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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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