.move forward
dal 4/10/2012 al 20/10/2012
Segnalato da
Maria Vedder
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
Laura Balboa
Rubén Gutierrez
Amanda Gutierrez
Kathrin Kur
Rebecca Lennon
Rosa Menkman
Dina Roncevic
Tobias Rosenberger
Marissa Viani Serrano
Nika Oblak
Primoz Novak
Florian Tuercke
4/10/2012
.move forward
Different venues, Halle (Saale)
New mexican and european media art. 14 days of video installations, object art, internet based art, photography, an interactive automat and films. The works are located in various buildings and lots, some derelict, offering the visitor the unique opportunity to discover the fascinating history concealed behind the facades in the Steintor area.
With Maria Vedder, Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, Laura Balboa, Rubén Gutiérrez, Amanda Gutiérrez, Kathrin Kur, Rebecca Lennon, Rosa Menkman, Dina Rončević, Tobias Rosenberger, Marissa Viani Serrano, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak und Florian Tuercke.
The Werkleitz Festival for Media Art opens on Friday, October 5, 2012 at 18:30h at
the Steintor Varieté in Halle and is pleased to be able to welcome some of the most
important and innovative representatives of European media art.
Along a 500 Meter long exhibition parcours around the Steintor area - currently the object of
an urban development project – .move forward presents 14 days of video installations, object
art, internet based art, photography, an interactive automat and films. The works are located
in various buildings and lots, some derelict, offering the visitor the unique opportunity to
discover the fascinating history concealed behind the facades in the Steintor area.
The Werkleitz Festival for Media Art has been running since 2008. It is the largest festival of its
type in the former East German states and has been honoured as the “Documenta of the East”
by German television personality Ulrich Wickert.
During the opening weekend from October 5 to 7, international media art curators and experts
will feature as respondents to the artists, presenting and discussing the artists’ work to the
public. This year, Werkleitz festival is honoured to present Kristoffer Gansing (transmediale
Berlin), Petra Reichensperger (Kunsthaus Dresden), Hermann Nöring (EMAF Osnabrück),
Omar Kholeif (FACT Liverpool), Dieter Daniels (HGB Leipzig), Eva Sangiorgi (FICUNAM
Festival Mexico City), Ingmar Lähnemann (Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg),
Frank Motz (ACC Galerie Weimar), Petra Heck (NIMk Amsterdam), Stephen Kovats
(r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation Berlin) und die freien Kuratoren
Christian Koch & Katrin Mundt (Essen), Kathy Rae Huffman (Berlin) und Sandra
Naumann (Berlin).
.move forward – new mexican and european media art is focussed on Mexico. The theme
runs through many of the works as well as the accompanying programme and the opening
celebrations. The experimental Mexican Band Sonido Changorama, featured as special guests
at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, will provide live accompaniment to the screening of Sergej
Eisensteins silent film Mexikanskaja Fantasija as well as at the subsequent opening party. In
addition to the original musical interpretation of this legendary work of cinema there well be a
comprehensive film programme centred around Mexico on the opening weekend.
The exhibition programme of .move forward builds on the EMARE MEX stipend and the
Mexico stipend from the Goethe Institute. With EMARE MEX (European Artists in Residence
Exchange in Mexico), Werkleitz and its partners support exchange among international media
artists. This year, an international jury chose nine European and Mexican artists for EMARE
MEX. The stipend includes a two month residency at one of the partner institutions in Europe
and Mexico and the exhibition of the works produced at the .move forward festival.
The catalogue to .move forward - new mexican and european media art, in German and
English, will be available at the festival info counter.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays as well as on the weekend there will be regular, free tours through
the exhibition in German and English.
More information on the festival and the stipend programme can be found on Facebook and
Vimeo:
www.werkleitz.de/moveforward
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Werkleitz-Festival/137453423010733
http://vimeo.com/werkleitz
.move forward is a Werkleitz Centre for Media Art project in cooperation with the European
Media Art Network (EMAN). EMAN brings together four leading European media art institutions:
IMPAKT (Utrecht, Holland), Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT, Liverpool),
(Great Britain) Bandits-Mages (Bourges, France) und Werkleitz (Halle, Germany). Further
partners are the Centro Multimedia of the Centro National de las Artes Mexico, Mexico City, the
Centro de Arte y Nuevas Technologias (CANTE), San Luis Potosi, Mexico and the transitio_MX
Festival 05 2013 in Mexico City, as well as numerous partners in Halle, such as the Burg
Giebichenstein University of Art and Design.
Further support is provided by the European Commission’s Culture 2007-2013 programme, the
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, the Saxony-Anhalt Arts Foundation, the Goethe Institute in
Mexico and the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) in Mexico.
Press contact:
artpress – Ute Weingarten l Elisabethkirchstraße 15 l 10115 Berlin l Tel.: +49 (0)30 48 49 635 0
E-Mail: artpress@uteweingarten.de l www.artpress-uteweingarten.de
Opening October 5, 2012, 18:30h, Steintor Varieté in Halle
Different venues - Halle (Saale)
info counter & festival centre: Große Steinstraße 58
Exhibition opening times: 5. 10. | 19:00–22:00 h, Sat – Sun 12:00–20:00 h
Tue – Fri 16:00–20:00 h closed Monday