{"id":8385,"date":"2010-08-11T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=8385"},"modified":"2010-08-11T23:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:19:36","slug":"keren-cytter-magnus-af-petersens-sternberg-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=8385","title":{"rendered":"Keren Cytter. Magnus af Petersens. Sternberg Press."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Keren Cytter, <\/em>Magnus af Petersens.
\nPublished by Sternberg Press.
\nEnglish\/Swedish. 160 pages.<\/p>\n

This catalogue provides the reader with the opportunity to read six of Keren Cytter\u2019s scripts for films that are being shown in the exhibition at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, May 8 \u2013 August 15, 2010. <\/p>\n

Keren Cytter has rapidly established herself internationally as one of the most interesting and unique artists on the contemporary art scene. At the mere age of 33 (born 1977 in Tel Aviv, currently living and working in Berlin), in the last eight years she has produced more than 50 video works, written three novels and an opera libretto, started the dance and theatre company D.I.E. Now, won awards and is the darling of the art press. Last summer, she exhibited at the New Museum’s group show \u201cYounger Than Jesus\u201d and participated in the Venice Biennale. Cytter says: \u201cI studied art because I wanted to go to New York and wash dishes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keren Cytter\u2019s topics often include love stories, violence, sex and murder. She applies a non-linear narrative, the stories often shot with a hand-held camera. The actors\u2014amateurs and friends of the artist, but more recently professional actors\u2014switch roles with each other, or read their stage directions out loud. Scenes are repeated, but with a different course of events, with voiceovers or alternative dialogues. The films are usually set in simply-furnished apartments, especially the kitchen regions, suggesting a connection to kitchen sink realism. The literary tone of the dialogue, however, is far from realistic, writes Magnus af Petersens in the catalogue, adding: \u201cInstead the films are deliberate hybrids between seemingly incompatible genres, between home videos and auteur films in the spirit of the French nouvelle vague, between Dogme and docu-soap or sitcom. But her films are above all existential dramas about the human condition, about love and hate in our thoroughly medialised age.”<\/p>\n

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Keren Cytter, Magnus af Petersens. Published by Sternberg Press. English\/Swedish. 160 pages. This catalogue provides the reader with the opportunity to read six of Keren Cytter\u2019s scripts for films that are being shown in the exhibition at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, May 8 \u2013 August 15, 2010. Keren Cytter has rapidly established herself internationally as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,251],"tags":[725,726,724],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8385"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8432,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions\/8432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}