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* INTRODUCTION
* PAINTING
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SCULPTURE
* FILM WORK
PHILOSOPHICAL
CARTOONS
CLIMATE CHANGE
CARTOONS
TOTEM
TOONS
ENCYCLOPEDIC
CARTOONS
LETTERS + WORDS
GRAMMAR
NON SENSE + NON
FICTIONAL
SUBURBAN
PUDDLES + PONDS
MOUNTAINS +
VALLEYS
PARADISE GARDENS +
SPA
FOOD CHAIN
NIGHTMARE
MESSAGES
ROBOTS AND
MACHINES
CITIES + FACTORIES
TIME + SPACE
ROOMS
DARK PLACES
THE SWEET HERE
AFTER
GAMBLING
EXPECTATIONS
OPERA
SCHAUKASTEN
BILDERBOGEN
PATTERNS
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ARTICLES
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EXHIBITIONS
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BIOGRAPHY
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I feel a burning desire to break the spell and to
step out into the open to take a deep breath of
the fresh salty fall air. As I feel the wind
caressing my lungs, I hear Nebe’s “Totems Toons”
uttering a faint, sardonic chuckle.
“Totem toons” consist of four video pieces, each
connoting a different animal. Nebe uses analogue
photographs of abandoned houses on empty street
views. Cloud pictures, layered and set into motion
are added to the composition. Pairing into
doubles, the four pieces work on the theme of
mirror stages, and the landscapes of the psyche.
The compositional structure of the work leads
towards a juxtaposition of alienated outer
“corpora” and the bodily inside. As the “totems”
emerge during the course of gazing through the
polygenic frames, they function as utopian body
phantoms and ciphers for tabooed spaces.
(Rebecca Schoensee, "Tunes Of Trauma", Humanize
Magazine, issue 9, p. 26-35), Humanize Magazine issue 9, february
2011
PEACOCK, 2010, 01min excerpt
GIRAFFE, 2010, 01min excerpt
ANT, 2010, 01min excerpt
shown at:
2010 Virion, Kelvin Grove Urban Screening Network,
Brisbane, Australia
subject as well featuring publication:
Interview with Joas Nebe on his OPERA serial
conducted by curators JOSH RYDER and BARBARA
SCOTT, ARTiculAction Contemporary Art Review,
anniversary edition, may 2016, link
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