All posts tagged Possibilities

Elsewhereness:New Orleans

by Anders Weberg on 2010/09/08 in Latest news with No comments

In November a new piece of the Elsewhereness series will be exhibited in New Orleans, as part of the show Ethnographic Terminalia 2010. Other artists include Susan Hiller and Fiamma Montezemolo.

From the prospectus on the website:

”No longer content to theorize the ends of the discipline and possibilities of new media, new locations, or new methods of asking old questions, those associated with Ethnographic Terminalia are working in capacity to develop generative ethnographies that do not subordinate the sensorium to the expository and theoretical text or monograph.

Ethnographic Terminalia is an initiative designed to celebrate borders without necessarily exalting them.  It is meant to be a playful engagement with reflexivity and positionality; it seeks to ask what lies beyond and what lies within disciplinary territories.  As an initiative to bring contemporary art practices in closer proximity to forms of anthropological inquiry, Ethnographic Terminalia is primarily concerned with creating opportunities for the exhibition of non-traditional projects. The terminus is the end, the boundary, and the border; of course the terminus is also a beginning as well as its own place, its own site of experience and encounter.”

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Exquisite Corpse Video Project 2 screening at Wikitopia in Hong Kong.

by Anders Weberg on 2010/08/30 in Latest news, Screening with No comments

Wikitopia is Hong Kong’s First Tinyfest on Collaborative Future held by Videotage.

Date: September 18, 2010 (Sat)
Time: 8:30pm–10:00pm
Venue: Doublehappiness Studio, Wan Chai

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project II (ECVP2) is a unique video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”.

In the Surrealist ‘game’, a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor’s work, and begins his own work from that small portion. When the last participant is finished, the sheet is unfolded to reveal a strangely divergent, yet contiguous form or figure.

Using the semi‐blind, sequential method of the surrealists’ game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member’s work. Each member is asked to incorporate these seconds into their piece, creating transitions as they please, until everyone’s vision is threaded together into an instigating final “corpse.”

While the Surrealists are said to have created the method almost a century ago, only recently could such a fast‐paced, pan‐global, audiovisual variation of this exercise be produced. The inspiring process of exchange among ‘strangers’ from around the world illuminates the possibilities of globalized, collective creativity.

ECVP screenings and exhibitions have been taking place in various countries since June 2008, such as Sweden, US, UK, Greece, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Africa.

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