Atomic Gauguin – A Participatory Media Performance

Performance at Metahouse Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 15 January 2023

Paul Gauguin lives today, as aimlessly Berlin artist Paul Alfred G. Disappointed with Europe, he wants to found a Colony of Free Arts in Tahiti! But none of his artist friends want to follow him. Instead, they have plenty of suggestions, what he could do there, instead of them. Arrived in Tahiti he is horrified by highways, gated communities and impoverished suburban settlements. He moves on to the atomically contaminated Mururoa Atoll. There he creates, carrying out the commissions of his artist friends, an impressive late work that is marketed by a foreign legionnaire. The works achieve top prices in Europe, but the collectors fall ill from the atomic radiation of the works, just as the artist himself.

www.atomicgauguin.de

The solo performance by Alfred (Paul) Banze is based on contributions by artists from French Polynesia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, China, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, R.D. Congo, USA & Germany, it contains film projection, webcam, live music & dancing with secondary raw materials.

English version: https://youtu.be/mSn9ec8Auzo

Däniken´s Wake

Film, 34 min. 2018. Texts, pictures and AV-Samples from books and films 1968-75 by Erich von Däniken. Song texts: Stephan Groß & Alfred Banze. Music: AV-Gruppe Kopi Kaputa, Alfred Banze, Stephan Groß & Tabea Kurde.

A tribute to the self-taught, trickster and demagogue Erich von Däniken and his theory of pre-astronautics: Aliens had visited the earth in prehistoric times and brought civilization. Beyond a perhaps brilliant artistic fool’s trick, Däniken’s ideas contain elements of fascist esotericism, an ideology of the master race. His Eurocentric and colonial “historiography” shaped and shaped Hollywood and thus world politics, exemplifies an elite vision of the future of the Chosen.

Eine Hommage an den Autodidakten, Trickbetrüger und Demagogen Erich von Däniken und seine Theorie der Prä-Astronautik: Außerirdische hätten in prähistorischer Zeit die Erde besucht und die Zivilisation gebracht. Jenseits eines vielleicht genialen künstlerischen Narrenstreiches enthalten Dänikens Ideen Elemente faschistischer Esoterik, eine Ideologie vom Herrenvolk. Seine eurozentrische und kolonialistische „Geschichtsschreibung“ prägte und prägt Hollywood und damit die Welt-Politik, steht exemplarisch für eine elitäre Zukunftsvision der Auserwählten.

 

The Good Losers

A film by Alfred Banze, 13 min. 2017. Pecundang Yang Baik. The Good Losers. Die guten Verlierer. Aktor/Actors: Adanya Kenayah, Religi Ahmad,  Arief Yudi, Ginggi Syarief Hasyim, dan masih banyak lagi/and many more.. Nyanyian dari Paduan Suara Wanita Jatiwangi Chants by the Jatiwangi Women’s Choir Gamelan oleh Tedi En & Andzar Agung Fauzan Aaf Gamelan by Tedi En & Andzar Agung Fauzan Aaf Terjemahan oleh Ika Nasution Translation by Ika Nasution Materi arsip video tambahan oleh Pabrik Seni Jatiwangi Additional video archive material by Jatiwangi Art Factory Diproduksi di Jatiwangi Art Factory Produced at Jatiwangi Art Factory.

Dinge Mythen Piktogramme

Film, 32 min., 2017. Inspired by the book of the same name by Michael Oppitz, the film “Dinge Mythen Piktogramme” (Things Myths Pictograms) confronts stories of creation and transformation of the ethnic group of “Naxi” in Yunnan in southwest China with pictures from the life of the Naxi shaman He Xuidong in the modern tourist city Lijiang. The second part of the film accompanies him at a nightly ritual to expel ghosts. Field recordings by Yasuhiro Morinaga, interviews by Christine Falk, translations by Zhou Qiao. Produced by Lijiangstudio, China.

2.5 Street

Rise & fall of a community art space in Battambang, Cambodia. Part of a participatory drawing & video project made at Sammaki Community Artspace in Battambang. Supported by Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department and the German Embassy in Cambodia.

Schule des Grauens

School of Horror.
A film by pupils of the 8th grade of Alfred-Nobel-Schule Berlin Neukölln, 9 min. 2014.

Schule des Grauens from alfred banze on Vimeo.

Ein Lehrer wird von niemanden gemocht und wird deshalb entlassen. Das macht ihn ganz verrückt und er will sich rächen. 20 Jahre später. Die ehemaligen Schüler bekommen eine Einladungskarte per Post zugeschickt. Klassentreffen. Im Klassenzimmer gibt es lecker duftendes Essen. Doch dann ertönt eine Sirene und Zombies kommen aus allen Ecken, in den Gängen der Schule lauert das Grauen …
Darsteller, Kamera, Ton und Musik: Ayleen, Alican, Berkay, Hamoudi, Hassan, Josif, Kayed, Onurcan, Tarek, Mica, Alfred, Masch. Speziellen Dank an die Zombie-Mädchen aus den 8. Klassen. Vielen Dank für die Unterstützung an Vincentino e.V., Netzwerk Zukunft e.V. & Jugendclub Feuerwache Berlin Neukölln. Projektleitung: Alfred Banze und Mica Endemann.