VIDEO:Video Art Miden-Screenings September 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 September 2020 Video Art Miden presents 3 new video art programs: Frozen, Meta-Thesis and Dancing for a reason.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Video Art Miden Archive
Video Art Miden’s 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 world to enjoy the work of well-known and young video artists from all around the world who participate in Video Art Miden’s screenings. In September, video art friends will watch a selection of video works from 15 countries in 3 thematic programs that listens to and critically comment on dystopian versions of our world and the human existence before or after the catastrophe (Frozen), a selection that comments on the global contemporary sociopolitical situation and the “thesis” of human in it (Meta-Thesis) and a tribute to videodance as a means of artistic expression (Dancing for a reason), a program initially screened in July in the frame of the international dance festival Dance Days Chania, in Crete (GR).
Frozen (Curated by Gioula & Olga Papadopoulou): Weird things happen and nothing is as it seems. The world(s) seem frozen in another space and time, in multiple parallel realities. Is it the calmness before destruction? Or is it the stillness that follows it, before a new beginning? Participating artists: Yiorgos Drosos, Antonello Matarazzo, Francisco Jose Fargas, Sandrine Deumier, Javier Galan Rico, Sávio Leite, Ubu Kung, Beatrice Schuett Moumdjian, Methas Chantawongs, Anna Grigorian and Shahar Marcus.
Meta-Thesis (Curated by Olga & Gioula Papadopoulou): What has become of humanity in our meta world? 8 video artists collect and process thoughts about humanity, state their philosophical/political point of view and attempt to capture the essence of our current being. [“Thesis” in the Greek language means “position in space” (literally) and “point of view” (metaphorically). “Meta” means “after”. The compound word “metathesis” in Greek means “transfer to a new location”.] Participating Artists: Hana Yoo, Nikos Kostopoulos, Marcos Bonisson & Khalil Charif, Kuesti Fraun, Eta Dahlia, Francisco-Julian Martinez-Cano & Athanasia Stergiaki, Nuno Veiga and Hamza Kirbas.
Dancing for a reason (Curated by Margarita Stavraki): Why does an artist use dance on screen as a mean of artistic expression? Is the story that she/he wants to tell us more expressive through movement? Is it the rhythm and the image of the moving bodies that activates her/him? Or is it the dance itself that tries to put it on the screen frame and see it as a spectator? The selection was initially screened at the international dance festival Dance Days Chania, Crete, in July 2020. Participating Artists: Αnastasia Diga, Barbara Brugola, Daphna Mero, Marta Arjona & Alexia Pascual and Louise Coetzer & Oscar O’Ryan.
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More info: www.festivalmiden.gr
