Screening/meeting _ October 28th to 30th 2003
Free admission.
From October 28th to 30th 2003.
BWA Contemporary Art Gallery Katowice - Al. Korfantego 6. 40-004 Katowice, Poland

4th Katowice International Art Meetings, Poland.
The Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin are invited by the International Art Meetings of Katowice for presenting a video performance and performances video documentary program.




Programming:
Presented by the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin for the 4th International Art Meeting of Katowice.

Jonathan PURNELL : Haunted Tate | Video art | dv | color | 00:02:30 | UK / UK | 2002



Some white sheets dressed ghosts meet in a tube station in London. After buying their tickets, they go up the stairs toward the form, get in the train, sit, eventually say "woo hoo". Then, they come out from the train, go on their way, go through a part of the city until they arrive at a gallery where, quickly, the security lead them out. "Haunted Tate", with a certain sense of absurdity, uses the greatest art institutions as a scene for a farce haunted with six ghosts. For a reunion at East London University in 1999, Cack-U-Like art group, which Jonathan PURNELL is a member of, did a performance, a demo against art "officials". It was a demo, a protest against elitism and exclusivism in the art world.

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Frederico CAMARA : Faith | Video art | dv | color | 00.07.00 | Brazil / UK | 2001



In "Faith", Frederico CAMARA establishes a parallel between illegal immigration and his work as an artist. "Faith" is a proper invasion of the Tate Modern and a photo montage in one of its room. This is a work on the desire of being part of a certain group. "From a immigrant prospect, the group is perceive as a synonym of better life condition. Immigrants trend to do extreme acts such as cross a river at night to reach on the other border a better life… With this action, he is automatically discredited(…)" The museum invasion is in that case is bridged a space invasion in order to have a better life, a space where works can be officially exhibited.

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Clemente PADIN : Zona de arte | Video art | vhs | color | 00:08:00 | Uruguay / Uruguay | 1999



"Zona de arte" is like a security zone where reality is excluded. Art is a place where dreams and utopias come true. It's a place where time is suspended and where nothing can happen to us. Nevertheless, society, life and death break in reality. Reality penetrates, seeps in. Clemente PADIN in order to parody J.S. Elliot takes back an extract: "Go, say the bird, humans beings do bear so much reality".

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Slobodanka STEVCESKA, Denis SARAGINOVSKI : Catching Odekam | Performance documentary video | mini-dv | color | 00.04.34 | Macedonia / Macedonia | 2001



" Catching Odekam" is a video documentary on a performance that took place in front of the Macedonian Parliament at the same time as demos. Thinking at that time that those events would come into History, Slobodanka STEVCESKA and Denis SARAGINOVSKI attempted to catch the soul of this event as a material and to preserve it without recording it, as ones does usually. Slobodanka Stevceska and Denis Saraginovski are two members of the OPA (Obsessive Possessive Action). Both of them were born in 1971 in Skopje, in Macedonia where they studied, at the Fine Arts Faculty and where they work together since 2001.

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Dmitry BULNYGIN, Slava MIZIN, Konstantin SKOTNIKOV, Maxim ZONOV : NovosibirskPhoto/
NovosibirskVideo | | Experimental video | dv | color | 01:14:00 | Russia / Russia | 2001

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Almagul MENLIBAYEVA : Eternal bride || Video art | dv | color | 00:12:00 | Kazakhstan / Kazakhstan | 2002



"Eternal Bride" is a performance which has been shot in video and realized in Kazakhstan, where traditions and rituals associated to marriage are culturally and socially very strong. "I put on a marriage dress and went in the busiest street and bazaars of the capital, Almaty. This is my own personal feat to achieve to express the festive nature of life in the maze of restrains and obligation of society". Through "Eternal bride ", Almagul MENLIBAYEVA offers us a experience of a situation where weakness and vulnerability become powers from where burst out party.

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Gert HATSUKOV : Rape my sister | Performance video documentary| vhs | color | 00:15:02 | Estonia / Estonia | 2001



Mysterious sounds. A dark room. Glimmering lights. A man dressed in a smocking appears. He stares at the floor. The performance starts… raw and cruel.

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Tsuneko TANIUCHI : Micro-événement n°14 / Love me tender | Video of a performance | dv | color | 00:08:00 | France | 2002

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Julien COLLIEUX : Concert pour 7 chaises | Video of a performance | dv | color | 00:06:00 | France / Germany | 2000



Seven musicians and a conductor plays Beethoven's Ode to Joy with chairs transformed into instruments (marimbas, twanged cords…). This concert is performed in exhibitions. Musicians are changed with the museum or the gallery staff, guides or curators, lead by the artist. "Concert for 7 chairs" presents its first performance in Berlin in 2000. A young artist, Julien COLLIEUX studied in Marseille Art School (France) then in Berlin UdK in the "Freie Klasse" and the "Institute für Kunst im Kontext" where he was awarded of a scolarship from the German university exchanges (DAAD) in 2001-2002. He works and lives in Berlin.