Sol Archer (1983) is a Netherlands based artist working through collaboration with professional and non-professional groups, considering the encounter as a space of production. Frequently employing video as an apparatus for producing a doubling of experience; productive of ‘works’ through collective act, and through movement towards the work, productive of new collectivities and ways of being together.
This extends into a pedagogical practice on structures and systematising group environments focussed on self reflexive film-making practices and the legacy of collaborative film practice in relation to ethnofiction.
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to all the gods honey, to the mistress of the labyrinth, honey in equal amounts
cartography and care, the multiple village
flicker like flames, sketches towards a speculative film
not only the earth we share
ways of being in relation
(codes of conduct), artez, nl
open rehearsal, breaking ground – artez, nl
who we are when we are together,
PTAB, praksis, no
representing the encounter
code of conduct session
the production of daily life
a muitas mãos / held by hands
representing the encounter
the production of daily life
index ITAB
cartography and play, PHLOX Huns
flicker like flames
world building game workshops
HD Video 12:50
In 1990 a meteorite fell through the roof of a house in a small town on the Dutch German border. In a short travelogue film the camera presents the roaming eye of the artist/investigator trying to establish where this happened by asking people about it in shops and on the street. Becoming increasingly lost and sent in many wrong directions, a sinister tone affects recognition of the town and the intentions of its people. At heart its a travelogue, wandering around a town investigating how a story spreads through a population, how an event becomes folklore and is outsourced into the internet, and how conversation can be a site for revealing social vectors.