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Website: http://www.dilemastudio.com

Relationship status: married

College / University: University of Sao Paulo

Program / Degree: Film and Video

Graduation: November 30, 1999

Member type: Artist, Curator

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Film, Installation, Photography, Video

I am...: Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist and experimental filmmaker. Her works include single-channel videos, installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Kika Nicolela also completed film courses at UCLA University. Her works have been screened and awarded in festivals of more than 30 countries, such as: Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival, Kunst Film Biennale, ACA Media Arts Festival, VAD Festival Internacional de Vídeo i Arts Digitals, International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil and Exis Experimental Film & Video Festival. She was the recipient of several grants and has participated of about 60 solo and collective exhibitions in Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Portugal and US. Currently Kika Nicolela also curates and coordinates the Exquisite Corpse Video Project, a collaborative series of videos that involves more than 60 artists from 25 countries. Since November 2009 Kika Nicolela’s main videos are being internationally distributed by Vtape, a video art distribution company based in Toronto, Canada. From January to March 2010, Kika Nicolela is developing a new installation work at the Rondo Studio artist-in-residence program, in Graz, Austria. She was also selected for the Gyeonggi Creation Center residency program (July-September 2010).

About my artwork: I work primarily with video and photography.

I'm concerned with examining the connections between the camera, subject, author and viewer. I'm interested in issues such as the construction of identity, communication and voyeurism. I also investigate how the relationship between our body and the surrounding world (ie. nature or urban settings and culture) shapes our identity.

My greatest challenge is to find new forms of narrative by confronting established film language. I construct narratives, strategies and perceptions of reality, in search of fresh ways to connect with the viewer, defying his/her own perception of the world and proposing thought-provoking sensorial and emotional experiences.

I've been also busy with the Exquisite Corpse Video Project, a collaboration project with several international artists, which started here in artreview. More info at www.artreview.com/profile/excorpse

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WINDMAKER (2007)

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WOMAN CRIES OUT! trailer (2005)

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LIFE BY A THREAD (2003)

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THEY TOLD ME I WAS JAPANESE (2004)

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ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL (2005)

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Essay on the EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT

DIGITAL BLIND DATE

By Juliana Monachesi

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project, having embraced random and chaotic processes, departs from the Dadaist method of creation. Each artist responds to the ten seconds of video sent by the previous artist with one minute of his own, from which he sends the last ten seconds to the next artist. The result is video that runs about ten minutes. The power of a video made by twenty hands surpasses the current vogue of the collective… Continue

Posted on February 16, 2010 at 9:40

Essay on Tropic of Capricorn

Digital Spectrum of the Body, by Caroline Rodrigues

North-American Minimalism brought up to modern art the possibility of radical changes in the observer`s point-of-view, according to the space in which the art work is inserted. From this though some of the most creative fields of nowadays` art emerge: Public Art as an existence outside galleries and Video-Art as the nature of digital moving image inside these institutions. When the spatial configuration is changed, the time… Continue

Posted on February 16, 2010 at 9:37

Essay on Kika Nicolela's videos

I WOULD BELIEVE ONLY IN A GOD WHO COULD DANCE, by Daniella Samad

Kika Nicolela is a “visual-filmmaker” artist. She graduated in Film Studies, but her videos are always exhibited within the art circuit. The videos that will be screened in both programs of this exhibition articulate between the boundaries of the pictorial and the corporeal.

In PASSENGER, the hand that holds the camera and records everything is guided by a deconstructive and deformative gaze, which breaks… Continue

Posted on February 16, 2010 at 9:30

Essay on Flux

DOLL, by Juliana Monachesi

“How the body could protect itself from the big wounds and welcome the more subtle wounds? This quote belongs to the Brazilian philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart, echoing Nietzsche and Deleuze, on the wandering of the body that cannot stand being coerced anymore by the civilizing forces and the disciplinary technologies. The body, in order to stay alive, needs to let itself be affected by the contact with the world.

In the film by Kika Nicolela and… Continue

Posted on February 16, 2010 at 9:30

Essay on Face to Face

by Carla Zaccagnini

Contents of the love dimension, which punctuate the limits of the understandable and utterable, tend to put in check the validity of any artistic representation. I think, again, on Fernando Pessoa and his poem in which he feels tired of symbols and wants the concrete happiness of the seamstress who he sees standing on the corner, waiting for the unlikely return of the boyfriend who left her. There are no symbols that can compare to the joy which only she… Continue

Posted on February 3, 2009 at 16:30

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At 0:45 on June 18, 2010, levente kozma said…: hi Nico,
thanks for your comment and interest
and looking fwrd to see your work!

At 12:17 on February 16, 2010, moira said…: the artist 'emotion very well displayed there in the eyes of your photos

At 17:25 on July 20, 2009, michal.brzezinski.net said…: you are with corpse project in my project for parakino 2010

At 14:03 on July 2, 2009, Gene Paul Martin said…: amazing works!

At 20:25 on May 26, 2009, Rogelio Manzo said…: Hello Kika,

I'm sure you now this, but I can't help saying it: your work is very profound, strong and full of content. I think you have made me give well deserved respect for video artists... congratulations.

At 12:21 on May 24, 2009, vera goulart said…: oi ¨kika .. me emocionei muitissimo com o video das MUHLERES ..a quelas que gritam !.. womans cries out !..video seu e de Graciela Rodriguez.. um trabahlo de imagens de grande sensibilidade... no outro video : da muhler experimental que tem o controle da natureza ,, passamos para uma outra fase , onde a intelectualidade da imagem nos apresenta a outra parte desta muhler em questao !... esta criatura , que espera que algo aconteca na penunbra da floresta , ela è desvairada , esvoacante , bela e evocante! com a tempestade da sua vida ela se questiona ... delira !...¨flutua nas aguas!::: ¨finalmente se encontra de frente a bela natureza rosa e cinza!!! .. NESTE MOMENTO , ela observa , e chega a conclusao , que perante a gloriosa natureza , ela NADA MAIS È , DO QUE UMA PEQUENISSIMA MUHLER !.. com suas largas ANCAS femininas ¨!!!... bela musica! ¨tecnicamente muito bem feito !!... gosto do preto e branco !... è condizente com o INTERNO misterioso do humano afeminado !

At 11:47 on April 14, 2009, ambuja said…: hey kika,

My computer is not working that great .. its been very slow .I am done with editing almost, i am usually fast with all this but since three days i am having problems . I can send 10 secs file by today , the rest of it I will be able to send it tomorrow.

At 2:52 on April 1, 2009, pravin said…: hi..

Kika .. i m art student .. can u suggest me .. that where from I can take the media art education? as u finished .. I need ur help

pravin

At 2:55 on March 30, 2009, Alexandra Gelis said…: Hi Kika, Put me please Colombia-Canada. Im from Venezuela, but I consider my self more Colombian.
I love languages, it is perfect. I'll wait for your instructions.
besos y mil gracias!
Ale