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A land of disaster and death, a land of Mourn, the political domination, social, cultural confliction are extreme , when the tragic events happen one after another and sufferings of people knows no bound , all these issues are never questioned. What are the connection do the people hold with nation?

Rafiqul Shuvo was born in 1982 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was from a national cricket academy and initially started his career as a cricketer but later on he moved in the field of visual arts and studied sculpture (B.F.A and M.F.A) in Dhaka University Faculty of Fine Arts .Back in 2012 he curated a major show named “Only God Can Judge Me” an art event in a abandoned factory which ran parallel to the Dhaka Art Summit. In the following year 2013 he curated another collective multimedia and avant-garde show called Mourn. He is the founder of ‘OGCJMart’ a non-organizational collective. He has, over the last ten years, participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. He is a conceptual artist works in various media his practice mainly focusing on paintings, sculptures, videos and photography. Recently he is making several videos and finished working on of his first film.

‘Timelessness’ is the key of this video. The quality is not referring to ignore time rather; it’s capacity to ignore the influence of Time-a vital ruler of our life. Every era carries thousands of master pieces. With the passage of time, number of pieces of a particular era reduces for less occupancy to the people of the following era. It’s because the time changes reality. What can travel more must less influenced by time. From the first human to now, what is still constant? –Human body and Nature. The video is about relationship of body with nature. Figure used in the video represents only body; actions are natural. The actions of figures are in playing mode, the purpose is absent but the pleasure is inevitable. The purposeless is meaningless- The truth that we are here and will not be. The audio exactly carries the screaming of the truth of that we are passing. The video with creates insecurity as it demolishes meaning of security. A very melancholic feeling of death but hints how to face? And finally how it brings color to life? The ending commentary- ‘Body is for usage…..’-depicts how the video is “Optimistic about nothing”.

Rafiqul Shuvo was born in 1982 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was from a national cricket academy and initially started his career as a cricketer but later on he moved in the field of visual arts and studied sculpture (B.F.A and M.F.A) in Dhaka University Faculty of Fine Arts. Back in 2012 he curated a major show named “Only God Can Judge Me” an art event in a abandoned factory which ran parallel to the Dhaka Art Summit. In the following year 2013 he curated another collective multimedia and avant-garde show called Mourn. He is the founder of ‘OGCJMart’ a non-organizational collective along with his 12 artist friends. He works with his OGCJMart friends and he helps to develop and promote their works. He has, over the last ten years, participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. He is a conceptual artist works in various media his practice mainly focusing on paintings, sculptures, videos and photography. Recently he is making several videos and finished working on his first film.

Un crépitement léger accompagné d`une voix muette, nous emmènent à travers une série de paysages froids et désolés, au sein desquels se regroupent des silhouettes portant des torches. Ils accomplissent des rituels dont on ne distingue ni le sens ni l`objet. Lorsque la lumière du jour revient, il ne reste que des débris. Le sacrifice des géants est une fable documentaire qui traite de la disparition des mythes dans nos sociétés contemporaines, à travers l`observation de rites populaires.

Après trois années d`études à l`Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré, à Paris, Ludivine Sibelle a étudié la photographie et la vidéo à l`Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre, à Bruxelles, entre 2004 et 2009. Sa pratique artistique oscille du dessin à la vidéo, en passant par la photographie, et plus récemment l`installation. En 2012, elle entre au Fresnoy où elle réalise son premier film, un court-métrage entre documentaire et fiction qui s`intitule Le sacrifice des géants.

Il y a une table rouge pliante avec autour, des soldats vêtus de noir. La table rouge est le personnage principal du film. Les soldats en sont les accessoires. Il n?y a pas d?armes, mais des tubes noirs. Pas de corps, mais des housses noires à fermeture éclair. Le film se déploie et se déplie autour de la table, et la forme M., quelque part, est forcément quelque chose.

Raphaël Siboni est né en 1981. Il est diplômé des Beaux Arts de Paris. Il travaille et vit quelque part entre Paris et Roubaix. Entré en résidence au Fresnoy, Studio National d?Arts Contemporains, il travaille actuellement sur plusieurs projets, tel que le Kant Tuning Club.

Le 10 septembre 1992, leurs Majestés le Roi Juan Carlos et la Reine Sofia ont inauguré la collection permanente du Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS). Ce qui n?avait été jusqu'alors qu?un endroit où se tenaient des expositions temporaires est devenu un véritable musée où les collections devaient être d?entretenues, développées et d?exposées. Le bâtiment dans lequel se trouve le MNCARS a été construit des années auparavant. En 1556, lors du règne de Felipe II, on a décida de rassembler tous les différents centres et hospices, éparpillés dans la ville de Madrid, en un même endroit, et trente ans plus tard, pendant le règne de Felipe III, le premier refuge fut ouvert Place Sainte Isabelle. D?autres installations furent ensuite ajoutées à ce refuge, comme l?Hôpital de Santa Catalina et l?Hôpital de la Pasión et on appela le complexe qui en résulta Hôpital General. Durant la deuxième moitié du 18ème siècle, après quelques difficultés, Carlos III chargea l?architecte Fransisco Sabatini de reprendre un projet d?hôpital qui initié par Hermosilla et conçu sous le règne de Fernando VI. Cependant, Sabatini ne parvint pas à terminer le projet et ne réussit à construire qu?une partie de ce qui avait été prévu dans les plans d?origine. Depuis cette époque, l?hôpital a subi différents ajouts et modifications et a été épargné de démolition grâce à un Décret Royal de 1977 qui l?a classé parmis les monuments historiques et artistiques nationaux. En 1980, Antonio Fernández Alba commenca les travaux de restauration et à la fin de l?année 1988, José Luis Iñiguez de Onzoño et Antonio Vásquez de Castro mirent la touche finale aux modifications, dont trois tours d?ascenseur de verre et d'acier qui avaient été conçues en collaboration avec l?architecte britannique Ian Ritchie particulièrement intéressantes. Deux ans auparavant, en 1986, certaines parties du bâtiment, qui était alors connu sous le nom de Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, furent ouvertes et seulement utilisées à cette époque pour accueillir des activités temporaires sous l??il vigilant de Carmen Giménez, directrice du Centre National des Expositions du Ministère de la Culture. Peu après, en 1988, un Décret Royal transforma le centre en musée national afin de remplacer l?ancien Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo (MEAC). Le premier directeur de l?institution, qui occupa ce poste de juin 1988 à décembre 1990, fut Tomás Llorens. Le 28 décembre 1990, Maria del Corral prit la relève en tant que directrice. En septembre 1994, un nouveau directeur fut nommé : José Guirao Cabrera dirigea le centre jusqu?en mai 2000, date à laquelle il fut remplacé par Juan Manuel Bonet qui fut lui-même remplacé en juin 2004. Depuis le 7 juin 2004, c?est Ana Martinez de Aguilar qui occuppe le poste de directrice du musée.

Berta Sichel dirige le département audiovisuel du Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS) qui se trouve à Madrid, en Espagne.

PHANTOM (Luke Sieczek, 6:20 min., Digital Video, Color/Sound, 2007) PHANTOM recomposes two scenes from Jacques Tourneur`s film Cat People, reanimating the words and images of its heroine, played by the actress Simone Simon. Her voice reverberates a feeling of intense restlessness, while luminous specters emanate from all sides, surrounding her in a pulsing, phosphorescent glow. PHANTOM re-imagines a half-remembered midnight movie: the dying rays of a television screen are re-absorbed into a spectral, volatile afterimage.

Originally from Poland, Luke Sieczek is an independent film and video artist, whose films have been exhibited at numerous international film festivals and venues. His films and videos have shown at Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival`s "Views from the Avant-Garde," the European Media Art Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival, among others. While varying in genre and technique, his films and videos continue to explore concerns that include the investigation of place, memory, the status of the - immigrant - outsider, and the shifting and unstable relations of audio-visual time and space. Luke Sieczek studied at Bard College and received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin. He currently lives in Seattle, WA.

BERLIN REMAKE est une installation vidéo composée de remakes image-pour-image de scènes de films provenant du studio de cinéma de l'Etat d'Allemagne de l'est (DEFA). Les scènes de films sont recrées et cadrées exactement comme dans les prises de vue originales, mis à part le fait que les images sont désormais peuplées d'architecture contemporaine et de vide historique - des moments de cinéma significatifs remis en scène à travers Berlin Est. Les scènes reproduites sont projetées à côté des scènes originales dans un espace sombre, il s'agit d'une double projection synchronisée. Cette installation vidéo est une étrange juxtaposition du passé et du présent, faisant de l'histoire (par exemple la RDA) simultanément un élément passé et présent, dramatique et banal, divisé et reconnecté. Comment

Amie Siegel, née en 1974 à Chicago, travaille avec le film, la vidéo, le son et l'écriture. Diplômée du Bard College et de la School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Amie Siegel a exposé ses oeuvres dans les lieux suivants : Whitney Museum of American Art, Kino Arsenal Berlin, Toronto Cinematheque, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Facets Cinematheque, Austrian Film Museum. Elle a écrit "The Waking Life" (North Atlantic Books, 1999). Son premier long métrage, "Empathy", a été présenté en première au Festival international du film de Berlin, en 2003. Amie Siegel a reçu plusieurs bourses : MacDowell Colony, DAAD Berliner-Künstlerprogramm, Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst. Elle vit entre New York et Berlin.

« Nii tuli lõpp / And Then Came The End » s’appuie sur l’expérience du prêtre catholique allemand Magnus Frey dans les camps de prisonniers de guerre de Narva, en Estonie, entre 1945 et 1946. Dans ce film, Siib montre les lieux de cette histoire à Narva tels qu’ils sont aujourd’hui, vidés de toute présence humaine — bâtiments délabrés et paysages hivernaux. La bande sonore intègre des fragments du quotidien décrits dans les mémoires de Frey : comment les prisonniers n’ont jamais reçu les quelques roubles promis, comment leurs couvertures chaudes leur ont été retirées avant l’hiver ; comment les prisonniers croyants parvenaient à confectionner du pain de communion malgré les conditions extrêmes ; et comment, affamés, ils se divertissaient en évoquant leurs plats préférés ou en recopiant leurs recettes favorites. Les extraits du journal de Frey sont disposés à l’écran, accompagnés d’images et d’une bande sonore musicale, composant un poème en prose à partir de matériaux documentaires. La valeur d’une telle micro-histoire, qu’elle soit textuelle ou cinématographique, ne réside pas dans la révélation de grands événements ni dans l’interprétation des tournants historiques. Elle tient plutôt au fait que des anecdotes et fragments individuels peuvent servir de preuves vivantes, rendant l’histoire sensible et nous invitant à prendre au sérieux la souffrance et l’existence d’autrui — hier comme aujourd’hui. Par Teemu Mäki

Liina Siib est artiste visuelle, cinéaste et enseignante. Elle vit et travaille à Tallinn, en Estonie. Ses œuvres abordent des thèmes allant de la féminité et de l’espace social aux multiples formes que prennent les pratiques quotidiennes. Elle combine observations de terrain, archives, récits historiques, narrations circulant dans la société, approches psychanalytiques ainsi que théories contemporaines de l’art et du cinéma. Les personnages, espaces et situations qu’elle met en scène sont souvent ceux qui passent inaperçus en raison de leur banalité, ou qui ont été tus, marginalisés, oubliés. Dans son approche pluridisciplinaire, elle mobilise film, vidéo, photographie, installation, performance, ready-made, médias imprimés et livres d’artiste. Ses vidéos documentaires expérimentales et ses courts métrages mis en scène ont été présentés aussi bien dans des festivals de films d’artistes que dans des expositions en galerie, souvent sous des formes d’expanded cinema. En 2011, son projet A Woman Takes Little Space a représenté l’Estonie à la 54? Biennale d’art de Venise. Ses œuvres figurent dans plusieurs collections publiques et privées, notamment au Musée d’art d’Estonie (Tallinn), au Neues Museum (Nuremberg) et au Moderna Museet (Stockholm).

“August Procession” is about different tempos co-existing at the same time. The light from windows registers the passing of time in the abandoned factory building, the speed of the bus determines the length of the passengers’ conversation. The minutes have been counted until sunset. And then there’s memory time. Time to recall. Perhaps to celebrate together and feel a sense of belonging. “August Procession”, filmed in Narva area, enters into a mental dialogue with events that occurred at the eastern border of Estonia and the European Union in August 2022. The central theme in local news was the plan of the removal of the tank monument to the Soviet ‘liberators’, erected 52 years ago. Local habitants were used to see the tank on the plinth nearby the road while driving to the beach. The tank was removed on 16 August by the Estonian government, due to various tensions, caused by the Russian war in Ukraine and dramatically changed geopolitical situation. Several Russian speaking people in Narva fell into mourning because the tank was an important souvenir for them. The religious procession took place a week later, from a retreat to a famous orthodox monastery in the area.

Liina Siib is a visual artist, filmmaker, educator and curator from Tallinn, Estonia. She has studied printmaking and photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts, photography and video in exchange at the University of Westminster in London. Currently she works as the Professor of Graphic Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Film, photography and installation as her main interests, she explores various manifestations of people’s everyday practices and social space. Her works deal with characters, spaces and situations that tend to go unnoticed due to their ordinariness or are silenced or ignored. She has made experimental documentary videos and staged short films that have been shown mostly in the gallery and exhibition context, sometimes using the format of expanded cinema. In 2011, her project “A Woman Takes Little Space” represented Estonia at the 54th Venice Art Biennale. Besides that her works have been shown at the international art biennales in Riga, Tallinn, Moscow, Rauma, Cerveira, Ljubljana and Rijeka. Recently, she has been artist at residence at the NART Narva Art Residency. Her work has been included in several public and private collections. In 2006 she received the Annual award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment. Full CV at: liinasiib.com/biography/

La vidéo "25.02._26.02." fait partie de l'installation tragicomique "Huldufólk" de Liina Siib. "Huldufólk" signifie "les gens cachés" en islandais - il s'agit d'êtres surnaturels qui ont l'apparence et le comportement de personnes normales mais qui ont leurs propres activités dans leur propre monde parallèle. Ils peuvent se rendre visibles pour les humains, qui peuvent les voir à travers le verre coloré. La vidéo est filmée un dimanche soir et un lundi matin, dans les rues et les arrière-cours du centre-ville de Reykjavik. Elle est inspirée par la nouvelle "Sunday evening to Monday morning" d'Ásta Sigurðardóttir (1951), qui décrit le voyage d'une femme ivre dans les rues de Reykjavik, et son aliénation. Le lieu géographique précis n'a pas vraiment d'importance dans la vidéo, si ce n'est peut-être qu’on reconnaît les longues nuits, le froid et les forts vents; les activités dépeintes et leurs attributs peuvent être trouvés partout dans le monde. Le matériel filmique a été collecté en 2018, lorsque l'artiste a travaillé en résidence à la Steina et Woody Vasulka Archive de la Galerie nationale d'Islande, Reykjavik (Islande).

Liina Siib a étudié la gravure et la photographie à l'Académie des arts d'Estonie, Tallinn (Estonie). Dans sa pratique artistique, elle utilise les moyens du film, de la vidéo, de la photographie et de l'installation. Liina Siib est intriguée par les diverses manifestations de l'espace social et des activités quotidiennes des gens. Ses œuvres traitent de personnages, d'espaces et de situations qui ont tendance à passer inaperçus en raison de leur banalité, à être réduits au silence ou à être ignorés. Liina Siib combine ses observations de terrain avec des sources d’archives, des récits historiques et divers récits imprégnant la société, ainsi qu'avec des approches psychanalytiques et des théories de l'art et du film contemporains. Liina Siib a organisé des expositions personnelles en Estonie, en Allemagne, en Belgique, en France, en Suède, en Finlande et en Lettonie. En 2011, son projet artistique "A Woman Takes Little Space" a représenté l'Estonie à la 54e Biennale d'art de Venise (Italie). Parmi ses récents projets d'expositions et de films, citons "Linda Vilde Museum", au Eduard Vilde Museum, Tallinn (Estonie) [2021]; "Huldufólk / Hidden People", à la Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn (Estonie) [2020]; "Politics of Paradise", au Tallinn Art Hall (Estonie) [2019]; RIBOCA1 - Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (Lettonie) [2018]; et "Urban Symphony in E-minor", à la Sinne Gallery, Helsinki (Finlande) [2018]. Depuis 2015, elle travaille en tant que responsable et professeure au département d'art graphique de l’Académie des arts d'Estonie, Tallinn (Estonie).

In the video “Orbs” we see two persons playing with an old armillary sphere. This old tool is a model of objects in the sky, one of the oldest astronomical instruments in the world, one of the first models ever made. Representing the heavens with the sun as center, it is known as Copernican armillary. By a simple gesture of moving the armillary rings as heavens, one can demonstrate how the stars move. We see the two people moving the stars and by that they are moved by the stars.

Liina Siib is a visual artist who lives in Tallinn, Estonia. She holds an MA in photography from the Estonian Academy of Arts. The themes of her works range from femininity and social space to different manifestations of people’s everyday practices, to work and leisure time routines. She works with video, installation, photography and performance. Liina Siib has had solo exhibitions in Estonia, Germany, Belgium, France, Sweden, Finland and Latvia. Her works have been presented at a number of exhibitions and festivals in Europe, Asia and the USA. In 2011, Liina Siib represented Estonia at the 54th Venice Art Biennale with her project ‘A Woman Takes Little Space’. She has also curated art and culture projects in Estonia, the UK and Belgium. Since 2015, she works as the Professor of Graphic Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Mass Line: Office 1 is a karaoke video produced for the large scale performance Mass Line at the Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö. Mass Line merges China and the western world?s political ideologies to a peculia, thorough analysis and practice-oriented observation of systems, prohibitions and orders, both big as well as small ones. Mass Line is distinctly political but yet at the same time a highly poetic performance, where most of the part is based upon the artist?s own observations and life experience from living in a closed country. In Mass Line Liina Siib plays with big political and social systems we all have to follow in order to be part of the group. Systems whose intensions are to keep us occupied, to act correct and keep us in line. In countries with strict leadership and control system people use to perform, to be someone else in public than at home. Everyone becomes an actor ready to stage what the system expects from them, performing ideologies as one?s second nature as a wise survival tactics of everyday life. At the end it is impossible to decide what is a performance and what is not.

Liina Siib is a video and photography artist born and based in Tallinn, Estonia. She studied graphic art and photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she also earned an MA in photography. In 2002 she was in exchange at the Westminster University in London at the Photographic Studies MA course. Several of Liina Siib`s art works have a starting point in the experience of living in a both socialistic and capitalistic system, and in the antagonism that appears in shifting between two systems. In her photo, video and room installations, the artist explores various topics, ranging from femininity and social space to different representations of people?s everyday practices and daily routines. In 2011 Liina Siib represented Estonia with her project A Woman Takes Little Space at the 54th Venice Art Biennale. She has had over thirty solo exhibitions in Estonia, Germany, Belgium, France, Finland and Latvia. Her works have been presented at a number of international group shows and festivals in Estonia, Europe, Asia and the USA. In October 2013 her large-scale performance Mass Line in a close collaboration with the Lilith Performance Studio was presented at the Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö, Sweden.

The video Unsocial Hours (2011) explores the model of the cycle of women?s work and social life through food in contemporary Estonia; to be more specific, cheap pastries produced in a bakery that works through the night and which are sold in the kiosks at Tallinn Railway Station, and eaten in cafes in Lasnamäe or during breaks by doctors and nurses working at Pelgulinna Maternity Hospital. Along with a focus on space, there is also a strong emphasis on time ? the circling of time, and a certain element of ritual repetition and ?not getting anywhere?.

Liina Siib was born in 1963 in Tallinn, Estonia, where she currently lives and works. She studied graphic art and photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she also earned an MA in photography. In her photo, video and site-specific room installations, she explores various topics, ranging from femininity and social space to different representations of people in their everyday activities. She has had thirty solo exhibitions in Estonia, Germany, Belgium, France, Finland, Latvia and Italy. Her works have been presented at a number of exhibitions and festivals in Estonia, Europe, Asia and the USA. Her works are in the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, the Tartu Art Museum, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Neues Museum für Kunst und Design in Nuernberg etc. In 2011 her project ?A Woman Takes Little Space? represented Estonia at the 54th Venice Biennale.

La caméra tourne autour des pièces d'une vieille maison du début du XIXe siècle, dans le Nord de Londres. Cette improvisation basée sur la nouvelle de Muriel Spark, "Memento Mori" (1959), permet de mieux comprendre la vidéo. Les plus vieilles personnes de la classe aisée de London sont appelées au téléphone par un interlocuteur mystérieux qui répète inlassablement le même message : "Rappelez-vous que vous allez mourir!" La police est incapable de mettre la main sur cet individu, et les personnes âgées finissent tôt ou tard par mourir, pour différentes raisons, notamment suite à des vols et à des meurtres. Les évènements s'articulant entre les signes de contrôle, l'observation et la cérémonie du thé culminent avec l'arrivée du livreur de lait qui découvre les bouteilles de lait qui n'ont pas été ramassées sur le pas de la porte. La peur de l'intrus, d'une éventuelle rencontre avec la mort à l'approche de la vieillesse, la solitude et la possession de biens, sont des conditions qui peuvent être expérimentées par n'importe qui, quelque soit sa situation financière ou sa nationalité.

LIINA SIIB Née à Tallinn, en Estonie, où elle est actuellement artiste indépendante. MFA d'études de photographie, Académie des arts d'Estonie; études de photographie à l'Université de Westminster, à Londres (échange). 25 expositions personnelles en Estonie, Latvia, Belgique, France, Allemagne et Finlande. A participé à des expositions de groupes en Estonie et à l'étranger - notamment à la Villa Manin à Codroipo, en Italie, au Musée Finlandais de Photographies à Helsinski, au Musée Moderne de Stockolm, au Hamburger Bahnhof de Berlin, à la Corcoran Gallery of Art de Washington. Des oeuvres dans les collections du Nouveau Musée d'Art et de Design de Nuremberg, dans celles du Musée Moderne de Stockholm etc... Réalise des vidéos depuis 2002.

"Kiosk" en turc et "periptero" en grec. En turc, le mot se réfère aussi à un objet qui agit comme une ombre ou comme un faiseur-d'ombres. "Peripteros" à Athènes. "Periptero" à Syntagma Square. Démocratie. Bouteilles d'eau. Cigarettes. Tickets de bus. Encas. Ceintures en cuir. Des millions d'autres choses accumulées, comme des magazines, des bonbons, des lunettes de soleil, des journaux etc... Rhétorique de l'accumulation de produits. Tout dans un kiosque. Chaque chose doit être consommer sous la chaleur de la culture méditerranéenne. N'importe quel être humain contemporain, même un flâneur pourrait immédiatement en avoir besoin dans les rues d'Athènes. Les kiosque est ouvert sur certains ou sur tous les côtés. Hautement absorbant. Ancrages compulsifs de trajectoires sonores. Un point focal dans la rue très dense de razzmatazz. Aujourd'hui, il y a beaucoup de kiosques en Grèce. Un kiosque à Anastassopoulos, à Kolonaki Square, à Athènes. Un kiosque à Tassias, à Apergi Square, à Athènes. Le kiosque est probablement la chose la plus ordinaire et la plus extraordinaire à Athènes. Un kiosque à Omonia Square. Rencontres chanceuses. Maison-machine rapide à satisfaire les plus urgents désirs dans la rue. Equivalent moderne en condensé du Forum antique?

LIINA SIIB Née à Tallinn, Estonie, où elle est actuellement artiste indépendante. MFA d'études de photographie, Académie des arts d'Estonie; études de photographie à l'Université de Westminster, à Londres (échange). 25 expositions personnelles en Estonie, Latvia, Belgique, France, Allemagne et Finlande. A participé à des expositions de groupes en Estonie et à l'étranger - notamment à la Villa Manin à Codroipo, en Italie, au Musée Finlandais de Photographies à Helsinski, au Musée Moderne de Stockolm, au Hamburger Bahnhof de Berlin, à la Corcoran Gallery of Art de Washington. Des oeuvres dans les collections du Nouveau Musée d'Art et de Design de Nuremberg, dans celles du Musée Moderne de Stockholm etc... Réalise des vidéos depuis 2002.

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Andre Silva is a third year M.F.A. Candidate in Film & Video Production at the University of Iowa. His films have screened at about 30 festivals within the past year and have won awards at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Humboldt International Short Film Festival and Atlanta Underground Film Festival. Currently, he is working on his thesis, a 7-minute animated film, Ichthyopolis , which is a fantastical journey into the material and immaterial lives of fish. The film will utilize 16mm stop-motion, live action video and computer generated 3-D animation. Aside from working on his films, Andre recently taught film and video production courses at the University of Iowa. For the past two summers, he taught digital animation at Northwestern University's National High School Institute. He was also one of the co-founders of Iowa City Microcinema, a local organization dedicated to bringing visiting artists to Iowa City and hosting filmmaking events such as the "24-hour video race." Beginning in the Fall of 2006, Andre will teach film production courses at the University of Wilmington at North Carolina as a Guest Artist.

In The Watchmen, pulsating orbs, panopticons, roadside rest stops, and subterranean labyrinths confront the scope of human consequences and the entanglement of our seeking bodies. Regressions in missing time, caught in the act of captivity, confined to the carceral and perpetuated by movie sets, television sets, and alien encounters at bay. The corporeal cycle of control revolves as steadily as the sight of those who watch from above.

Fern Silva (b. 1982, USA/Portugal) is an artist who primarily works in 16mm. His films consider methods of narrative, ethnographic, and documentary filmmaking as the starting point for structural experimentation. He has created a body of film, video, and projection work that has been screened and performed at various festivals, galleries, museums and cinematheques including the Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, London, Melbourne, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals, Anthology Film Archives, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cinemateca Boliviana, Museum of Art Lima, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, New Museum, Greater New York at MOMA P.S.1, and Cinema du Reel at the Centre Georges Pompidou. He has organized and curated screenings at venues including the Nightingale Cinema, Gallery 400, and DINCA Vision Quest in Chicago. His work has been featured in publications including Film Comment, Cinema Scope, Filmmaker Magazine, Millennium, and Senses of Cinema. He studied art and cinema at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College. He is Visiting Faculty at Bennington College and is based in New York.

La Biennale de Cerveira, est un événement créé en 1978, par un groupe d?artistes, dans le but de promouvoir l?art contemporain et de créer un lieu de rencontre pour les artistes : Il est possible d`y échanger des expériences et de promouvoir la recherche aussi bien dans les arts traditionnels que dans les nouvelles technologies. Durant ces 30 dernières années, la Biennale est devenue Internationale, a conquis une place particulière parmi les jeunes artistes indépendants, et a établi des partenariats avec d?autres institutions nationales et internationales similaires. Aujourd?hui la Biennale de Cerveira dispose d'un bureau permanent, un Musée d?art moderne ouvert toute l?année, des ateliers de gravure, sérigraphie, lithographie, photo, céramique, laboratoire dédié aux arts digitaux. La Biennale met à disposition des créateurs, de manière permanente, une MAISON DE L?ARTISTE, avec 4 chambres et 17 lits, qui permet d'organiser des stages pour les professionnels ainsi que des cours d?initiation. Lors de cette XIVème Biennale de Cerveira, la Fondation Maeght sera représentée, l?artiste suisse Pascal Nordmann y participera, et on pourra y voir un hommage à l?artiste portugais Júlio Resende, un concours ouvert aux artistes de toute nationalité sur un thème d?actualité « Les nouvelles croisées » en rapport aux guerres au Nord de l?Afrique et en Irak, une représentation d?architectes internationaux, la participation d'artistes en poésie visuelle (organisé par Pedro Oliver des Canaries), une représentation des Universités Portugaises et des activités musicales et performances. Du fait de sa situation géographique, à la frontière avec la Galicie, la participation espagnole est très importante, entrecroisant expositions et coopérations avec l?Université de Vigo et le Centre Culturel de Ourense.

Henrique Silva, né 1933, est diplômé de l`Université de Paris VIII en Arts plastiques. Il a vécu à Paris de 1957 à 1977, ou encore à Zurich, Bâle, Bruxelles et Belfast. Il participé à des séminaires et des réunions internationales, parmi lesquelles on peut citer le séminaire "savoir faire formation" au Cicopa (Bruxelles en 1986) et le séminaire international sur les politiques de développement territorial sur invitation de l'OCDE en Crète, le réseau des Centres Culturels en Europe à Delfos, France et Irlande, ayant organisée la 1er rencontre des centres Culturels Européens à Porto. Il est membre de plusieurs jurys nationaux et internationaux qui font référence à plus de 10 publications portugaises et étrangères et ayant réalisé plus de 140 expositions en Europe. Il est actuellement Directeur du Musée d`Art Contemporain de la Biennale de Cerveira, Administrateur de la Fondation Biennale de Cerveira et Directeur du Cours de Design de l`École Supérieure Gallaecia.

La vidéo « Ni Dilli » crée un espace pour des paysages sonores expérimentaux, associant certains sons (détachés de leur contexte musical) à des actions implicites de l'image. En utilisant les procédés numériques de capture du son et de l'image, Rui Silveira tente d?explorer la manière dont ces éléments peuvent suggérer un lieu géographique spécifique, ainsi qu?un univers personnel, en évitant, néanmoins, une vision subjective.

Rui Silveira a récemment obtenu un diplôme en design de communication, en mettant l'accent sur le design graphique utilisant les médias audiovisuels. L'artiste s?intéresse particulièrement aux relations entre le son et l'image (vidéo ou photographie). Silveira travaille actuellement à un documentaire sur un immeuble en construction qui utilise des ressources locales, dans le contexte d?un environnement urbain chaotique et d?une société à la très forte identité. L'artiste considère la vidéo expérimentale comme le moyen parfait pour réaliser son ?uvre.

In a faceless apartment in Tatekawa, Tokyo, an American woman hires a Japanese woman to translate interviews about Japan’s declining birthrate. The American woman is presumptuous in her knowledge of Japan; the Japanese woman suffers from a self-professed excess of critical distance. They grate, fight, and crash together in love or lust, at which point their story gets hijacked into science fiction territory, as the translator interrupts their work sessions with stories from a world infected with the knowledge of its own demise. This neighborhood has already known devastation, having been wiped out the night of 9 March 1945 by American bombs. The third protagonist is the Tatekawa itself, the canal covered by an elevated highway that runs past the translator’s apartment, which gives the neighborhood its name. Reflecting back the concrete world in distorted patterns of blue, green, or glittering black, the Tatekawa transports a shifting procession of birds, shoes, condoms, crabs, plastic bags, flowers, big fish, little fish, death, life.

Shelly Silver is a New York based artist working with the still and moving image. Her work explores contested territories between public and private, narrative and documentary, and--increasingly in recent years--the watcher and the watched. She has exhibited worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Yokohama Museum, the London ICA, and the London, the Singapore, New York, Moscow, and Berlin Film Festivals. Silver has received fellowships and grants from organizations such as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. Her films have been broadcast by BBC/England, PBS/USA, Arte/Germany, France, Planete/Europe, RTE/Ireland, SWR/Germany, and Atenor/Spain, among others, and she has been a fellow at the DAAD Artists Program in Berlin, the Japan/US Artist Program in Tokyo, Cité des Arts in Paris, and at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Silver is Associate Professor and Director of Moving Image, Visual Arts Program, School of the Arts, Columbia University.

Filming is alchemy; preserving, seeing, devouring, cutting. Chopping the flow of images with a push of a button. It privileges a solitary unseen protagonist, choosing this over that and then that, it eats anything, not everything. The world hacked into fragments, jumps, frames. Kidnapped buildings gestures people animals happening now, again now, again now. The displacement of what was once to what is now seen carries the odor of end, regardless of the incessant movement of one frame to the next, a machine forcing the celluloid frames forced to run, jump, trip, turning it all into a sad slapstick -- slapstick also embodies heartbreak. A meeting with an old friend, possibly for the last time. [Or] a throwback to a kind of film I never made. But if I did, it would be a noisy film with silence.

Shelly Silver is a New York based artist working with the still and moving image. Her work explores contested territories between public and private, narrative and documentary, and--increasingly in recent years--the watcher and the watched. She has exhibited worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Yokohama Museum, the London ICA, and the London, the Singapore, New York, Moscow, and Berlin Film Festivals. Silver has received fellowships and grants from organizations such as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. Her films have been broadcast by BBC/England, PBS/USA, Arte/Germany, France, Planete/Europe, RTE/Ireland, SWR/Germany, and Atenor/Spain, among others, and she has been a fellow at the DAAD Artists Program in Berlin, the Japan/US Artist Program in Tokyo, Cité des Arts in Paris, and at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Silver is Associate Professor and Director of Moving Image, Visual Arts Program, School of the Arts, Columbia University.

« In Complete World » est un long-métrage composé d?interviews de rue réalisées dans tout New York. Mêlant questions politiques (« Sommes-nous responsable du gouvernement que nous avons ? ») à des interrogations plus existentielles (« Sentez-vous que vous avez le contrôle de votre vie ? »), la vidéo se concentre sur la tension entre les responsabilités individuelles et collectives. « In Complete World » peut être vu comme un mode d?emploi pour le citoyen du XXIe siècle, de même que comme un aperçu des opinions de différents groupes d?Américains et de la perception qu?ils ont de leur propre image. Cette vidéo constitue un témoignage sur peuple new-yorkais du nouveau millénaire, qui offre librement à une parfaite étrangère des révélations profondes, provocantes et parfois tendres, juste parce qu?elle le leur demande.

Shelly Silver est une réalisatrice basée à New York (USA). Son travail, qui explore un vaste éventail de sujets, questions et genres, interroge les relations personnelles et sociétales qui nous rapprochent et nous limitent, les détours du plaisir et du désir, les histoires que l?on raconte sur nous et celles que nous construisons sur nous-même. Les ?uvres de Silver ont été exposées fréquemment dans tous les USA, l?Europe et l?Asie, dans des lieux comme le Centre Georges Pompidou de Paris (France), le Museo Reina Sofia de Madrid (Espagne), le Doulon Museum de Shanghai (Chine), le Musée d?Art de Yokohama (Japon) mais aussi dans les festivals de cinéma de New York, Londres (Royaume-Uni), Berlin (Allemagne), Singapour et Moscou (Russie). Ses films ont obtenu des prix aux festivals de cinéma de Moscou, Woodstock (USA), Chicago (USA), Atlanta (USA), ainsi qu?au festival de documentaire de Leipzig (Allemagne). Elle a reçu de nombreuses aides financières et des bourses.

Une jeune femme entreprend de photographier des moments d'intimité dans l'espace public. Elle se ballade dans les rues de New York City et depuis que les relations sociales ont dérivé sur Internet, elle commence à approcher les gens sur un site internet de rencontre et elle écrit : "Je cherche des gens qui aimeraient être photographiés en public, et révéler quelque chose d'eux-mêmes..."

Shelly Silver vit et travaille à New York. Elle utilise la vidéo, le film et la photographie, pour une ?uvre qui comprend plusieurs sujets et registres. Elle explore les multiples relations qui nous connectent et nous restreignent, les chemins tortueux du plaisir et du désir, les histoires qui sont racontées à notre sujet, ou que nous nous racontons à nous-mêmes. Son travail a été montré aux Etats-Unis, en Europe, en Asie, notamment au MoMa, New York, au musée d?art contemporain de Los Angeles, au centre George Pompidou, au Musée de Kyoto, à l?ICA, Londres, au festival du fil de Singapour. Shelly Silver a gagné de nombreux prix, au festival international du documentaire à Leipzig, à l?Australian International Film and Video Festival, au Houston International Film Festival. Elle a reçu plusieurs bourse et récompenses, incluant le National Endowment for the Arts, le DAAD, le New York State Council on the Arts, la New York Foundation for the Arts, la Jerome Foundation, la Japan Foundation, et l?Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation. Shelly Silver enseigne à la Cooper Union et à la School of Visual Arts.

The assignment was to make a gift for the artist Sol Lewitt (1927-2007). Legendarily generous to other artists, Lewitt exchanged works with anyone who sought him out, from famous peers to admirers who sent him unsolicited objects and images. Filmmaker Shelly Silver asked her close friend, writer Frances Richard, to collaborate by contributing text for a short film. The text chosen is a series of quotations from Lewitt?s close friend Eva Hesse (1936-1970): ?All order is ephemeral ? chaos eats into order ? yet it has its own order ? if order could be chaos, chaos can be structured as non-chaos.? On Mosco Street in New York City?s Chinatown, a not-quite fixed camera tracks the ephemeral order composed on a warm afternoon by a fence, some trees, a set of shadows, and the passage of pedestrians and traffic. The image is nearly monochrome though filmed without manipulation in broad daylight. Preoccupied with abstract propositions including the grid as a delineator of space and the modulation of light on unlike surfaces, the 6-minute film is also a mini-vérité, its extremely quiet chaos structured by ambient sound and tiny urban incident.

Frances Richard is the author of See and the chapbooks Anarch. and Shaved Code; a new volume of poems, The Phonemes, is forthcoming in 2011. In 2005, with Sina Najafi and Jeffrey Kastner, she co-curated the exhibition Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark?s ?Fake Estates"; a study of Matta-Clark?s language-use, currently in progress, has been supported by a grants from the Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital, the Canadian Centre for Architecture. She writes frequently about contemporary art, teaches at Barnard College and the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives in Brooklyn. Shelly Silver?s work, which spans a wide range of subject matter and genres, explores the personal and societal relations that connect and restrict us; the indirect routes of pleasure and desire; the stories that are told about us and the stories we construct about ourselves. Her work has been shown internationally at such venues as MoMA, MoCA, Yokohama Museum, Pompidou Center, London ICA, Museo Reina Sofia, and London, Singapore, New York, Moscow, and Berlin film festivals. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the DAAD, Jerome Foundation, Japan Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. She is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts in the School of the Arts, Columbia University.

Garden of No Return is a new hand-tracked VR experience by Sim Chi Yin and Dan Archer which chronicles the depletion of sand from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and across Asia. The world is running out of sand. The insatiable demand for this non-renewable resource has led to large-scale environmental impact driven by rapid urbanisation and land reclamation. In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, land about the size of a football field is melting away into the river every day. For local residents, the land snaps off suddenly, sometimes in the dark of night, and robs them of their homes, shops and ancestral shrines. This work weaves together lullabies, laments, and poetry narrated by Vietnamese writer Kh?i ??n to speak about the erosion of both memory and site as the consequence of large-scale global sand mining. It combines reconstructed 3D terrain using photogrammetry and filmed sequences to allude to communal losses and extreme precarity in the global business flows of sand mining. It brings viewers to the site of the landslides and see, hear, and feel firsthand the landscape of the Mekong Delta where large-scale erosion is taking place, and convey the human cost of sand mining in a visceral and experiential manner.

Sim Chi Yin (b. 1978, Singapore) is an artist whose research-based practice uses artistic and archival interventions to contest and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives. She works across photography, film, installation, performance and book-making. She is participating in the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) and has exhibited at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); the Barbican, London (2023); Harvard Art Museums, Boston, USA (2021); Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2021); Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo (2017), Arko Art Centre, Seoul (2016); Zilberman Gallery Berlin (2021); Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2019). She has also participated in the Istanbul Biennale (2022, 2017) and the Guangzhou Image Triennial ( 2021). Her work is in the collections of Harvard Art Museums, The J. Paul Getty Museum, M+ Hong Kong, Singapore Art Museum, and the National Museum Singapore. She was an artist fellow in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (2022-3) and is completing a PhD at King’s College London. Dan Archer is a creative technologist, computer scientist and immersive storyteller who co-founded Empathetic Media, an XR production studio, in 2014. EM leverages augmented, mixed and virtual reality to foster stronger connections and perspective-taking between the subjects in its stories and its audiences. A leading thinker and practitioner in the immersive space, Archer has researched and written about the link between empathy, impact and immersive story-telling. He was a 2016 fellow at the Tow Center at Columbia University, a Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow (University of Missouri, 2014) and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University (2011). He is currently completing a PhD at UCL focusing on evaluating embodiment and performance using biological signals in virtual reality environments, and exploring persuasive immersive technologies as a researcher at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Lost in time and translation, images transport us on a journey behind the modernist façade of Beirut?s electricity building. The images shot on Super 8 are accompanied by droning noises reminiscent of the experimental, electronic sounds of the 1950s and 60s.

Une oeuvre basée sur le concept de la théorie quantique comme décrite par David Bohm. La vidéo consiste en une photo totalement fixe d?un parking vide. Une lampe à vapeur de sodium centrée éclaire le paysage nocturne. 28 balles rouges rebondissent dans un ordre chaotique. Chaque balle représente une entité individuelle qui rebondit à son propre rythme. Au milieu de la vidéo, les balles s?alignent en une couverture harmonieuse. Inspirant et expirant à une fréquence identique, elles atteignent le point où elles rebondissent en même temps et retournent au chaos.

Elevé à Barcelone, en Espagne, Sisto est diplômé d?un BFA en arts au Center College of Design en Californie. Il commence à travailler comme artiste en effets spéciaux freelance avant de signer avec Satellite Film pour des représentations musiques et vidéos jusqu?à sa fermeture en 2001. Son court métrage OCEANO (2002) fut projeté dans des festivals dans le monde entier et a remporté de nombreux prix avant de débuter sur TVE en Espagne. En 2004, il a fondé Swift Gallery, un espace d?exposition non-lucratif dirigé par des artistes pour de l?art provocateur et basé à Los Angeles. Ses propres vidéos et installations furent exposées dans aussi bien dans tout Los Angeles que dans le monde entier.

The Troubled Bear and the Palace. 11 minuets. Walid Siti 2019. At the 7,000 ft peak of the Gara mountains in Kurdistan of Iraq, the remains of Saddam's palace, built in 1989, still stand. 29 years later, in March of 2018, two caged bears were escorted by a group of local media and Kurdish women forces to be ceremoniously freed at the helipad adjacent to the palace. Having lived dependently and in captivity throughout its life, the bears struggled to survive in the wild. One vanished whilst the other was at the mercy of the personnel that guard the telecommunication towers erected at the palace. The surreal juxtaposition of the stressed bear and the dilapidated palace, set amongst the magnificent mountains, encapsulates the tragedy of the people of this land throughout history, from the time of Gilgamesh to the present.

Walid Siti (b. 1954, Duhok, Kurdistan-Iraq). After graduating in 1976 from the Institute of Fine arts in Baghdad, Siti left Iraq to continue his arts education in Ljubljana, Slovenia before seeking political asylum in the UK in 1984 where he now lives and works. The work of Walid Siti traverses a complex terrain of memory and loss, in a world, which for him has been a place of constant change. The narrative of Siti’s experience, of a life lived far from but still deeply emotionally connected to the place of one’s birth, is one he shares with many exiles.

Goebbels? Pupils Film numérique, réalisé spécialement pour le DVD "Cronica 021-2005" : "Can I have 2 minutes of your time?". Images de Sumugan Sivanesan Son de Durán Vázquez

Sumugan Sivanesan vit à Sydney, Australie. Ayant joué dans divers groupes de rock au début des années 1990, il s'intéresse à la musique expérimentale et aux arts électroniques à travers son association aux nouveaux médias et à la vidéo numérique. Ses oeuvres vidéo/audio ont été présentées dans le monde entier lors de divers festivals internationaux, notamment le International Symposium for Electronic Art (ISEA), à Nagoya, Japon, en 2002.

A python slithers and curls over the abandoned control room of Chernobyl’s sister, the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, its radioactive core an unleashed monster that will slither through time for a million years. From Etruscan ruins and sunken cities to the most modern of underground repositories, director Emilija Škarnulyt? follows our attempts to bury the immortal. Addressing the epochal effects of nuclear technology on all levels, Burial follows the cycle of power, an eternal return, another serpent eating its tail.

Emilija Škarnulyt? (b. Vilnius, Lithuania 1987) is an artist and filmmaker. Working between documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulyt? makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political. Winner of the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize, Škarnulyt? represented Lithuania at the XXII Triennale di Milano. Recent solo exhibitions include Tate Modern (2021), Kunsthaus Pasquart (2021), and the National Gallery in Vilnius (2021). Her films are in the IFA, Kadist Foundation and Centre Pompidou collections and have been screened at the Serpentine Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and numerous film festivals. She is a founder and co-director of Polar Film Lab, and a member of artist duo New Mineral Collective.

How post-contemporary critique of post-truth post-index post-everything could look or sound like? What tools are available when language renders meaning sense-less? Do You Speak Peking Opera? is an enquiry in the state of pre-emptive post-contemporaneity, open ended, delivered to you by artificial intelligence, provoking genuine physical reaction.

Natalia Skobeeva is an internationally recognised award winning artist, based in Deptford, whose hybrid experimental practice explores ideas of transnational and multicultural existence in the post-truth society. She is a graduate of MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK Solo shows include ” This Territory is Time ” Espronceda Art Centre, Barcelona, “ Horrors of Archiving ” in Objectief Exhibitions, Antwerp, “ Carpets in St Petersburg, former Leningrad, former St Petersburg”in the State Museum of Political History of Russia, St Petersburg, Camera Club London and Viewfinder gallery London, solo projects in Moscow, Istanbul, Brussels, Berlin and London. Recent group exhibitions include Manifesta 11, LOOP festival Barcelona 2017, Tenderflix 2016, Bristol Biennale 2016, Vision in the nunnery 2016, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art, 15th WRO Media Art Biennale, Miden 2013 Festival of Video art, Retrospective of Now&After Video art festival among others.

A film that shows locations in California that has "played" other parts of the world in early Hollywood films. By revisiting these old locations, documenting them as they look today and by letting sounds from the old films inhabit them, the films constructs the Californian landscape as a place out of time and place.

John Skoog (born 1985 in Malmö, lives and works in Copenhagen) studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He was awarded the Baloise Art Prize in 2014 and the Ars-Viva prize in 2013. Recent exibitions and screenings include Mad Horizon, Index Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, SE (2016) Värn, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK, 2015), Slow Return, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (2015), Shadowland, Pilar Corrias, London (2015),Berlin International Film Festival (2015) and Federsee, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö (2013). Skoog is currently the professor of the film class at the Art Academy in Mainz.

In the early 1940’s the farm-worker Karl-Göran Persson started to fortify his small house in the flat farmlands of southern Sweden. He wanted to build a place where he and the people in the village could find refuge in the event of a Soviet invasion. He took any metal he could get cheap or for free from the neighboring farmers and used it as reinforcement for the cement casting of the house`s new exterior walls. Karl-Göran lived alone in the house and continued his re-construction until his death in 1975.

Working with film and video John Skoog follows in the tradition of Scandinavian film making through the use of stark landscapes and slow pacing. The poetic use of the Swedish landscape and powerful studies of character and emotion evoke memories of film works by cinema greats such as Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller. Skoog has been awarded the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel (2014), ’1KM film scholarship’ from Stockholm Film festival (2013), the Hessische Kulturstiftung travel grant (2013), the ARS-VIVA Prize (2013/14), Malmö Art Museum 2013 Art Grant, Aase & Richard Björklund fund, and the ARTFILM Prize, Lichter International Film Festival (2013) and a one year working grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn (2014). As part of winning the Ars-Viva Prize 2013/14, Skoog has shown at Neues Museum Weimar, MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main and GAM – Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea Torino. In 2015, as the winner of the Baloise Art Prize, Skoog will have two major solo exhibitions at Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK). Born in Kvidinge 1985, Skoog graduated from the Staedelschule, Frankfurt in 2012. Selected shows and festivals include: Slow Return, MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (2015); 65th Berlinale, Berlin (2015); Real DMZ Project 2014, Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do & Artsonje Center, Seoul (2014); Redoubt, Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne (2014); A Time for Dreams: 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow (2014); Ars Viva Prize: Truth/Reality, MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main; GAM Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin (2014); Taming the Narrative, Basis as a part of b3 Biennale, Frankfurt am Main (2013); Echo Release, NKV Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (2013); Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2014 & -13); Video_Dumbo, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York (2013); Spectrum Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (2013); Sent på Jorden, Art Lab Gnesta, Gnesta (2013); Indielisboa, Lisbon International Film Festival, Lisbon, (2014 & -12), Rencontres Internationales: Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, (2014 & -11). John Skoog lives and works in Frankfurt.

A film that looks at the traditional folklore surrounding the celebration of Fasnet (carnival) in the small Schwabian town of Bad Buchau.

Working with film and video John Skoog follows in the tradition of Scandinavian film making through the use of stark landscapes and slow pacing. The poetic use of the Swedish landscape and powerful studies of character and emotion evoke memories of film works by cinema greats such as Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller. Skoog has been awarded the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel (2014), ’1KM film scholarship’ from Stockholm Film festival (2013), the Hessische Kulturstiftung travel grant (2013), the ARS-VIVA Prize (2013/14), Malmö Art Museum 2013 Art Grant, Aase & Richard Björklund fund, and the ARTFILM Prize, Lichter International Film Festival (2013) and a one year working grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn (2014). As part of winning the Ars-Viva Prize 2013/14, Skoog has shown at Neues Museum Weimar, MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main and GAM – Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea Torino. In 2015, as the winner of the Baloise Art Prize, Skoog will have two major solo exhibitions at Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK). Born in Kvidinge 1985, Skoog graduated from the Staedelschule, Frankfurt in 2012. Selected shows and festivals include: Real DMZ Project 2014, Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do & Artsonje Center, Seoul (2014); Redoubt, Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne (2014); A Time for Dreams: 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow (2014); Ars Viva Preis: Truth/Reality – Björn Braun, John Skoog and Adrian Williams, MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main – DE; GAM – Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin – IT (2014); Taming the Narrative, Basis as a part of b3 Biennale, Frankfurt am Main (2013); Echo Release, NKV Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (2013); Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2014 & -13); Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main (2013); Video_Dumbo, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York (2013); Spectrum Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (2013); Sent på Jorden, Art Lab Gnesta, Gnesta (2013); Indielisboa, Lisbon International Film Festival, Lisbon, (2014 & -12), Onde, Torino International Film Festival, (2011), Rencontres Internationales: Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, (2014 & -11), En passant (with et al.*), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, (2011), In the absence of Glenn Gould, Ludlow 38, Goethe Institute, New York City (2008) and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, (2007), Malm1, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2004). John Skoog lives and works in Frankfurt.

Förår is loosely based on the news-story about an 11-year old girl that stole her fathers hunting rifle and paraded down main-street in the small town she lived in. Captured is the memory of a day re-collected. Things happened but its hard to remember exactly the right order, how you got to one place from another, what someone said.

John Skoog, b. 1985, in Kvidinge, Sweden, started making experimental video as a teenager. His photography and film installations have been shown at museum and film festivals around the world. In 2013 he was, as the youngest person ever, awarded the prestigious Ars-Viva Kunstpreis. John studied fine arts at Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

Synopsis: A film taking place in the dusk hour between that the sun has set and it gets dark. Thirteen scenes that show a rural village in the southern provinces of Sweden. Dusk falls, and you`re walking home and suddenly you can?t tell if it is the neighbor?s dog or a wolf standing further down the road.

Sent på Jorden is John Skoog?s debut film. Skoog, b. 1985, started as a teenager making experimental film, photography and film installations, shown at film festivals and museums around the world. John studied fine arts at Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.