a video art compilation curated by Antonio Ortuño.
Saturday September 7th, 7PM
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featuring Videoartists: Felix Fernandez and Juanma Carrillo, Carlos Llavata , Jose Luis Serzo, Ausín Sáinz, Mario Sarramián, Javier Marisco, Leonardo Gracés, Khalif Thompson, Nancy, Martinez, Victoria Febrer & Pedro J. Padilla, José Luis Soto, Blanca Giménez Calpe, Carlo Sampietro, Bruce Drummond, Johanna Evans-Colley, Rosana Antolí & Guillermo Marton Bermejo, Ari Richter, Colectivo Pekín es: Mario Sarramián, Raúl Rodríguez.
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Felix Fernandez and Juanma: Carrillo Spain
Title: This Leak
Music: rubeck
Video: Juanma Carrillo & Félix Fernández Duration: 8 min 6 sec.
«THIS LEAK» This leak presents a character who works in the business of Wall Street in a normal working day in the city of New York. During lunch you will find something that will change your whole existence as he has always under- stood.
This video connects us with the energy exchange through a personal cathartic process and opens a new perspective for the future.
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Carlos Llavata: Madrid, Spain.
Title: haunting?.
Madrid, 2011.
An oniric communicative and anti-boring performance that
wishes to highlight one of the main conceptual paranoia nowadays: the rabbit world and its possibilities in our XXI century, its imaginary world endangered and its potential in this XXI century: magic, sex, cartoons, rabbit’s foot key ring, or just the basic ingredient in Valencia’s paella.
I am greatly busy with these thoughts that I forward with methods I am familiar with: performance art, audiovisual format, ceramic sculpture or photography. I openly expose it so as to get a broader feedback of ideas to develop further this research, this idea concerning such a great matter. Is the pornographic genre (playboy) invading all the conceptual aspect of the rabbit’s world* and there- fore, would this be the reason that leads to its extinction, leaving all other values aside, such as magic, hunting, cartoons, rabbit’s foot key ring and everything that entails?
All my efforts resulted in these projects intend to deduce, envision and if pos- sible neutralize that pornographic advance and preserve that conceptual multivi- sion of the so wonderful “rabbit’s world” to which we have so much to recog- nize, and investigate the interrelationship among its various potential aspects.
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Jose Luis Serzo Spain
Title: “The Grand Narrator of the lords of the forest” Spain. 2012.
“The Grand Narrator of the lords of the forest” is a video belong- ing to the last series of José Luis Serzo entitled The Lords of the forest, in this series the characters are pseudo-archetypal beings that might be daemons * same, because although their appearance whether human, deal of detail will lead to situate among those beings of collective confabulation living somewhere be- tween imagination (subcosciente group or soul of the world) and reality.
The Great Storyteller is a key figure in this series but also in the work of Serzo. In this case manifested as a big totem in the forest interior, but the time could be looking at a puppet, a puppet of ventríluoco even (by the same author?) In an artificial forest, a stage. In his disturbing and sustained silence can arise all the stories, it is silent, in the viewer’s mind.
All the stories of the world can be enclosed inside your mouth, inside the Forest.
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Speaks Onion: Visuals: Bruce Drummond, Music: Dan Abatemarco. New York.
Nonlinear Division (nadir version). New York. 2012.
Brief synopsis: Nonlinear Division (nadir version) is an extract from live audio- visual performances that artist, bruced, and musician, Speak Onion, have been performing in 2012. The music is choked with ense atmosphere, folding in on itself repeatedly, while the visuals are expansive, building outwards in every direction. The compoud effect is a feeling of infinity: no beginning or end, no inside or outside, no familiar reference points. This causes a new and impression- istic experience of time-less a straight line and more an arc with illdefine limits, which eventually feels just as familiar as it does new.
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Johanna Evans-Colley Brooklyn, New York
Title: Study #6 Clouds. Brooklyn, New York. 2011.
The video is from the series Transpositions, which explores different, almost elemental landscapes, such as the sea, a mountain, the road, sky and land. Each of these are upended. Through this simple act of inversion, multiple layers and modes of perception are created. The familiar becomes the unknown. The yearning to flip the image back, or see it the “right” way is strong, but ultimately one is pulled into this opposing visual world. It becomes unclear what, exactly, is happening, or how. Points of view converge and diverge.
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Rosana Antolí & Guillermo Marton Bermejo Madrid, Spain.
Title: Carradine’s kids. Madrid. 2012.
Brief synopsis: David Carradine’s ‘rugged’ death inspire this project. Rosana Antolí’s women players pictures seek interaction with the lost boys of Guillermo Martin Bermejo, to experience and jointly seek risky forms of pleasure.
An ode to death and the resurrection. A mirror of a generation not temporarily defined, but by avoiding sexual games left and move the viewer into a voyeuris- tic position, where this is the observer of the atrocious maneuvers masturba- tion. The drawings leave the flat support to interact with each other or even with machines, in a romantic background, which emphasizes this almost theatrical drama.
Production format: DVD. Stereo.
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Leonardo Gracés Argentina
Title: PROXEMIA (PROXEMICS). Buenos Aires. 2012.
Brief synopsis: Where ends personal space? where starts the other ́s space? What relationships are generated when personal space is influenced by the presence of others? Can two strangers maintain an intimate relationship without wanting it? Proxemics is a reflection on space and interpersonal distance. My interest lies in the way it can be built the intimacy between people given only by the proximity of the bodies. “To the intimate distance, the presence of another person is unmis- takable and can sometimes be very upset about the influx of sensory data. The vision (often distorted), the smell, the warmth of the other person , sound, smell and feel of breath, all combine to highlight the distinctive relation to another body. “Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension, 1996, p. 143.
During the process,at no more than two meters from people, the camera also takes up a space, intimidates and takes part of that suffocating mass, uniform and particular.
Production format: MP4 (codec h264).
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Ari Richter New York
Title: Daft Bodies Queens, NY.2011
Brief synopsis: Sourced from Youtube, removed by Youtube. Format: DVD Sound: Stereo
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Ausín Sáinz Spain
Title: THE STRAIGHT-JACKET. Spain. 2012.
Brief synopsis: It presents in an ironical way the submission of many women to Their partners. First, They moved from the doubt to the search, after from the game to the aggression and finally They struggle for Their freeing.
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Colectivo Pekín es Mario Sarramián Spain
Title: Interventionism Spain. 2011.
Brief synopsis: Mao’s piece is an indictment of government intervention on mi- gration still existing in many countries, including the Republic of China, where the government, through unilateral and inhumane policies, selfishly directed movements of people, both inside the republic as to the outside and from outside it. This ‘regulation’ illegal human movement, besides being a violation of the fundamental rights of individuals, promotes corruption in government and the people. The situation in the R. Mao complaint P. China is extensible to many other countries, even some of those who consider themselves Democrats.
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Javier Marisco Spain
Title: Subliminal Hollywodd Spain. 2010.
Brief synopsis: This piece explores the use subliminal image that, according to urban legend, Coca-Cola used, introducing these images in movies. in this case, has been subverted category: in a Coca-Cola has introduced Hollywood kisses images, if you look, never get to be consumed.
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Leonardo Gracés Argentina
Title: PROXEMIA (PROXEMICS). Buenos Aires. 2012.
Brief synopsis: Where ends personal space? where starts the other ́s space? What relationships are generated when personal space is influenced by the presence of others? Can two strangers maintain an intimate relationship without wanting it? Proxemics is a reflection on space and interpersonal distance. My interest lies in the way it can be built the intimacy between people given only by the proximity of the bodies. “To the intimate distance, the presence of another person is unmis- takable and can sometimes be very upset about the influx of sensory data. The vision (often distorted), the smell, the warmth of the other person , sound, smell and feel of breath, all combine to highlight the distinctive relation to another body. “Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension, 1996, p. 143.
During the process,at no more than two meters from people, the camera also takes up a space, intimidates and takes part of that suffocating mass, uniform and particular.
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Khalif Thompson New York
Title: Lif in Perpetuity New York. 2013.
Brief synopsis: I started work on this artistic film thinking about the amount of work that is endured by me and people each day and how this schedule oftask we create for ourselves turn into a forward routine, especially in NYC; it becomes time without end, in what would seem an eternity of work. The film follows me, seeing life through my perspective as I go through my own little piece of eternity; narratives of different familiar shots are included from my everyday experience as well as things that inspire me to keep trying each day. This is also homage to the many fellow artists in high school working at future goals with each passing period of time.
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Nancy Martinez New York
Title: Breathing
New York City. 2013.
Brief synopsis: A looping animated illustration that represents the cycle of breathing. All life on the planet is connected by this repeating motion. The images that make up the animation were first by hand, with color, texture, and movement added digitally. I hope to illustrate that a tree is very similar to a hu- man being and that we are dependent on one another. We need trees to breathe, and trees need us as well.
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Victoria Febrer & Pedro J. Padilla New York
Title: Untitled Promise. New York City. 2013.
Brief synopsis: A lone poppy flower emerges before us in a desolate bar- ren landscape. As the landscape disappears, we are forced to return from the dreamlike memory reproduced in the projected film and consider our actual surroundings-now brightly lit and becoming populated with hundreds of flowers. This projection takes us from the world of memories to the here and now, forcing us to consider the rich possibilities of the moment.
For thousands of years, the common wild poppy has symbolized rebirth, remembrance, and hope due to its remarkable ability to reemerge after a field has been damaged by agriculture, drought, fire or war. The image used to create this projection is a work of art made using only red wine, a ubiquitous but symbolically rich material.
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José Luis Soto USA
Title: gray No. 33. New York City. 2013.
Brief synopsis: An oniric communicative and anti-boring performance that wishes to highliThe landscapes in motion that are presented in the gray series are part of my constant exploration of complex visual structures in nature. gray re- moves color and invert fields to expose the core forms that build our landscapes
. It is not a simplification, but an amplification of what lies beneath our complex human experience.
gray No. 33
This video depicts patterns generated falling snow. The image is mirrored to cre- ate a kaleidoscope effect and in the process, the patterns are revealed. The work is inspired by nature’s use of repeating fractal forms. The sound was produced specially for this video to create a relaxed atmosphere that facilitates the viewer’s aesthetic experience.
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Blanca Giménez Calpe Spain.
Title: A sea of tears. Valencia, Spain. 2011.
Brief synopsis: “Un mar de lágrimas” (A sea of tears) speaks of deep emotions, which are clearly revealed through the action of crying. Thus, the viewer faces an image which is out of context of a moment he or she is not familiar with and feels complicity, guilt or maybe even indifference.
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Carlo Sampietro USA
Title: Bunda Pandeiro New York City. 2009
Brief synopsis: In Brazilian slang, the phrase is used to describe attractive but- tocks by referring to them as a tambourine. While the ass is a universally recog- nized symbol of sexual allure, the film blurs lines between gender and race, re- ducing each participant to the utilitarian role of a musical instrument. Traditional sexual roles are also eliminated. This “body concert” is a metaphorical represen- tation of the “tambourine,“ which has no gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation but is defined perfect simply from the sound that it makes.
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Raúl Rodríguez
La Laguna, Canarian Island, Spain.
Title: Bovisa, il quartiere. Milan, 2011.
Brief synopsis: The intention is the capture the essence of the place and the people who he gives life to the neighborhood, freezing the everyday actions of every day in that town, image to image portraying the daily lives of the inhabit- ants and the movement of public and private namespaces as a voyeur.
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