Simona Deaconescu: Silent Places

This short film is about a choreographer, a director of photography, a music composer and five dancers meet up on infinite ground, a space filled with interlinked relationships. It was showcased at the Pool Festival in Berlin in 2016. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

YunTing Tsai: Betwixt and Between

YunTing Tsai is interested in dance video/film making. This short movie Betwixt and Between was awarded as the PEARLS 15, winner films of POOL 15 Internationales Tanzfilmfestival Berlin. Credits: Betwixt and Between, YunTing Tsai, (2012), 8 min 15. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Helena Jonsdottir: Gone

Gone by Jonsdottir is physical cinema. A middle-aged man visits Gljúfrasteinn a house in Iceland where the novelist and Nobel Prize writer Halldór Laxness lived with his wife Audur. While the couple is away, a man enters their the house and spends the day there. Who is gone? Is he really there? What if someone spent the day at your house in your absence? Would you ever know? This short film by Jonsdottir is mindblowing. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Roni Chadash: Spineless

Roni analyzes the concept of the spine. After a long period in which she didn’t know where her spine was and why she was giving her whole self to other people destroying herself and her healthy ego. This movie talks about how we fit ourselves into society and let other people criticism affect us more than it should have. Through the whole film, the audience can not see the spine of Roni, as a symbol for it’s gone. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Smoke-Clad Warrior

Directed by Mali Lazell and Adrian Kunzel, performed by Yuko Kaseki and Kaddish, this movie won the Pearl Award at the Pool Festival 2014 in Berlin. It talks about the journey of a warrior. Choose your battles. Fight the Fight. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Arjen de Leeuw: Act

I was selected to participate in the Arctic Circle program, a 2 week sailing trip for artists around Spitsbergen. A part of the world where there is very little human activity. The questionablity of our presence was something that interested me. What allowed us to make this trip? What did we expect to find?

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Isabelle Hayeur: Uprooted

Isabelle Hayeur is a lens-based artist known for her photographs and her experimental videos. She has also realized public art commissions, several site-specific video installations and photography books. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. She is particularly interested in the feelings of alienation, uprooting and disenchantment.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Isabelle Hayeur: Mirages

Isabelle Hayeur is a lens-based artist known for her photographs and her experimental videos. She has also realized public art commissions, several site-specific video installations and photography books. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. She is particularly interested in the feelings of alienation, uprooting and disenchantment.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Antti Laitinen: Growler

Antti Laitinen born in 1975 and is an artist from Finland. This project Growler, made in 2009, sees the artist making a small iceberg storing seven cubic meters of snow inside a big styrofoam box. When the summer came, Antti took the snow out and brought it to the sea.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Awake Yoshimura: Places - A City

Awake Yoshimura was born in New York and he lives in Amsterdam. His work is inspired by built environments and their representations. Places - A City is a video work constructed from still photographs taken from observation points in 12 big cities in the world. All the images are seamlessly joined together creating one metropolis. All distinctive landmarks in each city, traffic and signs; the elements which a city identifies herself with and give one a sense of orientation, are erased. What occurs here is the loss of the site in favour of the bland grandeur of globalization. The work is originally made to be shown in loop, as an infinitely continuing city.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

Enrique Ramirez: Day 14, Ocean Project

The Ocean project begins in 2010, as a Franco-Chilean production, with a clear objective: reminds one of the trips made in 1890 by the France I, one of the largest five-masted boats, hull and steel masts, of his time, and served the company as Dunkirk cargo between Europe and Chile. On his first trip he transported 5,000 tons of coal in Iquique, Chile to recharge 5500 tons of nitrate. In 1901, during a voyage to Valparaiso with a cargo of coal, France I experienced a severe storm. The crew abandoned the boat and was collected by the four-masted German Hebe.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Katy Unger: Breaking Point

Katy Unger was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1981 and received her BFA from PNCA (Pacific NW College of Art) in Portland, Oregon. Applying blurred imagery, eroded surfaces, and layered media, her recent work investigates themes of impermanence, altered states and perception of place. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and publications internationally and throughout the US. She currently divides her time between creating from her home studio in Los Angeles and working as an Arts Educator.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Wai Ping: Wu Changshuo

Rediscover Heritage is the only way to keep traditions, objects, culture and monuments alive. Preserving, restoring and displaying a collection of ancient things. Through this videos, IkonoTv explores the architecture, the art and the people who keep them alive.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Calligraphy by a Japanese Monk

Rediscover Heritage is the only way to keep traditions, objects, culture and monuments alive. Preserving, restoring and displaying a collection of ancient things. Through this videos, IkonoTv explores the architecture, the art and the people who keep them alive.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities/Air-port-city

After studying art and architecture, Tomás Saraceno established his studio in Frankfurt am Main in 2005. The studio was relocated to Berlin in 2012. He is a contemporary artist from Argentina. In his works he links art, life, science and the social sciences.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Jean Prouvé: 8 x 8 BCC House

French architect Jean Prouvé invented demountable modular houses in the 30’s. At the end of the Second World War, Prouvé got an order to build these houses as they were cheap and quick shelters. But after the war, these homes have been widely forgotten.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Jean Prouvé: Demountable House 6 x 6

French architect Jean Prouvé invented demountable modular houses in the 30’s. At the end of the Second World War, Prouvé got an order to build these houses as they were cheap and quick shelters. But after the war, these homes have been widely forgotten.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Augenblick: Su Misura

A tailor and his jealous wife during a morning like any other, serving customers like everyday. Suddenly, a client different from all the other ones comes in the study and everything changes. In this video by Augenblick, the textures become imagination and movement. Su Misura (that means Tailored) is a short choreography that describes through gestures the relationship of the couple. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Rain Kencana: Goldfish

This short film is about Ichi Go dances her ambivalent attitude between tradition and modernity in relation to her femininity. She clearly shows her discomfort when dealing with symbols from both worlds. The movie is inspired by a poem of Shuntaro Tanikawa. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Engel - Karmi: Sour Sweets

The film is about an elderly woman, who’s body has paid its toll to the ravages of time but who’s memories and emotions are more awake than ever. In her remembrance the past and people revive. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Maxime Martins: Ubikutopia

Maxime Martins is a visual artist and filmmaker. His film, photography and video work use the language of cinematography to question the temporality of images. As he works on contemporary utopias, he is fascinated by the subconscious mechanisms layered in urbanistic and cinematographic dreams. In his works time is suspended in order to reveal the phenomenon at stake in urban spaces. A character goes back on the technological utopia of the early XXIst century through the creation in 2015 of the city of Songdo in South Korea. The first smart, ubiquitous city.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Speed City

Mounir Fatmi is a Moroccan artist. His art includes video, installation, drawing, sculpture and painting. This work talks about the speed of modernization in the Arab World. With the industrialization, cities in the Middle East appear out of the desert and the buildings thrown up so fast that there is no time to reflect on the changes.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Vietnam

A Parisian by adoption, Lorenzo Mattotti was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1954. He studied architecture in Venice then moved towards the graphic novel form of which he is now one of the major exponents. In this travel book dedicated to Vietnam, Mattotti opens us towards a vibrant world of colour suffused with energy and vitality. A window into his impressions, his illustrations leave us contemplative.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Hawaii

In this new Louis Vuitton Travel Book, the Croatian comic book artist Esad Ribic draws the Hawaiian. In over 100 exclusive drawings and paintings, he offers his brilliant style that remind us Realist movement.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Easter Island

The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection offers a new and contemporary vision of travel, both real and virtual. Intended as works of art in themselves, they depict each destination through the eyes of an artist in 100-120 exclusive drawings. In his dream-like gouaches, Arsham imagines for the Travel Book Easter Island a cosmogony in touches of grey and black, paying attention to perspective and subtle nuances.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Venice

This Louis Vuitton Travel book showcases the unique perspectives of contemporary artists to offer a contemporary vision of travel. Here, the famous manga master Jirô Taniguchi has created an exclusive story set in Venice.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Mexico

In this new Louis Vuitton Travel Book, the French writer, illustrator and painter Nicolas de Crécy depicts Mexico as a baroque land full of poetry. In over 100 exclusive drawings and painting, he offers varied graphic and stylistic forms that rivisit genres and techniques.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - London

The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection offers a new and contemporary vision of travel, both real and virtual. Intended as works of art in themselves, they depict each destination through the eyes of an artist in 100-120 exclusive drawings. The Travel Book London by emerging Japanese artist Natsko Seki offers a lively and poetic vision of the UK capital.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Yayoi Kusama

What piece of advice would one of the world’s most iconic contemporary artists pass on? Japanese Yayoi Kusama here turns the tables and argues that advice should not come from other people: I am not an art teacher to you. Spread your ideas all over the world. Kusama encourages artists to trust their own creativity, explore themselves and discover their own path in life: A true direction will come from overcoming adversity.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Bjarke Ingels

Renowned Danish architect Bjarke Ingels here offers his architectural advice to aspiring architects and explains why architecture is fundamentally important for the world we live in.  Bjarke Ingels is considered one of the greatest architects of our time, with projects such as the BIG U, which contains a plan to fortify the whole south tip of Manhattan against future storms and rising sea levels. His architectural vision evolves around a philosophy that could be described as a pragmatic utopianism, combining everyday needs with sustainable solutions to the climatic challenges.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Marina Abramović

Follow your intuition. Have courage. Do what you imagine. And always be completely present in the moment. Marina Abramović on what it really means to be an artist: A great artist has to be ready to fail. Meet the charismatic performance artist Marina Abramović in this interview on what it means to be an artist, waking up each morning with an urge to be creative.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Patti Smith

Build a good name, rock poet Patti Smith advises the young. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. The American singer, poet and photographer Patti Smith is a living punk rock legend. In this video she gives powerful advice to the young: “Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Norman Foster

Norman Foster, one of the architectural icons of our time, here advises upcoming architects and artists to make sure that what they’re doing is their true desire – if not, they should simply find something else. When you can’t imagine doing anything else, and you would do anything to be able to do it, then you know you’ve made the right decision. From then on it’s a matter of completely immersing yourself in that choice: You live it every living second of your life.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Olafur Eliasson

Artists should have confidence in the fact that making a drawing is changing the world. Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, here presents his strong and personal advice to young artists. Making art is making the world, Eliasson continues, stressing his point that art should not be marginalized, as art is not fragile, but quite the opposite. Artists should be very sensitive to their surroundings and the context in which they find themselves. They should, however, also stay true to themselves and make sure that the strong market and its attractiveness does not commercialize them.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Wim Wenders

Do what nobody else can do except for you. Such is the unflagging advice from German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who in this video gives us his take on how to become a successful artist. According to Wenders, achieving success in your creative endeavors is quite simply a matter of finding the thing that you can do better than anyone else. The message is clear and delivered with great resolution by one of the most important German directors on the international scene.

Duration : 56s
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from David Byrne

If the musician or artist values their freedom and the ability to be creative, then they have to realize they won’t be making hundreds of millions of dollars. Sound advice from the multifaceted musician David Byrne. If you value your creative freedom, you might have to do other work on the side, to make a living, Byrne explains: Often the artists who are very successful don’t have much flexibility. In achieving success they lose a lot of their creative freedom. They have to keep making the same thing, more or less, over and over again.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Fred Tomaselli

You might as well be true to what you want to do and not turn art into another day job. Watch Fred Tomaselli, a master of psychedelic artwork, advise artists to create their own art world instead of waiting for the established art scene to discover them. Don’t expect any material awards for what you do, and don’t try to adapt to a surrounding trend: If you’re doing something counter to the zeitgeist, that’s probably a good idea – you’re probably on the right path. If you’re doing what everybody else is doing – so what?

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Jonathan Franzen

How do you succeed as a writer? Get useful, and humorous, advice from someone who indeed has indeed made it through the loophole – chart-topping American novelist Jonathan Franzen. If you hang out with me I would have a lot of advice. Although I would feel somewhat embarrassed about giving advice to the young writer, Franzen begins. The most important advice I have is to have fun… if you’re having fun there’s a good chance that the reader will too. Having fun, however, should be in the sense that there’s still a kind of structure and focus to it: Fun like you’re in a tennis court… That’s the kind of focused fun I’m talking about.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Fabienne Verdier: Inspiration

Fabienne Verdier is a French painter. She did her studies in China and now she works in France. This video is about her creative process, the inspiration she finds for her artworks. Her creative process involves three phases. She records first her thoughts and research in notebooks. Then she prepares the canvas and finally she shapes the paint matter to express fundamental life forces.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Technologia

Mounir Fatmi is a Moroccan artist. His art includes video, installation, drawing, sculpture and painting. Technology is a work inside a work because it links ancient circular Arabic calligraphy and Marcel Duchamp’s rotoreliefs, the first manifestation of optical art produced in the context of modern industrialized society. Moonier Fatmi observes the shape of today’s world and the motion of a global contemporary society.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

Eelco Brand: B1 Movi

Eelco Brand uses paint and digital techniques to create images that reflect his conception of nature. His work represents his vision of the human beings nature and the world around him. Viewing his work can be both: an alienating and deeply human experience.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Eelco Brand: R Movi

Eelco Brand uses paint and digital techniques to create images that reflect his conception of nature. His work represents his vision of the human beings nature and the world around him. Viewing his work can be both an alienating and deeply human experience.

Duration : 59s
Maturity Level : all

Nicolás Rupcich: EDF

Nicolás Rupcich studied his Bachelor of Arts degree at the U. Finis Terrae. He works mainly with photography, video and installation, his work focuses on issues related to digital image postproduction and technologies related to image production today. He has exhibited his works in individual and collective exhibitions in Chile and abroad, but also in international new media festivals.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Nicolás Rupcich: ML

Nicolás Rupcich studied his Bachelor of Arts degree at the U. Finis Terrae. He works mainly with photography, video and installation, his work focuses on issues related to digital image postproduction and technologies related to image production today. He has exhibited his works in individual and collective exhibitions in Chile and abroad, but also in international new media festivals.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Joe Hamilton: Trouble in Utopia

Joe Hamilton makes use of technology and found material to create intricate compositions. His recent work questions our established notions of the natural environment within a society that is becoming increasingly networked.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Joe Hamilton: Hyper Geography

Joe Hamilton makes use of technology and found material to create intricate compositions. His recent work questions our established notions of the natural environment within a society that is becoming increasingly networked.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Yiannis Kranidiotis: Ichographs

Yiannis Kranidiotis is an artist whose work explores the relationship between science and art using mainly light, motion and sound to create spaces and experiences where all coexist and interact. Ichographs is a method of creating soundscapes using visual stimulus and the color-frequency transformation. The painting is transformed into the audio domain and back to visual producing a contemporary amalgamation. As we pass through the various color/frequency layers, we investigate the connections between classical aesthetics and the digital practice, revealing a latent version of the old masterpiece. The final artwork is a contemporary amalgamation of the old painting and the modern abstraction methods, a harmonious dialog between the old and the new, the analog and the digital.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Claudia Hart: Digital Death

Claudia Hart emerged as part of that generation of 90s intermedia artists in the Identity Art niche but now updated through the scrim of technology. Her work is about issues of the body, perception, nature collapsing into technology and then back again. Everything is fluid in it including gender.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Michael Najjar echoes Caspar David Friedrich

The Sea of Ice by Caspar David Friedrich inspired Michael Najjar for this installation and ikonoTV produced this video to put them side by side. Michael Najjar is a German artist, in his artwork he takes a complex critical look at the technological forces shaping and drastically transforming the early 21st century.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Lift Teri Bandh Hai Full Song - Judwaa 2 -

Lift Teri Bandh Hai Full Song - Judwaa 2 - Varun - Jacqueline - Taapsee - David Dhawan - Anu Malik.mp4

Duration : 3m
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Bingyi’s Madness and Magic

Bingyi’s ink works plumb extremes of scale, from minutely brushed fan-sized paintings, to works boldly splashed across paper-covered stretches of a mountain road. Executed in ever-changing boldly idiosyncratic styles, her works show a sensitivity for nature and for social conditions.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

Chen Haiyan’s Dreams

Whether paintings or woodcuts, style and medium fuse seamlessly in the expression of Chen Haiyan’s subject matter. This consists of narratives from her dream diaries illustrated with an unparalleled emotional directness, fusing traditional elite aesthetics with a robust vernacular quality.

Duration : 18m
Maturity Level : all

Li Huasheng’s Ambivalence

In 1989 Li Huasheng turned from the distinctive style of landscape painting for which he was widely known, to the creation of pure abstractions. Producing grids of meticulously inscribed lines that record the passage of time, his new mode of creativity emphasizes process rather than finished work.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Li Jin’s Feast

Li Jin’s idiosyncratic painting manner is founded in superlative brushwork, and based in a key tenet of Chinese painting: in rendering a subject, such as a dish of food or quirky figure, accuracy depends on close observation and understanding, not a direct copying of the subject’s outer likeness.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Liu Dan’s Perfection

Liu Dan’s paintings of rocks and landscapes reflect an accord with early, more basic or ’’pure’’ eras of artistic expression in both East and West, and express a personal understanding of natural forces whereby the macrocosm is fully expressed through reduplication of the microcosmic.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Master Cui’s Riddle

Cui Zhenkuan belongs to an older generation of ink painters who received rigorous traditional training. Innovating within that tradition, he has produced a powerful body of landscapes relevant to the present.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Wang Dongling’s Lines of Performance

While Wang Dongling is China’s top traditional-style calligrapher, he is also the artist who has most successfully explored calligraphy’s radical possibilities, to the point of forging a new branch of ink painting based on the abstract possibilities of the calligraphic line.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Yang Jiechang’s Gu and Qi

Now a prominent, Paris-based representative of China’s artistic diaspora, Yang Jiechang is proficient in ink wash painting, gongbi (fine line), and calligraphy. Yang’s painting is particularly significant in its rare expression of radical thought via masterful manipulation of traditional media.

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

Zheng Chongbin’s Process

In his practice, Zheng Chongbin has extended the possibilities of ink, and incorporated a new expression of depth and structure into ink painting. His powerful abstract paintings and installations make a compelling case for the future internationalism of ink painting.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

A one-take journey through Russia’s iconic Hermitage museum

Experience a 5 hr 19 min 28 sec cinematic journey through one of the world’s biggest museums in St. Petersburg, Russia. Take in 45 galleries, 588 masterpieces, and live performances, shot in 4K on iPhone 11 Pro in one continuous take. Director: Axinya Gog

Duration : 0s
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Yael Toren: EARTH

An inverted virtual scene of a futuristic imagery, back to an ancient origin, embryonic and terminal at the same time, linked to the dust of creation and earth of burial. The human body within the focal point of the digital camera’s eye, is surrounded meticulously, first from very close-up and slowly at a growing distance, revealing a head, a hand, an ear, a whole image. The sculptural-material body, blindly withdrawn into itself, breaks up and crumbles before our very eyes. The whole cycle of life is completed; seemingly, the snake really bites its own tail. The embryonic image, vulnerable, though of a stony texture, or the opposite way around, an image of a forgotten fossil having “natural,” physical characteristics. A hyper-realistic scene, culminating in a shining explosion within the darkness.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Reiman & Weeks: The Wind Dies The Sun Sets

The film follows three characters that are embedded within the business of fossil fuel. The Pennsylvania region has a long history of energy production, first associated with the industrial revolution, and presently with fracking. The film’s emotional cadence shares the difficult realities of the altered landscape and the people who are involved.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Simon Faithfull: Going Nowhere 1.5

Filmed from high-up in the air, a tiny figure is seen walking around the perimeter of a small island, alone in a vast sea. As the tide rises the sandbank-island shrinks and the circles walked by the figure grow smaller and smaller. Eventually the rising waters erase the dry land and the figure has vanished into an empty sea and sky.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Michael Najjar: Orbital Cascade 57-46

Orbital cascade57-46 visualizes the demographics of defunct objects in orbit around the Earth from 1957 to 2046. This includes everything from spent rocket stages, and old satellites to fragments resulting from disintegration, erosion, and collisions. Currently there are about 600,000 objects larger than 1cm (0.4in) in space, orbiting Earth at a velocity of approximately 28,000 kmph (17,400 mph) and posing a severe threat to satellites, space stations and manned spaceflights. Drawn from a data archive, each spherule in the video represents a real existing object orbiting in space.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Oto Hudec: Mirror Land

This story talks about a beekeeper from Dúbravica village in central Slovakia who has built a bee house in a form of a spaceship to fly with his bees to the Mirror Land. A planet, similar to ours, hidden behind the Sun, unspoiled. The video Mirror Land is a piece of a larger series of works documenting the story. Maybe one last ode to escapism but the escapism with a purpose. Or an ode to the work of beekeepers, those who share a bond with their bees - although -stealing- their honey, they protect and care for the families.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Michel Huneault: 10 Minutes at Tohoku

In his practice, Michel Huneault combines documentary photography and contemporary visual art. Committed to a personal, humanist approach, he brings together still images and immersive elements in his work.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Jammes: A Sanctuary

Louis Jammes is a French artist. He began in the early 80’s by photographing famous artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Combas or Jean-Michel Basquiat. Louis also wanted to explore the world and so he went to places where reporters and war correspondents go: Tunisia, Sarajevo, Chernobyl, Iraq, Gaza. He doesn’t photograph barbarism but victims, mostly children, alone in a scenery he reworks subsequently in paintings.

Duration : 13m
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Michele Spanghero: Monologue

The video installations Monologue show the process of ambience recording of empty theaters: the layerings of the recordings make the theater resonate. With silence the theater is in darkness, but, as the sound rises, the lights slowly grow up to reveal the hall and, in backlight the artist alone on stage, carefully listening to the sound of the voice of the theater.

Duration : 6m
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Marcantonio Lunardi: 370 New World

370 New World is a work on the new solitude created by the economic and social crisis which crossed the whole Europe in the last ten years. The human isolation which is displayed to the spectator is, by now, part of the everyday life of many people. The author thus introduces his creative work as a kind of mirror in which the spectator may recognise some details of his or her own life. Despite the video focuses on the new media, Lunardi does not want to make any accusation.

Duration : 5m
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Arctic Study

Ulrik Hage’s Derbyshire Arctic Study

Duration : 2m
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Miguel Ángel Belinchón: New Rummelsburg

Since 1997, this Berlin-based artist is focusing on landscape, city and urbanism. His photography and video works highlights how architectural spaces and the urban environment can influence the life of the individuals and the rhythm of the city as a whole.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Save Manhattan

Save Manhattan is an installation composed of literary, philosophical, journalistic and religious works. This project is a reflection on the disaster of September 11, 2001.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: The Angel’s Black Leg

Mounir Fatmi is one of the most internationally renowned artists from the Arab world. The Angel’s Black Leg, a tryptic of light boxes is based upon a painting by Fra Angelico. It depicts the twinbrothers Damian and Cosmas, who perform a transplant operation in which a black leg is being transplanted onto a white patient. They were physicians living in Syria in the 3rd century and became saints later. For Mounir Fatmi, this motif illustrates an attempt to overcome ethnic barriers. However, it is not revealed whether scientific interest prompted this motif or indeed how the experiment turns out.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Mixology

Mixology shows a close-up of a DJ’s mixer. It’s a familiar sight: two decks separated by a mixing console, with the arms of a DJ flipping switches and spinning records. But here, the black vinyl of the records is decorated with circular Hadiths of the Prophet, painted white on the grooved surfaces.

Duration : 11m
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Raphaël Kuntz: Empty

A look on utopia, A look on history and a look on the perspective. A museum of the Louvre without work and without public. Consequence of a disaster, uchronie or anticipation, we enter the fiction of a desertion. Pictures with a disconcerting clearness, with a too perfect balance, with a too controlled chromaticism. A medium which did not find his place. Because he does not have any, or because he is composed of all those who were experimented so far.

Duration : 8m
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Beth Derbyshire: Anthem

Anthem is a trilogy of musical landscape films with a powerful choral component that explores ideas on land, place and nation. Three screens were suspended in the Mediterranean biome at the Eden Project. Anthem captures strata’s from wide ranging cultural and natural settings, to explore connections between people and landscape through balancing components of voice, music, word and image. Music composition by Ulrike Haage.

Duration : 28m
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Nicolas Rupcich: Big Pool

Big Pool is a video about the largest swimming pool in the world (at the year of the video realization), located on the Chilean coast, in San Alfonso del Mar, Algarrobo. With over one-thousand meters in length, two-hundred and fifty million liters of water and a size equivalent to six-thousand domestic swimming pools, this milestone has entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as one of the world’s unique constructions. The video records this vast pool using shots that focus on the obvious artificiality of the location, it shows the buildings of the complex, the site and its relation to the surrounding landscape.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Michael Najjar: Spacewalk

Spacewalk explores linkages between space, gravity and the human body. A cosmonaut glides down into what seems to be an industrial ambiance. His meta-voice reflects fundamental thoughts in a text that is based on Isaac Newton’s manuscript De Gravitatione.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Rocha Pitta: The Secret Sharer

Sao Paulo, Brazil-based artist Thiago Rocha Pitta’s (b. 1980) temporal and sensitive body of work depicts interventions with the environment from his native Brazil. Through watercolors, photographs, sculpture, and video, Rocha Pitta focuses on small yet emotive elements of the natural world that are simultaneously ominous and melancholy. Driven by a preoccupation with the passage of time, particularly in natural settings, Rocha Pitta often manipulates the pace of his work, confronting his viewer with quiet, curious introspection and an open-ended sense of longing.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Rocha Pitta: Temporal Map of a non Sedimented Land #6

Thiago Rocha Pitta’s temporal and sensitive art often depicts environments from his native Brazil. Through watercolor, photography, sculpture, and video, Rocha Pitta focuses on small, yet emotive elements of the natural world, whether ocean tide, rainclouds, or trails of sap. In this exhibition, Rocha Pitta develops his study of nature through an installation of five videos, each depicting a different desert terrain in Argentina. Referred to as “maps,” these videos capture a deceptively small physical alteration in the land that causes it to either fall, collapse, or become wet or dry. 

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Lohner Carlson: Bright Clouds 1 Wolken

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Lohner Carlson: Canary Wharf Building Cleaners

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 17m
Maturity Level : all

Lohner Carlson: Walden Pond Fish

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Alexander Ponomarev: Baffin Figure

Baffin Figure is one of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy. The exhibition is one of the official collateral programs of the 54th Venice Biennale. Curated by Alexander Ponomarev and Nadim Samman, the exhibition comprises of  four contemporary artists have been commissioned to create a site-specific work engaging with the theme of entropy: Adrian Ghenie, Hans Op de Beeck, Ryoichi Kurokawa, and Ponomarev himself.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Cao Guimarães: Concerto para Clorofila

Cao Guimarães works on the crossing between the cinema and the visual arts. This film, Concerto para Clorofila, is a conjunction of light and shadow, forms, colors and textures that herald the necessary interrelationship of all that is alive and vibrant.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Cao Guimarães: Limbo

Cao Guimarães works on the crossing between the cinema and the visual arts. About this film, Limbo, the artist specifies: - A place out of place, an in-between. A hole in space and in time. Playground for the ones that came before, those who have gone early. Eternal windy Sunday.

Duration : 17m
Maturity Level : all

Cao Guimarães: Sopro

Cao Guimarães works on the crossing between the cinema and the visual arts. Sopro is the Portuguese translation of Blow, it expresses the relationship between what is inside and what is outside. The multi-formed translucence of a bubble exhibits the world that contains it and is contained by it. The bubble that never bursts is a metaphor of the continuity of things.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Donna Conlon: Urban Phantoms

In front of the skyline of Panamá City, pieces of trash stack up to construct a new city. Donna’s work is a socio-archaeological inquiry into her immediate surroundings. She observes details in her local environment and daily life, and then focuses on them in ways that reveal the idiosyncrasies of human nature and the contradictions inherent to our contemporary lifestyle.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Insight

Insight is the total abstraction. A carefully assembled film-crew appears like a tableau vivant facing the viewer. Then suddenly, they shatter- an analogy of breaking through the surface to expose the simulation- a mirror slowly explodes into a thousand pieces. Filmed in beautifully rendered high definition Insight is a tribute to the camera obscuras of old mingled with a critical spirit directed towards the mass media today. Regarded as a phenomenon brought about by a world lacking distinction between real and simulacra, Diaz Morales borrows media industry tactics to expose and undermine. Revealing rather than concealing his methods allows for a moment of realisation to occur. As the pieces of glass crumble into tiny galaxies, context is deconstructed and the universalising tendency of Diaz Morales’ practice literally portrayed. With timeless grace the artist contemplates the nature of existence.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Lost Object

The Lost Object is the final video in a trilogy that examines the complex mechanisms of how we perceive the constructed nature of reality - and how this construction is performed, both in the realm our imagination and the one of film. As curator, Cuauhtémoc Medina notes in a recent monograph dedicated to Diaz Morales’ work, the artist approaches film as a factory of simulacra, a conceptual thread that carries throughout his trilogy, which began with Insight (2012) and was followed by Suspension (2014).

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Oracle

The alluring images in his films speak clearly for themselves, for they usually lack of sound. This aspect lets the artist give the audience all they need to create their own individual and personal story, without imposing any set structure. The video installation Oracle alternates a series of apparently random images that are not linked one to the other. They just follow on, like the tesserae in a mosaic that is still to be completed. The title seems to allude to the tradition of the Greek Oracle as a source of wisdom and prophecy, capable of offering a vision of the future through a combination of elements from the present. A plastic bag moved by the wind, a solitary man staring at the sea, and a solar eclipse are just some of the images that appear on the screen as propitiatory signs, and with which the audience can create their own free response.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Yang Jiechang: Tale of the 11th Day

Yang Jiechang’s artistic practice as a calligrapher-painter turned global social actor inverts the contemporary Chinese art world norm of using Western avant-garde forms to critique contemporary Chinese society. He accomplishes this by adopting the performative expressivity of the traditional brush and the paradoxical dialectics of pre-modern Daoist skeptics to expose the underlying social and cultural forces that shape our contemporary global reality. With his Tales of the Eleventh Day series, Yang deals with the contrasting themes of material and spiritual transcendence, liberation of the individual, universal love and nature.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Man with the Bag

The theme of ’The Man with the Bag’ is very simple when you define and see it as an existentialistic story. What you see is what, metaphorically speaking, you get. A man walking a path in a deserted and open landscape, carrying a bag containing all his belongings. Again and again he stumbles over the same obstacle, a stone. Running from his fears, from a never materialized sound. Crossing limits, going always in a same direction. This simple storyline encloses, as a metaphor, a portion of the basics of man’s existence. From that notion you can relate and bring the signification of actions, subjects and objects of the movie into multiple relations. This is because the elements of the movie are general metaphors of the bases of our existence.

Duration : 39m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Pasajes I

Buenos Aires appears in this video series as an endless maze where an optional image of reality takes shape. This is the geography of a story expressed in an alteration to the normal, which arises from a montage of urban spaces. The urban reworking of the story is an attempt to regenerate the body of a city and its images in the form of an alternative geography.

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

Maxime Martins: Vegasiorado

Maxime Martins is a visual artist and filmmaker. His film, photography and video work use the language of cinematography to question the temporality of images. This movie is about Las Vegas. City of permanent spectacle, in the middle of the desert. The population and decorations have been withdrawn. The city appears in its brutalistic structure, dedicated to the masses. Vegasiorado, where the promise of joy and fantasy takes the shape of a totalitarian utopia.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Lucas Bambozzi: Clocks (Time Shift)

Lucas Bambozzi is a multimedia artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. His works are constituted by pieces dealing with media in a wide variety of formats, such as installations, single channel videos, short films and interactive projects. Clocks (Time Shift) is a loop portraying cheap or promotional clocks found in bakeries and bars in Brazil.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Lucas Bambozzi: Revenge is a Kind of Wild Justice

In summer in São Paulo, on days of heavy rain, some trees fall. This usually causes traffic turmoil and upset drivers, who believe the city was made for cars and blame the trees for disturbing the traffic. Amid so much concrete, with no space to fix their roots, and surely stressed, we imagine some of these trees trapping the cars as hostages. The video shows the documentation of the work. REVENGE IS A KIND OF WILD JUSTICE, a permanent site-specific installation set at Fazenda Serrinha (70km from São Paulo), which consists of an actual car suspended by a trap, suggesting the situation described above. The phrase is attributed to Francis Bacon, English author, courtier and philosopher (1561 – 1626).

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Patrick Topitschnig: Scream

Scream is an ironic homage to Samuel Beckett‘s Breath (1969). At the apex of his minimalistic work, Beckett conceived this short theater piece. Breath is to be realized with Beckett‘s meticulous instructions within its five acts. Beckett himself describes the work as „a farce in five acts“. Whether he relates this to the content of the piece or the piece itself remains uncertain. But certainly it is one of the most extensively interpreted pieces of theater.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Ma Qiusha: All my Sharpness comes from your Hardness

This 26-minute-long video made in 2011, All My Sharpness Comes from Your Hardness, allowed Ma Qiusha to freely explore displaced memory. The footage shows only Ma’s legs and feet wearing ice skates as she is being dragged backward across a variety of road surfaces in Beijing. The skates go from blunt to razor sharp depending on the road surface. The road showed is the one she used to walk from her grandmother’s to her home. When she was young, she walked it many times. This video is an allegory on the tortuous journey that Ma has traveled since those days of walking to her grandmother’s house, it is an autobiography of sorts. 

Duration : 25m
Maturity Level : all

Ma Qiusha: Mars

Mars presents the audience with an expanse of fine red sand. A macro lens shows the astonishing texture of red sand particles while aerial shots display sand dunes that show no trace of human activity. This perspective transcends individual experience by depicting the mysterious surface of a celestial body. The huge waves of red sand rolls endlessly like the infinite expanding of the universe. While the exhibition’s Chinese title - a transliteration of the English word Wonderland - seems devoid of meaning, it provides a fertile ground for the imagination to roam free. It takes the body’s corporeal existence as the starting point and casts the audience into the midst of a desert which echoes the sound of the universe.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Ma Qiusha: Rainbow

Rainbow, the one shot with a high-definition camera, presents to the viewers a dream-like scene: three teenage girls in the dress for figure skating are turning around, hand in hand, to mash the tomatoes under their skating shoes. The acnes on the young faces, the tiny meshes on the stockings over the vigorous legs, the splashing crimson juice of the fruit, the glowing edges of the glass vessels, and the blade of the skating shoes, all these details seem to be amplified or more vivid through the HD camera.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Ma Qiusha: Snow White

Ma Qiusha was born in 1982, she currently lives and works in Beijing. In early 2015, the French luxury brand Dior selected Ma to be one of 17 international female artists invited to create works cogitating on how Dior relates to contemporary art. The only stipulation was to include a pair of Dior gloves in her video. The invitation from Dior allowed Ma to continue an investigation of fairy tales that first started with the 2009 video Snow White, in which the princess is seen trapped within a glass-enclosed musical box. 

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Robert van der Hilst: Chinese Interiors

Robert van der Hilst is a tireless globetrotter. Born in 1940 in Amsterdam where he studied photography, he embarked on a journey at the age of 19 that would take him to France, Canada, the USA, Latin America, South America, and China. He travelled across China, from coastal metropolises to the hinterland in order to capture the dignity of everyday life. Imbued with Dutch mid-seventeenth century genre paintings, these photographs plunge the viewer into the intimate universes of Chinese people. Chinese interiors series offers a glimpse into each person’s private human realm by communicating through the eyes, feeling and emotions.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Liu Xiaodong: Various Works

Liu Xiaodong paints spontaneously from snapshots of friends, family, and everyday life, and is known for his strong brushwork, precise figuration, and rich colors. Early in his career, Liu emphasized scenery and traditional brushwork to create the most realistic realizations of his subjects possible; however, he eventually discarded this practice for cropped framing, unusual perspective, and the use of color to heighten emotion.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Simin Keramati: Tehran

Simin Keramati is a multidisciplinary artist working with social-political themes presented through painting, drawing, video art and new media. In this movie, Tehran, a woman wearing boots and all in black while exercising with rope in an evacuated studio space that creates an illusion of a cell. The sound of the rope hitting the ground adds to the sense of uncertainty and disturbance.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Abdelkader Benchamma: Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings - Bruits De Fond Part 1

Abdelkader Benchamma is a French artist who lives and works in Montpellier. He explores natural and primordial forms of matter. His central focus is drawing but he developed ideas into sculpture, furthering his conceptual questioning of reality. The works in this movie are from the Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings in Berlin.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Hassan Massoudy: Calligraphy Works

Hassan Massoudy was born in 1944 in Najef, South of Iraq. To pay for his studies, he was doing headlines in calligraphy for Arabic magazines. Over the years, calligraphy progressively got into his figurative painting and eventually took its place. In this movie, some works from the October Gallery in London, UK.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Imran Qureshi: Blessings upon the Land of my Love

Imran Qureshi applies his training in miniature painting to this large-scale installation, made in response to the architecture. The painting process begins with a gestural, perhaps violent application of paint, the traces of which are quietly visible in their more contained and edited final form. The energetic floral forms emerge from pools and splashes of blood-like layers of paint. Occupying a space somewhere between life and death their quiet presence evidences their own transmutation from one state to another.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Imran Qureshi: Moderate Enlightenment

Imran Qureshi is a Pakistan artist. This movie shows Moderate Enlightenment. Imran painted this series of portraits when he realized that after 9/11, the world insisted on segregating religious people. One form of segregation to which Qureshi points in his work revolves around choices in clothing or activities. He notes that ’a religious person wearing camouflage socks is perceived as threatening, but in other cases, it is mere fashion.’

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Aisha Khalid: Kashmiri Shawl

Kashmiri Shawl is an installation located now in the Corvi-Mora Gallery. It is a pashmina scarf with gold plated steel pins. On one side, the heavily worked paisley and floral design offers a scene of luxurious detail. The backside tells a different story – staggered and unbound by the pin’s head, sharp tips protrude from the red wool to reveal a hazardous surface. The work draws attention to what Khalid views as a disparity between the global consumption of shawls from this region and the lack of attention placed on its geopolitical realities.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Aisha Khalid - Various Works

Aisha Khalid is a contemporary visual artist from Pakistan. She works with miniature paintings, video and specific installations in architectural spaces. She transforms the tradition of miniature paintings into a form of contemporary art. In this movie, Pattern to Follow; Opaque Watercolor on wasli paper; Covered/Uncovered; Gouache and Gold Leaf on wasli paper that are all located in the Corvi-Mora Gallery.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Darren Almond & Jacob Kirkegaard

Interview Beyond the Arctic

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Eli Souaiby: De-Construction

A photograph of Beirut from 1945 is fading into overlapping images of construction, destruction, renovation, reconstruction then deconstruction of a city all along with ongoing noises of a never ending ’under construction’ stage. Is the ’chameleon city’ arising throughout its history?

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Eelco Brand: N.movi

The oeuvre of Eelco Brand belongs to a pictorial tradition in which landscape and genre scenes play a leading role, but goes beyond the traditional forms of this genre. Realistically looking landscapes are combined with abstract components, absurdity and humour are constantly accompanying the artworks of Eelco Brand.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Lisa Weber: Streifen

Streifen (Stripes) is inspired by the still life painting of the 17th century, the splendid flower and fruit still lifes by Jan Bruegel or Wilhelm Kalf. The motif of transitoriness, vanitas, which is only hinted at in these paintings, is expanded to its full extent by Lisa Weber. The color and shape of the plants and fruits depicted change until they have almost completely passed over time. The period of observation does not correspond to the actual period of withering, time is perceived differently than usual, namely as something that expands horizontally in space. You can literally watch the time go by.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Bill Viola: Cameras are Keepers of the Souls

American Bill Viola is a pioneer in video art. In this interview, Viola talks about his development as an artist and his most important breakthroughs. Viola now sees the cameras as keepers of the soul, he explains. The medium holds onto life, a kind of understanding of feelings, keeping them alive.

Duration : 28m
Maturity Level : all

Klara Hobza: On Diving through Europe

In her grand art endeavor Diving Through Europe, Berlin-based Klara Hobza investigates the boundaries of what is conceivable by diving the European rivers, stretching from the North Sea to the Black Sea in the course of 20-30 years.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Roni Horn: Saying Water

Have you ever stood by a river and stared into the black water? In this video acclaimed artist Roni Horn takes us down by the riverside, performing a powerful 40 minute monologue based on her associations with water, including tales of sex and murder. In this video Roni Horn explains how water shows us who we are. How it is ambiguous. And makes us extended. How it can be a dark fluid making us disappear. How it is a soft entrance to not being.

Duration : 39m
Maturity Level : all

Elina Brotherus: The Human Perspective

The human body is the focus of the work by the acclaimed Finnish photographer Elina Brotherus, who uses herself as material. In this Louisiana Channel video she presents two video works describing the passing of time reflecting her own life situation. In this video she talks about her work and why she uses herself in her own work. How she was shocked when as a student she saw her first self portrait and it didn’t correspond with her own image of what she looked like. How she today is used to seeing her own portrait. She says she is very interested in the passing of time because of ageing and the fact that she - being a woman at forty - finds herself in an irreversible situation.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: Origin of the Beginning 1.4

Origin of the Beginning is a series of installations, photographs and videos. Through them, the artist talks about his childhood. The repetitive structures seemingly express a ‘horror vacui’ and recall Van Veluw’s youth and his obsessive attempts to gain control over his life by controlling his surroundings. Dimly lit and dark in color, the overriding tone of these pieces is claustrophobic and sombre, exuding a sense of loneliness.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: Origin of the Beginning 2.4

Origin of the Beginning is a series of installations, photographs and videos. The works suggest a narrative world behind the portraits. On the one hand these works are a continuation of Van Veluw’s formal approach to self-portraiture, with their preoccupation for materiality, pattern and texture. Yet, at the same time, they are highly personal pieces as well.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: Origin of the Beginning 3.3

Origin of the Beginning is a series of installations, photographs and videos in which Levi van Veluw draws from his own childhood memories to thematically and narratively develop his oeuvre of self-portraits. Three rooms are covered with tens of thousands of wooden blocks, balls and wooden slats. Each room is constructed as a life-size installation and is reworked in photographs and videos without the use of digital manipulation.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: The Collapse of Cohesion, Spheres

The Collapse of Cohesion is a series of short films, based on drawings. In contrast to the drawing in which the moment of chaos remains an interpretation by the artist - and is therefore inexorably linked to him - the film makes it possible to relinquish all and every form of control. Unpredictability becomes a new factor in this work. The time of the event is stretched; the moment measured in seconds becomes a minute-long occurrence and forms a new reality.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: The Collapse of Cohesion, Room

The Collapse of Cohesion is a series of short films, based on drawings. One of the drawings presents an image of an archive room, filled with large structures of cabinets containing more than 1500 neatly arranged icosahedrons. The whole arrangement is held in place by the very structure of the cabinets and the force of gravity, in a fundamental and continuous on-going struggle between the desire for order and the forces of nature. An unknown cause upsets this equilibrium and the cabinets are made to topple over. The symmetrical forms are no longer held in place, gravity takes over, order is turned into chaos."

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: The Collapse of Cohesion, Archive

The Collapse of Cohesion is a series of short films, based on drawings. In the film, the drawing has been replicated life-size in wood. All the visible surfaces are covered in carbon powder, and the setting acquires shape only through the reflection of the light. Reality becomes tangible only through the experience of lighter or darker hues, as in a drawing. The falling apart of the structure is filmed at over 1000 frames per second. After months of meticulous preparation, this is the only, and crucial, moment over which the artist has no control.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Levi Van Veluw: The Relativity of Matter

For a whole year, Levi van Veluw has worked on The Relativity of Matter, an all-encompassing freestanding installation. Once the doors close, the visitor enters into a maze of corridors, doors, atmospheres, perspectives and colors that challenge him in a sensory manner. With The Relativity of Matter, van Veluw presents an all-encompassing scenographic experience that immerses the visitor in a world of disparate forms of expression. For this special exhibition, a very talented French film company, Birdfilm, made a short film that captures the atmosphere of the installation.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud Cities

The exhibition Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin presents a large installation by the artist that occupies the entire space of the historical gallery. The artist’s works, which incorporate tendencies in science and architecture and, as works of art, explicitly implement natural principles in order to address immediate problems in our globalized world such as overpopulation, environmental pollution, and diminishing resources, are highly contemporary visions that embody current and potential discourses on the relationship between nature and society.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud City (Ville Nuage)

Spider webs, the consistency of soap bubbles, astrophysics, and legendary visionaries like Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) are some of the most important sources of inspiration to the artist Tomás Saraceno, who was born in 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. He calls his balloon-like objects Biospheres, that is, spaces containing life; held by black rope nets and suspended in the air, some of them are accessible to viewers and some of them are inhabited by plants.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Breaking the Wall Between Earth and Sky

Throughout history, humanity has rehearsed with lighter-than-air vehicles aiming for a different way to move through and with the air, only with the power of the sun. Presented here are various attempts of human aerosolar flights, undertaken by people whose types of relationship to the atmosphere and the planet have become marginalised, and increasingly rendered invisible under the hegemony of the fossil fuels regime.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Cosmic Jives - The Spider Session

The exhibition Cosmic Jive: the Spider Sessions weaved together the different spaces of Villa Croce, in Genova. The first floor featured an interactive sound installation activated by the visitors’ movement, creating a series of acoustic responses picked up by passive motion sensors installed in the rooms. Depending on their location in the museum, visitors heard different sound compositions. The speakers to the left side of the rooms emitted the sounds of the semi-social spiders playing on pre-existing solitary webs.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: You

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: Drinking the Sun

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 49s
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: Dancing with the Wind

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: My Stone is my Heart

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: The Relatively Motionless Second

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: A Rhythmical Flower

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: A Breeze

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 40s
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: Emerging Clouds out of an Empty Hand

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: An Uncertain Encounter is a Beautiful Disaster

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: The Sunrise in a Bath Room

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 55s
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William Kentridge: Ubu Tells the Truth

Kentridge’s short animated films are typically made from a series of large-scale charcoal and pastel drawings which the artist repeatedly alters and interchanges as his narrative progresses. Ubu Tells the Truth marks an important change in technique, as Kentridge has combined images from documentary films and photographs together with moving puppets as well as his animated drawings. This film was made from a basis of thirty drawings.

Duration : 7m
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William Kentridge: Second-Hand Reading

Artist William Kentridge explores such topics as apartheid and colonialism through his drawings, prints, and films. The flip-book film Second-hand Reading was constructed from the successive filming of drawings on the pages of old books – a second-hand reading of those books. The seven-minute film is an investigation of race relations through an immersive combination of drawings and music, set to a soundtrack of piano and vocals composed by South African anti-apartheid activist/musician Neo Muyanga.

Duration : 7m
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William Kentridge: Tango for Page Turning

William Kentridge is a South African artist. His work addresses contentious political systems such as colonialism and apartheid through powerful allegorical imagery and theater. Kentridge gathers and transforms materials - texts, drawings, scraps of paper, sound, and myriad other media - in order to generate ideas and discover meaning. The stop-motion animated film Tango for Page Turning is part of Kentridge’s acclaimed multimedia chamber opera Refuse the Hour. The opera and related works explore the metaphysical implications of standardized world time, Einstein’s theory of relativity, black holes, and string theory.

Duration : 3m
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Still Pilgrim Paradox: Whispers and Wishes

A man and a woman on a rooftop. Longing, approaching, conversing, demanding. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 3m
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Robert Rauschenberg: Night Shades and Phantoms

Exhibition Making-of

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The Garage Museum

Teaser of the Museum

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James Turrell at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

James Turrell and Richard Andrews talk about James Turrell’s work and his exhibition.

Duration : 11m
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Opening of Garage’s new building in Gorky Park

Founded in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich, Garage is the first philanthropic institution in Russia to create a comprehensive public mandate for contemporary art. On May 1, 2014, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture changed its name to Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, reflecting the co-founders’ commitment to providing long-term public access to living artists and art histories. On June 12, 2015, the museum moved to its first permanent home in Gorky Park, in the heart of Moscow.

Duration : 2m
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Taryn Simon at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Continuing a collaboration that began three years ago between the acclaimed American artist Taryn Simon and the Garage Museum in Moscow, for the first time in her career Simon will also be working live to develop a new piece over the duration of the exhibition, providing audiences with unprecedented access to her singular research processes.

Duration : 1h 8m
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PROOF

Featuring works by Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) and Robert Longo (1953-) Proof offers insight into the singularity of vision through which artists can reflect social, cultural, and political complexities of their times.

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AES + F (The Feast of Trimalchio) at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Andrey Kovalev meets one of the most renowned Russian art groups practicing in the field of contemporary art. AES+F. The title of the collective, founded in 1987, was formed from the initials of its members: architects Tatyana Arzamasova and Lev Evzovic, designer Evgeny Svyatsky and photographer Vladimir Fridges who joined the group in 1995.

Duration : 5m
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Viktor Pivovarov at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present the most exhaustive solo exhibition of Viktor Pivovarov’s work for 12 years. One of the key representatives of Moscow conceptualism, Pivovarov, shaped the Russian underground art scene in the postwar years. The exhibition The Snail’s Trail, which opens just before the artist’s 80th birthday, is organized as a romantic journey in 11 chapters.

Duration : 1m
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Garage Museum of Contemporary Art - Sign Lenguage

Just like theatre begins with the cloakroom, a museum experience begins long before the visitor enters the exhibition. To make museums more open and friendly to hearing-impaired visitors Garage launches a short course of Russian Sign Language for museum staff.

Duration : 3m
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Jerry Gorovoy talks about Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents the first comprehensive survey of Louise Bourgeois’ work in Moscow as part of the special program of the 6th Moscow Biennale. Structures of Existence: The Cells focuses on the extraordinary series of sculptural environments Bourgeois created in the last two decades of her life.

Duration : 2m
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Frances Morris talks about Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Louise Bourgeois was the first artist to take on Tate Modern’s great Turbine Hall and when the new museum opened in May 2000 Bourgeois giant spider Maman and her three house-size towers I do, I undo, I redo were the first works of art to greet the museum’s thousands of visitors. Frances Morris, Director of Collection, International Art at Tate, commissioned the work as the first in the now-famous series of Unilever installations and worked with the artist and her team to realize this landmark site-specific project.

Duration : 1h 17m
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Amei Wallach talks about Louise Bourgeois at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

On the eve of launching regular screenings of the documentary Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (2008), Amei Wallach, the film’s co-director and co-producer, will give a talk about her work with Bourgeois during filming, describing backstage moments which reveal the inner world of the artist.

Duration : 27m
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William Kentridge: More Sweetly play the Dance

William Kentridge’s More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015, opens with a presentiment of the procession, not its presence: the Dance of Death. Across eight screens, the non-landscape around Johannesburg - grass, tracks, culverts, pipes, and power lines - at first appears flat and uneventful amid a threnody of wailing and drumming. Johannesburg suffers from a lack of geography, but it has all the forebodings of allegory, the mise-en-scène of myth.

Duration : 1m
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Tomas Saraceno: Cosmic Jives - The Spider Session

The exhibition Cosmic Jive: the Spider Sessions weaved together the different spaces of Villa Croce, in Genova. The first floor featured an interactive sound installation activated by the visitors’ movement, creating a series of acoustic responses picked up by passive motion sensors installed in the rooms. Depending on their location in the museum, visitors heard different sound compositions. The speakers to the left side of the rooms emitted the sounds of the semi-social spiders playing on pre-existing solitary webs.

Duration : 2m
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Tomas Saraceno: The Anthropocene Project

Articulated in the quarters of the earth sciences, the Anthropocene has brought geological matters and imaginaries to the critical attention of social scientists. Rocks, strata, tectonics and other geological beings and processes saturate the discourses around and about the Anthropocene. This panel aims at expanding the theoretical scope on the Anthropocene by attuning to air, breathe, volatility, atmospheres and suspension as modes of attending to the more-than-solid ecologies of the Anthropocene.

Duration : 16m
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Tomas Saraceno: Breaking the Wall Between Earth and Sky

Throughout history, humanity has rehearsed with lighter-than-air vehicles aiming for a different way to move through and with the air, only with the power of the sun. Presented here are various attempts of human aerosolar flights, undertaken by people whose types of relationship to the atmosphere and the planet have become marginalised, and increasingly rendered invisible under the hegemony of the fossil fuels regime.

Duration : 14m
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Just Air for Making Art: Tomàs Saraceno

How do you recognize a true artist? He creates an entire universe that is unique and powerful. He dreams and turns his dreams into tangible objects that make you dream. Among the abundant projects of uneven quality realized on the occasion of Paris’s COP21 climate conference, under the ultra mediatized patronage of the United Nations, I saw two works by two substantial artists who are both, each in his own genre, international contemporary art stars.

Duration : 7m
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Tomás Saraceno: Cloud City (Ville Nuage)

Cloud City refers to how it feels to float in the air, condensing the gap between our perception and experience of the ocean of air at the bottom of which we dwell. When it comes to buoyancy – the tendency or capacity to remain afloat in a liquid or rise in air or gas – or more precisely to experience buoyancy the sensible dimension seems to override the scientific thermodynamical and physical explanations or implications. This exhibition took place in Belfort in 2012.

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Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities

Cloud Cities imagines alternative possible scenarios for futures, conjuring an era in which humanity ceases to negatively impact our planet’s fossil-fuel resources. Part of Saraceno’s larger body of work titled Aerocene, it shows us how it is possible to become airborne in collective sustainable environments. The Aerocene multiple artistic experiments re-calibrate our sensory systems, catalyzing the emergence of new ways of inhabiting the world. This exhibition took place in Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof.

Duration : 5m
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William Kentridge: Mine

Kentridge makes short animation films from large-scale drawings in charcoal and pastel on paper. Each drawing, which contains a single scene, is successively altered through erasing and redrawing and photographed in 16 or 35mm film at each stage of its evolution. Mine is Kentridge’s third film. It was made from eighteen drawings and is set to Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B minor, Opus 104.

Duration : 6m
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William Kentridge: Other Faces

Other Faces by William Kentridge sees the return of Soho Eckstein, a character from previous films who is a Caucasian industrialist and land developer living in post-apartheid South Africa. Eckstein’s story in Other Faces begins when he is involved in a car accident with a black preacher in front of a black African church in downtown Johannesburg. Soon it becomes apparent that the argument between the two men is more a reflection of their fractured understanding of their country’s past rather than the actual incident.

Duration : 9m
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William Kentridge: Journey to the Moon

The short film Journey to the Moon (2003) offers an intimate look into Kentridge’s production process. It explores the studio space as a site of performance. In the role of the protagonist, Kentridge himself appears, probing questions of vision and creativity. Familiar objects such as espresso cups, saucers and a percolator appear in this quest, as Kentridge aims to escape the confines of his studio and find windows into another world—one that is both absurd and profound.

Duration : 7m
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Zaha Hadid Architects - About Us

Zaha Hadid and her architects create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces that work in synchronicity with their surroundings. They realized 950 projects in 44 countries.

Duration : 10m
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About Zaha Hadid - Catapult13

Zaha Mohammad Hadid was a British Iraqi architect from Baghdad, Iraq. The Guardian of London described her as The Queen of the curve. Zaha was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received also the UK’s most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011.

Duration : 3m
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William Kentridge: Listening to the Image - The University of Chicago

William Kentridge talks about the practice and theory of making meaning in the studio, through an exploration of the relationship of sound and image.

Duration : 1h 29m
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Zaha Hadid Architects - Library & Learning Center, University of Economics, Vienna

The new Library and Learning Centre rises as a polygonal block from the heart of the new University campus. The interior of the Llc is informed by the external landscape of the masterplan which maps out the different levels.

Duration : 4m
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Zaha Hadid - Sleuk Rith Institute Cambodia

The Sleuk Rith Institute, a new institution and genocide memorial in the Cambodia capital Phnom Penh, brings together a museum, research centre, graduate school, document archives and research library.

Duration : 3m
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Zaha Hadid Architects - Sofia Karo Multifunctional Masterplan

The Sofia Karo Multifunctional Masterplan is a project by Zaha Hadid Architects. It is a masterplan for a mix of residential, offices, sports, state administration, hotel, knowledge center and public services.

Duration : 1m
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Zaha Hadid Architects - Mathematics Gallery at the Science Museum, London

Mathematics: The Winton Gallery brings together remarkable stories, historical artifacts and design to highlight the central role of mathematicians, their tools and ideas have helped build the modern world over the past four centuries.

Duration : 2m
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Zaha Hadid Architects - Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre

The Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, designed to become the primary building for the Azerbaijan’s cultural programs, breaks from the rigid and often monumental Soviet architecture that is so prevalent in Baku, aspiring instead to express the sensibilities of Azeri culture and the optimism of a nation that looks to the future.

Duration : 2m
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William Kentridge: Triumphs and Laments - A Project for Rome 2016

In 2016, William Kentridge was at work on a monumental frieze, called Triumphs and Laments: A Project for Rome, to be installed along the banks of the Tiber River. The work was designed to span 550 metres of an embankment of the river on Piazza Tevere: a procession of 55 drawings delving into the history of Rome from ancient times to the present, integrated with references to current world happenings, which open up conversations about the nature of history and how it is recorded; our capacity to remember and to forget.

Duration : 9m
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Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher - Volu/Dining Pavilion

Commissioned by Robbie Antonio for Design Miami 2015, Volu is part of the Revolution Project that explores the application of advanced design and fabrication technologies in the creation of cost-efficient living spaces.

Duration : 4m
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William Kentridge: Triumphs and Laments - Work in Progress

In 2016, William Kentridge was at work on a monumental frieze, called Triumphs and Laments: A Project for Rome, to be installed along the banks of the Tiber River. The work was designed to span 550 metres of an embankment of the river on Piazza Tevere: a procession of 55 drawings delving into the history of Rome from ancient times to the present, integrated with references to current world happenings, which open up conversations about the nature of history and how it is recorded; our capacity to remember and to forget.

Duration : 4m
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Zaha Hadid Architects - Loa and Vesu Vases for Wiener Silver Manufactur

The Loa and Vesu Vases express a powerful dynamic through their surface complexity.

Duration : 5m
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William Kentridge: Triumphs and Laments - The Installation

In 2016, William Kentridge was at work on a monumental frieze, called Triumphs and Laments: A Project for Rome, to be installed along the banks of the Tiber River. The work was designed to span 550 metres of an embankment of the river on Piazza Tevere: a procession of 55 drawings delving into the history of Rome from ancient times to the present, integrated with references to current world happenings, which open up conversations about the nature of history and how it is recorded; our capacity to remember and to forget.

Duration : 1m
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William Kentridge: Peripheral Thinking - Yale University

In this lecture, the South African artist, William Kentridge examines possibilities for learning from the edges. He discusses the porousness of focus and describes the ways in which studio processes can be instructive for looking at universal questions. Kentridge talks specifically about his current project, Notes Towards a Model Opera, which looks at the Cultural Revolution in China and other utopian projects. Followed by a reception. Generously funded by the Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Fund.

Duration : 1h
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Around Lulu - A conversation between William Kentridge and Pierre Audi

A conversation between Willian Kentridge and opera and theatre director Pierre Audi about the cultural setting of the Weimar Republic, the time when Alban Berg wrote his opera Lulu.

Duration : 1h 7m
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William Kentridge: If We Ever Get to Heaven

If We Ever Get to Heaven is a work by the celebrated South African artist William Kentridge. The artist achieved renown with his remarkable animation films, charcoal drawings and installations composed of film, sound, music and sculptural objects.

Duration : 13m
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Imran Qureshi

From his home in Lahore, Imran Qureshi reminisces about the sounds of his father’s typewriter and the chimes of the wall clock installed in his study, which fascinated him as a boy. In retrospect, he recognises and celebrates the connection between these lasting impressions from his childhood, and his own artistic practice.

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Robert Longo| Let The Frame of Things Disjoint

Robert Longo speaks about his solo exhibition ’Let The Frame of Things Disjoint’, which was on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, in 2017.

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Gilbert & George | Drinking Pieces and Video Sculptures | Galerie Ropac London

After selling their first work of art in 1970, Gilbert & George celebrated by getting drunk at Balls Brothers Wine Bar in Bethnal Green, London, and recorded their experience in a series of black and white pictures. Video by Nikolai Saoulski In this series, referred to as Drinking Pieces, the distorted and blurred images evoke a feeling of inebriation.

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Tea with Julia | Gilbert & George

Gilbert & George invited Julia Peyton-Jones to their house in East London where they live and work. The artists conducted a tour of their studio presenting models and catalogues of two of their current exhibitions, describing how they make their pictures in addition to showing their work in progress on their latest series entitled ‘The New Normal’ as well as other projects which are underway.

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Jules de Balincourt | There Are More Eyes Than Leaves on the Trees

This latest series of abstract landscapes, initiated over a year ago and finalised during the first half of 2020, express a desire for both physical and emotional escape. Mixing intimate and large formats, many of these paintings convey the soothing presence of nature and manifest the need for a shelter far from the world we live in.

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SEAN SCULLY

Scully at work in his studio

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GAHEE PARK ’BETRAYAL

Under the eye of Harlem the cat, GaHee Park talks about her process and inspirations in her home and studio.

Duration : 5m
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JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL "DREAM ROAD" AT PERROTIN TOKYO

By naming his exhibition Yumeji, Othoniel shows his romantic vision of the world and how such simple things as flowers are keys to emotions, a dream road to fantasies and imagination.

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JR -TEHACHAPI- AT PERROTIN PARIS

In October 2019, JR received permission to work in a maximum-security prison located in Tehachapi, California. Initially, JR photographed the men, one by one, from above, and they told their story in front of a camera.

Duration : 6m
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GEORGES MATHIEU AT PERROTIN HONG KONG

The late French artist Georges Mathieu was exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time. In this engrossing video, Georges Mathieu committee chairman, Edouard Lombard, introduces the artist’s legacy as the founder of Lyrical Abstraction.

Duration : 5m
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Johan Creten — En Quarantaine

For this short experimental film, Johan Creten worked together with the Dutch filmmaker Gerrit Schreurs. Living under lockdown in Paris during the month of April 2020, the artist reflected on a very intense period living as a young artist during another pandemic. In the summer of 1991, Johan

Duration : 7m
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JESPER JUST "CORPORÉALITÉS" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

Jesper Just introducing his exhibition during its installation

Duration : 6m
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CHEN FEI -REUNION- AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

Chen Fei introducing his work during the installation of his exhibition

Duration : 4m
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CLAIRE TABOURET "SIBLINGS" AT PERROTIN SEOUL

French artist Claire Tabouret introduces her new series of portraits, displayed in her solo exhibition ’Siblings’ at Perrotin Seoul

Duration : 5m
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Catherine Petitgas

A year spent in Mexico City introduced Catherine Petitgas to such stalwarts as Francis Alÿs and Gabriel Orozco.

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Jill Kraus

‘When you live in a New York apartment, it’s hard to collect sculpture,’ says Jill Kraus. So, in 2001, she and her husband Peter Kraus headed north to find a property suitable for the art they most wanted to support. Fast-forward 18 years, and there are now 18 large-scale artworks dotted around the Kraus’s land

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IkonoTV

DISCOVER THE NEW ikonoTV PLATFORM: ENJOY!

Duration : 30s
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Héctor Zamora

Mexican artist Héctor Zamora took New York by storm in 2019 when he installed his elegant site-specific sculpture on The Met’s roof garden.

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Andro Wekua: Dolphin in the Fountain

Watch a film about Andro Wekua’s Dolphin in the Fountain. Curator of the exhibition Katya Inozemtseva, Sprueth Magers director Franziska von Hasselbach and Gladstone Gallery director Allyson Spellacy talking about the artist’s practice.

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STREAM SLOW ART

Make your TV screen become a moving artwork thanks to video Artists and films produced by ikonoTV

Duration : 26m
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William Lamson: Untitled (Mylar)

William Lamson was born in 1977 in Virginia and is an American performance, generative and installation artist. He works both in the natural world and in his studio. His art includes small performances and actions that are captured on a video. He uses a wide range of mediums including photography, video, sculpture and performance.

Duration : 3m
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Vortex

In celebration of the launch of Vortex, an exhibition of new monumental works by the renowned contemporary artist Fabienne Verdier, Waddington Custot hosts a multisensory digital event bringing together art and opera.

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Palazzo Torlonia

A short movie about the installation of two frescos in the Palazzo Torlonia, Rome.

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St Christophe Traversant les Eaux

Saint-Christophe traversant les eaux, Hans Memling. Fabienne Verdier analysis. A film by Mark Kidel, 2013

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La Vierge au Chanoine

La Vierge au chanoine Van der Paele, Jan Van Eyck. Fabienne Verdier analysis. A film by Mark Kidel, 2013

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Something interesting about Marvel’s Movie Posters

The Avengers, to some just a successful movie for others a marvelous cinematic universe. But what do The Avengers Infinity War poster and a famous 17th-century painting have in common?

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Are MEMES Art?

Memes have become a staple of online communication and media. In 2017, the first-ever meme exhibition was held in LA. This raises the question: are memes art?

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How to make MONEY with Star Wars figures

These modern collectibles are a multi-million dollar industry. With very rare, or special individual toys sometimes selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. What makes toys so special? So desirable that people want to collect them and pay huge amounts of money for them?

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The Deeper Meaning behind Facetats

Tattoos have been around for ages, yet slowly becoming more and more popular in western culture over the last decades. An interesting development in this is the sudden rise of facial tattoos in recent years... But what do Japanese prints have to do with that?

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Does IKEA Make BILLIONS Selling ART?

IKEA is, quite literally, a household name, pretty much everywhere across the world. However, most people probably wouldn’t rate IKEA’s furniture as museum-worthy. They just sell furniture, not art. But is that fair?

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Is Mumble Rap Art?

Welcome to ’Is This Art?’ Where we take a closer look at pop culture and ask you the age-old question: ’Is This Art?’

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The Blurred Lines Between Art and P*rn

What is your view on people that post some half-naked pictures on Instagram? Is it tasteful? Or inappropriate? And what about, say, the music video of Blurred Lines? There is a very fine, sometimes blurred line between nude as art and nude as.. nude. But who decides where to draw that line? Facebook? Google? Or us?

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How David Attenborough and BBC Earth Paint us a Perfect Picture

In the year 2050, two thirds of the global population will live in an urban area or city. Yet, we humans are drawn towards nature ever since we left it behind. How has our obsession with nature inspired visual artists throughout?

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An Essay on TARANTINO and VIOLENCE

Let’s talk about violence. More specifically: let’s talk about the way movie director Quentin Tarantino displays violence in his movies and let’s find out what his style has in common with the 16th-century style in art history: Mannerism.

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Why we Love to Watch The Kardashians

Reality shows… They appear to be a recent phenomenon, gaining immense popularity with programs like Big Brother and Idols in the early 2000’s, but if that is the case, what do shows like Keeping up with the Kardashians have in common with 17th-century artists like Vermeer, Jan Steen, and Gabriel Metsu?

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An Interesting Take on Emoji’s

Have you ever looked at a word and realized how amazing written language actually is? How did all this come from, and what do emojis have to do with the earliest forms of written language?

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The Evolution of CGI

You might say there is something off about the final fight scene in the movie black panther. It kind of feels like you are watching a computer game, right? So, why is it that some visual effects artists convince with their use of CGI and others don’t?

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A THEORY that Changes the Way we Watch

As we were going through the comment sections we noticed that you guys want us to do videos on anime, video games, and comics. So we figured let’s combine them all into one video. How? By focusing on something called color theory.

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The Power and Danger of Good Political Cartoons

Sometimes an image can be so powerful, so profound... that it has the power to convey the complexity of an entire political era in a single frame. That’s exactly the reason why our school books and newspapers are filled with political cartoons. But where do they come from.. and how are they linked to 16th and 17th-century satire and propaganda?

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Hidden Jokes of Great Artists and Their Meaning

What’s E.T. doing in Star Wars Episode 1, the Phantom Menace? And why is there always a fly on this 400 year old painting? Are you watching closely? Because in this episode, we’re hunting for easter eggs!

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Monsters: From Ancient Mythology to Modern Cinema

Monsters are everywhere. Under our beds, in our closets, lurking in the dark and ever present in our nightmares. But how unique are these monsters? And what makes up a good demon? We’ll take you on a journey through 2.500 years of monster design.

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How McDonalds is Using Art Principles to Sell Their Food

Do the burgers you buy look anything like this? Probably not. But why and how do these restaurants succeed in making food look so tasty in the photos? Although the answer to this question might seem easy, this has challenged artists for centuries.

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Thiago Rocha Pitta: Heritage

Thiago Rocha Pitta is best known for his “collaborations” with nature, outdoor interventions that harness its forces, processes, and beauty. He has created an inverted fountain by the side of a lake, a performance and video of a small floating boat engulfed in flames, and an installation of mirrors on a cliff to grant viewers the experience walking on the sky.

Duration : 11m
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Simon Faithfull: Going Nowhere 1.5

The third in a trilogy of works that now spans 20 years, the film again shows a figure that seems locked in a Sisyphean quest. A small sand-island in the North Sea is filmed from a drone as the tide gradually eats away at its coast. A tiny figure walks purposely around its edge, spiralling inwards as the waters rise.

Duration : 9m
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Simon Faithfull: Going Nowhere 2

Going Nowhere 2 presents a walk through a landscape at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea. A figure dressed in jeans and a white shirt walks purposefully away from the camera and steps laboriously through a landscape of fish, rocks and watery light until he disappears into the murky distance.

Duration : 5m
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Joe Hamilton: Stream

Stream is a work that explores the well known analogy of water flow and the flow of data on the internet. The structure and movement in the browser window becomes a rigid framework that contains and shifts an array of found images and video of water. Waterfalls, torrents, rivers, creeks and streams of data flow down the screen. An interplay of fluidity and rigidness.

Duration : 2m
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Irene Fenara: Praticare la Vertigine

The feeling of emptiness as a quiet place where anything can happen, causes an anguish which is similar to the feeling of instability and disorientation of vertigo in front of things around us and those bigger than us, physically, as can be a mountain or the sea, and emotionally, as may be the insecurity of making a choice. Vertigo is a distortion of sensory perception that affects the movement of a person giving him a wrong perception of movement in space, characterized by loss of balance.

Duration : 9m
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Felipe Barros: Todo Silencio me Incomoda

Felipe Pereira Barros is a Brazilian artist. In this video, Todo Silencio me Incomoda (Silence is disturbing), a fish bowl is is left on the seashore, waiting for the tide to return to its home.

Duration : 5m
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Christiane Geoffroy: Angels of the Seas

Sea angels (scientific name: Clione limacina) are only a few centimetres long. Their bodies are transparent, apart from orange-red of the digestive apparatus. The live in deep water under the Arctic ice cap and drift with the current. These fragile-looking creatures fly through the water. They are extremely beautiful and delicately elegant. Christiane Geoffroy chose the sea angel as a poetic emblem of the struggle against rising acid levels in the oceans.

Duration : 7m
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Isabelle Hayeur: Castaway

This video explores man-made landscapes and the effects of human intervention on the environment. The work draws a parallel between the lush golf courses of Palm Desert and the desolate landscapes surrounding the Salton Sea. It investigates how water is used in California, where water rights are among the state’s divisive political issues.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Leoni and Mastrangelo

Enjoy more of their performances on their dedicated Channel

Duration : 3m
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Jean-Francois Rauzier: Beaux-Arts

Jean-Francois Rauzier is a french artist who for over thirty years explored different fields of visual arts, from painting to sculpture. In 2002 he becomes one of the first to digitally assemble images inventing the concept of the Hyperphoto. This technique consists of assembling hundreds (later thousands) of photos of existing places to create dreamlike images and settings.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Fabienne Verdier

Discover the world of Fabienne Verdier under Channels.

Duration : 42s
Maturity Level : all

Shingo Yoshida - Heathrow Airport

Shingo Yoshida documents dystopian reality in Heathrow Airport: Corona Diary, shot at the end of April 2020, while the artist was en-route to his native Japan, when many countries worldwide were still in lockdown.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Mariana Vassileva - Morning Mood

Regarding how the Corona pandemic began, perhaps Mariana Vassileva’s Morning Mood says it all – if we are to believe that the virus originated from bats. Shot in Sydney, Australia, during the very days that MOMENTUM drew its first breaths with its inaugural event in Sydney, this portrait of the city’s remarkable bats already makes the jump between species.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Thomas Eller - THE virus – SELBST (C0vid-20-Recovered)

Thomas Eller’s THE virus was made during the Corona pandemic, while on lockdown in China. The artist re-duplicates himself, with each of his copies reciting the genetic code of one of the first strains of the SARS-CoV2 virus identified in Wuhan, where the COVID-19 outbreak began.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Nina E. Schönefeld - N.O.R.O.C.2.3

Nina E. Schönefeld’s N.O.R.O.C.2.3, made during the Corona lockdown in Berlin, is a dark depiction of our pandemic times, cast in the guise of dystopian science fiction. N.O.R.O.C.2.3 is a narrative video collage that takes the pulse of a pandemic in the digital age.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Doug Fishbone - Artificial Intelligence

Making light of even the greatest darkness is a better survival mechanism than despair, and in that sense, Doug Fishbone’s Artifical Intelligence paints an oddly prescient portrait of our times, assembled from images found online.

Duration : 2m
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Map Office - VIRAL Operation

In Viral Operation the Hong Kong artist duo Map Office fly to Berlin from a Hong Kong ravaged by the SARS epidemic, this century’s first major viral outbreak, for a road trip crossing all possible European land borders on their way to the Venice Biennale. Wearing masks, they are treated as suspect Others, potential contaminants.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Shaarbek Amankul - Duba

While western medicine is only now unveiling a vaccine and has so far failed to find a viable cure to the ravages of COVID-19, it is perhaps time to turn to the ancient shamanistic traditions of other cultures.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Shingo Yoshida - The Summit

Yoshida’s ghostly journey through Heathrow Airport, an abandoned monument to globalization, is here set in contrast to an intergenerational journey to the peak of Japan’s monument to nationhood, Mount Fuji. In The Summit, Yoshida brings to life his father’s and grandfather’s dream to place an engraved haiku atop Mount Fuji.

Duration : 23m
Maturity Level : all

MAP Office - Runscape

Runscape chronicles the freedom of movement which, under our current pandemic conditions, has been denied to many around the world restricted to lockdown. The narration describing the body as ‘a bullet which needs no gun’, assumes a dark duality in view of the deadly spread of the virus from person to person.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Shaarbek Amankul - Sham

In Duba and Sham, Kyrgyz artist Shaarbek Amankul gives us an intimate portrait of cleansing rituals performed by shamans in his native country, with the trances, incantations, cries, and grunts, that seem so alien to most of us.

Duration : 4m
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Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls I

A topic made especially poignant in today’s pandemic reality, Kate McMillan’s Paradise Falls is a tribute to the disappeared, to the forgotten sites of distant traumas, to the frailty of personal and historic memory.

Duration : 2m
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Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls II

Setting up an interplay between landscape, memory, forgetting and history, Kate McMillan’s Paradise Falls considers how history can leave a residue in the landscape and the past often comes back to haunt us.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Gülsün Karamustafa - Personal Time Quartet

Gulsun Karamustafa’s 4-channel video installation and soundscape, Personal Time Quartet, was intended as a portrait of the artist’s childhood, stuck indoors and perpetually repeating the same domestic tasks.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Stefano Cagol - National Pride

Stefano Cagol’s National Pride turns a clip from Virus, a 1980 apocalyptic sci-fi film, into an audiovisual parable for our times.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Nezaket Ekici - On the Way safety and Luck

In her elegy to the freedoms of travel, On The Way Safety and Luck (2016), Nezaket Ekici reimagines a farewell ritual which was once commonly practiced in Turkey and many Balkan countries, where friends and family gather to throw water after the vehicles of the departed, so that their journey may flow as smoothly as water.

Duration : 34m
Maturity Level : all

Theo Eshetu - The Festival of Sacrifice

Faith is the subject of Theo Eshetu’s Festival of Sacrifice, depicting an ancient cultural tradition, the celebration of Eid-ul-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice.

Duration : 17m
Maturity Level : all

Claudia Chaseling - Murphy the Mutant

Claudia Chaseling’s Murphy the Mutant is apocalyptic sci-fi grounded in the harsh reality of the environmental devastation of nuclear waste and munitions.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

David Krippendorff - Nothing Escapes My Eyes

David Krippendorff’s Nothing Escapes My Eyes is a time-warping tribute to a changing world where, to a moving soundtrack from the eponymous opera, a would-be Aida sheds tears for a place and time which no longer exist.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Varvara Shavrova - Opera - Three Transformations

Varvara Shavrova’s The Opera takes an intimate look at the performers behind the spectacle of Chinese opera.

Duration : 3m
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Janet Laurence - Vanishing

COVIDecameron ends with the meditative soundtrack of deep breathing, snuffling, purring, rumbling, accompanied visually by close-ups of various animals as they inhale…exhale…inhale…exhale.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Qiu Anxiong - Cake

In a timeless and exquisitely crafted contemplation on the past, the present, and the relationship between the two, Qiu Anxiong’s Cake combines painting, drawing and clay with a discordant soundtrack of mechanical noises.

Duration : 6m
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Martin Sexton - Indestructible Truth

The temporal and narrative ambiquities persist in Martin Sexton’s Indestructible Truth, intercuting historic footage of Tibet with quotations from Carl Jung, culminating in a UFO hovering over the Tibetan temples.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

Martin Sexton - Bloodspell

Martin Sexton’s Bloodspell at first appears to be a travelogue constructed from grainy home videos, only to turn into a transcendental journey into science fiction.

Duration : 10m
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Sumugan Sivanesan - Children’s Book of War

Sumugan Sivanesan’s A Children’s Book of War uses the lighthearted visual languages of animation, computer games, and digital media in a jarring conjunction to address the topics of war, sovereignty, and violence.

Duration : 1m
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Beyond Walls by Saype

Discover his 8 first gigantic frescoes. Project 9 is now in Cape Town

Duration : 5m
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Tomas Saraceno

ENJOY HIS DEDICATED CHANNEL

Duration : 53s
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The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

DISCOVER IT’S DEDICATED CHANNEL

Duration : 1m
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THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2021

Online event on 30th January with stories about architectural culture today

Duration : 26s
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David Szauder

Kinetic Movements with Sound

Duration : 5m
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COVIDecameron

DISCOVER MOMENTUM ON CHANNELS

Duration : 20s
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orbital cascade_57-46

The work orbital cascade_57-46 (2013) visualizes the demographics of defunct objects in orbit around the Earth from 1957 to 2046.

Duration : 6m
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equilibrium

The video work equilibrium explores the process of vertigo and spatial desorientation.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

skyfall

Skyfall (2015) deals with the relationship between gravitational force and the human body.

Duration : 4m
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Michael Najjar after Caspar David Friedrich

Najjar takes photos of a crash site in California’s Mojave desert and, drawing on Caspar David Friedrich’s 1823/1824 painting Das Eismeer (The Sea of Ice), rearranges them as a jagged, towering heap of wreckage against a chain of hills banked in fog.

Duration : 2m
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Talk outer space

In this talk Najjar introduces the public to the outer space project.

Duration : 11m
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Mission Space

Artist Michael Najjar is preparing himself for a journey into space as part of his outer space art project. This documentary film shows his preparations at various aerospace training centers in the USA, Germany and Russia.

Duration : 48m
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William Kentridge at MUDAM, Luxemburg

A Must See before August 2021

Duration : 10s
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The Monarch Sanctuary by TerreformONE

The Monarch Sanctuary (Lepidoptera terrarium) will be eight stories of new commercial construction in Nolita, NYC. Programmatically, the building space will mostly contain retail and office life. Yet central to its purpose is serving as a breeding ground and sanctuary for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Duration : 1m
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Snapshot mon Amour by Christian Bau

After the catastrophe in Fukushima, a new Japanese word came into being: Genpatsu-Rikon, a word pieced-together from the characters for “atom” and “divorce”. In 2011, documentary filmmaker Christian Bau travels to the east coast of Japan to investigate this newly coined word. What did the filmmaker see? “I saw everything.” -"You didn’t see anything, nothing at all!” Music Ulrike Haage

Duration : 23s
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DESERT X

The Desert X, an exhibition of 13 works by internationally acclaimed artists installed at various locations around the Coachella Valley. Curated by Neville Wakefield and César García-Alvarez. Until May 16, 2021, if you can travel.

Duration : 42s
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CAN THE ARTS HEAL?

Save the date, March 22-26, 2021. A five-day cultural program in response to the mental health crisis caused by Covid-19. Presented by The Future is Unwritten as part of the WHO’s Solidarity Series of Events. More info www.culturunners.com

Duration : 26s
Maturity Level : all

Jenny Holzer - OH

Short documentary by Claudia Müller focusing on "OH", an installation done by Jenny Holzer for the Neu Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The American artist’s medium is language. For more than 30 years, her name has stood for a conceptual art that calls into question our perceptions and the way we are influenced by media and politics.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

CLAUDIA COMTE

Mini-documentary by Claudia Müller asking Claudia Comte who is her favorite woman artist. Comte is a Swiss artist and works in a variety of media including sculpture, engraving, installation, murals, and painting.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

CHIHARU SHIOTA

Mini-documentary by Claudia Müller asking Chiharu Shiota who is her favorite woman artist. Shiota is mostly renowned for her vast, room-spanning webs of threads or hoses, where she links abstract networks with concrete everyday objects such as keys, window frames, dresses, shoes, boats and suitcases.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

JULIETA ARANDA

Mini-documentary by Claudia Müller asking Julieta Aranda who is her favorite wpman artist. Julieta was born in Mexico City. She is a conceptual artist that lives and works in Berlin and New York City.

Duration : 3m
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The Bride

Joana Vasconcelos came to public attention for her sculpture A Noiva (The Bride) at the 2005 Venice Biennale, a five-meter-tall chandelier made from 14,000 tampons. Recognizable from a distance, an imposing chandelier displays a candid cascade of glistening pendants.

Duration : 2m
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Trafaria Praia

Trafaria Praia is Vasconcelos’s proposal for the Participation of Portugal at the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia. Her project addresses the historical relationship between Portugal and Italy, which evolved through trade, diplomacy, and art.

Duration : 2m
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Independent Heart

Red Independent Heart presents itself in the shape of an enormous ’heart of Viana’, the iconic piece of Portuguese filigree, patiently filled in with red plastic cutlery. Suspended from its axis, the work makes a movement of circular rotation, evoking the cycles of life and of the eternal return, accompanied by the sound of three meaningful fado songs, Estranha Forma de Vida [Strange Way of Life], Gaivota [Seagull] and Maldição [Curse].

Duration : 4m
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Valkyrie Egeria

The monumental Egeria produced for the main atrium of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is one of the most ambitious of this important group of works inspired by the female characters from Norse mythology. Joana Vasconcelos combines different industrial textiles with traditional handmade techniques and LED lights. Egeria reveals an exuberant selection of colours, varied textures and rich details.

Duration : 3m
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Call Center

Call Center presents itself under the form of an enormous Beretta revolver built with recourse to the accumulation of 168 black landline telephones, each of the same exact model. The hyperbolized form of a Beretta revolver, built using dozens of telephones, points directly towards the violence that may be produced through the power of mass communication.

Duration : 2m
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War Games

In War Games, the inside and outside of a black 1960s Morris Oxford is used to host contrasting worlds. Outside, it is decorated with dozens of toy rifles facing towards the rear and strips of red LEDs which switch on and off to simulate speed, like the lines representing movement in a comic. Inside, the car is filled with colourful cuddly toys in an obvious allusion to the world of children.

Duration : 2m
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GEGO: Trailer

GEGO, Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (b. 1912 in Hamburg, d. 1994 in Caracas) was one of the leading artists of her generation in Latin America, known above all for her large-scale spatial installations. She regarded her works not as sculptures, but as structures or drawings in space. Film maker Nathalie David combines present day footage from Caracas and archive footage of Gego’s work and life with Gego’s texts and statements from curators, art historians and family members.

Duration : 1m
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THE ABSTRACT IMAGE OF THE PANDEMIC

We all experience the impact of the COVID pandemic. David Szauder shows the growing mass of daily information drawn in curves on a piece of paper by a small drawing robot. Each time the word pandemic occurs in the news, the small robot draws the next curve determined by the time and GPS coordinates of where the news is coming from, following the virus’s current status.

Duration : 1m
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Fondation Beyeler

Discover its dedicated Channel

Duration : 12s
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Between Simonetta

In 2011, Michael Joaquin Grey, created this fascinating hyper slow generative portrait after Simonetta, a portrait by Botticelli from the Gemaeldegalerie in Berlin. Observe how her face expresses all moods. And discover more Slow Art videos.

Duration : 15m
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Anupama Kundoo- Nothing is Fixed

“Before humans there was an architecture that life itself creates.” Meet the renowned Indian architect Anupama Kundoo who in this short video reflects about an architect called time: “There is an incredible order created by nature.”

Duration : 4m
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Anna Heringer - The Walls Are Dancing

It is much more than just a building. It’s a social space. It really has an impact on the society, on the community”, says German architect Anna Heringer about her recently finished Anandaloy-center in Bangladesh. “With this building everything comes together.”

Duration : 8m
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Vandkunsten Architects- Love of Wood

“It’s a living material, and so are we.” In this short video, two architects from the influential and prizewinning Danish architecture firm, Vandkunsten Architects, talk about the merits of wood as a building material – from its climate-friendly qualities to its soothing effect.

Duration : 3m
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Anupama Kundoo- Taking Time To Rethink

“I feel that a lot of the problems we have in today’s world have come because of that wrong notion that time is money. No, time is the only resource we have when we are alive. What else do we have?” asks the renowned Indian architect Anupama Kundoo in this video.

Duration : 5m
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Peter Eisenman- Field of Otherness

“Architecture, I believe, is necessary to mark collective memory.” One of the leading contemporary American architects, Peter Eisenman, here shares the thoughts that went into building the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, and how he sought to transform a feeling of “being lost in space in time” into the memorial.

Duration : 9m
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Terunobu Fujimori- A Feeling of Freedom

Meet Terunobu Fujimori, one of Japan’s most influential architects, who has enchanted the world with his playful, often elevated buildings made of natural materials such as wood, earth and stone. In this short video, Fujimori talks about his original interpretations of a traditional Japanese building – his iconic raised tea houses.

Duration : 6m
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Tatiana Bilbao- Architecture and Nature

How can the built environment work with nature instead of against it? Watch the award-winning Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao offer her take on this, emphasizing the enriching dialogue between nature and architecture, which we must be very cautious to preserve.

Duration : 7m
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Junya Ishigami- Creating Nature with Time

“If things created by humans should function next to natural things, the passing of time is necessary. Only the passage of time will bring forward the kind of landscape I want to create,” says the renowned Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. Learn about his award-winning project, the poetic landscape ‘Water Garden’, in this short video.

Duration : 3m
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Lockdown Schmockdown

Check Season 4 under COVIDecameron Channel from Momentum Worldwide

Duration : 16s
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Olafur Eliasson on “Life”

At the Fondation Beyeler, Eliasson states: “Increasingly I have grown interested in efforts to consider life not from a human-centric perspective but from a broad, biocentric perspective. I’ve found myself turning nouns into verbs – when I go through my exhibition, I try to tree, for instance – in order to become aware of perspectives that go beyond what we humans can properly imagine.”

Duration : 2m
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Farideh Lashai

"When I count, there are only you…but when I look, there is only a shadow" (2012-13), a video installation inspired by Goya’s Disasters of War. Farideh Lashai removed the figures and modified the images in this iconic print series in order to present them accompanied by animated images which are projected onto them from a moving spotlight.

Duration : 3m
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MENART FAIR

For the lucky ones who can be in Paris from May 27-30th, please visit MENART FAIR, the first international modern and contemporary art fair, dedicated to artists from the Middle East & North Africa selected this year by 22 must-see galleries. More information: menart-fair.com Many videos from these galleries are on a dedicated channel here on ikonoTV

Duration : 17s
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Shirin Art Gallery presents Koorosh Shishegaran

Born in 1944 in Qazvin, Iran, Koorosh Shishegaran is considered one of the most expressive and emotive artists of the contemporary Iranian art movement. In a career spanning six decades, he has established himself as an artist of great discipline, social awareness and manual skill, working in a wide array of different media, from graphic design to painting, photography and furniture design. Drawing inspiration from Iranian visual culture, Shishegaran is best known for his scribble line abstract paintings (Khatkhatis). These dynamic colourful lines, depicting the contemporary human condition, enabled the artist to find a style and language expressive of the modern era.

Duration : 8m
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Shirin Art Gallery presents Sepehr Bakhtiyari

Born in Tehran, Iran in 1982, Sepehr Bakhtiyari has a B.A in Graphic Design, Sooreh Art University, Tehran.

Duration : 1m
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Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Annie Kurkdjian

Born in Lebanon in 1972, Kurkdjian lives and works in Beirut. Through the turbulent years of the Lebanese Civil War, she first studied fine arts and psychology at the Lebanese University, followed by theology at St. Joseph’s University. Kurkdjian has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Gallery Sader, UNESCO, Salon Sursock, Royal School of Arts London, and Biennale Arts Hors Normes in Lyon, amongst several others.

Duration : 55s
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Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Saoud Abdallah

Saoud Abdallah Saoud Abdallah was born in 1976. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2005 and he got his postgraduate diploma in 2006. Abdallah’s work was shown in several exhibitions in his homeland, Lebanon, Kuwait, UK and Italy. His work combines different types of natural sand to produce a rigid yet emotional layer of figures on canvas.

Duration : 29s
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Zaid Shawwa

Shawwa studied Engineering at the University of Jordan, and did his MBA at the American University in Dubai. His love and interest in art started at an early age, mainly working on portraits and landscapes in a classic form and using monochromatic shades of mainly charcoal as a medium. His paintings are mostly based on real moments in life, intensively sketched and studied to create an image that reflects a feeling rather than an act.

Duration : 2m
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193 Gallery presents Hassan Hajjaj

Hassan Hajjaj was born in 1961 in Larache, Morocco. He lives and works between Marrakech and London. He evolves between several artistic universes: photography, fashion, music, cinema and design, while presenting a critical and uninhibited point of view on consumer society. Hassan Hajjaj questions tradition and identity, focusing in particular on the wearing of the veil, as well as on the daily life of the people he meets, friends or strangers crossed in the streets of Morocco or elsewhere.

Duration : 35s
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Eiwan al Gassar Gallery presents Shua`aAl Muftah

Shua`aAl Muftah is a self-taught artist. After living in various places for twenty-two years, she returned to her homeland, Qatar. The local reality was comparatively different from her childhood. The rapid urbanization and the social and cultural changes of the country inspired her to explore, artistically, various topics such as the relationship between tradition and modernity and the Qatari cultural identity, to name a few.

Duration : 1m
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Leila Heller Gallery presents Soraya Sharghi

Soraya Sharghi is an Iranian artist living and working in New York City. Sharghi creates works in diverse media, such as painting and sculpture. Her artistic aim is to create new myth and narratives using the ancient mythology including persian mythology, revolving around power. She does not see her process as emulating the scenery of these tales, but instead molds them to serve her purpose and creates extraordinary or supernatural beings.

Duration : 1m
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Steve Sabella

A Short Story, 2020

Duration : 7m
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Shoja Azari

Winter, 2011

Duration : 5m
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Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Duration : 3m
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Hassan Sharif

Experiments & Objects 1979 - 2011, exhibition which was at Qasr Al Hosn Cultural Quarter Hall – Abu Dhabi

Duration : 4m
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Lumen Prize

The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition. Enjoy here highlights from the winners in 2020.

Duration : 20m
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Kara Walker

Kara Walker has shown her silhouetted depictions of plantation life in most of the world’s leading institutions. Her monumental sculptures have made the headlines from New York to London. Now, Kunstmuseum Basel is revealing a lesser-known aspect of Walker’s prolific creative output: her drawings. ‘Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be’ gathers over 600 drawings executed over the last twenty-eight years. Check more on Art Basel Channel

Duration : 5m
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Lee Ufan

To behold a painting or sculpture by the Korean artist and philosopher Lee Ufan is to feel suspended in a single breath longer than seems biologically possible. Whether consisting of an isolated brushstroke on canvas or an installation of carefully counterpoised rocks and steel plates, each work is an encounter between interior and exterior that produces a lasting reverberation.

Duration : 1m
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Victoria Sin

’Indifferent Idols.’ ’Kiss My Genders.’ ’DO DISTURB.’ Over the past few years, the work of multimedia artist Victoria Sin – a staple of London’s queer club culture – has appeared in group exhibitions with a notably defiant slant in Taipei, London, and Paris, as well as during the Venice Biennale and Art Basel Hong Kong. Through films and performances that constitute a kind of double drag, Sin highlights viewers’ expectations and fantasies, then proceeds to slyly – and completely – dismantle them. Check more on Art Basel Channel

Duration : 5m
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Judy Chicago-The Birth Project

‘Humankind is represented by mankind … Fake news!’, said Judy Chicago, laughing, when she met Art Basel’s video team at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Most of the artist’s forty-year-long career has been spent debunking that myth. For the Birth Project (1980-85), Chicago turned her eye to what she saw as a major blind spot in art history: the representation of birth. Working with 150 volunteer needleworkers spread around the United States, she produced 85 needlepoint and textile works picturing women pregnant or giving birth, caught between joy and excruciating pain.

Duration : 5m
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Gabriel Chaile

Gabriel Chaile has made a name for himself as a sophisticated synthesist of ancient and modern traditions. The 34-year-old artist from Tucumán, in northwest Argentina, employs references ranging from Pre-Columbian cultures to Conceptualism in often-usable sculptures involving bricks, eggs, and other found objects.

Duration : 4m
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Wong Ping

Wong Ping’s faux-naif, candy-colored animations have taken the artworld by storm. Simultaneously unsettling and laugh-out-loud funny, they present an absurdist version of Hong Kong’s urban life beset by isolation, frustration, and simmering desires. Wong shared the thinking process behind his practice while on a tour of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Sha Tin, Hong Kong.

Duration : 3m
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Kiran Nadar

To call Kiran Nadar an animating force behind India’s art market would be an understatement. An internationally ranked bridge player, Nadar brings a winner’s mindset to her collecting and has been known to chase a desired artwork for decades.

Duration : 4m
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Banksy - A Great British Spraycation

The graffiti artist from Bristol, whose work now sells for millions of pounds, has confirmed that he is responsible for the appearance of several new works dotted across seaside resorts on the east coast of England. Speculation has already been rife that Banksy was the man behind an entertaining outbreak of fresh graffiti images, which include a seagull hovering over oversized “chips” – made from insulation material – in a skip and a rat relaxing in a deckchair with a cocktail.

Duration : 3m
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Ingo Frölich. Wellen der Zeit

How Gothic inspires contemporary artist Ingo Fröhlich. This work in chalk was done during 2021 in the court of the Synodal Palace next to the Cathedral. Interrogating the functions and possibilities through drawing has always interested Ingo where movement, time, and space are always interlaced. Drone film by Frédéric Bouffety.

Duration : 2m
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I’ll be your mirror

I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR is the central piece of the exhibition at the Museum Guggenheim Bilbao. The title is taken from the homonymous song written by Lou Reed and interpreted by the Velvet Underground & Nico, whose promise is to reflect, like a mirror, the true “self”.

Duration : 2m
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Solitario

Light alloy golden wheel rims, crystal whisky glasses, metallized and thermo-lacquered iron, stainless steel, tempered and laminated glass. All of those creating what seems to be a big diamond ring and questioning the meaning of those objects in our society.

Duration : 2m
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Solitario- Behind the scene

The artist expose her work process and talk about her attention behind the sculpture ’Solitario’.

Duration : 1m
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Tutti Frutti

Seductive as the strategies of conquest which govern our present age, the works from the Treats series display themselves as giant and colourful ice cream cones, slices of tart and cupcakes put together through the accumulation of different layers of plastic moulds - apples, pears, strawberries, blackberries, croissants and pretzels - commonly used to play at the beach. The oversized scale and the colourfulness capture the immediate attention of the viewer, despite not entirely concealing the consequent hollowness of the objects.

Duration : 1m
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Valkyrie Octopus

Seductive organic shapes and elongated arms that resemble tentacles burst out of the main body of Valkyrie Octopus, reaching the aquarium of the Grande Praça and the three sculptures on the ground. A variety of textures and rich details are the result of textiles and materials from different sources, combining artisanal techniques. Valkyrie Octopus will take on the character of a gentle guardian: the sublime heart of the Grande Praça.

Duration : 3m
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Part 1 - Unequivocable

Climate change is real, it is happening, it is serious. Planet earth is everyone’s business. Unequivocably.

Duration : 6m
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Part 2 - Fragile

Limiting global warming to 1.5 C is profoundly important- to literally save our planet. Most importantly, we need to protect the most vulnerable people and the most fragile ecosystems.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Part 3 - Hopeful

Climate change is caused by us. We are all responsible, we all need to act. So, let’s focus on the most important issue facing the entire planet today – and for the rest of our days.. and that is climate change.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Diane Tuft - The arctic melt

This three-minute video created by Diane Tuft, is an elegy to the melt that is occurring in the Arctic and its effect on both the Earth and the animals that depend on the Arctic for their survival.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Diane Tuft - Coastal Requiem

Coastal Requiem by Diane Tuft, investigates the plight of displacement due to climate change among five coastal communities around the globe.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

AES+F - Allegoria Sacra , Trailer

AES+F, Allegoria Sacra (2011), Trailer In a contemporary interpretation of Bellini’s painting ‘Allegoria Sacra’, AES+F re-imagine the airport as a modern-day Purgatory, where reality transforms itself and one’s ‘tomorrow’ becomes a total illusion. For people in Berlin, you can watch the entire film until 14th November. More info: https://www.momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/birds-bicycles

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

David Szauder - The Dream of the Statue

Acting as an inherited time-machine, In his work from 1971-2021 ,Budapest, Szauder re-animates his grandfather’s Super 8 footage of Budapest’s skyline and the iconic, yet historically politically fraught Soviet built Liberation Monument.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Almagul Menlibayeva - Astana. Departure

Menlibayeva’s work (2016/19) presents a timely warning against mankind’s despoliation of space and the consequent pollution of our planet. Reflecting on the complex intersection of architecture, science and politics, this film reveals the cultural and environmental despoliation post-Soviet Central Asia.

Duration : 21m
Maturity Level : all

David Szauder - Changing of the Guard (Berlin, DDR) 1972-2021

In Changing of the Guard (Berlin, DDR) 1972-2021, Szauder re-imagines footage of the guard protecting the eternal flame in Berlin’s Neue Wache, as guarding a Tesla Model S, showing a luxury impossible to imagine when the original footage was shot.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Dominik Lejman - 60s Cathedral

Oscillating between geometric shapes of gothic architecture and biological forms of chromosomes, Lejman’s video (2011) -fresco depicts skydivers recreating the vaulted ceiling of Durham Cathedral.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Dominik Lejman - The Making-Of 60s Cathedral

Artist Dominik Lejman takes us behind the scenes of the creation of his remarkable video art from 2011. Project of skydivers recreating the vaulted ceiling of Durham Cathedral.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

David Szauder - Busó

In his Video ’Busó ’ (Mohács, Hungary,1967-2021) Szauder uses his grandfather’s 1960’s footage of the Busó festival. Whilst it remains largely unchanged, it is now deployed by the right-leaning government to celebrate nationalist ideals and values.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Almagul Menlibayeva - Ulugh Beg: Futuristic Machine of Central Asia , single-channel version of 10-channel video installation

This film (2020) tells the story of historically revered ruler of Samarkand and famed astronomer, Ulugh Beg. Interweaving past and present, myth and reality, Menlibayeva gazes out at space as the next border we have already begun to cross.

Duration : 39m
Maturity Level : all

David Szauder - Parallel Dimension

In his film ’Parallel Dimension’ (Budapest, Prague, Balato, 1967-2021) Szauder comingles footage from Soviet May Day celebrations with whimsical animations. The game between visible and invisible mimics the political subtexts of enforced displays of ideology.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Shaarbek Amankul - Lenin Stands, Lenin Fell Down

Amankul’s footage, documenting the 2003 relocation of the Lenin sculpture in Kyrgyzstan, captures a powerful symbol - Lenin in flight, suspended between past failed ideologies and an uncertain future.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Marina Belikova, BALAGAN!!!

The Russian exclamation balagan, describing, with celebratory gusto, a farce, the most unholy of cockups, is deployed by Belikova in her film ’BALAGAN!!!’ (2015) as a critical challenge to the chaos and misrule of our times.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Hajnal Nemeth - The Loser (version 1, 2012)

In a rendition of political hypocrisy, two confessions are sung comprised of confessional monologues of fallen leaders, exploring the contrast of individual and collective responsibility.

Duration : 36m
Maturity Level : all

Zuzanna Janin - Pas de Deux

Janin’s work (2001), depicting two bodies in a physical dialogue somewhere between dance and fight, remains relevant in a time of conflict and distraction when we are all dancing around the issues.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

"The Ship of Tolerance" by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

Since 2016, the Zug filmmaker Remo Hegglin documented the "The Ship of Tolerance" project in cooperation with the Kunsthaus Zug, with more than 2’000 participants, and numerous project partners. It included a whole region and attracted worldwide attention. First realized in the oasis town of Siwa in Egypt in 2005, the participatory project "The Ship of Tolerance" of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov has meanwhile made appearances in Venice, St. Moritz, Sharjah, Miami, Havana, New York, Moscow, Rome, and Rostock. With "The Ship of Tolerance", the internationally renowned artists seek to bring people of different continents, cultures and identities together by actively involving them in the project. Particularly important to them are the children.

Duration : 59m
Maturity Level : all

Joan Jonas - Art in Action

Since starting out as part of New York’s 1960s Downtown art scene, Joan Jonas has cut a unique figure in the art world. Feminism, storytelling, dance, and traditional Asian theater have all informed her performance practice which has emerged as one of the most influential of the last half-century. Nature and landscape have also always prominently featured in her work

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Lawrence Abu Hamdan decodes the world through sound. A self-proclaimed ‘private ear’, the Dubai-based artist leads audio investigations that uncover often unsavory truths, such as goods trafficking or the realities of a Syrian prison.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Anne Imhof

Anne Imhof exploded onto the international scene in 2017, when she represented Germany at the Venice Biennale with her durational performance FAUST. Featuring a haughty cast of performers (and a few dogs), FAUST’s raw energy electrified the critics and landed the artist the Golden Lion that year.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Jeff Koons

The shiny surfaces of Jeff Koons’ sculptures have become a byword for the artist’s work. Polished to perfection, they negate the idea of manual fabrication and stand as pristine totems to human desire. Koons’ balloon dogs, dolphins, and oversized hearts capture the contemporary poetry of pop culture while taunting humans’ inner magpies.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

TAKING FLIGHT: Birds & Bicycles

Discover the new Channel on ikonoTV curated by MOMENTUM

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Hannu Karjalainen, Daemon (2020)

“Daemon” (guardian spirit) stems from reflections on the future of humankind and its relationship with nature. Karjalainen’s film navigates the ground between real and unreal, abstract and absurd. Running on the logic of a dream or a nightmare, it quotes online comments of trolls criticizing Greta Thunberg’s speech on climate action at the UN.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Doug Fishbone, Please Gamble Responsibly (2021)

Fishbone examines how instability and collapse are coded into the very way modern money works - from the Nixon Shock in 1971 to the ongoing corporate bailouts of today - and unmasks a global economic system which is far dodgier than it seems. The film treats a populist and relevant subject - the unaffordability of housing in much of the Western world - from an unexpected and humorous vantage point.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Iván Buenader, Volkspark (2021)

In “Volkspark” (People’s Park), Buenader dances through Berlin’s oldest public park. Dressed in clothes found on the streets – the literal social fabric of Berlin - he moves amidst various monuments inscribed with references to battles, conquests, nations, historical milestones, popular mythologies, and literary characters of children’s fables.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Nina E. Schönefeld, H A Z E C I T Y (2021)

Set in 2027, a near-future of toxic fogs and extreme pollution, “H A Z E C I T Y” refers to the current discussion of climate change and what might happen in the coming years. The film raises the question: To what extent is it legitimate to use violence to force a necessary shift to prevent irreversible climate change?

Duration : 32m
Maturity Level : all

Nezaket Ekici, Kaffeeklatsch (2019)

Questioning her sense of belonging in German society, as a migrant and integrated German, Nezaket Ekici asks herself what her own German tradition is – and what actually is German tradition? Staging herself in traditional German costumes from the Black Forest, Spreewald, and Thuringia, Ekici drinks coffee with her doppelgangers in this playful video addressing the fine line between foreignness and belonging, while looking back with wry humor on the isolation of lockdown.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Shahar Marcus, Dig (2020)

“Dig” shows men frantically digging out heavy stones. It could be a ruined house after an earthquake or a bomb. But because we are not shown where or why this action takes place, it becomes a universal metaphor for the many disasters – natural and manmade – of our troubled times.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Christian Niccoli, ZWEI (2021)

“Zwei” tells the story of two men bound together in a relationship of interdependence. Hanging off opposite ends of a rope suspended from a high wall, this perpetual balancing act is an apt social metaphor for our times. Trying to climb, whether up the social ladder or out of the mess we’re in, we are always on the edge of loosing our grip.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

WHO BY WATER

"Who by Water" is a recut of Luc Perez’ last short film "the Drowned" made during the lockdown in Danemark. The idea was to delete the film characters and dialogues to keep only empty places. The Danish village Marstal, is becoming a empty town anted by its own ghosts and maritime history. For the past two decades, Luc Perez has been focusing mainly on animation and have developed his very own technique – a mix between analog painting and computer compositing. He does everything by himself, except the soundtrack, from the first script draft, storyboard, animatic, design, editing to post production. He has achieved several works for other directors from all around the world, who wanted to integrate animated sequences in their films or documentaries, such as Wolfgang Becker (Good Bye, Lenin!) or Raed Andony (Best Documentary at the 67th Berlinale).

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

LUX when light began to breathe

Discover how artists iart STUDIO, Es Devlin, Refik Anadol, a’strict, and Julianknxx use tech such as 3D projection mapping, neural networks, quantum computing, open-source VFX software, or algorithmic visualisations to tame light to make beautiful and meaningful art about our climate, our human condition, or what it is to breathe.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

DESERT X ALULA

15 artists explore ideas of mirage and oasis in spectacular Al Ula from 11th February until 30th March 2022. Check www.desertx.org

Duration : 0s
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WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Alexander Ponomarev’s Statement

Russian artist Alexander Ponomarev painted in bright colors in 1996 a Russian submarine, making out of a war machine a work of art. ikonoTV is launching a "What makes us Human?" campaign, a Call for Artists to express alternatives to war. Check ikonoTV’s Facebook page soon.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Part 1 - Accountability

The earth is our home and the home of many other animal species and plants. It is our responsibility to see the damage that we caused to the water, air and the earth.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Part 2 - Transformation

What are the main factors for climate change and air pollution and how we can change and make an impact on them.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Part 3 - Action

What we can do about climate change already today.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Alexa Velez-Of the Air (2021)

WINNER: Of the Air is a short film that examines our disconnect from the natural world, engaging with the element of air from a physical and emotional perspective. The film is a reaction to the climate crisis in the form of a duet between a living, breathing body and the air. The piece takes place in a small apartment kitchen, where the main character finds herself relying on an air conditioner for relief in the middle of a heat wave. The air conditioner is one of many machines humans have created to harness the forces of the natural world. However, on a grander scale, we are at the mercy of these forces. -Alexa Velez

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Anna Rotty - Solastalgia (2020)

“I’m interested in how new colors appear in our perception of the world we live in and what emotions color can stir within us. I’ve started to see this work as an archive I’m building, in response to what I see now, but also as a record of this time as I think about the future. I want images of water and land to be seductive and dynamic so that we feel the need to preserve it as best we can. I want the viewer to question their gaze of the Earth, see themselves as part of the landscape, both real and constructed, to generate empathy. With my constructed sculptural pieces, I hope people make the connection that these are built, and not found, as a reminder to not take our planet for granted.” –Anna Rotty 

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Brian Patterson - Intermission for Deleted (2018)

“The aim of this piece is to present the implications of the imminent mass extinction at a pace that the viewer can integrate without overwhelm or despair. While making this piece I contemplated the objective fact that 99.9% of all species to ever live on Earth have gone extinct. Such a premise may instill despair or surrender, but it also reveals the beauty of humanity’s power both to destroy the planet but also save and serve her as well. I strongly believe the courage and focus that a calm mind and compassionate heart allow is our only hope of survival.”

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Char Jeré - We Were Water (2022)

“I hope to emphatically express the issues that marginalized communities are facing globally so that those in power begin to listen more intently. I want to create an intergenerational and multi-racial movement wherein Black, Brown and Indigenous people’s voices are not only heard but amplified. It’s essential that we include different perspectives on the issue of climate change so that we can see how impactful it is to not just a few of us but all of us. Artists should be working within their communities to elevate and mediate the issues and concerns of the ecology around them.” –Char Jeré

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Douglas Tolman - Last Gesture (2021)

WINNER: An inland sea disappears before our eyes. Coastal wildfire smoke drifts into the basin, mingling with dust particles from a dry lake bed. We are downwind, with an economy reliant on poor land-use practices which cause ancestral forests to burn and inland seas to dry up. The land has offered so much to us, a gesture that has allowed our species to flourish around the planet. When will we offer something in return? Though this work is specific to the place I call home, lakes and forests around the world are facing similar problems and require similar solutions. –Douglas Tolman

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Linnéa Gad - Lime (2021)

Lime examines how CO2 levels and the acidification of the sea is intertwined with the lifecycle of the mineral lime. I’m currently investigating limestone, oyster shells and lapis lazuli, which are all different forms of calcium carbonate. In order to get better acquainted with the material, I issued myself a challenge: to sculpt only in lime, endorsing its diversity and its willingness to bind with different versions of itself. I see my sculptures as a locus for the compressed narratives embedded in the material, able to stand on their own as curious openings for inquiry and ready to surface discussion. –Linnéa Gad

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Kathy Sirico - Floating Chronologies (2022)

Floating Chronologies investigates dendrochronology—the study of mapping tree-rings—and its role in how we impose human power over nature, to the cost of climate devastation. Scientists use the term “Floating Chronology” to describe a tree-ring history whose beginning and end dates are not known and cannot be fully mapped. Here, I offer an alternative viewpoint which will reorient viewers out of a societally imposed state of mind, and towards one of empathy and climate justice. The primary sculptural element of my project is a large- scale, circular mixed media collage which stands in place of the museum tree. It is an empathetic monument which serves as an abstract alternative to patriarchal models of narrative art. –Kathy Sirico

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Maurício Chades - Pyramid, Urubu (2019)

WINNER: By understanding art as an aesthetic-political tool, I see experimentation as a state of becoming in which we can think of ways out of the infinite socio-environmental crises generated by capitalism. Mostly grounded in environmentalism studies, my work usually relates to a place or a system that I perceive as a microcosm within a global situation. Three interconnected subjects mark my production: decomposition, death rituals, and frictions between forest and city. –Maurício Chades

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Sarah Brophy - Thermal Throttle (2021)

"Thermal throttle" is the technical term for what happens when a computer’s graphics processing unit becomes overwhelmed and needs to shed heat, maxing out the machine’s fan cooling system, and resulting in a sound that physically and metaphorically feels like heavy breathing. Events that trigger thermal throttle are graphics-processing heavy, such as gaming, rendering large videos, and navigating 3D models, all of which are essential elements of virtual life in the metaverse. As our existence in the physical world becomes more perilous by the day due to climate change, Thermal Throttle reminds us that life in the virtual world is also threatened by an excess of heat and overuse of resources. –Sarah Brophy

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Melanie Bernier - The Popcorn Game (2021)

Will future generations view us as monsters for not doing more to avert catastrophe? How will we explain ourselves? Combining a cherished story from my childhood with sparse, folksy imagery, I comment on the absurdity of my lived experience. I envision where this moment will lead us. In The Popcorn Game , I’m cast as my future self, an anxious and lonely woman with many regrets. Under shelter one dark, stormy night, the Crone is called upon to entertain. –Melanie Bernier 

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Sue Montoya - Change Atlas (excerpt) (2019)

Development perpetuates the seemingly endless cycle of modernity and gentrification at the cost of local communities. The geopolitics and history of places emerge throughout my work in the form of photographs, sculptures, videos, and zines. My research draws on architecture, feminism, ecology, and labor (physical and emotional) as means to investigate multiple paradigms and their contribution to the production of places. I hope to create actionable plans, conversations, imaginaries for tackling the climate crisis with new imaginaries in light of the catastrophic imagery already found in the public psyche around climate change. –Sue Montoya 

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Tiare Ribeaux & Jody Stillwater - Cyanovisions (2020)

Cyanovisions as a video project explores our relationship as humans to Cyanobacteria in an age of climate collapse. Cyanobacteria are one of the most ancient life forms, a species that was responsible for first creating oxygen on our planet through photosynthesis. In an alternative narrative to the dominance over nature that we have been living in as a global society, Cyanovisions posits potentials for biological hybridity and indigenous knowledge that recognize the inextricable relationship of human lifespans to those of other organisms. –Tiare Ribeaux

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Vivian Vivas - Elision (2022)

The micro pace of the film forces the audience to see and observe a single phenomenon, to use their senses in a hyper-aware state, in which they become conscious of empty, unfamiliar space in a formerly unseen experience. The diver, dressed in toxic green, is constantly exhaling but never inhaling - forcing the viewer to reflect on their own existence. How does the shifting environment affect our psyche? In what ways do melancholy and mourning enter our daily emotional lives? Will we choose to rescue ourselves? –Vivian Vivas 

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Armed and Happy by Fantastic Little Splash

Fantastic little splash — is a collective comprising journalist/artist Lera Malchenko and artist/director Oleksandr Hants. Collective combines art practice and media studies. a fantastic little splash is interested in utopias and dystopia, the collective imagination and its incarnations, projections, delusions, and uncertainties. The video "Armed and Happy", is one of the episodes of the series Armed and Dangerous, focuses on the emotionality of social media and its role in the militarization of Ukrainian society

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

"Dedicated to the youth of the world" by Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Himey

The focus of the film (2019) is the techno-rave Cxema and the youth, on which the camera is carefully focused the next morning after the event. The space of Dovzhenko’s film-studio is transformed into a dancefloor, a synchronized crowd, spotlights, arrhythmic synthetic sound by Stanislav Tolkachev — the camera moves away and approaches, creating a sense of romantic "exaltation" and at the same time a modern "alienation". This is the place and meeting that the youth of Kyiv are waiting for and preparing for — this particular escape from everyday life, rejection of it — evokes strange feelings of modern ritual. But what does it mean? The film ends with "portraits", almost static shots, faces "after" utopia. The characters of the film are not ready to accept the new day and its old reality.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Circulation (2020) by Oleksiy Radynski

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

What makes us Human? by Nikita Kravtsov

Ukrainian artist Nikita Kravtsov is sharing his statement on "What makes us human" in times of war. With his drawing practice, we meditate with him and reflect on the actual dramatic situation in his homeland. This original drawing is for "The War of the Mushrooms", a book launching in English and very soon in German. Together with writer Andrei Kurkov, they were inspired by the eponymous folk tale, a popular classic in Slavic cultures. They both reimagine the tale with scenes from Russia’s current war on Ukraine. The revenue from the book’s sale will be sent to support the defense of Ukraine.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Letter to a Turtledove (2020) by Dana Kavelina

One of the crucial sources for this work by Dana Kavelina is the anonymous five-hour documentary To Watch the War (2018), a piece of found-footage filmmaking in its own right. Letter to a Turtledove is thus a second-degree artistic appropriation of amateur footage shot during the war in the Donbas region of Ukraine, recombined into a surreal anti-war film-poem. The war videos are interspersed with Kavelina’s own animated segments, staged mise-en-scènes, and archival footage of the Donbas from the 1930s (when the region became a hotspot for Stalinist industrialization of the Soviet Union, and of heated class warfare) onwards. There’s an actual poem at the film’s center: a monologue spoken off-screen, authored by Kavelina herself. This piece of writing encapsulates the multitude of traumas, grievances, horrors, dreams, and hallucinations that have descended upon the Donbass region since its invasion by Russia in 2014. Still, numerous elements of this multitude originate from long before the war had actually broken out.

Duration : 20m
Maturity Level : all

Notes from underground (2016) by Uli Golub

The film is depicting the daily life of a character who’s running away from frustrating reality. Deceived by social roles and human relations, frightened by riots and military unrest in the country, this man lives cloistered in his apartment, resembling a Noah’s Ark, but instead of animals, stuffed with all kinds of objects and belongings. Step by step the viewer gets sucked into this world, where objects reign and are the only salvation in this constantly changing precarious world. This is a collaged narrative, composed of real events, personal stories, media propaganda, and imagined doomsday nightmares. Thus, through a very personal narrative, the current trauma and distress of contemporary society are revealed.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

HOW ARE YOU?

Ukrainian Artists answer this question with their visionary works. Discover their dedicated "How Are You?" channel on ikonoTV curated by Kateryna Filyuk. Thanks to our Partners the Ukrainian Institute in Kyiv and Momentum Worldwide in Berlin showing the videos also at the Zionskirche in Berlin. And please support Ukrainian Artists [https://linktr.ee/ikonotv.how_are_you]

Duration : 20s
Maturity Level : all

What makes us Human? by Nikita Kravtsov

Ukrainian artist Nikita Kravtsov is sharing his statement on "What makes us human" in times of war. With his drawing practice, we meditate with him and reflect on the actual dramatic situation in his homeland. This original drawing is for "The War of the Mushrooms", a book launching in English and very soon in German. Together with writer Andrei Kurkov, they were inspired by the eponymous folk tale, a popular classic in Slavic cultures. They both reimagine the tale with scenes from Russia’s current war on Ukraine. The revenue from the book’s sale will be sent to support the defense of Ukraine.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

Angela Lyn, On the Edge of Time by Michael Schindhelm

Film director Michael Schindhelm features the work and life of Angela Lyn, a Swiss artist of Anglo-Chinese origin, in the advent of her major exhibition held at Villa Arconati-FAR, a baroque palazzo situated on the outskirts of Milan. The artist’s journey weaving past and present, east and west, art and life - unfolds within the time-worn rooms focussing on what connects rather than what separates us as human beings. Camera and editing Yawen Yeo. Post-production Stefano Cravero. Text and voice Angela Lyn.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

What makes us Human? by Vadim Zakharov

In “BAFF BAFF! What Are The Politicians Talking About”, Vadim Zakharov reads out loud more than 1000 non-verbal words, most of which have been found in the magazines “Mickey Mouse” (German editions) and also taken from the books “Tintin The Mysterious Star” and “Asterix & Obelix The Laurels of Caesar”. The words collected in the non-verbal vocabulary have no meaning, but only phonetically reflect certain events: someone has fainted (BLIEP!), a glass has broken (CRACK! CLIRR!), a helicopter has crashed into a cupola (KAROMMS!), a museum has collapsed (CRACK! THUNDER! CRIME!). The Reader (Vadim Zakharov), wearing a white shirt and a tie, recites these words seriously and forcefully. The image of a politician is created, a public figure who professionally and convincingly is ready to say something on any occasion. At the same time, we see that these are just empty words - bubbles that float away as soon as they reach our ears. The film highlights the absurdity of what we see and hear every day on television and the internet. At the same time, reading non-verbal words can be perceived as reading poetry… The original Exhibition version is 65 min long.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

JARDIM DO ÉDEN by Joana Vasconcelos

Discover once more the magic of Joana Vasconcelos’ very special Garden of Eden. The glowing field of flowers is made from compact fluorescent light bulbs, plastic flowers, synchronous micro-motors, transparent polychrome acrylic discs, and a low-tech electric system. The artificial flowers emerge from cylinders that are coated in black Lycra. Inside the black Lycra cylinders, there are lights, motors, and rotating discs that activate the lights and give them a similar appearance to the glowing and flickering displays of optical fiber lighting.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Vadim Zakharov’s concept

Introduction by Vadim Zakharov on the project "What I do not understand in contemporary art today"

Duration : 1m
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INTERACTIONS

When Cinema Looks to Nature. ART for The World continues its commitment to the global effort to increase awareness of the effects of Climate Change and the Environment by producing twelve International Filmmakers who create connections between Humans and Animals through Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environment, and Water Risks. Stay tuned;-)

Duration : 1m
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Bruna and Ricardo Pessôa de Queiroz

Rooted in a cultural philanthropic tradition, the Pessôa de Queiroz family has been supporting and leading the Usina de Arte project since 2015, transforming a former sugar cane factory into an Anthropocene art-botanical park, near Recife in the northeastern Brazilian region of Pernambuco. Proud of the thirty or so works already produced, Bruna Pessôa de Queiroz, its president tells us about this ambitious project.

Duration : 9m
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Ricardo Pessôa de Queiroz, Founder

Rooted in a cultural philanthropic tradition, the Pessôa de Queiroz family has been supporting and leading the Usina de Arte project since 2015, transforming a former sugar cane factory into an Anthropocene art-botanical park, near Recife in the northeastern Brazilian region of Pernambuco. Proud of the thirty or so works already produced, Ricardo Pessôa de Queiroz, the founder of the project, tells us about it.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Marc Pottier, curator

Marc Pottier, a French curator based in Brasil have been appointed in 2021 as the new curator of Usina de Arte. He told us about the project and its future, the importance of creating site-specific works according to the local History, including exchanges with the local community, and how to open it to an international scale. Marc has these words: "To be part of the Usina de Arte adventure is, above all, to understand the importance of a project designed for the community of Santa Terezinha, a cultural project that must integrate the memory of the place and the history of this historical part of Brazil. Here, bridges must be created between the public and the art world, as education is a fundamental part of the project. With more than 40 works installed, those involved are responsible for making the Usina a reference in art in the public space. And the idea of ​​inviting foreign artists aims, in addition to provoking a fruitful dialogue with national artists, to present an exciting and inspiring region to be transposed into their works. We are just at the beginning of something very promising. The first steps already speak for us!"

Duration : 4m
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Artur Lescher

“Your Eyes”, 2012, 3 meter high, is part of the Elipse series (started in 2000) showing how a certain geometric shape that links the body issue and the eye, in particular, is capable of acting on the environment in which it is inserted. These ellipses have a shiny, reflective surface that captured and reflected the surrounding landscape, creating a hole and cut like a passage in the landscape. This work establishes a dynamic relationship with the place, sometimes borrowing images from the surrounding landscape, sometimes reflecting unexpected views. The presence of the audience completes the work, as the shapes that are produced by the geometric form are continually redrawn by the viewer and their visual perception of the work. The shape is also how our eye sees the world, a cone of vision, the ellipse is for Arthur the place where reality meets fiction. Artur Lescher stands out in the current panorama of Brazilian contemporary art for his three-dimensional works. For over thirty years, he has been presenting the result of research on the articulation between matter, form, and thought. These are works that go beyond the character of sculpture and cross the languages ​​of the installation and the object, to modify the understanding of these and the space in which they are inserted. Lescher suggests narratives, sometimes contradictory or provocative, that make room for myth and imagination. Born in 1962 in São Paulo where he lives and works.

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Bene Fonteles

Activist, plastic artist, writer, art curator, poet, shaman, and Brazilian composer, Bene Fonteles also produces works linked to mail art and research into new artistic expressions. Ecological militancy is a striking feature in his work, being the creator of the "Artist Movement for Nature", which since 1986 promotes ecological awareness and environmental education through art. Much of his work dialogues with the aesthetics and poetics of indigenous cultures. Tempo Templo’, 2018. is a round installation with six 19th-century English iron columns topped with stones found on the property. They themselves support iron sculptures symbols of African culture, seven baobabs, and various medicinal and aromatic plants... the work must be regularly activated by performances involving the neighbors of the Usina and visitors. It is a tribute to the African people who were humiliated and enslaved in the sugar cane mills during colonization. Now the symbols of their Orixás triumph in the capital-stones over the English iron columns of a country that both enslaved and “colonized” cultures. They triumph like samba and other arts not only in the so-called Brazilian popular culture, through the voice of its Afro-descendants and the mestizo people from Brazil. Bené Fonteles, 1953, Born in Bragança/ Pará, lives and works in the country in Minas Gerais.

Duration : 4m
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Carlos Vergara

‘Natureza como Matéria’ 2013, three sculptures in Corten steel. (2,50m, 1,50x1,50 each), are born from the interest that Vergara has in nature; in the sculptures in cut steel, the passage that this material undergoes over time conveys the idea of ​​a living and pulsating organism to the sculpture. All sculptures have a mutability character, as they share a continuous transformation. Like nature, steel is an index of time. They are like the organic and, symbolically, almost vegetal form of the sculptures. They are shadows or projections of a place that can be directly associated with the transitory instance of nature itself. Carlos Vergara, 1941, born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, lives, and works in Rio de Janeiro) engraver, photographer and painter, known as one of the main representatives of the New Figuration artistic movement in Brazil.

Duration : 4m
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Claudia Jaguaribe

Claudia Jaguaribe is a photographer who develops work focused on the issue of urban landscape, the environment, and especially issues on the representation of the real as a conceptual record, mixing reality and subjectivity. The materiality of her works questions the very nature of photography. It expands the traditional formats of photography, transforms images into photo-sculptures, and integrates and uses video and the internet in her installations. Her work presented is a creation of the public benches (2022), each one in tiles of a different model using images of references from the culture of Pernambuco. Different sizes. “Since I was a child, I have lived with tiles as a strong expression of art. In my house there was a wall right at the entrance with modernist tiles and every time I traveled to the Northeast, I visited relatives’ houses, churches, and squares where I saw all kinds of tiles. It always fascinated me to see symbols, drawings, and stories in this format. Today contemporary photography includes several forms of printing, among them on the tile. In this project, I continue this visual research with tiles, proposing dialogues between contemporary and a traditional support. To dialogue with Usina de Arte, I proposed the project of a set of tile benches, in an appropriation of the traditional Portuguese tile art that so influenced Brazilian art from the colonial period, through the baroque to the contemporary. The work is composed of a body of images that range from references to local popular art to historical images, maps, and photographs, images of the sugarcane culture, composing a visual narrative of the history of the Usina region and the city of Recife.” CJ Claudia Jaguaribe, 1955, born in Rio de Janeiro, lives and works in São Paulo.

Duration : 4m
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Denise Milan

Banquete da Terra, 2021, is like a telluric feast, resulting from millions of years of Earth formation and invites us to contemplate our origins. Composed of of Brazilian stones, table, and mirrors… into a container. Stones are in different stages of transformation, which the artist collected and cooked, the banquet emerges, a metaphor for an art and its processes, a representation of nature in its becoming. In the installation, set up around a table – a space for everyday meals and affective dynamics – dishes made from “earthly” ingredients are served, such as crystal, pyrite, ammonite, gold, silver and bronze, presented in different textures. . “It is a planetary table, which evokes the Earth. It is a space-time open to conviviality, where dialogue is still possible, and inspired by the mysteries and knowledge of nature”. Denise Milan, 1954, born in São Paulo where she lives and works, uses different media, and collaborates with specialists in science and technology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, and music.

Duration : 4m
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Flavio Cerqueira

Cerqueira uniquely explores personal, historical, and sometimes fictional narratives to problematize issues of class, identity, race, and gender. The presence of everyday objects creates tension with the off-scale bronze human figures to blur the boundaries between the sculpture, the architectural space, and the viewer. "Tinha Que Acontecer" (Cabeça de Bandeirante), a 2016 sculpture in bronze weighing 800 kilos, 25 meters in diameter. Flavio decided to turn the founders of São Paulo into anti-heroes. Here he “decapitated” the pioneers from the body of history and one of the heads of São Paulo fell. “It is necessary to analyze the story and tell it again”, observes the sculptor. “Despite the monuments that exist in the city in honor of the pioneers, they were barbarians. They exterminated, enslaved the Indians, and annihilated the quilombos.” Born in 1983 in São Paulo where he lives and works.

Duration : 4m
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Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm revisits his outdoor sculptures Fat House and Narrow House in light of the ecological impact of climate change. Produced by Shifting Vision

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Requiem

Statement by artist Janet Laurence: “I believe we need to make our landscape sacred again; we need to re-enchant it. The bushfires have amplified the specificity of this landscape that we live within. We need to enter into it deeply through knowledge sharing between scientists, artists and Indigenous peoples. … Part of my vision is that the space will not be used as a neutral space but will be entered into as a sacred space that cultivates a renewed engagement with nature.” Courtesy Momentum Worldwide Berlin

Duration : 7m
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Terraforming

The video work “terraforming” by Michael Najjar focuses on the transformation of a natural environment through energy input. The underpinning idea is that of a three-phase system change. This begins with the stage of equilibrium where a system is in a certain balance and not changing at all. In the next stage, an evolving system enters a state of motion and changes where it moves away from equilibrium. The third and final stage is the phase of transformation in which the original system becomes something else. The key element in this transformation process is the sun. This process is called terraforming, whereby a hostile environment, i.e. a planet that is too cold, too hot, or has an unbreathable atmosphere, can be altered to make it suitable for human life. Such a process is not merely a futuristic scenario but represents exactly what is happening on Earth at this moment as the process of atmospheric change brought about by increasing CO2 emissions heats up our planet and speeds up the process of climate change.

Duration : 9m
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Simone Leigh in the U.S. Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale of Art

The sculptural work of the Golden-Lion-winning artist Simone Leigh explores ideas about history, race, gender, labor and monuments at the 59th Venice Biennale.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Elmgreen & Dragset

Berlin-based artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset speak about their collaborative practice as well as their particular interest in the AIDS epidemic and its continued relevance today.

Duration : 4m
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Studio Visit with Otobong Nkanga

During her residency at Gropius Bau in Berlin, Otobong Nkanga reflects on the relationship between body and landscape, as well as on what matters the most in her art practice.

Duration : 4m
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Studio Visit with Tomás Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno’s studio in Berlin contains a floor devoted to his spiders, who inspire his acoustic art installations and form the basis of his ’Arachnophilia’ project.

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Julius von Bismarck Conceived Connections

During his practical research in Locarno, Switzerland, Julius von Bismarck reflects on nature and natural settings as the ideal site for artistic and scientific reflection.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir speaks about her art practice and the creation of ‘Keep Frozen: The Documentary’ which chronicles the lives of dockworkers in a Reykjavik harbor.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Olaf Breuning

Functioning as both an archive of past work and a place for new creative explorations, Olaf Breuning’s Upstate New York studio provides a haven for contemplation.

Duration : 2m
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Studio Visit with Katarina Janeckova Walshe

Katarina Janeckova Walshe transforms personal issues and doubts into art. In her South Texas studio, she reveals her creative process and how it connects to life and motherhood.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Roey Victoria Heifetz

Roey Victoria Heifetz shows her studio while discussing her artistic process and a new body of work produced for the exhibition ’Figuratively Speaking’ at Tacheles in Berlin.

Duration : 2m
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Peaches: ‘Whose Jizz Is This?’ at Kunstverein Hamburg

In celebration of Peaches’ 20-year stage anniversary, the Kunstverein in Hamburg and the Summer Festival at Kampnagel presented the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition.

Duration : 5m
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Studio Visit with Douglas Gordon

With Douglas Gordon, nothing is wasted or without purpose: a collection of seven footballs and an assortment of weaponry all have a place in his studio and art practice.

Duration : 3m
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Studio Visit with Ed Atkins

On the occasion of his exhibition ’Old Food’ at Berlin’s Gropius Bau, Ed Atkins speaks about his creative process and walks the viewer through the art pieces in the show.

Duration : 2m
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In Residence: James Ostrer’s ’Post Apoca-Lips’

James Ostrer’s art analyses sexuality and the body in socio-political contexts. During his studio residency at Melior Place, he speaks about his exhibition ’Post Apoca-Lips.’

Duration : 4m
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#ArtSpeaksOut

From 6th November and during the 2 weeks of COP27, please visit every other day the [Channel page, https://ikonotv.art/Channels] where you will be able to watch a big choice of video artworks all focused on environmental issues. Let’s get inspiration for our environment.

Duration : 26s
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#ArtSpeaksOut

One more week, until December 4, 2022, meaning 2 weeks following COP27, please visit [Channel page, https://ikonotv.art/Channels] where you are able to watch a big choice of video artworks all focused on environmental issues within six dedicated channels. Let’s get inspiration for our environment.

Duration : 21s
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Kingdom

Kingdom by Bettina Oberli(Switzerland) tells the short story of a woman, maybe the last woman on earth, who has to live on a post-apocalyptic planet. She has to survive the very hot days, and hide from the burning sun, while the only source of water is the little piece of glacier she tries to protect from melting with the remains of a lost world. Only at night, she finds peace and consolation in her memories and with other living creatures. Even under the hardest conditions she will not give up and finds strength in the encounter with the animals. Emily Beecham (Best Actress 2019 at Cannes) leaves us with a strong feeling, between rage and courage, full of hope and determinism.

Duration : 11m
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Hungry Seagull

On an island not far from the mainland, the young father seagull is anxiously guarding the newborn gulls by the nest and awaiting the return of the mother seagull. The mother seagull has given up everything she has, but the baby seagull is still hungry. The father seagull had flown away in search of more food... The main diet of black-tailed gulls is pelagic fish in the sea, mollusks and aquatic insects in coastal wetlands and estuaries. However, with the overfishing of offshore fish and the pollution of the marine environment, seagulls can catch fewer and fewer small fish in the upper layer. A film by Leon Wang, China.

Duration : 7m
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Arctic Study

Beth Derbyshire was invited by Cape Farewell Project to one of their ground-breaking artist and scientist-manned expeditions to the Arctic. This first Artic Study is inspired by Barnett Newmann’s abstract paintings with a commissioned piano piece by composer Ulrike Haage.

Duration : 2m
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Tuã Ingugu

As the Xingu indigenous live in close symbiosis with water, rivers in Sao Paulo are perishing due to worrying levels of water pollution from chemicals used in the agro-business industry and plastic. This short movie by Daniela Thomas (Brazil) captures the relationship between the Xingu community and their river, and the emotions of one of them when he is taken to see the Sao Paulo rivers. A poetic movie to denounce water pollution and the challenging prospects for the future of both indigenous people and city folks.

Duration : 11m
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Extraction: The Raft of The Medusa

In this film Salome Lamas (Portugal) portrays a brief moment of euphoria as the occupants on the raft spot a glimpse illusion for their drift, hoping and praying to be rescued. We can almost hear the hoarse cries in an attempt to draw attention to their desperate plight, mustering their last ounce of strength to the void. This is their last chance of survival. The film is an allegory for the state of climate and environmental emergency.

Duration : 7m
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A Sunny Day

FaouziBensaidi (Morocco) proposes a disturbing and hilarious ride in the future, which is already our present. Under the impacts of a changing climate, the world changes, it has already changed. In a distant and near future, both fantastic and absurd, men and women survive as they can. Following a man, a slender figure between Tati and Buster Keaton, we discover through scenes of his daily life how devastating the effects of climate change are on humans and nature. How do we barricade against excessive heat or cold? How will it be to go to a supermarket or a zoo filled with different animals and species? A disturbing and hilarious ride in the future, that is already our present.

Duration : 13m
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Lac

Kellou, in her forties, lives in Bol, the capital of Sahel’s province. She’s a fisher, a profession transmitted from mother to daughter. She learned it from her mother. But for a few years, Lake Tchad has been shrinking, and fish has become rare. Kellou’s job is threatened. One day, after an un- successful catch, her 12-year-old daughter Mouna gives her an idea: pick up plastic bags invading the lake and make ropes out of them to sell them on the market. By this simple gesture, Kellou gets to, in her own way, fight against plastic pollution and adapt to the new conditions brought about by climate change. A film by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad, 2022.

Duration : 7m
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Arctic Dystopia

Michael Najjar observes the Arctic changing, the eternal ice disappearing, and the polar regions. The early warning system of our planet is sounding the alarm. In late summer – a time when the Arctic ice reaches its annual minimum point – the area covered by ice was smaller than it had been for a thousand years. What is the future of the Arctic ice masses which store enough water to make sea levels rise by several meters if they melt? Despite its aesthetic fascination, the video work “arctic dystopia” paints a threatening picture with regard to the future transformation of the world due to the consequences of climate change and the resultant loss of Arctic ice which is so vital for ensuring a stable climate. We are dependent on the glaciers and ice sheets in the polar regions for the maintenance of our planet in its present state of equilibrium; their increasing and ever more rapid loss will drastically change our world.

Duration : 6m
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Liquid Landscape

The artwork “Liquid Landscape” by Michael Najjar is based on spectacular, hitherto technically impossible footage shot together with an Icelandic drone pilot shortly after the eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland in March 2021. In an 8-minute flight, the camera moved over a newly born volcanic landscape. During the flight, the landscape becomes more and more liquefied and the camera always keeps a bird’s eye view of the increasing activity beneath it until it finally reaches the eruption crater and plunges into a Dantesque inferno. On the acoustic level, a complex sound composition enlarges the increasingly dramatic happenings on the surface. The unusual immersive visuals draw viewers deeper and deeper into the landscape and let them feel the transformation process and the creative power of the Earth.

Duration : 8m
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Michael Najjar

Discover video artworks by Berlin-based artist Michael Najjar on his dedicated [Channel, ] on ikonoTV. These latest projects are focused on our planetary future in times of climate change. He addresses the far-reaching ecological, economic and cultural impact of human-induced climate change, which is leading to a redefinition of the relationship between humans and nature.

Duration : 1m
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A Water Tale

An old fisherman and a young boy are driving through a landscape and, while traveling, they are talking about the importance of water. At some point, they stop to get water from a fountain, as they will face a long day working on the sea. When they get to the place, we see the monaboat, ritually preparing their fishing equipment. This is never shown, what we see are only the two characters and the boat rolling, and we can hear the sound of the water without actually seeing it. The old man and the boy then throw the fisher#s net which lands on the sand. We now see the whole scene: the two characters are standing on a boat wreck in the middle of a desert. The sound of water dramatically disappears by Francesco Jodice, Italy – 2008.

Duration : 4m
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Black Breakfast

Filmmaker Zhang Ke shows us a tourist, equipped with a camera and a tour guide, arrives in a provincial town where she hopes to see a city full of cultural relics and historic sites. But, contrary to her expectation, she finds herself in an urban industrial area, with blurred and patchy road signs eroded by smoke and pollution. The tourist, by instinct, takes pictures of these city signs: stop, street, and road signs. Later, leaving the city, she waits for a bus on a highway, where an endless stream of heavy lorries carrying coal passes, and the cloud of coal dust flies over the sky in a spectacular scene. As the cloud disperses, she notes a group of workers eating breakfast in the coal dust: their faces are of the colour of coal and hardly recognizable. Sitting in the dust among them, she has to enjoy a “black breakfast”, her face as black as the locals. 2008

Duration : 4m
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Jungle Fever

This short movie by Takuma Kuikuro (Amazonia/Brazil – 2022 ) documents the struggle of the Amazonian Xingu tribes trying to save their habitat from the fires, to protect their ecosystem and the many rare species that live in the rainforest. We hear the cry of a jaguar that is the warning that a danger is approaching. The Xingu Indigenous go into a state of alert, hurrying back to the village to warn the people that something is about to happen. The forest guardians leave the village to confront the danger. It’s fire, the forest is burning, all kinds of animals are dying. The guardians run in search of water to put out the fire in the forest, and try to help the animals. Strong scenes of destruction of the home, of the Indigenous’ forest. The Indigenous are watching the forest and the animals are crying.

Duration : 9m
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Frida Baranek

Frida Baranek has a background in Architecture and Industrial Design. Since the beginning of her career, the relationship the artist has established with the materials she uses in her works has been to challenge her resistance to achieve her metamorphosis: to build with and against herself. “Unclassified”, the sculpture approaches nature as a forest of industrial debris with its strength, fragility and uncertainty. It was created in the USA for the exhibition “The Latin American Artists of the 20th Century” at MOMA in NY. The piece is made of industrial waste stainless steel, which supports and interacts with aircraft parts, leftovers from the American military industry. At the time, there was a lot of talk about the excess that existed in the American military industry. The artist asked the US State Department for permission and provided these airplane parts to be used in the work. Frida Baranek, 1961, born in Rio de Janeiro, works and lives between Rio, Brazil and Lisbon, Portugal.

Duration : 4m
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Georgia Kyriakakis

In her work, Georgia seeks to explore situations of strength and fragility, balance, and instability, present in nature, politics, social relations, and the world of work. Such relationships arise from visual poetic approximations with Geography - a wide and comprehensive area of ​​knowledge that animates the artist’s creative impulse and determines the choice and variety of means and materials used in her works. Objects, materials, words, spaces, and the meticulous articulation between the elements of the work are ways of highlighting the relationships between the virtuality of the image and the concreteness of the world. "Gaza Strip" is a set of rows of rounded stones on which a red line is drawn. It can be said that the Gaza Strip is a drawing on stone. But the title, the (military?) arrangement of the stones, the circular shape of the design and the same height at which it is made on the stones, suggest an articulation. It stimulates the mark left by a red liquid (blood?) on the surface of the stone. As the title itself indicates, the work refers to the violence and the historic war waged between Palestinians and Israelis in this small region of the Middle East. Just like the memory of historical facts and the conflict itself, the red line drawn on the stone, exposed to the weather and the passage of time, gradually fades, becomes almost imperceptible, but never completely disappears. Periodically it reappears, just like the conflict that seems to never end... It reappears strong and forcefully to remind us above all that the marks of violence are always indelible. Geórgia Kyriakakis,1961, born in Ilheús, lives and works in São Paulo.

Duration : 4m
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Hugo França

Hugo França is a self-taught artist designer, who speaks about his furniture-sculptures coming from the forest waste. He has been the first who encouraged the creation of the Usina de Arte Art project and to have organized creative and artistic workshops and environmental education with the neighboring community. Hugo França’s work is to transform trunks, roots and parts of trees that are usually rejected. With this raw material, he draws directly on the wood following the paths that were created by nature. In production, he reframes the use of the chainsaw by carving trunks and roots and giving the works a sustainable and sculptural content. It is very represented at Usina by numerous Mobiliarios 2016-2019, a series of around 30 benches in jackfruit that one can easily find around which are scattered throughout the park. Arvore geometrizada, 2016, is a different sculpture he created and installed in one of the little lakes representing the structure of a tree. Hugo França, 1954, born in Porto Algre, works and lives between São Paulo and Trancoso.

Duration : 4m
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Iole de Freitas

Iole de Freitas immediately absorbs the transformative urgency of the environment to which she reacts in her films, Photographs, performances, and sculptures. For this ex-dancer (during 25 years), all her creations are about movement, enlarging the area of the body, speaking of light and shadow, lightness and weight. “O Peso de Cada Um”, 2015 (The weight of each one): sculpture in stainless-steel sheet, was part of the MAM exhibition in Rio de Janeiro in 2015. Despite the specificities of the material, however, some sculptures have been suspended in the air (like the one which is presented today on the ground at Usina de Arte), evolving in space like an imponderable aerial dance, opposing the idea of ​​lightness and movement to their original weight with a tenuous line between the gestural and the geometric, or between expressiveness and formal precision. Between the cloudy mirroring on one side of the plate and the concrete opacity on the other, the very materiality of this steel sheet is outlined as a simultaneously rigid and fluid body, which at times absorbs and reflects the exterior, at times asserts itself as a radical obstacle to the eye. The work of Iole de Freitas implies, at the same time, line and volume, body and membrane, tension and distension, wall, and air. Her sculptures seem to want to constantly go beyond their perimeter, go further, leave their borders, and evolve towards other spaces, dialoguing with the architecture and the landscape. Today at the Usina Iole also loves the way her sculpture dialogue with the other of the collection. Iole de Freitas (1945) born in Belo Horizonte, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro

Duration : 4m
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Jose Spaniol

Jose Spaniol uses everyday objects, and establishes an exchange between utilitarian and poetic functions. Since the 1990s, he has explored the relationship between his works with architecture and exhibition spaces. "Tiummmmtichamm", 2018, is a flat sculpture, built in marquetry of granite and marble. On its surface we see, on the one hand, a thin layer of water flowing over the stone, on the other hand, the representations of this movement are translated by the contrast between the white of the marble and the black of the granite. As in a mirror, the work creates a bridge between real and virtual space, bringing these two dimensions together. Its flatness contradicts the idea of ​​volume linked to sculpture, which is why the whole aesthetic experience linked to the work takes place while the observer wanders around or even above the object, starting from the image of water movement and sound. José Spaniol 1960, born in São Luiz Gonzaga, RS, works and lives in São Paulo

Duration : 4m
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Juliana Notari

In her visual and theoretical research, Juliana Notari has created a body of works that face their singularities, moving between biography, the confessional, catharsis, or relational practices. With a multidisciplinary approach, she works with the most diverse languages: performance, installation, intervention, video, photography, drawing, and object. For years, the artist has been conducting research on gender and sexism. Questions regarding the presence of the female body as opposed to a society that prides itself on virility and phallocentrism have always been part of his poetics. However, in addition to issues related to the feminine and feminism, her work also encompasses issues related to certain important themes: birth and death, sexuality, the relationship between fiction and confession, trauma, relationships of complicity/testimony and encounters between animality and humanity. In his work, these themes are always crossed by the question of sexuality and death. “Diva”, 2020. vulva wound Intervention in the landscape, Reinforced concrete, resin, and pigment. It is a “prospecting-hole-sculpture” embedded in a land devastated by sugarcane monoculture and its social traumas. A deep abscess, the work reveals the historical violence on female bodies that continue to be daily injured in many – and, depending on their color or gender, in different and asymmetrical ways – just like Gaya’s body, our Mother Earth. In addition to these bodies, Diva brings to light the immeasurable colonial traumas that, against invisibility, continue to fight for reparation. While wounded, the Diva herself continues to re-enact – since she turns over open wounds – the racial inequalities on which Brazil is based. Juliana Notari,1975, born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil where she lives and works.

Duration : 4m
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Julio Villani

Julio Villani was formed between São Paulo, where he grew up, and Paris, where he forged his identity as an artist. His deliberate choice for this unfolding and the constructive form he imprinted on it give his work a dynamic dimension, which is determined, paradoxically, by unity. Where others would be affected by division and dispersion, Villani finds material and reason for concentration and reunion, opening a path that strictly follows the obsession of a look that seeks to reveal the secret face of things. Thread, line, net, knot... Julio Villani’s art is inhabited by the idea of ​​bonding, counterpoint, sometimes opposition; it is built from the organization of a coming and going, of an exchange — and it is at the heart of this, in that “between-two”, that everything happens. The problem of identity, underlying his procedure, is apprehended by a whole work around memory. The recovery process adopted by the artist and the type of recycling to which he submits the objects he integrates is his way of bringing together two temporalities with the aim of constituting a new one. "Trois Échaffaudages pour un Portrait" consists of questioning who one is at an exact moment – ​​the exercise to which Julio Villani commits himself in his Scaffoldings for a portrait – his own – consists of trying to understand how the subject became the one he became. The self-referential piece, the foundation of the project – the conical shape, the two circles of different diameters connected by three rods – resembles a popular coffee strainer holder, on which the artist coupled various elements. The first construction was quickly followed by a second, to finally become a trilogy. Nothing prevents him from adding a fourth, a fifth, an nth scaffold to the set in the future. After all, the work of the self-portrait artist has no end; there is no definitive answer to the question "Who am I?" – and the search for oneself is likely to be always prolonged. Julio Villani, 1956 born in Marilia, São Paulo, lives and works between Paris and São Paulo.

Duration : 4m
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Liliane Dardot

Lilian Dardot is a Brazilian artist, graphic designer, teacher, and political activist, mostly known for her drawings in colored pencils, her works of lithography, and book illustrations. She resumes the emphasis on painting, developing research focused on plant elements of the local flora. At the same time, he works with drawing and with new exhibition spaces, creating works in situ. “Cabanos em matas de água preta”. 2019 is an installation of three glass slides with designs printed with ceramic ink. Drawings are showing people who live in Água Preta, combined with the details of the vegetation of the Atlantic Forest, an ecosystem where the ‘Cabanos’ dwelt and hid. The artist discovered signs of what occurred during the Cabana revolt from 1832 to 1836 in the Regency period where blacks escaped and freed poor whites and small landowners Indians from the villages of Jacuípe. In the Temoratas Woods, on the banks of the dark waters of the river, between the coast and the hinterland. The blades were installed in the chosen location in the Botanical Garden of Usina de Arte, in positions oriented towards the east and west of the sun. Lilian Dardot,1946, born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais where she lives and works.

Duration : 4m
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Marcelo Silveira

Marcelo Silveira’s practice seems to question pre-established categories, by challenging and tensioning apparently consolidated definitions of sculpture, installation, popular art, crafts and collecting. His production moves from an interest in materiality. Everything can be an object of work: wood, leather, paper, metal, plastic, and glass are just some of the elements explored. However, the configuration assumed by them is also fundamental, which can be created from the formal repertoire common to those objects or by recreating familiar and common forms in unexpected materials. “Atrio”, 2016 reproduces the atrium of the Casa Grande at Usina de Arte. The project was born from the reality of a house, the ’Casa Grande’, which is the main house on the site. So, attracting a lot of curiosity on the part of people working for the property who wanted to know. Marcelo’s initial project was to really and conceptually open the house to allow visits where he thought of organizing some exhibitions. As the atrium has several entrances and independent access, he thought it possible to imagine such a visitation space. As the logistics seemed complicated, the artist then imagined faithfully redoing the atrium space in another space in the Usina park. As everything is in this atrium of the main house, this ’reproduction’ gives a greater amplification and conversation. For example, the openings function as frames for the landscape, like a collection of landscapes, a new space for contemplation. The atrium is a meeting point, with the good acoustics, today it also allows events. Marcelo Silveira (1962) born in Gravatá, Pernambuco, lives and works in Recife

Duration : 4m
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Marcio Almeida

Marcio Almeida is a multimedia artist who began his career in the 1980s and, since then, has developed his work using various media: paintings, drawings, engravings, objects, photographs, videos, and installations, including some intended for urban interventions. His gaze and interest are focused on themes of human behavior linked to the notion of displacement, transience, and belonging. It also directs its focus to issues of geopolitics and the occupation of urban space. The work “Tropical Hermitage” is a masonry building, covered by vegetation (Heras - Ficus pumila and Parthenocissus tricuspidata), a lawn (Zoysia Japonica) in circumference and Angel’s Trumpets (Brugmansia suaveolens), a plant with hallucinogenic effects. The vegetation grows together with the others planted in the botanical garden, transforming, and integrating with the landscape, to end up being almost invisible, a ’non-place’. The concept is based on the research of the Hermits’ movements, whose isolation leads them to civil disobedience, as they cease to "exist" for the State, evading their duties and rights as citizens. Such movements can be seen as the first performative movements. Márcio Almeida, 1963, born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil, where he works and lives.

Duration : 4m
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Matheus Rocha Pitta

Through different projects, he sedimented interests and strategies that allow identifying, in a work that becomes denser with each new work, a critical statement about the gestures that govern common life. The artist removes gestures from their biographical background and presents them as aesthetic acts with a historical dimension. Using photographs, videos, sculptures and installations, Rocha Pitta builds his own repertoire of gestures, which are activated directly with the public at his exhibitions. “Campo da Fome” is a vegetable garden of concrete and clay. Historically, the colonization of Brazil began with the monoculture of sugar cane, in the fertile lands along the coast. Cattle raising, subsistence and family farming was pushed into the less fertile interior, the famous “sertões”, the poorest part of the country and the main source of internal migration in the 20th century. Left untouched, the sculpture performs this closure and restraint of hunger, like an amulet or altar that would prevent its propagation. Matheus Rocha Pitta,1980, born in Tiradentes/ Minas Gerais/ Brazil, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Duration : 4m
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Paulo Bruscky

Paulo Bruscky is one of the exponents of conceptual art in Brazil and one of the main precursors of various manifestations involving art, technology, and communication. His artistic practice, based on the idea of art as information, is marked by constant experimentation, resulting in a plural body of works, composed of visual poetry, artist books, performances, urban interventions, Super-8 films and works in new media. Bruscky’s production is also characterized by the content of social and political contestation, a result of the artist’s critical and militant stance, whose early career coincides with the rise of military governments and the consequent establishment of severe dictatorial regimes in several Latin American countries, including Brazil. "Brasil", 2017, Bulky waste skip painted flashy gold on a concrete base painted white, surrounded by cactus. It was very important for Paulo to work with the local community and this work speaks of often separated worlds, that of an audience that does not have access to culture and that of art that is often too elitist. His work speaks of the ‘buraco negro da cultura’ (Cultural black hole). He then makes fun of what a monument is by wanting to magnify a bulky dumpster by transforming it into a magnificent object which thus loses functions. The cactus planted in a circle around the main work to make it almost unreachable speaks of the difficulty of accessing the culture. Paulo Bruscky,1949, was born in Recife, where he lives and works.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Regina Silveira

Regina Silveira is a multimedia artist, engraver, painter, and teacher. With different languages, her work explores themes that go through the composition of the image, the reinvention of representation, power, and politics. One of its characteristics is reinvention. From the questioning tone of traditional painting, Regina becomes one of the references in stimulating the revitalization of art with her illusionist perspectives breaking architectural environments and with drawings and paintings that distort the original space. “Paisagem” (landscape) 2021, a labyrinth formed by 59 transparent glasses measuring approximately 100 m2 and 2.50 m high, all marked by images of shots appropriated from the printed media, as a testimony to the daily violence we experience. With drilling and simulation of shrapnel carried out by digital procedures for printing and burning the glass, the 12 models of shots are strategically distributed throughout the glass labyrinth, to avoid being duplicated. All are placed at the same height (1.40 m), an allegedly generic measure capable of guaranteeing that they were experienced as more “accurate” shots... The work was initially shown at the 34th Bienal de São Paulo in 2021, before its deployment at Usina de Arte, in early 2022. The labyrinth often appears in Regina’s work, which is a way for her to talk about sharing, to create itineraries with, since the 1970s, the idea of ​​​​representing violence. It is a political work that she has been developing since the years of the dictatorship. In ’paisagem’, she selected a collection of 12 different images of gunshot impacts that she found in the Brazilian daily press. They are distributed in such a way as to never see the same one and allow the visitor walking into the work an experience of violence. But for her, the work remains phantasmagorical and artificial, even more so in its new context in the open air in the landscape of the Usina de art. Regina Silveira (1939) born in Porto Alegre, lives and works in São Paulo.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Ronaldo Tavares

Ronaldo Tavares is a welder locksmith who has worked for many years at Usina de Arte. With the first artist-curator of the Usina, José Rufino, he got into the game, and encouraged by everyone, he threw himself into the water to create his tribute to the workers of the old sugar cane factory. He thus created ’Renascer’ (reborn) which is a tree where he gathered many elements found on the spot, tools, spare parts of engines, bicycles... cables, and a large mechanical collage transformed into a metaphor for Nature. He also composed with other recovered elements the streetlamps of the arrival of the Usina. Let’s see what this Brazilian ’Facteur Cheval’ will invent to surprise us in the future. Ronaldo Tavares, 1972, born in Jundia, Alagoas, lives and works at the Usina

Duration : 3m
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Tulio Pinto

In the last twelve years, Túlio Pinto has developed research on sculpture and installation with industrial materials, which denote in the constitution and in the way they are presented, his intention to promote encounters of different potentialities and temperaments; of oppositions that are based on the limits of their possibilities. His work “Athar” means impact in Arabic. The family of works that bears this name presents more radical load situations suffered by the glass pieces that the artist intends to use in established systems. Athar #5 consists of three H-beams and a glass bubble. For Usina de Arte, the challenge was to install the piece over the water mirror of one of the institution’s dams, activating a new layer of perception of the work based on its duplication through its reflection in the water. The series of works entitled Nadir presents, in different systems, angled glass sheets, in an "interrupted fall" position. This pause in the falling movement is due to the interdependence generated between the glass and the system of ropes and stones. The minerals work as an anchor for the situation and a pendulum that "supports" the interrupted movement of the glass. Like Athar, Nadir #almost an island 02 was also installed over a water mirror in one of the institution’s reservoirs. In astronomy and geography, nadir is the lowest point of the celestial sphere, as seen from an observer on the planet’s surface. The Nadir is the diametrically opposite point on the celestial sphere from the Zenith, which is the point directly above the observer in the horizontal coordinate system. Nadir is the projection of the vertical alignment that is under the observer’s feet, as if "a hole" ran through the other side of the planet. Nadir, whose prefix nad has a connection with Sanskrit, would mean a channel, stream, or flow of nothingness. It would then be the channel in which the prana would circulate throughout the body to infinity. Túlio Pinto, 1974, born in Brasília, lives and works in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Vanderlei Lopes

Vanderlei Lopes’ artistic practice runs through a trajectory of experimentation with various supports that culminate in sculptures, objects or situations stamped from everyday life, transformed, and perpetuated in materials such as gunpowder, gold, ceramics, bronze or sound. The work for Usina de Arte features the model of an empty arena carved from its top. The rings on the trunk of a tree are records of its lifetime, evidence of the duration that constitutes it as a tree, a natural element. The arenas, architectural constructions made from classical Greece, made to accommodate many people in order to watch presentations of all kinds, are seminal elements built by culture. The work relates the cut to the cultural construction, to the civilizing event. The empty theater is an allusion to the social stage where events and everyday activities echo and unfold. The stairs present, both to access the work, and those represented inside the arena, are articulated between the physical experimentation to access the work and the one represented, inside the Arena. Between the passage from something experienced physically to something envisioned, through representation, virtually inside the sculpture. Vanderlei Lopes,1973, born in Terra Boa. PR. Brazil lives and works in São Paulo,

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

ARTICLE 27

Discover the new dedicated channel to [Art for The World,https://ikonotv.art/tv-shows/title/172] and how it uses Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a constant compass.

Duration : 1m
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Berlin Art Link

Discover the [Berlin Art Link,https://ikonotv.art/Channels] dedicated channel and discover which great contemporary artists live in the attractive Berlin city.

Duration : 3m
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The Accordion

Jafar Panahi said: "The Accordion is the story of humankind’s materialistic need to survive in a pretentious religion. In it, a boy is prevented from playing for reasons of religious prohibition, which he accepts in order to survive. But the main character of the film is the girl or, perhaps, in my view, the symbol of the next generation" Segment of the film project "THEN AND NOW Beyond Borders and Differences" produced by ART for The World in 2010 and based on the article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Jafar Panahi is one of the most important independent filmmakers in Iran. His films are known for their humanistic perspective on life in Iran, often focusing on the hardships of children. Courtesy [Art for the World,https://www.artfortheworld.net]

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

The Final Match

This short film by Saman Salur, an Iranian film director and screenwriter. Two girls, Maryam and Sara, walk through town after school and, behind a car, change their dark school uniform with a Western look. Along an alley, they see football matches on screens in a shop window and are very excited about this male-dominated sport that they are not allowed to play. When they pass a football court, where some boys are playing, the ball comes to a stop in front of Maryam’s foot. After the boys start mocking the girls, Maryam shoots the ball very professionally and makes a goal, to everybody’s amazement. Some days later, the girls discuss about a football match they arranged for that day. Sara is scared and thinks about placing watch-posts while they play, in order to avoid boys mocking them while they play. Later, the two girls are playing football with other teenage girls on the roof of a building, hidden from everybody. The only sound you can hear is the joyous shouting of the girls who have scored.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Pantomime for Freedom

Yadegar Asisi, during the period of upheaval that followed the Islamic Revolution, had the opportunity to appear on Iranian television. He acted out a pantomime. The performance raises the question of whether a single revolution is enough to secure freedom. Originally positive ideas turn against the free development of people in the course of time. What has happened in Iran since 1979 is one of many examples from history. Once won, freedom must be permanently defended or won by a new by each generation. This film is in 3 parts: it starts with « Nightmare of a non-political », from 9mn30, there is « Dream of a Political » and ends from 16.62 watch « Pantomine of freedom »

Duration : 27m
Maturity Level : all

Lioness

Arrad is an Iranian-American filmmaker who decided to create this film for the Iranian women who are risking today their lives every day for basic human rights. For innocent children who are getting mercilessly slaughtered on the daily. For the youth who are breaking down the barriers to gender inequality. For all the people of Iran putting themselves on the front line, fighting for freedom, and longing for a new, revolutionised country. For hundreds of courageous citizens who have been killed in the streets. For thousands who are imprisoned unjustly. Together, we must continue to spread information and proper awareness about Iran during this difficult time.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all