
Affection Is The Best Protection, 2015/2021
€ 500
The duo exhibition Where the Tide Takes Us by Karrabing Film Collective and Rory Pilgrim combines existing and newly produced films, paintings, drawings, and objects into an immersive ecosystem. The artists share an interest in new forms of communities and models for inclusive coexistence in harmony between humans, technology, and nature. In search of independent living spaces, the artists dream and speculate about alternative pasts, presents, and futures, while encountering landscapes in rural Idaho, Dakar, St. Petersburg, the Australian Northern Territory or even the oceans. Structured by the rhythm of the tides, ebbs and flows, as well as one’s own breath, the exhibition changes day by day.
Karrabing Film Collective is an indigenous film collective from Australia's Northern Territory that formed in 2008 and currently has about 30 members. The group’s films and installations have been shown in numerous international exhibitions and festivals, including the Countour Biennale 8 (2017), the 67th Berlin International Film Festival—Berlinale, Forum Expanded (2017), documenta 14 (2017), and the Sydney Biennale (2016).
Rory Pilgrim (b. 1988, Bristol) works across various media on compositions, films, texts, paintings, drawings, workshops and live performances. Pilgrim regularly collaborates with others, creating a constellation of different people and communities coming into dialogue.
Most recently, Pilgrim realized solo exhibitions at Badischer Kunstverein (2020), Between Bridges (2019), Andriesse-Eyck Gallery and South London Gallery (both 2018), and Plymouth Art Centre (2017). In 2019, Pilgrim was awarded the Prix de Rome.
Curators: Jule Hillgärtner, Nele Kaczmarek
Assistant Curator: Hendrike Nagel
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Download Tidal Chart (with film screening times)
KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
Kaingmerrhe (Sun) and Penidjebhe (Star) Futures, 2021
Site-specific installation with glass bottles
Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
[In a round room, brown apothecary bottles of various sizes are arranged on the floor in such a way that they form a star system. Various old tube monitors can be seen in the background].
RORY PILGRIM
Photo: Stefan Stark
[Various old tube monitors are spread around the room. They are connected with numerous black cables. A drawing hangs on the wall in the background].
RORY PILGRIM
The Binding / Ühendus, 2008
Drawing
47 × 37 cm
Courtesy the artist. Photo: Stefan Stark
[A drawing shows a straight course of a river with people lined up on either side of it, looking at each other].
RORY PILGRIM
Can we leave things as they are? (Tiananmen Square never happened in..), 2010–present
Circle of chairs, bonsai tree, drawings
Dimensions and duration variable
Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
[Around a round table with a light blue tablecloth are six chairs. On one chair is a bonsai tree with a smartphone leaning against it. On the walls hang two drawings and monitors with more videos].
RORY PILGRIM
Can we leave things as they are? (Tiananmen Square never happened in..), 2010–present
Circle of chairs, bonsai tree, drawings
Dimensions and duration variable
Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
[A bonsai tree in a bowl with a smartphone leaning against it. A video is playing on the smartphone].
RORY PILGRIM
Sacred Repository N. 3:
The Open Sky, 2016
Installation, drawings, HD video
29:30 min / in the exhibition 12 h 25 min
Courtesy the artist. Photo: Stefan Stark
[An oval room bathed in blue light. In the centre is a doorway that leads into the room with the bonsai tree. To the left of the doorway hangs a white glittering dress. To the right of the doorway is a large monitor].
RORY PILGRIM
Sacred Repository N. 3:
The Open Sky, 2016
Installation, drawings, HD video
29:30 min / in the exhibition 12 h 25 min
Courtesy the artist. Photo: Stefan Stark
[An oval room bathed in blue light. In the centre is a doorway facing into the room with the tinsel curtain. To the left of the doorway, two small monitors hang below. To the right is a tea trolley on which two shells and small monitors are placed].
RORY PILGRIM
Sacred Repository N. 2:
Affection Is the Best Protection, 2014–15
Installation, newspaper, HD video
29:50 min / in the exhibition 12 h 25 min
Courtesy the artist. Photo: Stefan Stark
[A room can be seen that is bathed in red light. In the centre is a projection screen showing the profile of a woman. The projection screen is framed on all sides by tinsel curtains].
KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
The Jealous One, 2017
HD video
29:17 min
Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
[In an oval room, a video is projected onto a wall. Two men in white shirts and ties].
KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
When the Dogs Talked, 2014
HD Video
33:55 min
Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
[Through a doorway one looks onto a projection screen. A black child with blond-orange hair. He looks sad].
KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
When the Dogs Talked, 2014
HD Video
33:55 min
Mermaids, Mirror Worlds, 2018
HD video
34:50 min
Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
[In a large dark room there are two projection screens at right angles to each other. On one are three Australian-Indigenous people. Two women and one man. On the other is text on the left and an Australian-Indigenous man on the right].
KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
Photo: Stefan Stark
[A small freezer, two microwave ovens and a small tube TV are stacked in a round alcove. Various people and some text can be seen on the TV].
KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
Photo: Sefan Stark
[A refrigerator/freezer combination stands in a round alcove. The door of the fridge is open. Inside is a small tube TV and packets of flour, rice, sugar and tea].
RORY PILGRIM
Software Garden, 2018
Installation with drawings by Rory Pilgrim, hand-painted
posters by David Andrews, screen-printed plastic bags,
plants, HD video
51:30 min / in the exhibition 12 h 25 min
Courtesy the artist. Photo: Stefan Stark
[In a room on the left, two old tube monitors are stacked on top of each other. Centrally, through a doorway in the background, a film projection of a man in red light can be seen. To the right of the doorway hangs a drawing on which words are raining down on a hill]
RORY PILGRIM
Foto: Stephan Stark
[A room bathed in green light. To the left is a doorway with a red tinsel curtain. Next to it is a small tube monitor on the floor and two coloured plastic bags. In the centre is a window with a radiator. There is a small painting on the window sill].
KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
Night Time Go, 2017
HD Video
31:10 Min.
Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
[A video is projected large on a wall. Wave pattern and text in English with German subtitles. To the left is a window with a radiator].
Photo: Stefan Stark
[On a long corridor bathed in green light, one sees a large, very colourful picture painted on corrugated iron with animals and writing].
KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
Day in the Life, 2020
HD video
31:42 min
Courtesy the artists. Photo: Stefan Stark
[A video is projected into a large alcove, You can see an Australian-Indigenous man walking towards a dog in the foreground].
RORY PILGRIM
The Undercurrent, 2019
HD video
50 min / in the exhibition 12 h 25 min
Courtesy the artist. Photo: Stefan Stark
[A room bathed in green light with a grey bench in the middle. On the left in the corner a large tube monitor. A small flat screen is fixed to the wall in the middle, a loudspeaker hangs to the right of it. On the wall are strips of paper with text next to and below the small screen and above the speaker].