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Nikolas Godbach video, TEN, 2010

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Niklas Goldbach

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Originally aired on Monday, June 27th, 2011

Video artist Niklas Goldbach turns controversial spaces (Nazi public swimming baths; a bombed-out discotheque in Corsica) into personal landscapes where his own digitally multiplied body occupies the space and redefines it. He's like one of Robert Longo's "Men in the Cities" for the digital age.

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