Wed 19 June 2019 - Fri 21 June 2019 | 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Mandel Cultural Center - Hatkuma 1, Tel Aviv,
VIDEOFORMES, International Video and Digital Arts Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France), will present in Israel and Lithuania a selection of international video-art of its recent editions and discoveries and the Instant Conversation – about you and me with Austrian artist Regina Hübner.
VIDEOFORMES – Tel Aviv – Vilnius – Kaunas is curated by Natan Karczmar and Gabriel Soucheyre. Production by ArtCom Tec (Natan Karczmar) and VIDEOFORMES (Gabriel Soucheyre).
The events will take place in Israel from 19 to 21 June 2019 at the Mandel Cultural Center in Tel Aviv – Jafo, and in Lithuania from 25 to 28 June 2019 at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius and at the
Čiurlionis National Museum of Art in Kaunas.
VIDEOFORMES
Since 1984, VIDEOFORMES is a permanent observatory of new developments in contemporary art and digital video and offers various opportunities for presentation, meetings and reflection artists, professionals and the public.
Tel Aviv – Vilnius – Kaunas
Photo credit: Regina Hübner
June 19 at 20:30
#1 VIDEOFORMES 2019
Presents videos directed by : Gianluca Abbate, Maria Molina Peiró, Bob Kohn, Regina Hübner, Noemi Sjöberg, Alexander Isaenko et Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis.
June 20 at 20:30
#4 Instant Conversation – about you and me between artist Regina Hübner and Gabriel Soucheyre. Selective screening of the artist’s videos.
June 21 at 21:00
#2 VIDEOFORMES EXPLORATIONS
An overview of VIDEOFORMES discoveries
Presents videos directed by : Kika Nicolela (coordinatrice de Exquisite Corpse Video Project en collaboration avec d’autres artistes), François Vogel, Regina Hübner et Isabelle Arvers.
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Program 19th
#1 VIDEOFORMES 2019
An overview of VIDEOFORMES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
VIDEOFORMES présente les vidéos de / presents videos directed by : Gianluca Abbate, Maria Molina Peiró, Bob Kohn, Regina Hübner, Noemi Sjöberg, Alexander Isaenko et Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis.
Supermarket | Gianluca Abbate | ITA | 2018 | 8′
A voice says “I would like to make you feel nice and comfortable, and to empty your mind of every single thought…”. Thus the story begins, with an invitation to make you fall asleep, in a calm, deep, and peaceful rest, while a chaotic landscape, crowded with people, sets up on the screen. The crowd doesn’t seem to have anywhere to go, but they are actually sleeping and they need to dream.
Digital Trauma (And the Crystal Image) | Maria Molina Peiró | ESP | 2017 | 8’09
What consequences does access to digital memory have for post-conflict societies? Can digital memory become a powerful tool for triggering ethnic hatred, violence and war?
“Horizons” | Bob Kohn | FRA | 2018 | 3’50
My horizons change with or without me.
When humans eat them, my imagination expands them.
loving | Regina Hübner | AUT | 2016 |6’57
Ambient sound, real time.
loving. It is slow, it seems long. It is short. A special moon crosses the light-blue sky and becomes the symbol of our most powerful sentiment in the course of time.
“Observing this moon, I saw myself as a little individuum on a little place, at a little time, living a little life but with a big sentiment, while I was related to such greater dimensions. I started to think about love and time.”
Shadows | Noemi Sjöberg | SWE | 2017 | 2’55
A desire for freedom, challenging the threat of the machine, the game comes close to the danger. Cloudy water, past and future mixed.
Adieu, Corpus! | Alexander Isaenko | UKR| 2018 | 8’07
The film shows the body as a place, not as a subject. He travels along his borders, groping his way through time through events, rather than in a linear fashion, balancing at the edge of the rules, to get away from the frame. The body is physically becoming virtual.
Swatted | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | FRA | 2018 | 21′
Online gamers tell of their difficulties in escaping “swatting”, a phenomenon of cyber-harassment that threatens their lives in every game. Events take shape through YouTube videos and vector images from a video game.
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Program 20th
#4 Instant Conversation – about you and me
A performative act of Regina Hübner and Gabriel Soucheyre with screening of the artist’s videos.
After meeting Regina Hübner in a video art festival, Gabriel Soucheyre got interested in her original approach of video in her art and they then started a collaboration.
loving, one of Regina Hübner’s keyworks, which was presented in a site-specific event at Eglise du Saint-Esprit for the Nuit Blanche Paris 2018, with the text Take me to the moon (I’ll see who I am) by Gabriel Soucheyre, was then exhibited in a special ‘ambientation’ at VIDEOFORMES 2019 International Digital Art Festival in Clermont-Ferrand (France). In the meantime, Gabriel Soucheyre dedicated a Portrait d’artiste to the artist in Turbulences Video Magazine #102 and realized a video document about loving.
With time, the idea of an Instant Conversation about Regina Hübner’s video works became an exciting project in order to better understand her demarche and exchange about her art with the audience.
Instant Conversation – about you and me is based on the personal experience of the Protagonists and deals with Regina Hübner’s themes in her video-works such as identity/self-consciousness, communication, love and eroticism, in connection with the concept of Self and Nonself. It includes the project Perception of Self and Nonself in Life she is currently doing at IMéRA, a research institute for advanced studies in Marseille (France) and will introduce dear cell, her new video production, in ante prima.
Instant conversation – about you and me is developed into 5 chapters: ME (my inner self), RELATING (I connect to the world), AMORE (ready to melt with you), EXCITEMENT AND HAPPINESS (euphoric conviction to continue life), PASSION (the thin line between creating and annihilating) and figures out an individual’s evolution.
ME (my inner self)
receiving care |3’05 | 2015
Part of gestures with the extension that gestures may change status. Performative act by the artist with one of the oldest coiffeurs in her birth town Villach.
healing | 21’03 | 2016 | (2 min excerpt)
Gestures may change status. Private performance by the artist with the jar belonged to the artist’s grandmother, butter, human body.
journey II | 1’33 | 2013
About journeys we do.
Finalist of Premio Terna 06, Turin, Italy.
RELATING (I connect to the world)
connecting times / relationships | 3’59 | 2010 | (2 min excerpt)
A mother writes a letter to her daughter, the daughter sings lullabies, connecting times.
possibilities | 23’10 |1999 | (2 min excerpt)
A mouth – out of focus – talks. Video without sound.
dear cell | 3’ | 2019
Dear cell, I look at you, you look at me. Part of Perception of Self and Nonself in Life – IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study University Aix Marseille. Anteprima.
connecting times 22122 | 2’35 |2014
Folding and unfolding my father’s handkerchief. About relationships between persons, times and objects. Music c by Mitsuru Shimizu, FMA.
AMORE (ready to melt with you)
about you and me|4’09 | 2018| (2 min excerpt)
Texts by the artist: The Deer and the Hunter, The Angel, The Mushroom, The Key, Lady Lady Lady, Ich bin das Reh.
loving | 6’50 | 2016 | (2 min excerpt)
Real time, ambient sound.
It is slow, it seems long. It is short.
A special moon crosses the light-blue sky and becomes the symbol of our most powerful sentiment in the course of time.
EXCITEMENT AND HAPPINESS (euphoric conviction to continue life)
Instead, I can even laugh | 2’35 | 2018
About me and you. Experiments and observations, 2 subjects, sometimes with objects.
I am walking| 2’25 | 2018
Experiments and observations about me and you with 2 subjects and sometimes with objects.
PASSION (the thin line between creating and annihilating)
milk |2’56 | 2018
About me and you. Experiments and observations, 2 subjects, sometimes with objects. HD bn video, silence.
about you and me (sometimes) | 4’34 | 2019| (2 min excerpt)
Experiments and observations, 2 subjects, sometimes with object.
never enough (yes) | 7’12 | 2018| (2 min excerpt)
Experiments and observations. In this case, 80 x 25 = 2000 affirmations. Mayako Kubo, sound (live recording), 2018.
Regina Hübner was born in Villach, Austria, and lives in Rome.
She uses experimental photography, video, performative act, subjects and objects and makes international solo-exhibitions like her participation in Nuit Blanche Paris 2018, EXPO Milano 2015, MMKK (Klagenfurt, AUT), MLAC (Rome, ITA), Austrian Cultural Forum Rome and Milan, change+partner contemporary art (Rome, ITA), Villach (AUT), and participates in festivals like VIDEOFORMES 2019 (FRA), Videoforma (St. Petersburg, RUS), Fivac (Camarguey, CUB) and FIAV Casablanca (MAR). She is currently Fellow at IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study University Aix Marseille for her project Perception of Self and Nonself in Life, in collaboration with CIML Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy.
Regina Hübner: https://www.reginahuebner.net/
Regina Hübner is supported by IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study, Aix-Marseille University and Austrian Cultural Forum Tel Aviv.
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Program 21th
#2 VIDEOFORMES EXPLORATIONS
An overview of VIDEOFORMES discoveries
VIDEOFORMES présente les vidéos de / presents videos directed by : Kika Nicolela (coordinatrice de Exquisite Corpse Video Project en collaboration avec d’autres artistes), François Vogel, Regina Hübner et Isabelle Arvers.
EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT vol.6 | 2019 |38’18
Concept and coordination : Kika Nicolela�Participating artists : Per Eriksson, Sojin Chun, Ivelina Ivanova, Ulf Kristiansen, Savio Leite, Renata Padovan, Jacques Perconte, Clémence Demesme, Wai Kit Lam, Simone Stoll, Marina Fomenko, Lau Focarazzo, Clelia Mello, Kika Nicolela, Stina Pehrsdotter, Laura Colmenares Guerra, Yoshiki Nishimura, Kimbura Byol, Vic Von Poser, Jorge Lozano, Jan Kather, Anthony Siarkiewicz, Niclas Hallberg, Duo Strangloscope, Nia Pushkanova, Sonia Guggisberg, John Sanborn�Sigrid Coggins, Joacelio Batista, Gabriel V. Soucheyre, Jan Hakon Erichsen, Lucas Banbozzi, Mike Hollboom, Nung-Hsin Hu, Fumiharo Sato & Hiroko Haraguchi, Christian Leduc, Pila Rusjan & Dejan, Štefančič
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”. Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists’ game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member’s work.
EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT (ECVP) est le résultat d’une collaboration unique entre des artistes du monde entier s’inspirant de la méthode de création des surréalistes, « le cadavre exquis ». Reprenant le principe séquentiel à l’aveugle de ce procédé, les participants créent des vidéos en rebondissant sur les dernières secondes de la création de l’artiste précédent.
Erebeta | François Vogel | FRA | 2018 | 3’40
Erebeta drives us on a vertical jump above the city. We rebound on the pavement, twirl around the buildings and pass through streets. This bouncing point of view on modern Japan is accompanied by the traditional Kuroda Bushi music.
Erebeta nous emporte dans un saut vertical au-dessus de la ville. Nous ricochons sur la chaussée, tournoyons autour des immeubles et traversons les rues de part en part. Ce point de vue sur le Japon moderne s’accompagne de musique traditionnelle Kuroda Bushi.
Elle et la poule | Kika Nicolela | BRA | 2017 | 4’20
She has a story to tell, with the chicken as a witness. Using black humor, an in-depth monologue and inappropriate women clichés, ELLE ET LA POULE are deeply involved in difficult issues such as sexual abuse and violence against women.
Elle a une histoire à raconter, avec le poulet comme témoin. Utilisant l’humour noir, un monologue pointu et des clichés féminins déplacés, ELLE ET LA POULE plonge profondément dans des questions difficiles telles que l’abus sexuel et la violence contre les femmes.
Instead, I can even laugh | Regina Hübner | AUT | 2018 |2’40
Experiments and observations about me and you with 2 subjects and sometimes with objects.
Expériences et observations sur toi et moi avec 2 sujets et parfois des objets.
Mer Violette | Isabelle Arvers | FRA | 2019 | 4’
Machinima, sound and color. Sound design: Alexandre Ollivier (Whadat Experience).
In this video, forms and abstract landscapes are developed, in which random movement of some objects like the sea or the waves generated by the Moviestorm game engine plays an important part. Universes of abstract patterns, that fold or unfold, mat or very reflective, are testing the possibility of creating « species of spaces » (Georges Perec), aiming to modify the perception of the movements seen
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