The film weaves a story around a mountain in the Nevada desert, planned as a nuclear waste facility for radioactive matter and located on Shoshone Native American land. The narrative is partly told through oral storytelling of people living in its proximity
Lisa Rave, Berlin/Germany — Time-based Media, Solitude fellow 2014–2015
Lisa Rave, born 1979 in Guildford/UK, currently lives and works in Berlin/Germany. She studied film at the European Film College in Denmark and at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Heinz Emigholz. In 2010 she received the Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship and is award winner of the Bremen Award for Video Art 2012/2013.
Her recent exhibitions and screenings include: Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen/Germany, Meulensteen Gallery in New York, NY/USA; Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden/Germany (2012); Chisenhale Gallery, London/UK; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (N.B.K.), Berlin (2011), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2011) and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen/Germany (2009).
In its new collective publication, Schlossghost #1, Akademie Schloss Solitude examines the ways in which politics meet artistic and aesthetic practices in contemporary societies. For this the Solitude-fellows who had residencies in 2014, 2015 and early 2016 were invited to reflect on following questions: »Would you say that your practice is political? If so, how would you describe its political dimension?« Schlossghost #1 takes over the role of the traditional yearbooks by the Akademie. Every second year since 1990 they were summarizing all the facets of the work done in Solitude and maintained as a final truth Stéphane Mallarmé’s affirmation that »the ultimate state of the world is a book«. This new publication has lost its materiality and exists only as a virtual yearbook, or one could say as the ghost of a book. WWW.SCHLOSS-GHOST.COM