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Visualcontainer is glad to presents a special videoart selection curated by Neno Belchev from Videoholica International Videoart Festival from Varna Bulgaria.
VIDEOHOLICA 09
International Videoart Festival
Varna, Bulgaria
Special selection curated by: NENO BELCHEV
1st December – 15th January
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Artists:
Lia Chavez, USA/UK – “Penetration” – 2006
Guido Salvini, Italy – “Strength Text” – 2009
Andrea Kustić, Croatia – “You Are Of No Importance!” – 2009
Marius Leneweit/Ricio Rodriguez, Spain –“…niland” – 2009
Finda Ozgunaydin, Germany – “Namus Belasi” – 2008 – 04:12
Christin Bolewski, Germany – “Mountain-water-painting” -2009
Roland Wegerer, Austria – “How To Clean A Puddle!” – 2008
Martin Kohout, Germany – “Moonwalk” – 2008
Lemeh42, Italy – “Study on Human Form and Humanity #01” – 2008
Christian Nikolay, Canada – “Ampli fly” – 2008
Justin Randolph Thompson, Italy – “Table” – 2009
Stuart Pound, UK – “Not You Again!” – 2009
Boris Eldagsen, Germany – “The Dying Widow” – 2008
Robin Whenary, UK –“The Boy, the Bike and the Apple”– 2007
Floriane Davin, France – “Cosmos” – 2008
Gordon Culshaw, UK – „Slinky” – 2008
Kristina Bozurska, Macedonia – “Polyptych” – 2008/2009
Charles A. Gick, USA – “Flowers from the mouth” – 2009
Inger Alfnes, Netherlands – “Exercise №1” – 2008
ABOUT VIDEOHOLICA
Videoholica 2009 took place over the period of 4 -13 August 2009 in Varna and passed under the PEKING DUCK OR VIDEO IN TIME OF CRISIS motto. The venues of the International Video Art Festival Videoholica 2009 were the Varna Archaeological Museum
and Varna Puppet Theater. 344 videos of 138 artists from 31 countries were submitted to the 2nd edition of the Videoholica festival.
The selection of Videoholica 2009 was made by Valeri Chakalov, Tsvetan Krastev, Georgi Krastev, Victor Petkov and Neno Belchev and presented 89 videos by the 71 artists from Australia, Austria, UK, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Canada, Cyprus, Macedonia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, USA, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Taiwan, Tunis, Finland, France, Netherlands, Chili, Sweden, South Korea and Japan.
The VIDEOHOLICA 2009 team comprised: Neno Belchev, Pavlina Mladenova, Petar Atanasov, Maya Manolova, Tsvetan Krastev, Valeri Chakalov, Victor Petkov and Geogri Krastev. Videoholica 2009 was realized with the support of Varna Municipality, August in Art Foundation, Varna Archaeological Museum, Varna Puppet Theater and Inside Magazine
January 10, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday November 13th, 2009 | 6:00 pm
AXIOM is proud to present its next exhibition, ‘RIDERS on the TRAIN’ curated by Nance Davies, opening Tuesday, November 10, 2009 and running through Saturday, December 19th, with a Reception on November 13th from 6-9pm. An accompanying website can be found at www.axiomart.org/riders.
‘RIDERS on the TRAIN’ is an interdisciplinary art exhibition exploring new relationships between artist, audience, site, and context. Drawn from an international call for submissions, these artists and writers explore ‘the private within the public’ experience of mass-transit in Sweden, Australia, South Africa, India, Switzerland, NYC, London, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Mexico City, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, LA, DC, Portland, and Boston. The poetics of acceleration, compression, fragmentation and sensory immersion are explored as the artists record, collaborate, and devise small scale tactical interventions – juxtaposing high with low technology. ‘Riding Artists’ sample their ‘ride’ and generate an aggregate description of the mass-transit experience through a diversity of lenses and media including video, sound art, photography, web-based interactivity, performance, installation and writing.
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Calendar Submission / At-a-Glance
What/// Riders on the Train Opening Reception
When/// November 10th – December 19th, 2009
– Opening Reception: Friday, November 13th, 2009, 6-9 pm
– Artists Talk/Performance Night: Friday, November 20, 2009
Who/// Manuel Vazquez, Denise Marika and Dana Moser, Henry Gwiazda, Sarah Rushford, Stephen Cady, Jesse Malmed, Nance Davies, Andrew Sempere, Francois Xavier de Costerd, Scott Hall, Marc McNulty, Dylan Mortimer, Zehra Kahn, Nita Sturiale, Ximena Alarcon, Erik Conrad, Ben Chaffee, Jason Nelson, Sherry Karver, Marianne Fourie, Lia Chavez, Helene Zuckerbrod, Marian Berelowitz, Lisa McCarty, Katherin McInnis, Jamie Waelchli, Guy Telemaque, Gary Duehr, Yuri Stone, Susan Bregman, Carolyn Lewenberg, Harvey Loves Harvey, Alexia Mellor and Sarah Banasiak, Jeremy Hight, Kamarie Chapman, Leora Silverman Fridman, Sarah Goodman, Gordon Fearey, Colette A. Shumate-Smith, and Jonathan Powell.
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays, 2-5 pm, Wednesdays 6-9 pm, Thursdays 2-9 pm, Saturdays 2-5 pm, alternative visiting hours can be arranged by appointment
Cost/// FREE and Open to the Public
Where/// AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media – 141 Green Street
located in the Green Street T Station on the Orange Line
November 6, 2009
Here’s documentation of Absolution 1 & 2 performed at TINA B. – Prague Festival of Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic on October 9, 2009.
For this performance, which I developed for TINA B. 2009, I wanted to address the Festival’s theme of ‘NEW ERA’ by looking at themes of servitude, gender, political power, the subversion of cycles of geopolitical conflict and the sacred/ profane dyad. Absolution 1, performed with Czech artist Tomas Ruller, began as an exploration of pollution taboos of the lower half of the body (traditionally associated with sex and abjection) with the ‘clean’, ‘pure’ upper half of the body (associated with the mind). The performance combined the archetypal action of Christ’s (spiritual) washing of the 12 disciples’ feet with that of the Magdalene’s sensual action of wiping of Christ’s feet with her hair. As the performance developed, it became a way to to test the emergence of intimacy from an act of servitude, the limits of giving & receiving, and the interpenetration of sacred anointing and sensual pleasure. After this performance, I then performed Absolution 2 (an homage to Janine Antoni), in which I mopped the expansive marble floor with my hair of the Parkhotel Prague lobby. Using a white maid’s cleaning bucket I dipped my head upside down in hot, soapy water and scrubbed away until physically exhausted (about 45 minutes). In the process, this action created a great deal of speculation from 100 or so tourists as they were eventually ‘mopped away’ from the hotel lobby. As the floor became cleaner the dress became progressively gray. Absolution 2, takes the subject of exhausting manual labor as a starting point for re-imaging women’s political role in the new era as leading the way in providing a deeper political cleansing for a world desperate for a change from violent political methodologies of revenge.
October 20, 2009
A print from my series ‘Possible Bodies’ (2008) will be exhibiting in a group show at Seattle Pacific Art Center in Seattle, Washington. The show opens in October and is entitled ‘Self-Absorbed: Constructing Identity in the 21st Century’, explores self-portraiture and is curated by Katie Kresser, PhD (Harvard). More details to follow…
September 18, 2009
My video, ‘Magic House’ (2007), will show in the ‘Parallel Worlds’ Detournement Venise programme curated by Dovrat ana Meron, a collateral exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale. The exhibit opens in October. More details to follow shortly…
September 18, 2009
The 8th International Video Festival in Kansk presents the Video Art Festival VIDEOHOLICA
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The International Video Art Festival VIDEOHOLICA (Varna) will be presented at the International Video Festival in Kansk (Siberia, Russia) to be held from 21st to 31st August 2009.
The Videholica Festival will take part in the Kansk Video Festival showing a selection of video art in the section Special Program of European Short Films, Cartoon Films and Video Art along with the presentation of a selection of experimental films from the Festival Vallecas Puerta Del Cine (Madrid, Spain), the International One-Minute Film Festival Videominuto (Italy) as well as short and cartoon films from the Festival InterFilm (Berlin, Germany).
The Videholica Festival shall be presented by Pavlina Mladenova (co-director of Videholica) on 28th August 2009, at 3:00 p.m. at the Kansk Town House of Culture.
The International Video Festival in Kansk has been held since 2002. This year’s Festival Program covers six sections: an international competition, Japanese cartoon films, other-type of movies, European independent movies, children’s program and authors’ (presentation) films.
The organizer of the Video Festival in Kansk is Studio Videodom (Moscow, Russia).
Short films and video art from 24 countries shall be competing in the program of competition of the Video Festival in Kansk, which shall be estimated by an international jury with the popular actor and stage director Mikhail Efremov being the chief of jury, and members of the jury Pavlina Mladenova (curator, co-director of the Video Art Festival Videoholica, Bulgaria), Nicolay Khrustalev (film critic, Estonia), Federico Schmucler (film director, Mexico), Walera Kanischtscheff (InterFilmWostok Festival curator), Andrey Smirnov, (film director, Izhevsk Cinema Club Director, Russia), Oleg Ponomarev (artist, curator, Russia), Gerard Ribera (video artist, Spain) and Fabrice Maruca (film director, France).
August 19, 2009
Press Release
Visual Deflections featuring Pipilotti Rist
Curated by Eleanor Lawler and Katherine Nolan
Corbet Place: Sat 29th August 2009, 6.30pm till late
Corbet Place in the Old Truman Brewery off Brick Lane in London
Pipilotti Rist’s pioneering video work has been aspirational for a generation of emerging artists. This event will screen a selection of these artists alongside Rist’s (Absolutions) Pipilotti’s Mistakes. Her influence is reflected in the concept of Visual Deflections, a homage to her use of disjuncture and distortion
The idea of Visual Deflections infers the interruption of the image through distortions of time, movement, light and space. It may also suggest a manipulation of assumptions and identifications that reverberate between the spectator and screen
The works will be shown as a screening from 6.30 Sat night and video installation will continue until Sun 11pm. The venue, Corbet Place, is part of the Old Truman Brewery at the heart of Shoreditch’s vibrant creative scene. The brickwork of the club provides a stripped back aesthetic for the screening, which will be followed by music curated by Back to the Wood.
Artists: Pipilotti Rist, Clint Enns, Ted Sonnenschein, Tessa Garland, Katherine Nolan , Eleanor Lawler, Jonathan Gilhooly, Jan Hakon Erichsen, Ciara Scanlan, Victoria Melody, Anders Weberg, Theo Tagholm, Lisa Flynn, Hillary Williams, Mathew Guillford, Alan Magee, Jeremy Newman, Saskia Vermeulen, Angelo Picozzi, Sarah Breen, Ella Bertilsson, Lia Chavez
August 19, 2009
Hillman + Chavez for Armory Arts Week
March 6, 2009- March 18, 2009
William T. Hillman, Lia Chavez
Affirmation Arts
523 W 37th St
Affirmation Arts is pleased to announce a special hanging of the innovative Hillman + Chavez work in celebration of The Armory Show 2009. After much positive response, the exhibition will return for a limited run of two weeks to provide viewers a second chance to see this exceptional show.
Nine large, unique photographic works created within the past year will be exhibited. These innovative photographs explore light and space, while abstractly presenting the figure as form. Renowned curator, Gary Sangster, writes in the exhibition’s accompanying book, “For Hillman + Chavez the lure of light coupled with the lure of the body – in particular bodies in motion or bodies under tension, physical or psychological – is accentuated through the elaboration of a new, hybrid photographic technique that enmeshes digital photography, with traditional photography and the static silhouette system of the photogram.”
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 11am-5pm. For more information, including images and catalogue, please contact Marla Goldwasser at 212 925 0092.
March 5, 2009
My work will be part of the upcoming Armory Show’s VIP program
William T. Hillman + Lia Chavez collaborative work on exhibit.
This exhibit features large-scale unique Ilfochrome prints which explore the fine line between the gorgeous and the grotesque, alongside themes of the abstract figure, mythologies of origin, and Brechtian image production.
The exhibition will be open to the public from Thursday March 5 and Friday March 6, 10am – 6pm, and Saturday March 7, 11am – 5pm.
At Affirmation Arts, 523 West 37th Avenue, New York, NY
February 8, 2009
Good heavens, this is one of the most moving exhibits I have experienced in a long time. And I mean to emphasize ‘experience’ over merely ’seeing’. Brazillian artist Cildo Meireles’ use of sound, audience participation and unconventional art materials such as baby powder, money and glass enables the viewer to erase the boundary between the merely conceptual and raw sensation, and in doing so creates encapsulating metaphors for political and existential limbo, vulnerability, despair. Yet, somewhere in there is also a poetic invitation to hope despite all the chaos and vertigo. Walking upon Meireles’ glistening shards of glass in my fabulous, open-toe heels of course really heightened a sense of confronting my own pathos and naked fragility, and yet it also evoked a strange feeling of power, which was indeed a wild surprise! I can clearly identify a couple distinct moments in my mind where I was not afraid of the potential pain that was everywhere present. Almost like an experience in meditation in which one finds peace and joy in the space between the ego and the self. What a gift this experience was. Don’t miss it.
£6000 worth of pennies
October 22, 2008
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