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The Builders Association/motiroti's
Alladeen
Bangalore–London–New York



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chris kondek
 

Christopher Kondek has been creating video for performance for over 10 years. In 1989 he became an Associated Member of the New York multimedia company The Wooster Group, where he created video for the Group's theatre works: Brace Up!, Fish Story, Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape. He also recently completed a new video work based on The Emperor Jones which opened the 1999 Lincoln Center Video Festival. For The Builders Association, he was responsible for creating video for Jump Cut (Faust) (1996) and Jet Lag (2000). In 1995 he co-created visuals with multimedia artist Laurie Anderson for Nerve Bible. He recently worked with Anderson again, co-creating slides and video for Songs and Stories From Moby Dick (1999.) He designed the video for Robert Wilson's The Days Before: Death, Destruction and Detroit III (1999) and for Wilson's multimedia project with pianist Tzimon Barto Hot Water (2000). Kondek has also collaborated with composer Michael Nyman and the Michael Nyman Band in The Commissar Vanishes (1999), and collaborated with choreographer Meg Stewart in Alibi (2001) at the Zurich Schauspielhaus. In addition to the stage, Kondek's work has been exhibited at The American Museum of The Moving Image in New York, and The Field Museum in Chicago.