video feature
Orebro
art: screen Festival
Paris
Vitoria Gesteiz
Örebro
Today, Wilfried is attending the final day of 3rd Orebro International Video Art Festval, organised by art:screen Sweden- run by Eva Olsson & Jonas Nilsson. Both do not only act as curators but also as videoartists, whereby Eva’s creations are focussed on animated contents. She submitted in total 6 videos, and Jonas 4 videos, participating in VideoChannel and CologneOFF International Videoart Festival. In 2007, they started to present their curated programs at first in Västerås – a place situated on the way from Stockholm to Örebro, and in 2008, they switched to their living place Örebro, where they continued in April the videoart screenings before they launched in October 2008 – the 1st Örebro International Video Art Festival. Wilfried invited to participate as a videoartist and curator of VideoChannel, attended this very promissing inaugural event.
In the framework of his birthday celebrations – The NewMediaFest2020, Wilfried would like to thank both talented creatives for the good experiences of networking together!
Good luck for both on their way!
art:screen Sweden
art:screen
Örebro, Sweden
run & curated by Eva Olsson and Jonas Nilsson
(discontinued since 2013)
art:screen was a screening event and platform that showcases new, compelling, innovative and contemporary moving image from Swedish and international artists. art:screen is, for many artists, the window for showing their work in Sweden and Europe.
art:screen shows single-channel screening programmes which have tempo and flow. To create this, the duration of works are at maximum five minutes long. The programmes explore new ways of seeing reality from a cultural, social and individual perspective and often employ humour to give new insights.
art:screen is co-operating with international video art festivals and art organizers where art:screen is invited to curate screening programmes. art:screen is also offering screening programmes to Swedish art institutions and art associations who wants to broaden their art activities, but doesn’t have access to, or possesses video works.
art:screen is a screening event and platform that showcases new, compelling, innovative and contemporary moving image from Swedish and international artists. art:screen is, for many artists, the window for showing their work in Sweden and Europe.
art:screen shows single-channel screening programmes which have tempo and flow. To create this, the duration of works are at maximum five minutes long. The programmes explore new ways of seeing reality from a cultural, social and individual perspective and often employ humour to give new insights.
art:screen is co-operating with international video art festivals and art organizers where art:screen is invited to curate screening programmes. art:screen is also offering screening programmes to Swedish art institutions and art associations who wants to broaden their art activities, but doesn’t have access to, or possesses video works.
Bio Roxy Örebro
art:screen
is a platform that showcases new, compelling and contemporary moving image arts from Swedish and international artists. art:screen is an artist-run, non-profit initiative organized by Eva Olsson and Jonas Nilsson who are both artists with an experience of curating screening programs since 2005.
Since 2008 art:screen is running art:screen fest, a festival whose main concept is to invite curators from different events and festivals from around the world, to curate screening programs, and to provide an international platform for networking and co-operation possibilities between curators.
Bio Roxy – festival screening space
Art Schook orebro – festival venue
Bio Roxy – as a festival meeting place
Vetlanda Museum/art:screen Sweden – August/September 2013
art:screen Festival Orebro/Sweden – 4-7 October 2012
CologneOFF 2012 Sweden
@ artscreen fest
5-7 October Orebro/Sweden
featuring
CologneOFF VII –
a special selection from “Art & the City”
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
PDF catalogue CologneOFF2012 Sweden – 5-7 Oct 2012 @ art:screen festival Orebro/SWE
PDF catalogue art:screen festival Orebro 2012/SWE
List of videos
Mattias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Alexey Rumyantsev (Tajikistan) – Parallels, 2010, 2:38
Albert Merino (Spain) – Les bagneurs, 2010, 3:30
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in the Desert, 2010, 5:00
Sarah Mock (Germany) – Is there a way out, 2011, 3 :47
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Leap of Faith, 2010, 3:02
Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva (UKraine) – The 7th of November, 2009, 3:36
Johanna Reich ( Germany) – A State of Crystal, 2010, 3’19
Ramon Suau Lleal (Spain) – Hoax, 2010, 4:23
Bio Roxy – main festival location
festival opening – Eva & Jonas – the festival orgnanisers
Bio Roxy underground – meeting hub
festival @ konstfrämjandet – Alysse & Wilfried
festival @ konstfrämjandet – Oyinda & Alysse
bio Roxy – Eva & Jonas – behind the bar
in front of bio Roxy – Niclas Hallberg, Stine Pettersdotter, Kaarina Ormio, Alysse Stepanian, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (photo: Alysse Stepanian)
Alysse & Wilfried (photo: Alysse Stepanian)
final evening @ the restaurant (photo: Alysse Stepanian)
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Interview – V-art @ Länsmuseum Orebro
Art: screenfest on tour @ Vetlanda Museum
Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
is happy to announce
CologneOFF 2013 Sweden @ art:screen Sweden
24 August – 29 September 2013 @ Vetlanda Museum
featuring
CologneOFF VII –
a special selection from “Art & the City”
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Mattias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Alexey Rumyantsev (Tajikistan) – Parallels, 2010, 2:38
Albert Merino (Spain) – Les bagneurs, 2010, 3:30
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in the Desert, 2010, 5:00
Sarah Mock (Germany) – Is there a way out, 2011, 3 :47
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Leap of Faith, 2010, 3:02
Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva (UKraine) – The 7th of November, 2009, 3:36
Johanna Reich ( Germany) – A State of Crystal, 2010, 3’19
Ramon Suau Lleal (Spain) – Hoax, 2010, 4:23
The Pleasure Code, 1:00, 2009
Short, usual and painful.
Agricola de Cologne – Silent Cry, 2016, 3:40
Short synopsis
Silent Cry is the visualization of an internal cry happening all the time, when society does not allow to show deep emotional affection. The silent cry is always present caused by never ending traumatizations during decades hidden behind the facade people wants to see. And even if the cry would be be seen or heard, people would refuse to face it. The work release is giving sound a particular relevance.
Urban.early sunday morning_raw, 2002, 4:40
Synopsis
Video based on a poetic text by Agricola de Cologne inspired by the Central Station of Milan (Italy).
Metropolis: sunday morning, between open end and twilight, between hope and resignation, between following a dream and returning that night to the home town or village outside.
Coming from the disco, full of the impressions of that juicy girl or that horny boy, doubtful of whether preserving innocence or following the instinct for an outstanding erotic adventure.
It is the moment of not yet knowing, vacillating between yes or no.
It is a same ritual each week-end, even if decisions are made once.
It is a game between identifying and identity.
The work describes the urban landscape as a scenario of a play, where the protagonists are embedded in without any chance to escape.
VideoChannel @ 1st Intern. Videoart Festival Orebro/Swe – 24-26 Oct 2008
08.10. Identity of Time
is the title of a selection of videos, Agricola de Cologne curates for
1st International Orebro Videoart Festival 2008
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selected titles
The Memory Machine by Marko Batista (Slovenia) – 2007, 01:30
Digital Snapshots by Daniel Lo Iacono (Germany) – 2003, 05:08
Toilet by Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (Iceland) – 05:00
Selfportrait by Cynthia Whelan (UK) – 2005, 03:26
Embracement by Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry (Israel) – 2005, 10:00
Gicir by Sinasi Günes (Turkey) – 2005, 03:03
Small Room Tango by Gabriel Shalom (USA) – 2004, 03:40
Life Attraction by Laurent Pernot (France) – 2004, 03:22
Duration 35 minutes
En[code]ed, 2008, 5:00
Digital video inspired by a visit of Thessaloniki.
The work describes the principle of “code” or “coding” in form of an allegory, a metaphoric story as a ritual of meeting, dominating and resigning. The code is identified as a state of the static, dogmatic and conservative, which asks for obedience, but gives no chance to escape.
Växhuset Västerås
Eva Olsson & Jonas Nilsson
Nordic Focus: Sweden
1. Videoart from Sweden
curated by Jonas Nilsson/Eva Olsson
1. Dan Lestander – Dreams and Wishes, 2009, 4:19 min.
2. Elin Bruun-Nystedt – Frasse and I, 2009, 2:05 min.
3. Evelina Gustavsson – Mor & dotter (Mother & daughter), 2004, 2:42 min.
4. Sara Lundberg – CORDS (hear us and have mercy), 2008, 3:14 min.
5. Eva Olsson – The Labyrinth, 2009, 3:41 min.
6. Björn Perborg – The Trip To America, 2008-2009, 2:14 min.
7. Nina Lassila – Woman with knife, 2009, 1:49 min.
8. Dana Sederowsky – Special announcements edition four, 2009, 1:35 min.
9. Jonas Nilsson – The choice, 2009, 2:15 min.
10.Antti Savela – My Way, 2010, 4:50 min.
Compilation curated by
Jonas Nilsson http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=2774
&
Eva Olsson http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=3222
presented on 18 March 2011 at Kharkiv City Art Gallery (Ukraine)
14-20 March 2011 – Kiev-Kharkiv
Curatorial statement:
art:screen’s curated programme consists of video works by Swedish artists or artists living in Sweden.
art:screen is an event and platform that showcases new, innovative and contemporary moving image from Swedish and international artists in single-channel screening programmes consisting of a number of short works.
art:screen started 2005 under the name Art Video Screening which changed to art:screen in December 2010. Art Video Screening was the initiator and head co-ordinator of Örebro International Videoart Festival 2008 and 2010 in co-operation with the art institutions in Örebro. From 2012 art:screen will be the head co-ordinator for art:screen fest, a festival where the main concept is to invite curators from around the world to curate screening programmes, and to be an international plattform for networking and co-operation possibilities between curators.
art:screen is co-operating with international video festivals and art organizers where art:screen is invited to curate screening programmes. art:screen is also offering screening programmes to Swedish art institutions and art associations that wants to broaden their art activities, but doesn’t have access to or possesses video works.
Artists:
1.
Name: Lestander
First name: Dan
Title of work/year/duration:
Dreams and Wishes, 2009, 4:19 min.
Short synopsis:
For me the ice is beautiful, where it lies as a membrane between the sky and the sea. The ice reminds me, with its clear involvement in metamorphosis, about life and the constant change that everything is going through. The opening, that a hole in the ice constitutes, provides an
opportunity to enter into, or up, to another element. My idea is to utilize the source of this specific space and challenge the expiriense of being human.
2.
Name: Bruun-Nystedt
First name: Elin
Title of work/year/duration:
Frasse and I, 2009, 2:05 min.
Short synopsis:
A short documentary on my ambivalent feelings when going to hamburger restaurants.
3.
Name: Gustavsson
First name: Evelina
Title of work/year/duration:
Mor & dotter (Mother & daughter), 2004, 2:42 min.
Short synopsis:
In Evelina Gustavsson’s film she explores the relationship between mother and daughter – a relationship that can be full of joy but also filled with sorrow and anger. In her work she’s looking for boundaries: how far you can go, how to behave and not to behave and when the line of what is acceptable or not has been croosed. Perhaps there are no limits to what’s
acceptable in such a relationship.#
4.
Name: QNQ/AUJIK
Title of work/year/duration:
A Forest within a Forest, 2010, 5:09 min.
Credits: Music: Mira Calix – Hiccup.
Short synopsis:
We follow Nashi through a journey in an uncanny forest and are introduced to some of her ideas about artificial selections. She states that everything is animated, even the things we consider synthetic and artificial are as sacred as plants and stones.
She criticizes the primitive nature for its inability to development and praises technology for its flexibility and proclaims that nature should adapt to technology in order to survive.
5.
Name: Lundberg
First name: Sara
Title of work/year/duration:
CORDS (hear us and have mercy), 2008, 3:14 min.
Short synopsis: non
6.
Name: Andersson
First name: Malin
Title of work/year/duration:
Cassock, 2009, 2:58 min.
Short synopsis:
Clothes is symbol of identity, structure and power. Through clothes we are given certain rolls and function, whether its a uniform or a certain style of fashion. The videoproject “cassocks” works with what is real and what is not in the eyes of the viewer. Is it a performance? Is she really a priest, or just an artist?
7.
Name: Olsson
First name: Eva
Title of work/year/duration:
The Labyrinth, 2009, 3:41 min.
Short synopsis:
Trapped in a world not of one’s making, in a life not of one’s design.
8.
Name: Perborg
First name: Björn
Title of work/year/duration:
The Trip To America, 2008-2009, 2:14 min.
Short synopsis:
Photografic images come into the field of vision with a typical mechanical “clack” of a slide projector. Soberly but with a touch of admiration, an off-camera voice explains what happened at the airport on the way from Copenhagen to America.
(A small package of laundry detergent, a three centimetre pocketknife and a book on Islam caused an uproar with the airport security personnel).
9.
Name: Härenstam
First name: Mattias
Title of work/year/duration:
Portrait of a smiling man, 2010, 4:30 min. no sound
Short synopsis:
An actor dressed in a dark suit and tie is sitting on a chair. He has been given the task of trying to smile as broad and long as possible. The entire session lasted almost twenty minutes, and over time the smile gradually disintegrates into a more and more grotesque grimace.
10.
Name: Lassila
First name: Nina
Title of work/year/duration:
Woman with knife, 2009, 1:49 min.
Short synopsis: non
11.
Name: Bergström Hansen
First name: Nicola
Title of work/year/duration:
Excavation No.2, 2009, 5:00 min.
Short synopsis:
In Excavation No.2 YouTube clips of men and women shooting into the forest are accompanied by sentences that change with every gunshot. The sentences are all written by John Muir; A romantic naturalist and the father of Yosemite national park. Muirs romantic view on nature contrasts the violent video clips but they both speak of our relationship to nature.
Excavation No.2 originates from a dusty shelf in the library as well as from the dynamic, and shifting archive of YouTube.
12.
Name: Sederowsky
First name: Dana
Title of work/year/duration:
Special announcements edition four, 2009, 1:35 min.
Short synopsis: non
13.
Name: Weberg
First name: Anders
Title of work/year/duration:
Undisclosed beauty, 2008, 3:13 min.
Short synopsis:
Just because You spit in my eyes does not mean that I have clear vision.
14.
Name: Nilsson
First name: Jonas
Title of work/year/duration:
The choice, 2009, 2:15 min.
Short synopsis:
We have become aware that in the great game that is being played, we are the players as well as being the cards, and the stakes… What disconcerts the modern world at its very root is not being sure… that there is an outcome, a suitable outcome to evolution.
The human being is supposedly the most intelligent being in existence, yetwe are also the most destructive, the most self-consumed, the greediest, etc. We have the ability to be the superior organism, but we have (as a whole) become the most inferior.
15.
Name: Savela
First name: Antti
Title of work/year/duration:
My Way, 2010, 4:50 min.
Short synopsis:
In this video I have brought together eight complete strangers to sing “My Way” by Jacques Revaux and Claude Francois.
Paris
The experimental film tells the story of a homeless person, who lost its identity in all the traumatic experiences it was undergoing. Again, Agricola de Cologne uses the form of the allegorical representation for pointing to essential questions of human existence. All people are homeless in on or the other way, most however, suffer from it without being aware of it. The film is a mirror of our time which has lost its roots.
ShootOFF L’Espace Canopy Paris 6-14 October 2007
Nuit Blanche – L’Espace Canopy Paris 6 October 2007
*Studio Art & You – Digital Art Paris/F – 14/10 – 31/10 2007
Vitoria Gasteiz
D-NEFF 01-06 October 2007
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne – Bareback – serial disCharge, 2007, 6:00
The experimental film tells the story of a homeless person, who lost its identity in all the traumatic experiences it was undergoing. Again, Agricola de Cologne uses the form of the allegorical representation for pointing to essential questions of human existence. All people are homeless in on or the other way, most however, suffer from it without being aware of it. The film is a mirror of our time which has lost its roots.
