PROGRAM
8 : UN DÉSERT INTÉRIEUR
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Jorn
Staeger
Zielpunkte der Stadt
vidéo, 8’, 2004, Allemagne
He was born in Berlin in 1965.
Since 1990 he has worked as a cameraman, director
and painter
"urban poems“ is a short film poem about
seven daily parts of the German urban landscape:
1. city gate from the middle ages
2. pedestrian precinct from the communist epoch
3. church ruins from the second word war
4. steel bridges from the 19th century
5. multilevel parking garage from the '60s '70s
6. subway station from the '50s, '60s, and '70s
7. TV towers up until '50s.
The German city has a high density of architectural
layers because of destruction by war and city planers
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Dara
Gellman & Leslie Peters
Deliberate
vidéo, 6’17’’, 2003, Canada
Dara Gellman and Leslie Peters have collaborated as
video artists and curators since 1996. Their works
have been exhibited across Canada and internationally.
Deliberate examines empty interiors of courtrooms,
revealing the presence of absence where expected narratives
and conclusions are removed, and creating a space
for the emotional resonance of loss, grief, dread
and paranoia.
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Jillian
Mcdonald
Me and Billy Bob
‘Starlight Lounge’, 7’32’’,
2003, USA
Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian visual artist, living
in Brooklyn. Her work in video, new media, and performance
has been shown internationally. She has had a crush
on Billy Bob Thornton since viewing 'Bandits' on a
flight to San Francisco.
Me and Billy Bob is a DVD and web project which features
the artist digitally inserted into films starring
actor Billy Bob Thornton. The narrative is reinvented,
and a romance implied. www.meandbillybob.com
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Kent
Lambert
Security Anthem
vidéo, 3’30’’, 2003, USA
Video artist and musician living in Chicago. His work
has been screened across North America and in Europe.
Kent Lambert also performs as Ocie Trimble.
"Kent Lambert's chilling Security Anthem is an
exercise in post-September 11 dementia in which banal
lines delivered by talking heads ("The onions
made him cry") become increasingly sinister,
leading to a surprise ending featuring John Ashcroft."
Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, 8/29/2003
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Pierre
Bongiovanni
Next to Nothing
vidéo, 35’32’’, 2003, France
Pierre Bongiovanni moves between different compartments
of artistic and cultural action. From contemporary
art to live shows, from video to multimedia, in France
and everywhere in the world, he has experimented with
all forms of artistic intervention. Artistic director
of the CICV Pierre Schaeffer from January 1990 to
June 2004/Director of the Gaité Lyrique (Paris)
animation workshop from 2002 to May 2002/Guest curator
at the Lyon Festival des lumières in December
2004.
What happens between nothing and next to nothing,
is precisely this capacity that the image sometimes
has (though it is rare) to not trouble our eye, to
soothe it rather than to try over and over again to
always surprise and shock it. It is not so much that
some images are not shocking, for some are, but that
they are located between both sides (two borders,
two voids), that they are supported be nothing more
than themselves, and that they therefore oppose themselves
to nothing.
(Anne Vauclair on Next to Nothing)
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Akuvido
NebeNeiNaNder
vidéo, 2003, 12’, 2003, Allemagne
Akuvido is Hanna Kuts and Viktor Dovhalyuk . Both
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lehmberg, Ukraine
and they are currently living in Berlin. They are
at present exploring their interdisciplinary field
from several, different viewpoints in order to combine
sound, video, photo, computer animation into software
based interactive projects. Each project represents
a game, which synthesises a different interpretation
and expression of their new harmony of the present.
Akuvido has exhibited at numerus international festivals.
The project referred to as "NebeNeiNaNder version
1.v.3" contains the 4 N's in its name (Nerve,
Net, Noise, Navigation). In the project we use horizontal
power informative structural lines. A set of complementary
objects move according to a schedule, each object
has a complementary sound. Each graphic formula is
connected to an audiovisual form. With these mobile
structures we want to show the interrelation between
visual information and the power of sound, which influence
one another, building new virtual, audiovisual structures. |
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