魔金石空间将于2012年3月30日至5月20日举办以色列籍德国女艺术家凯伦·赛特（Keren Cytter）在中国的首个个展“焦虑为艺术家的工具”，由比利安娜·思瑞克策展。展览将展出凯伦·赛特四部不同风格的影像作品：《梳子》、《镜子》、《四季》和《视频艺术手册》，这四部作品呈现了过去十年中艺术家创作面貌的演变。凯伦·赛特的作品利用自己的疑惑和焦虑来做为起点，令我们想起人类基本价值观所缺乏的信念。

《梳子》是凯伦·赛特第一部长篇电影。她用在电影开幕时出现的金属梳子来做一个象征，把一男一女邂逅的爱情故事分为六部曲。在影片中，梳子既是他们爱上对方的原因，也是在最后他们分开的理由。他们的关系最终只成为了一夜情，这令观众更能深入了解角色内心的孤独和焦虑。

《镜子》影片中一个四十多岁的女人面对着自己在镜子里的倒影，而她在男人的眼里不是一个少女而是个女人。她、丈夫与情人的三角关系紧紧地，无止境的包围着那份对爱和被爱的欲望。

《四季》有悬疑片的气氛，戏剧性的音乐。开场是一个男人在自己的浴缸里流着血，他的邻居露丝因为他家里的噪音而过来投诉。这个男人一次又一次的叫她做“斯特拉”，故事在重叠的时空里，穿梭着在两个女主角之间。

《视频艺术手册》，开场是一个青年坐在办公室里的镜头，他自信满满的解释着他将会揭开新媒体所营造出的一类新观众（就是其内容的制作人）的奥秘，但却遇到了电力故障，导致了没有互联网、热水、电视、冰箱等，只有在最初发表手册的桌子上的木造鸭子电话还能用。

凯伦·赛特（Keren Cytter），1977年生于以色列，现生活工作于柏林。曾参加2010光州双年展、2009年第53届威尼斯双年展、2009年纽约新美术馆首届三年展“比耶稣还年轻的一代”、2008年横滨三年展、2008年“欧洲宣言（七）”等大型国际艺术展。

同期，凯伦·赛特将于2月29日下午二点至四点在尤伦斯当代艺术中心报告厅举办个人讲座，3月31日下午2点在蓬蒿剧场（东棉花胡同35号中央戏剧学院东侧）上演《演绎·真实·戏剧》。

Magician Space will be hosting Israeli artist Keren Cytter's solo exhibition - Anxiety as an Artistic Tool (curated by Biljana Ciric) from March 30th till May 20th. This will be her first ever exhibition in China. Cytter has a prolific body of work including numerous films, plays and novels. She is also the co-founder of a dance company - Dance International  Europe Now (D.I.E. Now). Four pieces of filmic works are selected to illustrate the creative development in her practice over the past decade, these works include Brush, Der Spiegel, Four Seasons and Video Art Manual. These works reflect her own doubts and anxieties as starting point, reminding us our the lack of faith in the basic human values.

"Brush" is Cytter's first lengthy film. The artist developed a love story in six parts between a man and a woman who are brought together through a symbol on a metal hair brush that appears at the beginning of the movie. In this story the symbol is both the reason for them to fall in love and, in the end, the reason that they separate. The fact that their relationship turns out to be a one night stand gives further insight into the loneliness and anxiety within both of the characters..

"Der Spiegel" illustrates the dilemmas and struggles that exist within the love triangle between a forty year old woman, her husband and her lover. The video is played in a loop, without a clear sense of beginning, middle and end, where the audience could enter and exit freely.

“Four Seasons” has the atmosphere of a thriller, with dramatic music. The opening scene involves a woman bleeding heavily in his bath tub while a woman ─ his neighbor, Lucy ─ comes over to complain about the noise. The neighbor calls her again and again “Stella.” The story overlaps in time between two characters.

“Video Art Manual,” the piece starts with shot of a young man in an office like setting who confidently explains that he will reveal the mysteries of the new media that established a new type of viewer (i.e. those who became the producers of content). The story shifts when there is an electricity outage, and consequently there is no internet, no hot water, no TV, no mobile phones, no refridgerator. The only thing working is a wooden duck telephone that was sitting on the table of the young man who first introduced the manual.

Keren Cytter was born 1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She lives and works in Berlin. In 2009 she was awarded the Absolut Art Award and shortlisted for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in Berlin. In 2008 she received the Ars Viva 2008; Preis für Bildende Kunst des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin, and in 2006 the Bâloise Art Prize in Basel.

On March 29th, Cytter will also be giving a talk at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art from 2pm to 4pm, and on March 31st her stage piece - Show Real Drama will be presented in Penghao Theatre from 2pm.