Video selected:
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen – Pic nic , 8.00, 2015
Rita Casdia – I d , 4.50, 2015
Marta Roberti – Sarà stato, 7’12”, 2013
Natalia Saurin – Contemplazione, 3:33, 2010
Mauro Folci – Esodo/Exodus, 1’37”, 2011
Patrizia Bonardi – Run with the past, 4: 41 2014
Armida Gandini – Muovo sonnambula al mondo, 2’00”, 2012
Lucia Veronesi – Paesaggio senza titolo #7, 2′ 32”, 2014
Lino Strangis – Pensiero volante non identificato, 4:30, 2014
Cristina Ohlmer – Pixel Motion, 13.00, 2013

Visualcontainer Italian Video Art Platform was created in order to promote and disseminate the video art through various cultural projects organized within a single research center that includes:
Visualcontainer distributor, the first Italian distributor of video art with an archive of more than 70 artists and 200 videos available on line and for hiring;
VisualcontainerTV – International Video Art webchannel, the TV channel on the web whose programming includes exhibitions, monographs, interviews dedicated to video art, artists and festivals.
[. BOX] video art project space, the space exhibition center in Milan that hosted the most interesting research in video art, thanks to the collaboration with curators and institutions.

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Incidental Peripheral
Videoart Screening from Mediterranean area
Curator: Rachel Dedman, London/Lebanon

What significance does the term Mediterranean have for artists? As a space defined by a peripheral connection to the sea, it is absolutely vast – stretching from Southern Spain, North Africa and Italy across the coast of Eastern Europe, sweeping down past Turkey, Greece and the Levant before rounding Egypt and Libya. In a region shaped – literally – byfluidity, by a body of water, what bearing can such a term possibly have upon understanding the practices of artists working in peripherally connected countries, beyond the superficially geographic?

This hour-long screening for MUU Helsinki, of video artwork by Mediterranean artists, does not attempt to answer this, and can lay claim to neither breadth nor rigour. It hopes to resistthe temptation to cast wide thematic nets, or to dwell specifically upon the Mediterranean asa site of anxiety, urgency, migration and politico-economic upheaval. The selection of artworks has been guided instead by an interest in locality and origin as a mode of working with video, and is driven by works considering, in very different ways, genesis and what it means to be from somewhere.

Video selected:
Nour Ouayda, The Pale Light Of Day, 2014, 22′
Mirna Bamieh, Interrupted Biographies, 2014, 11′
Faycal Baghriche, The Message Project [extract], 2010, 8′
Marwan Hamdan, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, 2014, 14’08”

Rachel Dedman (b.1989, London) is an independent curator and writer based in Beirut, Lebanon. Rachel is currently curating the inaugural satellite exhibition for the Palestinian Museum, 2016, (Birzeit, West Bank) on the history and contemporary political significance of embroidery and textiles. In 2015 she curated the winning Franchise Program exhibition for apexart (New York, USA) in Beirut, and is curator-in-residence at 98weeks (Beirut, Lebanon). Rachel’s writing has been commissioned and published by Ibraaz, the Mosaic Rooms, Culture+Conflict, ArtDiscover and the Journal of Art Historiography. She was a finalist in the International Awards for Art Criticism, and has received scholarships from Independent Curators International and the Getty Foundation. She is the co-founder of the collective Polycephaly, which transforms research projects into meeting-points to think, formulate and share ideas around the process of art-making today. Rachel holds a First in the History of Art from St. John’s College, Oxford, and was the Von Clemm Fellow at Harvard University, 2012-13. In 2013/14 she was a participant of Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program, Beirut.
racheljdedman@gmail.com

MUU is an artist run, Finnish interdisciplinary artist association, founded in 1987 to represent and promote new and experimental forms of art. These are such as media art, performance, video, environmental, space and conceptual art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production.

The aims of Muu are to develop the collaboration and interchange of artists working within different fields, to produce projects, events, seminars and exhibitions of the Muu (“the Other”) art fields and to arouse cultural political discussion. Muu operates with Finnish and international cultural and educational organizations.
www.muu.fi

Special thanks to Timo Soppela and all MUU crew + Rachel Dedman and to Istituto di Cultura Italiano of Helsinki for make it possible.

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