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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).

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.

“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 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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.