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photographyconsumed (twice, the river remembered). 2011.'consumed', deliberately persues the fantasy of bio-degradable plastic in stages of advanced decay, in this case in Cape Town's Liesbeek River. Fascinated by the potential eradication of the human presence on the planet, Kai Lossgott has photographed the husks of human waste, searching for evidence that they are being assimilated by the environment. Aperture, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria. 25 August - 25 September 2011. |
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video object / plant leaf engravingsthe aperture of chlorophyll. 2011.Revisiting the idea that plants 'see' with their skin, Kai Lossgott merges his plant leaf engravings with his experimental films as light source. Plants use the same molecules and pathways to drive their circadian rhythms as humans and animals. It is clear that plants ‘feel’ more than ‘see ’ light. The question is, how much do they feel? Lossgott explores the subtle changes in mood, heart rate, breath and mental activity that occur in humans with the coming and going of day and night. Awake or asleep, we have more in common with our distant evolutionary cousins than we know. |
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plant leaf engravingsnothing with skin is blind. 2008. / lexicography of the heart. 2011.Plant, human or animal, our biological processes bear certain similarities. It is these similarities that draw into question the boundaries between different forms of sentient life and where exactly consciousness begins. |
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artist's booktalking to the tree outside my window while I sleep. 2008.This book emerges from the silence of sleep and the haptic. Luminous and transparent, it is a fragmentary collection of 'other' bodies, layers and modalities of human experience which seek to rediscover a biocentric position in a human-centred world. |
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experimental film trilogyorigins: anamnesis. 2008. / noesis. 2010. / pangenesis. 2011.This wordless trilogy is a meditation on the non-verbal nature of cellular, genetic and ancestral memory, and the pre-expressive origins of language. The artist recalls a past life as a plant, his sister finds rest in the trance of a language fever, and his parents star as primates in their own creation mythology. |
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experimental filmalpha. 2007.If you repeatedly forgot every person you knew, and searched for ciphers that might remain, you might in your surrender discover the approach of some imaginary person, half sensed, half-glimpsed by intuition. |
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curatorThe City Breath Festival of Video Poetry and Performance. 2009 - 2011.These short video 'breaths' or 'gasps' seek to interrogate the official understandings of South African cities given to us in television, film and other mass media. 4 South African cities. 20 experimental films. Under 4 minutes each. Watch them online now Full screenings: Labia Cinema on Orange Street, Cape Town. National Arts Festival 2010, Grahamstown. Africa in Motion Festival, Edinburgh. Antimatter Film Festival, Vancouver. The Bioscope, Johannesburg. KZNSA Gallery, Durban. Specially curated screenings: |
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video installation, photographythe secure project. 2003 - 2005.A dialogue with white suburban identity in South Africa. |
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