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While profit rules and quick information flow is raping minds it’s difficult to define its role. Represented works show two different, parallel lines. One of them is a line of contemporary art which critically relates to a society, directly pointing to the problems and raising questions. And the other one is orientated to the internal logic of creative act, telling stories by means of formal features of used media.
‘Gentle Triggers’ is a presentation of work by London based artists Jala Wahid and Nicole Morris whose practices are positioned between sculpture and moving image.
The films selected for this year’s screening by psychotherapist and psychologist Adam Táborský offer a glimpse into a space where mental health becomes a source of inspiration, raw vulnerability, an acknowledged weapon, and a place of confession and relief.
Five Hungarian artists present their work in short profiles with stand-in seconding them in parallel videos. In separate portraits takes this stand-in charge of artworks explanation with a sovereignty of an author. He presents five various forms of his art production in various media or creative foci (painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation).
What kind of contemporary artists come from Bosnia and Herzegovina? What kind of cultural figures did the generation of the upcoming artists in Bosnia have at their disposal, at the time of their “spontaneous cultural formation”, until they have (in)formally decided to become a part of the discourse of “the contemporary visual art”?
Jenna Bliss
A series of five videos about closeness and distance, it addresses the contradictions of the people who influence us most: our fathers believing they resolved the Mystery of Women, grandmothers who embody woman’s physical decline and the women, like Weil, who we admire but who, unlike the men, weren’t just allowed to be.
Transform brings together six videos, which coming from different artistic and thematic approaches they use as technical resource the transformation of the image (widely understood) in the process towards a final outcome, different from a certain initial situation. The visual (or sonic) transformation is carried out by resources such as addition, division and negation/fusion.
Petr Skala
His original creative processes applied to the then typical 16mm film (e.g. scratching, engraving, painting and application of chemical agents) were in fact close not only to foreign hand-made film but also to gestic painting and the material-orientated Art Informel.
The fusion of authorial and spectatorial attitudes is typical both of romantic landscape painting and videoart in which the subjective perspective dominates. This online exhibition of three authoresses offers a rare transfer into the painting, a specific landscape where we can together with the authors experience almost mystic river contemplation, an astonished observation of a stranger’s invasion into a quiet horizon and an amused interaction with a chopped off trunk.
Paul Gondry
The plumbing work you did here is disastrous - not stupid, not sloppy - just absolutely disastrous.
The second part in ‘New Feminism’ programme brings together moving image works by London based artist Chooc Ly Tan and an essay by the curator, artist and researcher Julia Tcharfas. It links mythical stories about gender of celestial beings to invention of new words and language through the text of science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin, video collage and astrophysics.
Lucie Svobodová
An important topic in Lucie Svobodová's recent work is also the technical obsolescence of audiovisual media and formats, which is also led to her revision of her older works. The resulting reconstructions that Svobodová creates with the help of new technologies, not only touch the current question of archiving related works, but also open a discussion about the extent to which the pioneering works of Czech animation and video art are interesting for today's wider audience.
Josef Holý
Josef Holý focuses on the topics of information warfare, disinformation and the influence of algorithms of technological giants on our lives. How are and have these themes been reflected among artists working with moving image? The depiction of artificial intelligence or artificial humans has a fairly firm place in the history of visual art and is associated with many ethical issues that have realistically impacted us today.
The term ‘into thin air’ refers to a sense of disappearing into the unknown, a semi-obliteration or part-erasure. Things don’t completely cease to exist, but find an alternate semi-reality in which they can exist intangibly.
The departure point for “Prompted” is a shared fascination by the three invited artists and the curator for spaces of ambiguity opened up by aural works. The works selected for each of the artists configure the contrast that exist between an authorial voice framing an artistic experience and images recorded simply with live recording and surround sound.
Martin Zet
I decided to go for the last option, making use of my present position of an art teacher, and so I decided to introduce works of our students from the Video studio. I hope the videos do not show any traces of my influence and I believe this will remain true also in the future.