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Victoria and Aura’s pieces dialogue in a timeless space in which emptiness and non-empty take center of the lead.
Classical cinema invades space to make the viewer rethink the structure and traditional visual methods: dialogues, focus of attention, montage, shot, light, the movement, the cuts and the audiovisual language in its entirety.
Three essential parts come together in this exhibition: PROYECTOR Festival, a platform that emphasizes the more experimental and committed nature of the images and contemporary films; curates this show within the framework of Rizoma Festival, an international film and culture festival intertwined that celebrates its XI Edition in November. With this collaboration we invade the venue of Extension AVAM, an association committed to the visual artists scene in the city of Madrid. Now, two current video installations converge at this space, selected by the 16th call for the PROYECTOR Festival in 2023.
The films that make up Void vs Cinema(2023) play at decentralizing language cinematographic through the excerpts of the films ‘The Conversation’ (1974) by Francis Ford Coppola, ‘The Birds’ (1963) by Alfred Hitchcock, ‘Sunset Boulevard’ (1952) by Billy Wilder and ‘A Fistful of Dollars’ (1964) by Sergio Leone. The artist Victoria Oliver Farner analyzes, empties and deconstructs to create the new film.
For its part, Meshes of the film (2022) covers one of the most iconic films in experimental cinema, ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’ (1943) by Maya Deren, without altering its duration. The piece by Aura Vega brings to light the need for structuring and formalizing the cinematographic language. The inexcusability of the camouflage of the cut in the cinema makes the work itself and not a set of linked pieces.
Two ways of seeing the parts that make up the whole of the audiovisual work. Two different ways of understanding language as a structural formalism.
We invite the viewer to deconstruct their gaze and rethink their own prism: uniting, creating and giving meaning to the emptiness, the jump, the cut and the lie of cinema.
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The PROYECTOR Platform intended for Images of Movement gives voice to non-cinematic normative proposals; pieces that seek the relationship with the body, the scale and the space that houses them; pieces that need a viewer to get involved, to be present around the piece to be able to understand them in their entirety.
From September 6th to 17th, 2023, more than twenty spaces in the city of Madrid intersected, showing new languages and formats through some 100 pieces of expanded cinema, performance, video art, site-specific pieces, interactive pieces and unique works.
The collaborating venues are creating a cultural route giving visibility to both the most independent and the most consolidated spaces, going from the central areas to the outskirts neighborhoods of the capital.
We find proposals both curated by the PROYECTOR platform and by the galleries and museums themselves that are part of the OFF Tour. As always, our selection included works by invited artists and artists selected by an international public call whose jury was Rosell Meseguer, Guillermo G. Peydró and Carlos T. Mori. Likewise, we have collaborations, such as the usual Loops.Expanded, Miden, PLAY and Fonlad. All the pieces on display have been grouped into curatorships differentiated by their current themes. Two of the pieces most valued by the jury will be awarded the Hertzog Da Silva Prize.
Invitados: Akram Zaatari (lib), Aura Vega (esp), Blanca Regina (esp) & Matthias Kispert (ing), Ben Vine (ing), Biviana Chauchi (per), Celeste Rojas Mugica (chi/arg), Cosmopussy + Kaos Play + Jesus Placencia (esp), Gary Hill (eeuu), Gigi Ei (esp), Guillermo G. Peydró (esp) – Jeanne de Petriconi (fra), Helena Ferreira (por), Ira Eduardovna (urb), Javier Artero (esp), Juan Desteract (fra), Man Pan, Lau (jap), Marta Valverde (esp), Mía de Diego (esp), Rubén Turba (esp), Nicholas F Callaway (eeuu) y Telmo Ribeiro (por)
Finalistas de la convocatoria: Alix Galdin (fra), Amaya Hernández Sigüenza (esp), Analía Villanueva (arg), Delfina Lamas (arg), Fenia Kotsopoulou (gre), Francisco Pradilla (esp), Guillermina De (arg), Juan Benítez Allassia (arg), Ilaria Di Carlo (ita), Laura Moreno Bueno (esp), Lu Chih Kai (tw), Maia Navas (arg), Miguel Rozas Balboa (bel-chi), Müge Yildiz (tur), Nicholas F. Callaway (eeuu), Nicolás Superby Aguirre (chi), Salomé Lamas (por), Sergey Khismatov (rus) y Ting Tong Chang & Hsuan-Kang Tsai (tw)
Jurado: Rosell Meseguer, Guillermo G. Peyró y Carlos T. Mori
Loops.Expanded: Santiago Carlini (arg) Colección Teresa Sapey: Wendy Wischer (eeuu) Archivo Val del Omar: José Val del Omar (esp)
ARTISTS OFF
C. C. C. Condeduque: Florencia Aliberti (arg), Alberto Ardid (esp), Zigor Barayazarra (esp), Elena Calvo Polo (esp), Fernando Baena (esp), Anna Gimein (esp), Martin Mur (esp), Manuel Onetti (esp), Lisi Prada (esp), Borja Rodríguez Alonso (esp), Salvi Vivancos (esp), Verónica Alvez Farias (ven), Sara Díaz (esp), Flesh.webmz (esp), Adrián González Fernández (esp), Manuela Gutiérrez Arrieta (esp), Lucía Herrero (esp), Sara Marín Velázquez (esp),Patricia Mon (esp), Carmen Parra (esp), Ana Santamaría Cacabelos (esp) el Chico: Álvaro Chior (esp) Galería Arniches 26 – The Social Hub: Borja Santomé(esp) Galería Est_Art Space: TONDOsmiling(esp) y Nourathar (esp) Galería Lucía Mendoza: Bárbara Fluxá (esp) Navel Art: Irene Molina (esp) y Diego Flórez (esp) Colección INELCOM: Anthony McCall (ing), Anna Barriball (ing), Antoni Muntadas (esp), Artur Heras (esp), Bruce Conner (eeuu), Caló y Queimadela (por), Candice Breitz (sud), Ceal Floyer (pak), Claire Harvey (ing), Eugenio Ampudia (esp), Francis Alÿs (bel), Gabriel Abrantes (bra), Gary Hill (eeuu), Giorgio Andreotta Caló (ita), Gusmão / Paiva (por), Hiraki Sawa (jap), Ignasi Aballí (esp), Jack Goldstein (can), Joan Jonas (eeuu), Jorge Macchi y Edgardo Rudnitzky (arg), José Val del Omar (esp), Laure Prouvost (fra), Lewis Klahr (eeuu), Liliane Lijn (eeuu), Lúa Coderch (esp), Marijke van Warmerdam (hol), Micol Assaël (ita), Miroslaw Balka (pol), Ólafur Eliasson (din), Pavel Büchler (che), Pieter Geenen (bel), Raha Raissnia (ira), Rosa Barba (ita), Steve McQueen (ing), Tom Friedman (eeuu) y Willie Doherty (irl)
Comisariados Internacionales: Festival PLAY – videoarte y cine experimental: Sebastián Zanzottera (arg), Lucila Podesta (arg) y Lucas Olivares (arg). FONLAD: Carla Forte (eeuu), Conceição Rocha (por), Estela Lapponi (bra), Eva Dabara (isr), Fran Orallo (esp), Isabel Perez del Pulgar (esp) y Ju Morais (bra). MIDEN: Dimitra Mitsaki (gre), Meshy Koplevitch (gre), Miguel Rozas Balboa (bel/chi) y Yiorgos Drosos (gre).
Comisariado para el Festival Rizoma: Aura Vega (esp) y Victoria Oliver Farner (esp)
