Videospotting
Intimising Dance (2011 ) at TransDance 13 Festival in Cairo
October 28 and 29, 2013
Intimising Dance is a video programme selected by Ida Hiršenfelder in the framework of Videospotting series of video art programmes. It has been screened as a part of TransDance 13 Festival (from 21st till 30th October, 2013) organised by HaRaKa Center in their newly opened exhibition space ODA in the centre of Cairo.
This year's festival topic is Oblivion and Resistance focused on the questions of performance and actions based on the use of the body, the creation of the rules of observation, presentation and mediation, archives and monopoly, the deletion of memory and lose.
![Intimising Dance](foto450/intimising-dance.jpg)
Programme:
- Ana Čigon, Timelessness, 20′, 2008
- Apolonija Šušteršič, Kees van Zelst, Entrance de Singel, 5′ 50”, 1997
- Maja Slavec, Revaluation (short version), 5′, 2008
- Evelin Stermitz, Inside the Outside, 5′ 33”, 2006
- Neven Korda, Echoes, 5′ Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2009
- Maja Smrekar, Repeating Coincidence, 3'42'', 2009
- Zemira Alajbegović, Vortex, 4′ 5” TV Slovenija, 2000
- Ana Čigon, One More Kick, 4′ 35” 2009
- Sašo Vrabič, Santa (short version), 3′ 32”, 2001
HaRaKa is a leading research platform for performance and dance in Cairo, connecting research, production, publishing and education since 2006. Since 2009 HaRaKa is organising TransDance Festival in Cairo in order to develop and investigate interdisciplinary potential of video art in relation to performing practices.
SCCA-Ljubljana has thus far collaborated with HaRaKa Centre on several occasions. The first time, in 2008 TransDance Festival with video programme Videodance_6. Two years after, SCCA has contributed another video programme Dancemania for the Townhouse Gallery (Cairo) and an interdisciplinary workshop Open Studio, conducted by video artist Neven Korda at Studio Emad Eddin Foundation.
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[Published October 30, 2013]
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