16th International Electronic Art Festival _SESC Videobrasil
16th International Electronic Art Festival_SESC Videobrasil
announces sixty-six works selected for competition
Festival to take place from September 30 to October 25 at the SESC Avenida
Paulista provisional unit will discuss the relations between film and contemporary art and feature Peter Greenaway, Marcel Odenbach, Kenneth Anger,
Arthur Omar, and Edgard Navarro among its guests
In its 16th edition, Latin America’s biggest video and electronic art Festival will
bring together, in the Southern Panoramas competitive exhibition, sixty-six works made
in the last two years by artists from seventeen different countries in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania. The Brazilian participation has
increased, featuring twenty-nine works, followed by Argentina, which has ten works, and
Australia and Mexico, with four works selected each (view complete list below). The 16th
International Electronic Art Festival_SESC Videobrasil will be held at the SESC Avenida
Paulista provisional unit from September 30 to October 25. The Southern Panoramas
exhibition is divided into three segments: State of the Art (dedicated to the production of
established artists), Contemporary Investigations (for research processes), and New Vectors (for emerging artists of up to thirty years of age).
During the selection process, 791 submitted works have been reviewed, including
both the output of artists with a background in the field of electronic art, and that of those
who use video as a tool for research. Among others, the exhibition will feature works by
the Brazilians Eustáquio Neves, Lucas Bambozzi, Wagner Morales, Eduardo Climachauska,
Marco Del Fiol, Maurício Dias & Walter Riedweg, Cao Guimarães, Caetano Dias, Louise
Ganz, Giselle Beiguelman, Marcellvs L., Gustavo Rosa de Moura, and Nuno Ramos, the
Argentines León Ferrari, Andrés Denegri, Gustavo Galuppo, Marcello Mercado, and Federico Lamas, the Australian John Gillies, the South African Gregg Smith, the Lebanese
Akram Zaatari, the Chilean Claudia Aravena Abughosh, and the Moroccan Bouchra Khalili.
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Cinema and contemporary art: convergences
The Southern Panoramas exhibition is a key part of the International Electronic Art
Festival_SESC Videobrasil, which has been promoted by SESC São Paulo since the
1990s. In 2007, the curatorial framework for the Festival will focus on convergences between video, cinema, and the visual arts. The theme will unfold into a tribute to Limite
(1930), by Mario Peixoto, which marked the emergence of experimental filmmaking in
Brazil, and will include guests such as British filmmaker Peter Greenaway, German artist
Marcel Odenbach, U.S.-based underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and the Brazilians Arthur Omar, Edgard Navarro, and Carlos Adriano.
The competitive exhibition will contemplate significant trends in current production, including the one in line with the Festival’s curatorial framework. “The selection
includes various proposals that use cinema as their raw material, remixing and recontextualizing sequences, scenes, and conversations,” says Solange Farkas, curator of
the Festival and director of the MAM-BA. The Selection and Programming Committee
for the 16th Videobrasil also features researchers André Costa, Christine Mello, Eduardo de Jesus, Ivana Bentes, Marcos Moraes, and Paula Alzugaray.
The works selected
_state OF the art
As mãos do Epô | Ayrson Heráclito | Brazil-BA | 2007 | Video, looping
Busan Diptych | Shaun Gladwell | Australia | 2006 | Video
Canto doce pequeno labirinto | Caetano Dias | Brazil-BA | 2007 | Video
Casa Blanca | León Ferrari e Ricardo Pons | Argentina | 2005 | Video
Cerca de Bony | Andrés Denegri | Argentina | 2006 | Video
Conflito | Ludmila Ferolla | Brazil-RJ | 2007 | Video, looping
Copérnico I: Paisagem com figura | Daniel Augusto e Eduardo Climachauska |
Brazil-SP | 2005 | Video
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Desvios, derivas, contornos | Lucas Bambozzi | Brazil-SP | 2007 | Video
FAQ Part 1 | Sagi Groner | Israel/The Netherlands | 2007 | Video
Field Of Consciousness | Jamsen Law | Hong Kong/China | 2006 | Installation
Filme de foda | Wagner Morales | Brazil-SP | 2006 | Video
Iluminai os terreiros | Eduardo Climachauska, Gustavo Rosa de Moura e Nuno Ramos |
Brazil-SP | 2006 | Video
José Vicente | Marco Del Fiol | Brazil-SP | 2006 | Video
Juksa | Maurício Dias e Walter Riedweg | Brazil-RJ/Switzerland | 2006 | Video
Miedo | Claudia Aravena Abughosh | Chile/Germany | 2007 | Video
Postscript | John Gillies | Australia | 2005 | Video
Rebelión en la Pulpería | Ruben Guzman | Argentina | 2006 | Video
Should We Never Meet Again | Gregg Smith | South Africa/France | 2005 | Video
Sin Peso | Cao Guimarães | Brazil-MG | 2006 | Video
Soco na imagem | Danillo Barata | Brazil-BA | 2007 | Video, looping
Straight Stories-Part 1 | Bouchra Khalili | Morocco/France | 2006 | Video
Tenedos | Ethem Ozgüven | Turkey | 2005 | Video
The Slippery Mountain | Sergey Provorov e Galina Myznikova | Russia | 2006 |
Video, looping
Undocumented | Edgar Endress | Chile/USA | 2005 | Video
Video in 5 Movements | Akram Zaatari | Lebanon | 2006 | Video
Where Are You, Nam June Paik? | Osvaldo Cibils | Uruguay/Italy | 2007 | Video
_Investigações contemporâneas
Abismo virtual | Eustáquio Neves | Brazil-MG | 2007 | Video
Água boa sono bom | Louise Ganz | Brazil-MG | 2007 | Video
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Anticristo (Um vídeo sobre minha morte) | Carlos Magno de Oliveira Rodrigues e
Dellani Lima | Brazil-MG | 2006 | Video
Beach | Guli Silberstein | Israel | 2006 | Video
Canto de Aves Pampeanas 1 | Nicolás Testoni | Argentina | 2006 | Video
De Terugkeer | Abdellatif Benfaidoul | Moroccos/The Netherlands | 2005 | Video
Fast/Slow_Scapes | Giselle Beiguelman | Brazil-SP | 2006 | Video, looping ...Feito poeira ao vento... | Dirceu Maués | Brazil-PA | 2006 | Video
Flow | Joanna Hoffmann | Poland | 2007 | Video, looping
Madre Tierra | Lara Arellano | Argentina | 2005 | Video
Material bruto | Núcleo de Criação Sapos e Afogados | Brazil-MG/Argentina | 2006 | Video
Microftalmia | Adriana Bravo Morales e Andrea Robles Jiménez | Bolivia/Mexico|
2005 | Video
Mrs Hodge’s Frequent Use of Air Freshener... | Nooshin Farhid | Iran/England | 2005 |
Video
Panorâmica 01 | Letícia Ramos | Brazil-SP | 2007 | Video
Pn=n! | Iván Marino | Argentina/Spain | 2006 | Installation
Psycho(s): A Live Remix | Ip Yuk-Yiu e ST | Hong Kong/China | 2006 | Video, looping
Radicais livre(o)s | Marcus Bastos | Brazil-SP | 2007 | Video
Revolving Door | Alexandra Beesley e David Beesley | England-Australia | 2006 | Video
She Dreamt We Dreamt | Marco Casado e Salvador Ortega | Mexico | 2007 | Video
Sweetheart - Storie(s) About Accidents of Love| Gustavo Galuppo | Argentina | 2006 |
Video
The Chemical and Physical Perception, in the Eye of the Cat, in the Moment of the Cut |
Marcello Mercado | Argentina/Germany | 2005 | Video
Trecho | Clarissa Campolina e Helvécio Marins Jr. | Brazil-MG | 2006 | Video
Várzea | Estúdio Bijari e Ricardo Iazzetta | Brazil-SP | 2006 | Video
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_Novos vetores
Acredite nas suas ações | Everton Marco Santos | Brazil-BA | 2006 | Video
Antonio pode | Ivan Morales Jr. | Brazil-SP/Germany | 2007 | Video
Das partes | Veridiana Zurita | Brazil-SP | 2007 | Video, looping
Incapacidad de Transcurso | Daniel Monroy | Mexico | 2005 | Video
Iridium | Mihai Grecu | Romania/France | 2006 | Video
Jerk Off 02 (Mulher)-projeto dízima periódica | Alice Miceli | Brazil-RJ | 2007 | Video,
looping
Lux 02 | Bruno Faria | Brazil-SP | 2005 | Video
Narciso no mijo | Rodrigo Castro de Jesus | Brazil-MG | 2006 | Video
One Verse, no Chorus | Bridget E. Walker | Australia | 2007 | Video
Oxxo, Negocio? Monopolio | Jesus Ayala e José Villalobos Romero | Mexico | 2005 |
Video
Parece la Pierna de una Muñeca | Jazmín López | Argentina | 2006 | Video
Rawane’s Song | Mounira Al Solh | Lebanon/The Netherlands | 2006 | Video
Rivadavia 2010 | Aline X e Gustavo Jardim | Brazil-MG | 2007 | Video
Tank You | Ziad Antar | Lebanon/France | 2007 | Video
untitle:rope | Marcellvs L. | Brazil-MG/Germany | 2006 | Installation
Untitled (Zimbabwean Queen of Rave) | Dan Halter | Zimbabwe/South Africa | 2005 |
Video
Weekend | Federico Lamas | Argentina | 2007 | Video
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16th Videobrasil will bring Greenaway, Odenbach, and Anger to the
SESC Avenida Paulista provisional unit
The 16th International Electronic Art Festival_SESC Videobrasil will be held for
the first time ever at the SESC Avenida Paulista provisional unit, taking over all five
floors of the building with video and film screenings, exhibitions, installations, lectures,
debates, meetings, and workshops. Guests will include some of the greatest pioneers
in the fields of experimental filmmaking, expanded cinema, and video art. International
guests include:
Marcel Odenbach
Regarded as a video art pioneer, the German artist will have the largest ever exhibit of
his work in Latin America, featuring installations, film screenings, a lecture, and a never
before seen work, Disturbed Places – Five Variations on India, to be commissioned by
the Festival and by SESC São Paulo. Political and social issues lie at the core of Odenbach’s recent work, which has featured at the MoMA New York and at the Documentas
6 and 8, in Kassel. His productions use excerpts from classic movies, newsreels, and
personal photographs to explore the formative role of past images in the perception of
the present.
Peter Greenaway
The British filmmaker will bring to SESC Avenida Paulista new unfoldings of the
Tulse Luper Suitcases project, which he has been developing for nearly ten years.
Centered on the story of a writer who lived from prison to prison and disappeared
in 1989, leaving his testimony in ninety-two suitcases, Tulse Luper seeks expanded
models of cinema: it involves exhibitions, films, Web sites, games, and VJ sessions.
The participation of the maker of The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989) in
the 16th Videobrasil kicks off with a live image performance, and will include the
Tulse Luper Suitcases installation, a lecture, and film screenings. In the blog Peter Greenaway no Videobrasil (http://blogdovideobrasil.blog.uol.com.
br), which is open to readers’ comments, the artist discusses his participation in the
Festival with the board of curators, and talks about the Tulse Luper Suitcases.
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Kenneth Anger
One of the inventors of U.S. underground cinema, Anger pioneered the use of
images edited from pop music, and created the cuts that would later become the
foundation of music videos. His surrealistic films are filled with gay fetishes and
references to the occult. At the Videobrasil, his work will feature in a retrospective never before seen in the country, comprising nine short films made between
1947 and 1972, including Fireworks, which he shot when he was twenty years old.
Alongside works by Jean Genet, Luther Price, Derek Jarman, Andy Warhol, Jack
Smith, James Bidgood, and Isaac Julien, the retrospective comprises the curatorial
framework A Handful of Pleasant Delights by Rodrigo Novaes, dedicated to artists
who explored the boundaries of film and were marginalized by the film industry.
Arthur Omar
A filmmaker, photographer, multimedia artist, his career has broken down borders
between different artistic territories ever since the 1970s. Omar worked with film,
photography, video, installations, and Web art. His more recent works were shown
in Zooprismas, a solo exhibition held in Rio de Janeiro, which redefined the dialogue between cinema and visual arts.
Edgard Navarro
At nearly sixty years of age, Bahia-born Navarro has made some of the most irreverent
and original videos in the history of visual arts in Brazil. The Festival will present titles
known almost exclusively by the public that attends festivals in Bahia, such as the short
films Alice no país das mil novilhas and O rei do cagaço, which became notorious due
to a famous scatological sequence. An iconoclast, Navarro became more known after
his first feature film Eu me lembro was the grand winner of the Brasília Festival in 2005.
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Carlos Adriano
Adriano is a filmmaker, holder of a master’s degree in cinema from USP, and organizer, along
with Bernardo Vorobow, of the book Julio Bressane: CinePoética. His oeuvre transits between
documental and experimental cinema. Remanescências (acquisition/collection The New York
Public Library), made in 1997, rescues the eleven frames in the oldest existing footage in the
history of Brazilian cinema, and elaborates a study in aesthetic ecstasy that discloses the creative myth of our cinema. His A voz e o vazio: a vez de Vassourinha won a prize for best short
documentary film at the Chicago International Festival (2000). More recently, he made O papa
da pulp and Militância. Eder Santos
One of the greatest Brazilian electronic artists, Santos straddles the boundaries between video,
installation, and performances, using electronic image as a powerful element in scenic design
and narrative. He participated in the 23rd Bienal de São Paulo, with the installation Memória
de ferro (1993), and in the Biennial’s fifty-year-celebration exhibition, with Planetarium (2001),
as well as in festivals and exhibitions in Mexico, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United
States.
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