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Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi, 'Remote' (film still), 2022. © Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi. Courtesy the artists and Hauser & Wirth
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Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi, 'Remote' (film still), 2022. © Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi. Courtesy the artists and Hauser & Wirth
Event
REMOTE: Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi
9 Oct 2022
Regular hours
- Sun, 09 Oct
- 15:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- Bankside
- London
- SE1 9TG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 45, 63, 100, 344, 381, RV1
- Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars
- Train: London Bridge
The premiere of Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi's first feature film REMOTE, followed by a Q&A with the artists.
About
Set in a near future, REMOTE follows Unoaku, an expat architect living in a solar-punk apartment in Kuala Lumpur, and four other women living on their own in Iran, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and South Africa. While watching a popular South Korean dog grooming show, the five women discover they are connected through mysterious portals hidden in their homes. Embarking on a quest for answers, they use the portals to bridge the distance between them, uncovering a phenomenon with universe-altering consequences.
REMOTE was filmed in 2021 at Rottenberg’s studio in upstate New York and in various locations across the Hudson Valley and New York City that double as apartments across the globe, with a cast including multinational actors and performers, including Okwui Okpokwasili and Joony Kim. Produced during the COVID pandemic, REMOTE explores what it means to connect in a 'hyperconnected' future populated by isolated users who are mostly unable to form and maintain unmediated human relationships.
REMOTE was commissioned by Artangel; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden in association with Hauser & Wirth. The film was completed with support by MOCA’s Environmental Council, Los Angeles; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada; X Museum, Beijing, China; and the Busan Biennale, Korea.
