esse 106 | Pain short films Fred Sandback: Early Work

Fred Sandback: Early Work

Featured here are 7 short films by Canadian filmmaker Deco Dawson

and at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art from May 10 to July 13

Ledare made an instant splash with his extraordinary 2008 book Pretend You're Actually Alive

and the potentials and limitations of artistic and conceptual freedom under late

esse 106 | Pain short films Fred Sandback: Early WorkIn recent years, the question of pain, whether physical or psychological, has become a hot topic in media and scientific discourses. This issue reflects on the place that pain claims in contemporary art through the production of forms and images of suffering that dont forget the care, dont ignore the trauma, and take the affects of the aesthetic relationship into account.