, which brought to bear psychoanalytic, theological and national-historical interests. Leader’s is the story of a zealous disintegration of the individual subject - a tale of an outcast, at once terrifying, pitiful, and funny. This group of films illustrates this complex struggle in all of its perspectives.
X-RAY OF THE PLOT
THE LAST FAUST MYTH
www.vector.bz/issue_03/campos_rita_sobral.htm
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