Untitled 2025 (Timeless Film #2)
cinematography and score by Van Lambie
Untitled 2025 (Timeless Film #2) is a twenty-two minute film shot in Berlin. It is involved in the narrative of two people, tasked by their own authority with installing an artwork on a concrete wall. The owner of the wall is complicit in the plan—the idea arose out of a constant dialogue about the artist in question: Lawrence Weiner. The specific wall is in Berlin, but is a component of a larger, general machine. The concrete wall is property of Douglas Gordon, and is the terminal boundary between his space and another. The two characters who enact the plan feel a certain deference toward Douglas. He looks down out of his studio window onto a wall unchanged—the two who devised the plan are unable to execute the work. They are naïve to the material realities of its fabrication. They are defeated before they’ve even began. Suffocated by inaction, they retreat from the project, out of respect for the wall and its owner. They are now isolated in a large exit-less space defined by a characteristic nothingness. Their entire desire to construct the work, leave a mark on a physical space, and to be remembered was a fallacy—a misinterpretation of both the work and themselves. Yet the characters are permitted a unique freedom by the last principle of Lawrence’s manifesto, “THE PIECE NEED NOT BE BUILT”. The work never had anything to do with that wall and its red paint. The work enabled them to find their place under the sun —their specific, convoluted, process in relation to the work allowed them to pursue their own ends. Laden as the past is with the mistakes of the future, now is the time.
Exhibited Works:
Untitled 2025 (Timeless Film #2)
Untitled 2025 (Triptych)
Untitled 2025 (Untitled 2025)
Untitled 2025 ( )
Untitled 2025 (Hans Ulrich's Unrealized Projects)
Untitled 2025 (Irrational Thoughts are Site-Specific)