URBAN CANDY

Urban Candy is about the abyss of female/male interaction in metropolitan areas. Metropolitan areas dominate the contemporary life style of the majority of mankind, because biggest part of mankind lives in metropolites and urban life is dominating main communication formats, e.g. film and video. Metropolitan life coines expectations in a special way. Urban Candy investigates the clichés and reality of urban gender by using fiction, experimental and dance film format, assisted by experience and emerging artists like Alison Williams, Oliver Essigmann and Peter Kastner and assisted scientifically by Rebecca Schoensee.


Urban Candy, a Joas Sebastian Nebe Film.

Collaborators:
Alison Williams (video art)
Oliver Essigmann (Choreography and Dance)
Peter Kastner (Music/Sound Design)
Rebecca Schoensee (scientific research)

The Encyclopedic Cartoons Video Project
A video project elaborated and curated by Joas Sebastian Nebe

-Two day presentation at Zentrifuge on AEG, Nürnberg, Germany, 24th - 25th july 2010

-One hour special on Transfera TV (www.transfera.es/) 16th and 17th april 2010

-Worldpremiere at Kulturpalast Wedding, Berlin, Germany, 12th february 2010, 20h

THE 6TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE, 17th february 2010, 7pm - open end, Directors Lounge, Christinenstr. 18, 10119 Berlin


The Vitruvian Woman
A video project elaborated and curated by Michael Chang.

The Vitruvian Woman is a multimedia sculpture created by 34 artists from around the world. Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch; The Vitruvian Man, which idealises the classic proportions of the human body, in his case the male body, The Vetruvian Woman sets out to trace the multidimensionality of womanhood in a flow of five three-minute video sequences reflecting the nine bodily regions: the head, heart, stomach, sexual organ, right arm, left arm, left leg, right leg and feet.
This poetry of dismemberment screened on nine monitors draws on diverse chapters of female identity, from scenes of domestic life to the sensibilities of lingerie and lust. Allegories of the flesh and a male beaten to pulp add to the shaky image of female empowerment as it alternately pins its hope on Buddhist mantra and surrenders to the flux of collective consciousness.
(Kim Wyon)

Participating artists

Aditi Kulkarni, (India)
Alberto Guerreiro (Portugal)
Alexandra Buhl (Denmark)
Alicia Felberbaum (United Kingdom)
Alison Williams (South Africa)
Ambuja Magaji (USA)
Anders Weberg (Sweden)
Anica Vucovik (Serbia)
Arthur Tuoto (Brazil)
Brad Wise (USA)
Bruno Penteado (Brazil) & Henrique Cartaxo (Brazil)
Christy Walsh (USA)
Dave Swensen (USA)
Debbie Douez (Canada)
Igor Amin (Brazil)
Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg)
Jan Kather (USA)
Joas Sebastian Nebe (Germany)
Joy Whalen (USA)
Kai Lossgott (South Africa)
Kika Nicolela (Brazil)
Michael Chang (Denmark) & Melanie Chilianis (Australia)
Niclas Hallberg (Sweden)
Per E Riksson (Sweden)
Renata Padovan (Brazil)
Ronee Hui (United Kingdom)
Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden)
Simone Stoll (Germany) & Anthony Siarkiewicz (USA)
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway)
Uma Ray (India)
Willy Darko (Italy)

From 15th to 22nd December 2009 “Vitruvian Woman” is shown at VIDEO DIA LOGHI 9th Edition at the space of Velan Centro d’Arte Contemporanea of Torino.

You can visit the survey online: www.videodialoghi.org



ECVP Vol. 2, Kulturpalast Wedding, Berlin
19th november 2009
8pm - 11pm

Human Emotion Project – International Video Art at the José Malhoa Museum



Human Emotion Video Installation:
20 October to 25 de October 2009
10h00 – 12h30 | 14h00 – 17h00

Presentation | Vídeo Projection:
22 October 2009
21h00h - 24h00



A group of creative authors from the most varied geographical and cultural ground outfitted with the infinite possibility of video art express the complex strength that identifies us as human beings: the emotions.

Provided by the exquisite extensive video collection of the Human Emotion Project, founded and directed by the South African artist Alison Williams, a roll of forty works selected by the Portuguese commissioner of the HEP group will compose an eclectic audiovisual program to be held at the José Malhoa Museum from 20 to 25th October, with a special gathering in the evening of 22nd of October of 2009.

The evening session of 22nd October will be lighten by the accredited Art Professor and Filmmaker Fernando Galrito as guest speaker and also by the inclusion in the screening program of student works from of the High School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha (ESAD.CR) that this way are associated to the event.

The presentation evening hosted by the José Malhoa Museum of the Museums and Conservation Institute (MJM-IMC.IP), in partnership with the Human Emotion Project (HEP) and the High School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha (IPL-ESAD.CR) will take place at 21h00h and will be extended up to the 24h00.

During the entire schedule of the Human Emotions Video Art event (from 20 to 25 October) all works selected (HEP and ESAD.CR) will be rolling in the Multimedia Room in a rotational format at the opening hours of the museum.



Alberto Guerreiro
Curator | HEP Portugal


Full Program

Human Emotion – Vídeo Installation
20 October to 25 October 2009
10h00 – 12h30 | 14h00 – 17h00

Multimedia Room | Projection + Monitor
Human Emotion Project + ESAD.CR works


Presentation | Vídeo Projection
22 October 2009
21h00h às 24h00

Malhoa Room | Presentation
Malhoa Museum Director: Dr.ª Matilde Tomaz do Couto (IMC/MJM)
Comissioner: Alberto Guerreiro (HEP Portugal)
Guest Speaker: Prof. Fernando Galrito (ESAD. CR)


Temporary Exhibition Room | Vídeo Projection – Cogito
Human Emotion Project + ESAD.CR works

Sculpture Room |Vídeo Projection – Corpus
Human Emotion Project + ESAD.CR works

Multimedia Room | Projection – Modus and Vox
Human Emotion Project + ESAD.CR works

Curator | HEP Portugal:
Alberto Guerreiro

José Malhoa Museum:
Mathilde Tomaz do Couto – Director
Carlos Coutinho – Coordenation/Museum Curatorship.

Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha:
Fernando Galrito – Professor.
Sérgio Dantas – Technical Support.

HEP Internacional
Alison Williams –Founder/Director.
Debbie Douez – International Administrator.
Adamo Macri – Design.

Museu do Hospital e das Caldas – Centro Hospitalar do Oeste Norte:
Dora Sofia Mendes – Coordenation/Management.

Credits:
Instituto de Museus e da Conservação (IMC)
Museu José Malhoa (MJM)
Human Emotion Project (HEP2009)
IPL – Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas-da-Rainha (ESAD.CR)
Museu do Hospital e das Caldas – Centro Hospitalar do Oeste Norte


Human Emotion Project:

Alison Williams (RSA) | Hakan Akçura (TUR/SWE) | Kyle van Osdol (USA) | Ulf Kristiansen (NOR) | Gérman Britch (ARG) | Alicia Felberbaum (ARG/UK) | Michael Chang (DEN) | Karina Smigla-Bobinski (POL/GER) | Michael Douglas Hawk (USA) | Danny Germansen (DEN) | Dave Swensen (USA) | Richard Jochum (GER/USA) | John Benneth (DEN) | Daniel Chavez (USA) | Ektoras Binikos (GRE) | Natalie Johanna Halla (SP) | Gaia Bartolini (IT) | Luca Curci (IT) | Fabiana Roscioli (IT) | Manfred Marburger (UK) | Masha Yozefpolsky (ISR) | Anders Weberg (SWE) | Michal Brzezinski (POL) | Amina Bech (NOR) | José Drummond (PT) | Christy Walsh (USA) | Robertina Sebjanic (SL) | Nika Autor (SL) | Verena Stenke (GER) | Andrea Pagnes (IT) | Tim White Sobieski (USA) | Debbie Douez (SP/CAN) | Adamo Macri (CAN) | Irina Gabiani (GEO/LUX) | Ice trip (MEX) | Alberto Guerreiro (PT) | Behjat Omer (UK) | William Esdale (UK) | Joas Nebe (GER) | Bill Millet (UK) | Niclas Hallberg (SWE) | Stina Phersdotter (SWE) | Vienne Chan (CHI/CAN) | José Luis Pajares (SP)

Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha (IPL-ESAD.CR):

Jorge Sousa | Lucas Almeida | Andreia Nóbrega | Filipe Quaresma | Ana Lucas | Catarina Ribeiro | Diana Coelho | Joana Simões



MUSEU JOSÉ MALHOA
Parque D. Carlos I
2500-109 Caldas da Rainha

Portugal



Telefone +351 262 83 19 84
Fax +351 262 84 34 20
mjm@ipmuseus.pt

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www.artreview.com/group/humanemotionproject2009

U.S. premiere of The Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol. 2.

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among international artists, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse."

Exquisite Corpse

In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own work from that small portion. When the last participant is finished, the sheet is unfolded to reveal a strangely divergent, yet contiguous form or figure.

Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists' game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member's work. Each member is asked to incorporate these seconds into their piece, creating transitions as they please, until everyone's vision is threaded together into an instigating final "corpse."

Coordinated by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela, the ECVP project started in April 2008 with artists who met online at the networking site artreview.com, and, over time, other artists were invited to join in. Only recently could such a fast-paced, pan-global, audiovisual variation of this exercise be produced. The inspiring process of exchange among 'strangers' from around the world illuminates the possibilities of globalized, collective creativity.

The second volume was made, which includes 12 new videos made by more than 50 artists from 20 different countries. Each of the 12 videos of the ECVP Vol.2 has a theme, so the artists responded to these themes as well as to the pieces they received from the previous artist.

My contribution to project´s Vol. 2 is the initial film to thread "LANGUAGE" and a middle part film to "ENCOUNTER".

The U.S. Premiere of The Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol. 2 will be
Friday, October 30, 2009. 8PM at ARTIST´s TELEVISION ACCESS,

© 2008 Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, (415) 824-3890. Artists' Television Access is supported in part by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The Christensen Fund, individual members, donors, and volunteers.

This evening's screening at Artist's Television Access, will screen the first six of 12 films, followed by a short videoconference Q&A with a panel of participating artists from around the world. Doors open at 8 PM, show is at 8:30 PM.

See trailer here: http://www.vimeo.com/5329110

Link to ATA: http://www.atasite.org





HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT, curated by John Benneth, at Valby Kulturhus on 14th- 15th oktober 2009.

Willy Darko "Anni '70" Italy
Joas Sebastian Nebe "Milky Way" Germany
Glenn Church "Fragility" USA
Anders Weberg and Alison Williams "Mirror Mirror" RSA Sweden
Ektoras Binikos "Narcissus" USA
Alberto Guerreiro "Transcendent or the sexual life of ghosts" Portugal
Mads Ljungdahl "The Source" Denmark
Christy Walsh "Isolation" USA
Robertina Sebjanic and Nika Autor "Bubble" Slovenia
Pekka Ruuska "Munarosvo" Finland,Switzerland
Alicia Felberbaum "There and back" UK
Debbie Douez "Two in One" Spain, Canada
Anders Weberg "Dejected" Sweden
Kai Lossgott "Diving" RSA
Lemeh42 "Et dukkehjem" Faticart Group
Danny Germansen "Alienation and Loneliness" Denmark
Sohrab M. Kashani "Desolated Love" Iran
Anthony Elliot "Get a job nr 2" UK
Niclas Hallberg "The Crying Man" Sweden
Paolo Bonfiglio "Mater" Faticart Group
Vienne Chan "Untitled Body" HK, Canada
Stina Pehrsdotter "Urging Absence" Sweden
Michael Chang "Concerto Azzurro" Denmark
Daniel Chavez "Electric emitter head" USA
Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes Italy/Germany "Crossing" Faticart Group
Marty McCutcheon "Seventeen South" USA
Alison Williams "The Interview" RSA

CIRQUE AUDIVISUEL is an art event, taking place at Kolbhalle, Cologne, Germany at 5th september 2009. Curator´s aim is bringing together film and music that are not made for each other in order to create something new. Eletronic music will be combined with film works of more than 20 video artist. There will be a video art showroom, live visuals, multimedia live act and DJs will create soundtracks for three fictional short films live.


Curators have chosen my video "THE VACATION" for this event, which is one of GERMAN CARTOONS a complete new production on recent German history and what is associated with German culture in general. The project is still under construction and Party Cirque Audiovisuel is the first place to show one of the films to the public.


Participating video artists:
Kim Münster, Wuppertal; "una cuestión" - Super 8 - 1'10 - 2009
Christian Scharfe, Dortmund; no title - DV - 2'18
Frederike Wetzels, "Milk" - 1'03
Alec Crichton, Cologne; Mauenheim - DV - 2'22 - 2003/2006, Haustauben - DV - 7'18 - 2003/2006
Joas-Sebastian Nebe, Hamburg; "The Vacation" - DV - 3,49
Ivalo Frank, Berlin; "People from the North who Eat Meat" - 3'56
Beat von Stein, Mainz; "visuals" - 2'52 - 2009
Tom Bewilogua (Kinematograph24/7), Hamburg; "Gerbonit" - 6'14
Hamed, Cologne; "19 Ghost III" - 2'18
Gloria R. Gammer, Linz; "Briefwechsel" - 6'39, "Ode an das Meer" - 8'44
Kim Engelen; "Borderlines tape#hair" - 5'35
Sven Holly Nullmeyer, Berlin; "Loop City" - 15'
Henk Loorbach, Amsterdam; no title - digital file format - 1' - Clip for Amsterdam International Film Festival 2007
Till R. D. Cremer / Anna Vahl, Berlin; "POINTS" - Super 8 - 2'20 - 2001; Loop Pool / Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2006
Timo Böse; Live Visuals Australian Tour DJ HELL - 5' - Stereosonic Festival 2008
Christian Fischer, Cologne; "Observation" - HDV - 2'20 - 2009
Stefanie Sixt, Augsburg; "Virtuality" - digital file format - 05'48 - 2009; 5th berlin international directors lounge, european media art festival 2009
Svetlana Postnova, Cologne; "Genesis 3.6. La pomme du paradis" - original format: video installation - HD - 5'16 - 2009; "Verwandlung" - original format: installation - DV - 5'50 - 2008
Peter Friedrich, Cologne; "Chateaubriand" - HDV - 2007
Robert Sieg, Berlin; "HERREN" - original format: video installation (triptychon) - 2008

Installation:
"Farbfundament" Lukas Höh, Cologne; ohne Titel - 4 monitoring cameras - 2009
Peter Friedrich, Cologne; white room - video installation - 3 video loops on 3 TV-screens, DV - ca. 30' - 2008

Fiction:
Jan Kerp, Cologne; Udo im Weltall - digital file format - 3'34 - 2007
Lucas Vossoughi & Artur Golczewski, Vienna; Miss Entropy - DV - 14'50 - 2008
Peter Friedrich, Cologne; Jetzt kracht's, 16mm - 1'08 - 2003

Live-Act:
THE RAUMZEITPIRATEN, founded 2007 in Cologne; Tobias Daemgen/Moritz Ellerich - multidimensional/multimedial

VJ:
der_nullpunkt, Berlin
kineoid, Cologne

DJ:
Das O, Frankfurt
DanRec, Cologne
Markus Hüskes, Cologne


More informations about CIRQUE AUDIOVISUEL at www.myspace.com/cirque_audiovisuel

press :
http://www.koeln-journal.de/index/seite/Aktuelles/artikel/4808298/dokument/4808297/datei/koelnjournalde_praesentiert_videokunst_kurzfilme_und_elektronische_musik.html

1. International Art Action Istanbul 2009 is presenting more than 100 artworks, performances and art video at three locations in Istanbul. The festival is organized and curated by Sevgi and Evrensel Urum and will take place from 26th september to 5th october 2009.

Curator Sevgi Urum has chosen LOST CITY for screening at Istanbul Photography Center at 5th, 6th and 10th october 2009. LOST CITY is the 4th PHILOSOPHICAL CARTOON, a collection of films translating general approaches to human condition - usually part of philosophical disciplines - into video film. The 4th PHILOSOPHICAL CARTOON is about how our perception system influences perception of our environment.

PHILOSOPHICAL CARTOONS are part of the Contemperary Video Art Collection of the DIAF. The DIAF (Deutsches Institut fuer Animationsfilm) is dedicated to preserve GDR animation film heritage and started a contemporary art video collection last year.


Fest i Nova will host artists from Austria, France, Georgia, Netherlands, United States of America.


The "Foundation of Revival and Development of Cultural Heritage of Shida Kartli / Georgia" will launch this year a new Festival of Contemporary Art in the Art Villa Garikula / Ahkalkalaki (5th of August - 25th of October '09). The Chairman of the Foundation - Karaman Kutateladze - will host artists from Austria, Georgia, France, Netherlands and the United States of America. The artists are invited to realize individual projects in the frame of the given context "pavilion". The goal of each project is to create a specific platform in order to faciliate the exchange of artistic views as well as to stimulate different practises of contemporary art.

The first part of the International Art Festival "FEST I NOVA - Garikula '09" will start on August the 5th with the Austrian project "ici GARIKULA", followed by American, Dutch, French and Georgian presentations.

An exhibition - dedicated to Kirill and Ilia (ILIAZD) Zdanevitch - will take place at the National Museum of Georgia, in collaboration with the French Embassy in Georgia, the Centre Alexandre Dumas and ART VILLA GARIKULA.

Participants:

AUSTRIA / Simonetta Ferfoglia & Heinrich Pichler (gangart), Gilbert Bretterbauer, Tina Bepperling, Isabel Becker and art critic Carola Platzek.

FRANCE / Jean Dupuy, Emile Laugier, Aurele "Lost Dog" and Elisa Fantozzi

GEORGIA / Oleg Timchenko, Guga Kotetishvili, Vakhtang Bughadze, Karaman Kutateladze, Givi Nonikashvili, Nino Morbedadze, Rezo Gogolashvili, Gogi Okropiridze, Vakhtang Tsereteli, Koka Ramishvili and Mamuka Japaridze

NETHERLANDS / Anouk Sluizer, Jeanette Groenedaal and Zoot Derks

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA /

Nanuka Tchitchoua, Travis Wade Ivy, Eva Salina Primack, Aurelia Shrenker

Fest i Nova's new guest:

HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT

Human Emotions documented visually by international artists using film or video.

By employing the largest palette of creative possibilities, film and video artists from around the world strive to externalize those complex driving forces that we all enjoy and endure and that bind us, as humanity, together despite our differences.

Participants:
Joas Sebastian Nebe "Losing control" Germany (57sec)
Behjat Omar "Bird" Kurdistan/UK (01:14)
Bijan Moosavi "Urban ride" Iran (05:50)
Robertina Sebjanic & Nika Autor"Niro"Slovenia(02:16)
Danny Germansen "Alienation and loneliness" Denmark (01:59)
Alison Williams(with Lisa Walker) "White as snow" RSA (02:07)
Agricola de Cologne "Silent cry" Germany (03:05)
Lemeh42 "Et dukkehjem" (Faticart Group - Italy)(02:19)
Luca Curci & Fabiana Roscioli "Impossible love" Italy(06:07 )
Anders Weberg "Undisclosed beauty" Sweden (03:13)
Masha Yozefpolsky "Error lips" Israel (03:34)
Irina Gabiani "The slaves of the system" Luxembourg (02:29)
Bill Millett "The book" UK (06:46)
Debbie Douez "Sadness" Spain, Canada(02:18)
Richard Jochum "Mama" USA (01:34)
Alberto Guerreiro "Absent" Portugal(03:30)
Michael Chang "Concerto azzurro" Denmark(06:10)
Maryam Fakhimi "Untitled(In the name of God)" Iran (09:20)*
Mads Lungdahl "The source" Denmark
Michal Brzezinski "Mnemosyne" Poland (14 min..)
Karina Smigla Bobinski "Routen" Germany



Director:
Karaman Kutateladze / GE

Curators and coordinators of projects:
Tina Bepperling / A
Isabel Becker / A
Gogi Okropiridze / A
Guela Tsouladze / F
Ketevan Kvinikadze / GE
Ketevan Okropiridze / GE
Maya Simonia / NL
Nanouka Tchitchoua / USA
Alison Williams/RSA
Irina Gabiani/L

Managers:
Revaz Gogolashvii / GE
Khatuna Mzarelua / GE

Collaborators:
Revaz Apkhazava / GE

Partners & Sponsors:

Ministry of Culture, Monuments Protection and Sport of Georgia
Federal Ministry for European and International Affaires of Austria
Federal Ministry for Education, Culture and Sport of Austria
AIRZENA
French Embassy in Georgia
Centre Culturel Francais Alexandre Dumas
CGCCA Centre for Global Coordination of Culture and Art
PCN Platform for Cultural Networking
Kulturschmiede

EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT Vol. 2 has two screenings this month. The first screening will be at CONTATO - Festival Multimedia de Radio, TV, Cinema e Arte Eketronica, taking place in Sao Carlos (Brazil), 10th - 11th october 2009. The second is at MAGACIN, Belgrad (Serbia), 8th october 2009.
EXQUISITE VIDEO PROJECT Vol. 2 is a global video project, managed and directed by Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela.