2025
March 18th, 2025 at SuperOtium
Something is not going very well
artist: Maria Aoyama, Will Sibley and Lara Zimmern
Something is not going very well exhibits the result of the research and sharing process that started in January with the video art residency VVV-R. The three artists, Maria Aoyama, Will Sibley and Lara Zimmern, use the strategy of the cinematic subjective to introduce the viewer into dystopian visions that analyse and nullify the gap between memory and action, between artificial and natural, between medical and ecstatic.
the works were shown as part of the online exhibition of the same name on Visualcontainer Tv, at SuperOtium (Naples, March 18th) at Face the Music and at BEAF/ Boscombe Art Depot
The Old School House, Gladstone Rd East (Boscombe, Bournemouth, Mai 30th)
NEW HORIZONS
Maria Sayoko Aoyama
3’54’’, 1280 x 720, colour, stereo, 2025.
It is from the investigation of the performative dimension of water, as in Alto Ribeira's performance or Bruce Lee's invitation ‘be water my friend’, that Maria Aoyama's work begins. Through images of floods and waves, she transforms General Motors' advertising propaganda into a mass of pixels, crumbling capitalist positivism into a digital, wavering signal.
videography
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Archives (dir.) ( 2023). Tsunami hits Tonsai Beach, Krabi, Thailand (Original quality/Extended)[Film].
ABC News (dir.) (2013). What to Do: Car Sinking in Water, Only Seconds to React [Film].
AccuWeather (dir.) (2019). Earthquake causes chaos in swimming pool as kids frantically try to get out [Film].
Aeon Video (dir.) (2016). The wondrous future was now at the 1939 World Fair | World Fair.
Anon (n.d.). Tsunami Sweeps Coast#Horror Scene Recorded#Tsunami Sweep#Coastal Impact#Vehicle and Building Damage [Film].
captainlarrydart (dir.) (2008). ’64-65 NY World’s Fair FUTURAMA Ride Video [Film]. CBC News: The National (dir.) (2013). Man survives 3 days under water [Film].
clancy688 (dir.) (2013). Tsunami in Kesennuma city, ascending the Okawa river [Film].
DCN Diving (dir.) (2020). DCN Diving Rescue Operation [Film]. Handy (Jam) Organization (dir.) (1940). To New Horizons [Film].
National Archives and Records Administration (dir.) (1972). FLOOD DISASTER AREAS [Film].
Pete Delaney (dir.) (2014). To Be Alive - 1964/5 New York World’s Fair Film [Film]. Ricca Saints (dir.) (2019). ACTUAL FULL VIDEO (EARTHQUAKE) APRIL 22, 2019 at LUBAO, PAMPANGA [Film].
UN/FAMILIAR
Will Sibley
3’19”, 1280 x 720, colour, stereo, 2025.
Will Sibley investigates the bowels of the digital world through the material dimension that allows it to function: the atmospheres of video games permeate the work, creating a loop between organic and mechanical images. The artist immerses us in a proprioceptive dimension in which our body and that of the network merge.
videography
Dark Souls. (2011). PC. [game]. Tokyo: Bandai Namco Entertainment.
Firewatch. (2016). PC. [game]. Portland: Panic and Campo Sancto.
Gone Home. (2013). PC. [game]. New Jersey: Majesco Entertainment.
Moss, S. (2019). A Deer Broke into a Data Centre. [online]
Mr.Duncan's Social Studies Channel. (2019). Neurons under microscope. [online]
r/CableGore. [online]. Reddit.
Sheldrake, M. (2021). Growth of fungal mycelium (Neurospora crassa). [online]
Skoberne, G. (2016). Time Lapse of Root Growth. [online]
The Beginner’s Guide. (2015). PC. [game]. Everything Unlimited Ltd.
The Stanley Parable. (2013). PC. [game]. Galactic Cafe.
Zasadzka, C. (2017). Mycelium growth simulation. [online]
RECOMMENDED DOSAGE
Lara Zimmern
2’13”, 1920 x 1080, colour, stereo, 2025.
In this present and in this horizon, where things are not going so well, Lara Zimmern confirms the short circuit, triggered by the exhibition, between the personal and the political, the individual and the collective, evoking dance as a cure, not only for individual malaise, but as an ecstatic rite (B. Ehrenreich 2023) in which the collective finds the strength to resist. Indeed, his research moves from images that remain to moments of collective celebration.
videography
DRdpsheehan. (2013). Tarantella. YouTube
Encyclopedia Britannica Films. (2007). Cancer. Internet Archive
Magret, L. (1953). Mental Hospital. Internet Archive
Mark Leckey. (2012). Fiorucci made me Hardcore. YouTube
National Motion Picture Company. (1940). Preventing the Spread of Disease. Internet Archive
The Rave Video Archive. (2015). Raindance 1990. YouTube
TimetravelTV. (2023). Vintage UK health product adverts (Vol.4). YouTube
National Motion Picture Company. (1940). Preventing the Spread of Disease. Internet Archive
