VIDEO:Video Art Miden-Screenings October 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 October 2020 Video Art Miden presents 3 new video art programs: Frozen, Meta-Thesis and Dancing for a reason.
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: EARTHLINGS-Snapshots from the End: a selection of video works that approach with sensitivity, in a poetic but also critical way, issues related to the environment and life in a holistic view, through a palimpsest of life forms on our planet; A program with 9 student works from the Photography & Video Laboratory of the Department of Fine & Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (AUTH; Borders: a program that investigates the barriers and walls that rise dividing countries and populations in our era and their socio/psychological impact on humans today.
EARTHLINGS: Snapshots from the End (Curated by Evi Stamou & Pietro Radin): An elegiac portrait of an ailing planet, a reluctant home for countless hopeful inhabitants (trees and spiders, crows and mollusk, goats and humans). Participating Artists: Kristian Xipolias, Dante Albanesi, Isabelle Nouzha, Shelly Silver, Alina Vasilchenko, Gabriele Rossi, Maya Connors, Przemek Węgrzyn, Shelly Silver and Eleni Magklara, Stelios Papiemidoglou & Efi Roufagala.
Student works – Photography & Video Laboratory (Curated by Georgios Katsagelos & Stelios Dexis): A group of nine young artists, students of the Photography and Video Laboratory of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, under the guidance of their two professors Georgios Katsagelos and Stelios Dexis, present their project “Travel”. Through an academic process, an “artistic osmosis” is taking place, almost automatically, when artists and teachers discuss, work and create for a long period together, in a shared space, in the same laboratory. Apart from the obvious differences between the individual works, the search for common places, common reflections and interactions is an interesting challenge. The selection includes video projects and video installations of various plastic approaches. The works are fruits of the artistic research during an Academic year, while the common presentation of the works serves as a trigger for young artists to coordinate creatively with their teachers. The works deal with the concept of “travel”, sometimes as a sketch diary and sometimes as a unified autonomous project, through contemporary approaches both at the technical level and the forms of narration. Participant students: Fani Arapi, Vasiliki Lolidou, Orestis Papaconstantinou, Costas Doulmantzis, Alexandros Tsakonas, Thomas Kaliaras, Charalambos Swartz, Fotis Kilelelis and Stefania Patrikiou.
Borders (Curated by Olga & Gioula Papadopoulou ): Have you ever felt displaced? Videoworks seeking to find a global understanding through topics of war, division, discrimination, immigration, identity, Home. Participating Artists: Cesare Saldicco, Alex Mendez Giner, Adriana Lopez Garibay, Felice Hapetzeder, Fran Orallo, Lisi Prada and Kim Collmer.
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