I COLORI DELLA MEMORIA
A Virtual Memorial Milan 2014
25/26/27 JANUARY 2014

“A Virtual Memorial Milan 2014″under the patronage of:
The European Parliament
Milan Municipality (District 9),
Regional Municipality Lombardia,
Contemporary Documentation Center of Jewis Culture Foundation.

4 Videoart screenings from “SFC – Shoah Film Collection”
A project of Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and A Virtual Memorial Foundation
realised in the context of Agricola de Cologne ZERO
in collaboration with [.BOX] and Visualcontainer

Special Opening
Sat/Sun : 15/18
Mon. 18.30/20.30

C/o [.BOX] Videoart project space
Via F. Confalonieri 11, Milano
www.dotbox.it
info@dotbox.it

On the symbolical date of 27 January 2010, the 65th return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz – the internationally renown media artist and curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne launched SFC -Shoah Film Collection – an independent art project and international initiative addressed to young generations of artists and filmmakers to deal with the topic of Shoah (Holocaust) and collective trauma caused by totalitarianism by using new technologies and contemporary approaches in order to keep vivid the memory through sensitizing via art. Meanwhile an outstanding collection of experimental and documentary art film & videos contributed by more than 60 artists from 14 countries was raising.

In order to make the Shoah Film Collection accessible to a wider audience, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne created an experimental event context, entitled: A Virtual Memorial – Commemorative Interventions which is placing SFC –Shoah Film Collection in the context of complementary interventions, such as lectures, exhibitions, a symposium, artists presentations, screenings and much more in order to start a discussion on many levels and activate the artists, as well as the audience.

The 1st pilot project was realised in Latvia 2012 – A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 – 1-30 June 2012 – a collaboration with Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum, Culture & Arts Project and Latvian Video Archives NOASS and artvideoKOELN – standing under the Patronage of European Parliament.

It was the experiment, how a discussion can be started to bring the artists and their concepts close to the audience and enable and encourage an intensive exchange, resulting the burning desire to continue the process initiated in Riga to be fulfilled one year later in Lithuania in Vilnius and Kedainiai in autumn 2013 as the 2nd pilot project – “A Virtual Memorial Vilnius 2013” – a collaboration with Jewish Culture & Information Center, Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum & Regional Museum of Kedainiai – 23 Sept – 27 Oct 2013 – standing under the Patronage of the European Parliament. The symposium taking place as the part of 4th World Litvak Congress 2013 Vilnius – 23-26 September 2013 was standing under the topic, how moving images transport the collective trauma to future generations, can be considered as most successful.

Artists presented:
Roland Quelven (France) – Peter Freund (USA) – Theme Bannenberg & Nok Snel (Netherlands) – Christiano Berti (Italy) – Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – Sean Burn (UK) – Shelley Jordon (USA) – Isobel Blank (Italy) – Grace Graupe-Pillard (USA) – Alicia Felberbaum (UK) – Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Paolo Bonfiglio (Italy) – Heike Liss & Thea Farhadian (USA) –
Doron Polak & Uri Dushy (Israel) – Marita Contreras (Peru) – Antti Savela (SWE) – Nathania Rubin (USA) – Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Istvan Horkay (Hungary) – Shon Kim (South Korea) – Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – Andrea Nevi (Italy) – Dana Levy (Israel) – Doris Neidl (Austria) –Daveed Shwartz (Israel) – Isabelle Rozenbaum (France) – Jacob C. Podber (USA) – Bebe Beard (USA) – Hadas Tapuchi (Israel) – Anetta Kapon (USA) – David R. Burns (USA) – Dova Cahan (Israel) – Brian Delevie (USA) – Felice Hapetzeder (SWE).

A Virtual Memorial Milan 2014 (Text and Video List)

A Virtual Memorial Milan 2014 ( A virtual Memorial and SFC – Shoah Film Collection’s site)

“I colori della Memoria” Entire program

Virtual Memorial 2014

On occasion of the memorial day 27 January 2014
Shoah Film Collection will launch the open call for the coming year.
This call is posted already online, it will be later also published on the publish platform “NETEX”
And on occasion of the memorial day, 27 January 2014 – Shoah Film Collection Interview Project will be officially lauched.
This will be a unique resource for finding answers how to keep vivid the memory of the Holocaust via art.

A project of Agricola de Cologne ZERO

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12 Dicembre 2013
CONTAMINATION/CONTAMINAZIONE
Presentation and video screening
in collaboration with L’Œil d’Oodaaq (Rennes, France) and VisualContainer (Milan, Italy).

H 18.30 – 21

C/o [.BOX] Videoart project space
Via F. Confalonieri 11, Milano
www.dotbox.it
info@dotbox.it

CONTAMINATION / CONTAMINAZIONE
DVD Limited Edition (50)
made by the Œil of Oodaaq ( France ) and VisualContainer ( Italy )
Video works by : Maria Korporal, Francois Lejault, Luca Christian Mander, Jacques Perconte, Giovanni Zaccariello, Jérémy Laffon, Enrico Bressan, Jean Bonichon

with the support of: Institut Francais , the city of Rennes and Rennes – Metropole and La maison internationale de Rennes.

price € 15

The title ” Contamination – Contamination ” refers to the hybrid nature of video art . The project was born during summer 2013 , on the occasion of the cultural exchange between The Œil of Oodaaq festival (Rennes , France) and VisualContainer Italian platform of video art.

Oodaaq is an island discovered in 1978 in the north – east of Greenland. It has long been considered the nordest emerged land mass of the world, but this pile of gravel and mud is actually drifting , thus making it impossible to identify the actual location . The island , somewhere in the world between reality and imagination, here becomes an image, distant and utopic. The nomadic island sails in the waters of the world and emerge here and there, inviting people to settle on its shores to enjoy a new perspective on the world.

We like to tell the landing of the nomadic Oodaaq island, in the Isola district in Milan during the summer 2013 , as the first step in a long journey that has brought us to the consequent contamination of ideas and languages and the desire to investigate the multiple nature of the video medium through a small publishing production .
Water is a recurring theme in this compilation video , as a metaphor for the video stream.

So by the waters of the Atlantic and Mediterranean sea, a new visual flow is returning to flood our cities , Let flow between video art works that representing the best idea of contamination among contemporary languages, new technologies and suggesting new points of view,too. As nomads thoughts and never anchored in certainties, we believe that the journey and the shared experience enrich us, just as the passage of dell’Oeil Oodaaq in Milan.

We invite you to embark on our boat to explore what are the new trends in video art Italian and French. Our journey will take you inside the images , in the heart of their im – materiality.

Video Selection:
Maria Korporal – Avgerinos & Poulia – 7’00’’ – 2011
Francois Lejault – Le rêve de cachalot – 7’13’’ – 2001
Luca Christian Mander – Eppursimuove – 3’40’’ – 2009
Jacques Perconte – Libres – 4’30’’ – 2012
Giovanni Zaccariello – Disappear#3 – 4’28’’ – 2013
Jérémy Laffon – Alone in the studio –5’10” – 2011
Enrico Bressan – Esercise # 49 – 3’25” 2011
Jean Bonichon – Eau de là –8’56” – 2009

©  L’Œil d’Oodaaq  + Visualcontainer 2013 ©

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FIVA International Videoart festival
Hall Jorge Luis Borges
Biblioteca Nacional
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
http://www.fivafestival.com.ar

day 1
Special Sections
Monday 11th, from 16:30 to 17:30 hs.

Miguel Petchkovsky FIVA Program 2013
Curator Video Guerrilha S. Time_frame Curator Paulo Brazil and Holland Foundation.
This program incorporates curators and artists.

curators:

Visual Container Italy
“A Star Breath Away” Angelina Voskopoulou 4’51’’
”Gratta e Vinci” Tommaso Pedone 5’45’’

Rose Bond. Artista and director PNCA Portland. USA
Animafest Zagreb 2013 4’45’’
“Unfettered” Sandra Weber / Canadá
“Aquarium” Boris Hergecic /Croacia
“Intra Muros” Rose Bond /Estados Unidos/Canadá

Tommaso Pedone. Curator. Italia
“Ying Aoyun” Lino Strangis 3’45’’ (courtesy Visualcontainer)
“Unsuitable” If 6’05”

Mat Rappaport. Curator University of Columbia. USA
“Gadsden Purchase / Field Test (bdsp-12)” Paul Catanese 1’42’’
“Gadsden Purchase / Field Test mxb-04)” Paul Catanese 1’32’’
“Lutar Ferozmente” Dolores Wilber 8’15’’

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