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Sat Sep 29 05:52:54 CEST 2001



This newsletter in Dutch/Deze nieuwsbrief in
het Nederlands: http://www.wwvf.nl/newsletter/

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  19.  WORLD  WIDE  VIDEO  FESTIVAL 2001
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  annual international media art festival
  amsterdam 


* screenings
* live events
* meet the artist
* seminar 
 
  10 - 13 October 2001 

* exhibitions
  10 October - 11 November 2001 


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  Contents
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- Introduction
- Africa in focus
- RETREKS unSUNg CITY
- New Arab Video - (in)tangible cartographies
- World Wide Media Lounge
- Meet the Artist
- Seminar
- Live Events: The Light Surgeons/Hexstatic, 
  Alexei Shulgin, Matt Hindley, Kurt Ralkse,
  Breda Beban
- Echo
- Catalogue
- Admission
- Contact us

As of 2 October the full programme schedule 
will be online at: http://www.wwvf.nl.

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- Introduction
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With over a hundred artists from 26 countries 
the 19th edition of the World Wide Video Festival 
will start in Amsterdam on 10 October. Special 
programmes will focus on media art from Africa 
and the Arab world. (For a comprehensive list 
of all participating artists see 
http://www.wwvf.nl/2001).
In addition to media art from various parts 
of the world, there will be performances by 
dj's and vj's. During the first few days of 
the festival many artists will appear on Meet 
the Artist, there will be a dance night and 
many other activities in the Melkweg. All 
exhibitions will continue through Museum 
Night, 10 November. 

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- Africa in focus
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Traditionally, most media art is being produced 
in Western Europe, North-America, Japan and 
South-America. Relatively little is known to 
come from Africa or China. Last year the festival 
presented a number of works from China and this 
year a number of African countries will be 
featured. 
With the support of the World Wide Video Festival 
and the Hivos Cultur Fund, Fernando Alvim, 
Tracey Rose, Matt Hindley and Minnette Vari have 
produced new work that will have its world 
premiere at the festival. In addition to this, 
on 10 and 11 October Europarking will feature 
the exhibition 'RETREKS unSUNg CITY' - curated 
by Rodney Place - and, at the invitation of 
the Prins Claus Foundation, a solo exhibition 
by Antonio Ole containing work that has never 
been shown in Europe. Candice Breitz (ZAF), 
currently living in the USA, will present three 
new installations. The World Wide Video Festival 
will also premiere Fernando Alvim's 'Gela Uanga'. 

>>> Locations: 
Arti et Amicitiae, Veemvloer, Baby
Europarking, De Brakke Grond, Melkweg, De Appel

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- RETREKS unSUNg CITY
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Johannesburg's city centre was once the economic 
and cultural heart of South Africa. In the early 
seventies, the city began - US style - to 
decentralise into the suburbs and this urban 
paranoia grew with the advent of Johannesburg 
as a new African city after the '94 democratic 
elections.
The exhibition RETREKS: unSUNg CITY, curated by 
Rodney Place was shown last year at one of the 
many abandoned parking garages in the city centre. 
This year the World Wide Video Festival opens with 
this spectacular exhibition at Europarking on 
Marnixstraat in Amsterdam. On the top floor of 
this huge parking garage screens measuring 2 x 9 
meters will display works by Brett Murray, Jane 
Alexander, Robyn Orlin, Stephen Hobbs, William 
Kentridge and Rodney Place.

>>> Location: 
Europarking, 10 Oct 8 - 11 pm (Opening festival, 
admission on invitation only and for passe-partout 
holders). 11 Oct 5 - 10 pm

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- New Arab Video - (in)tangible cartographies
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Arab countries have recently produced an 
impressive array of works: video art, personal 
essayistic work and experimental documentaries. 
Much of these works strategically blur the 
distinctions between genres finding an adequate 
form of representation for the issues and/or 
narratives they are tackling. These works deal 
with interstitiality between countries, cultures, 
influences, politics, ideologies, and subjective 
dispositions/dispossessions. They incorporate 
a fascinating blend of critical stances and 
traditional (filmic and cultural) influences. 
At the request of the World Wide Video Festival 
artist/curator Jayce Salloum has compiled an 
extensive programme of videotapes from Lebanon, 
Palestine, Egypt and Syria, among others.

>>> Locations:
Melkweg - Cinema, 11/12/13 October. With 
introductions by Jayce Salloum and some of the 
artists. 
De Appel, 27 Oct
Baby, 11 Oct - 11 Nov

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- World Wide Media Lounge
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'Baby' is a beautifully renovated and tastefully 
redecorated former church on the Keizersgracht. 
Here 24 viewing units (computers/video monitors) 
have been installed where visitors - comfortably 
accommodated in luxurious seating - can choose 
from a menu which particular work from the 
selection of single screen productions 
(videotapes/CD-ROMs/Net Art) they would like to 
see. At their own pace, visitors can watch, 
browse, play and zap their own way through the 
various productions on offer. Alternatively, 
they can follow the thematic routes charted by 
the festival. The viewing units are located on 
the second floor. On the ground floor are the 
festival's reception desk, a bar, a lounge with 
armchairs and a reading table. Also in Baby is 
the installation 'Ekkofisk', an interactive 
sound installation by the artists' collective 
Fatamorgana (NOR). It consists of a lighted 
transparent column - standing some two meters 
high and filled with water and two goldfish - a 
computer and a series of sensors. The movements 
of the fish are registered by the sensors and 
then translated by the computer into quadraphonic 
music, turning the exhibition space into a 
subtle, dreamlike soundscape.

>>> Location: 
Baby, 11 Oct - 11 Nov, Tue - Sun 2 - 10 pm
11/12/13 Oct, 11 - 10 pm

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- Meet the Artist
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The World Wide Video Festival strives to 
stimulate the encounter of artists and audience 
in every possible way. Over 70 artists will be 
present at the festival and they will appear in 
the programme section Meet the Artist, a series 
of interviews, lectures, introductions and 
screenings in which the artists elaborate on their 
work, its background and their motivation. This 
section proved very popular last year with both 
regular festival visitors and fellow artists and 
press. It has therefore been extended: it will 
now take place in two rooms in the Melkweg, 
with a follow-up at three nights in De Appel.

>>> Location: 
Melkweg - Theaterzaal/Oude Zaal, 11/12/13 Oct 
De Appel, 20 Oct/27 Oct/3 Nov

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- Seminar
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Jordan Crandall (USA), Netochka Nezvanova (FRA) 
and Vera Frenkel (CND) are the speakers at this 
year's seminar, which will take place over a 
period of three days: 11, 12, 13 October, at 
11 am in the Theater Zaal in the Melkweg, 
Amsterdam. 
Each presentation will take up from 90 to 120 
minutes. As of 2 October the seminar programme 
will be online at: http://www.wwvf.nl/seminar. 
Admission for passe-partout holders only:
http://www.wwvf.nl/passepartout. 
There are no separate tickets available for the 
seminar only

>>> Location: 
Melkweg - Theater Zaal, 11/12/13 October 

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- Live Events 
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Live Event > The Light Surgeons/Hexstatic
On Saturday night the World Wide Video Festival 
Party at the Melkweg will be dominated by The 
Light Surgeons , a London collective of filmmakers, 
graphic designers and DJ's. The performance 
'Electronic Manoeuvres' will begin at The Max at 
10.30 pm. Partly hidden behind a large projection 
screen, The Light Surgeons will challenge 
perfection by presenting a breath-taking 
audiovisual show with their super8 films, slide 
sequences, 16mm film loops and assorted low-tech 
equipment. Next, performances by Live Professor 
and Scanone with visuals by The Light Surgeons. 
In de Oude Zaal, starting at midnight, Hextatic 
will perform, with a guest appearance by Alexei 
Shulgin.

>>> Location: 
Melkweg - The Max, 13 Oct 10.30 pm
Melkweg - Oude Zaal, 13 Oct midnight

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Live Event > Alexei Shulgin
Under the inspiring leadership of Russian artist 
Alexei Shulgin (RUS) cyberpunk rock band 386DX 
will perform at the Melkweg. Shulgin's 'band' 
consists of assorted outdated hardware, a dry 
ice machine and a keyboard. Ironic mockery or 
dead serious - whatever it may be, Shulgin's 
performances are always a surprise.

>>> Location: 
Melkweg - Oude Zaal/The Max, 11 Oct 10 pm 
and 13 Oct

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Live Event > Matt Hindley
Matt Hindley (ZAF) aims to examine the most 
highly charged moments of the inner lives of a 
range of subjects. Allow me to observe is a 
body-worn recording system. It shoots in the 
first person and is activated only by a high 
degree of excitement and arousal. The audience 
is invited to participate in Hindley's research. 
During the day the images - voyeuristic videos, 
edited by the subconscious - will be shown daily 
at Melkweg - The Max.

>>> Location: 
Melkweg - The Max, 11/12/13 Oct 

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Live Event > Kurt Ralkse
'Ursonate.02' is a performance, a live 
improvisation in sound and image. The first 
'Ursonate' was composed by Kurt Schwitters in 1932, 
a phonatory score with no linguistic meaning. 
Ralske (USA) became attuned to the subtle interaction 
of music and image - the myriad possibilities of 
ways sound and image can inflect each other's 
tone and meaning. Ralske works with nato.0+55 - 
the trailblazing  software program - which he 
rewrites and supplements as the need arises. 
Ralske describes his current video work as an 
inversion of his previous role: 'reverse film 
scoring', creating image to match sound, instead 
of the other way around. 

>>> Location: 
Melkweg - Oude Zaal, 12 Oct 8.30 pm

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Live Event > Breda Beban
Ten years after the outbreak of the Balkan war, 
Breda Beban (YUG/GBR) revisits her birthplace 
as Slobodan Milosevic's regime collapses in 
Yugoslavia. Titled after a heartbreaking Balkan 
folk song, Beban's live video performance 
'Too Early For Sorrow Too Late For Happiness?' 
captures the almost unbearable intensity of an 
event when a moment in personal history and a 
moment in social history blur.

>>> Location: 
Melkweg - Oude Zaal, 12 Oct 10.30 pm
Melkweg - Theaterzaal, 13 Oct 8 pm

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Live Event > Walter Verdin
X<Africa was first shown in 1997. This is a new 
version of this double concerto for sound and 
image, inspired by the Malinke rhythms of the 
African Bété tribe from Ivory Coast. This 
performance combines rhythms, music, dance and 
video projections against an African background.

>>> Location: 
'X<Africa', De Brakke Grond, 2 Nov 8.30 pm

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- Echo
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Keep an eye out for these extra activities that 
will take place in the weekends during the entire 
festival period.

Marcel Odenbach on the exhibition of African 
video art 'Blick-Wechsel' that he curated, with 
work by (among others) Ingrid Mwangi, Goddy Leye, 
Moshekwa Langa, and a presentation by Mawuli 
Afatsiawo, artist-in-residence of the 
World Wide Video Festival and the Thami Mnyele 
Foundation.

>>> Location: 
De Appel, 20 Oct 8.30 pm - 10.30 pm

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New Arab Video: (in)tangible cartographies.
Jayce Salloum will introduce the programme he 
compiled, showing works and extracts by, among 
others, Mohamed Souaid (LBN), Sohbi Al-Zobaidi 
(PAL), Hassan Khan (EGY), Zeineb Sedira (GBR), 
Nesrine Khodr (LBN) and Azza El-Hassan (PAL).

>>> Location: 
De Appel, 27 Oct 8.30 pm - 10.30 pm

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Fernando Alvim, Gela Uanga
The World Wide Video Festival will also have 
the world premiere of Alvim's 'Gela Uanga' 
(which roughly translates to 'art of the 
elsewhere (magic art)'). 
'Gela Uanga' is an artists' documentary about the 
'culture of warfare'. Its starting point is the 
devastating war that has been raging in Angola 
over the past 40 years - a trauma with 
repercussions that are felt far beyond Angola's 
borders. The documentary reflects the sometimes 
contradictory views of 14 artists on the traces 
the war has left in memory.

>>> Location: 
De Appel, 27 Oct 8.30 - 10.30

After the evenings in De Appel, the World Wide 
Media Lounge in Baby will be open.

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- Catalogue
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The 400 page, full colour catalogue contains 
descriptions (in English) and photographs of all 
the selected works together with introductory 
articles on some of the festival activities. It 
is designed by Irma Boom who has won two 
prestigious awards for her previous series of 
four World Wide Video Festival catalogues. The 
catalogue will be on sale during the entire 
exhibition period at Baby, Arti & Amicitiae, 
and at the Melkweg on 11,12,13 october, for 
f 50 and after that for f 69,50 at regular 
book stores. It can also be ordered on line 
via: http://www.wwvf.nl/catalogue.

The catalogue will be on sale during the entire 
exhibition period at Baby and Arti & Amicitiae 
for f 50, and after that for f 69,50 at regular 
book stores. 

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- Admission
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Advance booking and reservations
At http://www.wwvf.nl/passepartout day-tickets 
and passe-partouts can be reserved online. 
Reserved passe-partouts and day-tickets can 
only be collected at de Melkweg ticket-office 
from Monday, October 8 (please bring 
passport-photograph).

> Melkweg 
Ticket office is open Mon - Fri 1 pm - 5 pm, 
Sat/Sun 4 pm - 6 pm. If there is an evening 
programme, also from 7.30 pm (info: 020.531.8181). 
Collection and sale of passe-partouts and 
day-tickets. Reservation of tickets not 
possible at this ticketoffice! From 11 till 
13 October the ticket office will be open 
from 10.30 am till 2 am.

> AUB Ticketshop Leidseplein
Open daily 10 am - 6 pm (Thu untill 9 pm). 
Reservation and sale of passe-partouts and 
day-tickets. Reservation costs are f 4.50 
per ticket.

> Uitlijn
0900 - 0191 (88 cents per minute) daily 9 am - 
9 pm. Reservation and sale of passe-partouts 
and day-tickets. Costs of handling and postage 
f 7.70 per ticket. Tickets are delivered by mail.

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- Contact us
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World Wide Video Festival
Marnixstraat 411
1017 PJ Amsterdam
Netherlands

P: +31 (0)20 420 77 29
F: +31 (0)20 421 38 28
E: wwvf at wwvf.nl
W: www.wwvf.nl

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