Death at a 30 Degree Angle
Mixed Media Video Art Project
India & Germany, Feb 2012
Director: Bani Abidi
Art Director/ Line Producer: Sidharth Mathawan
Produced by: Studio db
Death at a 30 Degree Angle is an mixed media project by Pakistani artist Bani Abidi, that is the fictitious account of a small time politician's attempt to commission a monumental official public statue of himself. he work will be realised as an installation that includes multiple video screens and sounds that gently satirize the struggle for power, self-aggrandizement, sycophancy and paranoia of politicians, while exploring the conceptual and visual vocabulary of authority and power.
ABIDI was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1971. She recieved her BFA degree from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan in 1994 and an MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, USA in 1999 . Abidi has worked primarily in video for the past 7 years and her videos have been exhibited widely in solo and group shows internationally.
It will debut at Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany in June 2012.
Bani Abidi
Mixed Media Video Art Project
India & Germany, Feb 2012
Director: Bani Abidi
Art Director/ Line Producer: Sidharth Mathawan
Produced by: Studio db
Death at a 30 Degree Angle is an mixed media project by Pakistani artist Bani Abidi, that is the fictitious account of a small time politician's attempt to commission a monumental official public statue of himself. he work will be realised as an installation that includes multiple video screens and sounds that gently satirize the struggle for power, self-aggrandizement, sycophancy and paranoia of politicians, while exploring the conceptual and visual vocabulary of authority and power.
ABIDI was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1971. She recieved her BFA degree from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan in 1994 and an MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, USA in 1999 . Abidi has worked primarily in video for the past 7 years and her videos have been exhibited widely in solo and group shows internationally.
It will debut at Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany in June 2012.
Bani Abidi
