Underskog

INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART SCREENING AND CURATOR MEETING AT ATOPIA

Friday June 3 at 19 – 22 and Saturday June 4 at 16 – 19

During two days 55 works will be screened selected by 11 curators from 8 countries:
Hong Kong, Russia, USA, Lebanon, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Germany and Norway

The curators will attend and present their program.
After each program there will be time for questions and discussion
Light refreshments when arriving, during pauses and wine after the last screening.

Since its first appearance in the 1960s video art has become one of the most significant channels of contemporary artistic expression. Technically, video’s versatility makes it possible for artists to address political, social and anthropological issues and articulate their visions on increasingly introspective and personal levels. This dialogue and the exchange of ideas with other media makes video into a hybrid language stimulating minds of the artists, the audience imagination and critical thinking.

AVE aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalization of the art world.

You can download the individual program at:

www.artvideoexchange.com

PROGRAM FRIDAY JUNE 3 at 19-22:

What If Artist Group – www.what-if.hk
Hong Kong: Vik Lai and Beatrix Pang

Art Video Exchange – www.artvideoexchange.com
Lebanon, Beirut: Eli SouaibyProgram
USA, New York: Madeline Djerejian

CYLAND MediaLab – www.cyland.ru
St. Petersburg, Russia: Vika Ilyushkina

PROGRAM SATURDAY JUNE 4 at 16-19:

namaTRE.ba project – www.namatre.ba
Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina: Igor Bošnjak

Festival Signes de Nuit – www.signesdenuit.com
Germany: Dieter Wieczorek

Art Video Exchange – www.artvideoexchange.com
Serbia, Belgrade: Romic
Norway, Oslo: Mona Bentzen

Locus – www.locusart.org
Norway, Oslo Thale Fastvold and Tanja Thorjussen

The event is a collaboration between Atopia and Art Video Exchange-Norway
Initiative: Farhad Kalantary, Atopia
Producer and main curator: Mona Bentzen, Art Video Exchange-Norway
Partisipating artist run organizations and support: go to www.artvideoexchange.com