The principle rule of Order of Service is image multiplication. The screen is divided into several parts depicting almost identical situations. Drawing on Zbigniew Rybczyński’s New Book, in this experimental document the Dutch artist Henk Otte shows a website that lets the faithful absent from church service to attend through computer images.
Henk Otte was born in 1985. He currently works and lives in Berlin. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2012. Otte made a short video Selvbetjening (2009) with Evert Klein Nagelvoort. Otte’s latest film is Order of Service.
2009 Selvbetjening (co-dir., video, short)
2012 Plan uroczystości / Orde van Dienst / Order of Service (doc., short)