PROGRAM
1 : LE SABLE AU CORPS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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