http://sakerna.se/emanuel Emanuel Almborg, Swedish artist working with photography and film. He studied at Konstfack Stockholm and Goldsmtiths, London. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:06:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Television news is full of all kinds of urgency and imperative: the urgency of what needs to be told, the urgency of the limited time frame in which the most important global and local developments are to be summarized and reported, the urgency of the delivery itself. In many ways, ... http://sakerna.se/emanuel/dead-time-on-newsreel/ In the late 1970s a group of people living in the borough of Hackney in East London began building a structure on a derelict lot in their neighborhood and continued building until this January. The story of the project’s origins are shrouded in mystery. What is known is that because ... http://sakerna.se/emanuel/the-rest-is-silence-2/ This is an ongoing project that set out to examine the nature and history of an experimental building project in Hackney, London. [quicktime width="495" height="386"]http://www.sakerna.se/emanuel/slideshow2.mov[/quicktime]3 Min Abstract from slideshow. [quicktime width="640" height="375"]http://sakerna.se/emanuel/talk.mov[/quicktime] Theorist Jeff Kinkle gives a talk about the project at Formcontent, London 26th of Sep 2009 --- Installation view Formcontent Sound played ... http://sakerna.se/emanuel/the-rest-is-silence/ [quicktime width="640" height="375"]http://www.sakerna.se/emanuel/bergwell.mov[/quicktime] http://sakerna.se/emanuel/bergwell/ [quicktime width="480" height="285"]http://www.sakerna.se/emanuel/newsreel.mov[/quicktime] http://sakerna.se/emanuel/newsreel/ Projected onto three screens, this video presents the life and thoughts of an unnamed ordinary man, singled out by sole virtue of his uncanny resemblance to the actor Robert De Niro. “The Other Man” is constructed through the calculated juxtaposition of documentary fragments offering a glimpse into the commonplace existence ... http://sakerna.se/emanuel/on-the-other-man/ http://sakerna.se/emanuel/captured/ [quicktime width="720" height="157"]http://www.sakerna.se/emanuel/the_other_man_long_latest.mov[/quicktime] Installation view Text http://sakerna.se/emanuel/the-other-man/ During one afternoon ten non-actors performed a scene based on a pre-rehearsed choreography in a train station in Stockholm. The performers were instructed to resemble commuters on a platform. The scene was repeated each time a train left the platform and lasted until a new train arrived. The scene was ... http://sakerna.se/emanuel/meantime/ The comments are taken from a group of youths in Buenos Aires borrow La Boca describing what they see in and think of pictures that were taken by students of the same age group in Stockholm, Sweden. http://sakerna.se/emanuel/picture-sweden/