ON SCREEN – Season 5 Residual Data / Future Hauntologies

 ON SCREEN – 2025

My video, "J7," selected for ON SCREEN 2025, is now available to stream:

ON SCREEN – Season 5
Residual Data / Future Hauntologies

https://www.goes-art.com/onscreen-season05

Residual Data / Future Hauntologies

The final chapter of ON SCREEN arrives as its most spectral and philosophical season. A meditation on what lingers and what is to come — a journey into the shadows of digital culture, where traces, ghosts, and memories persist long after their intended use has faded.Future Hauntologies reveal the uncanny ways tomorrow already inhabits today. In the age of predictive algorithms and generative systems, the future haunts us as both promise and threat, as utopia deferred and dystopia rehearsed.Together, the works of Season 05 unfold as a philosophical cartography of spectral landscapes. They traverse ruins of data, haunted architectures, and uncanny temporalities — asking what it means to live among ghosts of information, and how we inhabit a world where memory is encoded and the future arrives as haunting rather than hope

J.7 / 2024 / 2:03 min.

In a world where simulations that are often hollow, superficial and falsified replace reality, the line between useful and useless becomes blurred. Uselessness reveals the constructed nature of perceptions and causes us to rethink what we believe to be real or valuable. [...] Longing for uselessness and emptiness is not about striving for uselessness. Rather, it is about finding meaning in the seemingly impractical through creativity, criticism and insight. Think of uselessness and emptiness as energy. When desire is free from the constraints of usefulness, it becomes a force that drives us to new ideas and expressions, showing us that the useless has its own productivity.

Abuja International Photo Festival

My photo work  “Red Chair” (with Ve-Ben E.K Fiatsi) was presented at 

Abuja International Photo Festival

A WORLD CONNECTED –

29/10/2025 – 31/10/2025

Department of Arts and Culture Exhibition Pavilion

Area 11, Exhibition Pavilion Centre, Abuja, Nigeria

In an increasingly interconnected world, the artists you will meet in the exhibition shared evocative images that gave voice to this year s theme – A WORLD CONNECTED – and delved into the myriad ways we are linked – socially, culturally, environmentally, technologically, and emotionally. Their photographs captured the essence of our shared humanity, the intricate webs of relationships that bind us, and the visible and invisible threads that connect diverse communities and experiences.

Curator Osaze Efe

 

Between Empty Times – Empty Space - a summary

 

Between Empty Times – Empty Space

At the beginning of my Faber Andorra project, an empty, upside-down glass was marked. Now, a half-full, or rather, half-empty glass signifies the end of my project and my time in Andorra.

My project was dealing with the concepts of empty times – empty spaces and is based on the philosophical thoughts and ideas of Ma and Zen, which originate from the Far East.

Originally, it was planned as a solo project including only one Social Sculpture workshop. Due to my mental health issues, I perceive and experience the world differently. I therefore generally approach projects without expectations, as this would, in my case, limit my mind and prevent me from gaining new experiences and insights. This means that I often discover opportunities directly at the residency location itself that were not available or visible during the initial planning and concept development phase. These are normally circumstances and subjects that I wouldn't find in my hometown, for example.

The opportunities that arose shortly before the start of my stay allowed me to collaborate with three local artists simultaneously. Furthermore, instead of just one workshop on the topic of social sculpture, an additional land art workshop and an artist talk were also conducted.

With each artist, I worked on a different project:

Audiovisual (sound/video)project "Circadian Silence" in collaboration with scientist and visual art artist Nathalie Launay (Andorra).

Visualized poem (video poem)"El pes i el buit del temps" in collaboration with poet Fabiola Sofia Masegosa (Andorra).

The third project was a performance ”Space Between Empty and Full” created in collaboration with visual artist Emma Regada, which explored the concepts of empty/full, using water as the main medium.

The three different workshops included:

1x Social Sculpture Workshop for school children between 10-11

1x Land Art Workshop for 1st Grad primary school children (British College in Andorra)

1x Artist talk Topic "What is the relationship between illness and creation? How does artistic practice affect and condition having good health or not?" for students on the English course at the Lifelong Learning Centre. The talk included two short exercises from the Social Sculpture Workshop.

In addition to the collaborative projects with the three artists and the workshops, I regularly visited my favorite cafes in La Massana, either the Grupetta or the Granier. There, I not only continued working on my projects, but also observed the social and urban environment from the perspective of a lone wolf.

I took the time for walks and to visit museums and exhibitions, including the Comic Museum in La Massana, the Museu Casa Rull in Sispony (La Massana), and the Casa d'Areny-Plandolit in Ordino, to learn more about these two very different families who once lived in these houses, about their lifestyles and their status in their time and society. I also had the opportunity to visit the LandArt25 Biennial in Sant Julià.

I am very grateful to Faber Andorra for the residency opportunities and to Sandra Colell for her efficient support and assistance, which made the realization of important parts of the project possible. I will cherish this short stay. Not only because of what I accomplished, but also because of the impressive landscape, the culture, and the atmosphere of the towns and villages

“SURBINALE”

My video work "View Behind the Curtain" will be presented at the

“SURBINALE”

04.11 – 09.11.2025

Stadtsaal Groß-Enzersdorf

Rathaussstrasse 1, 2301 Groß-Enzersdorf* , Austria

*located in the eastern suburbs of Vienna

As the world's only film festival of its kind, SUBURBINALE places the suburbs at the center of its attention. Taking place for the 5th time from November 4th to 9th, 2025, in Groß-Enzersdorf, Lower Austria, it presents cinematic perspectives on the "suburbs" in the broadest sense. Thus, SUBURBINALE focuses on urban fringe areas experiencing the most significant population growth and the fundamental changes associated with it. The changes observed here exist in similar forms in many suburban areas worldwide. In most cases, they receive considerably less attention than the inner-city areas. SUBURBINALE focuses its gaze on the suburbs, both from within and from the outside, and incorporates their realities into its festival concept.

Directors: SUBURBINALE. Georg Vogt • Moritz Jahoda

The work "View behind the curtain" is a segment of Ashes of Eden project created by dancer Jana Schmück and visual artist Johannes C. Gerard. The scenery is set in a suburbia area in the Eastern part of Germany. A typical suburb location for the region. A mix of progress, moving on, stand still, scattered dreams. Even after more 35 years of the unification of Germany.

 

Empty Times – Empty Spaces – The Collaborations

Empty Times - Empty Spaces at Faber Andorra– The Collaborations

As mentioned before this residence project is dealing with the concepts of empty times – empty spaces and is based on the philosophical thoughts and ideas of Ma and Zen, which originate from the Far East

Originally, the entire project was planned as a solo project and only included a workshop on the topic of social sculpture.

However, shortly before my stay and the start of the project, opportunities arose to collaborate with three local artists simultaneously. The concept was therefore adapted, and the project was divided into several parts. It now consists of various collaborative works.

I worked on a different project with each artist: An audiovisual (sound/video) project called "Circadian Silence" in collaboration with the scientist and visual artist Nathalie Launay. This project with her was particularly important to me, as we learned from each other and began to rethink our artistic concepts and visions.

The other two collaborative projects were a visualized poem (video poem) titled "El pes i el buit del temps" in collaboration with the poet Fabiola Sofia Masegosa.

The third project was a performance titled "Space between empty and full," created in collaboration with the visual artist Emma Regada, which explored the concepts of emptiness and fullness using water as the main medium.

As a result, the entire project and the concepts of "Empty Times - Empty Space" gained a broader meaning and interpretation, both in intellectual and artistic terms.

 

#Traveling Exhibition

 Ex-libris works by me are on display in the ...

#Traveling Exhibition

International ExLibris Competition Varna

13/10/ - 31/10/2025

Corridor Gallery

"Dobri Hristov" National University - Varna

34 Stefan Karadzha Str. Odesos Distr., 9000 Varna , Bulgaria

#TravelingExLibrisExhibition Traditionally, the exhibition with the selected works from the sixth edition of the International ExLibris Competition Varna will be a guest at the "Corridor" gallery of the National School of Arts "Dobri Hristov" - Varna.

 

Yeoju International Photo Festival 2025.

My photographic work “Monsoon”, which shows a street scene in Dhaka, Bangladesh during a monsoon downpour, is exhibited at

“Everyday Life as Precious Memory”

Yeoju International Photo Festival 2025.

October 25 – November 20, 2025

Opening date: Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 3:00 PM

Venue: 33-26 Gangbyeon Yuwonji-gil, Yeoju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

(in front of Hwangpo Sailboat / Water Sports Dock)