Festival Côté Court, Seine Saint-Denis/Pantin (F)

11th Festival Côté Court, 10-20 june 2009, Seine Saint-Denis, Pantin (in the Paris periphery) (F)

Screening on Thursday 11 june 2009 ,"Ce qui travaille" a film program compiled by Oliver Marboeuf (Khiasma) with films by Francis Alÿs, Vincent Mauger, Gregg Smith, Boris du Boullay  & Till Roeskens.

Loop Festival, Barcelona

Loop Festival 2009, Festival Centre, Barcelona (ES), 30 may 2009.

Program by Argos Center for Art & Media

Biennale WRO 09, Wroclaw (PL)

Lost Nation, a mental journey trhough the US Biennale WRO 09, WRO center for Media Art, Wroclaw (PL), 5-10 may 2009.

with films by Johan Grimonprez, Peter Downsbrough, Adam Leech, Steve Reinke,...

America concerns us: with its dominant, audiovisual culture, its influential film and music industries, it has successfully invaded our imagination. Reaching a point of utter saturation, we may feel the need to take some distance from its invasive role-models. Argos Centre for Arts and Media’s proposal is to search for a different picture of contemporary America: Combining artistic viewpoints from within America (Steve Reinke, Shelly Silver) with those emanating from other countries (Vincent Meessen, Johan Grimonprez, Beatrice Gibson), this programme, conceived as a filmic journey, aims at transmitting a balanced, yet necessarily subjective and fragmented picture of today’s America. Starting our trip on the periphery, in so-called “Small town America” (Vincent Meessen), where villages like “Lost Nation” (Johan Grimonprez), literally lie in the middle of nowhere, we encounter wealthy Suburbia’s inhabitants and their obsession with privacy and security (Adam Leech), before reaching the throbbing heart of New York, Times Square (Peter Downsbrough); we experience surveillance (Shelly Silver) as a key element in a city where the memory of the 2001 terror attacks is still vivid, before visiting the protected, utopian community of Roosevelt Island (Beatrice Gibson), which houses one of the cities most visible, yet little-known modernist social housing projects. Souvenirs of things seen and heard in and about America (Steve Reinke) round off the picture as the journey comes to an end. Taking us back to Europe, the situation is finally inverted, showing us the difficulties Americans are confronted with when moving to Europe (Vincent Meessen/ Adam Leech) (source : Argos)

55th Oberhausen Short Film Festival (DE)

Screening during the 55th Oberhausen Festival (DE) , 4 may 2009.

Program by Argos Center for Art & Media.

Along with other international distributors Argos benefits from a one-hour showcase during the International Oberhausen Short Film Festival. This year, the selection includes works by Adam Leech, Herman Asselberghs, Vincent Meessen, Beatrice Gibson and Steve Reinke. 

Le Cinématographe, Nantes (F)

Reconstructions, Le Cinématographe, Nantes (F), 20 april 2009.

with fims by Anri Sala, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Johan van der Keuken,...

Toute construction intègre une dimension d'ordre social. Un Homme a besoin d'un toit pour se construire et participer à la vie collective. La construction est un besoin matériel, doublé d'un enjeu politique dans la mesure où le pouvoir politique légifère, taxe et subventionne la construction autant que la reconstruction, car rien n'est définitif en la matière.

Dans cette sélection de films d'artistes - qu'il soit documenté, fictif, poétique voir burlesque - nous verrons ainsi en filigrane s'installer une diversité d'approche de phénomènes singuliers de l'urbanisation, traitant de cette construction/reconstruction, pouvant entraîner la destructuration sociale dans son jeu de va et vient ou inversement une restructuration heureuse des liens humains.

N12°13.62’/W 001°32.619’ Extended 

de Vincent Meessen, Belgique, 2005, 8'

De par ses coordonnées GPS, le film situe de façon à la fois précise et abstraite un espace en Afrique. En suivant deux hommes qui parcourent cet espace, nous découvrons un site qui a toute les apparences d'une ruine. Mais les images font apparaître ce site comme le fruit du travail de deux ouvriers.

White Building 

de Jean-Luc Vilmouth, France, 2006, 30'

The White Building est réalisé à partir d’un bâtiment de Phnom Penh conçu par l'architecte local Van Molyvann sur le modèle d'habitat moderne de Le Corbusier : une variante cambodgienne de la Cité Radieuse que ses habitants ont radicalement modifiée.

Le Mur 

de Johan van der Keuken (1973) 9’ 

Par un matin brumeux, les habitants d’un quartier se rassemblent pour exécuter ensemble une gigantesque fresque sur le mur d’une ruelle. Ils protestent contre un urbanisme qui remplace leurs immeubles par des buildings commerciaux .

Un jour, 

de Séverine Hubard  2007

Vidéo, 6min

Une maison prend la fuite et déambule à pied dans le paysage.

Dammi i colori 

De Anri Sala, Albanie - 2003 - 15 mn 24 s 

L'artiste filme les transformations de sa ville natale Tirana. Ou l'histoire incroyable d'un peintre devenu maire et qui fait le pari fou de la couleur comme réhabilitation du désir de vivre ensemble. 

Faire le mur

De Bertille Bak, 17mn, Video BetaSp production Le Fresnoy, 2008.

Les habitants d'un village du Pas-de-Calais s'organisent face à la restructuration de leur habitat.

Courtisane Festival, Gent (B)

Courtisane Festival, Film, video & media art , Gent (B), 23-26 april 2009. 

Screening on 26 april at Sphinx Cinema, Gent.

Frame, Helsinki (Fin)

Psychogeographies, Frame, Project Room, Helsinki, (Fi), 24 april 2009

Program compiled by Paul Willemsen (Argos) with films by Shelly Silver, Beatrice Gibson, Ria Pacquée.

Cinémathèque Française, Paris

Cinémathèque Française, Paris (F) , 27 april 2009

with films by Laurent Achard, Ben Russell, Philippe Katerine,...

Cabinet Jurino / Potential Estate

Exhibition views, Cabinet Jurino/Potential Estate , MuHKA extra muroas at KMSKA, Antwerp, 27 march- 10 september 2009.

An ongoing project taking place inside the Passing Through Pavilion by Joe Scanlan including works by Jimmie Durham from teh MuHKA collection.

Argos Center for Art & Media

Dear Adviser, Argos Center for Art & Media, Blackbox, Brussel (B) 5-16 may 2009

Can Chandigarh, the paragon of the modernist city, escape from its faith as a living museum? Can this city survive the preservation of the universal modernist fable? In the only city designed by Le Corbusier, the political complex of the Capitol is much more than scenery. The Capitol itself is the "camera". The buildings that represent the different powers keep a constant eye on each other. They channel the visitor’s movements and constantly observe him from above. The Capitol as phantasm of political power, is here nothing more than a place where the black deathsuit of modernism haunts. In this unfinished city, a few shadowy characters –a spectral silhouette, voices, sounds- rewrite a fable loved by the architect about the Raven that Wants to Imitate the Eagle. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, also known as Le Corbusier, is invited to confront his double personality. He is less alone then he used to be while he was alive. Now he is called upon by his haunted images and by the contradictions of modernism. "Dear Adviser" is  a poetic “address” to the architect and the in Chandigarh superstitiously as “adviser” disguised legislator. 

PAST - Selected Exhibitions, screenings etc

Vincent Meessen (US/BE)

(* denotes exhibition)

RECENT PRESENTATIONS (selection)

SOLO PRESENTATIONS

2010

Argos center for at & media (artist focus), Brussels

Autograph ABP, London

2009

Argos center for art & media (black box), Brussels

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) [with Susanne Kriemann] *

 

2008

Egmont's Palace, Brussels (public commission), Foreign Affairs

2007

Art Brussels

Beursschouwburg, Brussels *

Argos center for art & media (black box), Brussels

2006

STUK, Leuven (BE) *

GROUP PRESENTATIONS

2010

Argos center for art& media, Hinterland/Open Archive #02 *

KW Berlin, Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale

Argos center for art & media (extra muros), Cabinet Bald Eagle/ Potential Estate *

Transmediale on tour (Mexico, 

PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE), Free Falling

39th IFFR Rotterdarm, Break Even Store

Transmediale 10, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Futurity now!

CEAC, Xiamen, China, Backsourcing/Video Lounge *

2009

IDFA, Amsterdam, Paradocs

CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Offmostoles

Center for Contemporary Art, Celje (SLO), Splav Meduze *

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen

SMBA/Montevideo, Amsterdam, Africa Reflected

KunstfilmBiennale, Köln/Bonn (D)

Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (NL), Unknown Territory *

Contour Biennale for Moving Images, Mechelen (B) *

Loop Festival, Barcelona

WRO Biennale 09, Wroclaw(PL)

Frame, Helsinki (Fin)

M HKA extra muros, Antwerp, Cabinet Jurino / Potential Estate *

Transmediale 09, Berlin

Cinéma du Réel, Centre Pompidou/MK2 Beaubourg, Paris

Argos Open Lounge, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (DE) *

2008

L'Alternativa, Barcelona, CCCB (ES)

Brussels Biennial, Cabinet Anciaux/Potential Estate *

Musée du Jeu de Paume, Palais de Tokyo, Les Laboratoires...Hospitalités, touring program in 28 art centers in Paris & Ile de France (F)

Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,Berlin (DE)

Error #9/Extra City, Antwerp, Shadow Cabinet (three rendezvous) *

Videoex, Zürich (CH)

Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum, Bonn (DE)

LOOP video art fair & festival, Barcelona (ES)

e-flux video rental, Fundaçao Gulbenkian, Lisbon (P) *

Montevideo/Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (NL), Temporary States *

Fairplay Film & Video Award, Lugano (CH)

5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, (TH)

Cabinet Wally Hope/Potential Estate, Antwerp *

FORDE , Black Movie Festival, Genève (CH), Politique de la vision *

Momenta Art, New York (US) 

International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Genius Loci

2007

Mostra Invideo, Milano (IT), Clinamen Cinema

MUSEION @ Filmclub, Bolzano (IT)

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Cine y casi Cine

Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris (F)

IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Paradocs

Argos center for art & media, Brussels, Open Archive #01

Error # 7, Antwerp, Just a Movie for Godsake *

e-flux video rental, Lyon Biennial (F) *

Fair Play 2007, film & video award, Berlin (DE)

Musée des Beaux Arts, Grenoble (F), De leur temps (2) *

Netwerk, Aalst (BE), Cabinet Reclus/Potential Estate *

Witte Zaal, Gent, Elusive Cities *

Swiss Institue, New York (US), Movies Without Pictures,

Oberhausen International Festival (DE)

Oberhausen on tour (Europe) Berlin- Bucharest- Istanbul- Torino- Münster- Leipzig- Karlsruhe- Bremen-Utrecht-Potsdam- Zielona Góra - Nürnberg- Frankfurt- Rotterdam- Paris- München- Regensburg- London.

Image Forum Festival, Tokyo,Yokohama & Kyoto (JP), Critical distance

EMAF European Media Art festival), Osnabrück (DE)

Transmediale 07, Berlin (DE)

IFFR / International Film Festival, Rotterdam

Momenta Art, New York, Weak Foundations *

e-flux video rental (NY & touring)

MARTa, Herford (DE), Leere X Vision : ConneXions *

2006

Videomedeja, Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad (SEB)

EntreVues International film festival, Belfort (F)

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, (CZ)

Cinémathèque Française, Paris (FR), Archéologie d'un territoire

Botanical Gardens, Meise (BE), Breughel Revisited *

STUK, Leuven (B), Cabinet Jacotot/Potential Estate *

Borderline Festival, Bejing (CHI)

Oberhausen International Film Festival (DE)

Art Brussels, Psychogeograhies

Courtisane Festival, Gent

ZOne, Documentair Filmplatform, MuHKA_media /Buda/Film Pateau, Antwerp/Kortrijk/Gent (BE)

CURATED PROGRAMS & EXHIBITIONS

CEAC, Xiamen, China, Backsourcing (screening) *

Extra City, Antwerp, Shadow Cabinet (3 rendezvous) (exhibition) *

Argos center for art & media, Brussels, Out of Place I (exhibition) *

Cinema Museum, Brussels, Out of Place II (screening)

BAK, Concerning Knowledge Production (screening)

e-flux festival @ Extra City, Antwerp, Cosmopolitical Bodies (screening)

UTIL, Brussels (5 exhibitions 2002-2006) *

LECTURES-TALKS-ARTIST PRESENTATIONS

2010

KASK / Intern.Film festival Gent/Vooruit , Gent

Autograph ABP, London

CA2M, Madrid

2009

E.R.G., Brussels

R.I.T.S/K.A.S.K/V.U.B, Brussels, The document as performance/ The performance as a document

2008

Film Plateau, Gent, Video Out of Joint

E.N.S.A.V La Cambre, Brussels

2007

M HKA _media, Antwerp, Video guest

Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Word of Nearness / Studium Generale

2006

Argos tuesday's, artist talk with Corinne Diserens

BAK, Utrecht (NL), Concerning "Knowledge Production"