Markus Soukup
"ROLES ROLL"
DVD / 6:10 min / 2003 – 2007
directed by Markus Soukup / sound by Igor Hax
camera & edit by M. Soukup / camera support by Dounia Chama
dance performance by Julieta Figueroa
balancing & falling down person by M. Soukup
THE MAIN SCENES WERE RECORDED IN BERLIN & SOME ADDITIONAL
FOOTAGE WAS MADE IN LIVERPOOL. IT’S A COLLABORATIONAL
DANCE PERFORMANCE VIDEO PROJECT OF CHILEAN CHOREOGRAPHER
& DANCE ARTIST JULIETA FIGUEROA AND MARKUS SOUKUP. ROLES
ROLL EXAMINES CONCEPTS OF LINEARITY . OPPOSED TO CIRCULARITY,
REPETITION AND OSCILLATION THE PROJECT EXPLORES INTERRUPTION
AS IMPULSES FOR NON-LINEAR PRINCIPLES.
A SIGNIFICANT BASIS FOR THE PERFORMATIVE NARRATIVE WAS THE
EXPLORATION OF A SITUATION APPEARING TO BE SAVE OR STABLE ON
IT'S SURFACE, BUT BEING RATHER FRAGILE, EASILY TO DISTRACT,
DISTORTED OR QUICKLY OUT OF IT'S BALANCE.
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Markus Soukup
born 1974 / lives and works in Berlin Germany and Liverpool, United Kingdom
Education
2005 Meisterschüler, class of Prof. Astrid Klein, Academy for Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany
2004 MA New Media, ICDC, Liverpool, UK
2002 Diplom Bildende Kunst at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2008
FUTURESONIC, Festival, Manchester, UK (upcoming)
DIRECTORS LOUNGE @ International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
XTEND: Dance for Camera, South Hill Park - Digital Media Centre, UK
2007
VISUAL DEFLECTIONS, London, UK
SIBERIA FILM NIGHT, London, UK
MOVES07, Movement on Screen festival, Manchester, UK
SoundNetwork exhibition @ Futuresonic, Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK
Video Art Screening @ Växhuset, Västerås, Sweden
STRICTLY BERLIN 007 - Targets of Opportunity, GdK - Galerie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2006
A.C. Exhibition, Gallery Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
OUT OF FOCUS, artist’s video screening, Gallery Sammler, Leipzig, Germany
)BracketTHIS( III, Arena Gallery, Independents Biennial, Liverpool, UK
HULL International Short Film Festival, UK
GSTAADFILM, International Short film festival for Artist films, Gstaad, Switzerland
FUTURESONIC Festival, Manchester, UK
ROLLING STOCK, short film festival on moving trains, West Midlands, UK
AUDIOVISUALE, UT Connewitz, Leipzig, Germany
SAISON VIDEO / numero trente, Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France
2005
FIAV 05 (Festival international des Artes Video), Galerie Esca, Barcelona, Spain
SYNCH Festival - Electronic Music & Digital Arts, Athens, Greece
VENTUROUS VANGUARD Video Festival, Shanghai / Kunming, China + Los Angeles, USA
ZLINSKY PES independent part of 45. International Film Festival Zlin, Czech Republik
WRO 05 - 11th INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART BIENNALE, Wroclaw, Poland
EMERGEANDSEE Festival, London, Berlin, Budapest
2004
]BRACKET THIS[, exhibition, Arena Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, UK
Portland Independent Animation Festival, USA
10[x]10, New Media exhibition, Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK
GANGHUT, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
Screening of SUPPORT TO FLY @ FACT, Liverpool, UK
Projects
2008
Late@Tate, Dj set as part of the CREATIVE DESTRUCTION event, Mercy Arts Organisation, Tate Gallery
Liverpool, UK
2007
Binary Jam, SoundNetworks regular live performance event for sound art, experimental electronica and
electroacoustics, Liverpool, UK
HEADPHONE FESTIVAL, Privatelektro label, Leipzig, Germany
Split release Grünrecorder & Privatelektro, Fieldrecordings + Electronica, Berlin, Germany
2006
co:LAB, SoundNetwork residency laboratory, Independents Biennial, Liverpool , UK
2005
JOINT VENTURE, electronic echtzeit sound presentation, Zentrale Randlage, Berlin
HIVE005, electronic audio-visual presentation as Igor Hax, FACT, Liverpool, UK
