COSMOS CINEMA

The project starts at 9:00 p.m.

The project links together the six locations from the Dark Side of the Night itinerary. While the stories do not follow any particular order, each is related and dependent on the others, and on the instinct of the public to discover and understand them. “The dark side of the soul” is an expression first ascribed to Juan de Yepes y Álvarez (John of the Cross), designating the temporary experience of spiritual desolation in mysticism, a time in which God is concealed and faith seems to waver. Called the “Sahara of the heart” by Richard J. Foster, this is a period when Man “measures his indignity in a downward movement” before measuring “his greatness in a movement up towards Light”. Which is why it is not a negative experience. John of the Cross differentiates between two types of night: one of the senses, and the other of the mind.

Carl Palm is an artist based in Stockholm. He was educated at the Royal Institute of Art in the Swedish capital. Palm’s work spans across a wide variety of media including drawing, sculpture, print, installation, and expands into the realm of curating. Some of his recent exhibitions include: Bar Grraowl (Venice, Basel, Berlin / 2013); The Return of the Object (Galeri Invaliden 1, Berlin / 2012); We Like A Hardboiled Egg In The Morning But Don`t Like To Be 6-8 Minutes Late (Komplot, Brussels / 2012); and Disclosure – exhibition as discourse as disco, organized by IASPIS during the 12th Istanbul Biennale (2011). Palm is currently compiling the second issue of the publication Good Times & Nocturnal News that will gather contributions from international artists and writers, and will be launched at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius.

Dual channel display of monumental ending excerpts from the top 100 films of American cinema installed in socialist-era theatre Kosmos. Cinema forms the foundation of post-modern visual languages and American cinema especially
holds a key place in that history. To reveal its workings and global reach is essential to understanding the impact of American influence on world culture.