Peter Aerschmann
Erik Dettwiler
Diana Dodson
Florian Dombois
Heinrich Gartentor
Franticek Klossner
Andrea Loux
Reto Leibundgut
Emilio Alvarez
Carlos Duran
Llucia Homs
Bernhard Bischoff
Paul Young
11/5/2010
Loop Festival
Different venues, Barcelona
For ten days the center of Barcelona becomes a huge video art showcase. Loop is a dynamic, hybrid and open event, adapted to the changing necessities of the different agents involved in the sector. Loop is now structured around three core sections the Festival + Fair + Panel, which have developed simultaneously and are complementary. They constitute an area of diffusion, reflection and marketing of video creation, in which the different agents are actively involved, showing, viewing and managing video art works, reflecting, creating contacts and making alliances.
LOOP is a platform devoted to the promotion of video art. Every year in May, Loop organizes an international video art event in Barcelona that includes a festival, a fair specialized in video art, and a series of seminars, conferences and panels. International art centers, museums, galleries and videoart platforms participate in this event, which gathers artists, curators, collectors, gallerists and video art lovers from all over the world.
For ten days during the LOOP FESTIVAL, the center of Barcelona becomes a huge video art showcase. LOOP FESTIVAL brings together a hundred of places showing video art in the city (from museums to shops) and many different agents involved in the sector: artists, curators, schools, institutions, art centers, production centers, distributors, universities etc...
LOOP FESTIVAL is an open space of diffusion, where agents involved in the sector can establish local, national and international networks in response to their necessities, disseminating and reflecting on video art. Every year, LOOP FESTIVAL develops specific projects such as the International Program of University or the International Program of Festivals.
LOOP has since its creation in 2003 has become an unmissable international meeting point for video art specialists and attracts a huge number of contemporary art professionals to Barcelona.
LOOP is a dynamic, hybrid and open event, adapted to the changing necessities of the different agents involved in the sector. LOOP is now structured around three core sections the FESTIVAL + FAIR + PANEL, which have developed simultaneously and are complementary. They constitute an area of diffusion, reflection and marketing of video creation, in which the different agents are actively involved, showing, viewing and managing video art works, reflecting, creating contacts and making alliances.
LOOP FESTIVAL is also a city project, connecting local networks with international networks. The city’s main museums, art centers and galleries participate as well as various places such as bars, restaurants and other establishments, bringing art close to the general public.
LOOP exists thanks to the generous involvement, the numerous collaborations and the complicity with artists, curators, galleries, universities, art centers, distributors, collectors and different platforms, showing their work and their discoveries, and transforming Barcelona city center into a huge video art showcase, accessible to all kind of audiences.
LOOP FAIR is the commercial part of the event. It is the first fair devoted to video and film. 40 international galleries selected by a committee of specialists participate in the fair and exhibit their new pieces. Ever since its first edition LOOP FAIR have taken place in a downtown hotel in Barcelona, offering both an intimate and exclusive space to the video art work and the viewer.
The event is completed by a programme of LECTURES and DISCUSSIONS, dealing with issues relevant to professionals such as the current situation and trends in video art, the production, conservation, distribution and sale of works, its relationship with other artistic disciplines, with new technologies and their future.
The extensive ten-day programme provides a unique opportunity to deepen or approach the stimulating territory of contemporary art in video format.
The Opening exhibition of LOOP2010 is a Fundació Suñol with 'Looping Memories'.
Curated by Bernhard Bischoff
Artists: Peter Aerschmann, Erik Dettwiler, Diana Dodson, Florian Dombois, Heinrich Gartentor, Franticek Klossner, Andrea Loux, Reto Leibundgut
The exhibition is focused on works that have to do with memory and the passage of time. Representations of dream and reality and the transitional states in between were the guiding influences behind the choice of content. The exhibited works weave together a fabric of memories and invite the more curious among us to explore a good ten years of Swiss video history.
Contemporary:
Remote Viewing
Loop Barcelona (2003-2009). A personal approach by Paul Young
Remote Viewing is a selection of almost 50 pieces through seven editions of Loop Barcelona video art fair. It aims to offer a sample of the most innovative work being done in the field of video art today together with a broad yet singular overview of the most representative areas of activity in video since 2000.
Organized by: Arts Santa Mònica - Department of Culture and Media
Arts Santa Mónica
La Rambla 7 | 08002 Barcelona
On Wednesday the 12th of May at 7.30 p.m there will also be an Artist Talk with the curator Bernhard Bischoff and artists Peter Aerschmann, Florian Dombois, Franticek Klossner, and Laurent Schmid. We also hope to see you there!
http://www.loop-barcelona.com
Opening Tuesday 12th of May 2010
The venues of the festival are spread all over the city of Barcelona