2011 |30 min | directed by Omer Fast | language: English with English subtitles

In a series of loops and digressions, circuits and returns, Fast’s film anoints the military drone-operator as the exemplary twenty-first-century human subject. Caught in a networked dance of death and mediation, elevated, almost god-like power and lowly, servo-mechanical impotence, this subject — and by extension, the whole Western project of reason and world-mastery — tail-spins off into ever-widening gyres of fugue and phantasm.

Elizabeth Price was born in Bradford in 1966 and lives and works in London. In 2012 she was awarded the Turner Prize for her video installation THE WOOLWORTHS CHOIR OF 1979. In 2013 she won the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award with the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. She has exhibited in group exhibitions internationally, and has had solo exhibitions at Tate Britain, London; Art Institute of Chicago; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf; The Baltic, Newcastle upon Tyne; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and The Whitworth, Manchester.

Susan Philipsz was born in 1965 in Glasgow. Her work deals with the spatial properties of sound and with the relationships between sound and architecture. In 2010 she was awarded the Turner Prize and in 2014 she was awarded the honor of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to British Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing Sympathy and Release, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2022); The Fall, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2021); Slow Fresh Fount, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2021); Rosa, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2021); The Calling, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2021); Sleep, Close and Fast, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); and The Unquiet Grave, Philadelphia Contemporary (2020). Philipsz has been a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden since 2019. She lives in Berlin.

Ingri Midgard Fiksdal (b. 1984) works as a choreographer based in Oslo. She holds a PhD in artistic research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, with the project Affective Choreographies (2019). Ingri’s work on affect has in recent years taken her into discourses on perspective and privilege. She is currently working on a number of projects addressing the intersection between the posthuman and the decolonial from a feminist perspective. Ingri is at the moment an affiliated artistic researcher with the project CoFUTURES: Pathways to Possible Presents led by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay at the University of Oslo.

For several years, Stefan Panhans (b. 1967) and Andrea Winkler (b. 1975) have been cooperating on transdisciplinary, postcinematic projects that include filmic elements and sculptural installations. They investigate the hypermedia imprint of our present, the (power) structures behind the processes of digitalization and their effects on our thinking and our bodies, as well as everyday racism and the increasing precarity of labor relations. Recent jointly-produced video installations, performances, and films have been shown at international festivals and in solo and group exhibitions, including an extensive survey show at HMKV Hartware MedienKunstverein, Dortmund (2021) as well as exhibitions at Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian (2021); Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Louvre (2021); Videonale.17 and .18 at Kunstmuseum Bonn (2017/2019); and Transmediale at HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2018).

Antje Ehmann (b. 1968) is a curator and artist, living in Berlin. She studied literature, philosophy and media studies, and worked with the team of the Duisburg Film Week and the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen between 1992 and 1998. Married Harun Farocki in 2001. Ehmann curated numerous group and single shows in museums and galleries worldwide, together with Carles Guerra, Okwui Enwezor, Marius Babias and others. She has been active as a video artist and as a co-editor of multiple books, including the volume Weimar Republic 1918-1933 in the German Research Foundation project History of Documentary Film in Germany (2000-2005). Ehmann has conducted workshops and exhibitions of the project Labour in a Single Shot together with Harun Farocki from 2011 to 2014 and, after 2017, with Eva Stotz and Luis Feduchi; participating with the project in the Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2015.

Omer Fast is an artist and filmmaker. Born in Jerusalem in 1972, Fast grew up in Jerusalem and New York and has been living in Berlin since 2001. Among other things, he has cinematized Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder in 2015. Fast's solo exhibitions include the Pinakothek der Moderne (2020), Guangzhou Times Art Museum, (2018), Martin Gropius Bau (2016), Whitney Art Museum New York (2010).

Tom McCarthy is a novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theater, and radio. His first novel, Remainder, won the 2008 Believer Book Award; his third, C, was a 2010 Booker Prize finalist, as was his fourth, Satin Island, in 2015. McCarthy is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and of the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish. He contributes regularly to publications such as the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Harper’s, and Artforum. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. His new novel, The Making of Incarnation, was published in November 2021. McCarthy has held visiting professorships at the Royal College of Art, London; Columbia University, New York; and Städelschule, Frankfurt. In 2019 he guest-curated the exhibition Empty House of the Stare at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. He lives in Berlin, where in 2019 he was a Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program. Born in Scotland, he is now a Swedish citizen.

Tom is the co-curator of the exhibition Holding Pattern.

Anne Hilde Neset is the director of Kunstnernes Hus. She has worked as a writer and editor at the London-based music magazine The Wire, a founder of several music festivals in the UK and Norway, and a broadcaster and host of the music program Late Junction on BBC Radio 3. She is one of the founders of the curatorial agency Electra.

Anne Hilde is the co-curator of the exhibition Holding Pattern.