Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam

“A Seedless Grape” is an associative research project of artist James Beckett, taking the form of an installation and lecture series looking at the cultural implications of air-conditioning. The project evolved due to the artists NYC studio being the first space in the world to be truly air conditioned back in 1902, by engineer Willis Carrier. The installation draws from the language and methodology of the ‘essay film’, playing with the compacting of sources and layering inherent in story telling, as much as a philosophical poetics.

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