Konrad Welz

  • Curated Videos

    Where to start?

    When coming into contact with an unknown body of work, it can be helpful to be eased into it by first experiencing shorter, more widely known, less polemical or intense works – a sort of “Greatest Hits” if you will.
    Since I haven’t yet uploaded all of my video works, this list will definitely change over time.

    Another problem I face compiling this list, is the extreme formal diversity of my videos – of which a small sampling might give the first-time-viewer a completely inaccurate impression of my work in general.
    Despite the formal diversity of the videos, there is a fundamental philosophy and consistent themes which underpin all of my video work. I urge you to read my texts. The extremely different video forms are just different ways of approaching the same ideas and questions.

    For now, I have created some completely arbitrary formal categories of videos so that the viewer will have a better idea of what to expect. These categories are also bound to change; but in the meantime, here are my recommendations for first-timers.

    Video Music

    Chromacandy, 3.23, 1995
    Electro Nosebleed, 2:54, 1997
    Contact, 2:08, 2001

    Reality with a Twist

    Cemetery Symmetry, 4:49, 2002
    Three Turf Pieces, 7:53, 2010
    The Photographer, 5:35, 2021
    N/Ontope, 6:21, 2001

    Observational Videos of Places

    Nike, 3:49, 1996
    Kites, 2:37, 2023

    Extreme Videos

    Against, 1:54, 2011
    Bhumisparsa, 1:16, 1997
    A.R.T, 2:51, 2024
    Contact, 2:08, 2001
    Rock Metal Scissors, 6:54, 2025

    Video Poetry

    Dreams of Forgotten Memories, 4:21, 2004
    Sunset, 5:00, 2004

    Dark Poetry

    late at night when the malls are closed, 11:51, 1997
    Empire, 5:37, 1994
    Invisibilities, 6:17, 2006