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Totem and Taboo is an opera/recitative for Video projection, Grand Synthesized Orchestra in Playback, Dancer and Heldentenor. The work is based upon Sigmund Freud's classic text "Totem and Taboo". This book is presented by Freud as an inquiry into incest taboos found in primitive cultures. In fact Freud used the book to give a psychoanalytic hypothesis of the origins of religion. At the end of his book, Freud writes a short but highly colorful chapter describing what he calls "the primal scene" which led to the foundations of all religions: repressed sexual desire, murder and cannibalism. My opera takes Freud's hypothesis and plants it into a real world situation. I call this a "mise-en-chair" meaning literally "a putting into flesh" that is, the incarnation of the idea. I have created a synthesized orchestral version of the score which accompanies a projected video. There is a scene for a dancer which can either be performed live or in projection. The work is sung by a baritone-tenor, the so-called Heldentenor imagined by Richard Wagner. The composer performs this part. The practical needs for a performance are basic: A projector, a sound system and a screen (or simply a white wall) and a microphone. It can be performed on a stage or in a normal room. There are a few simple accessories, flowers, electric candles and a piece of astro-turf.

I was born in Baltimore, Maryland and now live in Paris, France. My work is centered upon the expression of ideas and human freedom. I have composed music since 1977. I have composed around 70 pieces for a large number of ensembles, from solo piano and cello to an opera for 45 individual players, also I have done electronic music performances, improvisation. I have given concerts continually since the early 1980's. I can give you endless examples of recordings. I have painted since 1978. I have hundreds of paintings and have given many expos and been in salons like Montrouge. I am represented by the Gallery Au Fil du Canal in Paris. I'd be happy to send examples of my work. I began making films in 1979. Two of my films have come out in France, in 2012 and 2016.

“ What Happens to the Mountain ” draws upon literary sources, late night radio, and ancient legends to conjure a psycho-geographic experience in a sacred landscape. A long-distance driver, a drifter, journeys from a tenuous reality into a vision of the afterlife, called forth by the spirit of the mountain.

Christin Turner (1985, USA) is a filmmaker and artist based in Boulder, Colorado by way of Southern California. Her films navigate the psychological terrains of landscape, material, and image; they investigate the possibilities of cinema as a site for transcendence.

(2018) Video work disseminating the ethics of racial representation in the digital and gaming world. My employment/work as an editor for African region in a sports video game, and as an artist learning about agency and representation, led me to create this work. Colours and hair of a set list of ‘options’ assigned to African and Asian facial features in a player creation database are made arbitrary as a critique of having said select ‘options’ in the first place. The tampering with features occurs with an audio that captures the exhalations and reactions of a real life player to this game as it is played. This occurs in English and then French — both the two largest colonial powers in African history. The title is a play on the word ‘Eugenics’, which was a European developed pseudo-science that had racially demarcating visuals and biological beliefs.

Joe Turpin is a South African visual artist. Born in Johannesburg in 1995, Turpin obtained his BFA Fine Arts Honours degree from the University of Witwatersrand in 2018. Turpin's work is informed by history, narrative and symbolism, where the idea demands the medium. Turpin has shown work internationally in exhibitions and publications, and has participated in residency programs. He lives and works in Johannesburg.

Silent Sun of Russia portrays a generation of young Russians between 2018 and 2022. The film follows three young women, Alika, Alyona, and Katya. They are rebels and anarchists and part of a global youth who dream of living a modern life in freedom. A pervasive sense of anxiety and restlessness about the future haunts the lives of the young women. After Russia's invasion in Ukraine, they find themselves in a new reality that requires difficult choices. In their quest for love, friendship, and the dream of escaping Putin's Russia, they live in uncertainty, where longing is replaced by difficult emotions and attempts to repress reality. The film provides an intimate and poetic view of the current living conditions and the urgent decisions faced today by young Russians who cannot see a future in their native country.

Sybilla Tuxen (1990) graduated as a photographer from Fatamorgana - Denmark's photographic school of visual arts, in 2011 and as a documentary filmmaker from The Danish Film School in 2017. Since 2011, when Sybilla lived and studied Russian in St Petersburg, she has worked on films in former Soviet countries. Sybilla works with polyphonic narratives. Her visual works explore the emotional currents of poetry with a unique eye for human destinies and the worlds of our mythological and literary subconscious.

Un moment inattendu lors d’une séance avec un patient confronte un psychologue à son propre monde intérieur. Aliéné par l’isolement de sa vie citadine apparemment parfaite, le psychologue se heurte à une incapacité à comprendre et embrasser sa propre nature humaine. Son désir irrépressible pour son client l’amènera à découvrir qui il est vraiment.

Oporovak proposes a methodology for what it calls ‘information recovery and the solving of â integrity problems. Taking its inspiration from data recovery solutions and the language of achieving complete visibility via forms of HD technology and big data the film is part alternative software training video and part the voice of a subversive hybrid machine. It takes the intent of information restoration into a new context with its apparent ability to manipulate all sorts of digital and non-digital materials via its sentient interface and performative actions which apparently can operate at molecular level. The film utilises the voice of an unreliable narrator who acts to draw the viewer in and raise their awareness of inbuilt human desires for clarity and visibility and the desire to develop new forms of technology that can manipulate all sorts of digital and physical materials. The final section of the film looks towards a `sensing mechanism` that has the functionality to manipulate and alter any type of visual material at its source and the capability of connecting with and manipulating the subconscious of its viewers.

Charlie Tweed is an artist and academic based in Bristol, UK. He has a PhD in art practice (Kingston University) and an MFA in art practice (Goldsmiths College). His video, text and performance based works interrogate the affective qualities of digital technologies and their use in the control and management of populations and environments. He employ strategies of re-appropriation and speculative fiction, often taking on personas of anonymous collectives and hybrid machines, to outline subversive plans for enhancing and escaping control mechanisms and renegotiating relations between human and non human.

Impossible architecture, an ancient burial ground and a lure for psychotic janitors were the building blocks of Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In this story vignette, chaos animators Pink Twins add zero gravity and a rupture in space-time continuum to the mix and serve a taster of subtle cosmic horror.

Pink Twins is a duo of visual artists and electronic musicians, brothers Juha (b. 1978) and Vesa Vehviläinen (b. 1974), based in Helsinki, Finland. Active as Pink Twins since 1997, their videos work on the crossing of visual art and music. Live Pink Twins deliver improvised digital soundscapes, often combined with video screenings. Pink Twins have shown their works in exhibitions and festivals in all continents and performed audiovisual live shows through Europe, Americas, Asia and Australia.

Giant features leading junior team gymnasts of Romania. The film is shot in two boarding schools for artistic gymnastics in Onesti and Deva. A soundtrack of interviews with the gymnasts accompanies images of them training and of empty gymnasiums. Archive film footage starting from 1970s and clips from a feature fiction film shot in the same locations reveal not only a continuity in picturing this sport, but also the structures of recording it.

Salla Tykkä (born 1973) is a visual artist who works with film and video since 1996. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 2003 and participated in the Venice Biennale 2001. Her solo exhibitions include: BALTIC Arts Centre, Gateshead 2013; EX3, Florence, 2011; Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, 2010; Norrköping Art Museum, Norrköping, 2009. She has participated in numerous group shows in museums and public institutions among others: Making Space. 40 Years of Video Art, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 2013; La La La Human Steps, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, 2013; 17th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010; Momentum, Moss, 2010. Salla Tykkä’s films have been shown at international film festivals like: 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2007; 21st Brest European Short Film Festival, Brest, 2006; Tribeca Film Festival, New York, 2003; International Short Film Festival Ober- hausen, Oberhausen, 2003 and 2002.

The video "I feel blue, they sense rose" questions the process of seeing by deconstructing the medical gaze. How does science remind us of women`s bodies? How can the appropriation of the female body be documented through medicine and its history? The artist confronted herself with knowledge by working with historical artifacts from the Medical Collection at the University of Zurich. This collaboration gave her the opportunity to explore history on a subjective and interactive level.

Paula Tyliszczak (*1986) grew up in France and Poland and has a background in the Arts and in the Humanities. After completing her Bachelor`s Degree in International Relations at the University of Warsaw, she moved to Switzerland and studied Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. She later followed a Master`s degree in Contemporary Arts Practice at the Bern University of the Arts. As an interdisciplinary artist, Paula Tyliszczak mainly works with video, sound and language. Guided by her interest in the body as a social construct, she develops works at the interface between art and science, as well as between subjectivity and objectivity.

a.o.k is about the experience of making pop videos and pop music. Using only behind the scenes and B-roll footage altered with animations, it is a painting of the emotional experience behind and in front of the camera. It is as much about the content as it is about the making of it. The project revolves around a series of music videos created to original tracks but the end results are neither seen nor heard; what remains visible, however, are the sensations of the contributors during the production. It is a journey that cramps with discomfort at the beginning but opens up, softens and releases into something tender and compassionate. The result is relentless and unforgiving but it is an ode to the loving images we create of ourselves.

Christopher Tym (UK) is a Visual Artist based in Amsterdam. His practice includes Film-making, Animation and Audio-Visual Installations. He creates liminal spaces in moving image using unreliable framing, affective editing and by exploring the relationship between the camera and the body. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2012 and the Royal College of Art UK in 2017. He teaches Animation and tutors at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

Hole is the Bubble i Blew is a hybrid-documentary combining video, generative animation and composite imagery. It is a choral history of shared intimacy where days and nights loop as an apartment window emerges from a burning tunnel; from this window a small group of people share stories of platonic and erotic love through space and time that separate like oil on the surface of water. "Movements pulse into the void, actions become sentient, consequences wait for the morning that will never be."

christopher tym (UK) is an artist-filmmaker based in The Netherlands that explores the (dis)locations between 'virtual+natural' environments. By combining film and animation he creates hybrid spaces where humxns bend time as they navigate their relationships with each other and their evolving world/s. His current projects focus on eco-centric moving image where new insights of form and time challenge our preconceptions of the Anthropocene. christopher teaches hybrid-animation and is a core tutor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.