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		<title>Strike Anywhere Trailer</title>
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Strike Anywhere Trailer.

Supermarket 2010,
Kulturhuset,
Stockholm. Screening with introduction and Q&#38;A by Michele Masucci. February 20th, 13:00.

Screening of Strike Anywhere (32:00 HD video w/ Jennifer Hayashida, 2009) with an introduction and discussion lead by Michele Masucci of Stockholm&#8217;s Filmklubben. Screening organized by the project space Artillerie Berlin as part of the &#8220;Supermarket Talks&#8221; program sidebar to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Populus Tremula</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Populus Tremula

by Benj Gerdes &#38; Jennifer Hayashida


9-minute laser subtitled 16mm film, 2010

 

Populus Tremula is a 16mm film loop originating from artistic research into Swedish “Match King” Ivar Kreuger (1880 – 1932), whom The Economist in 2007 called “the world&#8217;s greatest financial swindler” and who was the founder of Svenska Tändsticksaktiebolaget (the Swedish Matchstick Corporation), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>have you any objection do you approve?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[have you any objection do you approve

by Benj Gerdes &#38; Jennifer Hayashida

Series of archival pigment prints, 2009

These re-photographed telegrams and related archival objects are taken from the final months and days of Ivar Kreuger&#8217;s financial empire in 1932, at which point Kreuger&#8217;s securities were the most widely held in the world.  The history which follows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strike Anywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Strike Anywhere


by Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida

HD video, 32:00, 2009

“Strike Anywhere” is a video essay that takes as its point of departure Swedish “Match King” Ivar Kreuger, whose privatization of financial crisis management strategies bears a direct relation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Room of the Sun</title>
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Room of the Sun

by Benj Gerdes &#38; Jennifer Hayashida

16mm film installation, Forthcoming 2009

A looped 16mm film installation that takes as its point of departure Swedish “Match King” Ivar Kreuger, whose privatization of financial crisis management strategies bears a direct relation to late-twentieth century policies implemented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Strike Anywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.clnswp.org/2008/03/no-more-strike-anywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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No More Strike Anywhere

by Benj Gerdes &#38; Jennifer Hayashida

Essay with rephotographed archival images, 21 pages, 2008.

Our initial research and thinking on the Swedish Match King, Ivar Kreuger, is distilled into working notes, a drawing for what the film, video, and installation project could be.  Kreuger is the subject of the larger project Room of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Looking</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democratic Looking

Single-channel video, 1:30, 2008

A rally, some questions.  This footage was so compelling to me I built a piece out of a single shot.

Initial Exhibition: “Global Honking Ground” Yerba Buena Center/SF Cinemateque/Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, 2008.


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		<title>Because There Are So Many: Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Because There Are So Many: Iraq


by Benj Gerdes &#38; Jennifer Hayashida

Single-channel HD video, 8:00, 2007.

Four Iraqi men discuss their flight from Iraq following the United States invasion in 2003.  Between them––an interpreter for the US Military, a computer technician for a military contractor, an english professor, and an oil ministry employee––a dialogue emerges about their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terms of Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Terms of Service: When We Pretend, We’re in Control

Single-channel video, 5 minutes, 2005.

Terms of Service explores cordiality and a certain return of forgiveness negatively through a reading of the military-sponsored (and freely distributed) computer game America’s Army. The text is a letter from the CEO of the software company commissioned to create the game, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Where Credit is Due</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Credit Where Credit is Due

Customized personal check project with series of inkjet prints and photocopies, 2003-2005.

After the U.S. launched war on Iraq in March of 2003, I generated a “custom” series of checks in order to pay monthly credit card, health insurance, and utility bills.  These bore legitimate routing and checking account numbers and were [...]]]></description>
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