About This Project

THE WRITER is an experimental ethnographic film part of LABOUR IN A SINGLE SHOT, a unique curation/collaboration with legendary experimental filmmaker Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann with filmmakers in 15 cities worldwide.

The film and curation opened at the Venice Biennale.


Out of all of the films in the curation, Nicole Teeny’s THE WRITER was the only one featured in the Art Philosophy textbook “Objections Forms of Abstraction” By Sven Lütticken.


Creative limitations for the project:

  • Documentary

  • Shot in a single frame between 1 to 2 minutes

  • Investigate an aspect of labour

This film features author Kathryn Warzak.

The Writer

Featuring Kathryn Warzak.


The Origamist

THE ORIGAMIST observes world-renowned origami and glass artist, Martin Demaine.

Militarized Rush Hour

MILITARIZED RUSH HOUR is a response to the first film ever made, “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory”(1895) by the Lumière Brothers. 


exhibitIONS:

Venice Biennale May 9 - November 22, 2015 | Venice, Italy

House of the World Cultures February 27- April 6, 2015 | Berlin, Germany

Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston September 19 - November 30, 2014 | Boston, USA


Instituto Moreira Salles September 17, 2019 - January 05, 2020, Sao Paulo | Brazil

Sullivan Gallerie, School of the Art Institut of Chicago August 26 - December 21, 2019, Chicago | USA

Galerie de'l UQAM January 15 - June 15, 2019, Montreal | Canada

Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries April 07 - May 26, 2019, Annandale On-Hudson | USA


National Museum of Modern Contemporary Art October 26, 2018 - April 07, 2019, Seoul | Korea

Museum am Dom May 5 - October 21, 2018 | Trier, Germany

Museum Arbeitswelt May 4, 2018 - December 31, 2020 | Steyer, Austria

Kunsthalle Mannheim October 10, 2018 - March 3, 2019 | Mannheim, Germany

Festival Art Souterrain March 3 - 25, 2017 | Montreal, Canada

Friche La Belle De Mai November 25, 2017 - March 18, 2018 | Marseille, France


CAC (Contemporary Art Center Vilnius) June 11 - August 6, 2017 | Vilnius, Lithuania

Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Mexico City November 26, 2016 - März 26, 2017 | Mexico City, Mexico

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid October 26, 2016 - March 13, 2017 | Madrid, Spain


aut. architektur und tirol, Innsbruck June 30 - September 10, 2016 | Innsbruck, Austria

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona June 02 - October 16, 2016 | Barcelona, Spain

Gallery "Y", Minsk April 05 - 30, 2016 | Minsk, Belarus

Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen December 05, 2015 - February 28, 2016 | Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul July 05 - November 11, 2015 | Seoul, Korea

Sherman Gallery, University of Boston November 4 - December 9, 2014 | Boston, USA

Folkwangmuseum, as part of the Ruhrtriennale, Essen August 15 - September 28, 2014 | Essen, Germany


MUAC / Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, México City February 15 - June 1, 2014 | Mexico City, Mexico

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan December 5 - 14, 2013 |Bangalore, India

Goethe-Institut Athens opening, October 24, 2013 | Athens, Greece 3 flatscreens, Foyer Omriou Str. 14-16

Goethe-Institut Montréal opening, October 17, 2013 | Montréal, Canada 3 outdoor projections St-Laurent – Local, St-Laurent Hall, Ontario Street

Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź October 4 - November 11, 2013 | Łódź, Poland 55th.

Venice Biennale Latin-American Pavilion, Arsenale, June 1 - November 24, 2013

Lumiar Cité, Lisbon a space of Maumaus, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute Lisbon 
May 2 - June 16, 2013 in Lisbon | Portugal

Tel Aviv Museum of Art February 27 - May 25, 2013 | Tel Aviv, Israel