PERMANENT REVOLUTION
Credits
Single Channel Video Installationstarring
Terence Nance
Kenzo Guzman
Gavin Russom
with
Sarah Vanhee
Sharon Dedlooq and Dirk Van Esser as first stage performers
Philip Pollack as the second stage performer
Soldiers: the Belgian Living History Associaton; Dirk Thielens, Dieter Cnudde,
Dirk Thielens, Roeland Mertens, Kristof Binnemans, Joeri Achten, Guido Hoebrechts,
Ronny Geerinckx, Serge Pacolet, Johnny Bleus, and Heinz Dorissen (wapenmeester)
Art Students: Lotte Vannieuwenborg, Margot Vyverman, Jonas Van Tielen,
and Hendrik Willekens
and introducing: Daniele 'Duccio' Fermani as Molhaly
crew
Camera / Lighting: Shai Levy
Audio Technic: Mahan Raffael Mobashery
Lighting: Marc Tiedemann
Camera Assistant: Daniele 'Duccio' Fermani
Production Coordinators: Sarah Indeherberge and Ludo Thys
Fire, Smoke and Snow Effects: Mazzotti Action /Alister Mazzotti & Philip Pollack
Special Effects Make Up: Ivan Mertens
Psychedelic Lighting Effects: Jens Hšhne
Set Building: Guido Mertens, Katrin Deconick, Lucas Pellens, Ine Schriers, No‘l Jans,
Jan Winkels, Mike Carremans, and Niels Vaes
Dramaturgy and Casting: Miriam Stein
Live Organ Music Prologue: performed by Terence Nance
Live Organ Music Scene 1 and Scene 9: performed by Gavin Russom
Produced at FLACC, Genk Belgium
with Support from:
FLACC
Sammlung Falckenberg
and New York University
Special Thanks to: FLACC, Felix Ensslin, Harald and Larissa Falckenberg, Steven Op De Beeck, Jan Van Woensel, Dieter Roelstraete and Peter Weibel
Additional Thanks to: Xavier Huygen and Mijn Verleden VZW, Kringloopwinkel
De Koop - Genk Christophe Aussems and De Queeste, the Belgian Living History Associaton
and Mazzotti Action
2007
Runtime: 27 Minutes
Excerpt from: Sarvia Jasso’s ‘Sue de Beer: Mysteries of the Screen, Video Art's Dark Darling Looks to the Past’, SOMA, February 2008
Considering its reputation for being cold and dreary, Berlin provides the backdrop for many of de Beer's current collaborations, not to mention an endless source of inspiration. Her latest effort is shaping up to be quite a departure. Permanent Revolution (2007), for which she enlisted the help of artist, musician and fellow Berlin transplant Gavin Russom, is a contemplative video about the implications of war and destruction. Influenced by the structure of novels, the action is divided into chapters with intermissions for two large-headed, carnivalesque characters who dance around a stage. In one chapter, images of bombed buildings are juxtaposed with Walter Gropius' text about Bauhaus architecture. Interweaving history and cultural production with the current state of affairs, Permanent Revolution proves a much more somber - some might even say more mature - work for someone once pegged as video art's dark darling.