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Leaders favorite toys
Vidéo expérimentale - beta sp - couleur - 0:15:00 - Ukraine - 1998
"Leader's favorite toys" est un film vidéo basé sur une performance de l'auteur ayant le même titre et son installation " Piece of shit ", réalisée au Banff Centre pour les Arts au Canada en 1998. La vidéo met en équilibre la recherche de la sexualité et la politique. L'auteur fait référence aux dangers des 'illusions de masse au 20ème siècle et explore le problème de la responsabilité à la fin du millénaire.
"Leader's favourite toys" is a video film based on the autor's performance of the same title and interactive installation "Piece of shit", realised at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada 1998. The video balances between the research of sexuality and politics. The author appeals to the danger of 20th century mass illusions and explores a problem of the responsability at the end of the millennium.
Biographie
Oksana Chepelyk est née en 1961 en Ukraine, où elle vit et travaille encore aujourd'hui. Elle a étudié à l'institut d'art de Kiev entre 1978 et 1984. A la suite de ces études, elle a approfondi son cursus à Moscou (1986-1988) et a participé au programme d'étude indépendant au CREDAC de Paris (1996), le Residency Program au Banff Centre pour les Arts, Canada (1998), et au Bauhaus-Kolleg, Dessau, Allemagne (2000). Artiste multimédia, elle travaille avec la vidéo, la performance, la photographie, l'installation, la peinture. Elle a largement exposé à travers le monde et a reçu de nombreux prix.
Oksana Chepelyk was born in 1961 in Ukraine, where she lives and works today. She studied at the Art Institute in Kiev from 1978-1984. Subsequently, she completed a post-graduate course in Moscow (1986-1988) and participated in the Independent Study Program at CREDAC in Paris, (1996), the Residency Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada (1998), and at the Bauhaus-Kolleg, Dessau, Germany (2000). She works as multimedia artist with video, performance, photography, installation and painting. She has widely exhibited at festivals internationally and has been awarded numerous prizes.
Filmographie - Vidéographie
1994 - "Story told by Schlimann.", video, 3 min - "By the ways of our memory", video, 10 min 1997 - "Meeting of two submarines", video, 10 min 1998 - "Evident avoidable", video, 18 min Film Video festivals: 1998 - "Dreamcatcher" (Grand-Prix); - "Open Night" (III Prize); - "Internyet", MOMA, New-York, USA; - "Colosseum Project" London, UK; - "Molodist" International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine; - "Cyber Feminist International Festival", St.Petersburg, Russia; - "French-Baltic-Nordic", Tallinn, Estonia - "Evident unavoidable", video Beta, 53 min - "Leader's Favourite Toys", video Beta SP, 15 min Film Video festivals: 1999 - "European Media Art Festival", Osnabruck, Germany; - "Open Night" Short Film Festival (I International, II National Prizes), Kiev, Ukraine; - "FilmVideo-99" International Short Film Festival (Prize), Montecatini, Italy; - "Molodist" International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine; - "Input" International Conference, Moscow, Russia 1999 - "Blue, White, Red? Blue! or Sleep of Excited Flesh", video, 5 min - "Long March I", video, 15 min - "Long March II", video, 10 min - "Wall", video, 8 min 2000 - "Introduction", video, 10 min Film Video festivals: 2000 -"Molodist" International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine - "Virtual Sea Tower", video, 5 min - "Free D", video, 14 min - "LAFA", video, 14min.
Education
1978 - 1984 Kiev State Art Institute, Ukraine.
1986 - 1988 Post-graduate course, Moscow, Russia
1998 - University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000 - Bauhaus-Kolleg, Dessau, Germany
Professional activities
Residencies: 1992 - Hagen, Germany; 1996 - CREDAC, Paris, France; 1997 - Cite International of Arts, Paris, France (grant of city of Paris); - Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA (Artslink Program); 1998 - Pont-Aven Museum, France (grant of DRAC Bretagne);- BANFF Centre for the Arts, Canada (BANFF Centre grant): 2000 - Bauhaus-Kolleg, Dessau, Germany
Video and media festivals
1998
- "Dreamcatcher" (Grand-Prix);
- "Open Night" (III Prize); - "Internyet", MOMA, New-York, USA;
- "Colosseum Project" London, UK; - "Molodist", Kiev, Ukraine;
- "Cyber Feminist International Festival" St. Petersburg, Russia;
- "French-Baltic-Nordic", Tallinn, Estonia;
1999
- "European Media Art Festival", Osnabruck, Germany;
- "Open Night" Short Film Festival (I International, II National prizes), Kiev, Ukraine;
- "FilmVideo-99" International Short film festival (Prize), Montecatini, Italy;
- "Cyberarts99" Ars Electronica, Vienna, Austria
- "Molodist" International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine;
- "Media-Non Grata" Tallinn, Estonia;
- "Input" International Conference, Moscow, Russia;
2000
- "Molodist" International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine;
- ISEA2000 International Symposium on Electronic art, Paris, France.
One person exhibitions
1988 - "Cross" action-installation, Hydroparc, Kiev
1992 - "Life of Structures" Cultural Center, Paris, France
1993 - "Storm of Trompettes" performance-installation, Hydroparc, Kiev.
1994 - "The ways of our Memory" French Cultural Center, Kiev
- "Three States" The Modern Art Center "Barva", Kiev
- "Traces", French Cultural Center, Kiev (catalog)
1996 - "Vagabond Island of Lesbos", Slavoutich Center for Contemporary Arts, Kiev (catalog)
- "Breakfast on the Grass", Luc Queyrel Gallery, Paris, France
1997 - "Is the Clothes a Shelter? " Action in Graphic Triennial, Art Gallery, Kiev (catalog)
- "1 + 1..." Luc Queyrel Gallery, Paris, France
- "The Mysteries of Eurasia", Cite International of Arts, Paris, France
- "The Mysteries of Eurasia" Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA
- "The Mysteries of Eurasia", Mayana Gallery, New-York, USA
1998 - "House of Horrors", Karas Gallery, Kiev
- "Piece of Shit", BANFF Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
- "Leader's Favourite Toys" Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
1999 - "Evident Unavoidable", "Dakh" Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev (catalog)
- "Sleep of excited shape", Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine (catalog)
2000 - "Free D", Bauhaus-Kolleg, Dessau, Germany
Group Exhibitions
1989 - "Electro-Hephestas", Rama-Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1990 - "In the Steppes of Ukraine", House der Begegnung, Munich, Germany (catalog)
1991 - "In the Steppes of Ukraine", Diessen Cultural Center, Germany
1992 - "RBK" Hagen Gallery, Germany
1993 - "Imagination Creates Reality" Hagen Museum, Germany (catalog)
- "Intuition and Constructivism", Panevegis Art Gallery, Lithuania.
- "Impreza - 93" International Biennial, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (catalog)
1995 - "Ukrainian Avant-Garde", Victoria Gallery, Kiev.
1996 - "Avant-Garde", Kiev Art Union Gallery, Kiev
- "Art Vision " National Art Museum, Kiev.
- Biennial "Pleins Feux", CREDAC Contemporary Art Center, Paris, France
1997 - "Great Ukrainian Women Artists - 97", Lavra City Gallery, Kiev (catalog)
- "Art Festival - 97" National Art Center "Ukrainian House", Kiev (catalog)
1998 - I Triennial of Painting, Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine (catalog)
- "Art - Festival - 98" National Art Center "Ukrainian House", Kiev (catalog)
- "Day in the Life", Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Kiev (catalog
- "Internyet", MOMA Museum of Modern Art, New-York, USA
- "Contemporary Mysteries", National Art Center "Ukrainian House", (catalog)
1999 - "Future is now", Museum of contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (catalog)
- "Looks on Ukraine" Espace Cardin, Paris, France
- "Range", Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine (catalog)
2000 - "Virtual Sea Tower" IAB Espace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- "Communication", Almaty, Kazakhstan
Membership: 1993 - AIAG International Association of Artists Based in Germany
1994 - Union of Artists of Ukraine.