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Biomimetic Stories # 1. Madurai La ville de Madurai située dans l’état du Tamil Nadu en Inde est le sujet de ce film. Sur un mode fictionnel, il dévoile des organisations urbaines virtuelles inspirées du vivant qui esquissent des solutions aux problèmes que génèrent les villes et plus spécifiquement à l’ère du réchauffement climatique. Le film se range du côté de la climato-fiction et envisage les rapports que pourraient entretenir dans un futur proche la nature et le paysage urbain. En alliant la biologie à l’urbain, il puise dans les processus évolutionnaires de la nature. Le film développe une narration prospective axée sur la bioluminescence urbaine, la récupération des eaux de rosée ainsi que l’édification d’une canopée. Madurai vise avant tout à proposer des pistes de réflexion, tout en s’inscrivant dans un processus biomimétique.

Pierre Jean Giloux http://www.pierrejeangiloux.com Pierre Jean Giloux, né en 1965, diplômé de l’ENSBA de Lyon et post-diplômé à Marseille (1990-91), montre ses installations vidéos ou photographiques et ses dessins dans des galeries (Roger Tator, Lyon, Plattform, Juliane Wellerdiek et DNA, Berlin, Sophie Scheidecker et Christophe Gaillard, Paris, Cristina Guerra, Lisbonne, Bank MABsociety, Shanghai) ou dans des musées et centres d’art contemporain, en Europe et en Asie. Ses œuvres sont présentes en collections privées (collection Pierre Darier, Cologny, ‘An-Sammlung’, Munich) et publiques (FMAC Paris et Marseille). Il a été lauréat de la Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto (2015), Grand prix art vidéo Festival Côté Court, Pantin (2016). Le travail de Pierre Jean Giloux se situe à la convergence de plusieurs pratiques : l’espace et le volume, le dessin et les images. Il réalise des projets engagés à caractère exploratoires et prospectifs sur la notion de paysage dans la cité, et propose de confronter des situations urbaines à des projets paysagers. Son processus de création est le plus souvent lié à des voyages d’étude tels que ceux effectués au Japon sur le métabolisme et plus récemment en Inde sur le biomimétisme. Novateur dans son mode d'écriture, Pierre Jean Giloux se base sur des recherches iconographiques et théoriques qu’il associe à des captations visuelles et sonores préalablement enregistrées. Ces hybridations façonnent un univers personnel patiemment élaboré sous la forme de dessins, photos, films et installations vidéo. Ses compositions visuelles et sonores sont le fruit d’une phase d’écriture faite de collages et de montages, et ceci par le biais des techniques numériques. Les interventions graphiques sur ses images lui permettent ainsi de modifier la perception du réel, de le mettre à distance et ainsi de créer des “mondes reconstruits”. Il fait cohabiter le virtuel et le réel dans le but d’établir un dialogue pour mieux les questionner et ainsi, de faire vaciller notre rapport au réel.

Comme dans le roman éponyme d’Italo Calvino, ces Invisible Cities ravivent un imaginaire utopique, qui entrelace les villes et leur mémoire, les villes et le désir, le regard, les signes. La part invisible révélée par l’artiste et qui instaure un lien de connivence entre les quatre volets de cette tétralogie évoque la vision d’une autre planification urbaine, intimement liée aux architectures prospectives des Métabolistes. À la fin des années 50, ce groupe tenta de redéfinir la ville durable, en combinant l’esthétique brutaliste et la modularité organique, en liant intimement le bâti au cycle biologique de la croissance, de la pourriture et de la régénération.

Le travail de Pierre Jean Giloux se situe à la convergence de plusieurs pratiques : l’espace / volume et les images. Ses vidéos sont les résultats d’associations et hybridations d’images. Il développe par le biais des techniques numériques un travail de collage, montage, de compositions visuelles et sonores qui incluent parfois des séquences animées en 2 et 3 d. Les interventions graphiques sur les images lui permettent ainsi de modifier la perception du réel et ainsi de créer des “ mondes reconstruits “. Il aime faire cohabiter le virtuel et le réel dans le dessein d’établir un dialogue et de les questionner.

Metabolism : “Le point de départ est la découverte d’un photomontage de Arata Isozaki intitulé “Re-ruined Hiroshima”. Cette image est une énigme : dans ce paysage dévasté, deux grandes formes architecturées se dessinent : ces structures constituées (on le suppose) par des débris récupérés dans les alentours, surplombent une ville mise à terre. Les métabolistes (un groupe d’urbanistes et d’architectes japonais autour d’une même vision : la ville du futur ) ont projeté de reconstruire ce pays, de (lui) façonner une nouvelle identité. Ce fut une sorte d’élan tendu vers l’avenir, vers un futur développement de l’espace urbain qui devait répondre aux flux des populations vers les centres urbains. Ils s’inscrivirent néanmoins dans une continuité idéoloqique ‘traditionnelle’ faisant référence à l’image iconique du temple d’Ise . Le métabolisme fût la dernière utopie moderniste du XXème siècle, cette découverte m’a passionné et a suscité le désir de faire ce film. Certains de leurs projets non réalisés sont introduits dans ce film par le truchement des techniques numériques, dans le Tokyo de 2015. Jalons historiques et présences fantomatiques inscrites dans les strates urbaines de la mégapole japonaise.

Qu’il soit filmique ou photographique, le travail de Pierre Jean Giloux débute par le stade préparatoire du dessin, phases de recherches où la pensée s’organise par strates, avant de passer à la réalisation. Ses installations photographiques composées de suites d’images peuvent être qualifiées de « storyboards agrandis ». Ces dernières -le plus souvent exposées en milieux urbains- se confrontent aux rapports d’échelles et questionnent le statut de l’image au sein même de la cité. Ses travaux vidéo sont les résultats d’associations et hybridations d’images. Il développe par le biais des techniques numériques un travail de collage, montage, de compositions visuelles et sonores qui incluent des séquences animées en 2 et 3 d. Il aime à faire cohabiter le virtuel et le réel dans le dessein d’établir un dialogue et de questionner notre rapport au réel et vice versa. En 2015, Pierre-Jean Giloux à la Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, Japon) où il réalise le quatrième et dernier volet de “Invisible Cities” intitulé “Station to Station”. Ses installations vidéos et ses films ont été exposés dans de nombreuses institutions et festivals, notamment le Centre Pompidou, le MAC VAL, le CREDAC, Comix Home Base de Hong Kong, au Kyoto Art Center, au Pavillon de l’Arsenal à Paris.

The film interweaves documentary and fiction to depict two characters, a truck driver and a singer. Filmed in their separate working environments their stories converge until they meet through an accident at a swimming pool. The driver witnesses the singer crashing into the end of the pool and passing out. He performs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Waking the next day the driver discovers he has developed a desire to write music. For the next six months his singing career develops at a rapid pace. The singer temporarily looses her voice, on regaining it she discovers that it has dramatically altered in tone. Although the tale is told retrospectively no conclusion is reached. Is he continuing to sing, did she regain her career, have they permanently swapped voices? He continues on his journey. By combining voice over, interview footage and dramatic tableaux, questions arise as to whether the events are true and to what extent the cast are acting. The film investigates what happens to people once placed in front of a camera and subsequently how a filmmaker can attempt to capture individuals continually shifting performances in real life. How we adjust ?self? in relationship to ?other? and what role storytelling has in the everyday are developed into key questions. By combining voice over, interview footage and dramatic tableaux, questions arise as to whether the events unfolding are true and to what extent the cast are acting. Are the characters figments of each other?s imaginations? Or in fact each other?s alter egos? The film investigates what happens to people once placed in front of a camera and subsequently how a filmmaker can attempt to capture the subtlety of individuals continually shifting performances in real life. How and why we adjust ?self? in relationship to ?other? and what role storytelling has in the everyday are developed into key questions.

Charlotte Ginsborg graduated from MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London in 2002 where she specialized in film and video. Her films interweave documentary and fictional elements to explore people?s psychological relationship to their architectural environments. She has exhibited her 16mm and digital films in galleries and festivals both nationally and internationally, including the Venice Biennale, the Serpentine Gallery and the ICA, London, the Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Walker Arts Centre, USA. She won the Oriel Mostyn Open 03 for her film ?Spade? and had a solo exhibition at the Jerwood Foundation, London. Her films are distributed by The Lux and she is currently artist in residence at The London Chest Hospital.

Tout en retraçant la vie d'un grand chantier de construction, de la démolition à la réalisation de nouveaux bureaux, « The Mirroring Cure » met l'accent sur la secrétaire de la société, qui décide d'interroger les personnes qui travaillent autour d'elle. Elle veut comprendre leur relation au travail, leurs espoirs, leurs craintes et angoisses. Nous sommes spectateur de sa fascination pour l'un des architectes qui, découvre-t-elle, souffre d'une perte de l?équilibre, exacerbée par les grandes dimensions du site. Apparaissant tout d'abord comme un documentaire sur la complexité de l'identité formée par le fait d?être « au travail », ainsi que sur les effets de l'architecture sur le comportement, le film commence à intégrer des éléments de fiction en laissant le spectateur indécis sur le moment où commence la réalité. Dans quelle mesure les personnages sont-ils vraiment en train de jouer, cette question reste ambiguë.

Charlotte Ginsborg est née en 1974 à Londres (Royaume-Uni), où elle vit et travaille. Après une licence en Beaux-Arts du Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (1998) elle obtient une Maîtrise en Beaux-Arts du Goldsmith College de l'Université de Londres (2002). Elle réalise des films et des vidéos, et ses ?uvres ont été projetées au Royaume-Uni et à l'étranger.

The film interweaves documentary and fiction to depict two characters, a truck driver and a singer. Filmed in their separate working environments their stories converge until they meet through an accident at a swimming pool. The driver witnesses the singer crashing into the end of the pool and passing out. He performs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Waking the next day the driver discovers he has developed a desire to write music. For the next six months his singing career develops at a rapid pace. The singer temporarily looses her voice, on regaining it she discovers that it has dramatically altered in tone. Although the tale is told retrospectively no conclusion is reached. Is he continuing to sing, did she regain her career, have they permanently swapped voices? He continues on his journey. By combining voice over, interview footage and dramatic tableaux, questions arise as to whether the events are true and to what extent the cast are acting. The film investigates what happens to people once placed in front of a camera and subsequently how a filmmaker can attempt to capture individuals continually shifting performances in real life. How we adjust ?self? in relationship to ?other? and what role storytelling has in the everyday are developed into key questions. By combining voice over, interview footage and dramatic tableaux, questions arise as to whether the events unfolding are true and to what extent the cast are acting. Are the characters figments of each other?s imaginations? Or in fact each other?s alter egos? The film investigates what happens to people once placed in front of a camera and subsequently how a filmmaker can attempt to capture the subtlety of individuals continually shifting performances in real life. How and why we adjust ?self? in relationship to ?other? and what role storytelling has in the everyday are developed into key questions.

Charlotte Ginsborg graduated from MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London in 2002 where she specialized in film and video. Her films interweave documentary and fictional elements to explore people?s psychological relationship to their architectural environments. She has exhibited her 16mm and digital films in galleries and festivals both nationally and internationally, including the Venice Biennale, the Serpentine Gallery and the ICA, London, the Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Walker Arts Centre, USA. She won the Oriel Mostyn Open 03 for her film ?Spade? and had a solo exhibition at the Jerwood Foundation, London. Her films are distributed by The Lux and she is currently artist in residence at The London Chest Hospital.

Tout en retraçant la vie d'un grand chantier de construction, de la démolition à la réalisation de nouveaux bureaux, « The Mirroring Cure » met l'accent sur la secrétaire de la société, qui décide d'interroger les personnes qui travaillent autour d'elle. Elle veut comprendre leur relation au travail, leurs espoirs, leurs craintes et angoisses. Nous sommes spectateur de sa fascination pour l'un des architectes qui, découvre-t-elle, souffre d'une perte de l?équilibre, exacerbée par les grandes dimensions du site. Apparaissant tout d'abord comme un documentaire sur la complexité de l'identité formée par le fait d?être « au travail », ainsi que sur les effets de l'architecture sur le comportement, le film commence à intégrer des éléments de fiction en laissant le spectateur indécis sur le moment où commence la réalité. Dans quelle mesure les personnages sont-ils vraiment en train de jouer, cette question reste ambiguë.

Charlotte Ginsborg est née en 1974 à Londres (Royaume-Uni), où elle vit et travaille. Après une licence en Beaux-Arts du Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (1998) elle obtient une Maîtrise en Beaux-Arts du Goldsmith College de l'Université de Londres (2002). Elle réalise des films et des vidéos, et ses ?uvres ont été projetées au Royaume-Uni et à l'étranger.

"Birobidzhan Atlas" is a film exploring Jewish Autonomous Region, an area that is located in the Far East of the Russian Federation. Founded by the Soviet government in 1934, the Jewish Autonomous Region became an official self-determined Jewish entity long before the establishment of the State of Israel. The landscape had a harsh geography and climate: it was mountainous, covered with virgin forests of oak, pine and cedar, and also swamplands festering with mosquitoes, and any new settlers would have to build their lives from scratch in this underpopulated region on the border of contested Manchuria. Birobidzhan is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Region, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, close to the border with China. It is named after the two rivers: the Bira and the Bidzhan, which are tributaries of the Amur. The city was planned by the second director of Bauhaus, Swiss architect Hannes Meyer, and established in 1931. Birobidzhan Atlas employs Aby Warburg’s method of “ montage-collision ”, to build a representation of the area through combination of historical archives and documentation of today’s landscape, the relationship between the utopian and the represented landscape.

Anton Ginzburg (b. 1974, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a New York-based artist and filmmaker, investigating historical narratives and poetic studies of place, representation, and post-Soviet identity. He earned a BFA from The New School for Social Research and MFA degree from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. His work has been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Canada, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns in New York, Lille 3000 in Euralille, France, and the first and second Moscow Biennales. His films have been screened at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Les Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and New York Film Festival/Projections among others.

“Turo” is a film exploring post-Soviet geography and Constructivist architecture. It is made up four chapters and an introduction-index. Each chapter is exploring a different Constructivist building as a stage for past utopias. The buildings are landmarks of Soviet modernism: Melnikov House (architect Konstantin Melnikov), Narkomfin Building (architect Moisei Ginzburg), ZIL (Automobile factory designed by Vesnin brothers) and also recording of a “ghost mode” of a video game exploring ruins of Pripyat’ (Soviet town affected by Chernobyl catastrophe) featuring unrealized Tatlin’s Tower. Since a lot of Constructivist projects were never realized and existed as potential designs, they are placed into the virtual environments of the video game, positioning utopia within dystopia. It’s an atemporal collective territory, where past dreams coincide with current consumer culture. Modernity could be interpreted as an updated Babel Tower project where the universal tongue would have been imposed over the rest of the world. It still resonates deeply with contemporary culture, but today it exists as an archive of ruins, the record of fragmentation. Exploring various methods of representation the video’s structure combines cinematic approach with layering and digital abstraction. Each part of the film is a metaphorical tower that gets deconstructed throughout the duration of the chapter. Some parts are direct cinematic narratives, like an enormous blaze, while others show use projected images, deconstruction of an image and shaping its potential meanings on the basis of technological reproduction.

Anton Ginzburg is a New York–based artist and filmmaker who uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations into art’s capacity to penetrate layers of the past and reflect on the contemporary experience. Born in 1974 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ginzburg received a classical arts education before immigrating to the United States in 1990. He earned a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design and MFA degree from Bard College (Milton Avery Graduate School). His art has been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, Blaffer Art Museum, Lille3000, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns, the first and second Moscow Biennales, and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Screenings included IFFR, NYFF/Projections, Les Rencontres Internationales Moscow International Film Festival, Arkipel/Jakarta, Exis/Korea and Images/Toronto.

The film Pan (2014) by Anton Ginzburg, explores the genealogy and interactions of reproduction technologies from 16mm film to video formats. It examines variations of the mechanical gaze and its disembodiment in relation to the architectural representation and historical context. The hybrid aura offers an interplay and reconsideration of temporal and spatial relationships.

Anton Ginzburg is a New York–based artist and filmmaker who uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations into art’s capacity to penetrate layers of the past and reflect on the contemporary experience. Born in 1974 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ginzburg received a classical arts education before immigrating to the United States in 1990. He earned a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 1997 and MFA degree from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. His art has been shown at the fifty-fourth Venice Biennale, Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns in New York, Lille3000 in Euralille, France, the first and second Moscow Biennales, and the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, as well as in private collections around the world.

Dans son film Hyperborea, Anton Ginsburg construit des points d?intersection entre la mémoire individuelle ou collective, et l?imagination. Parcourant les histoires nombreuses au sujet de la région mythique d?Hyperborea, il s?y est installé et a voyagé jusqu?aux territoires les plus lointains au Nord. Son expédition l?a conduit des des forêts du Nord Ouest Pacifique américain, aux palais abandonnés de Saint Petersburg, jusqu?aux Goulags de la Mer Blanche. Sur la trace d?anciens vestiges, forêts primaires, fossiles de mammouths et ruines, l?explorateur est accompagné par un mystérieux nuage de fumée rouge.

Anton Ginzburg is a New York?based artist and filmmaker who uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations into art?s capacity to penetrate layers of the past. Born in 1974 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ginzburg received a classical arts education before immigrating to the United States in 1990. He earned a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 1997 and is currently working on his MFA degree at Bard College. His art has been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, Lille3000, Palais de Tokyo, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns, the first and second Moscow Biennales, and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, as well as in private collections around the world.

“ML CRSH” is a video work that was developed using a 3D gaming engine environment for self-driving vehicles. The AI algorithm was used to apply the database collection of photo materials and textures of Dresden to the 3D models, causing unpredictable digital artifacts. The initial video was inspired by the “Media Burn” 1975 performance organized by Ant Farm collective, where a customized Cadillac drove into a wall of flaming television sets. Translating it into today’s digital environment of “database logic” of new media objects and employment of AI, it features a montage of crashes of autonomous vehicles into digital replicas of art objects. The artwork turns its focus on the proliferation of database and AI technologies and disrupts its patterns with an iconoclastic gesture of a crash.

Anton Ginzburg is a New York–based artist and filmmaker who uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations into art’s capacity to penetrate layers of the past and reflect on the contemporary experience. Born in 1974 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ginzburg received a classical arts education before immigrating to the United States in 1990. He earned a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design and MFA degree from Bard College (Milton Avery Graduate School). His art has been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, Blaffer Art Museum, Lille3000, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns, and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Screenings included IFFR, NYFF/Projections, Ann Arbor, Go Shorts and Images/Toronto.

A Tongue Called Mother depicts the relationship between language, gestures and affiliation. It slowly captures the actions and words of three generations of women in the same family and children learning to read, meditating on words learnt and forgotten through the body.

Eva Giolo (b.1991 Brussels) is an audio visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Brussels. Giolo obtained a BA and MA in Fine Arts at the Media Arts department of the Royal Academy of Arts (KASK), Ghent. She completed her music education at the Institute of Contemporary Music in London. Giolo won the VAF Wildcard for experimental film (2016). Eva Giolo is a founding member of elephy and a post-grad art resident at HISK in Ghent (2018-2020).

Remote is a suggestive story. Portrait of a tender companionship in a secluded Irish countryside. Residing in the simplicity of the moment, the waiting and the repetition of days. This is a place where there is no space for imagining a future other than the perpetual repetition of the present. This is a place for survival, to be strong, alone with the wind, eyes burnt by the light. A place of unspoken tenderness, a landscape of silence and solitude in which there will always be someone.

Eva Giolo (b.1991 Brussels) is an audio visual artist. Her practice is predominantly made of filmic portraits that weave between fiction and documentary. They focus on individuals, almost always facing a certain kind of loneliness. She mainly focus on those individuals in their daily life, scripting and observing their actions and daily gestures through the camera. They often touch upon universal human themes and explore the relationship between loss, time and memory. But also the in-between language of the camera and the subject. Presenting memories, images and portraitures as something that can be manipulated and seen with multi-perspectives. Questioning the power of images is a recurrent theme and memories often stand as a central narrative. Giolo obtained a BA and MA in Fine Arts at the Media Arts department of the Royal Academy of Arts (KASK), Ghent. She completed her music education at the Institute of Contemporary Music in London. Recent screenings and exhibitions include: Imagine Science Film Festival, New York; TAZ#17, Ostend; Côté court, Paris; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Blaa Galleri, Copenhagen; BOZAR, Brussels; Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent; Ishibiki Gallery, Kanazawa; In Out Film Festival, Gdansk among others. Giolo won the VAF Wildcard for experimental film (2016) and is a founding member of the small distribution and production platform elephy. Eva Giolo is a post-grad art resident at HISK in Ghent (2018-2020). She currently works and lives in Brussels.

Everyday occupations, some domestic tools, fruits, light, rope and many hands. Hands that dig in the earth, that cut, that cook, that touch, rip, wash, squeeze, erase, press, push. The sound of domestic spaces and its silence. Red flowers one summer. Flowers blooming in our throat is a cinematic poem in response to the worldwide pandemic of 2020. Commissioned and produced by in between art films for the project Mascarilla 19 – Codes of Domestic Violence. Filmed in 16mm just after the lockdown caused by COVID-19, Flowers blooming in our throats is an intimate, poetic portrait of the fragile balances that govern everyday life in a domestic setting. The artist films a group of her friends in their own homes, performing various small actions in accordance with her instructions. Giolo chooses to walk a shifting line where gestures remain symbolically ambiguous, expressing a kind of violence that is not immediately recognizable. Hands try to support or escape, but also to grip or strike, in a subtle interweaving of sounds and references that adds to the viewer’s sense of tension and unease. A dialogue of gestures, made up of repeated visual sequences where time is marked by the spinning of a small toy top, as unstable and precarious as the balance of a relationship.The artist repeatedly uses a red filter on her lens, creating a conceptual device that relies on an element of abstraction to conceal and transfigure the image. The mechanical insertion of the filter over the lens thus becomes the simulation of a violent act, immediately changing the way we perceive and remember an action we have seen before.This coexistence of opposites can also be found in the title, which metaphorically suggests how the beauty of a natural phenomenon—and implicitly, love – can turn into a suffocating force. Leonardo Bigazzi

Eva Giolo (Belgium) is an audio-visual artist working in film, video, and installation, born in Brussels in 1991. Her work places particular focus on the female experience, employing experimental and documentary strategies to explore themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics. Giolo uses her camera to capture the “mundane” moments of the everyday to reveal their hidden depth. After pursuing music at East London University (2011), she received her BA in Media Arts (2015), and MA in Fine Arts, Royal Academy Fine Arts Ghent (2016). Her films, installations and other projects have been widely exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries internationally, including Sadie Coles HQ, WIELS, MAXXI–National Museum of 21st Century Art, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Palazzo Strozzi, Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata Buenos Aires, Viennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Kunsthalle Wien, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Lago Film Festival, Viennale, FIDMarseille, Courtisane Film Festival, Rencontres International Paris Berlin, Cinéma du Réel and Punto de Vista among others. Giolo’s work is in the permanent collections of Fondazione In Between Art Film (Rome) and Het Huis Van Alijn (Ghent), Museum M (Leuven). Her film Flowers Blooming in Our Throats (2020) was nominated for the European Film Awards (2020), and received Grand Prize from This Is Short, a collaborative online event co-presented by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Vienna Short Film Festival, and other European organizations. She is the recipient of a VAF Wildcard Prize (2016), the Cedric Willemen Award (2019) and special recognition from the Vordemberge – Gildewart Foundation (2020). She was an artist in residence at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (2018–2020), SeMA NANJI in Korea and WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art (2020) and the CASTRO studio program (2021). In 2022, Eva will be an art resident at Fogo Island Arts in Canada. Eva is co-founder of the Moving Image Atelier (Belgium) and co-founder and Artistic Director of Elephy, a production and distribution organization for film and media art, with Rebecca Jane Arthur, Chloë Delanghe, and Christina Stuhlberger. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

LAUNCHING CEREMONY (2021) Single-channel video, B&W, sound, 17min Originally conceived to be performed in a shipyard, ‘Launching Ceremony’ is an audiovisual poem focusing on the ceremonial launching of a new ship embarking on her maiden voyage. Through a reanimation of mid- century archival footage “choreographed” to a commissioned theremin score, the work invites its viewers to partake in the ceremony, as well as to reflect on free movement and lost futures in an increasingly entrenched world. A commission by the Syros International Film Festival (SIFF) realized with the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development, in partnership with the Greek Film Archives. Credits A film by Marina Gioti | Music: May Roosevelt | Producer: Jacob Moe

Marina Gioti (Athens, 1972) Filmmaker and visual artist based in ?thens, Greece. She is also a trained Chemical Engineer with post graduates studies in Environmental Management, Media & Communication and New Media. In her works, which comprise of films, installations and media art pieces, she often revisits historical eras and stories offering parallel readings to dominant narratives. Artistic, archival and scientific research alongside observation play a crucial role in her practice, while objets trouvés and cultural debris serve as raw material or situate themselves at the center of her works. She is the laureate of the 2022 ?ceans-themed COAL prize for art and ecology. Recent shows and festivals include: Elefsina Mon Amour, Eleusis 2023 European Cultural Capital Flagship art show, Old Oil Mill Factory, Eleusis, Greece (2023), ARCOmadrid Special - La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2023) | Public Domain- New Acquisitions MOMus – Thessaloniki Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2022) | Launching Ceremony, Tarsanas Shipyard/ Syros International Film Festival-SIFF (solo, 2021)| Theorimata II, EMST - Athens Museum of Contemporary Art (2020)| Atlas: A Sound Cartography of Europe, Centre Pompidou, Paris / ZKM-Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe / Onassis Stegi, Athens (2019) | CPH:DOX, Copenhagen (2019)| Harmonie Inconnue I & II, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris (2019)| | Polysomnogarden- Forum Frohner, Krems an der Donau (Solo, 2018)| Berlinale Forum Expanded (2018)| Yebisu Intl Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art (2018)|The Invisible Hands, Signal - Contemporary Art Space, Malmö (solo, 2018)| Past Future Perfect, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (solo, 2018)| 1st Anren Biennale, Chengdu (2018)| documenta 14, Athens & Kassel (2017) www.marinagioti.net

A collection of visual evidence from an Athens of the near future devoid of humans. Its inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind a tableau mourant of concrete, metal and plastic coexisting with with glorious marble and the local flora and fauna. Part science fiction, part archaeological mystery, the work offers a picturesque expedition of the new Greek ruins, through an apposition of findings that serve as hints for the fate of the film’s elusive protagonists, the -conspicuous by absence- Athenians.

Marina Gioti is a filmmaker/ visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She studied Chemical Engineering, Environmental Management (MSc), Filmmaking, and Media and Communication (MA) in Greece, UK and Belgium. Her films and installations have been screened and exhibited worldwide at both international film festivals (Toronto IFF, Transmediale, Jeonju, Viennale,Les Rencontres Internationales, etc.) and museums/ visual art platforms [Thessaloniki Biennial, Wrocklaw Media Art Biennial (Poland), the Whitechapel Gallery (London), Bozar (Βrussels)]. She is currently in post-production of her first feature, “The Invisible Hands”, a documentary set in Cairo, Egypt.

Greece, the early 70?s. A family visits the museum of the 1821 Greek Revolution and War against the Turks. As they wander inside the museum, one of the paintings comes to life ... ?Sabotaged? version of a rare -found- propaganda film,produced during the Greek military junta in the 70s, supporting a largely debated fact -for many a national myth- related to the birth of the modern Greek nation and the construction of its ethnic identity.

Born in Athens, Greece, Marina Gioti has studied Chemical Engineering, Environmental Management (MSc), Filmmaking and Media and Communication (MA) in Greece and the UK. Since 1999 she lives and works in Athens as a filmmaker/ video artist working mainly with found footage and animation. She has presented work at festivals and galleries in Athens, Europe and the United States, notably at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Rencontres Internationales, Cinematexas, New York Underground Film Festival and Transmediale festival in Berlin. She is also working as an independent curator and film programmer organizing art exhibitions and experimental film and documentary screenings around Athens.

A Greek TV-commercial from the 80s of a product-action racquet game- that failed to become a success in the local market, is being manipulated anew in terms of image and sound. Apart from a funny rhythmical reworking of a rather trite found footage, this work aims at presenting a comical and simplistic view of how American products and trends have been implanted on our collective subconscious through advertising.

Marina Gioti is a filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. Her film and video work has been presented at various festivals and special screenings around Europe and the United States. Her most recent video "B-alles" was an official selection at: New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals, Cinematexas 11, Hi/Lo Film Festival, Hull International Short Film Festival, among others. She also works as an independent film and video curator, programming and organizing experimental film and video screenings at various venues around Athens, mainly under the name "novaXpress". She has also programmed for Synch Festival (artistic director Synch Cinema 2005) and Cinematexas. She is the co-curator of the art exhibition "Anathena", which recently opened at the Deste Foundation (Athens, Greece).

"Sainkho chante à la fois à la manière du chant de gorge traditionnel de Tuva et du jazz, mais, selon la croyance, la pratique de ces chants est dangereuse pour la santé des femmes." Le bilan du film ethnographique

Twenty years ago, the towers of the New York World Trade Center collapsed. The endlessly repeating television images of this event were preceded by manyfold stagings of the building, either as a highly symbolic icon, a speculative destruction fantasy or merely as a spectacular backdrop. In Misty Picture, such fictional motifs string together: city symphony, disaster movie and medial trauma therapy become one.

Christoph Girardet, born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966. Lives in Hannover. Studied at the Braunschweig HBK. Matthias Müller, born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1961. Lives in Bielefeld and Cologne. Studied at the Bielefeld University and at the Braunschweig HBK. Collaborative works since 1999

Portraits of women. And men, who are spellbound by them. The painted portraits, a recurring motif of film noir as well as European postwar cinema, aesthetically stand in a tradition of an outmoded academic style that is bent on striking likeness with the model. They are revenants, omens of absence, metaphors for loss and death, objects of desire and fixation, which mesmerize both the viewer in the movie and in front of the screen.

Christoph Girardet, born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966. Lives in Hannover. Studied at the Braunschweig HBK. filmography (single channel, selection) 1991 Schwertkampf 1993 Fieberrot 1996 Release 2001 Scratch 2002 Absence 2004 Fiction Artists (with Volker Schreiner) 2007 Pianoforte | Storyboard 2012 The Eternal Lesson | Dirigible 2014 Fabric 2015 Synthesis 2017 It Was Still Her Face collaborations with Matthias Müller 1999 Phoenix Tapes 2002 Manual | Beacon 2003 Play | Mirror 2006 Kristall 2009 Contre-jour | Maybe Siam 2011 Meteor 2013 Cut 2016 personne

Fabric is a montage based on remaining workprints from a commercial film about viscose that no longer exists. The original attempt of the film to visualize perfect images of a young tailor and models dressed in sensual fabric while acting within a decorative modernist setting is mirrored in its shortcoming. The leftovers only show the preliminaries, faulty repetitions and aborted takes, thus all footage which was thrownout. Clapper boards indicating each take by numbers allowed to reconstruct a part of the film’s original storyboard. The new montage shows all of the remaining snippets from the related scenes including the clapper boards, the repeated takes and the glitches in the film material. However, all parts which probably have been used to edit the original film are missing, the gaps are marked with beeps on the otherwise silent soundtrack. While following a fragile new narrative, Fabric also generates a counterpart of an artefact that was lost.

Christoph Girardet, born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966. He studied Fine Arts at the Braunschweig School of Art (Master’s degree in 1994). Since 1989 he has produced video tapes, video installations and films, some of them in collaboration with video artist Volker Schreiner beginning in 1994 and as of 1999 with filmmaker Matthias Müller. He was awarded a stipend for the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (2000) and the Villa Massimo stipend in Rome (2004). He lives and works in Hanover.

They call me a dreamer, well maybe I am. / But I know that I`m burnin` to see / Those far away places with the strange-soundin` names / Callin`, callin` me. (no translation, English only, please)

Christoph Girardet, born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966. Lives in Hannover. Works in video, film and installation since 1987. Studied at the Braunschweig HBK. Selected works: 1991 Schwertkampf, 1997 Release, 2001 Scratch, 2001 7:48, 2002 Absence, 2007 Pianoforte, 2010 Silberwald Matthias Müller, born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1961. Lives in Bielefeld and Cologne. Works in film, video and photography since 1980. Studied at the Bielefeld University and at the Braunschweig HBK. Selected works: 1990 Home Stories, 1994 Alpsee, 1998 Vacancy, 2000 nebel, 2004 Album. Joint projects of Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller: Phoenix Tapes 1999, Manual 2002, Beacon 2002, Play 2003, Mirror 2003, Ray 2004, Catch 2005, Ground 2005, Hide 2006, Kristall 2006, Locomotive 2008, Contre-jour 2009, Maybe Siam 2009

« Storyboard » est un collage réalisé à partir d'une variété d?images trouvées au hasard : des espaces vides, des gestes énigmatiques, des environnements artificiels. Ceci est-il la vie, selon une mémoire cinématographique?

Christoph Girardet est né en 1966 à Langenhagen et vit à Hanovre en Allemagne. Il a étudié les Beaux-Arts à l?Ecole d?arts de Braunschweig. Il travaille depuis 1987 sur les supports vidéo, film et installations. Il commence une collaboration en 1994 avec le vidéaste Volker SCHREINER, puis avec Matthias Müller depuis 1999 (Phoenix Tapes) avec qui il réalise de nombreux projets communs ayant recours aux techniques numériques. Il explore entre autres les poncifs du cinéma industriel. Girardet a participé à des expositions collectives dans des institutions aussi prestigieuses que le Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven) ou le P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center de New York. Des expositions personnelles de ses travaux ont eu lieu au Kunstverein de Hanovre ou à la Sean Gallery de New York. Il a déjà reçu de nombreuses récompenses.

Twenty years ago, the towers of the New York World Trade Center collapsed. The endlessly repeating television images of this event were preceded by manyfold stagings of the building, either as a highly symbolic icon, a speculative destruction fantasy or merely as a spectacular backdrop. In Misty Picture, such fictional motifs string together: city symphony, disaster movie and medial trauma therapy become one.

Christoph Girardet, born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966. Lives in Hannover. Studied at the Braunschweig HBK. Matthias Müller, born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1961. Lives in Bielefeld and Cologne. Studied at the Bielefeld University and at the Braunschweig HBK. Collaborative works since 1999

Portraits of women. And men, who are spellbound by them. The painted portraits, a recurring motif of film noir as well as European postwar cinema, aesthetically stand in a tradition of an outmoded academic style that is bent on striking likeness with the model. They are revenants, omens of absence, metaphors for loss and death, objects of desire and fixation, which mesmerize both the viewer in the movie and in front of the screen.

Christoph Girardet, born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966. Lives in Hannover. Studied at the Braunschweig HBK. filmography (single channel, selection) 1991 Schwertkampf 1993 Fieberrot 1996 Release 2001 Scratch 2002 Absence 2004 Fiction Artists (with Volker Schreiner) 2007 Pianoforte | Storyboard 2012 The Eternal Lesson | Dirigible 2014 Fabric 2015 Synthesis 2017 It Was Still Her Face collaborations with Matthias Müller 1999 Phoenix Tapes 2002 Manual | Beacon 2003 Play | Mirror 2006 Kristall 2009 Contre-jour | Maybe Siam 2011 Meteor 2013 Cut 2016 personne

Fabric is a montage based on remaining workprints from a commercial film about viscose that no longer exists. The original attempt of the film to visualize perfect images of a young tailor and models dressed in sensual fabric while acting within a decorative modernist setting is mirrored in its shortcoming. The leftovers only show the preliminaries, faulty repetitions and aborted takes, thus all footage which was thrownout. Clapper boards indicating each take by numbers allowed to reconstruct a part of the film’s original storyboard. The new montage shows all of the remaining snippets from the related scenes including the clapper boards, the repeated takes and the glitches in the film material. However, all parts which probably have been used to edit the original film are missing, the gaps are marked with beeps on the otherwise silent soundtrack. While following a fragile new narrative, Fabric also generates a counterpart of an artefact that was lost.

Christoph Girardet, born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966. He studied Fine Arts at the Braunschweig School of Art (Master’s degree in 1994). Since 1989 he has produced video tapes, video installations and films, some of them in collaboration with video artist Volker Schreiner beginning in 1994 and as of 1999 with filmmaker Matthias Müller. He was awarded a stipend for the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (2000) and the Villa Massimo stipend in Rome (2004). He lives and works in Hanover.

They call me a dreamer, well maybe I am. / But I know that I`m burnin` to see / Those far away places with the strange-soundin` names / Callin`, callin` me. (no translation, English only, please)

Christoph Girardet, born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966. Lives in Hannover. Works in video, film and installation since 1987. Studied at the Braunschweig HBK. Selected works: 1991 Schwertkampf, 1997 Release, 2001 Scratch, 2001 7:48, 2002 Absence, 2007 Pianoforte, 2010 Silberwald Matthias Müller, born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1961. Lives in Bielefeld and Cologne. Works in film, video and photography since 1980. Studied at the Bielefeld University and at the Braunschweig HBK. Selected works: 1990 Home Stories, 1994 Alpsee, 1998 Vacancy, 2000 nebel, 2004 Album. Joint projects of Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller: Phoenix Tapes 1999, Manual 2002, Beacon 2002, Play 2003, Mirror 2003, Ray 2004, Catch 2005, Ground 2005, Hide 2006, Kristall 2006, Locomotive 2008, Contre-jour 2009, Maybe Siam 2009

« Storyboard » est un collage réalisé à partir d'une variété d?images trouvées au hasard : des espaces vides, des gestes énigmatiques, des environnements artificiels. Ceci est-il la vie, selon une mémoire cinématographique?

Christoph Girardet est né en 1966 à Langenhagen et vit à Hanovre en Allemagne. Il a étudié les Beaux-Arts à l?Ecole d?arts de Braunschweig. Il travaille depuis 1987 sur les supports vidéo, film et installations. Il commence une collaboration en 1994 avec le vidéaste Volker SCHREINER, puis avec Matthias Müller depuis 1999 (Phoenix Tapes) avec qui il réalise de nombreux projets communs ayant recours aux techniques numériques. Il explore entre autres les poncifs du cinéma industriel. Girardet a participé à des expositions collectives dans des institutions aussi prestigieuses que le Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven) ou le P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center de New York. Des expositions personnelles de ses travaux ont eu lieu au Kunstverein de Hanovre ou à la Sean Gallery de New York. Il a déjà reçu de nombreuses récompenses.

"While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow." -Kobo Abe Liminal zones. Floating particles. Fire, water, earth, air. Voices of fictional characters: sometimes suggestive, sometimes strict, leading the viewer away from the here and now. Who`s talking? The relationship between the hypnotized subject and the hypnotist is mirrored in the spectator`s relationship to the screen.

CHRISTOPH GIRARDET was born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966. He studied Fine Arts at the Braunschweig School of Art (Master´s degree in 1994). Since 1989 he has produced video tapes, video installations and films, some of them in collaboration with Volker Schreiner beginning in 1994 and as of 1999 with Matthias Müller. He was awarded a stipend for the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (2000) and the Villa Massimo stipend in Rome (2004). He lives and works in Hanover. MATTHIAS MÜLLER was born in Bielefeld, Germany in 1961. Müller is an artist working in film, video and photography. He is based in Bielefeld and Cologne, Germany. Studied Arts and German Literature at Bielefeld University and Fine Arts at HBK Braunschweig. Master’s degree. Since 2003, Professor in Experimental Film at Academy of Media Arts, KHM, Cologne. Müller organized numerous avant-garde film events such as the "Found Footage Film Festival" (1996 & 1999) and the first German festival of autobiographical films "Ich etc." (1998) and various touring programs. With his films and videos he has taken part in major film festivals worldwide, including the festivals at Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Rotterdam. His work has also been featured in several group and solo exhibitions. His films and videos are part of the collections of institutions such as Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Nederlands Film Museum, Amsterdam, Australian Centre For The Moving Image, Melbourne, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the Goetz Collection, Munich, the collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître, London, and Tate Modern, London.

A broken bottleneck lies on the ground. An analogue telephone with a blank dial plate. The hero of the film, Jean-Louis Trintignant, in younger years – in older years. A man huddled on an elevator floor. Skewered butterflies. He is all alone in the world. The external is sealed off. The internal barricaded. He shifts between times. His focus is always trained on the other. Is he wanted, condemned, persecuted? The man whom we observe from the rear, is only able to see his back in the mirror. His face cannot be recognised. All the actions and movements, all the seeking and striving, all the alterations and associations revolve around the view and excerpt from “La reproduction interdite”, painted by Belgian surrealist René Magritte in 1937. The mirror axis of the film, and yet, and simply for that reason, one becomes the other. The other becomes many. “personne – that is somebody and nobody and anyone. That is us in the course of time. Persistently, in vain. The self is the need for permanent self-assertion”.

Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller are directors, known for Cut (2013), Contre-jour (2009) and Personne (2016).

Une foule danse au son d`une musique que l`on n`entend pas devant un groupe que l`on ne voit pas. Reste le son des corps et de leurs mouvements, l`image d`un ordre changeant. The Straight Edge est une expérience appliquée à un concert de musique punk-hardcore. La foule et son intensité en sont le matériau. Les expressions communes de joie, de violence ou d`ennui sont les éléments d`une même fiction culturelle à travailler. Des formes y sont tentées, déplacées et répétées. J`envisage la communauté comme un jeu complexe où s`inventent les individus. C`est dans le partage des règles, des postures et des vitesses que chacun se construit et constuit un monde. C`est ce mouvement de production qui est l`objet de mon travail. Je veux croire qu`il est toujours flexible et modifiable, qu`il peut être altéré et recréé. Je veux croire en la fiction et la possibilité de sa réinvention.

Fabien Giraud, né en 1980, a étudié à l?Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, et au National Institute of Design en Inde. Il vit et travaille actuellement au Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains à Tourcoing.

Somewhere, a young man is asleep, his room illuminated green by the flicker of his computer screensaver. Even the night sky resembles its digital replication. Anthropological observations on sleep in the age of technology, and the ways in which it substitutes natural environments.

Alexander Girav was born in Chicago in 1995 and now works as a cinematographer in Los Angeles. While a student at CalArts, he had his work screen at The Chicago International Film Festival and Valvidia International Film Festival. Upon receiving his BFA in Film/Video, Alex`s work has been selected to screen by Ann Arbor Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam - among others.

San Borondón is a mythical island that appears and disappears. It has appeared on maps throughout history in the vicinity of the Canary Islands. The legend of the island of San Borondón became so pervasive that, during the XVI, XVI and XVIII centuries, expeditions were organized to find and conquer it. After centuries of oblivion, it has finally been found.

Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado Their work investigates the relationship between mythology, history and materialism. Their first feature film, Eles transportan a morte (2021), premiered at the Venice and San Sebastian festivals winning awards at both. It has subsequently been shown at international festivals such as Rotterdam, Cairo, Mar del Plata, Viennale, Hamburg and Sao Paulo. Their previous short films have been shown at festivals like Toronto, Locarno, New York, Ann Arbor and many others. They have made installations and performances in art centers like CCCB (Barcelona), BAM (New York), TEA (Tenerife) or Solar (Vila do Conde).

"Threshold Songs," by Natalia Almada and Peter Gizzi is part of "The Tangier 8," a film-poetry project that took place in Tangier, Morocco in June 2009. Working under tight time constraints-they had just four days to film, four days for sound, and four days for editing, the artists took inspiration from the city of Tangier-its history, architecture, people, politics, as well as from each other, to produce these short film-poems.

Natalia Almada- Born in 1974 in Mexico. She graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and shares her time between Mexico City and Brooklyn, New York. Her directing credits include All Water Has a Perfect Memory, an experimental short film; Al Otro Lado, her award winning debut feature documentary about immigration, drug trafficking and corrido music; and her most recent film, EL GENERAL, a family memoir and portrait of Mexico past and present which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the best documentary director award. Her films have been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Biennial, as well as at several film festivals around the world. She has received support for her work from numerous foundations including The Creative Capital Foundation, The Tribeca Film Institute, The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, PBS and others. Almada is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow. 2) Peter Gizzi- Born in 1959 in Massachusetts. Gizzi attended Brown University, NYC and SUNY Buffalo. His books include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and Periplum (Avec Books, 1992). In 2004 Salt Publishing of England reprinted an expanded edition of his first book as Periplum and other poems 1987-92. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. His work has been translated into numerous languages and anthologized here and abroad. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets (1994) and fellowships in poetry from The Fund for Poetry (1993), The Rex Foundation (1993), Howard Foundation (1998), The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1999), and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005).

This project is a sound and visual performance that has its origins in the ubiquitous digital tones of the cell phones comprising the soundtrack of our contemporary life. These sound waves provide the raw material for this piece, which recreates an urban space saturated with an ever-changing cacophony of electronic alerts. In order to add an appropriately surreal dimension to this soundscape, the space is filled with theatrical smoke that creates an atmosphere, which, like the public, is trapped between the physical and digital realities. In this performance Fatos Qerimaj, a contemporary musician, plays the clarinet in a jazz-like dialogue with the ring tones, turning the mobile phones into avatar-instrumentalists of an unpredictable cyborg ensemble. If jazz once responded spontaneously to the rhythms and beat of life, in this piece it still does, with the rhythm of our lives now being the sounds of our digital devices.

Helidon is a contemporary artist, who was born in Albania and currently lives in NYC. He studied art at the Academies of Fine Arts of Tirana and Naples as well as Northwestern University. Over the course of his career he has worked in a variety of mediums, and has shown his work internationally, in venues such as Venice Biennale, Manifesta, Tirana Biennale, Festival of Ideas of the New Museum, and Ludwig Museum. He has taught in several universities and lectured about his work at Harvard, Columbia and Parsons. His work has been reviewed in Artforum and Flash Art. Qerimaj is a distinguished contemporary Albanian musician who plays the clarinet, composes, conducts, and serves as an artistic director and university professor. Born in Albania, he graduated in clarinet and composition from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, where he now works as a professor. He has performed in many concerts throughout Europe and beyond. He is the artistic director of a few festivals in Tirana, such as the Jazz Festival, Clarimpro Festival, and the Magic Flute Festival. Among other prizes, in 2005 he was awarded the Kult Prize for the best Albanian musician of the year.

Gladwell est le calme pendant l'orage. Au ralenti, nous pouvons entrevoir son talent sur une planche - il fut après tout un champion d'Australie de Skateboard - ainsi que son talent a montré une beauté authentique et une profonde vulnérabilité. Gladwell était et continue à être fasciné par le ralentissement du temps et l'attention sur la beauté qui existe dans ces moments de flottements. Dans la culture skateboard, des skateur vont passer des heures devant la TV (ou devant un écran d'ordinateur) à passer un film au ralenti pour apprendre et exécuter plus tard plusieurs figure de skateboard. Les spectateurs crédules sont introduits dans la pratique d'une subculture donnée et ont l'opportunité d'une jeter un ?il neuf sur unautre . Dans l'essai du catalogue d'exposition Silent, Ambient, and Harder Remixes, Simon Rees déclare à juste titre que l'artiste porte des habits sombres à la Turner en différentes teintes de gris, et qui inclue une grosse chaîne en argent qui se balance d'avant en arrière à chacun de ses mouvements. Mais ce documentaire ce se ne limite pas à cela, il vient en complément de l'arrière plan orageux et sombre. Les séquences d'orages sont dédiées à l'ami et entraîneur du skateboeardeur décédé à la fin des années 90, ce qui rehausse l'interprétation de vérité et de vulnérabilité. Il y une grande tristesse sous-jacente dans cette fabuleuse vidéo néanmoins calme et amène à la méditation. Gladwell est un artiste intelligent et très lu, qui s'intéresse aux théories questionnant les notions d'espace public et privé la la notion de l'" autre" dans ce cas en particulier, le "sous". "Storm Sequence", tourné en 2000 est l'une d'une série de quatre, composée de "Storm Sequence", de "Kick flipping Flaneur", de "Tangara" et "Double Line Work". Le travail fut commissionné par Pete Fay et fut au centre de l'attention de nombreuses expositions à Sydney, Camberra, Perth, Bierut, New York et Londres.

SHAUN GLADWELL Né en 1972, Western Sydney. Shaun Gladwell a été diplômé d'un Bachelor en Art Visuels (Hons) à l'Université de Sydney en 1996, suivit par un master en Arts Visuels au College of Fine Arts de la University of New South Wales. En 2001, il a été récompensé par une résidence de trois mois dans la Cité Internationale Des Arts de Paris. Il a aussi reçu la Anne and Gordon Samstag International Scholarship qui lui a permis d'entreprendre une recherche associée au Goldsmith College de Londres (2001-2002). A cette époque, il a pris part au spectacle "The Mind is a Horse" à Bloomberg Space, Londres. En 2002, Gladwell fut commissionné pour présenter un travail diffusé en Nouvelle-Zélande sur la chaîne 4DTV et fut inclus dans la première étude de Iain Borden sur la culture skateboard. Ses dernières expositions en solo comprennent New Balance au Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2004) et deux autres aux Sherman Galleries?, Silent, Ambient and Harder Remixes (2003) et MMXBREAKLESS SESSIONS (2005). Shaun Gladwell fut représenté dans d'importantes expositions collectives internationale dont la primavera 2003: Exhibition of Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; 2004: Australian Culture Now, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) et au Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne; ainsi qu'en 2005, la Anne Landa Art Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Not Worried: New Art From Australia, Raid Projects, Los Angeles; New Acquisitions, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ; aussi à Space Invaders, Museum Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland. Shaun Gladwell est présenté aux Sherman Galleries, Sydney.

The film "Making of" takes work as a topic into focus, showing the various working areas of a contemporary art museum with all those activities which usually remain invisible for visitors. Shot from the perspective of a small filmcrew different kind of workflows are documented as well as the preparation for an upcoming exhibition, while the crew itself is constantly observed in their efforts to create this film. Director, cameraman and sound operator move through all areas of the The State Gallery in Linz in an almost performative way. The ongoing visible presence of the camera raises questions about the relationship between the documented actions, their authenticity and manipulation. The depicted reality becomes visible as part of a media construction.

Alexander Glandien was born in 1982 in Schwerin (Germany) and he works as an artist in Vienna. Since 2009 he is artistic and scientific assistant at the Art University Linz. After his studies at the University of Wismar he attended studio grants in Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. His works have been awarded with the Talent Award of Upper Austriaand the Klemens Brosch prize and they are part oft the art collections of the federal government of Austria, the province of Upper Austria, the contemporary art collection of the City of Vienna and the Albertina in Vienna. He has had numerous exhibitions, most recently at the State Gallery Linz, Galerie 5020 in Salzburg, at Kadmium Art Centre in Delft, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History.