Thursday, March 08, 2007

"Dr. Love on Easter Island" film on show in Vienna

MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Nicole Scheyerer
Translated by Nicholas Grindell
frieze
March 5, 2007

At the centre of the exhibition, visitors were shown Dr. Love on Easter Island (2006), a video filmed in the Pacific. For this departure from familiar territory, Krystufek chose Bas Jan Ader as a kind of alter ego. What if, the video asks, the artist who disappeared during an Atlantic crossing in 1975 got stranded on Easter Island? As ‘She-Bas’, the artist roams the home of the famous moai stone giants.

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