Feature of the month April 2010
VideoChannel Cologne
is happy to launch on 5 April 2010
in the framework of NewMediaFest’2010
and as the Feature of the Month April 2010
“Memory & Identity”
10 experimental videos from the USA
curated by Alysse Stepanian (Santa Fe/USA)
Access to the online feature
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=962
featuring works by these artists
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Lana Z. Caplan (Boston, Massachusetts)
Brian DeLevie (Denver, Colorado)
Ron Diorio (Manhattan, New York)
Michael Greathouse (Brooklyn, New York)
Soyeon Jung (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Laleh Mehran (Colorado)
Joe Merrell (Los Angeles, California)
David Montgomery (Fernandina Beach, Florida)
Christine Schiavo (Staten Island, New York)
Brooks Williams (New York City).
After the video feature of Wilfried Agricola de Cologne in December 2009 and the collaboration in “For Action’s Sake” on 12 March 2010,
memory & identy represents already the 3rd intercontinental collaboration between the curatorial initiative “Manipulated Image” directed by Alyssse Stepanian and VideoChannel Cologne directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne which was launched first in a physical screening on Friday, 2 April 2010 at The Complex in Santa Fe/USA
CURATOR’S STATEMENT (by Alysse Stepanian):
This compilation of videos by U.S. artists are as diverse as the memories and identities that fabricate the singularity of the concept of unity and nationhood of this country. Most of these videos were originally created for installations and share a monumental quality, as if to reflect the enduring attributes of the memories that make up one’s identity. Soyeon Jung, a Korean born American, draws a literal parallel between food consumption and the internalizing of her own experiences of moving between the two cultures. Lana Z. Caplan comments on human survival amid loss and destruction. Brian DeLevie and Isshaela Ingham reflect on childhood memories from the safe distance of a far away future. Chris Schiavo’s heroine’s active search for a unique sense of self contrasts with Brooks Williams and Ron Diorio’s central figures, who seem to have lost their internal battle. On the verge of making compromises, they struggle to negotiate their conflicting needs for individuality and belonging, as their socially driven desires dictate their beings. Iranian born Laleh Mehran combines “religion, science, and politics,” in complex works that find commonalities in territories that have claimed marked distinction through the filters of history. In a video by Michael Greathouse, a detached human head floats in the sea, its movement decipherable as it passes the only marker in the landscape, a lighthouse that may represent a flash of a memory that marks a person’s individuality. Joe Merrell depicts the drivers on a Los Angeles Highway; alienated in their automobiles, they all eventually vanish into a single point, perhaps symbolic of their myopic outlook toward life. And finally, David Montgomery depicts “a collective memory of growth,” allowing the combined synergy of technology and nature to break into a time lapse dance to music by the band, Sleeping People. In addition to this compilation of 10 videos that will become part of the collection of Manipulated Image’s German partner, VideoChannel Cologne’s site, there will be screenings of Penny Lane’s child-like animation, and Chris Coleman’s award winning animation, “The Magnitude of the Continental Divides.” This curation is Manipulated Image’s 2nd major partnership with Wilfried Agricola de Cologne’s VideoChannel online screenings based in Cologne.
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