Cher Conseiller, FRAC Lorraine / La Première Rue, Briey

Cher Conseiller, 

(solo show)

FRAC Lorraine/La Première Rue

Cité Radieuse, Briey-en-Forêt, France

October 14 - january 29, 2012

Community without Propinquity, Milton Keynes, UK

Community without Propinquity 
Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Milton Keynes (UK)

October 7 - November 27, 2011

*propinquity (noun)
1 the state of being close to someone or something;
2 close kinship.

EXHIBITION: Paulo Catrica, Cao Fei, Nathan Coley, Jesal Kapadia, Vincent Meessen, Paul Noble, Pia Ronicke, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Stuart Whipps

VIDEO PROGRAMME: Amanda Beech, Bernd Behr, Cao Fei, Dominique Gonzales Foester, Cyprien Gaillard, Huang Xiaopeng, Minouk Lim, Corey McCorkle, Vincent Meessen, Pierre Huyghe, Pia Ronicke, Alain Tanner.

RESEARCH LAB COMMISSIONS: Caroline Devine, Emma Hedditch, Kelly Large, Emma Smith, Patrick Staff, Mark Aerial Waller, An Endless Supply.

'Community without Propinquity'* is a research lab and exhibition that investigates the concept of community in the context of New Towns. As part of the 'Community without Propinquity' lab there will be an exhibition and artists film programme, 5 new artists commissions made in Milton Keynes, a publication and public symposium. The project is curated by Claire Louise Staunton and Inheritance Projects with the MK Gallery.

An exhibition and artists film programme in the Project Space and Events Space will show artwork from other New Towns around the world including Chandigarh, Brasilia, Shenzhen, Nowa Huta and even cyber space. These works present a way of understanding the unique geographical, architectural and historical context of intentionally built cities on land where there was previously no significant population.

The 'Community without Propinquity' is part of a nomadic proposal for a group of curators, artists and writers to temporarily inhabit and articulate New Towns from an alienated position. With previous incarnations in Shenzhen (China), there are possible futures planned for Chandigarh, Brasilia and Almere.

Cher Conseiller, FRAC Lorraine extra muros, Briey-en-Forêt

Cher Conseiller,

FRAC Lorraine (extra muros) 

La Première Rue, Cité Radieuse, Briey-en-Forêt (France)

october 14, 2011 - january 30, 2012.

Walking The Hinterland, Argos Center, Brussels

Walking the Hinterland considers the ways in which contemporary art responds to geographical non-spaces, those ’suspended spaces’ within or bordering on delimited urban zones, through the work of eight artists for whom walking is also a creative act. Over the course of the late 20th century, ’hinterland’ (originating from the Middle High German ’hinter’, meaning ’beyond’) has gradually taken on a modified interpretation, no longer used in the strict geographical sense of land directly adjacent to and inland from a coast, or a region remote from urban areas. The word now embodies the idea of a place, an era or an aspect of life considered as lacking in spiritual, aesthetic or other humanising qualities; a vacuum; a cultural wasteland. Wastelands, ’zone blanches’ as described by Philippe Vasset in Un Livre blanc, (Editions Fayard, 2007) are areas that have been left white or uncoloured on maps. They are free zones, no man’s land – both politically and socially – streets of “sub-primed” houses, or quite simply suburbs of warehouses or mega shopping complexes surrounded by far larger asphalted spaces given over to parking. In the vein of contemporary literary flaneurs like Iain Sinclair or W.G. Sebald, the works presented are the audiovisual results of artists striding the underbelly of urban spaces around the world. Mapping, photographing, sketching, recording sound and images, performing, retracing their steps again and again in order to permeate themselves in these environments which, even if they often exude an air of desolation or hostility, are the essence of urban regeneration.In addition to the works presented in the exhibition, two Brussels-based artists Els Opsomer on October 30th and Mira Sanders on November 7th who are affiliated with the Argos Archive will lead walking tours through different parts of Brussels. 

• Antoine Boutet, 
  • Jordi Colomer, 
    • Peter Downsbrough, 
      • Redmond Entwistle, 
        • Jan Kopp, 
  • • • • • Vincent Meessen, 
            • Till Roeskens, 
              • Florin Tudor & 
                • Mona Vatamanu. 
  Curated by Brent Klinkum (Transat video)

Plateform3, Munich

Musing architecture
Film Programme
October 13, 2010, 7pm

The film programme Musing Architecture contemplates architectural structures. Four videos examine on architecture in relation to time, transience as well as the people inhabiting this architecture.


With the following works:


City of Progress, Justin Bennett, NL 2008-2010, 11'
Dear Adviser, Vincent Meessen, BE 2009, 8'
A Necessary Music, Beatrice Gibson, UK 2008, 28'
Os Candagos, Guillaume Linard Osorio, F 2010, 8'


Platform3 is a unique interdisciplinary cultural model for contemporary art based in 2000m2 of ex-warehouse in the South of Munich.

KW. Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berlin

Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale
KW. Institute for Contemporary Arts

Once again KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is focusing on contemporary films by international artists. For the third time—after the great success in 2006 and 2009—highlights of the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale are presented in Berlin. In Berlin the program from the 2009 Cologne biennale is supplemented by a selection of new films. Two stories of KW aredevoted to films by Doug Aitken, Mirosław Bałka, Bjørn Melhus, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Javier Téllez, as well as works by the younger generation including Keren Cytter, Adam Leech, Dani Gal, and Alex McQuilkin. On the third floor films are presented in thematic archive stations. A fifth station is dedicated to works from last year’s BILD-KUNST

Promotional Award for experimental film competition and the submissions by students of film schools and art academies. On the fourth floor the films can be seen on a large screen. The program also includes a number of evening events.

Participating artists:

Doug Aitken, Mirosław Bałka, Guy Ben-Ner, Anina Brisolla, Mircea Cantor, Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Omer Fast, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gal, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mihai Grecu, Claire Hooper, Sven Johne, Korpys/Löffler, Annika Larsson, Lars Laumann, Adam Leech, Cristóbal

León & Joaquín Cociña & Niles Atallah, Mark Lewis, Rä di Martino, Maix Mayer, Alex McQuilkin, Vincent Meessen, Bjørn Melhus, Deimantas Narkevičius, Kika Nicolela, Hans Op de Beeck, Nira Pereg, Reynold Reynolds, Magdalena von Rudy, Aïda Ruilova, Jani Ruscica, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Sam Taylor-Wood, Javier Téllez, Alexia Walther & Maxime Matray,

Clemens von Wedemeyer

KW

Auguststrasse 69

D-10117 Berlin

October 13-31, 2010.

video_dumbo, NYC

Video Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC

New contemporary video art screenings and installations
curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy

September 24 - 26, 2010

Participating Artists: Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Shaun Slifer, Torsten Zenas Burns, Douglas Fishbone, Pere Ginard & Laura Gines, Oliver Laric, Pilvi Takala, Gratuitous Art Films, Julie Casper Roth, Zbynek Baladrán, Estela Estupinyà-García, Arne Bunk, Vincent Meessen, Isabelle Hayeur, David Pierce, Maria Niro, Pavel Medvedev, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Penny Lane, Joseph Bennett, Ferhat Özgür, Christoph Schlingensief, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Avi Mograbi, Basma Alsharif, Aaron Oldenburg, Tamar Latzma, Theodore Tagholm, Tim Leyendekker, Redmond Entwistle, David Politzer, Melanie Crean, Pete Burkeet, Keith Sanborn, Bob Paris, Volker Schreiner, Ivan Faktor, Vivian Ostrovsky, Dave Griffiths, Julius Ziz, Emmanuelle Antille, Lena Maria Thuering, Gautam Kansara, Ken Jacobs, Sam Holden, Nicole Sloan, Jill Epstein, Axel Roessler, Base, Josh Weinstein, Allen Chen, Shelly Silver, Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, Christopher Udemezue, Melissa Potter, Erik Levine, Simon Mullan, Axel Petersén, Liz Rodda, Tomoko Inagaki, Toni Comas, Jonathan Cummin, Vianney Lambert, Magnus Bärtås, John Michael Boling, Wojciech Gilewicz, Jacob Tonski, François Vogel, Flatform, Peter Rose, Yorgos Taxiarchopolus, David Grainger, Leighton Pierce, Phyllis Baldino, Gerhard Funk, Ulrich Polster & Christine Scherrer.

Video Installations:

Marco Brambilla, Adam Leech, Hans Op De Beeck, Rimas Sakalauskas, Till Roeskens, Kristin Lucas, David Krippendorf, Lara Kohl and 0100101110101101.ORG

Live projector performances:

Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder (NY)
Alex MacKenzie (Vancouver).

DVD release:

40th anniversary of Experimental TV Center accompanied by a special program presented by Electronic Arts Intermix. Guest curated by Sherry Hocking, Kathy High and Rebecca Cleman.

Location: 112 Water Street (between Washington and Adams) DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

*Free Admission to all festival screenings

Transmediale video tour

Transmediale video tour

Athens Video Art Festival, Greece, 08 May 2010 MUV - music and digital art festival of Florence, Italy, 01 Jun 2010 Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, 18 Jun 2010 Mediaforum, Moscow, 22 Jun 2010

Goethe-Institut, Mexico City, 23 Jun 2010 San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 25 Jun 2010

MediaDepo project, Lviv, Ukraine, 23-29 Aug 2010

EMAF, Osnabruck (DE)

European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck (DE)

21-25 arpil, 2010.

The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of new experimental films, performances, lectures, an exhibition and the Media Campus.The frame of content of the festival is ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements.The motto of the 2010 festival is MASH UP, reflected in film programmes, lectures and specials.

transmediale.10, Berlin

Futurity is a concept that examines what the 'future' as a conditional and creative enterprise can be. At its heart lays the intricate need to counter political and economic turmoil with visionary futures. With FUTURITY NOW! transmediale.10 explores what roles internet evolution, global network practice, open source methodologies, sustainable design and mobile technology play in forming new cultural, ideological and political templates. transmediale.10 invites artists, scientists, media activists, thinkers and visionaries to ask not what the future has in store for us, but what do we have in store for the future?

transmediale.10 : Futurity Now !

House of World Cultures

Berlin

February 2-7, 2010

Fim & Video program

Curated by Marcel Schwierin

CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid

CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid

Participants to the event OFFMOSTOLES 09: PEGGY AHWESH, PIERRE BASTIEN, ALEX BRENDEMÜHL, CARLOS CASAS, LUIS CERVERÓ, CHRIS CHONG CHAN FUI, ANOUK DE CLERCQ, AITOR ECHEVERRÍA, FÉLIX FERNÁNDEZ, FRANCISCO FRANCO, BEATRICE GIBSON, STEPHEN GRAY, JOHN HEY, KAMMERFLIMMERKOLLEKTIEF, PABLO LAMAR, ADAM LEECH, VINCENT MEESSEN, MICHAEL MORLEY, JACCO OLIVIER, PEDRO ORTUÑO, MANUEL PADDING, ENRIQUE PIÑUEL, ELODIE PONG, MICHAEL ROBINSON, ROGELIO SASTRE, TADEO, MIKE TAMNEY, AGNÈS VARDA, CÉSAR VELASCO BROCA

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen

CPH : DOX , Copenhagen International Documentary Film

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is the largest documentary film festival in Scandinavia. Each year the festival fills the Copenhagen cinemas with a selection of more than 180 documentary films from around the world. During the ten festival days, CPH:DOX also presents five whole days of professional seminars and provides an international forum and meeting place with the newly founded DOX:FORUM.

In 2009 CPH:DOX runs from 6-15 Nov.

Screening in the DOX:FORUM section with Otolith Group (Argos program).

Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Germany

26th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, November 10 - 15, 2009

Impakt Festival, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

The 20th edition of Impakt festival will take place from October 14 through October 18 in Utrecht. For the Accelerated Living program, Impakt invited two guest curators : Stoffel Debuysere and Maria Palacios. Their program include works by Bruce Conner, Dryden Goodwin, Philip Hoffman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Kurt Kren, Michel Pavlou and many more.

Next to the thematic program of Accelerated Living, the Festival features the annual panorama program which provides an annual overview of contemporary cutting edge film and video art. It includes new works by artits and filmakers such as Doug Fishbone, Steve Reinke, Manuel Sainz, Björn Melhus, Vincent Meessen, Yves Netzhammer, Erkka Nissinen,...

KunsFilmBiennale, Köln/Bonn

As a unique combination of exhibition and festival, presenting short and feature-length, experimental and narrative film, the Cologne-based KunstFilmBiennale has since 2002 systematically been exploring the borders between art and cinema. From October 28 to November 1, 2009, The KunstFilmBiennale will once again offer an overview of what is currently happening with film in art and art in film - in movie thetares, galleries and museums in Cologne and Bonn.

Participing artists : Doug Aitken, Eija-Liisa Athila, Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Bruno Dumont, Omer Fast, Adam Leech, Mark Lewis, Vincent Meessen, Samuel Maoz, Deimantas Narkevicius, Bjorn Melhus, Sarah Morris, Sam Taylor-Wood, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Javier Tellez, Clemens von Wedemeyer,...

Venues in Cologne : Filmforum im MuseumLudwig, CINEDOM, Filmpalette

Venues in Bonn : Kunstmuseum Bonn

Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria)

Argos is one of the eight European media art archives and collections that is networked within the GAMA portal (Gateway to Archives of Media Art). As such, this provides a common online research platform and an improved access to media art. On the occasion of the launch of www.gama-gateway.eu at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, highlights from the archive collections are being screened. Argos’ director Paul Willemsen compiled for the occasion works relating to the programme theme Psychogeographies. The term psychogeography refers to the architectural or geographical surroundings and the way that these relate to perception and mental experience. A psychogeographical analysis starts from the exposure of relationships, relating a genuine, material environment to an imaginary or potential environment. Each work investigates questions of: documentary versus fiction, private versus public, and the real versus the imagined.

Psychogeographies

Brucknerhaus, September 5 - 8, 2009

A Necessary Music. Beatrice Gibson, 2008, 29'09", video, colour, English spoken.

N12°13.062'/ W 001°32.619' Extended. Vincent Meessen, 2005, video, colour, 8'25", sound.

What I'm Looking For. Shelly Silver, 2004, video, colour, 15'00", English spoken.

Dear Adviser. Vincent Meessen, 2008, video, colour, 8'00", English spoken.

Inch'Allah. Ria Pacquée, 2005, video, colour, 18'40", English spoken.