Karin Dolk

• Works / Projects
  • Figure of speech
  • [əˈnʌðə]
  • [əˈnʌðə] Sound script + Post scripts
  • Words wound
  • A sad song
  • Ist es nicht schön?
  • Tacet
  • Talento para llorar
  • El Duelo
  • Llevo toda mi vida doblando
  • Palabras prestadas
  • De-formaciones
  • Apropiaciones
  • Not [ai]
  • Traduttore, traditore
  • In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
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  • Onomatopoetics
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  • Semantic Cannibalism
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El Duelo

(The duel / mourning) Two-channel video installation, colour, sound, 4'40'', 2009
Project Talento para llorar

The same actresses as in Talento para llorar are confronted as professional mourners in El Duelo. They are in a no-place, in an act that decontextualise the gesture of mourning and focuses on a representation of a representation, composed by scales of cries and moans, movements and gestures.
They are desperate expressions, sometimes over-acted, sometimes subtle, revealing the structure of acting and theatrical representation.

Installation view, MUAC, Mexico City, 2010

Video stills.