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ONLINE VIDEO ART EXHIBITIONS
January - June 2020
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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/ |
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9.1.- 19.2.2020
(Check the whole exhibition calendar from the News page) |
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-"Offerta/Opera Vana", SpiegelimspiegelKollektiv, Italy / Germany, 2019
-PULPA, Nina Corti, Argentina, 2016 -O C C U P Y -Video-performance, Natacha Voliakovsky, Argentina, 2017 -Powerism, Hamza Kirbas, Turkey, 2018 -Cuatro Palabras, Martin Calvino, USA, 2017 -Vérorose, Veronica Burger, Austria / México 2012 -Grandparents, Milo Masoničić, Montenegro, 2018 |
"Offerta/Opera Vana" / SpiegelimspiegelKollektiv
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The concept originates from two of the iconological images described by Cesare Ripa in his book Nova Iconologia, the "Offerta-Offer" and the "Opera Vana-Uselessness of the Making". Both of the images are impersonated by woman's characters.
The concept of the "Offer" is deeply embedded in the feminine role within society, where women are often expected to put aside their own needs and lives in order to take care of their families. The "Opera Vana" figure is the uselessness of the making, described by Cesare Ripa as a woman who stares at a spider web which she is holding with both hands. Visually intrigued by those figures, we reinterpreted them envisioning the traditional string games as a generator of images. The video attempts to describe a symbolic utopian third image, the impossibility of the offer. |
PULPA / Nina Corti
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An exploration about the pornographic exhibition of intimacy in digital media. Juicy inner exploration of the inner forests and oceans. An erotic-gastronomic-visual experience.
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O C C U P Y -Video-performance / Natacha Voliakovsky
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I lock myself inside the bathroom of an old abandoned house.
I fire four flares, the room fills with black smoke. I try to breathe through the cracks. Women try to survive every day the hostile environment that surrounds us. One femicide is committed in Argentina every 36 hours. Some die asphyxiated, set on fire. Some die pregnant or protecting their children. Some are found by the side of the road, inside garbage bags. Some are never found. |
Powerism / Hamza Kirbas
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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. |
Cuatro Palabras / Martin Calvino
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'Cuatro Palabras' is a short film about a tango story that explores (and emphasizes) the emotional tension of a couple. It uses visual elements inspired from a previous stop motion animation experiment in which mannequins walked up the stairs and danced together. Similarly, the characters featured in this film also walked up the stairs (Sandy Urna featuring 'Sandra') and danced together (Sandra & Jorge Razumny, respectively).
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Vérorose / Veronica Burger
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Never tired of falling in love, Vérorose plays with the structures of popular Latin American as well as European telenovelas in combination with elements of well-known musicals, such as The Sound of Music. In my fictional trailer, Julie Andrews is replaced by Vérorose, costumed in an exaggerted version of an Austrian Tracht. Multi-sexed, she can change her appearance whenever she wants. But she finds happy endings boring...
For the staging of the telenovela, locations in Vienna were picked which are similar to the original Latin American series locations. The trailer shows faked rehearsals, “behind-the-scene” elements and concrete elements of the telenovela Vérorose. |
Grandparents / Milo Masoničić
Montenegro, 2018
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Grandparents is experimental silent documentary about an old couple. Movie shows complexity of their relationship. There are four chapters in the movie. 57 years together is first chapter. Theme of this chapter is dark side of love. Their relationship is fulfilled with tenderness, brutality, suffering and injustice. They are hurting each other. They are, also, helping each other to overcome pain and depression. Water, fire and shadows are dominant leitmotifs in the first part.
Second chapter Shadows focuses on the grandmother. She is exhausted by life. She is sitting in her armchair and showing to the camera her rheumatoid hands and feet. Themes of this chapter are time, disease, joy and death. It documents her pain, faith and fears. Third chapter See you everywhere focuses on grandfather. It documents his routine. His wife is part of everything he does. They are two Bodies merge into one Soul. This chapter explores his fear of losing someone he loves. Final chapter Shadows is not about their relationship. It is about their apartment. Strange shadow appears inside their home and transforms into different forms. |