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namaTRE.ba 3 project FILM SCREENINGS Town Theatre Trebinje / Bosnia & Herzegovina
24/25.September 2009. 20.00h |
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Film Artists/Participants Muriel Montini (France) // Taxi (India) // Anders Weberg (Sweden) // Robin Whenary (UK) // Minji Kim (South Korea) // Dajan Spiric (Bosnia&Herz.) // Arjan Brentjes (Netherlands) // Patrick Bergeron (Canada) // Matej Kolmanko (Slovenia) // Ivan Knezevic (Montenegro) // Henriette Pedersen (Norway) // Philip Widmann (Germany) // Eva Olsson (Sweden) // Henry Gwiazda (USA) // Leslie Supnet (Canada) // Juni’chiro Ishii (Japan) // Chris Dupuis (Canada) // Giuliensemble (Italy) // Sophie Sherman (France) // Alain M. Lefebvre (Canada) // Anna Berndtson (Sweden/Germany) Video Artists/Participants Maarit Murka (Estonia) // Dubravka Vidovic (Croatia) // Yin Ling Chen (Taiwan) // Lazetic & Habicht (Slovenia) // Cristian Niccoli (Italy) // Lana Cmajcanin (Bosnia&Herz.) // Astrid Elizabeth Bang (Norway) // Lenardic & Hribernik (Slovenia) // Wilfred Agricola (Germany) // Iginio de Luca (Italy) // Sabrina Musi (Italy) // KOLEKTIVA (Slovenia) // Marriane Schmidt (Germany) // Nuriel Montini (France) // Sourav Roy Chowdhury (India) // Elena Arzuffi (Italy) // Nela Hasanbegovic (Bosnia&Herz.) // Alban Muja (Kosovo) // Anja Medved (Slovenia) // Martin Skauen (Norway) // Denis Dimovski (Serbia) // Marie Magescas (France) // Rastko Novaković (UK) // Borjana Mrdja (Bosnia&Herz.) // Roland Wegerer (Austria) // Farhad Kalantry (Norway) // Albert Negredo (Spain) // Brigid Burke (Australia) // Risto Holopainen (Norway) // Collin Bradford (USA) // Birgitte Sigmundstad (Norway) // Lukas Matejka (Slovakia) // Z Collective (USA) // Jonas Zagorskas (Lithuania) // Federico Acal (Spain) // Claudia Reinhardt (Norway) // Tobias Rosenberger (Germany) // Jelka Milic (Slovenia) // Mladen Bundalo (Bosnia&Herz.) // Jen Kuang Chang (USA) // Sabina Jacobssen (Norway) // Allessandro Vitali (Italy) // Jan Fabian (Czech Republic) // Margarida Paiva (Norway) // Bojana Tamindzija (Bosnia/Serbia) // Maja Hodoscek (Slovenia) // Milan Zulic (Serbia) // Marina Fomenko (Russia) // Mona Bentzen (Norway) // Jannicke Lacker (Norway) // Pietro Mele (Italy) // Ivan Knezevic (Montenegro) // Michaela Nettell (United Kingdom) // Aaron Oldenburg (USA) // Robin Kiteley & Samuel Stocks (United Kingdom) // Valentina Ferrandes (Italy/England) // Karima Risk (Norway) // Lenka Klimesova (Slovakia) // Christian Mander (Italy) // Jonhatan Powell (UK) // Giusepe di Bella (England) // Mikael Prey (Sweden) // Christin Bolewski (Germany) // Bull.Miletic (Norway) // Maria Vedderer (Germany) // Eva Olsson (Sweden) // Sean Burn (England) // Jonas Nilsson (Sweden) // Ivana Stojakovic (Serbia) // Marylin Piirsalu (Estonia) // Clint Enns (Canada) // Polonca Lovsin (Slovenia) |
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Special programme:
Italian Video Art (Visual Container, Milan, Italy) // curated by Giorgio Fedelli Elena Arzuffi // Domestic parkour / 04' 32" / 2007
Norway Video Art (AVE Exchange, Oslo, Norway) // curated by Mona Bentzen The cultural Video Art cake Made in Norway The artists in this program represent different nationalities, but with connections to Norway as a common denominator. They have a base from one or more disciplines and work within a broad artistic field. Thematic concerns including the childhood and existential angst and the darkest parts of Homo sapiens, works with references to the text, others with reference to performance, dance and music, and several with a twinge of humour. The style of expression embraces from documentation and documentary to non-narrative, fiction, animation and performance. The technical quality is consistently high. So what is the Norwegian video art? This art field are difficult to define because the nationality and background of the artists, the theme and technique embrace the most, and not least, "all" artists will have a bit of video cake and produce their own. So, there is no uniform Norwegian video art. Have a good cake!
Sabina Jacobsson - Womens Voice of Iran (2007) - 13:00 Iranian women living in Norway, telling their story from the revolution in Iran 1979 till today. The women have lived in Norway from six months to twentyfive years. My idea with the video was to give these women a voice out. It can still be dangerous for them to comment on the Iranian regime even though they have lived in Norway for many years. Their names will not be mentioned in the video for security reasons. One of the women has also chosen to wear a mask. Sabina Jacobssen. 1967 Visby, live and work in Oslo. Working with video, live art and installations. Student of Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim ´96-00. Soloshows at f ex. Luleĺ Art Center in Sweden, Nordnorsk Art Center in Svolvćr, Gallery F15 in Moss. Participated in videoprograms at f ex. Paralelas y Meridianos in Buenos Aires, FIFVC in Beirut, Next Festival in Vilnius. Has received many grants in Norway. Awarded with Next Festival Video Price 2006 in Vilnius for best consept. www.sabina.no
Birgitte Sigmundstad - How to explain direct action to a live rabbit (2007)-6:45 An image of an ALF (Animal Liberation Front) member is the starting point for this film. The monologue is based on texts from Herbert Marcuse, John Zerzan and an article called How to explain terrorism to your child. Birgitte Sigmundstad is born 1969, Norway. Education: BA honours from The Surry Institute of Art & Design (1995-1998). Solo Exhibitions: Stenersen museum, UKS, Oslo and Troms kunstforening. Groupe exhibitions: UKS, Preus Museum, Grimstad Shortfilmfestival, Eurodok. Received Einar Granums Art award in 2007. www.birgittesigmundstad.com
Martin Skauen - Felix Culpa, A Handmade Massacre (2007) – 5:06 The video is like an animated Judgement Day - a grotesque and violent universe where people are divided into two categories; those who eat and those who are eaten...! With his distinctive technique he leads the camera across the large-scale drawing and create the illusion of movement in a never-ending claustrophobic room. In Felix Culpa, Skauen has created a frightening dark and self-annihilating world - a world totally out of order, inhabited by the most primitive and destructive forces. Martin Skauen is educated at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, 1998-2002 and Mřlla Art School, Moss 1996-1998. Residency: Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2008. Exhibitions include: 1st Athens Biennial, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Gřteborg Kunsthall, Laura Bartlett Gallery (London), Galleri MGM (Oslo), Mihai Nicodim Gallery, (L.A.), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Galleri F-15 (Moss) and UKS, (Young Artist Society). www.martinskauen.com
Farhad Kalantary - Moving Target – (2007) – 02:00 “Moving Target” is a short video that is the crossing point of many different events and currents. It carries the memories of Jasper Jones’ “Target”. It has the taste of Andy Warhol’s “Banana”. It has a sense of Paul Virilio’s Dromology, and it bears witness to the accident of cancer. It was recorded through my window, in a winter day in Oslo, at the time of yet another war. Farhad Kalantary (Tabriz, Iran, 1962) is a visual artist working primarily with non-narrative films and video installations. He has studied at San Francisco State University (BA, 1992) and San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, 1996) and he is now based in Oslo, Norway. His works have been shown in various international film festivals as well as in galleries and museums in the US and Europe, and they are part of the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Arts Council Norway. He is a co-founder and the leader of artist run space Atopia in Oslo. www.atopia.no
Claudia Reinhardt - No Place Like Home (2007) - 15:00 The story which is told is about an ordinary girl in a small town in southern Germany. The photos, likewise, show typical images of small-town somewhere. Within these common images and words, I explore how in such a context personality and individuality develop. From this very personal basis, I attempt to create a statement about the nation and history, bigger than just the world of the small town girl. “No Place like home” is about identity. An identity, I didn`t chose myself, but that has been given to me and will forever be part of my past and history. This work is published in a book by the Verbrecher Publisher House/Berlin in 2005 Claudia Reinhardt (1964 in Germany) began taking photos at the age of 18 with the goal of becoming a fashion photographer. In 1989 she started her studies at the Kunstacademie Hamburg until 1994. Her photo, - video and text works are dealing with the subject of gender issues and often she is using herself as the model for her creations of images and stories. Claudia Reinhardt currently lives in Berlin and Norway where she held the position of associate professor at the National Academy of the Arts/Bergen. www.claudia-reinhardt.de
Risto Holopainen - PEK (2007) - 6:00 A lot of symbolic hand-waving going on. Yet this is not a speech in sign language. In Scandinavian languages, PEK is the root of a word that means, “to point at”. In Norwegian, it has the additional meaning of 'prank'. PEK was realized in 2007, with Risto Holopainen as the hands, composer and editor, in collaboration with Vivild Bergersen, choreographer, and Camilla Wćrenskjold, camera. Risto Holopainen was born in 1970 in Sweden. He studied composition at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, followed by studies in musicology. Currently he pursues a PhD project on adaptive synthesis at the University of Oslo. His compositions include both electro acoustic and instrumental music for concert, dance and radio plays, but he has also made computer animations and video. His Garbage Collection appeared as the first release on Mere records in 2008. risto.holopainen@imv.uio.no http://folk.uio.no/ristoh/
Margarida Paiva - Fragments from an Unknown Woman – (2008) – 8:40 In Fragments from an Unknown Woman a female narrator is telling about another woman, about her fears and memories, while random images of rooms, parks and streets flow through the story. The characters remain unknown, seen only in glimpses or heard only through fragmented dialogues. The video explores mental and emotional disorders by reflecting on questions such as the need to change the present but remaining in the past and the difficulty of expressing one’s feelings.Margarida Piava was born in Portugal in 1975, currently living and working in Oslo. Studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Oporto and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Her video works are based on fragmented stories that explore inner states of mind resembling dreams and memories. Melancholy, loneliness and fear are subjects that always remain in these works and are expressed through poetic imagery. www.margaridapaiva.net
Jannicke Lĺker - PER, 03:30-7:30 Noen gang i mars 1998 (2008) - 8:30 Documentation “Per….” / With Fredrik Gunnarson ...is a performance by Jannicke Lĺker where the audience is taken on a bus ride to the outskirts of Malmö. The event in the performance is base don a genuine person and situation. The story has been processed and is being described through the characters physical condition. The surroundings are partly authentic: An early morning in the outskirts of civilisation in Sweden sometime in March 1998... Jannicke Lĺker lives and work in Berlin. Mainly works with video and performance. Studied at the Academy of Fine art in Trondheim (93-97). Solo exhibitions at Kunstlerhas Bethanien in Berlin, DUMBO in NYC and Stenersen Museum in Oslo. Exhibited at the Whitney Museum in NYC and Modern Museum in Stockholm. Last year received the Terje Vigen and Critic Award (Grimstad) and nominated for the Arte Short Film Award 2009 and received the Guaranty Grant for Artist. www.jannickelaker.com
Bull.Miletic - Par Hasard (Eng. By Chance) – (2009) – 05:45 Par Hasard explores the Eiffel Tower’s symbolic relationship to its ethereal physicality. Sequences in the video are shifting between the wide shots of the stroboscopic lit tower at night and the tracking shots from within the tower’s structure during the daytime. The video opens with the two sentences; “No, the past is fantastic˛”, “No, the future is fantastic!”. Negotiation between contradictory meanings, emotions and times continues throughout the video in a similarly ambiguous manner, primarily via cutaway shots. The video embraces formal qualities of the 60’s American pop art and French avant-garde cinema. The soundtrack, reinforced by long periods of silence, enhances the hallucinatory atmosphere of the video. Bull.Miletic is the name of the collaborative team of Synne Bull (Norway) and Dragan Miletic (Serbia). Bull.Miletic exhibit their video installations internationally at venues including the Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Norway, Whitney Museum of American Art's Artport, New York, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Victorian Arts Center, Melbourne, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, MoCa, Los Angeles, Transmediale, Berlin and IMPAKT, Ultrech, The Netherlands. Bull.Miletic received professional grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Norwegian Cultural Council, The Norwegian Young Artist Association, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Stockholm Cultural Council, among others. http://bull.miletic.info
Karima Risk - The Baloon – (2008) – 02:00 A man on the roof of the Reichtag in Berlin tries to Take a photo. Several other turists pas him by. And an air-baloon is seen in the distance.Karima Risk has a Master-degree from the Academy of Fine Arts inTrondheim, Norway. She works with video and painting, and has participated at filmfestivals in Barcelona, San Francisco and Oslo, and has had several solo-shows in Norway, she also collaborates with Linda Saveholt on working with video, and togheter they will show video-works at a solo-show in Färgfabriken Norr in Sweden this year. www.karimarisk.com
Mona Bentzen – Made of Water – (2008) – 2:21 Water is in perpetual motion and reflect on surfaces using sunlight. Made of water is made of the reflections of water and transformed into non-figurative visual music. Mona Bentzen works with video and installation and as a curator/producer: http://duerher.anart.no / www.artvideoexchange.com She was educated at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, University of Volda, media and TV/Film/ Animation. Video and documentary screening, f.ex Art Museum KUBE, Norwegian Broadcasting NRK TV 1, 7th Art Film Festival, Slovakia, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Polen, Pasadena Museum of California Art. She is the founder of Art Video Exchange. Mona Bentzen was educated at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, University of Volda, media and TV/Film/ Animation. Video and documentary screening, f.ex Art Museum KUBE, Norwegian Broadcasting NRK TV 1, 7th Art Film Festival, Slovakia, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Polen, Pasadena Museum of California Art. She is the founder of Art Video Exchange. |
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namaTRE.ba 3 project LECTURES Town Theatre Trebinje / Bosnia & Herzegovina
24/25.September 2009. 17.00h |
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namaTRE.ba 3 project
VIDEO EXHIBITION Academy of Fine Arts 26.September 2009. 19.00h Trebinje / Bosnia & Herzegovina |
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Slovenian Video Art (Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives, Ljubljana, Slovenia) // curated by Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanic
VIDEO IN PROGRESS 2: CITY PERSPECTIVES Curated by: Metka Zupanič and Vesna Bukovec, www.kolektiva.org Produced by: Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, 2008/2009, www.photon.si
The video selection presents five video works, which were created by nine Slovenian authors of the younger and middle generation. All artists take part in the representative exhibitions of contemporary Slovenian art and they are also active in the international sphere. The joint characteristic of the selected video works is a conceptual research of contemporary society’s peculiarities and individual comprehension of the urban city reality. All works are based on personal narratives and intimate experience. In four videos, this is expressed by a form of individual memory of the past, which is continually intertwined with excerpts from the present. One video deals with the future or the ideal image of home. All videos explore similar starting points, however in each of the videos this is done differently and with the use of different formal approaches. The results are five different videos of six different cities (Ljubljana, New York, Moscow, Gorizia, Nova Gorica, Graz) each of them opening new aspects of experiencing a contemporary city. In her video EU-phoria (2008), Anja Medved reveals intimate stories of individuals who live between two cities: Gorizia and Nova Gorica, and two states: Italy and Slovenia. Upon Slovenia's accession to the European Union, these two cities restarted to merge in an urban entity which reached its top when Slovenia joined the Schengen area. On December 20th 2007 the barrier was removed and the border opened. In that moment, the artists started to collect from the citizens of both cities recollections of border passing. She transformed the customs office in a video confessional and invited people to confess the old contraband sins. Rather than a customs officer, the office featured a camera, a microphone, a computer and a curtain which allowed undisturbed remembering. The confessions are charged with emotions characteristic of a historical moment of reuniting. In her video Why Slovene Houses Look the Way They Do (2007), Polonca Lovšin deals with the method of building individual houses in Slovenia from the 60’s to mid-80’s of the 20th century. Hers is a first person narrative, assisted by plasticine figures’ animation in “stop-motion” technique, which she combines with the presentation of documentary photography. The story tells of economical ingenuity of the artist’s father and her family – the erection of the family house in Ljubljana, which was built by her father on his own is at times interrupted by statistical data revealing the difficult economic situation of contemporary young families, the unemployment rate in the country, the scope of grey economy and urbanism rules, which affect the architectural image of Slovene urban spaces. Light music in the background, the use of animation and the installation technique give this problem a humorous distance. In a video from the series Special Place in the City (Graz, 2006), the group KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) reveals different views on every-day spaces of this Austrian city through intimate tales of chosen inhabitants. The authors use two intertwining parallel videos to show an individual in two contrast environments. In one video, the individual is in his special place, telling us of its importance, while in the other video, this same person is presented in a space of his every-day routine. A documentary approach enables control over the participant’s own self-representation, with the combination of both stories giving us a unique portrait of this person in front of the camera. Intimate stories of most of the presented spaces are based on events that reveal glimpses of the past. Small stories of small spaces of average citizens present an alternative to instant tourist presentations of big stories of the city and its architectural and historical aspects. In the NewMocsowYork video (2005), Jasna Hribernik and Zmago Lenardič compare two cities in different time periods in a complex way. Not so long ago, New York and Moscow were the main symbols of the two opposing political and economic world powers of the East and West. The authors combine quotations from the travelogue Ground floor America (1936) by Soviet humorists Ilja Ilf and Jevgenij Petrov and documentary videos of today’s streets and inhabitants in both cities. Ideological quotations, ironic music and slow motion documentary videos uncover the similarities and differences, which occurred over a 70 year period, with humorous distance. The once huge discrepancies became smaller and smaller with the decline of socialism and the global reign of neoliberal capitalism – the two cities seem more and more alike. In their video work Ideal Home (2003), Tanja Lažetić and Dejan Habicht ask their friends about their ideal home. The exhibition includes two videos, shown simultaneously. In the first video the interviewees are sitting in a domestic environment and answering Tanja’s questions directly and in the second video the images of architectural presentations of new buildings, which were being built in Ljubljana at the time of creation of this work, are shown. Idealized architectural images form a contrast to the personal preferences of an ideal home. It turns out that the interviewees prefer the content to the design of a home. Ideal home therefore is not an ideal spatial and aesthetic layout of spaces and fittings, but rather a location in the city and the warm feeling experienced only in the shelter that is home.
Anja Medved EU-foria, 2007 Duration: 0:24:24
Polonca Lovšin Why Slovene Houses Look the Way They Do, 2007 Duration: 0:07:15
KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) Special Place in the City - Graz, 2006 Durtion: 0:38:21
Jasna Hribernik & Zmago Lenardič NewMoscowYork, 2005 Duration: 0:25:41
Tanja Lažetić & Dejan Habicht Ideal Home, 2003 Duration: 0:24:45 |
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