Daniel Lo Iacono (Germany) / Agricola de Cologne (Germany) / J. G. Périot + Tom de Pékin (France) / Li Hyung Kim (South Korea) / Alla Girik and Oksana Shatalova (Kazakhstan) / Lorenzo Nencini (Italy) / Rafael Alcalá (Puerto Rico) / Joao Paulo Simoes (Portugal) / Unnur A. Einarsdottir (Iceland)
Curatorial statement
“Unexpectedly real” refers to different meanings, states and definitions of reality. The 10 videos selected and curated by Agricola de Cologne from the base of VideoChannel, a project environment dealing with the subject of “memory & identity”, approach the “real” and the “reality” from different artistic point of views. The viewer becomes confused as the limits between the “objective” and the “subjective” become more and more vague changing continuously their values. The technological possibilities of the medium “digital video” enforce and encourage the artists to manipulate what is generally recognized as the “real” and give the classical theme in art which is exploring the different states of reality a new dimension.
Artists:
Daniela Aravena / Filip Carrasco / Guillermo Cifuentes / Isa García / Samuel Ibarra / Soledad Infante / Carolina Jerez / Ismael Orozco / Gonzalo Rabanal / Enrique Ramírez / Valentina Serrati
Curatorial statement
The works that are sent here are the result of an inventory of two levels of production: firstly, works of video author and secondly, works of video performance. Both productions operate from a meeting place, gathered by the idea of picking up autonomous works, thus creating a device placed in the sphere of laterality, set against the frames drawn by institutionality. These projects are productions and transformation situations arranged to get through those ordered, absolute and continuous segments that are unable to understand the arrival of new orders and ways of social interpretation along which contemporanity moves. They are audiovisual operations that are not presented as a uniform matrix; they are produced from heterogeneous places and they operate from dysfunctional circuits of the cultural power. They are works that overall point at control content in order to build new place marks.
