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Roland Quelven
Videoartist of the Month August 2020
Videoartist of the Month August 2020
Roland Quelven
Roland Quelven entered Wilfried’s videoart cosmos in 2010, so in 2020 10 years collaboration in the field of art can be celebrated – a very long time. Wilfried is remembering when Roland’s first submission arrived, he recognized immediately his special artistic talent in creating real audio-visual works. Many videoartists do not pay much attention to the audio component, many others see audio as necessary evil, but a minority tries to touch more than the visual sense. The visual components – a collage of different kind of footage, often other artists, for instance, the video- and performance artist Isabel Perez del Pulgar contributed – are very filigree – and Wilfried recognized immediately the problem to screen such fragile HD components in the usual screening quality at that time – DVD. And nearly this fact had been a reason, why Wilfried was about the decline the submission, luckily he didn’t, and gave these complex creations a chance – and after some time HD became the video standard and suddenly the bright beauty of Roland’s videos could be presented to a wider audience. Roland belongs to those rare cases, that Wilfried could accompany the artistic developments during many years – when Wilfried released a new project mostly also a new video by Roland Quelven was included – dealing in a very delicate way with the filigree textures and subtle coloration. So, after the past 10 years of walking on common paths in the field of moving images – and holding 11 videos in total in his hand, Wilfried was thinking, now it’s the right time to honour Roland Quelven as the Videoartist of The Month August 2020 and present these videos to the festival audience for the first time in this constellation!
Hurray! And much success!
streaming
Audio: David Lang performed live & the number-counting-song from the opening of Drowning by numbers by Peter Greenaway & other additionnal voices.
Napolecitta’s project: combinations of numbers, maps, writings, paintings and masterpieces of Art history digitally assembled and devoted to an encyclopaedical world named Napolecitta. All this seen through the prism of the Detail, whether iconic or pictorial, it produces the same effect: invite to travel inside.
An eight minutes video where Etienne-Jules Marey meets Carl Theodor Dreyer.
Music by Sofia Koubli – In Paradisum , for Large Ensemble
Catharsis describes the result of measures taken to cleanse away blood-guilt, “blood is purified through blood” Walter Burkert.
Selection of Cologne One minute Film Festival. comf.newmediafest.org/
Screenings /
– CologneOFF 2012 Mexico – 18 & 19 October 2012@ Ex Teresa Arte Actual
Museum of experimental Art Mexico City exteresa.bellasartes.gob.mx/
– Madatac -Muestra de Arte Digital Audiovisial Contemporeano
11 December 2012 – Madrid – madatac.es/
– CologneOFF 2013 India – 22-24 february 2013 @ Carnival of e-creativity
Sattal Estate- Bhimtal-Uttakharand-India carnival-of-ecreativity.com/cec-2013/screenings/
Video / Isabel Perez Del Pulgar & Roland Quelven.
Sound / Roland Quelven
הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים הַכֹּל הָֽבֶל
Collaboration with Isabel Pérez del Pulgar.
“Video Detail Footage” from Faust by Murnau.
“According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring”. Williams Carlos Williams
Voice / Melancholy Maaret reading the poem Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams.
More oniric dynamite on Secretsaunasirens* soundcloud.com/secretsaunasirens.
VideoAndSound / Roland Quelven.
Selection of Fiva II International Video Festival – ΙΚΑΡΟΣ The Fall has obtained a Mention in the second edition of FIVA –
… A dream buried in our collective memory…
Video selected for Activa’ 2013 international sound-videoArt created by Jaime Rodriguez
galeriatexu.com/ACTIVA/2013/ACTIVA-2013.htm
Galeria Texu – 22 february to 22 March 2013 – Oviedo – Spain.
CologneOFF 2013 Lithuania – A Virtual Memorial Vilnius 2013
coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=3725
@ JCIC Vilnius & Kedainiai Regional Museum
23 September – 29 October 2013
Audio by Jared Blum
gigantesound.com/
Video by Roland Quelven
A Death Fugue to 50°02’N – 19°10’E (Auschwitz-Birkenau coordinates).
“Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.” Primo levi.
Voice / Paul Celan reading Todesfuge.
Music / Tania Giannouli
Video / Roland Quelven
Eric B. is for Eric Arthur Blair known by his pen name Georges Orwell.
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Georges Orwell from his novel 1984.
Voices / Baghdad airstrikes transcript
Music / Emmanuel Clédic
Footage / Free Prelinger Archives & Wikileaks
Video / Roland Quelven
Moving polaroids as a non narrative accumulation-collection of informations held in collective memories.
FOOTAGE / Prelinger free archive – Images recorded in Brittany by Isabel Pérez del Pulgar and Roland Quelven.
AUDIO / Sounds from Soundcities database
VIDEO / Roland Quelven
Хари | Harey, the female character ( of the novel Solaris by S. Lem) who committed suicide with Kelvin, returns as his visitor at Solaris station . The “second”
Хари | Harey becomes aware of her transient nature and is haunted by being Solaris’s means-to-an-end, affecting Kelvin in unexplored ways.
“I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained”
from the novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem.
– Хари T E X T S –
Excerpts from the novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem.
Poem by Arseni Tarkovski.
– Хари V O I C E –
Melancholy Maaret.
– Хари P E R F O R M A N C E –
Isabel Pérez del Pulgar.
– Хари F O O T A G E –
Free Prelinger Archives.
Images recorded in Andalusia and in Brittany by Isabel Pérez del Pulgar & Roland Quelven.
– Хари V I D E O & S O U N D –
Roland Quelven
S Y N O P S I S
A work made under Covid Vibes .. dystopian reality..La peau des murs..
Thinking of Italy abandoned by its European neighbors..
C R E D I T S
Video / Roland Quelven
Sound / Roland Quelven
Footage / Night of the living dead ( prelinger free archives)
