Hisab
Ezra Wube (Dondis Travel Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art)
2011, ETH, 7'56''
Inspired by an Ethiopian urban folktale. Three characters, a dog, a donkey and a goat, join a shared taxi ride. Addis Ababa is in transformation. Communities are disappearing and new ones are forming.
Film je navdihnila etiopska urbana pripovedka. Trije liki, pes, osel in koza, se peljejo s taksijem. Adis Abeba se spreminja. Skupnosti izginjajo in nastajajo nove..
Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes
Techniques: stop motion, acrylic paint on a single canvas
Languages: Amharic (spoken), Ge'ez (written)
Ezra Wube
Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Ethiopia) is a mixed media artist who lives and works in New York City. His work references the notion of past and present, the constant changing of place, and the dialogical tensions between "here" and "there". His exhibitions include the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Brazil; The 2nd edition of the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, France; “Gwangju Biennale”, Gwangju, South Korea; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Art in General, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; “Dak’Art Biennale”, Dakar, Senegal and Time Square Arts Midnight Moment, NY. His residencies, commissions and awards include Smack Mellon Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Work Space, LMCC Residency Program, New York, NY; Open Sessions Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; The Africa Center, NY; The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY; Museum of the Moving Images, Queens, NY; Rema Hort Mann Foundation; the Triangle Arts Association Residency, Brooklyn, NY and The Substation Artist Residency Program, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Ezra received his BFA (2004) from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA and an MFA (2009) from Hunter College, New York, NY. Since 2015 Ezra has organized the Addis Video Art Festival, a platform for innovative international video art in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.