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This newsletter in Dutch/Deze nieuwsbrief in het Nederlands: http://www.wwvf.nl/newsletter/ ============================================= 19. WORLD WIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL 2001 ============================================= annual international media art festival amsterdam * screenings * live events * meet the artist * seminar 10 - 13 October 2001 * exhibitions 10 October - 11 November 2001 --------------------------------------------- Contents --------------------------------------------- - Introduction - Africa in focus - RETREKS unSUNg CITY - New Arab Video - (in)tangible cartographies - World Wide Media Lounge - Meet the Artist - Seminar - Live Events: The Light Surgeons/Hexstatic, Alexei Shulgin, Matt Hindley, Kurt Ralkse, Breda Beban - Echo - Catalogue - Admission - Contact us As of 2 October the full programme schedule will be online at: http://www.wwvf.nl. ------------------------------------------------- - Introduction ------------------------------------------------- With over a hundred artists from 26 countries the 19th edition of the World Wide Video Festival will start in Amsterdam on 10 October. Special programmes will focus on media art from Africa and the Arab world. (For a comprehensive list of all participating artists see http://www.wwvf.nl/2001). In addition to media art from various parts of the world, there will be performances by dj's and vj's. During the first few days of the festival many artists will appear on Meet the Artist, there will be a dance night and many other activities in the Melkweg. All exhibitions will continue through Museum Night, 10 November. ------------------------------------------------- - Africa in focus ------------------------------------------------- Traditionally, most media art is being produced in Western Europe, North-America, Japan and South-America. Relatively little is known to come from Africa or China. Last year the festival presented a number of works from China and this year a number of African countries will be featured. With the support of the World Wide Video Festival and the Hivos Cultur Fund, Fernando Alvim, Tracey Rose, Matt Hindley and Minnette Vari have produced new work that will have its world premiere at the festival. In addition to this, on 10 and 11 October Europarking will feature the exhibition 'RETREKS unSUNg CITY' - curated by Rodney Place - and, at the invitation of the Prins Claus Foundation, a solo exhibition by Antonio Ole containing work that has never been shown in Europe. Candice Breitz (ZAF), currently living in the USA, will present three new installations. The World Wide Video Festival will also premiere Fernando Alvim's 'Gela Uanga'. >>> Locations: Arti et Amicitiae, Veemvloer, Baby Europarking, De Brakke Grond, Melkweg, De Appel ------------------------------------------------- - RETREKS unSUNg CITY ------------------------------------------------- Johannesburg's city centre was once the economic and cultural heart of South Africa. In the early seventies, the city began - US style - to decentralise into the suburbs and this urban paranoia grew with the advent of Johannesburg as a new African city after the '94 democratic elections. The exhibition RETREKS: unSUNg CITY, curated by Rodney Place was shown last year at one of the many abandoned parking garages in the city centre. This year the World Wide Video Festival opens with this spectacular exhibition at Europarking on Marnixstraat in Amsterdam. On the top floor of this huge parking garage screens measuring 2 x 9 meters will display works by Brett Murray, Jane Alexander, Robyn Orlin, Stephen Hobbs, William Kentridge and Rodney Place. >>> Location: Europarking, 10 Oct 8 - 11 pm (Opening festival, admission on invitation only and for passe-partout holders). 11 Oct 5 - 10 pm ------------------------------------------------- - New Arab Video - (in)tangible cartographies ------------------------------------------------- Arab countries have recently produced an impressive array of works: video art, personal essayistic work and experimental documentaries. Much of these works strategically blur the distinctions between genres finding an adequate form of representation for the issues and/or narratives they are tackling. These works deal with interstitiality between countries, cultures, influences, politics, ideologies, and subjective dispositions/dispossessions. They incorporate a fascinating blend of critical stances and traditional (filmic and cultural) influences. At the request of the World Wide Video Festival artist/curator Jayce Salloum has compiled an extensive programme of videotapes from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and Syria, among others. >>> Locations: Melkweg - Cinema, 11/12/13 October. With introductions by Jayce Salloum and some of the artists. De Appel, 27 Oct Baby, 11 Oct - 11 Nov ------------------------------------------------- - World Wide Media Lounge ------------------------------------------------- 'Baby' is a beautifully renovated and tastefully redecorated former church on the Keizersgracht. Here 24 viewing units (computers/video monitors) have been installed where visitors - comfortably accommodated in luxurious seating - can choose from a menu which particular work from the selection of single screen productions (videotapes/CD-ROMs/Net Art) they would like to see. At their own pace, visitors can watch, browse, play and zap their own way through the various productions on offer. Alternatively, they can follow the thematic routes charted by the festival. The viewing units are located on the second floor. On the ground floor are the festival's reception desk, a bar, a lounge with armchairs and a reading table. Also in Baby is the installation 'Ekkofisk', an interactive sound installation by the artists' collective Fatamorgana (NOR). It consists of a lighted transparent column - standing some two meters high and filled with water and two goldfish - a computer and a series of sensors. The movements of the fish are registered by the sensors and then translated by the computer into quadraphonic music, turning the exhibition space into a subtle, dreamlike soundscape. >>> Location: Baby, 11 Oct - 11 Nov, Tue - Sun 2 - 10 pm 11/12/13 Oct, 11 - 10 pm ------------------------------------------------- - Meet the Artist ------------------------------------------------- The World Wide Video Festival strives to stimulate the encounter of artists and audience in every possible way. Over 70 artists will be present at the festival and they will appear in the programme section Meet the Artist, a series of interviews, lectures, introductions and screenings in which the artists elaborate on their work, its background and their motivation. This section proved very popular last year with both regular festival visitors and fellow artists and press. It has therefore been extended: it will now take place in two rooms in the Melkweg, with a follow-up at three nights in De Appel. >>> Location: Melkweg - Theaterzaal/Oude Zaal, 11/12/13 Oct De Appel, 20 Oct/27 Oct/3 Nov ------------------------------------------------- - Seminar ------------------------------------------------- Jordan Crandall (USA), Netochka Nezvanova (FRA) and Vera Frenkel (CND) are the speakers at this year's seminar, which will take place over a period of three days: 11, 12, 13 October, at 11 am in the Theater Zaal in the Melkweg, Amsterdam. Each presentation will take up from 90 to 120 minutes. As of 2 October the seminar programme will be online at: http://www.wwvf.nl/seminar. Admission for passe-partout holders only: http://www.wwvf.nl/passepartout. There are no separate tickets available for the seminar only >>> Location: Melkweg - Theater Zaal, 11/12/13 October ------------------------------------------------- - Live Events ------------------------------------------------- Live Event > The Light Surgeons/Hexstatic On Saturday night the World Wide Video Festival Party at the Melkweg will be dominated by The Light Surgeons , a London collective of filmmakers, graphic designers and DJ's. The performance 'Electronic Manoeuvres' will begin at The Max at 10.30 pm. Partly hidden behind a large projection screen, The Light Surgeons will challenge perfection by presenting a breath-taking audiovisual show with their super8 films, slide sequences, 16mm film loops and assorted low-tech equipment. Next, performances by Live Professor and Scanone with visuals by The Light Surgeons. In de Oude Zaal, starting at midnight, Hextatic will perform, with a guest appearance by Alexei Shulgin. >>> Location: Melkweg - The Max, 13 Oct 10.30 pm Melkweg - Oude Zaal, 13 Oct midnight ------------------------------------------------- Live Event > Alexei Shulgin Under the inspiring leadership of Russian artist Alexei Shulgin (RUS) cyberpunk rock band 386DX will perform at the Melkweg. Shulgin's 'band' consists of assorted outdated hardware, a dry ice machine and a keyboard. Ironic mockery or dead serious - whatever it may be, Shulgin's performances are always a surprise. >>> Location: Melkweg - Oude Zaal/The Max, 11 Oct 10 pm and 13 Oct ------------------------------------------------- Live Event > Matt Hindley Matt Hindley (ZAF) aims to examine the most highly charged moments of the inner lives of a range of subjects. Allow me to observe is a body-worn recording system. It shoots in the first person and is activated only by a high degree of excitement and arousal. The audience is invited to participate in Hindley's research. During the day the images - voyeuristic videos, edited by the subconscious - will be shown daily at Melkweg - The Max. >>> Location: Melkweg - The Max, 11/12/13 Oct ------------------------------------------------- Live Event > Kurt Ralkse 'Ursonate.02' is a performance, a live improvisation in sound and image. The first 'Ursonate' was composed by Kurt Schwitters in 1932, a phonatory score with no linguistic meaning. Ralske (USA) became attuned to the subtle interaction of music and image - the myriad possibilities of ways sound and image can inflect each other's tone and meaning. Ralske works with nato.0+55 - the trailblazing software program - which he rewrites and supplements as the need arises. Ralske describes his current video work as an inversion of his previous role: 'reverse film scoring', creating image to match sound, instead of the other way around. >>> Location: Melkweg - Oude Zaal, 12 Oct 8.30 pm ------------------------------------------------- Live Event > Breda Beban Ten years after the outbreak of the Balkan war, Breda Beban (YUG/GBR) revisits her birthplace as Slobodan Milosevic's regime collapses in Yugoslavia. Titled after a heartbreaking Balkan folk song, Beban's live video performance 'Too Early For Sorrow Too Late For Happiness?' captures the almost unbearable intensity of an event when a moment in personal history and a moment in social history blur. >>> Location: Melkweg - Oude Zaal, 12 Oct 10.30 pm Melkweg - Theaterzaal, 13 Oct 8 pm ------------------------------------------------- Live Event > Walter Verdin X<Africa was first shown in 1997. This is a new version of this double concerto for sound and image, inspired by the Malinke rhythms of the African B�t� tribe from Ivory Coast. This performance combines rhythms, music, dance and video projections against an African background. >>> Location: 'X<Africa', De Brakke Grond, 2 Nov 8.30 pm ------------------------------------------------- - Echo ------------------------------------------------- Keep an eye out for these extra activities that will take place in the weekends during the entire festival period. Marcel Odenbach on the exhibition of African video art 'Blick-Wechsel' that he curated, with work by (among others) Ingrid Mwangi, Goddy Leye, Moshekwa Langa, and a presentation by Mawuli Afatsiawo, artist-in-residence of the World Wide Video Festival and the Thami Mnyele Foundation. >>> Location: De Appel, 20 Oct 8.30 pm - 10.30 pm ------------------------------------------------- New Arab Video: (in)tangible cartographies. Jayce Salloum will introduce the programme he compiled, showing works and extracts by, among others, Mohamed Souaid (LBN), Sohbi Al-Zobaidi (PAL), Hassan Khan (EGY), Zeineb Sedira (GBR), Nesrine Khodr (LBN) and Azza El-Hassan (PAL). >>> Location: De Appel, 27 Oct 8.30 pm - 10.30 pm ------------------------------------------------- Fernando Alvim, Gela Uanga The World Wide Video Festival will also have the world premiere of Alvim's 'Gela Uanga' (which roughly translates to 'art of the elsewhere (magic art)'). 'Gela Uanga' is an artists' documentary about the 'culture of warfare'. Its starting point is the devastating war that has been raging in Angola over the past 40 years - a trauma with repercussions that are felt far beyond Angola's borders. The documentary reflects the sometimes contradictory views of 14 artists on the traces the war has left in memory. >>> Location: De Appel, 27 Oct 8.30 - 10.30 After the evenings in De Appel, the World Wide Media Lounge in Baby will be open. ------------------------------------------------- - Catalogue ------------------------------------------------- The 400 page, full colour catalogue contains descriptions (in English) and photographs of all the selected works together with introductory articles on some of the festival activities. It is designed by Irma Boom who has won two prestigious awards for her previous series of four World Wide Video Festival catalogues. The catalogue will be on sale during the entire exhibition period at Baby, Arti & Amicitiae, and at the Melkweg on 11,12,13 october, for f 50 and after that for f 69,50 at regular book stores. It can also be ordered on line via: http://www.wwvf.nl/catalogue. The catalogue will be on sale during the entire exhibition period at Baby and Arti & Amicitiae for f 50, and after that for f 69,50 at regular book stores. --------------------------------------------- - Admission --------------------------------------------- Advance booking and reservations At http://www.wwvf.nl/passepartout day-tickets and passe-partouts can be reserved online. Reserved passe-partouts and day-tickets can only be collected at de Melkweg ticket-office from Monday, October 8 (please bring passport-photograph). > Melkweg Ticket office is open Mon - Fri 1 pm - 5 pm, Sat/Sun 4 pm - 6 pm. If there is an evening programme, also from 7.30 pm (info: 020.531.8181). Collection and sale of passe-partouts and day-tickets. Reservation of tickets not possible at this ticketoffice! From 11 till 13 October the ticket office will be open from 10.30 am till 2 am. > AUB Ticketshop Leidseplein Open daily 10 am - 6 pm (Thu untill 9 pm). Reservation and sale of passe-partouts and day-tickets. Reservation costs are f 4.50 per ticket. > Uitlijn 0900 - 0191 (88 cents per minute) daily 9 am - 9 pm. Reservation and sale of passe-partouts and day-tickets. Costs of handling and postage f 7.70 per ticket. Tickets are delivered by mail. --------------------------------------------- - Contact us --------------------------------------------- World Wide Video Festival Marnixstraat 411 1017 PJ Amsterdam Netherlands P: +31 (0)20 420 77 29 F: +31 (0)20 421 38 28 E: [email protected] W: www.wwvf.nl If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please send an e-mail to: [email protected] with 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold