VIDEO:Video Art Miden-Screenings July 2020
Video Art Miden in recent months has turned its 13th Festival edition, initially scheduled to be held in Kalamata, into a monthly online meeting, presenting different selections of video art each month, starting in April. For July 2020 Video Art Miden presents 4 new video art programs: Ophelia, What matters, Eternal Return and Post Quarantine II.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Video Art Miden Archive
The online screenings soon developed into a global meeting point between artists and the public and gave the opportunity to more art lovers in every corner of the globe to enjoy the work of well-known and young video artists from all around the world who participate in Video Art Miden’s screenings.
Program:
- Ophelia (Curated by Nikos Podias & Gioula Papadopoulou): What could be so powerful as to cause us lose touch with reality? How harmful can love be? Ophelia loves Hamlet, she learned to love him! She wishes to save him, to pull him back to life, to share his heavy burden. She is trapped in the unfulfilled, the impossible, between what she wants and what is to happen. What is to happen does not leave her much space. She experiences loss, despair and the ultimate pain. She is lost. An accident or a choice. Her ending seems sacred, reminiscent of a ceremony. In the water, where life begins. Among the beautiful, fragile, ephemeral flowers… Participant artists: Iwona Ogrodzka, Nuno Veiga, Tania Bohuslavska, Gianluca Capozzi, Anna Cecilia Seaward, CINTAADHESIVA (Jesus Andres & Silvia Penas), Tessa Ojala, Bene Malen, Isabel Perez del Pulgar, Tseng Yu Chin.
- What matters (Curated by Margarita Stavraki): A video selection, where the body, space or object convey messages through a poetic aesthetic. Participant artists: Yossi Galanti, Mohamed Ismail, Daphna Mero, Nicholas Chin & Ernest Zacharevic, Ursula San Cristobal, Marcia Beatriz Granero, Barbara Brugola, Emnoyumno: Zhon-Zhon Sandyr & Kuchyran Yuri, Eta Dahlia & Iris Colomb, Stefano Croci / Maria Stella Andreacchio / Agata Torelli, Lorenzo Papanti, Matthew Henze, Louise Coetzer & Oscar O’Ryan, Vojtech Domlatil.
- Eternal Return (Curated by Olga Papadopoulou): 10 video-artists explore the concept of an eternal ,“sisyphic” repeat, through surrealistic, philosophical, sarcastic or humorous tales, in which the effort is often in vain and the distinction between beginnings and endings is rather inconclusive. Participant artists: Andrej Polukord, Lorenzo Papanti, Joacelio Batista, Deyan Clement, Emanuelle Dainotti, Guillaume Martial, Susanne Wiegner, Eleonora Roaro.
- Post Quarantine II (Curated by Maria Bourika): Questioning on social distance: identity, environment, time. Participant artists: Gerard Freixes-Ribera, Anton Hecht, Jean-Michel Rolland, Gerald Habarth, Anji Taratuta, Geertrui De Vijlder, Leyla Rodriguez, ACCI BABA, Deborah Kelly, Sergey Valyaev (Voogie), Francesca Leoni & Davide Mastrangelo.
Ophelia:
Iwona Ogrodzka, graduated of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Works in the field of new media art, installation and painting. She is a member of the Managing Board of Wykwitex and co-author of the project. Nuno Veiga is a multidisciplinary artist,whose practice includes sound art, acting, theatre direction, video art, installations, teaching and arts facilitation. Graduated in Theatre Studies from the University of Evora in Portugal in 2006, and have been working in professional arts contexts since 2001. In Portugal he worked as an actor, sound designer and teacher with various institutions. The mediums Tania Bohuslavska, most often works with are photography and video. Her projects have been exhibited at many shows in Kyiv and abroad, in Istanbul, London, Carlisle, Seoul, Athens, Hamburg, and Berlin. Gianluca Capozzi’s research ranges from painting to video. After his academic studies, he participated in numerous exhibitions and awards in Italy and abroad. His research at the outset is based on a meditative moment. Anna Cecilia Seaward is a performer, choreographer, and filmmaker based in New York. She is the founder of Tunic Productions and has produced two feature length independent films, directed two short films, and worked in the arts for over ten years as a performer, educator, and organizer. Cecilia believes that artists have a responsibility to create new work, to challenge convention, to spur dialogue, and to push boundaries. CINTAADHESIVA (Jesus Andres & Silvia Penas), is both a musical and literary project, based on Silvia Penas texts that organically merge with live music: a fusion of poetry, melodies, rhythm and feelings. Sometimes recitation becomes song. Through music, noise or silence, cintaadhesiva tries to question the existing limits among artistic disciplicnes so as to transform poetry into a living element that dialogues with the audience, allowing it to hear, perceive and let its imagination flow. Tessa Ojala lives on a small island in Helsinki. In her works she likes to combine elements of beauty and strangeness. Tessa mainly works with painting, photography and video art. Bene Malen is a video artist and painter. Isabel Perez del Pulgar in the mid-2000s she adopted video as a way of creating and expressing. Video as an experimentation vehicle, where the movement is combined, sound and pictorial vision. At the same time, performance is acquiring a greater presence as a means of work. The body as a protagonist element and narrative driver. Tseng Yu Chin is video artist, film director, photographer, curator, designer and Thatalright art space founder (Taipei, Taiwan since 2017).
What matter:
Yossi Galanti, was born in Jerusalem, and has lived, worked and ran there ever since. Yossi is a senior lecturer on Digital Photography at Hadassah Academic College and an active photographe Daphna Mero, is a film director, choreographer and a professional dancer. She holds a B.Dance from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, a film diploma from Minshar for Art, Tel-Aviv and MFA in Film/Video from MassArt, Boston. Her work draws inspiration from locations, spaces, and sites. They deal with the human experience via a novel medium, which incorporates visual art and dance. Her short experimental films have been screened in film festivals around the world, and she has won many awards and prizes for her work. Nicholas Chin & Ernest Zacharevic: Nicolas Chin is a filmmaker and cinematographer who travels the world shooting music videos and branded content on the craziest locations, whether if it’s deep inside the crater of an active volcano or under temperatures of -40º C degrees in Northern Siberia, Nick does not shy away from a challenge. Rewild is his second short film as a director, after Save Our Souls (2018). Ernest Zacharevic is an artist incorporating culture and community in public art interventions. Ernests primary interest is in the relationship between art and the urban landscape, with concepts often evolving as part of a spontaneous response to the immediate environment. Rewild is his first short film as a (co-)director. Ursula San Cristobal is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Barcelona. Her work proposes a meeting point between music, contemporary art and audiovisual language. She is devoted mainly to Live art and low tech video art, addressing issues such as gender violence, migration and subjectivity. Marcia Beatriz Granero’s projects explore the creation of a character, recorded in videos and photographs. Jaque Jolene is the center of the work, a fictional autobiographical entity. Barbara Brugola graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. She holds a M.A. at the Royal College of Art in London and works with video and drawing. She has participated in many festivals and her work has been shown both in museum spaces and non-profit organizations in Italy and abroad. Perception plays an important role in her artistic research and often in her works she chooses to combine two frames containing two different points of view. For Emnoyumno (Zhon-Zhon Sandyr & Kuchyran Yuri, Eta Dahlia & Iris Colomb) the ethno-futuristic performance theater becomes a metaphor for human life, a terra space where stories and mythologies are born that are directly related to personal experience. The myth is not static; it changes from meeting other myths. This is a multifaceted art of reality where everyone plays his own and not someone else’s role. Lorenzo Papanti’s works constitute hypothetical dimensions, digital hybrid spaces. Louise Coetzer & Oscar O’Ryan: Coetzer, a dancer and choreographer, and O’Ryan, a photographer and filmmaker, bring together expertise from their respective fields to form a dynamic partnership. Projects spearheaded by the founders provide platforms and create opportunities for skills development and exchange among all artists involved. A focus on the use of new technology and digital media frame their artistic approach. Similarly does interdisciplinary exploration, with project collaborators including visual artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers and digital artists. Vojtech Domlatil loves natural space and movement through the landscape. He workx as an assistant in the studio of animation in the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic. Vojtech Domlatil obtained few awards with his animation and illustration works. In his last films I specialise myself to non-narrative possibilities of stopmotion animation.
Eternal Return:
Andrej Polukord, is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and co-recipient of the 2016 Kunsthalle Prize Vienna, draws on painting, installation, performance, and video art to create unpredictable environments and absurd situations that produce double meanings and ambiguity/ Lorenzo Papanti, is an Italian artist. The investigation of the physical and mental space represent a constant of his artistic research, aimed at defining the reality through perceptual verification, crossing performative territories and visual operations. His works have been selected in international exhibitions. Joacelio Batista acts as a Visual Artist, filmmaker and videomaker. His artistic research is done in the noise that emerges from translation attempts that seek to understand the other. An aesthetic that emerges in this place, of encounters and disencounters, where you can view all the understanding attempts limited by the individuality of every being. Deyan Clement studied at Marina Abramovic Institute, Academy of Fine Art in Trebinje and Belgrade. Most often, he works in the field of video performance, using different media as tools or additional content in the service of the performative process. He explores the question of identity and freedom through introspection, the relationship between private and public, life and death. Emanuelle Dainotti is an Italian artist and filmmaker. His videos and video installations have been shown and awarded in expositions and festivals. In 2018 he won the “International Competition for the Intermedia Artwork” organized by the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, The Faculty of Intermedia and the Foundation for Development of Intermedia Artwork. In 2019 a jury presided by Anish Kapoor awarded him with the “Now You See Me award” at Louvre Museum in Paris. Guillaume Martial studied film and animated image. In 2009, he spent several months on the set used for Tati’s film Jour de Fête. This event drives him to stage a character in the burlesque cinema tradition. His work raise the question of the place of the man in the space with quite of playing and derision. In 2015, he is prize-winner of the HSBC award and his monograph Slap-Stick is published by Actes Sud. Susanne Wiegner Wiegner studied architecture at the Academy of fine Arts in Munich and at Pratt Institute in New York City as a DAAD scholar. She works as a 3D-artist in Munich. Eleonora Roaro’s practice involves moving images, with a focus on video and archaeology of cinema. She is currently researching the relationship between architecture and spectatorship in perceiving moving images related to early 20th century cinemas. She has a research grant at the University of Udine titled “VR and AR in the valorization of cultural and artistic heritage”.
Post Quarantine II:
Gerard Freixes-Ribera studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. His film works are usually made by digitally manipulating archive footage to create new stories. Anton Hecht works across mediums and often in collaboration. So projects with orchestras and musicians, dancers and poetry, illustrators and animations. These works are made with community groups of all ages and the general public. The works often occur in public space. Jean-Michel Rolland is a musician and a painter, he brings together his two passions – the sound and the image – in digital arts since 2010. Through video artworks, generative art, audiovisual performances and interactive installations, he questions the temporality, a genuine fourth dimension inherent to moving image, as well as the duality between his two favorite mediums, the sound and the visual. Gerald Habarth is a multimedia artist and animator currently serving as Associate Professor of Art at West Virginia University where he heads the Electronic Media program in School of Art and Design. He holds an MFA degree from the University of South Florida and a BFA degree from Parsons School of Design. Anji Taratuta is a young Russian filmmaker with French roots. She graduated from the Higher Courses for Filmmakers and Scriptwriters, a course of Pavel Lungin and Irina Volkova. Anji was born in Moscow but then traveled, studied and lived all over the world. She currently lives in Shanghai right now, exploring Asia. Geertrui De Vijlder is an audiovisual artist. She graduated at KASK School of Arts Gent in animation film and is specialized in stop-motion. Her graduation movie focuses on deafness and the beauty of sign language. Leyla Rodriguez grew up during the military dictatorship in Argentina, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, and immigrated to Europe in 1984. There she lived in the cities Frankfurt, Hamburg, Madrid, Berlin, Leipzig and finally turned back to Hamburg again. In 2011 she won the Kraft New Media Prize, ACCI BABA is a Japanese visual artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. His works explores the unseen perceptions deriving from physical and non-physical realm, combining the artistic expressions into installations and films. Deborah Kelly’s projects across media are concerned with lineages of representation, politics and history in public exchange, and practices of collectivity on small and large scale, both fleeting and durational. Her newest works experiment with models of sustained creative collaboration between strangers. Sergey Valyaev (Voogie) has worked in film production industry for over 6 years. During this time he has worked as a cameraman, DP, producer, director and editor. In addition he came up with a couple of inventions for cinematography. Francesca Leoni & Davide Mastrangelo are both video artists, performers and filmmakers. They’ve been working together since 2011. Their videos were screened in several festival around the world. They are the artistic directors of Ibrida Festival.
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