Drawings for La Dépendance #15
Exhibition and sale of the collection

At Open Studio Days Rote Fabrik
Hosted by Brigham Baker
There will be a drawing table and selected pieces from the vinyl collection playing

21.11 2025

People doing things together (des gens qui font des choses ensemble)

Compiled by Ethan Assouline*

Let’s look together at different ways of working, organizing, thinking, producing, and performing
collectively, and see what that reveals and teaches us. I wanted to bring together videos and films
that show, in an honest and direct way, how to respond to a problematic situation or system. How
to organize within or in the face of it. How to comment on, criticize, or celebrate a way of doing
things. Or both at the same time. Far from the neoliberal discourse of vivre ensemble (living
together), let’s look at how a group becomes a group and why. Let’s study the internal dynamics
and what is at play. Manipulation, power, lies, confrontation, shouting, emotions, reconciliation,
success, and failure………………………………………………… a real evening in front of the television!

Infos

The Group Show Dilemma (2006)
Joachim Hamou, 12min30, OV/E

How would a progressive and perhaps ideal group-show look like (in 2005)?  That was the question a group of artists and an art-critic asked themselves. The dilemma was that we can’t live with the current state of the group-show, but we can’t live without it either. No model for group-shows make sense anymore. So how can we overcome this resignation? Giving up would leave us with only solo exhibitions and that might, in the long run, be a bit unimaginative

Framer Framed (2021)
Ramaya Tegegne, 27min, OV/F/e

A group of Black filmmakers and actors are reenacting the board meeting of a community cinema. A letter of complaint has been addressed to the cinema. It revives the tensions about the appropriate behavior towards a group of Black men who occupies the lobby of the building
during the day, while the cinema is showing a film about the situation of these
undocumented workers. This letter is asking how the institution is really committed
to social change beyond the films they screen?

Crochet live at 1720, Los Angeles, december 16, 2023 (2023)
4min30 OV/E
live of their track Ancient Roman Candle by Las Vegas Screamo band Crochet filmed by hotstuff productions

Healing Ground (1995)
Video courtesy of Media Burn Archive, 10min, OV/E

Documentary about one of The Resource Center’s City Farm projects near the Robert Taylor Homes. Founded by Ken Dunn (1942-2024) in 1975, the Resource Center is a nonprofit focused on environmental sustainability. Its City Farm projects cultivate gardens on vacant land in order to provide fair wage jobs and grow healthy food in historically disinvested communities.

Le Mur du Son (2023)
Harilay Rabenjamina & 93sOn, 7min30, OV/F/e

In 2022, Harilay Rabenjamina was artist-in-residence at the Maison Populaire in Montreuil (France) and collaborated with teenagers aged 13 to 17 who frequented the venue to write and compose a song based on their relationship with music. Le mur du son is the result of a year of collective work on the formation of personal taste, the building of an identity and self-affirmation.

Défaillance Critique / Critical Failure (2024)

Phoenix Atala, 45min, OV/F/e

Ekko, an artist-in-residence in الخوارزمی art centre who, after discovering that he is in fact a robot, tries to hack his own code using choreography from the android resistance milieu in order to free himself from the yoke of the I.C.A.C. (Institution Centrale d’Art Contemporain). Youssef, Désiré.e and André.e make a queer, experimental,decolonial science-fiction feature film.

* Ethan Assouline is a visual artist based in Paris. His practice unfolds through sculpture, installation, writing, publishing, drawing and the organization of collective moments around reading and writing.
He is a member of Treize, a production, exhibition and publishing association.

Orbit Screenings II

19.12 2025

Sans Screen

Compiled by Nicoleta Apperti*

It began with a simple impulse: to set a stage. How to set a stage through wonder, story and observation? I wandered through rooms and the landscape surrounding La Dépendance, attempting to hold onto something ephemeral in the space.
There was a sense that time wasn’t moving forward, exactly, but rather passing through. I encountered the quiet remnants of bodies and gestures that had lived here before. These encounters created a kind of layered ecology, where memory and presence coexisted in the same suspended breath. I wanted to bring together an evening that lets us question what it means to replicate something: a word, a scene, a fleeting moment. Replication isn’t just repetition – it’s interpretation, distortion, attention.
I began to see this evening as a meditation on how replication and observation inform each other, how they attempt to pin down what is constantly slipping away.
Let’s set a stage that is both fixed on a meditative mechanism yet also one that drifts freely through both story and the moving image… Enjoy the light flickers and sounds you may or may not hear.

The Script

Read by the Narrator, the Ghost, the Scene Description and the Horse.

55 mins with a short intermission

The reading, written in the format of a film script yet flows in a kinetic sense of prose, is apart of the inquiry into time and poetic documentary. It touches on how we might share a space with ghosts, animals, the planets overhead, and the humans who pass through. Each leaving singular traces and permanent markings that alter the atmosphere,but also remind us that to observe is also to be seen.

Deep in the Mirror Embedded (1965)
Storm de Hirsch
14 mins

Pulled from Storms’ collection Mythology of the Soul, this film is a poetic impression of the lens (the viewer) moving through a house. We touch on the reflections of windowpanes, get caught in natures devices, and then eventually drift off into tiny corners of intimacy. It creates an introspective sensation, as if you are watching a thought or memory unfold that is neither yours nor mine,
yet it somehow feels deeply familiar.

Blast Furnace (2024)
Giuseppe Boccassini
9 mins

Blast Furnace (2024) feels like Boccassini stripping cinema down to its bare pulse.
A tight burst of black-and-white film that moves more like a force than a narrative. The images flicker and press forward, all grain and glare, like they’re breathing ontheir own evoking a primordial atmosphere. Its industrial, mechanical churn has a strangely
meditative pull, yet underneath it there’s a quiet turbulence, the simmering of a storm. As if you’ve brushed up against something elemental, brief but strangely physical.

*Nicoleta Apperti is a screenwriter and voice-over artist based in London and Bucharest. Her current written practice is focused on the research of underage trafficking in eastern landscapes for a feature film. She has written and produced two short films which are currently in post-production, one of which was a collaborative piece set in Mexico. Alongside her work in film, she is also a voice-over artist on the history of Hollywood for the youtube series ‘Hollywood Mysteries’.