miscellaneous

“Nothingness” and “Entitled As” will be exhibited at the event “Transnatura Videolab”, at the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, on 2 August 2010.

http://projectovideolab.blogspot.com/

Videolab Project, in collaboration with Fonlad and VideoChannel
July 3, 2010

This session is part of SITU’ARTE, promoted by Galeria Ícone, and it consists in a multidimensional event, intersecting different art forms: theatre, graffiti, photography, painting, drawing, music, performance and video.

Artists: Fonlad: Arthur Tuoto (Brazil), Andres Weber (Sweden), Caterina Davinio (Italy), Gruppo Sinestético (Italy),  Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay), Steven Hoskins (USA); Videolab: Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli (EUA),  Artur Varela (Portugal), Arzu Ozkal (Turquia), David Phillips & Paul Rowley (Irlanda/EUA), Diane Timmins (Reino Unido), Jean-Gabriel Périot (França), Joshua Bryan (Reino Unido), Laetitia Bourget (França), Nick Jordan (Reino Unido), Paulo Bernaschina e Sérgio Gomes (Portugal), Tito Guedes de Carvalho e Manuel Ogando (Portugal); VideoChannel (Alemanha): Bill Domonkos (EUA), Deinse Hood (EUA), Alexander Mouton (EUA), James Woodward ((EUA), Constantin Hartenstein (Germany), Dennis Summers (EUA), Jennifer Schwed (EUA), Rajorshi Ghosh (EUA)

Cura Bodrum is a project of Iz Oztat and Emincan Alemdaroglu, founded in 2008. It is an international residency program aiming to bring artists, researchers, writers, etc… from around the world together provide them a space for brainstorming, collaborating, producing and sharing… Patrick Lichty and I were invited to give a workshop on interventionist media art practices (see previous entry). Read about this year’s program, participants and many more on Cura Blog.

I had an amazing 10 days during my visit. Although, it was remarkably difficult to focus on work knowing the gorgeous Aegean was just there, we were able to produce a lot.

I did a trial run for a new piece I am working on. With most of the Cura residents, we went to one of the ‘largest coffeehouse companies of the US’, which is becoming more and more popular among the Turkish youth. We went in the coffeeshop one by one in 3 minute intervals and ordered turkish coffee –to make one takes about 3mins. The guys working at the place had to make turkish coffee but nothing else for almost 30mins. Even though the machine temporarily broke down, they managed to meet the demand. The most interesting part for me was that none of the coffeeshop people commented on the absurdity of the situation, although they sensed something unusual was going on. To me, this is a study on how corporations and the setting comes with them control human interaction. In a regular/local Turkish shop one would rarely see a ‘big welcoming smile’ on the cashier’s face, because you would know the person isn’t really happy about the position, and customer happiness isn’t really his/her biggest concern. Anyways, these guys were able to keep the big smile and avoid questions as written in their ‘corporate guide to creating a profitable workplace’.

Nazenin Tokusoglu (a dear friend from high-school) wrote an article for HaberTurk about this year’s program. Click here to view larger.

Detour @ SPACES
May 14 – July 16, 2010
Opening Reception: May 14, 6–9 p.m., free

Artists
Kristin Bly, T.R. Ericsson, Ben Kinsley, Arzu Ozkal, Lauren Yeager

Color Commentators
Lyz Bly, Bruce Edwards, Brandon Juhasz, Michael Gill, Eleanor LeBeau

Detour is an exhibition of 5 artists’ practices rerouted by an obstruction. SPACES has created a framework for play wherein 5 selected artists meet to discuss their practices and address areas of comfort and discomfort. By the end of the evening each artist will be assigned an obstacle by his/her peers. One artist may rely very heavily on a specific media, but the other 4 artists may agree that it would be good to step out of that comfort zone. Another artist may be asked to utilize a certain subject matter while another may be asked to work collaboratively rather than as a solo artist. Each obstruction is assigned as a playful experiment and a tool for growth rather than a mean-spirited prank.

The artists will then have seven days before the opening of the exhibition to realize their project while skirting around their new obstacle. Each artist will also be paired with someone who will document their processes and decisions. Like announcers at a football game, these individuals will run color commentary to make the artists’ play accessible to the public. SPACES’ website will function as the hub of the color commentary, but the exact relationship of the artist to their documentarian will be negotiated by the pair. Commentary may manifest itself as text, audio, video or some other means.

These artists’ experiments may succeed, and they may fail. That is the nature of a detour. Sometimes a more scenic route is discovered off the beaten path, and sometimes you just get horribly lost. In the end, projects will be realized, but the artistic process will be brought to the forefront and privileged alongside the finished work.

I’ll be participating at  Pecha Kucha Night: Cleveland Volume 3 on May 8th at MOCA Cleveland. Doors open at 7:00pm 8501 Carnegie Avenue.

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Ritual and Repetition, curated by Adriane Little is coming to Cepa Gallery in Buffalo, NY.

Ritual & Repetition
3.14 - 3.27.2009
http://ritualandrepetition.wordpress.com

John Aäsp (USA), Sylvie Bélanger (Canada), Clifford Borress (USA), Christopher Coleman (USA), Colette Copeland (USA), Neal W. Cox (USA), Crossbreed (USA), Christopher DiCicco (USA), Samantha DiRosa (USA), Shuichi Murakami (USA), A. Jacob Galle (USA), Hans Gindlesberger (USA), Lori Hepner (USA), Soyeon Jung (USA), Ivan Jurakic (Canada), Dietmar Krumrey (USA), Nate Larson (USA), Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand (USA), Kevin McConnell (USA), Joe Nanashe (USA), Louise Noguchi (Canada), Robert O’Connor (USA), June Pak (Canada), Justin Plakas (USA), David Poolman & Kathryn Mockler (Canada), Ginger Owen (USA), Geoffrey Alan Rhodes (Canada), Bernie Roddy (USA), Michael Sherwin (USA), Jon Shumway (USA), Andrew Sroka (USA), Gregory Steel (USA) and Arzu Ozkal Telhan (USA).

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you’re in Naoussa, Greece on these dates, go see my film “Murdered Brides” at the festival.

• 5th Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival
8-11 May 2008, Greece

…and

if you’re in Boston on the 22nd come listen to me talking about my work. Oh! Even a very top secret new project…

• Upgrade! Boston
7:00 pm @ Studio for Interrelated Media - Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston

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Another chance to watch Murdered Brides.

Selection of Experimental Films, Istanbul Independent Film Festival
Editors: Fatma Çolakoğlu, Eytan İpeker

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February 9 | 2008 | Gato Vadio | Oporto, Portugal

“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who do the fuck do you think you’re talking to? Oh, yeah? Ok.” Videolab Project is pleased to announce the beginning of what will be a monthly multimedia presentation in “Gato Vadio”, a bookstore-café, in Oporto, Portugal.

While preparing the event, due to start on February 9, important questions such as the place/specific ambiance of the bookstore were once again considered of utmost importance, thus allowing Videolab to continue to reflect on the issues that were defined during its foundation, back in 2004:

- What characterizes the language of video? - Which is the ideal place for its presentation? - Is there an ideal place?

“You talkin’ to me?”, an obvious reference to De Niro¹s talking to himself while staring at the mirror in “Taxi Driver”, is a selection of 17 videos whose main goal is to directly address the visitor/viewer. Videolab¹s intention is to make sure that the show will not use video works as some sort of decoration objects, to where the visitor/viewer may look or not. At the same time, narrative works were excluded because they would require the audience full attention. With this two requisites in mind, Videolab¹s selection of videos intends to free the works from the absolute need of the full attention mentioned above; but at the same time makes the works selected responsible for being able to attract people¹s look, be it for what they are trying to communicate, be it for the sound, or for a single image.

The 17 short films will be shown in loop during February 9, in “Gato Vadio” (Rua do Rosário, 281, Oporto, Portugal).

PROGRAMME:

“Loud and Clear” by Dietmar Krumrey | 3’ (excerto) | USA
“The State of Things” by Amelia Winger-Bearskin | 9’ | USA
“Entitled As” by Arzu Ozkal Telhan | 3′31 | Turkey/USA
”Gay?” by Jean Gabriel Périot | 2′ | France
”Packaged Goods” by Leah Meyerhoff | 1′ | USA
“Der Bewohner” by o habitante | 3′06’’ | Portugal
”Ornamental” by Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli | 1’50’’ | USA
“Baby Marleena” by Erica Eyres | 4′30 | Scotland
“Falling Down” by Jan Hakon Erichsen | 53” | Norway
”Mother look what they’ve done to me (a tribute to Amanda Lear)” by Risk Hazekamp | 5’20’’ | Netherlands
“Gender Bender Hallo” by Alison Williams | 5’17’’ | South Africa
“Perfect” by Johanna Lecklin |1′ | Finland
“O Burro” by Artur Varela | 4′ | Portugal
”Ah Pook is Here” by Philip Hunt | 6′ | United Kingdom/Germany
”Fine, Thanks” by Ruggero Mantovani | 1′50” | Italy
“Front” by Johanna Reich | 1’56’’ | Germany
“Slippy Bunny” by Corrine Bot | 5’40’’ | Netherlands

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http://projectovideolab.blogspot.com/

Videolab Project, along with the Laboratório de Artes Criativas (LAC) and Área 55, is pleased to announce this year’s edition of Videolab Lagos, from the 1 st to the 3rd November. The great novelty of Videolab Lagos 2007 is the substitution of generalist sessions for sessions devoted to the subject “Image-body” . In this sense, VIDEOLAB Lagos 2007 is composed by three screenings with different approaches to the “Body”, and by a set of four video installations, that will be shown in Espaço Jovem and in LAC, respectively.

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