Projects

This section of the website is a collection of projects that were promoted/ started by Channel 83.

You can contact Albert Hofer – the person behind Channel 83 – either via email (info@channel83.co.uk) or directly through this website for additional information.

Channel 83 – An Archive of Wounds

“Channel 83 - An Archive of Wounds” (2005) is a DVD presentation of the project Channel 83, focusing on the visual component of the same: the DVD has been built by selecting thirty five artists among those who had been featured on Channel 83’s gallery. Having been developed with the help of Stefano Moretto (resident VJ at Channel 83’s events and parties), and featuring an exclusive soundtrack written by Italian DJ and producer Mass_Prod (also an integral member of Channel 83, as resident DJ and live PA), this work is composed by a selection of the best material featured on Channel 83’s online gallery, dynamically reproduced in a hybrid mixture of slideshow and VJ-set.

This project, born out of the need to better promote the achievements of Channel 83 during its first two years of life, granting the project further visibility outside of the world wide web, has become increasingly complex with the passing of time: the enthusiastic reaction of the artists and all the parties involved in the project has turned what was supposed to be a simple, straight-forward presentation into something way more fascinating and complex, another version of the archive of wounds that Channel 83 has been trying to build, and a self-standing artwork (a video, specifically). The project has been designed as a dynamic presentation whose format can vary depending on the settings where it is performed.

In “Channel 83 - An Archive of Wounds” each artist’s work enters into a dialogue with that of the other artists featured in the DVD, the video unfolds following the music - the only real narrative of sort contained in this alternation of images of a very different nature. No progression of sort was sought in order to give the video a logical succession from one artist to another, as the content of Channel 83’s gallery is highly varied and heterogeneous, each artist’s work ruptures that of the previous ones, surprising the spectator with an always different take on the subject of wounds.

The unfolding of the images follows a cut-up methodology akin to the one used by Ballard (“The Atrocity Exhibition”) and echoing Burroughs’ work as a whole. The video explores a multitude of abject bodies, of open gashes, planting the seed for a further critical assessment of the idea of wound. This parade of palpitating wounds strives to create a multiplicity of paths to approach the ideas of body, wound and beauty. “Channel 83 - An Archive of Wounds” is also an atrocity exhibition that takes on abjection in order for it to embody new ways of approaching the body. The DVD is, by all means, a plateau, each artist’s contribution feedbacks into that of another artist, each image responds to the previous and following ones, underlining the delicacy of the wounded body, the most violent aspects implicit in the practice of wounding the body, displaying monstrous bodies alongside wonderfully ‘different’ ones, finally stretching the edges of the wound constituted by the project Channel 83.

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