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PROGRAM 2 IMPROBABLE JOURNEYS CURATOR Solange Farkas
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PROGRAM 2 : IMPROBABLE JOURNEYS
CURATOR Solange FarkasBerbagi status geopolistis yang sama, para seniman yang terpilih untuk the Trânsitos Improváveis (Unlikely Transits/ Mau tak Mau harus berpindah) ini menunjukkan kebanggaan akan vitalistas kreatifitas mereka yang unik. Pengaruh mereka diisi oleh praktek-praktek dan investagasi yang dapat memperbaharui pembacaan dan pembentukan seni, melampaui bentuk yang resmi hingga akhirnya merambah ke area lain, dan akhirnya menjadi pembaharu ekspansi ke ranah kritik dan sejarah seni rupa.
Inilah karya-karya yang bertujuan untuk memetakan dan memahami apa itu yang dimaksud dengan subjektif, menciptakan kembali makna afeksi dan kenangan pribadi, bercakap dengan karya yang boleh jadi ia terkumpul dari dilema yang ada di masyarakat atau sekedar mempertanyakan sejarah sosial, misalnya seperti Unforgettable Memory karya seniman China, Liu Wei, atau Machines for Living karya dua seniman Polandia-Amerika, Marek Ranis dan Jonathan Case. Karya-karya yang lainnya yaitu Round and Roud dan Consumed by Fire, karya Bolivia’s Claudia, akan mengubah pandangan kita, membuka jalan untuk eksperimen dan risiko untuk memaksakan diri pada persepsi artistik.
Narasi-narasi beragam yang pada awalnya merupakan bagian dari tayangan Southern Panorama yang diadakan oleh the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil ini menjadi bagian dari kesepakatan dan pembacaan baru dalam program kurasi ini. Adapun kategori di Southern Panoramas: Cartographies of Affection, Nature and Culture, Political Landscapes, and Seeing Machines, menunjukkan keadaan para seniman yang mau tak mau harus berpindah dari geopolitik belahan dunia Selatan.
Sharing a common geopolitical status, the artists shortlisted for the Trânsitos Improváveis (Unlikely Transits) show boast a unique creative vitality. Their contaminations fuel practices and investigations which can give rise to renewed readings and forms for art to circulate, transcending the official scene and feeding into other areas, and ultimately leading to the expansion of visual arts critique and history.
Here, pieces which aim to chart out and comprehend the subjective, recreating meanings for affections and personal memories, conversing with artworks that either summon up dilemmas from the public sphere or question social history, such as Unforgettable Memory, by the Chinese artist Liu Wei, or Machines for Living, by the Polish-American duo Marek Ranis and Jonathan Case. Other works, such as Round and Round and Consumed by Fire, by Bolivia’s Claudia Joskowicz, change our gaze and set forth new visions, paving the way for experimentation and risk to impose themselves upon artistic perception.
Originally a part of the Southern Panoramas show, held during the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, these diverse narratives take on new arrangements and readings in this curated program. Covering the four different sections of Southern Panoramas – Cartographies of Affection, Nature and Culture, Political Landscapes, and Seeing Machines –, the show portrays the unlikely transits of artists from this vast geopolitical South of the world.
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LIST OF WORKS
Total: 65’46”’SUPERBLOQUES | EUA, 2010 | 5’37” Luis F. Ramirez Celis
Video ini membahas proyek pembongkaran perumahan Pruitt Igoe di Saint Louis (AS), bekas ikon kebobrokan yang dahulu pernah dianggap sebagai puncak modernisme dalam arsitektur Amerika. Di sini, nama bangunan ini melesat melalui sebuah lagu yang dinyanyikan penyanyi Venezuela, Simón Díaz, menceritakan tentang seorang penduduk Caracas yang menolak untuk meninggalkan lokasi proyek perumahan yang akan segera dirobohkan. Tumpang tindih dalam cerita ini menghadirkan ironi yang mengaitkan kegagalan proyek modern dengan ketidakcukupan solusi kontemporer. The video addresses the demolition of the Pruitt Igoe housing project in Saint Louis (USA), a dilapidated former icon, once considered the pinnacle of modernism in American architecture. Here, the building implodes to the sound of a song by the Venezuelan singer Simón Díaz, which tells of a resident of Caracas who refuses to leave a housing project that is about to be torn down. The ironic overlapping of stories relates the failure of the modern project with the insufficiency of contemporary solutions. MIENTRAS PASEO EN CISNE | ARGENTINA, 2010 | 8’25”
Lara Arellano
Duduk di kursi belakang mobil yang mengemudi di sepanjang jalan, seorang gadis muda merefleksikan apa yang ia lihat: sepatu merahnya, sapi-sapi, kolam dikajauhan yang tak kunjung tiba. Percakapan antara orangtuanya yang duduk di kursi depan melintasi refleksinya, memperdalam sensasi kantuk, mimpi, dan peresapan. Karya ini mengeksplorasi dialog antara lanskap luar dan kondisi kebatinan, ekspresi feminin dalam seni, dan ide dari perjalanan sebagai jalan emosional.
Sitting in the back seat of a car driving along a road, a young girl reflects on what she sees: her own red shoes, cows, distant ponds that never arrive. The conversation between her parents sitting in the front cuts across her reflections, deepening the sensation of sleepiness, dream, and immersion. The work explores the dialogue between outer landscapes and inner states, feminine expression in art, and the idea of the journey as an emotional route.
VIA REPÚBLICA | BRAZIL, 2010 | 6’18” Chico Dantas
Rua da República selalu menjadi rute utama ke João Pessoa, ibukota Negara Paraíba, bagi mereka yang datang dari pedalaman. Perjalanan, antara Sungai Sanhauá dan Istana Gubernur, diambil alih oleh para politisi, seniman, intelektual, dan pekerja. Ketika kami melakukan tur di jalan ini melalui lensa subjektifnya, tokoh menceritakan perjalanan dari masa lalu keluarganya, seolah ingin mengisi kekosongan yang ditinggalkan oleh bangunan-bangunan dan kenangan-kenangan di kota dengan konten sejarah alternatif. Rua da República has always been the main route into João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba State, for those coming from inland. The journey, between the Sanhauá River and the Governor’s Palace, is taken by politicians, artists, intellectuals, and workers. As we travel the road through his subjective lens, the artist narrates (in off) journeys from his own family past, as if wanting to fill the void left by the abandoned buildings and memories of the city with alternative historical content.
MACHINES FOR LIVING | POLAND, 2010 | 4’02” Marek Ranis and Jonathan Case
Dengan sentuhan fantastis, karya ini merujuk kembali ide-ide utopis arsitek Swiss dikenal sebagai Le Corbusier (1887-1965), salah satu dari yang paling berpengaruh pada abad ke-20. Menggambar dengan bahan yang beragam seperti gambar gajah dan kutipan dari salah satu wawancara terakhir dengan si arsitek, video ini mempertanyakan bagaimana kita menafsirkan Le Corbusier dan ide yang lebih luas tentang cara kita tinggal dan hidup secara berdampingan.
With a fantastical touch, the work revisits the utopian ideas of the Swiss architect known as Le Corbusier (1887-1965), one of the most influential of the 20th century. Drawing from materials as diverse as pictures of elephants and excerpts from one of the architect’s last interviews, the video questions how we interpret Le Corbusier and broader ideas on our ways of dwelling and coexistence.
EXPLORING | ISRAEL, 2010 | 5’07” Moran Shavit
Video ini menampilkan surat-menyurat antara tokoh dengan ayahnya pergi bekerja di kapal tanker di laut. Ketika sang ayah membaca kembali beberapa surat lama atau komentar-komentar tokoh di pesan-pesan dengan perspektif orang dewasa, dimensi lain mulai ikut bermain, seperti geografis dan ruang subyektif, serta memori objektif dan afektif. Gambar kartu pos yang disertai beberapa huruf membantu menyusun peta emosional yang tak terangkum ini.
The video works with the correspondence exchanged between the artist and her father while the latter was away working on ocean tankers. When the father reads back some of his old letters or the artist comments on these messages from an adult perspective, other dimensions begin to come into play, such as geographic and subjective space, and objective and affective memory. Pictures of the postcards that accompanied some of the letters help draw up this inconclusive emotional map.
ESTUDO SOBRE A ESCURIDÃO | BRAZIL, 2009 | 12’56” Marcia Vaitsman
Untuk meluruskan Sungai São Francisco yang seolah-olah seperti mengedit video adalah tidak hanya untuk menggubah kontur yang tampak, tetapi juga kehidupan sehari-hari seluruh penduduk yang mata pencahariannya bergantung pada sungai itu. Dihadapkan dengan sungai yang alirannya akan dialihkan, para seniman tetap memperhatikan kegelapan yang membungkusnya pada malam hari. Kala senja bekerja dengan fisik maupun ingatan, karya ini menciptakan intervensi dalam lanskap yang berfungsi sebagai metafora untuk perubahan pada sungai dan berbagai fasenya. To straighten out the São Francisco River as if editing a video is to alter not only its visible contours, but also the everyday lives of all those whose livelihoods depend on it. Faced with a river whose course is about to be rerouted, the artist remains attentive to the darkness that envelopes it at nightfall. At the twilight of a course both physical and made of memories, the work creates interventions in the landscape that serve as metaphors for the changes to the river and its various phases.
ROUND AND ROUND AND CONSUMED BY FIRE | BOLIVIA, 2009 | 9’12” Claudia Joskowicz
Karya ini terinspirasi oleh sebuah adegan dari film Butch Cassidy dan Sundance Kid, direproduksi dalam adegan lambat tunggal menggabarkan sebuah momen ketika para bandit Amerika dikelilingi oleh polisi Bolivia. Adegan dekat-lembam menciptakan efek kecemasan yang menegaskan celah-celah dalam narasi dan menciptakan kembali dinamikanya. Seperti dalam karya-karya sebelumnya, Joskowicz membahas elemen dasar bahasa sinematografi klasik.
The work was inspired by a scene from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, reproducing in a single, slow panoramic shot the moment in which the American bandits are surrounded by the Bolivian police. The near-inert scene creates an effect of anxiety that underscores the holes in the narrative and reinvents its dynamics. As in earlier works, Joskowicz addresses the basic elements of classical cinematographic language.
TREE OF FORGETTING | ARGENTINA, 2009 | 8’52” Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino
Dipahami sebagai sebuah cerita pendek, narasi ini mengembara antar kota-kota dan kenangan-kenangan, seolah-olah waktu adalah jalan bercabang yang selalu memungkinkan untuk mengarah kembali ke tujuan yang sama: masa lalu. Dalam Tree of Forgetting ini, seseorang bisa menghilang di antara teman-teman dan keluarga, dan menontonnya sebagai hal-hal dan tempat sehari-hari dalam bentuk yang paling beragam.
Conceived of as a very short story, the narrative wanders among cities and memories, as if time were a forked road of possibilities that always lead back to the same destination: the past. In this tree of forgetting, one can disappear among friends and family, and watch as everyday things and places assume the most diverse forms.
UNFORGETTABLE MEMORY | CHINA, 2009 | 10’17” Liu Wei
Sang seniman mencoba untuk memulihkan ingatannya pada tahun 1989, ketika rakyat Cina turun ke jalan untuk memprotes pemerintah Deng Xiaoping. Wei keluar untuk mencari saksi mata, dengan membawa kamera dan foto-foto aksi protes, di mana ia hampir tewas. Menggunakan bahasa langsung, karya ini mempertanyakan kekuatan memori dalam menghadapi ketidakpedulian.
The artist tries to recover his memory of 1989, when the Chinese took to the streets to protest against the Deng Xiaoping government. Wei heads out in search of witnesses, carrying with him a camera and a photo of the protests, during which he was almost killed. Using direct language, the work questions the power of memory in the face of indifference.
Chico Dantas (Brazil, 1950)
Pelukis, juru gambar, pemahat, fotografer, dan seniman video. Dantas pernah belajar pedagogi dan pendidikan seni di Universidade Federal da Paraiba. Telah berpameran sejak 1979 dan telah berpartisipasi dalam beragam pameran dan biennial seni di Brazil dan luar negeri, termasuk 16th Bienal de Sao Paulo (1981) dan 15th Biennial of Cerveira (2009), di Portugal.
A painter, draughtsman, engraver, photographer, and video artist, Dantas studied artistic pedagogy and education at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba. He has been exhibiting since 1979 and has participated in various art salons and biennials in Brazil and abroad, including the 16th Bienal de São Paulo (1981) and the 15th Biennial of Cerveira, Portugal (2009).
Claudia Joskowicz (Bolivia, 1968)
Pemegang gelar master seni rupa dari New York University, Amerika Serikat. Jozkowicz telah berpameran di biennal Sao Paulo, Havana (Kuba), dan Seoul (Korea Selatan), dan beragam pameran tunggal dan kelompok temasuk Thierry Goldberg Projects (New York), Museo Nacional de Arte (La Paz, Bolivia), Galeria Kiosko (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia), Momenta Art Gallery (New York), dan McDonough Museum of Art (Ohio, Amerika Serikat). Dia menerima beasiswa Fullbright (2009) dan beasiswa Vermont Studio Center (2008). Dia mengajar di Steinhardt Art Department, New York University.
Holder of a master’s degree in the visual arts from the New York University, USA, Joskowicz has exhibited at the biennials of São Paulo, Havana (Cuba), and Seoul (South Korea), and in solo and group exhibitions that include Thierry Goldberg Projects (New York), Museo Nacional de Arte (La Paz, Bolivia), Galería Kiosko (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia), Momenta Art Gallery (New York), and McDonough Museum of Art (Ohio, USA). She has received the Fullbright (2009) and Vermont Studio Center (2008) scholarships. She lectures at New York University’s Steinhardt Art Department.
Dan Boord (Argentina, 1961)
Valdovina bergelar master seni rupa dari University of Illinois, Chicago, dan dosen seni di Universitas of Colorado di Boulder, Amerika Serikat. Boords mendapatkan gelar master dari University of California dan dosen program kajian senimatografis di Ohio State University, Columbus, Amerika. Banyak karya mereka yang telah dipamerkan di pameran-pameran dan institusi-institusi penting, semacam MoMA (New York, Amerika), Venice Biennale (Italia), Centre George Pompidou (Paris, Perancis), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spanyol), Toronto Film Festival (Canada), da Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Belanda).
Valdovino holds a master’s degree in the visual arts from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and lectures in art at the University of Colorado in Boulder, both in the USA. Boord holds a master’s degree from the University of California and lectures on the cinematographic study program at Ohio State University in Columbus, USA. The duo’s two dozen or so works have been seen in important exhibitions and institutions, such as MoMA (New York, USA), the Venice Biennale (Italy), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), Toronto Film Festival (Canada), and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Holland).
Jonathan Case (EUA, 1972)
Jonathan Case adalah seorang filmmaker dan produser televisi. Dia belajar film di program konservatori SUNY Purchase. Karya-karya naratif pendeknya telah diputar di beberapa festival film di Amerika Serika. Dia telah bekerja di televisi selama hampir sepuluh tahun dan telah memenangkan beberapa penghargaan untuk karya-tulis, editan, dan desain geraknya.
Jonathan Case is a filmmaker and television producer. He studied film at the SUNY Purchase conservatory program. His short-form narrative works have appeared in several film festivals across the USA. He has worked professionally in television for nearly ten years and won several awards for his writing, editing, and motion design.
Lara Arellano (Argentina, 1976)
Lulusan desain bunyi dan gambar dari Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Arellano memulai ekperimentasi artistiknya melalui pertunjukan-pertunjukan VJ, menyutradai beragam video musik, dan berkarya dengan menggunakan medium video, yang belakangan jadi tonggak penting karyanya. Mientras paseo en cisne dipilih sebagai film pendek terbaik dalam Official Selection Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2010.
A graduate in sound and image design from the Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Arellano began her artistic experimentation through VJ performances, directing music videos and working with videos, which later became the main pillar of her work. Mientras paseo en cisne was voted best short film on the official selection at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2010.
Liu Wei (China, 1965)
Wei dulu belajar di China Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, China, dan lulus dengan gelar filsafat dari Universitas Beijing. Dalam praktik artistik, dia menggunakan beragam medium untuk memanggil memori dan menghubungkan pengalaman-pengalaman personalnya dengan realitas di China yang sedang berubah. Dia turut berpartisipasi dalam 8th Gwangju Biennale (Korea Selatan, 2010), 9th Sharjah Biennial (Uni Emirat Arab, 2009), WRO 2009 Media Art Biennale (Polandia), Taipei Biennial (Taiwan, 2008), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Belanda, 2010), dan Cinema du Reel (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Perancis, 2006).
Wei studied at the China Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, China, and graduated in philosophy from the University of Beijing. In his artistic practice, he uses various mediums to address memory and relate his own experiences to the reality of a China in transformation. He participated in the 8th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea, 2010), the 9th Sharjah Biennial (UAE, 2009), the WRO 2009 Media Art Biennale (Poland), the Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2008), the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Holland, 2010), and Cinema du Réel (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2006).
Luis F. Ramirez Celis (Colombia, 1969)
Seniman, arsitektur, kurator, dan museologist, Celis sedang melanjutkan studi masternya di Stony Brook University, New York, Amerika Serikat. Dia berkarya dengan medium video dan instalasi. Celis pernah mendapat nominasi Luis Caballero Award dan memenangkan Grand Prize di Bienal de Artes Visuales da Fundacion Gilberto Alzate Avendano (Bogota, Kolumbia). Dia pernah residensi di Encuentro MDE07 (Medellin, Kolumbia) dan Galeria Sante Fe (Bogota). Dia mengkurasi Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica (Bogota).
Artist, architect, curator, and museologist, Celis is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Stony Brook University in New York, USA. He works with video and installation. Celis was nominated for the Luis Caballero award and won the Grand Prize at the Bienal de Artes Visuales da Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño (Bogotá, Colombia). He has done residencies at Encuentro MDE07 (Medellin, Colombia) and Capacete (Rio de Janeiro). His work has been exhibited at the Lawrence Alloway Gallery (New York) and Galería Santa Fe (Bogotá). He curates the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República (Bogotá).
Luis Valdovino (Argentina, 1961)
Valdovina bergelar master seni rupa dari University of Illinois, Chicago, dan dosen seni di University of Colorado di Boulder, Amerika Serikat. Boords mendapatkan gelar master dari University of California dan dosen program kajian senimatografis di Ohio State University, Columbus, Amerika. Banyak karya mereka yang telah dipamerkan di pameran-pameran dan institusi-institusi penting, semacam MoMA (New York, Amerika), Venice Biennale (Italia), Centre George Pompidou (Paris, Perancis), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spanyol), Toronto Film Festival (Canada), da Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Belanda).
Valdovino holds a master’s degree in the visual arts from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and lectures in art at the University of Colorado in Boulder, both in the USA. Boord holds a master’s degree from the University of California and lectures on the cinematographic study program at Ohio State University in Columbus, USA. The duo’s two dozen or so works have been seen in important exhibitions and institutions, such as MoMA (New York, USA), the Venice Biennale (Italy), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), Toronto Film Festival (Canada), and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Holland). Marcia Vaitsman (Brazil, 1973)
Lulusan Escola de Comunicacoes e Artes da Universidade de Sao Paulo (ECA-USP). Vaitsman pernah belajar di KHM (Konsthochschule fur Medien Koln) di Cologne, Jerman. Karya-karyanya bertemakan migrasi, perpindahan, dan perkawinan antar suku bangsa, dan akibatnya dalam medium-medium kontemporer. Dia telah mendapatkan penghargaan dan dana dari EMMA (European Mobile Multimedia Association, Inggris), Unesco-Ashberg (Perancis), Funarte (Brazil), SCAB (University for Creative Careers, Amerika Serikat), lamas (Institute for Advanced Media Arts dan Sciences, Jepang), Prince Claus Fund (Belanda), dan HIAP (Helsinki International Artist-in-Residence Program, Finlandia), dan sebagainya. Dia telah berpameran di Eropa, Amerika, dan Asia.
A graduate of the Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo (ECA-USP), Vaitsman studied at KHM (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln) in Cologne, Germany. Her work deals with issues derived from the phenomena of migration, displacement, and miscegenation, and their ramifications in contemporary mediums. She has received awards and funding from EMMA (European Mobile Multimedia Association, UK), Unesco-Ashberg (France), Funarte (Brazil), SCAD (University for Creative Careers, USA), Iamas (Institute for Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Japan), Prince Claus Fund (Holland), and HIAP (Helsinki International Artist-in-Residence Program, Finland), among others. She has exhibited in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Marek Ranis (Poland, 1968)
Lulusan dari Academy of Fine Arts di Wroclaw, Polandia. Ranis menggunakan patung, instalasi, video, fotografi, lukisan, dan seni publik dengan tema-tema sosial, politik, dan lingkungan. Dia adalah pemenang beragam penghargaan dan residensi di Amerika Serikat, Australia, Eropa, Afrika, dan Asia. Dia telah telah menghasilkan karya-karya instalasi skala besar di delapan negara dan berpartisipasi di lebih dari delapan puluh pameran. Dia mengajar seni pahat di University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Amerika Serikat.
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland, Ranis uses sculpture, installation, video, photography, painting, and public art in an oeuvre that addresses social, political, and environmental
themes. The winner of prizes and residencies in the USA, Australia, Europe, Africa, and Asia, he has created large-scale installations in eight countries and participated in over eighty exhibitions. He teaches sculpture