mit Yasmin Alt, Anna Benner, Laure Catugier, Alison Darby, Monika Goetz, Gözde Güngör, Martine Heuser, Max Hilsamer, Ana Hupe, Karsten Kelsch, Ofri Lapid, Anna Lauenstein, Marion Orfila, Julieta Ortiz de Latierro, Emerita Pansowova, Gudrun Sailer, Beatrice Schuett Moumdjian, Anja Sonnenburg, Saša Tatić, Hannelore Teutsch, Hana Yoo.
Metamorphosis forms a realistic network of connotations that are out of reality. Numerous stories of metamorphosis freely cross over the boundary between reality and fantasy, take osmotic proceedings in order to filter, transmit each other. The very aspect that it is possible to see reality through transformation and reproduce meaning through this mirror reveals its polarity and simultaneously, its homogeneity.
In the philosophical fiction Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (1987), the cultural theorist and philosopher Vilém Flusser polarizes humans and a deep-sea animal, the vampire squid, as an ultimate “other” from a human perspective. He then addresses its “emergence” from an abyss, leaving a question towards the role of this animal between human and machine in a genetic technological revolution. From this abyss where the animal emerged, we would again expand our readings of Flusser and give weights further on feminist voices about non-humans in cultural theory and artistic practice.
Animorphosis is supported by DiVAversity of Arts, an initiative of the UdK Women's Representative Office.
Together with Dr. Anita Jóri
Contributions by Sofia Crespo, Jake Elwes, Lawrence Lek, Douna Lim & Théo Pesso, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Valérie Wolf Gang
KI-Camp Commisions: Hana Yoo, Portrait XO
With hardware almost feels real, THE REAL OFFICE presents an online exhibition on artificial intelligence as part of the supporting program of KI-Camp 2021. All of the art projects on show present the proximity of what we might describe as real and virtual, how AI can grow into bodies, and how those things we perceive and fear in an intellectual and virtual sphere are actually permeating the physical.
A project commissioned by KI-Camp 2021, the transdisciplinary research convention of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Informatics Society (GI). In cooperation with Akademie Schloss Solitude and Goethe Institut, Project Generation A=Algorithm.
Curated by THE REAL OFFICE
Design: Levin Stadler
Alphabet Art Center and the artistic director Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, invite Video Art Miden to present a video art selection online on the AAC website: alphabet.nmartproject.net
Video Art Miden‘s selection, entitled “Manifestations“, will be available online from April 1 to May 31, 2021.
The program is curated collectively by 5 basic curators of Video Art Miden: Margarita Stavraki, Nikos Podias, Maria Bourika, Olga Papadopoulou & Gioula Papadopoulou.
“Manifestations” brings together 10 video art works that explore different aspects of life and the subtext behind common and seemingly ordinary actions, movements, thoughts and things that surround us. The works follow and record discretely human psychological and behavioral routines, intersecting with great sensibility various human transactions and social interactions, from personal to collective and ultimately to universal.
Ab Februar 2021 präsentiert die Galerie Bernau ihr neues Jahresprogramm. Wie der Titel „Heimat, Herz, Orte“ schon vermuten lässt, dreht sich die Kunst in diesem Jahr um das zentrale Thema „Heimat“ drehen. Auch wenn wir gerade auf wackeligem Boden stehen, inzidenzabhängig die Türen öffnen und schließen, arbeiten die Künstler:innen und das Galerie-Team weiter am Jahresprogramm. Wir versuchen Tag für Tag, so wie es zu schaffen ist, so wie es zulässig ist, Kunst in die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen und weiterzumachen.
We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 23rd February for the opening of this hybrid edition, live from the Louvre auditorium.
The evening, and the whole event, will be accessible live on our website and in the 3D immersive space we have prepared for this new edition.
For 6 days, you will attend online sessions, carte blanche, online performances, online visits, round tables and a forum. The theme of this edition is hybrid spaces. It will run through the entire programme and will be an opportunity to reflect on the future of audiovisual forms and their modes of dissemination.
With the program of CTM/transmediale Vorspiel 2021, the Vilém Flusser Archive welcomes you to an online screening/artist talk by Hana Yoo. Inspired by children’s stories and human-animal metamorphosis in mythologies, Splendour in the grass takes an extremely exaggerated anthropomorphic view of non-humans, which reveals the position of humans to widen perceptions, whilst confronting limitations. Follow by the screening, we will discuss a short essay, ‘The cows’ from Natural: Mind(2013) by Vilém Flusser.
From 18 November to 27 November, 2020 (for 10days) Space HEEM (B1, 3, Sumi-ro 50beon ga-gil, Suyeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea)
Visiting Hours: 1pm – 8pm (Closed on Mondays)
Artist: Kawita vatanajyankur, Ro caminal, Shailesh B.R, TseringMotup Siddho, Minjung Kim, Jaeha Ban, Hana Yoo, Youngchan Ko, Hansol Bae, Jaehoon Choi.
Host: Busan International Video Art Festival
Sponser: Busan Metropolitan City, Busan Cultural Foundation
96 Stunden Austausch. Solidarität. Bereicherung.
96 Stunden Bestandsaufnahme. Zukunftsausblick.
96 Stunden Kunst. Diskurs. Diversität.
fluctoplasma ist ein interdisziplinäres Kunstfestival, das zum zweiten Mal vom 21. bis zum 24. Oktober 2021 in Hamburg stattfindet. Wir laden Dich ein, mit über 80 international aufsteigenden Künstler*innen und Denker*innen in eine moderne Stadtgesellschaft aufzubrechen – wie möchten wir zusammen in 5, 20 oder 30 Jahren in Hamburg leben?
Beteilige Dich mit uns an etwas ganz Neuem! Komm mit auf diese Reise, zusammen mit den teilnehmenden Künstler*innen eine alternative Vision von Gesellschaft zu entwerfen – eine Gesellschaft, die Vielfalt feiert und lebt.
DISKURS Berlin presents Exhibition-Relay: #Solidarity #FightBack #SunGoesUp every two weeks from July-December 2020, there is a new exhibition in the space as the baton gets passed. Sixteen artists and two guest curators create eleven shows specifically designed to be viewed through the windows of DISKURS Berlin as our doors remain closed. This fast-paced exhibition program aims to support the artists, curators, and creative individuals to fight back against the COVID-19 crisis.
Artists from 15 countries meet online at Miden’s screenings, in 3 thematic programs which detect contemporary reality and set questions for our world through various artistic forms of contemporary video art.
More specifically in September, video art friends around the world will have the opportunity to watch a selection of video works that listens to and critically comment on dystopian versions of our world and the human existence before or after the catastrophe (Frozen), a selection that comments on the global contemporary sociopolitical situation and the “thesis” of human in it (Meta-Thesis), both curated by Olga & Gioula Papadopoulou, and a tribute to videodance as a means of artistic expression (Dancing for a reason) curated by Margarita Stavraki, a program initially screened in July in the frame of the international dance festival Dance Days Chania, in Crete (GR).
The understanding of what we consider public space and what is considered private space is being redefined. We cannot share the way we used to share and we cannot exhibit the way we used to exhibit. Site-specific actions have a different meaning and taste.
The physical windows in Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz will be transformed with submissions through light and retinal persistence.
SWITCHED ONFrom Monday to Sunday between June 13th and July 20th.
Projectors will light up at 8 p.m. until 12 p.m. High Definition flat screens will switch ON twice a day:
Artists from 15 countries meet online at Miden’s screenings, in 3 thematic programs which detect contemporary reality and set questions for our world through various artistic forms of contemporary video art.
More specifically in September, video art friends around the world will have the opportunity to watch a selection of video works that listens to and critically comment on dystopian versions of our world and the human existence before or after the catastrophe (Frozen), a selection that comments on the global contemporary sociopolitical situation and the “thesis” of human in it (Meta-Thesis), both curated by Olga & Gioula Papadopoulou, and a tribute to videodance as a means of artistic expression (Dancing for a reason) curated by Margarita Stavraki, a program initially screened in July in the frame of the international dance festival Dance Days Chania, in Crete (GR).
Das Jahresthema des Kunstfestivals für 2020 lautet „BOOM“: offen in alle Richtungen – der große Knall, aber auch der große Durchbruch. Ein Bass, der die Musik antreibt, die formale Visualisierung mit Konfettikanone. Das eruptive Zerstören und neu Entstehen sind seine Erscheinungsformen, eine rot-gelbe, zackige Comic-Sprechblase, eine Explosion. Ein kraftvoller Ausbruch und ein Zeichen abrupten Wandels. Berlin ist „Boom-Town“, ein Hotspot der Kunstwelt, und Neukölln ist seit Jahren zentraler Ort der experimentellen, künstlerischen Forschung und unkonventionellen Präsentation. Der Boom hat zuallererst einen positiven Klang: Er bezeichnet einen Aufschwung, gesteigertes Interesse und wachsende Nachfrage. Der Begriff regt aber auch an zum kritischen Nachdenken über die „Grenzen des Wachstums“ in Bezug auf ökonomische und ökologische Fragen. Und wer profitiert in Berlin eigentlich vom Boom und der damit verbundenen Dynamik und für wen stellt der Boom eher eine Bedrohung dar? (PM)
Registrierung und Bewerbung für das Festival www.anmeldung.48-stunden-neukoelln.de
This is not a festival. We have therefore intentionally refrained from showing the programmes on a fixed timetable and instead are making them available for the entire five days. We hope you enjoy the viewing! And if you’d like a small impression of EMAF as it could have been, you can find the entire festival programme and our catalogue as a PDF ⟼ here.
Territories are fiercely contested, they are being appropriated, marked out and secured, they express affiliations and power structures. SCOTTY wants to artistically challenge and investigate these relations in a number of ways. The aim here is to tackle issues such as possession and appropriation and subversively transcend them, through artistic interventions. Borders are being questioned to transform territories into spaces of possibility. Free spaces are utilised and created so that new mental and social spaces can evolve.
100 artists have submitted their work, on the occasion of the open call for this year’s theme Territories, of which 23 positions can now be viewed at SCOTTY.
Be it the entitlement for residence, for boundary, for freedom or for autonomy- the exhibited artists explore our relationship to territories on many different levels.
Whilst tourists self-evidently venture into any territory, enjoy their freedom and their right to go on holidays on luxury liners, whilst they document this freedom in common places and share it with the world, the access to freedom remains shut to others.
Surfaces are subtly separated by differing textures. Territories and paths are marked out and made visible by lines. They separate one from the other and offer protection.
Construction projects displace native animals from their territory, a child guards its brother who is buried underneath debris.
In the juxtaposition of these experiences, the question on the concept of territories continually arises.
The Vorspiel 2020 opening night5will feature live performances, screenings, DJ sets, and many more artistic interventions spanning ACUD’s club, studio, movie theatre, gallery, and more.
The program showcases this year’s participating venues.The city-wide Vorspiel program unites over 55 Berlin-based initiatives and venues in a programme featuring exhibition openings, performances, interventions, artist talks, and other special events. An initiative of transmediale and CTM festivals, it takes place ahead of and during both festivals each year.
Vorspiel 2019 will then continue with daily events until 2 February 2020. The programme will be published here in the course of January.
Vernissage: 5 July 2019, 12pm/noon
Location: IRI THESys, FRI 191, 4087
Anthropologist Mary Douglas writing in the 1960s made the claim that: “Where there is dirt there is a system.” (1966:35). But “dirt” is not for her an absolute value, rather it is contextual. Dirt is “matter out of place.” Conceived of in this way “dirt” can be anything that destroys our perception of a unity or an order. It intrudes, but it is never absolute. Dirt, rather, is “an entity that only comes into being due to our incessant need to create social order amidst a chaotic world that is ‘so continuous and so immense in its variety as to be unhandleable’” (Eriksen and Schober (2017: 323)).
Much of social life is thus about classifying and sorting, processes that give order to the ‘fundamental messiness of things.’ In this class, the students have looked to these processes via the discarded, disgusting, flushed, and carted off excesses of this order. They have practiced finding systems that undergird the infrastructures of cleanliness, they have followed those who value disorder, or who treat it in unexpected ways, they have spoken with those who clean and maintain order, and they have found answers to important questions like: why are the bananas at Netto sold in a plastic bag? Why does upcycling feel snobby and irritating? And where do the chocolate bunnies go after the Easter sales?
This edition presents 9 programs. Together, they capture the spirit of formal and conceptual playfulness that has accompanied Cairo Video Festival since its inaugural edition 14 years ago. In collaboration with local artists, filmmakers and writers, Cairo Video Festival highlights the most recent global video art and experimental film productions.
The official selection, a total of 101 video works produced after January 2017, will hit the city in the fall, like the seasonal locust swarm, inspiring a continuity of working and experimenting in the field. Through the open call, we received 783 video submissions, our team then preselected a number of works which were sent to the Selection and Programmers Committee. The eight members selected 76 video works from more than 30 countries, and, by way of interlocution with the works, created programs including: a workshop, a performance and a podcast, and invited additional video works. The invited works include 4 new works, that are specifically produced for the festival’s 9th edition, by Mohamed El Maghraby, Mostafa El-Baroody, Rikke Benborg and Shoto Hayakawa. All videos have Arabic and English subtitles wherever intended.
The works in this edition have been nominated and selected by the festival’s team, as well as the Selection and Programmers Committee, including: Ahmed Refaat, Alaa Abdelhamid, Islam Kamal, Mai Elwakil, Mona Gamil, Sarrah Abdelrahman and 96 negatives. The 9th edition contains reflections and input from contributors including Islam Shabana, Lara El Gibaly, Marwan Elgamal, Nour El Safoury, Samir El Kordy and Wael Abdel Fattah.
The MusraraMix Festival is an international multidisciplinary event that takes place in the borderline neighborhood of Musrara, initiated and produced by Musrara, the Naggar School of Art and Society. The festival is a hub of artistic and social happenings, embodying the political and cultural essence of Jerusalem and Israel. Every year the festival is based around one theme. The 20th year of the festival is the year of Transfigure.
The festival expresses the school’s outlook. We believe in the significant role the creative process has, when it turns our gaze onto society and the identities that structure it. We believe in the power the festival has, as part of the educational process of the students.
Musrara, The Naggar School of Art and Society, invites the public to participate in the online events taking place during the festival, and enjoy some of the best multidisciplinary art made in Israel and the world today. We would like to thank our partners: firstly the residents of Musrara, the public funds and organizations from Israel and abroad that sponsor our activity, and of course our students, teachers and school staff.
Im Rahmen von SITUATIONS/Foto Text Data haben wir um Einsendung kurzer Videobeiträge gebeten, die sich mit dem Zusammenspiel von Text und Bild in unserer heutigen datengesteuerten Gesellschaft auseinandersetzen. Die ausgewählten Projekte sind.
Hana Yoo, When Will the Earth Be Destroyed?, 2019
Jack Wolf/Alexander Schindler, In-Camera Proceedings, 2018
Helen Wiona Röhrig, nevergonnagiveyouup, 2019
Anna Ehrenstein, Real Thomas Metzinger, 2019
Die vier Arbeiten widmen sich dem breit angelegten Themenfeld aus ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven – von forschungsbasierten Ansätzen bis hin zu künstlerischen Auseinandersetzungen mit populären Internetphänomenen. Über verschiedene Arten von Displays und Computerprogrammen wie Smartphone Apps, Google Earth und dem Desktop thematisieren sie die multimedialen Umgebungen, in denen Text-Bild-Konstellationen heute erscheinen. Inhaltlich beschäftigen sich die Arbeiten mit sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Aspekten wie Selfie-Kultur, Bildkonsum und Schönheitswahn, Internet-Trolling, Meme-Kultur, Überwachung, künstlicher Intelligenz und der Sehnsucht nach Unsterblichkeit.
Die Gewinner_innen erhalten einen Preis von 500 CHF. Ihre Arbeiten werden im Rahmen eines Screenings am Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2019 um 19:30 am Fotomuseum Winterthur präsentiert (Grüzenstrasse 45, in der SITUATIONS Ausstellung). Das Rahmenprogramm findet auf Englisch statt.
