FEM4
ONLINE VIDEO ART EXHIBITIONS
November 2019 - April 2020
FEM 4
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"The theme of the Videokanava deals with feminism and femininity in concepts, thinking and action. With feminism, we don’t only mean the gender issue, but also the broader equality movement that questions all inequalities and classifications on the basis of social class, ethnicity, sexuality or age. So the focus of the theme is not just only in the power relations between men and women, but the power relations in general. It is inquiring as to whether or not we can achieve equality if we do not first recognize inequality in all its forms." The curator of the exhibition is Finnish visual artist Veera Salmio The exhibition is done in co-operation with World of tango Festival http://maailmantango.net/ |
NOVEMBER 2019 |
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Powerism / Hamza Kırbas
Turkey, 2018 Since the beginning of history, it is impossible to ignore the existence of a power that, besides the adventure of life of mankind, is all together with us, is constantly changing, brings benefits from time to time, has been created by man and has always existed. This power is the concept of ‘powerism’ The concept of power, depending on the philosophies developed in many different periods, is a reality that will never disappear even if it changes form. The power, chiefly the chieftain of the early ages, is an invisible but much larger power today. This power is aware of every development in the world and is even the creator and observer of these developments. In this study, the artist bases the concept of ‘powerism’ on the metaphor of a street play played by children. In the content of the game children play that they are growing up and have a say. Foucault evaluates the changing understanding of power of our time with the Panopticon metaphor, a designed structure. this study was discussed in the context of various visual indicators produced by sociologists such as Foucault, Althusser. |
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Hairytale / Leena Lehti
Finland, 2015 A little hairy fairytale. Made on super 8mm film. Handmade effects made by hair and ink directly on film. |
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Anatolia / Sinasi Gunes
Turkey, 2006 This work contains images of womans who lives in Anatolia and have a different cultural features and relations of woman and womanveling are scrutinized. In the work, acts of “covered” and “wrapping” do not personalization. Cultural layers of the past do not rich as much as cultural diversity of Anatolia. Cover models in here only imply a gesture. However, different social roles are questioned to point of “feminine” in this work. The video art was made concept of Anatolia refers to consepts of “taboo” and “privacy” in additin to culturel diversity of Anatolia. Feminine role which appeared in social perform overlaps cover models in the film. For instance, “employed woman” , “ woman in the home”, “the woman next to her husband” etc. They show psychology of regional wrapping. The film emphasis that not only social strangulation but also cultural object has been converted into women. Especially, woman's freedom… In addition to being updated to Anatolia, it is a visual feast on on the diversity of traditions with pre/post arguments. |
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El Vacío de la Nada / Melina Peña
Estonia, Spain, Mexico 2017 For Merleau-Ponty, EXPERIENCE is the possible conditions of space but the unity between the individual and the world is ¨repressed by the experience of daily routines ̈ (Merleau Ponty 1945: 339). This strange contradiction captures my interest to generate other possibilities of doing in space, where what is considered as NORMAL in terms of our representation and anticipation of THE OTHER is subverted by the body, language and affection. EL VACÍO DE LA NADA is part of Diaries of a Shaman Series. A series of performances for the Camera. My interest in the body as a sensory platform that connects us to the world, takes me to shamanism as a way of connecting with the forces of nature and dwelling on new social imaginaries as well as questioning our roles for a present and future sustainable life. The figure of the female futuristic shaman acts as an intermediary between the human and non-human world, exposing the grotesque and challenging what is considered beautiful in our society. www.melinapena.com |