Participation in CeC ’09. The 4th annual Carnival of e-Creativity
With the program: Global Art Video 09
The Sattal Estate Bhimtal, Uttarakhand, India
From 27th of February to 1st of March 2009
From 27th of February to 1st of March 2009
Coordinated by: Toni Calderón e Ima Picó. Forja Arte Contemporáneo. Valencia (Spain)
AMERICAN DREAMS
Curator ~ Jillian Mcdonald (New York)
Natural Interpretation ~ Rick Silva's poetic intervention plugs the white dune, snow-crusted brook, and other quiet wonders into his scheme as hapless instruments in a sublime analogue remix. Stephanie Lempert translates the mouth movements of passive goldfish into English monosyllables.
THE NAMASTIC ART COLLECTIVE (Helsinki, Finland)
Realised in Cooperation with AV-ARKKI, Finland
(120 minutes)
Digital and media art are one of the strongest and most innovative fields of art in Finland. This is due to many reasons, including the fact that Finland is a high-tech country and artists have always been interested in experimenting with the new possibilities of new media. Sometimes there is also interaction between art and enterprises who are directly interested in the discovery of new tools or new ways to use old devices. There is innovation everyday in this field; it evolves very quickly with technique as well as with aesthetic. And it reflects on society, on our way of living, on our identity.
In this investigation, some of the artists play with technology as a tool to reach something beyond the Human, the Mental Projection of a Digital Self. Sometimes in a playful and joyful way, sometimes in a more introspective and demanding As Finland does not have a very long tradition of art and there is a sense of freedom among the artists when they create. The same goes for the public too. Most people, especially the younger generations, are rather open minded and tech-savvy and can appreciate the convergence of art and technology very well. This kind of “mental climate” combined with accessible technology and good venues is fertile ground for interesting digital art. This has also attracted many foreign artists to come to live and work in Finland, enriching the art scene with their knowledge and energy. The Namastic Art Collective has set out to take Finnish digital art to international festivals also to share the products of this unique culture with the wider world.
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When working as an artist-in-residence in Freiburg, Germany, my studio was situated near the philosopher Martin Heidegger's home. The Black Forest was next to his house, and on the edge of the forest was a path named after him.
In the video, I am addressing my questions and thoughts to Professor Heidegger. He acts as a narrative link, a person that moves the video's plot forward. The piece presents hope for a better and more equal encounter between people.
Performers: Percy Cubas (Freiburg 6/ 2006), Maja Teofilovic (Berlin 4/ 2006), Jaana Kokko (Freiburg 1-6/ 2006), Alexander Lackmann (St. Petersburg 8/ 2005), Outi Vuoriranta (Voiceover, Helsinki 5/2008),
Nordic improvisation meeting 2007 participants (Outokumpu, Finland 6/2007): Keskusta pyörille -mielenosoittajat. Järj. Maan Ystävät. (Helsinki 10.7. 2007).
Soundmaterials: Cembalo: Jontte Knif || Äänitys: Kuisma Eskola (Helsinki, Sibeliusakatemian kamarimusiikkisali 11/2006)
Additional sound recording: (water birds, chrystal: Samy Kramer. (Helsinki 4-5/2008)
Sound Mix, Sound Editing: Samy Kramer
Script, Cinematography, Sound and Editing: Jaana Kokko
Translations: Elina Mikkilä, Jaana Kokko, Samy Kramer
Further reading, watsching/ or direct Quotes in the text: Heidegger, Martin - Arendt, Hannah: Briefe (1925-1975). Verlag Vittorio Klosterman, Frankfurt am Main, 1991. 2. painos. Hertzog, Werner: Maasta se kääpiökin ponnistaa. Elokuva. 1970. Jarman Derek: Puutarha. Elokuva. Great Britain, 1990. Kokko, Jaana : Luopumisen Estetiikasta (Ideologisen taiteen näyttämö 12/2004). Lackmann, Alexander : "To Sappho", Kokoelmasta Erotica. Omakustanne, St. Petersburg, 2006. Ton Steine Scherben. http://www.riolyrics.de. http:// www.youtube.com
Thanks: Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, Samy Kramer, Outi Vuoriranta, Kirsi Liimatainen, Andrea, Maja Teosovic, Percy Cubas, Kathrin Hintsch, Rolf Störtzer, Johannes Rühl Arts Council of Finland (2006) Visek (2007)
THE FRAGILE
Curator Sergio Zavattieri ~ in cooperation with Zelle Arte Contemporanea & Galleria Gianluca Collica (Italy)
We may be asking too much of art. Nowadays, we are more dependent on technology and consumerism in general. In that way we almost forget about what is going on inside us, which is habitually something actually more intricate and significant. Perhaps, for the same reason, we are every day trying to construct a different world for ourselves.
(Total Duration: 60'58” minutes)
PURE SCREEN *02
Curator Sophia Crilly. (Manchester, UK)
PureScreen is Castlefield Gallery's regular screening event for artist film and video. Since its inception, in March 2003, the programme has provided a platform for outstanding recent work and supported new and established practitioners and curators. It operates an annual, international open call for submissions for new works, and also produces PureScreen: Film & Video Artists Information Pack, compiling international resources with the intention of assisting artists and curators whose practice involves the production and exhibition of moving image work. PureScreen is supported by Arts Council England, and from each new season of screenings a DVD compilation is produced, which tours internationally, in order to support and promote the practice of the artists PureScreen has worked with.
The films selected for inclusion on PureScreen DVD *02 represent the highlights and a cross-section of the diversity of works from the 2006/07 season of screening programmes, featuring recent work by UK and internationally based artists.
The Sun Always Shines on the Righteous takes place during a demolition derby held in Barrow-in-Furness. The work features ‘Grandad': a 41 year old grandfather, demolition derby driver and philosopher, and Adam: a six foot tall, 30 stone drag entertainer, whose stage name is ‘The Fat Tart'. (Support by Grizedale Arts)
Fiery bursts lurk between movie reels, signalling unseen mechanics. Projectionists watch and count the governing pulse, anxiously attempting to perform seamless changeovers. This film draws from an ongoing collection of cue-dot episodes that are painstakingly sifted and appropriated from free digital-TV broadcasts. This growing archive of near-redundant objects provides an archaeological means of remembering cinema's outgoing physicality, and a method of inquiry into narrative and perceptual processes.
Shot in the suburbs of China's rapidly growing capital, Beijing; a stray street dog wanders around a busy road and for a moment makes it his place to rest, strangely disorientated and unaware of the threat by the cars. His inability to differentiate between manmade and natural environment makes him vulnerable, yet keeps him in charge of the situation in an almost glorious way.
Colours was inspired by a real character based in San Francisco known as the Red Man; an elderly gentleman, whom for no apparent reason always painted his face and hands in red paint and dressed impeccably in red clothes. The Red Man died in December 2002, aged 84. His unique appearance had killed him: the Chinese food colouring and other substances he had used to paint himself had poisoned his blood and damaged his internal organs. The film was created using extracts from the artists' personal archive of their own film footage, with the inclusion of new scenes featuring a red man.
A found footage work depicting a Russian Bear Circus from the 1960's. Purchased from a second-hand shop in Liepzig, the artist re-filmed the Super 8 film on video and added his own sound. It provides a meditation upon the nature of abuse and heartbreak. The work contains images that some people may find upsetting.
Lenox is a look at the past and present of one of Buffalo's oldest hotels and the many stories contained within its weathered walls. A journey through a hotel's faded 1920's Art Deco interior, versus shabby retro Americana.
A woman returns home after a night out, and we see her removing her adornments, slowly stripping away the facets of conventional beauty and becoming adopting her true state, whilst humming a tune.
A fragmented city of extraordinary light penetrates a brief staccato bombardment of words. Snatched glimpses of private worlds, drenched in the sulphur flood of city night, fight with these words, to tell a tale of waiting and desire. A story of maladjusted scale, set amidst the auditory fizz and crackle of electronic construction.
Derf is a documentary video short about an alternative cartoonist from Cleveland, Ohio. From his teenage years with Jeffrey Dahmer, to garbage truck epiphany, it traces his path to underground celebrity. The story is told through his drawings and commentary.
Automatic Film 1 was made using a range of automatic camera operators and actors, which were let loose in a disused church.
In Ghost Story, Erica Scourti tells her life story as a collage made up of the titles of various celebrity autobiographies. The artist's own biography thus becomes a fragmented tale told in part very subjectively through the prism of memory. The line between real life and fiction is blurred, likewise calling into question the veracity of what is recounted in the cited books.
Cross Examination takes the man on the street interview into the realm of a sociological experiment in which the artist spontaneously asks strangers on the streets of New York about himself based on their immediate perceptions of him. The humorous and candid responses belie the complexity of the experiment.
A digitally re-worked 16mm vintage, found-footage film, which shows the protagonist searching into archaic virtual reality goggles. As the film progresses it becomes apparent that his sense of self is lost, which culminates in his implosion.
The juxtaposition of the images between a Western movie by Hollywood and the artist's routine life in the split screen, makes us compare the drama and the daily life. This also shows her daily life where surrounding images internalizes her. This work involves gender issues, since there is an attitude that as a woman it's hard to accept herself as the "Loser" in the Western movie.
Body parts are displayed in the white box as specimen. Each part tries to seek something and these behaviors seem to remind ourselves of today's blockaded situation. This is the collaboration work with Naoya Ooe(operation) + Maiko Date(dancer) directed by Kentaro Taki. This is the short version of the original work.
This is the second part from trilogy on "AI=sexual intercourse." In front of fusuma painting "Kaede-zu"by Tohaku Hasegawa(16c. painter), a couple make indirect intercourse by gazing each other. Their cross-gazing intercourses with the movements of fusuma painting. "At this moment, the couple are as if without heaven, without ground, without society, without people at all.
Each “moment” of destructive force of the reality has been shot, recorded, and visualized. Set the boundary of before and after deconstruction at the 'moment' when image and sound of collision match together, and the artist visualizes idea of 'non-revertible'. This work deconstructs the image of deconstruction by differentiation, repetition, expansion and addition of image/sound of different moments.
The simulation of how audiences reacted to films in early times, evokes the sense of falsehood but new perspectives. The extendation relates to the reference to media that to release from captivity of information system.
The simulation of how audiences reacted to films in early times, is a fiction but creates the new perspectives. From the point of video, this discloses the principles of imprisonment by the media information, and will be extended to the criticism against media.
This video consists of 6 acts of rhythmical and optical composition of a live quartet. The spectator encounters the boundary between the light and the image. A documentation of the premiere performance at Art Space Kimura, Tokyo in 2005.
A documentation of a video installation exhibited in Yokohama Portside Gallery in 2006. "Bild:Muell" means "Image: Junk" in German. The video collage projected on various shaped cubes simulates the cityscape overflowed with images/information.
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