Open Video Projects
dal 4/1/2013 al 12/1/2013
Segnalato da
4/1/2013
Open Video Projects
De Vleeshal, Middelburg
The exhibition consists of a videoscreening with a number of short films. The selection is made by Sarra Brill from the Open Video Projects initiative.
Open Video Projects is a short exhibition at the start of the new year. The exhibition consists of a videoscreening with a number of short films. The selection is made by Sarra Brill from the Open Video Projects initiative.
Open Video Projects
Open Video Projects is a growing video archive currently based in Rome that facilitates screenings throughout the city and abroad. OVP provides accessibility to contemporary art, film, and audiovisual culture through the use of video screenings and video-inspired initiatives and events.
In recent years, audiovisual formats and techniques have exponentially increased, a reality which has led us to projects that specifically address the use of the video medium. Open Video Projects addresses the intricacies of the relationship between cinema and contemporary art and also investigates how audiovisual production is active in other cultural fields like performance, architecture, dance and photography.
Artists’ film and video, documentaries, experimental cinema, film shorts, video installations and other audio-visual productions which fall out of these prescribed categories are often mixed together in OVP programs. The screenings are often viewed outside the traditional context of movie theaters, art galleries, museums and television – by holding screening in varied locations OVP is able to reach a diverse public.
Archive
OVP is in the process of assembling an audiovisual archive. Material which is included in screenings will be evaluated for inclusion in the archive. Videos are collected through the use of international open calls, invitiation, and project proposals by local and visiting artists, filmmakers, curators and writers. Works are selected based on quality and not an adherence to specific themes or formats.
Founders
Lorenzo Benedetti is the director of De Vleeshal in Middelburg (The Netherlands).
Sarra Brill is an artist/filmmaker and independent curator.
www.openvideoprojects.org
Open Video Projects
Founders
Lorenzo Benedetti (director SBKM/De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL)
Sarra Brill (artist/filmmaker and independant curator)
Open Video Projects
I’m trying to learn the words to Josie Cotton’s “Johnny Are You Queer?” and now you can, too.
Julie Perini (USA)
2005, 8 min. (video)
This video documents an intimate performance by Julie Perini wherein she attempts to learn the lyrics to a popular American 80s tune with a 60s girl group sound, Johnny, Are You Queer? by Josie Cotton. Viewers are privy to an unusual sense of immediacy – conception and realization of the work seem to occur simultaneously. Objects in the surrounding domestic environment function as both the mise-en-scene and the tripod on which the camera rests. Viewers witness this slight amount of staging as Julie builds a tripod from books available in the environment and positions herself in relation to the camera. The lyrics are included in the finished video as text in the lower portion of the screen. This piece has been shown as an endless loop on a monitor and screened as a single channel projection.
Julie Perini (USA)
Julie Perini is an artist who makes experimental videos, installations, performances and events. She works with strangers, friends and other artists, as well as alone. She uses what is available in her everyday life, particularly time, space, people, gestures, gifts, words, ideas, an assortment of tasks and various machines.
Foobel (An Alternative History)
Rob Carter (UK/USA)
2005, 8:56 min. (video)
This video was made in direct response to political arguments over the construction of new sports stadiums, both in the US and UK. Most famous to New Yorkers was last year’s fiasco surrounding the Jets stadium proposed for the west side of Manhattan. This animated video refers more directly to the English game of football, but creates a brief absurd history of the evolvement of the stadium from playing surface to ‘Babel-esque’ monstrosity. It is a satire of the need for bigger and bigger stages of any popular type of theatre at the expense of everything else.
Rob Carter (UK/USA)
My videos and photographs examine paper as both a physical object and as a malleable document of the real. The imagery often relies on theatrical manipulation or illusion, but uses these mechanisms in order to inform or expand the meaning or reading of the imagery, rather than trick the viewer. My recent work employs video animation and photographic ‘re-constructions’ that exploit the theatricality of architecture and landscape as a platform to spotlight the iconic and political structures of sports stadia.
Excavation
William Cobbing (UK)
2004 (video)
In the recent series of videos people perfunctorily prod wet clay with their hands or repetitively chip away at concrete that covers parts of their clothed body or the surrounding space, such as an external suburban wall or the dashboard of a car, to humorously unsettling effect. Chipping away at a lump of concrete which buries the head could reflect a desire to brutally shed light onto a disturbed state of mind.
These visceral encounters depict a transgression of discrete bodily boundaries between individuals and their environment, creating an abject sense of formlessness, and an entropic return to the gunge of the earthly ground. The protagonists seem passively trapped in an endless cycle.
Slow Food
Cesare Pietroiusti (I)
In collaboration with: Filippo Berta, Davide Ferrari, Giuseppe Ferrari, Valentina Uberti,
Teatro Sociale di Bergamo
2005, 5:09 min. (video)
In collaboration Filippo Berta, Davide Ferrari, Giuseppe Ferrari, Valentina Uberti,
Teatro Sociale di Bergamo
Five people are in a race – they need to eat as slowly as they possibly can, but can’t stop at any point. The performance begins at 20.30. The winner finished her meal at 23.35. The shots, from the moment the performance begins to the moment when the first competitor loses, are sped up to 35 percent of their normal rate.
Cesare Pietroiusti
Cesare Pietroiusti’s art practice focuses on problematic and paradoxical situations that are hidden in common relationships and in ordinary acts – thoughts that come to mind without a reason, small worries, quasi-obsessions that are usually considered too insignificant to become a matter of discussion, or of self-representation. The artist explores choices and intentions formulated by subjectivities other than his own, and the ways in which to make these choices become his own choices.
Eat My Makeup!
Marie Losier (FR/VS)
With George Kuchar, Marie Losier, Jason Livingston, Paul Shepard
2005, 6 min. (16mm converted to video)
Five winsome damsels picnic on the roof of a warehouse in charming Long Island City, a forest of skyscrapers gleaming across the river. But when a swarm of flies interrupts their feast of chocolate-covered pretzels and cream-pies, the young ladies run amok.
Marie Losier (FR/VS)
Marie Losier is a filmmaker and curator. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. In 2000, she became the film programmer at the French Institute / Alliance Francaise in New York City, where she presents a weekly film series. She has also performed in films by George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, and Jackie Raynal, and in plays by Juliana Francis and Tony Torn.
De Vleeshal, Markt, Middelburg NL
De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Zusterstraat 7, 4331 KG Middelburg, the Netherlands
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 1 pm – 5 pm
admission free