Participant Info

First Name

konstantinos-antonios

Last Name

goutos

Country (secondary)

City/Town/Village

Marburg

Statement

The artist strolls like a „Flâneur“ through the city. He does not have a turtle with him (as the original Parisian Flâneur of the 1830‘s used to); later, he does not write stories (as Edgar Allan Poe or Hans Christian Andersen used to), he does not write poems (as Baudelaire or Rilke used to). He has only a video camera. He takes shots of the city; he takes shots of the "life" of the people of the city, sometimes, he also shoots "himself" (...without camera moves, without tripod, without zooming, without special lighting, with original sound, without permission...); he puts the shots together with no chronological sequence and under different contexts: tales and history, reactions - relations, sounds - words, lights - colours, structures - architectures, incidents - accidents, order - disorder... Not a description of a journey but „my lyrical reaction, with all my truth and simplicity“ as Federico Garcia Lorca once said about his collection A Poet in New York. films of Vertov, Haneke, Benning, Penalva or Juergen Boettcher paintings of Bosch, Brueghel, Giorgione, Rembrandt or Strawalde photos of Atget, Stieglitz, Friedlander, Lartigue or Cartier-Bresson texts of Benjamin, Kracauer, Bazin, Mc Luhan or Vilém Flusser are important works for dialog and inspiration... during the last years he has been [video]strolling (in) more than 50 cities (Berlin, Leipzig, Brussels, Nuremberg, Larissa, Thessaloniki, Cologne, Prague, Dresden, Potsdam, Police, Athens, Halle, Gdansk, Weimar, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Aarau, Basel, Kassel, Dessau, Braunschweig, Brandenburg, Naoussa, Erfurt, Rhodes, Hamburg, Opole, Krakow, Auschwitz, Olomouc, Pavia, Genoa, Plauen, Chalkis, Meissen, Sczcecin, Liège, Enschede, Gronau, Magdeburg, Lisbon, Bratislava, Paris, Vienna, Munich, Altenburg, Jena, Bochum, Neubrandenburg, Saarbruecken, Bonn, Naumburg, Saarbruecken, Bonn, Naumburg, Giessen, Marburg, Heidelberg, Stavanger…) at this moment he [video]strolls (in) different cities of germany

Email

videoflaneur@gmail.com