News
Visualcontainer@DigitalMarrakech
4°International Videoart festival
Marrakech – Morocco
28-29-30 November 2014
Organized by: Arab Media Lab project
Visualcontainer have been invited to take part at the 4th edition of DIGITAL MARRAKECH, based in Marrakech. As satellite program, Visualcontainer videoart platform presents the best experimental and media videoart works in the frame of the curret Digital Marrakech edition.
Digital Marrakech continues its mission in strengthening media arts platforms in Morocco and The Arab world, from experimental films, to films d´auteurs, creative documentary, video art, digital art and digital cinema, video installations… Organizations, curators and art and cinema associations are encouraged to take part at the festival.
The main theme of this year is: RE-MAPPING of the Media Art happenings and digital art practices in the Arab world, and The role of the digital technologies in an ever-changing and dynamic Arab World creativity
Artists invited: Barbara Brugola, Katharina Gruzei, Angelina Voskopoulou, Lino Strangis, Hwayong Jung, Alber Merino, Igor Imhoff, Maria Korporal/Sonia Armaniaco, Daniela Di Maro.
Video Selection:
Barbara Brugola – Lapse of View – 3’15”, 2012
Katharina Gruzei – Dialoge I – IV,9’45, 2008/09
Angelina Voskopoulou – Floating in space, 7′ 50″, 2009
Lino Strangis – Ying Aoyun, 3’34”, 2009
Hwayong Jung – Euphoria, 4:53,2014
Alber Merino – The trace of salt, 07’40”, 2010
Igor Imhoff – Planets, 9′ 10″, 2012
Maria Korporal – Sonia Armaniaco – Heart-earth, 5:00, 2013
Daniela Di Maro – Migrations, 5’13”, 2011
DIGITAL MARRAKECH, an international media arts and digital festival, which aims to present diverse trends and practices in the fields of digital film & video, multimedia performances, Video installations, digital mapping, net art, workshops and other interdisciplinary forms
The festival program consists of live video performances, film screenings, workshops, lectures, and exhibition. In the festival framework artists from all over the world present latest practices, research and technologies and showcase important achievements in the development of media arts practices.
DIGITAL MARRAKECH, also wants to contribute in interdisciplinary collaborations between south and north, and create an atmosphere of international exchange between Moroccan artists and international ones. In this way we aim to bring together emerging artists sharing common ideas and energy, and to introduce them in a comprehensive but professional way with the newest trends in the field of Media art practices.
The idea is to make the festival a very important cultural event on the Moroccan and Arab map and unite various social spheres, like culture, arts and education. Our ambition is to turn the DIGITAL MARRAKECH Festival into an international Media Art meeting point in Marrakech.
The project takes place in different locations in Marrakech city, especially in its imperial part which is the old medina.
Visualcontainer @ The Others Fair, Turin – Italy
6 – 9 November 2014
EX carcere Le Nuove
Via Paolo Borsellino, 3 – Torino – Italy
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2014 h. 7pm – 01 am
Visualcontainer this yeas is the project partner of TheOtherScreen, videoart louge of the Others fair.
The Wild side
To be the wild side, the free one, the one that’s difficult to define and categorize; the side of art and experimentation which is unpredictable and in metamorphosis. An unceasing open research, to find out that the reflected image and the shadow show much more than what you expected. Beyond definitions and genres, art that interests us is the one that grows on the wild and yet undefined side, the side of The Others: unexplored ideas that grow independently – sprouted in unimaginable places, out of the usual fields and spaces – that offer themselves on an unique condition: the free observation. The Others – The Wild Side will be back in November with its dynamic identity living on exhibitions, concerts, performances and on the thoughts of all those who inhabit it and change, remember, dream, plan, experience with us. And turn into The Others.
Artists selected:Francesco Arena, Hwayong Jung, Rita Casdia, Barbara Brugola, Armida Gandini, Anita Calà, Yuri Pirondi + Ines von Bonhorst, Patrizia Bonardi, Katharina Gruzei, Slawomir Milewski
The WILD SIDE videos:
Francesco Arena – BREATHS/RESPIRI, 2008
Hwayong Jung (South Korea/NY) – Euphoria, 4.53, 2014
Rita Casdia – Stangliro, 2013 4’09’’
Barbara Brugola – Lapse of View – 3’15”, 2012
Armida Gandini – Muovo sonnambula al mondo, 2’00”, 2012
Anita Calà – La Ballata, 4’22”, 2013
Yuri Pirondi + Ines von Bonhorst – Emergencia, 11:43, 2012
Patrizia Bonardi – Run with the past – 2014 video 4.41
Katharina Gruzei (Austria) – Workers leaving the factory (again) – 11’00”, 2012
Slawomir Milewski (poland)- Self – 4’35”, 2014
The Others Fair:
The Others is an international exhibition project dedicated to the emerging contemporary art, now in its fourth edition. The protagonists of The Others are all the operators – no matter if profit or no-profit – which deal on a continuous basis with programs dedicated to young artists: galleries born after January 1st 2009 and – irrespectively on their opening date – no-profit centers, associations and foundations, artists or curators collectives, artist-run-spaces, publishing projects, art awards, residences for artists, art schools and academies, bookshops which deal with art, spaces dedicated to young, self-produced design and artist graphics which meet at The Others to develop a focus on the global community of emerging art. A unique exhibition platform, implemented to gather the multiplicity of the realities which operate for the promotion of the younger artists and contexts showing a wide variety of objectives, programs and means of expression. Few initiatives exist for their collective promotion, and yet all subjects do share the spirit of researching and valorizing the emerging creative energies. A great opportunity for visibility and – at the same time – an essential place to gather and exchange experiences, contacts and projects; elements which constitute the very basis for the development of professional networks and activate virtuous synergies, as it is essential for the growth of the whole contemporary art system. Devised for young exhibitors in terms of quality and access, The Others is therefore a privileged observatory on the emerging international creativity, a place for a welcoming, experimental and non-conventional cultural proposal.
The Other Fair Opening Hours
6 November | h. 9.00pm – 1.00am | Opening party
7 – 8 November | h. 6.00pm – 1.00am | The Others show
9 November | h. 12.00pm – 1.00am | The Others show
Entry
Ticket 5,00 euros
How to get
From Porta Nuova train station – Subway: direction Fermi stop at Vinzaglio | Bus: n. 68B and n. 68 direction Frejus stop at Palagiustizia | Tram: n. 9 direction Stampalia stop at Palagiustizia
From Porta Susa train station – Subway: direction Lingotto stop at Vinzaglio | Bus: n. 68B direction Frejus stop at Palagiustizia
From Sandro Pertini airport – Bus: bus Sadem stop at C.so S Martino (Porta Susa station)
Taxi – +39 011 5730 | +39 011 5737
International Video Art Festival, Madrid (E), Milan (I), Coimbra (P), Oaxaca (Mex)
curated by Mario Gutiérrez Cru
September 26, 2014
H 8pmC / O
Intermediæ (MATADERO)
Paseo de la Chopera, 14,
Madrid
+
EL PATIO DE MARTÍN DE LOS HEROS
Martín de los Heros, 15. Madrid
The 7th edition of the International Festival of Video Art PROYECTOR will take place simultaneously in Madrid, Milan, Coimbra and Oaxaca from 25 September to 5 October 2014.
13 SPACES + 4 COUNTRIES + 100 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS + 3.000 m²A year characterized by a call with more than 200 works in video art competition and a variety of languages (from single and multichannel, video dance, performance, video, installations, interactive video, videomapping …), of which only 23 works have been selected. PROYECTOR continues to maintain its multi-venue connotation spreading throughout the city of Madrid and at the same time this year the city of Milan ([.BOX] Video Art Project space only on 25 Sept.), Coimbra (Fonland) and Oaxaca (Ojo de Perro ) will host the selection of PROYECTOR Festival in a global opening September 25.
This year’s theme is “approach to the idea of power”
“We are sure that the art has to interact with our enviroment. And now the sistem and the goberments are totally cutting all the helps to culture, art and creativity. Trying to impulse the society of the money, were artists are only mere “pampering” disenfranchised, in a world that unfortunately goes wrong and can get worse, until we break the barriers and claim our positions. We want to give visibility to those artists who are struggling, creating and facing the system through art . Forcefully, without fear, with the courage to believe that another world is possible and we have the POWER to change it “
Mario Gutiérrez Cru.
Visualcontainer as partner of PROYECTOR was invited to present a videoart selection on “power” topic. It is presented through different perspectives that investigate social-cultural,family and artistic dynamics. The video selection is presented to Intermediæ (MATADERO) + EL PATIO DE MARTÍN DE LOS HEROS in Madrid on 26 September 2014.
Artists:
Silvia De Gennaro, Con.tatto, Elena Bellantoni, Rita Casdia, Katarina Gruzei, Mandra Cerrone, Valentina Ferrandes.
Selected videos:
Silvia De Gennaro – This summer, the mosquitoes will be more bad 6’22,2010
Con.tatto – Indifference – 2:46 – 2013
Elena Bellantoni – The girl of Spielplatz, 7’30 “, 2011
Rita Casdia – Stangliro 2013 4’9 ”
Katarina Gruzei – Workers leaving the factory (again) – 11’00 “, 2012
Mandra Cerrone – Genealogical love – 4:15, 2013
Valentina Ferrandes – BERG, HD Video – 2011 – 11’53 “
PROYECTOR 2014:
PARTNER
COLOGNE OFF (d)
OJO DE PERRO (mex)
FONLAD (Online Festival de Artes Digitales) (por)
VAFA – Video Art For All (Macau)
VIDEO BABEL (peru)
VISUALCONTAINER (I)
LOCATIONS
El Patio de Martín de los Heros, Martín de los Heros, 15 Madrid
Espacio Labruc, La Palma, Madrid 18
Espacio Malmö, Hernán Cortés, 14 Madrid
Espacio Naranjo, Naranjo, 33 Madrid
Oculto Espacio Madrid, Nicolás Usera, Madrid 27
Intermediæ (Matadero), Paseo de la Chopera, 14, Madrid
Quinta de Sordo, Rosario, 17, Madrid
Swinton Gallery, Miguel Servet, 21 Madrid
Theredoom, Doctor Fourquet, 1-3, Madrid
Theredoom (solo project), Luisa Fernanda, 19, Madrid
Galeria Santa Clara, António Augusto Gonçalves 67, Coimbra, Portugal
[.BOX] Video Art Project Space, Via F. Confalonieri 11, 20124 Milán, Italy
Ojo de Perro, Calles de Oaxaca, México
Director: Mario Gutiérrez Cru
Coordinator: Clara Leitão
Jurors: José Vieira, Juan García, Clara Leitão and Mario Gutiérrez Cru
Info for:
www.proyector.info
Special thanks to Mario Gutiérrez Cru
