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PROGRAM 1 : LE SABLE AU CORPS


  Slawomir Brzoska
Sufi
vidéo, 5’10’’, 2003, Pologne


Born in 1967. Study in Fine Arts department of Silezian University in Cieszyn. Lecturer in the Studio of Intermedial Activities of Fine Arts in Poznan.

For 7 years I have been working with strings that are for me a symbol of energy. In galleries, everything appears as in alchemy and admits its particular meaning. Sufi is a story about meditation. Lines around a head for me symbolize a way to nirvana. This is a story about a dervish dance and about travelling through the desert, with a clear mind. I see a connection between these two experiences.


Nynke Deinema
Act without words
vidéo, 2' 25'', 2003, Hollande


Nynke Deinema was born in 1963 and studied Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy , Amsterdam. She works with different media. Recent video works have been screened at the 8th International Filmfestival of New Film (Split;Croatia), International Kansk VideoFestval(Kansk;Russia). Hertzoscopio, Experimental and Trans-disciplinary Arts (Barcarena ;Portugal) Numerous exhibitions, works in public spaces and publications.

A boy is so absorbed by his computer game that he makes all kind of faces. This reminded me of the "character heads" of the sculptor Messerschmitt.


Christelle Lecoeur
Greatest Hits
video, 3' 36'', 2004, France


Christelle LECŒUR (F-1975)) is an architect and co-ordinator of ArchiLab (Orléans). Drawing on an approach that combines architecture, cinema and landscape, she has developed a work around the notions of drifting, paths and itineraries, vacant lots, grafts and traces.

Greatest Hits approaches the incinerator in its hybrid and anonymous dimension. The building is to be considered as a departure point and not a point of arrival.


Michael Mazière
Delirium
video, 11' 23'', 2003, Angleterre


Michael Mazière is an internationally recognised artist and curator living in London. Latest exhibitions include the Tate Gallery, Videobrasil, Melbourne International Film Festival, World Wide Video Festival, European Media Arts Festival and Videolisboa.

This archeologically trip into the collective unconscious draws from poetry, cinema and psychoanalysis to create a dream text of visual sensuality. It brings cinema, film noir, digital technology and melodrama together in a subtle yet emotionally potent form.


Manon Labrecque
Silences Nomades
vidéo, 35’38’’, 2002, Québec


Manon Labrecque studied dance and creative arts. Since 1988, she has been doing choreography and producing performances in galleries and theatres. The integration of body and movement in video and installation is at the heart of her artistic process.

Fiery, furtive, and evasive
they weave through
the silences...
those of the desert and from within.
Mongolia...
to make paths where thought subsides.



Lloyd Brandson & Jack Lauder
Heaven
video, 5’, 2000, Canada


Brandson and Lauder have worked together on several titles, Gesture and a Half, Hot Cross Buns, and Heaven. Since the early eighties, Brandson has created such memorable titles as Music Martinis, Memories and The Pud Show. While Lauder, in addition to creating the videos Porch and Eels has served as technical co-ordinator at Video Pool in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lloyd Branson

Two naked men run across a frozen lake into the seemingly endless landscape.



Anke Schafer
Undercover
vidéo, 4’36’’, 2003, Allemagne


*1962, Germany * New Music Theatre TAM, Krefeld* Art Academy Düsseldorf * Postgraduate program Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht * Guest teacher Art Academy Maastricht * Candy TV project * creation of Jane Blond *

UNDERCOVER reflects the desire to become one with the projection screen and invisible through mimicry. The failure of the attempt to go underground, to disappear within the screen becomes the visible image itself.


Jean-Pierre Grattenois
Onestep
vidéo, 2’38’’, 2004, France


Born in Saint Dié (France) in 1979. He lives and works in Toulouse (France). He is studying Fine Arts at the Université du Mirail.

In proposing marketing fictions that meet metaphysical needs, my work questions the perverse relationships that turns art into a product, and a product into art; and in general makes art into a consumerist technology.


Jen Morris et Luca Tripaldi
Organic débris
vidéo, 7’12’’, 2004, Québec


Luca is best known for his paintings, but also confabulates in varied media.
[sic] He can be spotted conniving god knows what, while her video and sound escapades.
Together…, they play nice.

'Organic Debris' explores the desert as the pivotal point in the transitory phase between erosion and regeneration and its parallel relationship to the human condition.


Evelyne Koeppel
Cold Blood (short version)
video, 6’13’’, 2002, USA


The year 2004 has seen Evelyne Koeppel's video art screened at group shows in France (Fondation Guerlain and San Francisco (NewFangle/Genart)USA. Previously, her work has been exhibited in Japan "street TV" project, Germany, Israel, Mexico and South Africa.

This piece was inspired by a building that had been burned down by a fire. The building and all of its surroundings were reduced to ashes…
Violence eliminates the structure, the structure of a country, of its architecture, but also the structure of a living being who is reduced to blood, ashes, a pile of bones, something unformed.
Cold Blood evokes the passage from form to the unformed, from the gun to blood.
 

Videos : General Program

1 : Le sable au corps
2 : Sous le soleil exactement
3 : Non-lieux
4 : Villes Hypnotiques
5 : Jeux de vidéos
6 : Arrêts sur mirages
7 : Nomadisme
8 : Un désert intérieur

Special Program : Les déserts de Bill Viola

Video Program
by Graciela Taquini :

Horizonte - Argentine
Desierto - Argentine

Video Program by
Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak :

Deserted Streets At Midday. Unrest, Not Yet Visible

     

DESERT : 6th MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE VIDÉO ET ART ÉLECTRONIQUE
MONTREAL - SEPTEMBER 20 TO 27, 2004 - PRESENTED BY CHAMP LIBRE