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VIDEOBRASIL INTERNATIONAL
ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL
3 rd WEEK – September 20 to 25
+ NEW VECTORS : THE EMERGING SOUTH ERN SCENE OUTPUT
+ PERFORMANCE S: CHELPA FERRO, MAR CO PAULO ROLLA , AND EDER
SANTOS
+ VIDEO HISTORY AND FUTURE IN EXTREMIDADES DO V ÍDEO AND
FF>>DOSSIER EXHIBITIONS
The third week of the 15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival will
happen from September 20 to 25 (Tuesday through Sunday) at SESC Pompéia (Rua Clélia 93,
São Paulo, free entrance). A performance by the Chelpa Ferro group will kick off the
programme, which includes the New Vectors section of the Southern Panoramas competitive
exhibition, brand new performances by artists Marco Paulo Rolla and Eder Santos, and a
special appearance by performer Teresinha Soares, from Minas Gerais, who pioneered the
genre in the seventies, in the Meeting with the Artist.
Performance – Chelpa Ferro – “Chelpa Ferro”
Tuesday, September 20 at 9 am in the Theater
After an important appearance at the Venice Biennale (2005), plastic artists Barrão (Rio
de Janeiro, 1959), Luiz Zerbini (São Paulo, 1959), and Sergio Mekler (Rio de Janeiro, 1963)
are back in the Festival where they made their debut in 1998. In their new performance, they
make music using both conventional and invented instruments, such as a sewing machine, and
ashtray, and a drumkit made out of incense sticks.
The desire to make music joined together plastic artists Barrão and Zerbini, and video
and film editor Mekler, to form Chelpa Ferro, in 1995. With regard to sound, the group’s
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plasticity unfolds into many different forms, ranging from the sounds they get out of day-to-day
objects, to their installations. In “Acqua Falsa”, shown in Venice, a box hanging 10 centimeters
above the water-covered ground would emit sounds that spread around, and then were
absorbed by foam- and light-covered walls.
+ On Wednesday, September 21 at 11 am in the Auditório, Chelpa Ferro will be in the Meeting
with the Artist.
Panoramas of the South – New Vectors
September 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25, from 10 am to 9 pm at Play Galleries 1 and 2
September 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 at 8 pm in the Auditório
The New Vectors section features work by young producers (born from 1975 onwards)
and exposes world views that have emerged during the past decade. The section includes
videos and interactive work that use supports, languages, and realization possibilities in a free,
surprising fashion. Some good examples are “Trópico de Capricórnio”, in which Kika Nicolela,
from São Paulo, invites transvestites to spend hours with a camera in a hotel room; and “O Fim
do Homem Cordial”, by Daniel Lisboa (Bahia), which features the typical contemporary use of
video by politicians: due to an obvious allusion to senator Antonio Carlos Magalhães, this
parody of a Palestinian terrorist attack was censored out of a festival in Bahia last June. Alice
Micelli is the author of the instigating “88 de 14.000”, in which she uses an original resource to
mention citizens who were executed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia during the seventies,
and Lebanese artist Ali Cherri reflects about growing in a city during war times in “Un Cercle
Autour du Soleil”.
Video work will be shown from September 21 to 24, with sessions beginning at 8 pm in
the Auditório. Interactive media work (CD-ROM and Web) and video loops will be shown from
September 21 to 25, from 10 am to 9 pm in the Play Gallery. The New Vectors prizes will be
granted and prized pieces will be shown on Sunday, September 25 at 8 pm in the Auditório.
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Performance – Marco Paulo Rolla – “Urgência Social”
Launch of the book “MIP - Manifestação Internacional de Performance”
September 22 at 9 pm in the Play Gallery
In the performances of Marco Paulo Rolla (São Domingos do Prata, Minas Gerais,
1967), programmed chance emerges to clash against a day-to-day routine of luxury and
comfort. This is what happens in “Banquete” (2003), when a Victorian-style reception turns into
a feast of naked bodies and chickens. Or in “Café da Manhã” (2001), in which turbulence
disrupts the life of a man who reaps his breakfast in an orderly fashion. Similarly, “Urgência
Social” awaits the visitors with the possibility of the unexpected breaking into the routine – not
an idealized routine, but a pictorial version of the traits of our days.
In his 20-year career, Marco Paulo Rolla has done painting, drawing, video, ceramics,
installation, and music. In recent years, he has worked mainly with performance. Some of his
work is featured in “MIP – Manifestação Internacional de Performance”, a book he wrote in
partnership with Professor Marcos Hill, from the Escola de Belas Artes of the Minas Gerais
Federal University. They are the coordinators of the Center for Art Experimentation and
Information (Centro de Experimentação e Informação de Arte - CEIA), in Belo Horizonte. CEIA
promotes performance events and produces publications that emphasize both local and global
performance output.
+ On Friday, September 23 at 11 am in the Auditório, Marco Paulo Rolla will be in the Meeting
with the Artist.
+ The Marco Paulo Rolla exhibition, featuring some of his past performances, is scheduled for
Friday, September 23 at 5 pm in the Auditório.
+ Minas Gerais-based artist Teresinha Soares, a pioneer of performance during the seventies
and the subject of a study in the book “M.I.P. - Manifestação Internacional de Performance”, by
Marco Paulo Rolla and Marcos Hill, will be in the Meeting with the Artist on Saturday,
September 24 at 11 am in the Auditório.
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Performance – Eder Santos, Paulo Santos, Stephen Vitiello, and Ana Gastelois –
“Engrenagem”
Saturday, September 24 at 9:30 pm in the Auditório
“Engrenagem” is a concert-performance re-reading of key work done by Eder Santos
over the last 20 years, featuring live appearances by guests Paulo Santos and Stephen Vitiello,
musicians, and performer Ana Gastelois. Between the scenes, fragments of Eder’s recent work
appears, such as the performance in which actors Monica Ribeiro and Rodolfo Vaz bark at the
camera, alluding to home security systems and threatening “beware of dog” signs.
“Engrenagem” ends up with the presentation of Ana Gastelois’ piece of the same name:
starting with the repetitive, familiar motion that imitates the spinning blades of a cake mixer, the
artist creates a live piece that is drawing, graphism, gesture, and dancing, all at once. “In the
conceptual scheme of the cake mixer, dance emerges and the body is turned into a mixer. The
drawing becomes a music score and generates a kinetic perspective”, she explains. “The
performance materializes in the drawing, becoming a visual representation of the creative
process.”
+ On Sunday, September 25 at 2 pm in the Auditório, Eder Santos will be in the Meeting with
the Artist.
Exhibition – FF>>Dossier
September 21, 22, 23, and 24 from 10 am to 9 pm at Play Gallery 3
Curated by Eduardo de Jesus, a Professor in the Communication and Arts College
(Faculdade de Comunicação e Artes) at Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Minas Gerais (PUCMG) and a Master in Social Communication at the Minas Gerais Federal University
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), this programme is derived from the online publication
FF>>Dossier, which features monthly profiles of emerging southern scene electronic artists, in
the Associação Cultural Videobrasil Website. The programme includes work by artists such as
Wagner Morales, Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, and Lia
Chaia, from Brazil, Manolo Arriola, from Mexico, and Ernesto Salmerón, from NIcaragua.
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Exhibition – Extremidades do Vídeo
September 21 and 22 at 5 pm in the Auditório
Based on the doctoral thesis “Extremidades do Vídeo”, by curator Christine Mello, this
selection features Brazilian pieces that are examples of semiotic infiltration of video into
different fields of contemporary aesthetic, showing video’s unique ability to transform and
influence diverse artistic manifestations. The work of artists such as Rosângela Rennó, Tadeu
Jungle and Walter Siveira, Eder Santos, José Roberto Aguilar, Otávio Donasci, Sandra Kogut
and Roberto Berliner, Adriana Varella, Cao Guimarães, Artur Matuck, Giselle Beiguelman, and
Lucas Bambozzi, among others, exemplify the existing relationships between video, dancing,
and performance, showing language deconstruction in video, and its contact with interactive
media. Christine Mello is a researcher and essayist in the fields of art and technological
mediation, as well as a doctor in Communication and Semiotics at the Pontifícia Universidade
Católica, São Paulo (PUC-SP). In 2002, she was the Web art curator for the Brazilian
representation at the 25th Biennalle of São Paulo.
Conferences
Two debates will wrap up the 15th Videobrasil programme. On Thursday, September 22
at 2 pm in the Auditório, researchers Karla Jasso (Mexico) and Jorge La Ferla (Argentina) and
artist Marina de Caro (Argentina) will discuss “Media centers as spaces for realization,
exhibition, and preservation of artwork and art proposals” (“Centros de mídia como espaços de
realização, exibição e preservação de trabalhos e propostas”).
The theme “Where does the performance experience belong within the art scene?”
(“Qual é o lugar da experiência performática no circuito da arte?”) will be discussed on
Saturday, September 24 at 2 pm in the Auditório, by gallerist Eduardo Brandão, artist Eder
Santos, curator Priamo Lozada (Mexico), and researcher Ronaldo Entler.
Launch – “À Deriva” (Editora Dantes) – Omar Salomão
Thursday, September 22 at 6 pm in the Choperia.
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“À Deriva” is the first book by Omar Salomão, from Rio de Janeiro, who published his
first poem, “Pedras Portuguesas”, at 13 years of age in the “O Carioca” magazine. Omar has
recently shown his poems in the “Tudo é Brasil” exhibition, at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro,
and at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo. He also does poetic interventions in live shows of the band
Vulgo Qinho & Os Cara. During the 2005 Book Biennale, he was invited to read his poems in
the Poetry Summit (Jirau de Poesia). Omar is a 22-year-old communications student.
Service
The 15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival will happen from September 06 to
25, 2005, at SESC Pompéia (Rua Clélia, 93, phone: + 55 11 3871-7700, São Paulo).
SESC Pompéia is open from Tuesday through Sunday, from 10 am to 10 pm. The
Festival activities will take place from Tuesday through Sunday on the following
times: from 10 am to 9 pm (exhibitions, meetings, conferences, video screenings,
bookstore, and bar); from 9 pm onwards (performances); and at 10 pm (VJ Nights).
The entire Festival programme is free of charge, but tickets for the performances and VJ
Nights must be previously obtained at the Sesc Network ticket stores. Ticket will be
available until all seats are taken (Auditório: 191 seats; Choperia: 800 seats; Theater:
330 seats; Play Gallery: 120 persons)
Guests
Guests for the third week of the 15th Videobrasil:
Adams Texeira de Carvalho (artist, Brazil)
Adriana Bravo (artist, Bolivia/Mexico)
Alexandre Braga Brandão (artist, Brazil)
Alfred Muchilwa (artist, Kenya)
Alice Micelli (artist, Brazil)
Ali Cherri (artist, Lebanon)
Ana Gastelois (artist, Brazil)
Anaisa Franco (artist, Brazil)
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Andrea Robles (artist, Mexico)
Andrés Denegri (artist, Argentina)
Ayrson Heraclito (artist, Brazil)
Axel Weisz (artist, Brazil)
Aza Pinho (artist, Brazil)
Barrão (artist, Brazil)
Carlos Motta (artist, Colombia/US)
Charly Braun (artist, Brazil)
Christine Mello (researcher, Brazil)
Daniel Lisboa (artist, Brazil)
Daniel Maia Carvalho dos Santos (artist, Brazil)
Danillo Barata (artist, Brazil)
Eduardo Brandão (curator, Brazil)
Enrique Ramirez (artist, Chile)
Eva Kozma (artist, Romania/Hungary)
Fernanda Gomes (artist, Brazil)
Fernanda Goulart (artist, Brazil)
Fred Paulino (artist, Brazil)
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (artist, Peru/Mexico)
Gabriel Menotti (artist, Brazil)
Gilberto Esparza (artist, Mexico)
Jasmin Pinho (artist, Brazil)
Joana Oliveira (artist, Brazil)
Jorge la Ferla ( curator, Argentina)
Karla Jasso (artist, Mexico)
Kika Nicolela (artist, Brazil)
Laura Pacheco Coutinho (artist, Brazil)
Laura Taffarel (artist, Brazil)
Luciana Barros (artist, Brazil)
Luiz Zerbini (artist, Brazil)
Marcelo Seixas (artist, Brazil)
Marco Paulo Rolla (artist, Brazil)
Marcos Hill (researcher, Brazil)
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Mariana Martins de Camargo (artist, Brazil)
Marina de Caro (artist, Argentina)
Mauris Henrique Poggio dos Santos (artist, Brazil)
Mel O'Callaghan (artist, Australia)
Nathan Mpangala (artist, Tanzania)
Olivia Brenga (artist, Brazil)
Omar Salomão (poet, Brazil)
Paulo Santos (artist, Brazil)
Paulo Vilela (artist, Brazil)
Pedro Vilela (artist, Brazil)
Priamo Lozada (curator, Mexico)
Rafael Henrique Barbosa de Souza (artist, Brazil)
Renata Luciane Tonezi Deformes (artist, Brazil)
Ritiane de Cássia Rodrigues da Silva (artist, Brazil)
Ronaldo Entler (researcher, Brazil)
Samanta Pamponet (artist, Brazil)
Sergio Mekler (artist, Brazil)
Stephen Vitiello (artist, US)
Terezinha Soares (artist, Brazil)
Thiago Villas Boas (artist, Brazil)
Victor-Hugo Borges (artist, Brazil)
Ziad Antar (artist, Lebanon)
Press Service:
FCF Comunicação
Luciana Gomide – phone: (11) 3032.3057 and (11) 9181.4024 or [email protected]
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