Animation: Vidéos
From September 17, 2002 to December 23, 2002
One video every week, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, visible from the street
With videos by Knut Åsdam (NO), Jonas Dahlberg (SE), Esra Ersen (TR), Vidya
Gastaldon (FR), Tommi Grönlund (FI), Elke Krystufek (AT), Olivier Nottellet
(FR), mvrdv (NL), Amy O’Neill (US), Pia Rönicke (DK), Markus Schinwald (AT),
Mika Taanila (FI), Pablo Vargas Lugo (MX), Paul Viaccoz (CH).
…and maybe more in case of new discoveries. A new name or title could find its way into this program during the Fall, nourishing and reinforcing the interplay between the themes already selected: animation (Vidya Gastaldon, Olivier Nottellet, Pablo Vargas Lugo) and sound-based works (Amy O’Neill, Tommi Grönlund, Mika Taanila), pieces dealing with the space of the city and society (Esra Ersen, mvrdv, Pia Rönicke, Paul Viaccoz), or with the interior, more intimate and closed space of obsession (Knut Åsdam, Jonas Dahlberg, Elke Krystufek, Markus Schinwald). While each of these films can withstand repetition, their diversity and the difference between genres should surprise and arouse the curiosity of the spectator, of the passer-by. Here for once we will break with the tradition that wants everything to be “finished” on the day of the opening. There will be no opening, no “in presence of the artist”, no opening-hours and finishing dates. Instead, we will put in practice a principle of public visibility implying a greater freedom of the spectator. The series of videos we are proposing will be visible at all times, day and night: just as people pass-by, or many times a day, unexpectedly or while window-shopping, distractedly or with curiosity, as a way to pass the time or by interest. Their apprehension will not be determined by the customary conditions of the gallery or the museum: a space beyond explanations, wall labels and other commentaries, outside of intellectual and contextual conditionings, where the viewer is free to encounter these videos on her own terms, in her own time, within her everyday habits. With no imposed hierarchies, it will be possible to experience these videos as carelessly and lightly as a shop window, like browsing through a magazine or watching television. Our street level, storefront location, enables us to touch all the anonymous
people passing by our window everyday, from the office worker to the tourist, from the flaneur to the busy manager, to actually reach a public that probably would never cross the door of a contemporary art space. By adapting to our
surroundings and the habits of its population, we enable the public to escape the conventional principles of the exhibition, while simultaneously liberating ourselves from dogmatic analyses and other attendance statistics. (VB)
PROGRAMME :
17.09.2002>22.09.2002
Olivier Nottellet (born 1963, lives and works in Toulouse)
Pas Peur, animation film, 16 min, color, silent, 2000
23.09.2002>29.09.2002
Paul Viaccoz (born 1954 in Saint-Julien en Genevois, France, lives and works
in Geneva)
Tout ce que vous trouverez en enfer si vous avez peut-être la chance de
ne pas y séjourner, ou l’art d’inquiéter les pécheurs comme moyen efficace
pour gagner le paradis, 13 min., color, sound, 2001
30.09.2002>06.10.2002
mvrdv (collective founded 1991, in Rotterdam, by Winy Maas, Schijndel, 1959,
Jacob van Rijs, Amsterdam, 1964 and Nathalie de Vries, Appingedam, 1965)
Pig City, color, sound, 2001
07.10.2002>13.10.2002
Vidya Gastaldon (born 1974 in Besançon, France, lives and works in Geneva)
Yellowrama, animation film, 14 min., color, music : J. Tillie, 2001
14.10.2002>20.10.2002
Amy O’Neill (born 1971 in Beaver, USA, lives and works in Geneva)
NYC Music Videos (The Sweetest Taboo, Coco’s Deli, NYC, 3/17/2000, Secret
Agent Man, A Train, NYC, 10/15/1999, Good Vibrations, Loft, Bklyn, 11/26/1999,
The Girl from Ipanema, Staten Island Ferry, 7/5/2000), color, sound ,1999/2000
21.10.2002>27.10.2002
Pablo Vargas Lugo (born 1968 in Mexico City, lives and works in Mexico City)
Jolie rouge, animation film, B/W, silent, 2001 and Clock, animation film,
B/W, silent, 2002
28.10.2002>03.11.2002
Esra Ersen (born 1970 in Ankara, lives and works in Istanbul)
This is the Disney World, 9’10’’, color, sound, 2000
04.11.2002>10.11.2002
Mika Taanila (born 1965 in Helsinki, lives and works in Helsinki)
A Physical Ring, 4’40’’, music : ø (Mika Vainio), 2002
11.11.2002>17.11.2002
Elke Krystufek (born 1970 in Vienna, lives and works in Vienna)
This is who we are, 16 min, color, sound, 2001
18.11.2002>24.11.2002
Pia Rönicke (born 1974 in Roskilde, Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen)
Somewhere Out There, color, sound, 1998
25.11.2002>01.12.2002
Markus Schinwald (born 1973 in Salzburg, lives and works in Vienna)
Dictio pii, 35 mm film transfered on VHS, 16 min, color, sound, produced
by Dartclub/Neue sentimental Film & Schibboleth Pictures, Vienna, 2001
02.12.2002>08.12.2002
Tommi Grönlund (born 1967 in Turku, Finland, lives and works in Helsinki)
Thank you dad, net animation, 2’22’’, color, sound, copyright of Amplifying
Sound Art : HELIUM # 5, by BallongMagasinet and nifca, 2002
09.12.2002>15.12.2002
Knut Åsdam (born 1968 in Trondheim, Norway, lives and works in New-York)
Come To your Own, video-performance, 23 min., color, sound, 1993
16.12.2002>23.12.2002
Jonas Dahlberg (born 1970 in Borås, Sweden, lives and works in Stockholm)
Untitled (Vertical Sliding), video projection, dimensions variable, 28’27’’, 2001
