MARINA GRZINIC, AINA SMID, Ljubljana
TESTER, digital video on DVD, 14 minutes, produced by Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain, 2005
Screenplay by Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid
Camera: Rodriguez org.
Edited by Automata, Ljubljana
Music and effects by Grzinic and Smid
Participating in the video
NODES: Fundación Rodríguez, Marina Grzinic, José Carlos Mariátegui, Marcus Neustetter, Oliver Ressler, Hito Steyerl
OTHER PERFORMERS: Inaki Arzoz, Borut Mauhler and Aina Smid.
The video TESTER has been produced within the network collaboration of 5 artists coming from Ljubljana, Vienna, Lima, Johannesburg, Berlin and a group Rodriguez org. from the Basque Countries.
The video is about contemporary processes of labor, capital, and resistance. Five artists and a group meet in order to discuss space, architecture of power and life (including food), and troubles with the contemporary institutions and global capital. It is a video about performative politics, a fictional story that presents new directions within contemporary documentary strategies.
