FREE-DOM


Film program daily

15–19 June
11:00–16:00


During Art Basel, SF Projects+ is opening Haus Vischer Weber - a private salon, hosted in a collectors home, where art, conversation, architecture, and people come together in an intimate residential setting.

Rsvp HERE to visit. 

Film program

Curated by Wumen Ghua and Madé van Krimpen, FREE-DOM is a live arts and media project featuring works by Barcode People, Cao Shu, Henna Hyvärinen and Saemundur Thor, Jacqueline Lâm, Jonghwan Jeong, Joy Li, Rosa Zangenberg.

Financial domination, or Fin-dom is a power dynamic built on control through money. In the commercial art world, it is simply the structure. FREE-DOM gathers nine artists to ask what freedom means when the field itself is a form of domination, not freedom as escape, but as endurance, suspension, sabotage, and play.

Find the program here

Phantom Sugar (2023) 15’10 by Cao Shu

Phantom Sugar (2023) 15’10
The second film is Phantom Sugar (2023) by Chinese artist Cao Shu. This film explores the connection between ant colonies as a form of superindividual life and collectivism as well as humanity's obsession with predicting and controlling behavior. Cao imagines AI-governed vertical farms tracing a lineage of technocratic optimism from Salvador Allende’s project Cybersyn, to Chen Boda's proposal for China’s Electronic Industry First both from the early 1970s.

Cao Shu
The work of Chinese artist Cao Shu incorporates a diverse range of media including writing, photography, 3D digital imagery, mixed-media sculpture, video game installations, multi-screen video, and sculpture. His artistic practice includes methods such as historically based science fiction and a personal approach to the archaeology of technology. Cao explores intricate narrative labyrinths that blur reality and virtual, creating digitally rendered “memory excavation sites”. His most recent interests delve into themes of "socialist sci-fi," encryption technology, and the collective subconscious, critically examining technology's impact on the human psyche.

INVISIBLE PEOPLE
A feature film by Alisa Berger

Premiering at Haus Vischer Weber, Basel with the director and composer of the film in attendance.

16 June, 17:00.

Invisible People is a multi-layered depiction of the unique Japanese contemporary dance Butoh that flows between revolt, eroticism, trance, prayer, ancestral experience, and physical anonymity. The film gradually drifts away from its core issue and becomes a general portrayal of life itself, with all its unforeseen strokes of fate and strange micro-connections.

The evening features a live music performance by Ben Kaczor, who composed the film’s music.