Curator: Milagros BelloGuest Curators:
Jocelyn Adele Gonzalez-Junco (Hamburg/Germany)
Andreina Fuentes (Miami/USA)
Marcela Romer (Rosario/Argentina)
WHEN:
OPENING COCKTAIL:
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2007 7pm-11pm
PANEL DISCUSSION:
DIGITAL ART. CONVERSATION WITH CURATORS AND ARTISTS.
OCTOBER 13, 2007 7:30PM-8:30PM
Festival runs through: OCTOBER 20, 2007
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
In its second edition, the scope of this festival has grown larger this year tallying artists from Greece, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, Switzerland, Israel, Germany, France, Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Afghanistan, United States, and Latin America. More than 40 artists and filmmakers render critical axes on social and cultural politics as well as depictions on strong personal mythologies.
Four short films will be shown with special matinee schedule on week-days: ‘The Subjectivisation of Repetition’ by Yves Netzhammer currently participating at the Venice Biennale, Swiss Pavilion, and a sharp 3D animated digital piece. Cyborg-like faceless individuals live their ordeals and helpless battles over despondent scenarios, in a reflection on race, social clashes, and precarious survival. ‘Auto Center Drive’ by Bjorn Melhus conveys with collages of rhythmic and fragmented language and sound, a schizoid character in a strange journey through unmapped territories, in philosophical dialogue with his Cartesian alter ego. ‘MAALESH ’ (2004) by Boaz Kaizman and Erick Sick which means in Arabic "never mind", is based on an audio interview with Prof. David Galloway, in the period when he created a museum of modern art in Iran. Shortly after the museum was opened the Islamic revolution in Iran started. He had to leave the country.
Other works confirm the strength and solid ‘presentzia’ of digital art nowadays. . ‘All Together Now…’ by Hans Op de Beeck is a penetrating film about the human relationships and its intense endeavors filmed through a wedding dinner, a funeral and an anniversary. Wang Ya-Hui’s video ‘Visitor’ is an intimate piece based on nostalgia and recovery. A mysterious little cloud passes through old houses in Taipei, detailing interior memorabilia, in a keen reflection of lost memories. ‘Yo No Quiero Ver Mas A Mis Vecinos’ by Carlos Garaicoa is an incisive film about the geographical boundaries set by the walls in the world, -such as the Berlin wall, the one of Ramallah, the wall in Tijuana (México-USA), the one at the Malecón (Havana), the Great Chinese Wall, - that create coercive human and political divisions. Both videos were winners at LOOP 07 BARCELONA. Victor Alimpiev’s work ‘What’s the Name of this Square?’ explores body expression and the unstable/impotent relationship between the individual and society in Russia. Jenny Marketou‘s intense video ‘DE_LETE’, shows the torment of immigrants in the Mexico border, who encounter through the metallic wall that sadly separates families. Grimanesa Amoros’ film ‘La Procesion’ shows with moving images, a forceful reflection on life and death as an elegiac passage. McCallum & Tarry‘s video ‘Topsy Turvy’, describes in a surrealistic scenario and as a reflection on race, two ghost like humans, he, white, she, black, in poetic encounters. Andres Michelena’s video ‘Shit Happens’ proposes a blunt recreation of two murderer mothers that in their mental illness assassinated their children. Catherine Chalmers’s ‘American Cockroach’ series, challenging all of our taboos, renders the most shocking humanization of these animals, - the Planetaria type, - interacting in staged domestic interiors. Clare Langan’s work ‘Metamorphosis’ depicts suspended- in-time images, strange and gelid scenarios of a world already destroyed, frozen by the natural elements. Maria Antelman’s video “taH pagh taHbe” puts forward a version of Shakespeare’s ‘to be or not to be’ in Klingo idiom (an artificial language invented for the Start Trek series), sharply questioning the self and identity. Venezuelan artist David Palacios’s video ‘Infografias’, using kinetic effects based on Carlos Cruz Diez’s Physychromies, and through the PROVEA report on Human Rights violations (October 2003-September 2004), acutely reflects on the socio-political situation in the Venezuela of President Chavez. Hye Rim Lee’s work ‘Lash’ is a 3D animation video introduces TOKI, her doll-like cyborg through which her sensuality and her robotic femininity lures the audience (males) to a virtual sexual encounter. DR. MUU’s video and photography ‘Alien Woman’ shows an imaginary digitalized body of a woman in highly decomposing stress. Sandy White & Ivan Örkény’s work in animation ‘On False Domesticity’ profiles a robotic isolated individual dwelling in an industrial retro-like cubicle, overwhelmed and strained by his self-induced communication system. Aisen Chacin’s short video ‘What Lies Behind’ on child’s sexual abuse by religious guides was filmed and is presented inside a cellular phone.Other participating artists are: Asya Reznikov, Peter Eudenbach, Els Opsomer, Philipp Dontsov, Johanna Domke, Gabriela Morawetz, Richard Newton, Pascal Meccariello, Tim Folland, Richard Garet, Sabrina Montiel-Soto, Jane V. Hsu, Rodolfo Peraza, Juan-Sí González , Jason Mena, Chus Garcia-Fraile, Cristobal Leon, Laura Erber, Iris Cegarra, Ignacio Goitia, Matilde Marin, Flavio Cury, Glenda Leon, Efren Candelaria, Manuela Covini, Frank Kanelos, among others. Photography will be specially represented by two important contemporary photographers: Jordi Bernado ,Beth Moyses and Tia Vellani. Two projects go beyond the boundaries of the visual arts: ART CHANNEL by Milan Atanas, a cutting edge mixture of TV clips from Paris France; and TV LATA Project, an outdoor installation by Monica Hernandez based on a TV produced by the community of a Brazilian favela.
The audience will confront dazzling images in delirious and mixed texts of intense resonance and allure. The spectators are invited to take their time to comfortably sit in the video projection spaces, leaving time to absorb and enjoy digital art.
Milagros Bello
Curator
image 1: Aisen Chacin, "What Lies Behind", 2007, Video Still, Mobile Phone Installation, courtesy of the artist and Hardcore Art Contemporary Space
image 2: Catherine Chalmers, "Burning at the Stake", 2003, Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
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