Neon Rain on My Skin, 2022
Neon rain art contest entry
In this normally dry polluted smog-filled city it is often hard to breathe and harder to survive but on the rarest of occasions, we have the Neon Rain which cleanses the whole city and fills us with joy. When it happens I will stand on the rooftop and let the rain pour over my whole body like a blessing. (Pro Res HQ Loop 4000x4000px (original) 2022)
2019, The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP)
is a unique video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”.
I had the thought “This is not a drill” when conversing with an ECVP colleague who is actually currently suffering under the chaos in Hong Kong and their fight for Democracy.
I reposted one of the many horrific news articles coming from Hong Kong with the title, “This is Not a Drill, this is to all the people who don’t know what’s happening in China and or don’t care”. The common man’s fight against a total ruling government and the police of that government is as real as it gets. It is to witness the human struggle live and televised today in 2019.
My colleague, Wai Kit Lam, an artist whose art you should discover for yourself, deals with a real drama every day. Inspired and angry, I created This is not a Drill as a response to the ECVP in 3 days with an intense video shoot and a rough rugged cut that’s composition is dysfunctional and multidimensional. When I saw my 10 seconds from Simone Stoll I was pleased with my idea of colorful smoke and graffiti would fit together well. I took inspiration also from photos of protesters.
Part #2 in the series Children of the Never-Ending Broadcast. Grab them by the Pussy, 2019, mixed media. Dedicated to all the charlatans and religious hypocrites that can that support the most morally bankrupt and corrupt person to ever occupy the white house.
Girl with News of the Day, 2:00, mixed Media, Oil on Canvas + Digital ©2018
Anthony Siarkiewicz with Simone Stoll as the female voice. The first part in the series Children of the Never-Ending Broadcast.
This video is about hate and violence and how we tolerate leaders who promote both. The girl in the video is purposely still and standing-by watching doing nothing perhaps she is in shock or perhaps she doesn’t know what to do. Like so many of us, the solutions to today’s problems are complex and beyond one person’s ability to solve.
A Project for Laterna Magica @laternamagica.net and the Dommuseum Ottonianum in Magdeburg. A movie set in the museum entrance which introduces visitors to the history of Magdeburg’s cathedral.
2017, The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”. Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists’ game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member’s work. Each member is asked to incorporate these seconds into their piece, until everyone’s vision is threaded together into an instigating final “corpse”. Each individual artist
interrogates, via different means, a number of genres, tendencies and strategies. The ECVP was initiated in 2008 by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela and it has had 6 volumes released. The project has had the participation of over 100 artists from more than 25 countries.
The project has been already shown in galleries, museums, cinemas and alternative spaces of Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK and US. Some of the main spaces that have exhibited the ECVP include the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Central Gallery in São Paulo, Open Contemporary Art Center in Taiwan, Galerie Carla Magna in Paris, Monkeytown in New York, Visual Arts Network in Cape Town, Artists Television Access in San Francisco and Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand.
Focus Pull, 2017
Experimentation with music by Jim Ether
My Car, 2017
Experimentation with music by Jim Ether
Soul Hunter, 2015
Excited to create something to a composition from Lukasz Lowkis his experimental video features Trapcode MIR
Music by Lukasz Lowkis
Pursuit of Destiny, 2015
Experimenting with several computer generated graphics mixed with live action sits juxtaposed to this cinematic composition from Lukasz Lowkis
Music by Lukasz Lowkis
Utopia, 2000
ECVP Vol. 5 – CRISIS & UTOPIA, I choose Utopia and after some research came up with the video.
music by Jim Ether
Screenings:
Athens Digital Arts Festival, May 2008
Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series
(fall 2017, Taiwan)
Spacio Enter
(24 – 27 August 2017, Canary Islands)
She tells me to pull my pants up, 2014
Designed for 2 screens. Part of a series using Trapcode MIR
Traveler’s End, 2011
Taking advantage of a light fresh snow I decided to do something new. How I’m saddened by what’s happened to the travel industry. I once loved to travel and looked forward to it all the time. Now, it’s just a drag, airplanes I mean to say are just no fun anymore. The service is bad and the whole experience is worse. We are always at war after all, it’s really too bad.
Pony Ride, 2010
The Secret Thoughts of Mannequins.
Fluids
2009, 2:30
Originally created for the Exquisite Corpse Video Project Volume 2, was a theme motivated video that I wanted to communicate fluids include air (air is a fluid) and illustrate my general belief that everything and all the people are connected.
The Fiercest Branch
2009, 3:00
The Fiercest Branch shows the choreography of women’s arms against a rhythmically changing plain colored background. Arms stretched out to their sides, slender and elegant, somehow they do bear aggression, convey beauty as well as force. The right arm stands for action, construction, and destruction.
The fast digital music is interwoven with women’s voices, animation techniques, and special effects.
Anthony Siarkiewicz: Producer / Director
Simone Stoll: Producer / Sound effects
Jim Ether: Music
The Arms of:
Sandrine Butler
Kristen Kring
Janelle Lyons
Rachelle Mirizio
Sarah Pelfrey
Erica Portela
This film was originally conceived to play as the Right Arm of the Vitruvian Woman Video Sculpture, a video installation based on da Vinci’s Vitruvian man sketch, where different artists create a video for the different areas of the body. It premiered in March 2009 at the Formverk Art Space in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
It has also recently been screened at the Naoussa International Film Festival in Greece.