12 May 2011

feature
Laos – Vientiane
Poland – Szczecin
Officyna Art Space
Den Haag
Streaming Festival

Vientiane

CologneOFF 2011 is leading Wilfried today to a country full of secrets – Laos. in its capital Vientiane, the international film festival –

Vientianale - 12-15 May 2011

2nd Vientianale – Vientiane International Film Festival – Vientiane/Laos 12-15 May 2011

Please download the PDF including the printed pages
CologneOFF2011_PRESS CologneOFF 2011 Laos – 12-15 May 2011 –
listing the videos of the CologneOFF 2011 program – selection from Asia -featuring videos by

Yu Cheng Yu (Taiwan) – Switch, 2008, 3:30
Liu Wei (China) – Is Fighting Our Machine” 2003, 4:10
Nhieu Do (Vietnam) – Testimony”, 2008, 7:12
Yin Ling Chen (Taiwan) – Trace” 2007, 5:36
Lin Fangsuo (China) – White, 2010, 1:00
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) – Space Drawing No. 5 – , 2009, 1:02
Yi-Chun Lo (Taiwan) – A Bitty Anomy, 2008, 4:30
Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia) – Hometown, video, 2003, 6:00
Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia) – Reflection?, video, 2004, 2:50

Greetings from Laos
selection curated by Vientianale – Vientiane International Film Festival (Laos)

1. Katrin Theurer (Loas) – WHY LAO PEOPLE SMILE SO MUCH?, 2009, 10:00
2. National Institute of Fine Arts – HOT COFFEE, 2009, 4MIN. LAO\ENG*
3. Bhountanong Xomxaphol – YES, I AM, BY , 10MIN. 2008, LAO\ENG*
4. Santhavy Phomvixay – MY RIVER, BY 8MIN., 2009, LAO/ENG*

is taking place, the event is mysterious as well, as it is not clear whether it is taking place, at all, and if yes, what might be the venue, but in the end everything is confirmed, but no chance for Wilfried to attend due to local political issues. Afterwards the festival was discontinued, but in 2015 re-activated for one saison.

Szczecin

CologneOFF 2011 Poland I @

Cultural Observatory Szczecin – 2016 – Baltic Sea I -12 - 14 May 2011

CologneoFF 2011 Szczecin

is a collaboration between Cologne International Videoart Festival, artvideoKOELN, The New Museum of Networked Art
and OFFizyna Szczecin & Szczecin 2016 Culture’s Observatory
PDF catalogue , the complete lists of programs can be found there.

12 May – Thursday – Opening

18h -19h special screening Cologne OFF VI Corporate I
19h -20h special selection Cologne OFF VI – “Corporate IT”

Corporate I – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Ayman Azraq (Palestine) –Passport, 2007, 6:30
Dellani Lima – Joacélio Batista (Br) – Bolivia, I miss you, 2009, 7:00
Jared Katsiane (USA) – Before War, 2010, 05:40
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) – 142-143 – 2010, 2:1
Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria) – [dis] connection – 2009, 1:58
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) – Space Drawing No. 5 – , 2009, 1:02
Marianne & Daniel O’Reilly (UK) – capital’, 2008, 7min
Denise Hood (USA) – Disconnect – 2009, 3:47
Irina Gabiani (Georgia) – Diachronicon – 2010, 1:00
Jack Brandtman (Australia) – Nightlife, 2010, 1:00
Doug Williams (USA) – Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42

13 May – Friday – 15h- -20h video art screenings

15h – 16h Germany curated by Agricola de Cologne /Poland curated by Antoni Karwowski
16h – 17h Russia curated by Vika Ilyushkina /Finland curated by Pekka Ruuska
17h – 18h Sweden curated by Jonas Nilsson/Eva Olsson / Norway curated by Margarida Paiva
18h – 19h Estonia curated by Raivo Kelomees/ / Iceland curated by Agricola de Cologne
19h – 20h Latvia curated by Dzintars Zilgalvis /Anders Weberg (videoartist of MAY 2011)

Iceland, Lithuania, Denmark
Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (Iceland) -Music in Cake, 2005, 03.23
Sally and Mo (Iceland) – Misty, 2009, 3:33
Neringa Naujokaite (Lithuania) – “Horizont”, 2010, 8:53
Tadas Tvarionas (Lithuania) – In Between ( ), 2010, 13:47
Signe Chiper-Lillemark (Denmark) – Spaces, 2010, 6 :31
Mia Degner (Denmark) – a city is a place to call home, 2009, 1:51

Projections/installations

1. Europe: Portugal – curated by Pedro Almeida, Sergio Gomes (Videolab Project)
2. Latin America: Mexico – Resistance & Burning Desire
3. Europe: Mediterranean: Spain: DVD project – curated by Maita Camacho & Mario Gutierrez Cru

Latin America: Mexico – Resistance & Burning Desire
Israel Aubert- 14::20, 2006, 7:00
Andres Villa – Barrios: La Raza Loca, 2004, 8:00
Maria Josée Cuevas – Lunch with daddy, 2006, 1:30
Lorena Rossette – Los nadies, 2004, 9:00
Javier de la Torre – Suennos Y Sustitutes, 2002, 12:00
Julio Alejandro Orta Villarreal – Elena in the Prison of Herself, 2006, 6:58
Priscilla Pomeroy – Pig’s Feet, 2007, 10:22

14 May – Saturday – 15h-20h screenings

15h – 16h Digitalis – aspects of digital video
16h – 17h Partner: Less-Time_Less –Videoart Festival Miden
17h – 18h Asia: Hongkong – curated by Alvis Choi and Ellen Pau
18h – 19h Figure it Out – performance in videoart
19h – 20h Europe: Austria curated by MACHFELD

19h – 20h Digitalis I – aspects of digital art

Dario Bardic (Croatia) – Etude, 3:17, 2007
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – A Dollhouse is…, 5:48, 2007
Rami Fischler (Australia) – Changing Man, 2:58, 2006
Nick Fox-Gieg (USA) – Disarmed, 2:42, 2005
Mihai Grecu (Romania) – Coagulate, 5:56, 2008
Alfonso Rodrigo (Spain) – Fashion Death, 4:51, 2008
Les Riches Douaniers (France) – 8:43, 2009
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) – The Care Bears – 2010, 3:00
Ocusonic aka Paul O Donoghue (Ireland) – Why Do You Have a Beard? – 2010, 6:02
Roland Quelven (France) – La Chambre de May D., 1:33, 2010
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday, 3:37, 2010
Rafael Alcala (Puerto Rico) – Smoked, 3:20, 2006
Sheldon Brown (USA) – Scalable City, 4.03, 2009
Robby Rackleff (USA) – Dark Fortress Occult Master of Space: Genesis Genesis, 2009, 3:00
Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Urban.early sunday morning raw, 4:50, 2007
Laurent Pernot (France) – Still Alives, 2:33, 2006

Projections/installations

1 Asia: Iran – Close to My Heart :. curated Alysse Stepanian (Iran/USA)
2 SFC – Shoah Film Collection (selection II)
3 Africa: Still Fighting curated by Kisito Assangni
South Africa: City Breath Festival curated by Kai Lossgott (RSA)

SFC – Shoah Film Collection (1)
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Memory Game, 2010, 8:00
Brian Delevie (USA) – Haggadah, 2007, 13:03
Alicia Felberbaum (UK) – Undressing Room, 2009, 4:30
Shon Kim (South Korea) – Latent Sorrow – 2006, 3:30
Branko Miliskovic (Serbia) – Detention Paradise, 2009, 7:40
Jay Needham (USA) – This is a Recording, 2009, 4:29
Doris Neidl (Austria) – If this is a Man, 2009, 5:09
Miri Nishri (Israel) – Troubled Water, 2007, 12:00
Cezary Ostrowski (Poland) – The Place, 2009, 5:08
Doron Polak & Uri Dushy (Israel) – RED (1), 2008, 7 Minutes
Nathania Rubin (USA) – My Girl Burn, 2009, 2:54 – Anne on Hades, 2009, 4:10 –
Jens Salander (Sweden) – The Colossus by the Sea, 2005, 10.00 –
Daveed Shwartz (Israel) – I saw a Mountain, 2009, 5:00
Anders Weberg (SWE) – Mamo, 2008, 2:30

In 2011, Szczecin is candidate for European Capital of Culture 2016. In this context – the art space OFFICYNA is working as “cultural observatory” hosting between 12 and 14 May CologneOFF 2011 – Baltic Sea – a coordinated event structure – taking place in May-June 2011 in Poland (Szczecin 12-14 May), Russia (St.Petersburg 19-21 May), Finland (Tampere 26-28 May) and Estonia (Tallinn 1-2 June) – presenting a comprehensive program of video art to be screened, projected and installed. In the end, Szczecin did not succeed, but Wroclaw (Poland) and San Sebastian (Spain) were elected as European Capitals of Culture.For the Baltic Sea event series a PDF catalogue has been released

Den Haag

The 12th May was also a relevant date for Wilfried’s participation in

Streaming Festival - The Hague

2006

The Streaming Festival – The Hague/Netherlands – – 9-12 May 2006
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne – House of Tomorrow, 2005, 3:10
The house of tomorrow is the house of one’s identity, it does not need to be a concrete house or building, but represents a secure and protected place where people can stand for what they are and represent, a human being. And this human may have many identities in different fields, the sexual identity represents only one among many others.

2007

*Steaming Festival The Hague/NL – 25-28 October 2007
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne – Morire Cuba, 2006, 4:00
Street scene in Havanna/Cuba. A real Cuban would die only on Cuba. Based on a traditional Cuban song.

2008

Streaming Festival The Hague/NL – 23-26 October 2008
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne – Hairdryer, 2008, 1:30
The hairdryer becomes a symbol for desire.

2009

Streaming Festival – The Geborgen Kamers – The Hague/NL – 15-17 April 2009
Wilfried Agriciola de Cologne – Truth- Paradise Found, 2004: 3:00
The video tells the story of the human desire to be as close to truth as possible. But who ever will succeed while living a life dominated by the fast running time and endless searching?
If there is any paradise, then monks or people really resting within themselves find a paradise close to truth close to GOD. But it is only truth people are believing in. Is there absolute truth?
The video consists of three sections, a spiritual and a physical section and the acting level, the artist who is filming the scene, an intruder who become witness of a ritual of truth.
This basic video was filmed in 2003 at the Rila Monastery, the spiritual centre of Bulgaria.

Actually an online festival, and its geographical location therefore does not really matter, the place Den Haag is in so far interesting, as Den Haag, differently than Rotterdam or Amsterdam, is generally not known as a home for moving images or new media. Wilfried is participating in the festival in 2006, 2007 and 2008. In 2009, Streaming Festival goes offline for the first time and organises a physical screening event at a local (Den Haag based) gallery “The Geborgen Kamers” – its activities are meanwhile discontinued, as well as Streaming Festival as a festival. Besides Wilfried, who had complemented his activities around video and new media by providing additional sources of information in shape of interviews (Interview Collection) or the artists database (AND), also Streaming Festival published interviews with the participating artists, and- so Wilfried did.