Asche Basis

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„The video ASCHE BASIS was made by Paschutan Buzari and Stephan Dillemuth in 1995. It is 15 minutes long and it looks like a sectional view through some hippie’s video collection. You may call it a collage, others call it sampling and then they might drivel about Hiphop or the digital nostalgia of the 90’s.

I guess that the filmmakers’ interest lay buried in the graveyard of modern architecture or in what makes the 1970s look so appealing for the 90s, when they were actually just a pseudo utopia of a pseudo sexy, pseudo socialist society. But resampling the failed intentions of a falsely glorified past means throwing them into the face of current discussions around city planning and the corporate representation of what was once intended as a democratic community.

That debunks the 90’s as a similarly oppressive, similarly deceitful, but, unlike the 70’s, almost masochistic decade, where the only idea left for sale is that of a retro utopia. One more year to get rid of this shit.“

-1999 Werner von Delmont for Bergen Museum for Samstidkunst-

[VHS-Video (mit Paschutan Buzari), deutschsprachig, 15 min, vom ß-SP Master, 1995]