25.06.20 mmmmmfilms - Colston's Hands - Hard Work: working from home III - zoom Live poetry & sound from London with live video mixing from Berlin.
24.06.20 mmmmmfilms - IV scriptease II - mmmmmfilms Facebook Live 23:55 - 00:27 improvised live poetry & sound with live video mixing, joining London and Berlin. Software: Jitsi LiveOSB, ECM, Facebook Live.
29.05.20 mmmmmfilms - ALIVE in the LOCKDOWN - Conversation with Gallery Director Caroline Wiseman revisiting our project in Venice Biennale 2019 as part of Alive in the Universe. Thanks to the curators Caroline Wiseman and David Baldry.
21.05.20 mmmmmfilms - scriptease - mmmmmfilms Facebook Live 23:30 - 00:10 improvised live poetry & sound with live video mixing, joining London and Berlin. Software: Jitsi Live, OSB, ECM, Facebook Live.
28.04.20 mmmmmfilms - Dog is Dog - mmmmmfilms Facebook Live 20:30 - 21:05 improvised live poetry & sound with live video mixing, joining London and Berlin. Software: Jitsi Live, OSB, ECM, Facebook Live.
14.03.20 mmmmmfilms - dog is god - mmmmmfilms Facebook Live 23:30 - 00:10 improvised live poetry & sound with live video mixing, joining London and Berlin. Software: Jitsi Live, OSB, ECM, Facebook Live
26.06.19 mmmmmfilms show 'encoding a rose' at Hard Work, The Beehive, London.
An evening of Performance, Poetry and Video organised by Paul Ingram and Edward Shipsey.
encoding a rose, HD 3'22 mmmmmfilms, Norway, 2018 filmed in 360 degrees, Invoking a collective
body for the biosphere. Based on the rosemȧling folk motif in Norwegian romantic art. encoding a rose, HD 3'22 mmmmmfilms, Norway,
2018 04.06.19 mmmmmfilms - performance - thoughts as orbits, 24' Alive in the Universe, Venice Biennale 2019. Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, curated by Caroline Wiseman & David Baldry, co-producer Eileen Haring Woods.
Stills from video - mmmmmfilms - performance - thoughts as orbits, 2019.
Performance by Adrian Fisher, Luna Montenegro, Ginés Olivares. thoughts as orbits - inspired by 'a point beats in space. Listen' Edmond Jabes, The Book of Questions, Volume II, 1967. Voice, video projection, shadow. Rituals, poetry and sounds from outer space. Materials: Live sound from Venice canal, synthesisers, 5 speaker audio distribution, 2 x microphones, music score, mini-drone.
04.06.19 mmmmmfilms - il peso delle cose / the weight of things HDV 29' 2010, Italy. Alive in the Universe, Venice Biennale 2019.
04.04.19 - 05.05.19 mmmmmfilms - multispecies offline 5' Berlin 2017. Group Exhibition.
mmmmmfilms - multispecies offline 5' Berlin 2017
08.02.19 mmmmmfilms - Fatal when they Touch, Germany, 2017, VR Film The Brutality of Youth, Norway, 2018.
Poetry & VR ethics presentation & discussion Event, 20 Jay St, Brooklyn, New York.
Presented by Lucia Hinojosa & Diego Gerard. Digital Image: mmmmmfilms - VR film The Brutality of Youth VR 5', Norway, 2018
18.10.18 mmmmmfilms - multispecies offline. 5' HDV 2017. www.tentacularmag.com.
Published by Tentacular ISSUE 2 - autumn 2018. Thanks to Jonathan Catherall.
03.08.18 - 02.09.18 mmmmmfilms residency in Leveld Kunsnartun, Norway. mmmmmfilms made three new works during their Residency in the rural countryside of Leveld, Norway.
Still Image from 'tingmȧling' 13mins, HD video, 2018.
mmmmmfilms focused on the 'rosemȧling', a rococo, baroque inspired flower pattern used to decorate domestic objects and textiles during the Norwegian Romantic period. Works in the exhibition during the Kunsnartun Festival:
1. A series of 9 contemporary rosemȧling inspired drawings and paintings on paper together with a circular video projection exploring a politics of resistance encoded within the work. 2. A virtual reality experience inspired by a poem from the Norwegian anarchist writer, Jens Bjôrneboe filmed inside his original 'loftet' (wooden cabin). 3. A short film 'tingmȧling' 13 mins, HD video, documenting the local rural life and landscape in relation to technology and the violence of human nature.
24.01.18 montenegrofisher reading from 24-poems-cross-tongue-collaboration and screening of 'Los Infantes del Castillo' (mmmmmfilms) extract 4', DV. Crosscurrents - Latin American and Anglophone Avant-gardes.
University of London, Birkbeck Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London
20.01.18 mmmmmfilms - multispecies offline HDV 5' 2017. Fe-Estival de Poemas, Encuentro de Poesías.
Sof·, Santa Isabel 0151, Providencia, Santiago, Chile. Thanks to Ricardo Castro and Marcela Muría.
19.01.17 performance & film. mmmmmfilms. SOROLLS EXTRANYS, Espai Cocteau, Barcelona, Cataluynia. Poetry readings and performances from Gimena Cattaneus, Ginés Olivares, Leonardo Garzaro, Adrian Fisher, Luna Montenegro, Gregorio Fontaine, Ginebra Raventos, Daphne Xanthopoulou, Ale Fernandez & Andrew Montenegro.
17.05.16 - 03.06.16 Video Installation. Some Recollections of Mortality by mmmmmfilms (Adrian Fisher, Luna Montenegro, Ginés Olivares) 'Puertas Cambiantes' International Festival of Experimental Video. Organised by Proceso de Error, Curated by Juan Yolin and Daniela Lillo. Galería Municipal de Valparaíso, Condell 1550, Valparaiso, Chile.
10.09.15 - 14.11.15 Solo Exhibition. Shortcuts in space and time, Drawings, sculpture, installation, video
16.04.15 - 18.04.15 Performance. Izmir Poetry Festival, Dokuz Eylul University, Selcuk University, Izmir, Turkey.
readings from 'The Intuitive Dictionary of Alvaro Guevara' by montenegrofisher.
screening of 'some recollections of mortality' by mmmmmfilms 2012. Thanks to Richard Parker, Jessica Pujol and the whole organising team.
11.05.13 FONLAD #09_2013 videoplay. videoperformances
MIVA - International Video Art Screenings at Space for Media Arts and Performance Center, Pinheiro Chagas Street, no. 60, Coimbra - Portugal. mmmmmfilms showing as part of videoplay.
27.09.12 - 11.10.12 CoEvolution and Complementarity: Encounters between Transmedia and Multispecies. Berlin, Germany. Group exhibition featuring as the crow flies 4'21 (HD Video) 2010 by mmmmm film (Luna Montenegro, Gines Olivares, Adrian Fisher)
02.06.12 - 02.10.12 mmmmmfilms Staircase descending a Nude. The Lookout Gallery, Aldeburgh Art 2012.
The participative installation investigates the movement of people filmed descending the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout staircase. Passers-by were invited to be active subjects in the filming of the project. A high definition video image is created overlapping 30 film layers to reflect on ideas of time and movement. The film is then projected inside the Lookout Gallery. The public are encouraged to sing a harmonic sound that is amplified in the space to be part of a ritual that makes them the art work as a moving bodily canvas for the projection.
The ideas of science and technology that informed Duchamp's original analogue painting concept are explored through a digital contemporary form (video projection). The clothed movement of people descending a staircase is projected on a 'Nude torso'. Duchamp's painting in 1912 explored the mechanics of movement and its reframing in painting.
'... we have two parallel movements which correspond to one another.' Duchamp. In our installation we deform the staircase through the bodily projection. We take the subject of Duchamp's painting, the Nude and use it as a living canvas. Abstracted from the figure in Duchamp's painting, the figure returns with a real presence. Projection and breath together create a living presence for the descent of the staircase. The Public become the work in the Installation. They are transformed into a skin canvas for the descent of the staircase. Their bodies take the work from the outside to the inside of the body. The figures descending the staircase appear to enter the navel of the person being projected on. The staircase descends the naked chest. The work becomes a mirror, it inverses Duchamp's idea. staircase descending a nude - documentation from live performance 5 -
13.11.2011 IMERGENCIA Lisboa, Portugal. Festival of Performance, Intervention,Experimental Sound, Video Art. The event appears as a way of questioning the urgency of the medium, the singular performative act and tension between different territories: the artistic and experiential, everyday life and provocative, intimate and public, the poetic and the ethical. as the crow flies 4'21 (HD Video) 2010 by mmmmm film (Luna Montenegro, Gines Olivares, Adrian Fisher) - selected for Video Performance of Latin American insurgency DEL CUERPO Curator Silvio De Gracia (Argentina)
Videos based on exploiting the limits of the body that allude to violence and torture of a political body in Latin America. http://www.epipiderme.blogspot.com/
29.04.11 L'after Èconomie (video 16' & installation). Plankton Bar #40 Bondgenotenstraat 54 rue des Allies, 1190 Brussels - group show
26.08.10, 28.09.10 - 30.09.10 mmmmmfilms - II Vienal Videoarte Valparaiso and various locations in Chile. 'Los Infantes del Castillo'. London, UK 2007. 16'15" (originated in DV). Adrian Fisher and Luna Montenegro in collaboration with Gines Olivares and Felipe Luck. 'as the crow flies' Anzio & Nettuno, Italy / London, UK 2010. 4'30 (originated in HD). Adrian Fisher and Luna Montenegro in collaboration with Gines Olivares
26.08.10 - mmmmmfilms - 'monuments to memory games' - solo show Kotti Shop Gallery, Kottbusser Tor, Berlin, Germany. Performance and Video Installations. 'monuments to memory games' is an exhibition that examines ideas of 'play' in relation to memory and history through installation, video and live performance. The process of play is central to mmmmm's work. Through play they are engaged with issues of what is performance? What is the spectacle in performance? What evokes memory? How can histories be reconstructed in the documentation of performance. How through engaging in play can the experience of memory and history be made more risky, more present.
collaboration with Gines Olivares and Felipe Luck.
30.07.10 mmmmmfilms - The Weight of Things / Il peso delle Cose HD Video 30mins La Divina Providencia, Nettuno, Italy. This documentary/fiction film goes in pursuit of the collective body and considers ideas of nationhood, memory and archeology. The film was entirely made and produced during a one month residency at Rifrazioni Festival 2010. collaboration with Gines Olivares.
29.07.10 mmmmmfilms - The Beauty of Bureaucracy / La Bellezza Borgo Medievale, Nettuno, Italy.
The collective body becomes apparent through the process of molding a trace of the body, casting it, re-animating it with new people, marking its presence in a new trace, a new action. Live performance in which the plaster casts of people's fingers from the film 'el peso delle cosa' together with the fingers of the artists and organisers of the residency are moved by children freely around the old town of Nettuno making a white trace line across the floor.
05.07.10 - 01.08.10 Residency in Rifrazioni Festival, Anzio, Italy
23.04.10 Premiere of 'as the crow flies' (4 mins HD video) and performance with PNeuMatiKoS
La Société de Curiosités, 9 cit» de trois bornes, 75011 Paris. ‘as the crow flies' (4' HD video, 2010) - film made in collaboration with Gines Olivares.
12.07.09 - 2.08.09 mmmmmfilms Residency in Rifrazioni Festival, Anzio, Italy
'The Festival, known as Rifrazioni, was born in 2006 as an international Summer Festival of Performance, Visual Arts and Music occurring every year in the historically relevant sites of Anzio and Nettuno. Both the towns overlook the sea of the southern coast of Lazio, 50 Km south of Rome. Rifrazioni can be regarded as a contemporary art project, which recuperates the local archaeological heritage, re-defining its identity. The Festival aims to diversify the cultural supply of the territory relying on interdisciplinarity and contamination between artistic languages and cultures; it endeavours to establish a free zone for the merging of disciplines, genres and codes. Rifrazioni is a SITE-SPECIFIC Festival.The works of art presented within the Festival are strongly informed by the territory that inspires and moulds them with its historical and socio-cultural specificity. Therefore Rifrazioni shifts into the territory elaborating and re-interpreting the local identity through the sight of the invited artists.' (Rifrazioni 09). http://www.rifrazioni.org
04.08.09 - Conference - ARTE E TERRITORIO Forte Sangallo, Nettuno, Italy
In the review of the Rifrazioni Festival mmmmm presented a personal talk and viewpoint through photography of their work process and experiences during the residency.
02.08.09 Homo Gelato (3hrs)
Ex Divina Provvidenza - Nettuno, Italy A performative/interactive celebratory bar concept in an Italian garden responding to the site. materials: bar installation, golden thread, apple, cube amplifier, microphone, wine, beer, water, candles.
01.08.09 L'Illusione Dell'Economia (22mins), Porto Di Anzio - Molo Innocenziano, Anzio, Italy
In the ancient port of Anzio mmmmm examine the scale and materiality of the modern port. The local fishermen have to catch at least 70 large polystyrene palettes of fish to meet their basic wage. We carry 70 of these polystyrene palettes in two towers along the port before reconstructing them as a wall on a helicopter landing circle and then projecting live on the wall of boxes the revolving and evolving ritual.
31.07.09 mmmmmfilms - non piú realtá (no more reality) (6mins), Borgo Medievale di Nettuno ñ Piazza Colonna, Anzio, Italy. Film 6mins DVD PAL made during the rifrazioni residency examining local attitudes towards public space performances using canvas pig masks in collaboration between Adrian Fisher, Luna Montenegro and Ginés Olivares
30.07.09 mmmmmfilms - Cacchione On Canvas Dimension Variable (22mins)
18.03.09 - 31.03.09 Kaisiya (Selk'nam VII) DVD black & white (5mins 46secs)
VIDEOPLAY 09 - Argentina, 'Electronic and Sensitive', curated by Silvio De Gracia, On VisualContainerTV - visualcontainer.twww.tv . VisualContainer P.O. Box 10631 20110 Milan Italy. www.visualcontainer.org Produced in collaboration with Gines Olivares and Felipe Luck. PLAY V man in transit, International Video & Performance Festival, Junín, Pergamino, Argentina. Produced in collaboration with Gines Olivares and Felipe Luck.
29, 30, 31.08.08 Kaisiya (Selk'nam VII) DVD black & white (5mins 46secs)
PERFORMANCE PRESENTE Y FUTURO Videoplay 08, Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, BRASIL
In a corner of a room an elephant turns on a metaphorical 'wheel of consumption'. A man eats a battered fish (commonly found all over the UK in 'fish and chip' shops). A woman wearing a mask made out of newspaper and potato chips appears to scream silently. Kaisiya is inspired by Anne Chapmanís interviews with Lola Kiepja, the last surviving female shaman of the Selk'nam people in Tierra del Fuego. In the original ritual the shaman would chant for three or four days to bring food in the form of a dead whale to the beach. This allowed the main ritual of The Hain to commence. Produced in collaboration with Gines Olivares and Felipe Luck.
22.03.07 OSH (DVD) 18 mins. ArTeK - Corporación Cultural, arte & tecnología, Aguas Claras 1473 - Piso 1 Sur, Edificio La Quintrala, La Reina, Santiago - Chile
10.03.07 Gift (DVD) in Catorce/Quince FDE Book Launch containing poems by FDE writers including Luna Montenegro. Bar Rapa Nui, JM Infante Esq. Los Jesuitas, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
03.12.06 'Xalpen' (from The Selk'nam rituals, Tierra del Fuego) (23mins)
23.10.06 to 4.11.06 - 'Primera Bienal de Performance DEFORMES' - The First Latin-American Performance Biennale, Santiago, Chile. We are showing three DVD works in the Bienal; OSH (18 mins) made in a former power station in Berlin based upon a Selk'nam fertility ritual, 'a true likeness of...' (12 mins) unedited recording of a live work made in the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and 'Gift' (8 mins) edited recording of a live work made in a former bread factory in Germany.
2.10.06 - 'chola' 3' - mmmmmfilms working with filmaker Gines Olivares in a former basement Jewish Bakery, Berlin.
23.08.03 'Osh' (Selk'nam II) (22mins)
Umspannwerk, Paul-Linke Ufer 20-21, Kreuzberg, Berlin (as part of the Changing Channels London Biennale Pollination). The phallic ritual of 'Osh' from the Selk'nam people starts with two bodies on a tandem bicycle. A 15 tonne crane carries the objects between the two people. The crane becomes the phallus and explodes its fragility in the sterilization and then fertilization of a Chilli pepper.
22.08.03 'Gift' (25mins)
Backfabrik, Saarbrucker Str. 36, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin. (as part of the Changing Channels London Biennale Pollination) a former baking factory courtyard becomes a poetic phallus in the gold wrapping of three Turkish bread faced and ashes covered naked people whose mask slowly decomposes under a waterfall, golden beads are pulled from their mouths and the libertines drive off in cars.