black duck

overlapping memories

2011-11-29T05:33:00.001-08:00

overlapping memories es un proyecto de intercambio entre artistas visuales de Pittsburgh y Quart de Poblet que involucra a artistas residentes en ambos países. La idea del intercambio es conectar artistas contemporáneos de EEUU y España, los cuales han sido invitados a crear obras inspiradas en los conceptos de memoria e introspección utilizando técnicas contemporáneas de collage.

overlapping memories is a visual art exchange project between Pittsburgh and Quart de Poblet involving artists based in both ciountries. The idea of the exchange is to connect contemporary artists from U.S.A and Spain who have been invited to respond to the concept of memory and retrospection in the context of contemporary collage.

La parte norteamericana del proyecto está coordinada por Carolina Loyola Garcia, artista, profesora de universidad y comisaria afincada en Pittsburgh, PA. Los eventos y la exposición tendrán lugar en SPACE, Pittsburgh, del 10 de febrero hasta el 1 de abril 2012.

The U.S.A part of the proposed project is principally coordinated by Carolina Loyola Garcia, artist, university lecturer and curator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Residencies and events will take place in SPACE, Pittsburgh, from the 10th of February to the 1st of April 2012.

S P A C E
812 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh,
PA 15222

La parte española del proyecto está coordinada por Ima Picó, artista y directora de black duck y Cristina Ghetti, artista y directora de Red Nomade. Los eventos y la exposición tendrán lugar en Quart Jove, Quart de Poblet desde el 25 de febrero hasta el 24 de marzo 2012.

The Spanish part of the proposed project is principally coordinated by Ima Picó, artist and director of black duck and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade. Residencies and events will take place in Quart Jove, Quart de Poblet from the 25th of February to the 24th of March 2012.

Quart Jove

C/ de la Torreta 1

46930 Quart de Poblet

Valencia

Parallel Visions - Espacio Enter Canarias

2011-11-02T04:24:00.001-07:00

ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS

TEA. Tenerife Espacio de las Artes

17-20 of November 2011

ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS is a project created and directed by ART TECH MEDIA, a non-profit international cultural organization. Its aims are the creation, organization, promotion and direction of different events for the development of the Arts and the Digital Culture, to prompt and to fortify the alliance among Art, Science, Technology, Innovation and the Society, the cross debate, the reflection and the elaboration of proposals and contents by means of the philosophy of open code, that impact positively in the creation of the Knowledge Society.

Parallel Visions will be screened at Espacio Enter Canarias:

PARALLEL VISIONS
The screening comprises video works by Canadian and Mexican contemporary artists grouped under two main threads. On the one hand, the selection of video works by Canadian artists engage in a deep exploration and de-construction of the image, thus creating contemplative compositions that most of the time resists symbolic representation. Some of these works reflect on the process of observation and the construction of the image, pushing forward the question of the artist's plastic intervention of digital media.
On the other hand, the selection of works by Mexican artists mobilizes the notion of appropriation. Some of the works are single-channel videos, direct recordings of public actions and circumstantial events, while others are adaptations of video-installations and documentaries. Together, they explore places, dynamics, and characters which reconfigure both, space and social practices in Mexico City. Persistently, they investigate diverse forms or appropriation and occupation by artists, street vendors, and parking lot guys called the “viene-viene,” as they create subjective narratives and dynamics that are neither official not underground, but forms of coexistence that are central to revert social and economic inequalities.
Parallel Visions thus suggests a multiplicity of perspectives which run side by side, without necessary crossing. The two programs put forward conceptual and aesthetic connections and disconnections that coincide in spatial terms―after all the artists are based in Montreal, and Mexico City, respectively―and yet respond to an inquiry on the notion of intervention that emerged after the selection of video works by Canadian artists was completed. When this same concept was formulated in relation to the work of Mexican artists, the strategies and aesthetics changed, thus activating other meanings and forms of intervention and appropriation.

Erandy Vergara. 2011

Parallel Visions is a screening of Canadian and Mexican videoworks co-curated by Erandy Vergara and Ima Picó. The selection by Canadian artists was completed during a research residency at Studio XX, in Montreal with the collaboration of Groupe Intervention Video and Perte de Signal.

Erandy Vergara is a PhD student in the Doctoral Program in Art History at McGill University. She has participated in numerous curatorial projects, among them “Curating Mexican Video Art: A Historical Survey” held at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda as part of the exhibition (Ready)Media: Towards an archeology of Media and Invention in Mexico, (2010) and has co-curated the exhibition Fake it! at Studio XX, Montreal, Canada (2010) and the video programme “Videomix: Dancing” at La Casa Encendida Gallery in Madrid, Spain (2006).

Ima Pico is a visual artist and curator based in Manchester. She undertakes curatorial projects under the name of black duck to promote the work of contemporary artists to an international audience. Projects include participation in festivals, international exchanges, exhibitions and events.

This project has been possible thanks to DIVERSITY ART FORUM:

DIVERSITY ART FORUM is an organization that supports art projects nationally and internationally. It is the diversity of the medium rather than cultural background of artists or groups that Diversity Art Forum is interested in. Diversity Art Forum aims to encourage various debates in the projects it supports.

Programme (Canada):

Myriam Bessette

N'acre

3:00

2007

N’acre explores crackles and sparkles in a kind of chromatic sputter that suggests a pause in our viewing. For the video image evokes a contemplative dimension, even a form of stasis in our reception of it. As filmmaker Anthony McCall pointed out, “when we look and listen to a video or movie, we enter into the elsewhere of the animated image, and we leave our physical body behind us, rooted in the place.” Which is to say that every image is a ubiquitous device: to look at it is in some sense to be not entirely there.

N'acre - Myriam Bessette

Frédérick A. Belzile

Babayan

02:18 min

2010

At dusk, a camera pans and shuffles on a ridge between two valleys. The sounds in the valley is an envelope standing between this horizon and us.

Babayan - Frédérick A. Belzile

Aurélie Pedron

Hiémal

2:50

2008

Hiémal is a series of three short dance videos. Audrée Juteau and Carla Soto constructed the latter from improvisations. The camera is like a part of the dancer´s bodies. They don´t see what they are filming.

Aurélie Pedron - Hiémal

Kim Kielhofner

Hail the failure of urban planning

2:07

2007

Hail the failure of urban is a possibility of creation and constraint through a visual movement as an urban dweller. Accompanying the visual movement is a text of tenets of urban practice, both sincere and ironic.

Kim Kielhofner -Hail the failure of urban planning

Pavitra Wickramasinghe

Stasis (video) - mountain

02:37

2005

The process of creation and mastery of the medium are crucial to Pavitra Wickramasinghe. Accordingly, the technology used in her work is never neutral; it explores and reflects the process of making and the act of viewing. Stasis was made by taping a single long shot of a distant mountain; the camera started in tight and over 2:37 minutes it pulled back until the mountain was a tiny indistinguishable smudge in the middle of the image. After, the artist edited every single frame back to the original composition of the mountain, thus, blowing the image up as much as necessary to fill the screen. Hence, the crisp, clear image slowly dematerialize into pixels.

Pavitra Wickramasinghe - Stasis (video) - mountain

Nelly-Ève Rajotte

Link

2:18

2009

Passage, crosses, line and a fixed plan. Link is around the themes of the linearity and time that this video registers. Sound space is built while crossing the image via the line.

In this work, Rajotte works with the planes and the confusing composition caused by the reflection of a water back; as she integrates aural and visual data, the image unfolds in a dreamlike space and time.

Nelly-Ève Rajotte’ - Link

Robin Dupuis

Anoxi | La synthèse

6:32

2009

Theorists of digital art have discussed the similarity of precinematic and postcinematic practices (such as early chronophotograhy and Quicktime video clips). The abstractions created by Robin Dupuis, such as Anoxi, can be understood as examining this connection in an aesthetic manner, but following and creating new forms and rhythms with the possibilities of the digital instrument. In Anoxi the elements in the picture are melting into new forms, separating and coming together in continuous transformation and variation.

Mika Taanila, Avanto, Helsinki

Robin Dupuis - Anoxi | La synthèse

Programme (Mexico):

Marcela Armas

Occupation (Ocupación)

04:00

2007

Ocupación is an action arising from the occupation of space for vehicular traffic, using the body, understood as a carrier and noise generator. The main idea is to walk instead of taking a car, taking into advantage of traffic congestion in cities. To perform the action was developed a portable kit with a choice of 7 different car horns. A control on the arm is used to activate of the devices. On an area of heavy congestion such as downtown Mexico, the artist’s action creates tension among car drivers, who are forced to slow down as she occupies a vital space that can get them a few meters closer to their destinies.

Marcela Armas - Occupation

Bruno Varela

La Raza (From the series 3 Line)

01:33
2010/2011

Zapata and La Raza are two works from the series Three Line, a DVD exploring the subway line running through Mexico City’s north (Indios Verdes station) to south (Universidad station). As most of the Three Line stations are named after key events of Mexican History, Bruno Varela uses it to reflect on its fractures and unofficial histories. La Raza station is located at the intersection of Vallejo avenue and Insurgents avenue, and it is named after a monument devoted to the Aztec race (Monumento a la Raza). Varela’s video, however, refers to “la raza” in its popular meaning, which refers to the Mexican people, as supported by film footage of Mexico de mi corazon (1963), on a scene where the main characters interpret popular song “Soy puro mexicano.” Zapata, on the other hand, mixes found images and film footage of the 1952 movie Viva Zapata!, starring Marlon Brando as the Mexican revolutionary who led a rebellion against dictator Porfirio Diaz, Emiliano Zapata. Central to these works is the notion of appropriation, as all material is downloaded from the internet: movies, documentaries, amateur videos, and recordings are recycled and re-used to critically explore the current meaning of national symbols, and its appropriation in the production of an alien cultural product.

Bruno Varela - La raza

Zapata (From the series 3 Line)

02:25
2010/2011

Bruno Varela - Zapata

Mauricio Limon

Heyyoulistentome (¿si o no papi?)

07:57
2011

This work involves a street characters commonly known as “viene-viene” (a squeegee), who cleans car windows at red lights to earn a living, and also arbitrarily appropriates parking places on the street, charging drivers for parking on “their” places. From an idle and childish dynamic (like smacking a friend with a cleaning rag), this video goes deeper into an ominous scenario that poses questions about our existence, particularly inside the complex, violent and confusing relationships existing between the different social structures of Mexican culture. To mention a few: What is it behind the apparent simulation of leisure and debauchery? Where are the limits between joking and excess? It is important to point out the implicit relationship that exists among these characters, and the artist as a participant on this dynamic, revealing a complicity between the lines that cannot be stated but that inevitably gives way to desire.

Jota Izquierdo

Yellow Capitalism - Abel Carranza (Capitalismo Amarillo - Abel Carranza)

09:25
2009

The production of certain goods and devices in Mexico City, render ideals regarding democratic and empowering access to technology as the very means of challenging dominant narratives coming from technologically-driven societies. This documentary focuses on Abel Carranza, member of the “Fantastic Twins,” a team devoted to the production of speakers-backpacks used by subway vendors. This work is part of Izquierdo’s project Yellow capitalism (Capitalismo amarillo), which critically addresses capitalists conditions of production and consumption, along its failures and contradictions. An important part of this project has been devoted to researching the Mexican black market: its products, its producers, as well as its strategies of production and distribution of pirate merchandise.

Jota Izquierdo - Capitalismo amarillo - Abel Carranza

Iván Edeza

Typography (Tipografía)

01:00
2004

Typography offers a journey through marginalized neighbourhoods, in which “sonideros” and popular bands (most commonly cumbia, norteño, and rock) have taken over empty walls to promote their events. On white walls painted with lime, the colourful fonts mix with graffiti and messages of the community have become the landmark of Mexico City's frontiers.

Iván Edeza - Tipografía

A. Salomón

El País del Miedo (2008)

03:39

Two children begging in the street while praying for a Mexico filled with blessings. As the artists cover their faces and the lyrics of their song appear on the screen as a karaoke-style, this work points out to what the artist calls “the national caricature of a country convulsed between panic and despair.”

El País del Miedo. A. Salomón

With the support of:

Keeping afloat - La Clinica Mundana - Valencia

2011-10-14T01:49:00.000-07:00

Keeping afloat es una exposición de dibujos, murales y videos hechos por artistas residentes en Londres. El intercambio Keeping afloat se inición en junio de 2011 con una exposición de artistas españoles y argentinos en Studio 75, Londres. Keeping afloat se traslada ahora a la Clínica Mundana, Valencia, con una exposición para la que los artistas londinenses han desarrollado nuevos trabajos especificos para la galería. Las obras exploran ideas sobre entornos urbanos e instalaciones site-specific utilizando diversos medios. Keeping afloat ha sido organizado por Studio 75, Red Nomade, La Clínica Mundana y black duck.

Artistas: Nazir Tanbouli y Gillian McIver.

La clínica mundana nace como espacio expositivo para los nuevos creadores/investigadores, pero además pretende involucrar al ciudadano en el acontecer artístico, mediante la experimentación y el intercambio, creando un lugar de encuentro con una programación dinámica y comprometida, es decir, conectada con la realidad y su propio contexto. En este sentido, creemos en la difusión del arte como instrumento para enriquecer el panorama cultural actual de la ciudad de Valencia.

Studio 75 es un estudio artístico y un espacio dirigido por artistas que se encuentra en el bajo de un bloque de apartamentos en Haggerston, en el este de Londres. Es el estudio de las videastas Andrea Luka Zimmerman y Gillian McIver, el fotógrafo Lasse Johansson y el pintor Nazir Tanbouli, fundadores del estudio como espacio artístico. Dirigido por artistas para producir, discutir y presentar su trabajo, Studio 75 organiza exposiciones, visionado de videos y eventos.

RED NOMADE es un grupo de producción, dialogo e investigación artística. El trabajo del grupo ha estado orientado desde sus comienzos por dos grandes preocupaciones: la búsqueda de alternativas a las prácticas artísticas dominantes y la necesidad de generar nuevas maneras de crear lazos entre el arte, los artistas y sus entornos.

black duck lleva a cabo proyectos internacionales para promover el trabajo de artistas contemporáneos que trabajan en instalación, medios digitales y video. Los proyectos incluyen la participación en festivales, intercambios internacionales, exposiciones y eventos diversos.

Keeping Afloat
en colaboración con Studio 75 London
Inauguración: Viernes 28 de octubre 2011 a las 20:00h
Viernes 28, sábado 29 y domingo 30 de octubre

La Clínica Mundana
Plaza del ángel 5.
46003 Valencia
Horario: 17:30 - 22:00

Keeping afloat ha sido organizado por Studio 75, La Clinica Mundana, Red Nomade y black duck.

Intervalos Lúcidos - ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS 2011

2011-09-28T04:03:00.000-07:00

ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS

TEA. Tenerife Espacio de las Artes

17-20 of November 2011

ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS is a project created and directed by ART TECH MEDIA, a non-profit international cultural organization. Its aims are the creation, organization, promotion and direction of different events for the development of the Arts and the Digital Culture, to prompt and to fortify the alliance among Art, Science, Technology, Innovation and the Society, the cross debate, the reflection and the elaboration of proposals and contents by means of the philosophy of open code, that impact positively in the creation of the Knowledge Society.

black duck and RED NOMADE present for ESPACIO ENTER Intervalos Lúcidos, a screening of international artists working with animation, documentary and moving image.

black duck undertakes curatorial projects to promote the work of contemporary artists working in performance, installation, digital media and video to an international audience. Projects include participation in festivals, international exchanges, exhibitions and events.

RED NOMADE is an international cooperation project interested in the exchange of contemporary artists and intellectuals. The collective aim is to generate artistic, cultural and academic events in different cities in order to facilitate the meeting of visual artists, art critics, curators, writers and intellectuals.

INTERVALOS LÚCIDOS

VICTORIA LUCAS

The sinking

The Royal Navy heavily attacked the German battleship Bismarck on the 27th May 1941. Onboard one of these British units was Lucas' Great Grandfather, Fred Bird. His account of the two-hour attack that eventually sank the Bismarck is detailed in a diary, which has now become a part of a Family Archive.

In 'The Sinking', Lucas sets out on a small fishing boat in the hope of finding the place where this event occurred. With no map to guide her, she is forced merely to look out towards the vastness of the Black Ocean. The borderless expanse of writhing space keeps its secrets hidden, the surface now protecting the many victims it once destroyed. A metaphor for the expanses of time, the film allows the viewer to consider the fragility of their own existence, through two connected experiences.

The sinking

GILLIAN MCIVER

La Mort Tojours

Based on audio and visual field recordings from the Paris catacombs and Buchenwald, La Mort Toujours is a meditation on the mysteries of time and mortality.

ANDREA LUKA ZIMMERMAN

The Delmarva_chicken_of_tomorrow

Between dream and nightmare, The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a traversal of here and elsewhere, first and third world; a fairytale of production, resources, capitalism, globalisation, refuse and refusal: The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a film not about the struggle to be seen, but about the struggle to see.

The Delmarva_chicken_of_tomorrow

JU UNDERWOOD - SHAUN STAMP

Around

Around was filmed during a residency in Enschede the Netherlands, along with fellow artist-in-residence Shaun Stamp. The film explores the notion of newness, arrival, disorientation, and the emotional response to previously unprocessed stimuli which is encountered on entering an unaccustomed environment. The music, composed and recorded by Underwood prior to the residency, acts as a counterpoint to the bombardment of physical images and activates a separate, more personal overlay of involvement. This initiates an exploration of the juxtaposition of internal and external experience.

Around

HEIDI SCHAEFER

Second Iraq War (Heidix Remix)

Second Iraq War is a ’Remix’ of found footage of explosions from the war in Iraq.

Second Iraq War (Heidix Remix)

DOLO PIQUERAS

Secuencia 01. Animation

Secuencia 01

TERESA TOMÁS

Viento. Animation. 2011

Viento

ANDREA RACCIATTI/ JUAN BOBBIO

Interestratos

Interestratos

MARINA STAVROU
Face Like Marble_You Were Telling Me, I Wouldn’t Listen
The work is a film investigation on absence. It belongs to a series of works that seek to explore the qualities of the drawing process.

Face Like Marble_You Were Telling Me, I Wouldn’t Listen

CRISTINA GHETTI - EMANUELE MAZZA

Folding pattern one

Folding patter one

SABRINA OSBORNE

Bed/Bad time stories

This work is a record of the endurance of my body when subjected to suffering. There is temporal cause and effect relation, which stimulates persuasive quality in the work. Relations between interior and exterior bridge external social, political and medical pressures.

Emotional states like psycho discomfort and disturbances manifest through body. I have been looking in to connections between culture, emotion, politics and physics, trying to find symbolism of logic. Perforation intensifies strangeness and disjunction. The work can be observed as reflective/ meditative body ritual playing with state of living in continuous anxiety and fear.

Bed/Bad time stories - Sabrina Osborne

DAMIA JORDA

Just a trip

Damiá Jordá obtained his Fine Arts degree from the University of Barcelona and his master degree from the Polythecnique University of Valencia and he is at present undertaking a PhD program at the Polythecnique University of Valencia under the supervision of Dr. Francisco Javier Sanmartín Piquer.

Just a trip - Damiá Jordá

ROUS HERNANDEZ

mechanical_scketch
2 min 11 sec
Idea and direction: Rous Hernández (geometricadomestica)
Music: “Alcaline Love” by Sr. Duck. Edit version. (srduck.bandcamp.com)
Edition and graphics: Alberto Pérez (Viuda de Gutiérrez)

mechanical_scketch - Rous Hernandez

Parallel Visions - Espacio Enter Canarias

2011-09-28T03:15:00.000-07:00

ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS

TEA. Tenerife Espacio de las Artes

17-20 of November 2011

Parallel Visions will be screened at Espacio Enter Canarias:

Erandy Vergara. 2011

This project has been possible thanks to DIVERSITY ART FORUM:

Programme (Canada):

Myriam Bessette

N'acre

3:00

2007

N'acre - Myriam Bessette

Frédérick A. Belzile

Babayan

02:18 min

2010

At dusk, a camera pans and shuffles on a ridge between two valleys. The sounds in the valley is an envelope standing between this horizon and us.

Babayan - Frédérick A. Belzile

Aurélie Pedron

Hiémal