Essi Utriainen
Born 1975 in Oulu, Finland. Lives and works in Munich. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
www.essi-utriainen.com
Exhibitions: Video Art Programme, Five Lakes Film Festival, Starnberg 2019 | Finnish Artists and their Landscape, Neue Galerie Dachau 2018 | VIDEODOX, Gallery of Artists, Munich 2017 | Joburg Fringe VIDEOart, Johannesburg 2010
Ken Brown
Born 1952 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Lives and works in Munich. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois, USA
Exhibitions: Free Radicals, Galerie der Künstler, Munich 2019 | Ten Shades of White, Frosch and Portmann Gallery, NYC, USA 2016 | Ken Brown-Letters from K.B. to I.G., Sammlung Goetz, Munich 2005
Looking for a fig
2023 | 37:44 min
Video, Sound | English
B+E: Essi Utriainen | K: Essi Utriainen, Ken Brown | Original idea: Ken Brown, Essi Utriainen, Oliver Westerbarkey | M: Wilfried Petzi, Frederik Rosenstand | Texts: Ken Brown | With Ken Brown, Peter Friedrich, Katrin Sofie F., Macchia, Thomas Fritsch
The only way to finish something
is to start it first
The only way to find a fig
is to look in the branches of a fig tree
The only way to get a peanut
is to go to the patch and dig one up
The only way to find a frog
is to kiss a prince
Plot is a man who lies on the sofa and makes plans for the future, but doesn’t start anything. Until one day a dog runs up to him and Plot decides to make a film.
The protagonist in Plot’s film is a man who lies on the sofa making plans for the future, but starts nothing. Until one day a dog runs up to him….
Looking for a fig is an experimental artist’s film that tries to look like a real film. A philosophical, unwieldy no-budget film about a search.