BRAZIL: RECENT ARTIST VIDEOS

BRAZIL: RECENT ARTIST VIDEOS curator: KIKA NICOLELA total running time: 73 min.

This program is comprised by a selection of 15 videos made during the past two years, by relevant Brazilian artists of various generations and regions.

Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker and indepedent curator. Her works include single-channel videos, installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Kika Nicolela was the recipient of several grants and has participated of nearly 100 solo and collective exhibitions in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK and US. Her videos have been screened and awarded in festivals of more than 30 countries, such as: Kunst Film Biennale, Oberhausen International Short Filme Festival, Japan Media Arts Festival, Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival, International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil and Bilbao International Short Film Festival. Since 2008, Kika Nicolela also curates and coordinates the Exquisite Corpse Video Project, an ongoing collaborative series of videos that involves more than 70 artists from 25 countries. In 2010, she was selected for the Rondo Studio (Austria), Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation (Germany), Gyeonggi Creation Center (South Korea) and the Casa das Caldeiras (Brazil) residency programs. In 2011, she will be artist-in-residence at Route Fabrik (Switzerland). The artist is represented by DConcept, a São Paulo based art gallery, and Vtape, a Toronto based videoart distributer. More info on www.dilemastudio.com.

MEETING Raquel Kogan 2010, Brazil, 01:03min Casual meeting at a street. Raquel Kogan is graduated in Architecture. Prize-winning in Rumos Transmídia 2002 with reflection#1.The investigation on interaction continuous with projection, 401, self-portrait1, occupation#1, Reflection#2 in kinetic_digital and, and reflection#3 at art@outsiders in Paris and Memories of the Future at Itaú Cultural. The video BMG8970 is selected for the 15™ VideoBrasil, Rencontre Internacionales Paris/Berlin and at the 7™Manifestation Internacionale Vidéo et Art Életronique in Montreal, and at Mostravídeo, as well as the video prohibited reproduction. Exhibited the object rever at Centro Cultural da Espanha in Montevideu; mov_ing in Transitio Festival Mexico and at the exhibition Crtl V+Crtl C in Sesc Pompéia. Wins the prize Cibernetic Rumos and File Prix Lux with reler.

ALMOST CONCRETE Renata Padovan 03:30min, Brazil, 2010 Almost Concrete is a reference to the abstract character of the city of São Paulo, that for its immensity cannot be perceived as a whole. Cartesian coordinates data although precise, become meaningless, mere numbers. Renata Padovan is a Brazilian artist living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated with a BA degree in Social Communications from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo, later followed by an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, 2001. She has participated in several ‘artist in residence’ programmes such as NES at Skagaströnd, Iceland; the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada; Nagasawa Art Park in Japan, and Braziers international artists workshop in the UK. Her work has been widely exhibited both in Brazil and abroad. The artist is represented by Baró Galeria in São Paulo.

THE DAY IS WHERE WE LIVE Felipe Barros 04:05min, US/BRAZIL, 2010 I always loved being born. I always loved to die. Graduated in Visual Arts, in Santa Marcelina University, Felipe Barros began his works in 2005. For him, video art is a tool for his research about memory, time and identity. Since then, his work involves materials like old family films, which he subverts, creating a new narrative. He also uses old photographs, subjecting them to the physical conditions of wear, such as immersion in corrosive or freezing in blocks of ice, dealing with the issue of the disappearance of memory. Another aspect of his work involves the possibilities of digital imaging. Felipe Barros uses these resources to create new narratives and filmic realities that deal from the urban landscape the passage of time.

TWO Juliana Mundim 04:09min, Brazil, 2010 Music Video for song Dois by singer Tiê, that deals with feeling and explosions of falling in love and the baggage you have to carry when that happens - or not. Juliana Mundim is an artist and filmmaker who lives between São Paulo and New York, eventually spending months traveling the world making videos, drawings and photos. Her works have been shown in Germany, USA, Brazil, Japan, among others. Wepage: julianamundim.com

ANOTHER TIME SAME TIME Angella Conte 04:19min, Brazil, 2010 This is a video with images recorded in the daily working environment of the artist. It is captured day by day scenes, these same scenes are after projected, in this same environment another day during the artist’ work. New images are captured mixing them becoming one. At the same time the real and virtual. Angella Conte Brazilian is an artist who lives and works in São Paulo. She is a self-taught artist with a degree in psychology from the University San Marcos, followed by numerous courses in art and photography. Angella works time issues, memory, individual and loneliness in different media like photography, object, installation, intervention, and video. She has works in public and private collections. Her works have been exhibited in national and international institutions such as MAM Bahia, MAC-USP, MARP- Ribeirao Preto, MAC-Paraná and Jataí Museum Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Portugal, Cordoba, Badajoz and Madrid-Spain, Perm, Russia, Ireland , Mexico and Cuba. She has participated in artist residencies in Portugal and Leitrim in Ireland.

VELVET PANTS Ana Moravi & Dellani Lima 07:13min, Brazil, 2010 Mockumentary about a mythical character from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, known as the Velvet Pants. Ana Moravi is a director and researcher in the field of visual arts, had their work included in exhibitions and festivals in several countries including France, Italy, Colombia and Canada. Fellow of the 30th National Salon of Art, Belo Horizonte - Bolsa Pampulha/2010. Masters in Visual Arts / EBA / UFMG. Lives and works in Belo Horizonte. Filmmaker, musician, and producer from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His major exhibitions include showings at Vidéoformes (France), VIDEOEX (Switzerland), Asolo Art Film Festival (Italy), Media Forum in Moscow, the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, the JVC Tokyo Video Festival, VideoBrasil, and South Africa’s KO Video Festival. Curator and jury of projects in Brazil: Mostra Vídeo do Itaú Cultural, Indie - Mostra de Cinema Mundial, Mostra do Filme Livre and III DOCTV (MG). For the past ten years, he has performed in five musical intervention projects, “Madame Rrose Selavy,” “Em Dias de Surto,” “r3c3ptador,” “Splishjam,” and “E Disse Que Era Economista,” which he founded and also provides digital support for.

THE TANGO OF THE CORRIDOR Patricia Osses 06:14min, Chile / Brazil, 2009 Brazil neighborghood, Santiago, Chile. The bell rings in the house. The door opens and the dancers starts the improvisation, contained in a place that is, at the same time, reality and fiction. Tango happens in the corridor, filmed in just one sequence-shot. As required by this space in order to contain the movement: it must be continuous, with a possibility of infinity, although there is clearly beginning, middle and end. As in all dramas. Co-authored with the dancers Gabriela Tapia and Gonzalo Beltrán. Born in Santiago, Chile, 1971. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil, since 1973. Patricia is an artist, graduated from the School of Communications and Arts - University of São Paulo, where she is currently develops a PhD in Visual Poetics under the guidance of Carlos Fajardo. She also has a background in architecture and music (cello). Her work deals with ideas about space and its relationship with the individual, through various means as installation, performance, photography and sound. She is represented by Galeria Leme, at São Paulo.

BODY OF CRIME Arthur Tuoto 06:06min, Brazil, 2010 Through a telephone conversation and an image recorded on a window, violence, trauma and fascination lies in a set of distinct sensory feelings, yet part of the same imaginary. The image of an unconscious body, recorded by the artist’s apartment window, is the starting point for a reflection on the traumatic image. If by one hand our apathy as a spectator grows increasingly in relation to images of shock, by the other the relationship between the image that traumatizes and the image that fascinates becomes a definitive imperative in a debate on the politics of gazing. Arthur Tuoto works with video, photography and new media. His works have been exhibited in more than 50 festivals and exhibitions around the world, such as: Videoformes (France), aluCine Latin Media Festival (Canada), São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Brazil), Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Independiente (Argentina), Time is Love Exhibition (Galerie Octobre/France) and Digital Landscapes Exhibition (TMG Gallery/Portugal). Through reconfigurations of memory and daily life, the artist has been developing a work that includes video art, installations and experimental documentaries. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

REAKT: THE DAY SÃO PAULO STOPPED Lucas Bambozzi 10:14min, Brazil, 2009 The sudden and de-centralized nature of the attacks on the 15th of May, 2006 in São Paulo had a massive impact on all of us living in the city. Certain situations can be more extraordinary than others according to a personal involvement. For millions of inhabitants, what was once just something ‘on TV’, started to produce impacts in many levels, in all social classes, astonishingly revealed as out ‘from’ TV, in its different layers, melting fiction with the hardest social reality. The piece was commissioned for the Reakt platform organized and produced by Janes Jansa and Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana. Lucas Bambozzi is a multimedia artist and curator based in São Paulo, Brazil. His works comprise a variety of formats, such as installations, single channel videos, short films and interactive projects. His works have been shown in solo and collective exhibitions in more than 40 countries. Recent exhibitions include Emergentes at Laboral, (2007/2008) Gijon/Spain and Fundación Telefonica (2008), Buenos Aires/ Argentina; RE:akt!, reconstruction, re-enactment, re-reporting, at ŠKUC gallery, Ljubljana/Slovenia and at Museum of Contemporary Art Rijeka/ Croatia, Restraint at Oboros Montreal/Canadá. In 2010 participates in exhibitions at ISEA-Ruhr in Dortmund, Germany and at Ars Eletrônica, in Linz, Áustria where his project Mobile Crash was awarded. Recent curatorial projects include: SonarSound (2004); Digitofagia (2004); Life Goes Mobile (Nokiatrends 2005 and 2006), Motomix Art & Music Festival (2006) among other shows. He is one of the initiators and curators of the arte.mov, International Mobile Media Art Festival (2006-2009).

CHIPPED MOVIE Giselle Beiguelman 02:30min, Brazil, 2010 Cinema Lascado mixes hi-tech and low, the sordid and the sublime, combining HD video with the technique of animated GIF - the first moving image format on the web - and the browser instability. In and intermitent way, it plays with saturation and suppression to reconstruct the perception of the surroundings and the city, the old and new, the up and down, the tool and the device. Graduation Program in Communication and Semiotics of PUC-SP (São Paulo, Brazil). Her work includes the award-winnings “The Book after the Book” “egoscópio” and Landscape0 (with Marcus Bastos and Rafael Marchetti). She has been developing art projects for mobile phones (“Wop Art”, 2001), praised by many media sites and the international press, including The Guardian (UK) and Neural (Italy), and art involving public-access, by the web, SMS and MMS to electronic billboards like “Leste o Leste?” and “egoscópio” (2002), released by The New York Times, “Poétrica” (2003) and “esc for escape” (2004). Beiguelman’s work appears in important anthologies and guides devoted to digital arts including Yale University Library Research Guide for Mass Media and has been presented in international venues such as Net_Condition (ZKM, Germany), el final del eclipse (Fundación Telefonica, Madrid), Desk Topping – Computer Disasters (Smart Project Space, Amsterdan) Arte/Cidade (São Paulo), The 25th São Paulo Biennial and Algorithmic Revolution (ZKM). Curator of Nokia Trends (2007 e 2008) and Artistic Director of Sergio Motta Art and Technology Award.

ORANGE LAKE Ayrson Heráclito 01:47min, Brazil, 2010 This works shows the palm oil and the multiplicity of its uses, the ubiquity of its presence in the province of Bahia, directly involved in slavery, lends dense and multiple meanings to the material that is appropriated by the artist as a principal material in order to contemplate a Bahian indentity. Palm oil in Afro Bahian religions is the “vegetal blood” - that is offered to the divinities in the rituals of candomblé. “Lake Orange” impregnates a wide range of significations. Artist and curator, Heráclito holds a master’s degree in visual arts from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and is a tenure lecturer at the Center for the Arts, Humanities and Languages at the Federal University of Recôncavo of Bahia (UFRB). Hits works, which range across installation, photography, audiovisual work, and performance, frequently deal with African-Brazilian cultural elements. Solo exhibitions of his work have been seen in Bahia, at Brazilian and European fesetivals of electronic art, and group exhibitions like the 3rd Mercosul Biennial (Porto Algre) and Design 21 (New York) both in 2001.

BURUBURU Ayson Heráclito 03:07min, Brazil, 2010 Buruburu: same as popcorn. It is the flower of Obaluaê - a black god of diseases and cures. Your bath is a source of energy, wiping vigorously, body and soul. Artist and curator, Heráclito holds a master’s degree in visual arts from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and is a tenure lecturer at the Center for the Arts, Humanities and Languages at the Federal University of Recôncavo of Bahia (UFRB). Hits works, which range across installation, photography, audiovisual work, and performance, frequently deal with African-Brazilian cultural elements. Solo exhibitions of his work have been seen in Bahia, at Brazilian and European fesetivals of electronic art, and group exhibitions like the 3rd Mercosul Biennial (Porto Algre) and Design 21 (New York) both in 2001.

DESESMETAK Kika Nicolela 03min, Brazil, 2009 Desesmetak uses Candomble (African-Brazilian religion) as inspiration. Its rituals involve the possession of the initiated by Orishas (gods). Music and dance are essential to induce the trance that allows the god to enter the possessed body. Taking off the religious context, the video explores the idea that music and dance can enter the body and manipulate the soul. Commissioned by Itau Cultural Institute. Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker and indepedent curator. Her works include single-channel videos, installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Kika Nicolela was the recipient of several grants and has participated of nearly 100 solo and collective exhibitions in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK and US. Her videos have been screened and awarded in festivals of more than 30 countries, such as: Kunst Film Biennale, Oberhausen International Short Filme Festival, Japan Media Arts Festival, Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival, International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil and Bilbao International Short Film Festival. In 2010, she was selected for the Rondo Studio (Austria), Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation (Germany), Gyeonggi Creation Center (South Korea) and the Casa das Caldeiras (Brazil) residency programs. In 2011, she will be artistin-residence at Route Fabrik (Switzerland). The artist is represented by DConcept, a São Paulo based art gallery, and Vtape, a Toronto based videoart distributer. More info on www.dilemastudio.com.

BREATH Dellani Lima 07:10min, Brazil, 2010 Some days I wake up wanting to scream. Filmmaker, musician, and producer from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His major exhibitions include showings at Vidéoformes (France), VIDEOEX (Switzerland), Asolo Art Film Festival (Italy), Media Forum in Moscow, the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, the JVC Tokyo Video Festival, VideoBrasil, and South Africa’s KO Video Festival. Curator and jury of projects in Brazil: Mostra Vídeo do Itaú Cultural, Indie - Mostra de Cinema Mundial, Mostra do Filme Livre and III DOCTV (MG). For the past ten years, he has performed in five musical intervention projects, “Madame Rrose Selavy,” “Em Dias de Surto,” “r3c3ptador,” “Splishjam,” and “E Disse Que Era Economista”, which he founded and also provides digital support for.

(VENICE) REQUIEM César Meneghetti 05:00min, Italy / Brazil, 2009 (venice) requiem is a video that trail traces of memories ever lived. Starting from a trip to my own ancestors birth towns this piece searches for intimacy between my own experience and subjectivity and the viewer’s through the creation of a space, icons and objects as promoters of remembering and feeling. Venice as motherland of Meneghetti’s ancestors and at same time the set of the 53. Venice Art Biennale. I was invited by Irma Arestizàbal, curator of the Latin American Pavillion to make a video-ouvre to be presented as a happening in the inauguration of her Pavillion, on June the 5th 2009. Irma died suddenly within few weeks before its inauguration. In the progress of the video work, it becomes a tribute to Irma as a dear friend. (venice) requiem is the first video of the project beloved ones. César Meneghetti is a visual artist and film maker that works between São Paulo and Rome. His work is centred on social issues, migration and the concept of borders, political, social and individual edges, the interaction with people and media between the North and South hemisphere. He uses the film, video medium (documentaries, narrative or experimental) as well as photography, painting and installation in order to give images a new approach to the world. Through the mix of various technical supports he uses these electronic/digital instruments to extract and isolate frames of reality and re- elaborate them in a new context. He has shown his artwork in more than 40 countries around the world and has made about 60 films and videos including a feature film, 7 documentaries, and several short films and experimental videos receiving several awards and recognition for his work. He is also one of the 21 artists analyzed in the volume “HYPERCONTEMPORARY ART” by Simonetta Lux. Meneghetti is currently developing several art, art/social projects and films in Brazil, Italy, Asia and Africa. http://cesarmeneghetti.blogspot.com/

1976 Carlosmagno Rodrigues & Alonso Pafyeze 2009, Brasil, 03min Three living-beings are kept in the bottom of a pool. Video of physical and emotional immersion, where there’s no metaphysics, no feelings of spirituality, or any mysticism, just the torpor of the condition of being alive and reluctant. Carlosmagno Rodrigues, born in 1972 in Brazil, holds a degree in Animated Films and Fine Arts. His videos have been shown at several exhibitions and festivals in Brazil and abroad. Rodrigues is artistic consultant for the Implementation Program of geographical data processing in the State of Minas Gerais Brazil and electronic art teacher at ANDROMEDA Art Foundation.