Death Kit Train, 2005
Video
The video Death Kit Train shows an ordinary, simple activity in an extraordinary slow manner in detail. A red car comes into the frame slowly. At first everything seems to be in order and apparently there is nothing unusual going on. However, after a few seconds of time the viewers come to be aware of the fact that the car is not moving on its own and that actually there are people pushing it strenuously. Eventually, in the last frame, viewers realize that people are pushing each other.
The video Death Kit Train shows an ordinary, simple activity in an extraordinary slow manner in detail. A red car comes into the frame slowly. At first everything seems to be in order and apparently there is nothing unusual going on. However, after a few seconds of time the viewers come to be aware of the fact that the car is not moving on its own and that actually there are people pushing it strenuously. Eventually, in the last frame, viewers realize that people are pushing each other.
SD video, color, sound
2:57 min
SD video, color, sound
2:57 min
Ahmet Öğüt
Ahmet Öğüt, born in 1981 in Diyarbakır, works across a variety of different media often picking up on an urban environment. With an eye for daily encounters and moments of improvisation his works address topics such as structural inequality, state suppression, censorship and forms of resistance. Singular acts of non alignment or collective struggles against militarized powers equally tend to inspire the aesthetic and thematic reflections that occur in Ahmet Öğüt's work just as the way he operates in the institutional ecology surrounding his practice. He had solo shows among others at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2015), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2012), Kunsthalle Lissabon (2011) and SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul (2011). He has participated in group shows such as the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Manifesta 11 (2016), “Museum On/OFF” at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015), “Political Populism” at Kunsthalle Wien, the Kyiv Biennial (2015) and many more.
- Anna Boghiguian
- Candice Breitz
- Marco A. Castillo
- CATPC
- Alice Creischer
- Chto Delat
- Clegg & Guttmann
- Eugenio Dittborn
- Heinrich Dunst
- Anna Ehrenstein
- León Ferrari
- Peter Friedl
- Sophie Gogl
- Barbara Hammer
- Ramon Haze
- Hiwa K
- Simon Lehner
- Renzo Martens
- Chris Martin
- Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
- Oswald Oberhuber
- Mario Pfeifer
- Dierk Schmidt
- Santiago Sierra
- Michael E. Smith
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Clemens von Wedemeyer
- Tobias Zielony