Press Release March 2011
One of the oldest festivals of video art once again opens its doors on 14 April 2011 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. The thirteenth edition of Videonale is once more complemented by an extensive festival programme.
On Friday, 15 April, and Saturday, 16 April, current topics are discussed in artist’s talks, film programmes and lectures. Both mornings are dedicated to questions regarding conservation, presentation and copyright. Friday afternoon is set aside for the topic “Documentarism in Video Art” while Saturday afternoon will focus on “Urban Pictures”. Both topics are not only reflected in this years Videonale exhibition but also represent a renewed contentual focus in current video art.
Hot Topic Friday 14:00-15:00
“The Appropriation of Reality – Documentary Strategies in Film and Video Art” –
Lecture with Film Clips by Florian Wüst
Using select references and both historical and contemporary film clips Florian Wüst, artist and film curator from Berlin, explores the question how the tendency towards documentarism in video art can be described with regard to the change in filmic practices. Florian Wüst: “Throughout the history of film documentary and artistic practices have always overlapped and mutually influenced each other. This encounter of differing expectations towards subjectivity and objectivity frequently results in the critical examination of the image creating practices themselves. For this less importance is placed on the picture itself and the degree of its ficticiousness and more on the process of appropriating reality and the responsibility of the ‘author’, which goes hand in hand with it.”
Hot Topic Saturday 16:00-17:30
Film Programme “The Triggering Town”
Video screening, composed by Kathrin Becker (n.b.k., Berlin) with selected works from the n.b.k. video forum, Berlin. Featuring works by KP Brehmer (D), Michel de Broin (CA/D), Antje Engelmann (D), Samira Eskandarfar (IR), Niklas Goldbach (D), Hiroharu Mori (JP), Larissa Sansour (PS/UK).
The Triggering Town takes the concept of urbanity as its point of departure for a thematic screening, which is divided into three sections: The urban space is the starting point for the works in the first section, which features staged events and performances, documented in the video medium. The second section is dedicated to the phenomenon of the “rural” space or the space in border areas and thematises the living conditions which go hand in hand with this. The third section combines the implicit velocity of the city with the state of alienation and the loss of identity.
The festival schedule:
Friday, 15. April 2011
11.00-12.00
„Sustaining video art – documentation, digitilasation & archiving“
Lecture by Agathe Jarczyk (curator, studio for video conservation, Bern)
12.15-13.15
„Video art – forbidden art? Video art inbetween freedom of art and protection of spiritual property“
Lecture by Ama Walton (advocate, Munich)
13.15-14.00
Break
TOPIC: DOCUMENTARISM IN VIDEO ART
14.00-15.00
„Adoption of the truth – documentary strategies in film and video art“
Lecture with sample movies by Florian Wüst (artist und film curator, Berlin)
15.15-16.00
"The documentary subjcet – the will for doubting"
Lecture and discussion by and with Ascan Breuer (film maker, Cologne/Vienna; artist of the Videonale 13)
16.00-16.30
Break
16.30-18.00
Artist’s talk „Documentarism in Video Art“
With the Videonale 13-artists Ascan Breuer (D/A), Gonzalo Rodriguez (CL/D), Nurit Sharett (Israel)
Presentation: Julia Draganovic (curator, Bologna)
18.15-20.00
„Filmic reflexions concerning the document“
A film programme composed by Marc Glöde with films by Chen Chieh-Jen (TW), NUG (S), Clemens von Wedemeyer (D), Alexandra Weltz (D), Forian Zeyfang (D)
Saturday, 16. April 2011
10.30-11.15
„The medium without attributes – video art under criticism“
Lecture by Jennifer Allen (Kritikerin, chief editor frieze)
11.30-12.15
„Programming video & film in different contexts“
Lecture by Emilio Alvarez (director galeria dels angels, co-founder of the video art trade show LOOP Barcelona)
12.00-12.30
VIDEONALE LOUNGE: Artist’s talk with Videonale 13 artists
Presentation: Marc Glöde
12.30-13.15
“Should the future help the past?”
Lecture by François Michaud (curator Musée d’Art Moderne Paris)
13.15-14.00
Break
14.00-14.30
VIDEONALE LOUNGE: Artist’s talk with Reynold Reynolds
Presentation Julia Draganovic
TOPIC: URBAN PICTURES
15.00-16.00
Artist’s talk about the topic „Urban Pictures“
With the Videonale 13-artists Melanie Manchot (UK/D) und Meggie Schneider (D)
Presentation: Kathrin Becker (n.b.k., Berlin)
16:00-17:30
“The Triggering Town”
Video screening, composed by Kathrin Becker (n.b.k., Berlin) with selected works from the n.b.k. video forum, Berlin. Featuring works by KP Brehmer (D), Michel de Broin (CA/D), Antje Engelmann (D), Samira Eskandarfar
(IR), Niklas Goldbach (D), Hiroharu Mori (JP), Larissa Sansour (PS/UK).
For further information visit www.videonale.org
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Art Education Projects at Videonale 13
THE CHOSEN ONES 2.0 – GenerationsArchiveVideonale
Since March 2011 Videonale has been running the art education project THE CHOSEN ONES 2.0 – GenerationsArchiveVideonale with students from year 9 of the Berthold Brecht Comprehensive in Bonn-Tannenbusch. Together with the facilitators Annette Ziegert and Lale Nalpantoglu the young people discover selected video works featured at Videonale 13 as well as works from the Videonale archives on the subject of “Identity and Self-Staging”.
THE CHOSEN ONES 2.0 – GenerationsArchiveVideonale is supported by RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur.
universal dreams
Universal dreams is a project which explores and opens up space together with young adults from Germany and Poland. The Mühlenkampf artist collective examines the idea of shaping the world using video art as a basis. Personal spaces, spaces for art and exhibitions and their (urban) surroundings are integrated in the research. Joint reading, space-body exercises and situational data collection allow for the creation of individual visions with the help of self-made videos, drawings etc. and convey design, which furthers cultural proximity among neighbouring states and enables our guests to enter into a dialogue.
For further information visit www.viodenale.org
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CONTACT
Videonale e.V. im Kunstmuseum Bonn
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53113 Bonn
Tel. 0049 228 69 28 18
Fax 0049 228 90 85 817
info@videonale.org
www.videonale.org
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