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| The story sets in with a Dionysian goat-masked character, Igor Kempinski, isolated surrounded only by computers in his laboratory which all repeat his mission on the screens: “Stromboli?”. After years of searching, he promptly receives information that “Stromboli is in the Center for Contemporary Art”. His quest brings him to the Witte de With street in Rotterdam where the Center currently hosts a project called “Social Actors in Transformation”. He explores the various work exhibited in the white walled art-sanctum. From timelines to lexicons to video libararies, again and again, he finds the word Stromboli. But where is Stromboli and what does it have to do with this place? |
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SOME THUMBNAILS ENLARGE |
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Our perplexed masked man, whose apparent gender and identity remains in flux throughout, endures the final presentation of the project to the traditional bouquet of flowers from the curators to the project organizer. Igor wanders through the ensuing inbred rites and rituals of arty-farty parties: the usual suspects tinking champagne glasses inhaling the free catering conversing only aggravates him further. “Excuse me. I am looking for Stromboli. Where is Stromboli? I am going crazy!” |
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| Within the evening theme “The Resurrection of the Visual Arts”, this eight minute movie traces an individual’s schizophrenic search for the “Stromboli” in the insular forum of the art-world to his just revelation. The five-evening “Stromboli” festival was a cooperation of WORM and Coolhaven at The Player April 30 to May 4. Stromboli (the movie) was made possible by the imaginations of Innbetween with ZEROGLAB R:DAM and Aldo. |
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