C.A.R.M.A.
Centro d’Arti e Ricerche Multimediali Applicate
presents
Arte Video Roma Festival 2011
Art against mediacracy
International exhibition of visual arts
by Le Momo Electronique curatorial group
Roma, October 21-22-23, 2011
6:30 to 11:00 pm
Cinema Teatro Volturno occupato
Volturno Cinema and Theater squatted space
From Friday 21 to Sunday 23 October 2011 Arte Video Roma Festival opens at Cinema Volturno. The event organized by C.A.R.M.A -Centro d’Arti e Ricerche Multimediali Applicate-, once again brings in the capital an influential selection of the international most recent production of digital audiovisual arts: eleven works selected by the curatorial team Le Momo Electronique among those submitted in response to the open call launched in spring, will be accompanied, as always, by a series of works from three of the most prestigious realities in the field of international video art.
During the three days the Festival will offer on Volturno cinema screen the best of COLOGNE OFF 2010 (one of the biggest festivals on today global panorama) by Wilfred Agricola, a selection from IMAGES PASSAGES, the association led by Annie Aguettaz that for over a decade has been dealing with art videos, and a video anthology proposed by VISUAL CONTAINER (the first Italian distributor of video art) by Alessandra Arnò and Giorgio Fedeli.
Audience will be offered a detailed perspective of what the organizers consider as “the state of the art” of this form of expression that is considered of highest relevance in the history of art of this beginning of century.
New works by three international artists will be presented out of competition: Rome by Theo Eshetu (England / Italy), Fear, Defense, Disapparence by Isabel Rocamora (Spain / England) and a small anthology of works by Lino Strangis (Italy), produced between 2010 and 2011.
As always, an influential jury will be invited to select among the works submitted for C.A.R.M.A. award (Produced by 3D Artist Roberto Liberati). The jury includes some of the greatest Italian experts, like Marco Maria Gazzano and Lorenzo Taiuti, and will also award some honorable mentions.
To enrich the value of the event, the foyer will host an interactive installation created by PATCHWORK group and a screening point set up with the screens of Ricicli catodici project and dedicated to the works of Strangis, Rocamora and Eshetu.
The three evenings will be closed by multimedia performative actions from ACT THEATER PROJECT and PATCHWORK.
Of great importance is the choice of CARMA to host the Festival at Cinema Volturno. It is meant as a form of protest against the state of culture in Italy and then against “the intent of this government to carry out a gradual marginalization of contemporary culture in our country. [...] For these reasons -as organizers state- we decided to bring our biggest event to the squatted location of Volturno occupato, as we consider necessary to express our disagreement by adhering to its project of reappropriation of spaces for cultural purposes in our cities. For us, Volturno and the experience of the guys who work daily for its return to culture, rather than turning it into another bingo hall, is a true symbol of resistance from the streets, in the heart of the city. ” At the opening Lino Strangis (creator of the action) and other artists, will symbolically mark with paint on the street the shortest path between Volturno and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (from Via Volturno n.37 to Via 20 Settembre n.97) in order to “emphasize the need for a political project to revive the fortunes of cultural production that has made our country famous throughout the world and that today is amongst the worst international examples regarding grant and protection of a sector so vital for the quality of life and absolutely strategic. “
11 artists in competition:
Cosimo Cappagli, Piero Chiariello, Guglielmo Emmolo, Harvey Goldman, Mattias Harenstam, Igor Imhoff, Salvatore Insana, Maria Korporal, Petri Paselli, Mario Raoli, Ingeborg Stana.
International video art selections from:
VISUALCONTAINER by Alessandra Arnò and Giorgio Fedeli
IMAGE PASSAGES by Annie Aguettaz
COLOGNE OFF by Wilfred Agricola de Cologne
Presentation of works out of competition:
Theo Eshetu, Isabel Rocamora and Lino Strangis
“Arte Video Roma Festival”: Friday 21 – Saturday 22 – Sunday 23 October, 2011
Opening hours: 6:30 to 11:00 pm
C.A.R.M.A.- Centro d’Arti e Ricerche Multimediali Applicate
Cinema Teatro occupato Volturno, via Volturno n°37, Roma
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Arte Video Roma Festival 2011
Screening program
Friday, October 21
18:30 Vernissage
19:15 C.A.R.M.A. Selection
20: 00 IMAGES PASSAGES
21:25 Theo Eshetu : “Roma”
22:30 C.A.R.M.A. Selection
Saturday, October 22
18:30 C.A.R.M.A. Selection
19: 20 COLOGNE OFF
20:20 VISUALCONTAINER
21: 30 Isabel Rocamora : “Fear, defence, disappearance”
21:40 IMAGE PASSAGES
23:00 Afterscreening event (Act Theatre performance + vj/dj set)
Sunday, October 23
18:30 C.A.R.M.A. Selection
19:30 VISUALCONTAINER
20: 40 “PREMIO C.A.R.M.A.” and honorable mentions award
21:00 Award-winning video screening
21: 20 COLOGNE OFF
22:20 Lino Strangis : “Odyssey in the sense”, “Battle plays in her mind”, “Multidimensional run”, “The critical mass movement”
22 :45 Afterscreening event (Act Theatre performance)
CologneOFF 2011 Rome
@ Arte Video Roma Festival 2011
presenting the screenings program
CologneOFF VII – Art & the City: Mirrors
This selection includes videos from the 7th CologneOFF festival edition
which was launched in in September 2011 in Beirut-Budapest-Riga.
“Art & the City” – is the title of a series of selections dealing with the urban context
and how artists reflect and experience it -
as a machine producing continuously memory, as a mysterious, frightening,
absurd, creative or hopeless environment -
once initiated now endlessly looping like a perpetuum mobile.
1. Ramon Suau Lleal (Spain) – Hoax, 4’23”, 2010
2. Marko Batista (Slovenia) – The Machine of Memory, 1’29”, 2008
3. Matthias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 3’01”, 2011
4. Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Leap of Faith, 3’02”, 2010
5. Johanna Reich (Germany) – A State of Crystal, 3’19”, 2010
6. Sarah Mock (Germany) – Is there a way out, 3’47”, 2011
7. Albert Merino Gomez (Spain) – The City and The Other, 3’09”, 2010
8. Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in The Desert, 5’05”, 2010
9. Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva (Ukraine) – The 7th of November, 3’36”, 2009
10. Ana Brotas (Portugal) – Okupa, 2’14”, 2009
11. Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Amora, 2’26”, 2011
12. Liu Wei (China) – Hopeless Land, 2009
13. Andrew Fedak (USA) – Orange County Surreality, 3’00”, 2011
14. My Name is Scot (Canada) – Independance, 7’57”, 2011
15. Tim Stokes (UK) – Untitled, 2’00”, 2011
Visualcontainer
presenting the screenings program :
1. Enrico Bressan - Exercise#49, 3’25”, 2010
2. Barbara Brugola - Wrapped love, 2010
3. Anita Calà Testarossa – Uomini e donne, 4′ 30″, 2009
4. Iginio De Luca - Convention, 1’19”, 2010
5. Global Groove - Paik or Paik, 4’00″, 2009
6. Salvatore Insana - Varchi, 4’28”, 2010
7. Maria Korporal – A midwinter’s night dream, 3’37”, 2010
8. Luca Christian Mander – Notturno, 2’52″, 2010
9. Albert Merino – The trace of salt, 7’37”, 2010
10. Marzia Moretti - Azione sovversiva minima 3, 1’07”, 2009
11. Natalia Saurin - Contemplazione, 3’32″, 2010
C.A.R.M.A. Selection
11 artists in competition:
1. Cosimo Cappagli – Release, 2’56”, 2009
2. Piero Chiariello – Camminare su una spiaggia abruzzese (10 linee orizzontali), 1’06”, 2011
3. Guglielmo Emmolo – Caos Phaos, 3’20”, 2011
4. Harvey Goldman – Sabinium, 8’50”, 2007
5. Mattias Harenstam – Closed circuit (In the middle of Sweden), 3’01”, 2011
6. Igor Imhoff - Small white dots, 4’20”, 2011
7. Salvatore Insana - In origine, 6’10”, 2010
8. Maria Korporal – Averginos e Poulia, 7′, 2011
9. Petri Paselli – Giochi a carica, 5’26”, 2011
10. Mario Raoli – RGB, 6’35”, 2010
11. Ingeborg Stana – Lost in the woods, 3’42”, 2011
Images Passages
Presenting the screenings program :
1. Laurent Pernot - Life’s Attraction, 3’16″
2. Jean Gabriel Periot - L’art delicat de la matraque, 3’55”
3. Eric Valette - Romance, 2003, 5′ 23”
4. David Jouin – Experience choregraphique,2’25” circa
5. Sebastien Caillat – Histoire sans gravitè, 13’43”
6. Frederic Nakache – Interludes Romantiques, 3”, 2007
7. Adrienne Alcover – Riccetto, 5”
8. Pascal Lievre – Belli dancer, 2010, 3’34”
9. Clorinde Durand - Naufrage, 6’07”
10. Philippe Chatelain – Apnea, 15’03”
