Video večer / Video Evening #03
Contextual Face
A screening evening

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 7 pm
Photon Gallery, Križevniška ul. 10, Ljubljana

We are informing you about the exhibition project of art group KOLEKTIVA, co-organized by Vesna Bukovec, SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster.

Kolektiva Institute is beginning with new series of monthly screenings Video Evening in Photon Gallery. Video Evening is an event in which we screen video selections prepared by various invited artists, curators, institutions, associations and festivals.

Duba Sambolec, NoHomeVideosC Code II, 2000, still

For the third Video Evening KOLEKTIVA invited artist and curator Evelin Stermitz to prepare a curated selection from ArtFem.TV, her online television programming presenting art and feminism.
Selected by: Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI)

Participating: Dominique Buchtala (DE), Vesna Bukovec (SI), Ana Grobler (SI), Guerrilla Girls (US), Michelle Handelman (US), Kika Nicolela (BR), Grace Graupe Pillard (US), Angelika Rinnhofer (DE/US), Duba Sambolec (SI/NO), Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI), Alison Williams (ZA), Liana Zanfrisco (IT)

About the selection

Various women artists are including their own face as an iconographic object and symbol bearer in their art works, or using the face of others, the former photographic portrait, transcending into the moving image. This video series addresses variant meanings of the woman’s face in a context of women’s issues when embedded in a socio-cultural heritage. The face can be seen as more then a signifier of our cultural norms, in the context of women often foregrounded not only as indicator for individual remembrance, not only associated to cultural norms such as beauty stereotypes, objectification of commodified women in advertisements, and not only as a surface for self-creation when mirroring the self to others, but read as political text and statement in a broader context.

All videos in the selection are part of the online video archive ArtFem.TV

Total screening time: 00:48:00

Visions from the Future is dedicated to video makers and audio-video researchers. It was born inside Cronosfera Festival as a video contest, a venture devoted to visions, researches and Space-Time perceptions amongst the new generations, and although remaining inside Cronosfera Festival, keeping its trail-blazing spirit, broadens and presents itself separately as a festival dedicated to video, with projections, video installations and evenings of audio video live performances. Visions from the Future aims to be an international window for works realized with the new media technology, starting from Video, declined in all its meanings and modes. A festival that fuses cinema, the audio-visual world and new technologies, conjugating science and art. A festival that gives place to digital culture, to interactive systems for artistic applications and to audio-visual performances. Today more than ever the reflection on personal and collective future, Science and Science Fiction have shifted from a sociological to a personal and daily context, in a plot of past, present and future more and more intriguing. The Artistic expression, ever since, anticipates and expresses thoughts, anxieties, individual and collective feelings. Visions from the Future dedicates the filmic imagery to the future, and investigates expressive tools of special topicality, proposing what is of human interest in the world of the new media.

Selected by: Cronosfera Project [Luisa Mizzoni aka luxi lu, Francesca Mizzoni aka Infrason, Emilio Corti] (IT)

Participating: Massimo Avantaggiato (IT), Tom Beddard (UK), Thorsten Fleisch (DE), Tobias Gundorff Boesen (DK), Bryan Lauch (US/SI) & Petra Pokos (SI), Luca Christian Mander (IT), David Montgomery (US), Diego Pascal Panarello (IT), Rimas Sakalauskas (LT), Fabio Scacchioli (IT), Angela Stefen (DE), Vladimir Todorović (CS/SG), Isacco Vasapollo (IT), Alessandro Vitali (IT)

Total screening time: 01:33:44

More information (descriptions & images of videos & artists’ CVs):
http://www.kolektiva.org/producing/video-vecer-video-evening/iridescent-world/descriptions-images-of-videos

About the curator

Evelin Stermitz, lives and works in Austria and Slovenia. She graduated with an M.A. degree in media and new media art from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is holding a master’s degree in philosophy from media studies. Her works are in the field of media and new media art with the main emphasis on post-structuralist feminist art practices. Evelin Stermitz received grants for the International Summer Art School of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, and the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria, within the media class by VALIE EXPORT. Besides her artistic work, Evelin Stermitz’s research work is focused on women artists in media and new media art. Evelin Stermitz founded ArtFem.TV – Art and Feminism ITV (www.artfem.tv) in the year 2008 and received a special mention for ArtFem.TV at the IX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, in the year 2010.

www.evelinstermitz.net
www.artfem.tv

Production: Kolektiva Institute
Co-production: Association/Gallery Photon, ArtFem.TV
Project supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana
Sponsor: Center Projekcije

More info:

• www.kolektiva.org/producing/video-vecer-video-evening/contextual-face
• Descriptions & images of videos & artists’ CVs

Photon Gallery/ Photon Association
Festival Photonic Moments
Križevniška 10, 1000 Ljubljana
t: +386 1 2302071
m: +386 41 258215
www.photon.si
www.mesecfotografije.si
Opening time: Mon.-Fri.: 11am-2pm / 3pm-6pm

[Published February 18, 2011]