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March 2020: in a messy and apocalyptic world, what happens if your mind is egoistically obsessed with your love life? If you start searching for potential lovers via dating sites? If most of them do not react to your messages (although you can see them online) probably insufficiently stimulated by your profile? Others might agree for a walk, if it does not rain, Saturday afternoon or next Tuesday. That does not sound promising. Almost always, communication stops for no obvious reason, even though everybody stays online. Attention and curiosity disappear. Will they all remain virtual fantasies? Was it any different before the lockdown? Thanks to the Internet, multiplied screens are our new fragmented windows to the outside world. Connected with anyone, anywhere, anytime. However, isolated: alone and lonely in a room. This vocal and visual poem is a deconstruction of short sentences that one uses to arrange a meeting with a stranger. Hesitant and polite, "two simple letters" imply permanent insecurity, modesty, timidity — avoiding to offend or frighten the interlocutor(s). To put a lighter tone on this self-ironic situation, there is a conscious use of playful pop-elements, both with sound and color effects.

Miljana Nikovic is an architect and researcher experimenting with video, photography, sound, collage, and writing. Born in Belgrade, based in Berlin. After obtaining a Bachelor's degree in 2013 (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nancy, France) and a Master of Arts in 2015 (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Leipzig, Germany), worked as a workplace strategist and project coordinator. Currently starting a doctoral archival-artistic project at the HafenCity University (Hamburg) on the parallels between cities, cinema, and historical perceptions of collective memories. Recently initiated a collective for French-speaking poets and got selected at international film festivals with the experimental short "Seven Seven" and the video-poem "La Rive Virale" (Los Angeles, Mexico, Athens).

Au coeur de Saint-Désir l'Exil se trouve une piscine. Au coeur de la piscine se trouvent les corps nocifs. A côté de la piscine, ma maman vit ses derniers instants sous le soleil.

OSORESAN Natacha Nisic & Daimaru Ken 3 channels installation, stereo sound, 17’, 2018 The Itako are women who train to become spiritual mediums in Northeast region of Japan and to evoke departed spirits for the living seeking to communicate with the dead. Most of them have visual disabilities and learn language and rites to describe a rich spiritual world entirely through oral communication. Our first meeting wit Nakamura Take took place in Hachinohe city in Jully 2015. Fiming a blind person is a challenge, in one hand, we would see what she would never share with us, and on the other hand, it seems that she « sees » things that we aslo don’t see. We met her two times in 2015 and in 2017. Each sequence was very short between clients who were regularely knocking at her door. Those fragments of her life, moments of remembering songs, rites and legends were too short to build up a large portrait. They became elements of a constellation we wanted to draw : balancing her humility and modesty versus the huge scale of the desaster which happened not so far fom a living region. Her way to travel in unknown countries of dead and spirits, using a treasure of words, notes, incantation, has been guiding own journey into the landscapes revealing the traces of the post catastrophy. (imprégnant par ses paroles chacune de nos visions des paysages que nous traversions). She told us the legend of «Oshirasama», the founding tail for Itakos, a cruel story of a father, a beloved daughter and a horse. As we crossed the city of Soma, we remembered the Horse Festival organized by the city just one year after the disaster. The horses are still there, waiting. The desire to make peace with the dead motivates each one visiting an Itako. What could help us to make our own peace with the heritage of the post catastrophy ? What kind of political individual gestures could face the large scale of political environmental decisons ? We still have to deal wih nuclear threat. As a symbol of fear, the mount Osoresan, a lansdcape of ashes, smoke and dark water, responds to the hyptnotic beauty of the fragmentation of alpha an beta rays displayed at the Rokkasho PR Center. Fear, to be acclimated must show a fascinating face, as Itakos used to be represented ; stranges, unreachable and dangerous figures of women. Witches. We discovered a touching, smily, opened woman. We realized that Take Nakamura is a monument of Japan history. Very precious, rare and fragile. With participation of Take Nakamura and Itakos of Osorezan Cast: Satoko Abe, Fumie Kubota, Yohei Kobayashi, Kyoko Takenaka, Mika Shigemori

Bio Natacha: The work of Natacha Nisic explores the invisible, even magical relationship between images, words, ritual and memory. She interweaves links between stories, past and the present, to reveal the complexities of the relationship of what is shown and what is hidden, the spoken and the unspoken. Her work questions the nature of the image through various media: Super 8, 16MM, video, photography and drawing. In 2014, her highly acclaimed solo exhibition, Echo at the Jeu de Paume in Paris presented several installations created since 1995 and new works produced specifically for this show. She exhibits extensively around the world : recent shows include the Media City Biennale in Seoul (2016), Bienal de la Imagen en movement in Buenos Aires, Munfret in Buenos Aires (2016), Hermès Foundation in Seoul (2012), K21 in Düsseldorf (2011), Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo (2010), British Film Institute, London (2010), and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2009). Nisic has been awarded numerous grants and residencies including the Villa Kujoyama, Tokyo in 2001 and 2016 Gyeonngi Creation Center, South Korea (2010) and the Villa Medici, Rome in 2007. Education: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie, Berlin; La Femis, Paris. Born Grenoble, France, 1967. Bio Ken: Ken Daimaru is a history researcher at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris, France), and is the author of Between War Wounds and a War of Wounds (Mouvement social). Over the years, his researches have ranged from the social and cultural history of Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to medical histories of military conflict between the Russo-Japanese war and the Second World war, focusing on the understanding of subjects “violence, the body, the suffering, the emotions” central to human experience. During 2011-2012, he wrote prolifically on question of health, emotional responses in the aftermath of 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Daimaru was born in the city of Fukuoka. As a young child, he lived in Hiroshima, before moving to Brussels for high school. Since 2003, he lives in Paris.

− e est le récit d`un voyage dans le nord du Japon à la recherche d`un territoire inaccessible : un territoire transformé, meurtri par un tremblement de terre d`intensité 6,7 sur l`échelle de Richter en juin 2008. La montagne déplacée, ouverte en quelques minutes par le choc violent des éléments, est une cicatrice ouverte d`une étrange beauté dont le sort reste indéterminé Cette cicatrice qui ne peut se refermer, reste un paysage d`une grande beauté, un grand canyon qui pourrait devenir un parc d`attraction, un « ecopark » qui attirerait les touristes, faisant de la catastrophe un argument de vente, .. − Nous survolons ce territoire, tentons d`y accéder malgré les barrages qui le clôturent. Ne peuvent y accéder que les camions des travailleurs à la reconstructions et les résidents reclus. Ceux qui ont vécu le tremblement de terre racontent et rejouent ces instants violents. Apprivoiser la catastrophe est une attitude culturelle japonaise. Si on ne peut apprivoiser le futur, on peut le prévenir.

Née en 1967 à Grenoble, Natacha Nisic poursuit des études d`art à l`ENSAD de Paris, et de cinéma à DFFB de Berlin et à la Femis. Son travail se situe à la frontière des différents supports de l`image en mouvement, Super 8, film et vidéo, mais aussi par la photographie et l`installation. Elle réalise de nombreuses expositions en France, Printemps de Cahors, Centre National de la Photographie, Le plateau-Frac Ile-de-France. Ses films ont été récemment présentés au Centre Georges Pompidou à Paris, K21, Düsseldorf, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, British Film Institute, Londres.

L`usine Desurmond à Tourcoing a fermé en 2004. C`était la dernière usine de filature de cette région. Les ouvriers se sont regroupés en association afin de faire valoir leurs droits et créer une communauté, au delà de la perte du travail. Les hommes puis les femmes ont reproduits la chaine et les gestes du travail à la chaine dans cette filature. Certains y ont travaillés en équipe de nuit pendant 35 ans.

Née en 1967. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, poursuit des études à la Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie de Berlin et à la Femis à Paris pour l`écriture de scénario. Elle réalise de nombreuses expositions et films où la question de l`image est mise en jeu. Elle utilise pour cela différents médiums : super 8, 16 mm, vidéo, photographie. Images fixes ou en mouvement fonctionnent comme substrat de la mémoire, mémoire tendue entre sa valeur de preuve et sa perte. Les différentes expositions personnelles comme au Plateau, Frac île de France, puis au musée Zadkine à Paris, sont des autant de prises de positions sur le statut des images et les possibles de la représentation.Ces oeuvres ont été montrées dans de nombreux pays, Allemagne, Espagne, Japon, Corée, canada, Argentine... Ses films sont diffusés sur Arte et au Centre Georges Pompidou à Paris. Pensionnaire de la Villa Kujoyama (2001) et Villa médicis (2007).

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Dans la tour de la ville de Malakoff "Et n’être que brume » met en place le cadre expérimental d’une improvisation.Plongés dans les brumes, les êtres se révèlent. L’écran de la fumée permet une libération des affects car au sein du brouillard se logent les souvenirs, les torpeurs et les désirs. Le film est en hommage à la Crimée annexée depuis 2014 par la Russie.

Au coeur de Saint-Désir l'Exil se trouve une piscine. Au coeur de la piscine se trouvent les corps nocifs. A côté de la piscine, ma maman vit ses derniers instants sous le soleil.

OSORESAN Natacha Nisic & Daimaru Ken 3 channels installation, stereo sound, 17’, 2018 The Itako are women who train to become spiritual mediums in Northeast region of Japan and to evoke departed spirits for the living seeking to communicate with the dead. Most of them have visual disabilities and learn language and rites to describe a rich spiritual world entirely through oral communication. Our first meeting wit Nakamura Take took place in Hachinohe city in Jully 2015. Fiming a blind person is a challenge, in one hand, we would see what she would never share with us, and on the other hand, it seems that she « sees » things that we aslo don’t see. We met her two times in 2015 and in 2017. Each sequence was very short between clients who were regularely knocking at her door. Those fragments of her life, moments of remembering songs, rites and legends were too short to build up a large portrait. They became elements of a constellation we wanted to draw : balancing her humility and modesty versus the huge scale of the desaster which happened not so far fom a living region. Her way to travel in unknown countries of dead and spirits, using a treasure of words, notes, incantation, has been guiding own journey into the landscapes revealing the traces of the post catastrophy. (imprégnant par ses paroles chacune de nos visions des paysages que nous traversions). She told us the legend of «Oshirasama», the founding tail for Itakos, a cruel story of a father, a beloved daughter and a horse. As we crossed the city of Soma, we remembered the Horse Festival organized by the city just one year after the disaster. The horses are still there, waiting. The desire to make peace with the dead motivates each one visiting an Itako. What could help us to make our own peace with the heritage of the post catastrophy ? What kind of political individual gestures could face the large scale of political environmental decisons ? We still have to deal wih nuclear threat. As a symbol of fear, the mount Osoresan, a lansdcape of ashes, smoke and dark water, responds to the hyptnotic beauty of the fragmentation of alpha an beta rays displayed at the Rokkasho PR Center. Fear, to be acclimated must show a fascinating face, as Itakos used to be represented ; stranges, unreachable and dangerous figures of women. Witches. We discovered a touching, smily, opened woman. We realized that Take Nakamura is a monument of Japan history. Very precious, rare and fragile. With participation of Take Nakamura and Itakos of Osorezan Cast: Satoko Abe, Fumie Kubota, Yohei Kobayashi, Kyoko Takenaka, Mika Shigemori

Bio Natacha: The work of Natacha Nisic explores the invisible, even magical relationship between images, words, ritual and memory. She interweaves links between stories, past and the present, to reveal the complexities of the relationship of what is shown and what is hidden, the spoken and the unspoken. Her work questions the nature of the image through various media: Super 8, 16MM, video, photography and drawing. In 2014, her highly acclaimed solo exhibition, Echo at the Jeu de Paume in Paris presented several installations created since 1995 and new works produced specifically for this show. She exhibits extensively around the world : recent shows include the Media City Biennale in Seoul (2016), Bienal de la Imagen en movement in Buenos Aires, Munfret in Buenos Aires (2016), Hermès Foundation in Seoul (2012), K21 in Düsseldorf (2011), Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo (2010), British Film Institute, London (2010), and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2009). Nisic has been awarded numerous grants and residencies including the Villa Kujoyama, Tokyo in 2001 and 2016 Gyeonngi Creation Center, South Korea (2010) and the Villa Medici, Rome in 2007. Education: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie, Berlin; La Femis, Paris. Born Grenoble, France, 1967. Bio Ken: Ken Daimaru is a history researcher at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris, France), and is the author of Between War Wounds and a War of Wounds (Mouvement social). Over the years, his researches have ranged from the social and cultural history of Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to medical histories of military conflict between the Russo-Japanese war and the Second World war, focusing on the understanding of subjects “violence, the body, the suffering, the emotions” central to human experience. During 2011-2012, he wrote prolifically on question of health, emotional responses in the aftermath of 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Daimaru was born in the city of Fukuoka. As a young child, he lived in Hiroshima, before moving to Brussels for high school. Since 2003, he lives in Paris.

− e est le récit d`un voyage dans le nord du Japon à la recherche d`un territoire inaccessible : un territoire transformé, meurtri par un tremblement de terre d`intensité 6,7 sur l`échelle de Richter en juin 2008. La montagne déplacée, ouverte en quelques minutes par le choc violent des éléments, est une cicatrice ouverte d`une étrange beauté dont le sort reste indéterminé Cette cicatrice qui ne peut se refermer, reste un paysage d`une grande beauté, un grand canyon qui pourrait devenir un parc d`attraction, un « ecopark » qui attirerait les touristes, faisant de la catastrophe un argument de vente, .. − Nous survolons ce territoire, tentons d`y accéder malgré les barrages qui le clôturent. Ne peuvent y accéder que les camions des travailleurs à la reconstructions et les résidents reclus. Ceux qui ont vécu le tremblement de terre racontent et rejouent ces instants violents. Apprivoiser la catastrophe est une attitude culturelle japonaise. Si on ne peut apprivoiser le futur, on peut le prévenir.

Née en 1967 à Grenoble, Natacha Nisic poursuit des études d`art à l`ENSAD de Paris, et de cinéma à DFFB de Berlin et à la Femis. Son travail se situe à la frontière des différents supports de l`image en mouvement, Super 8, film et vidéo, mais aussi par la photographie et l`installation. Elle réalise de nombreuses expositions en France, Printemps de Cahors, Centre National de la Photographie, Le plateau-Frac Ile-de-France. Ses films ont été récemment présentés au Centre Georges Pompidou à Paris, K21, Düsseldorf, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, British Film Institute, Londres.

L`usine Desurmond à Tourcoing a fermé en 2004. C`était la dernière usine de filature de cette région. Les ouvriers se sont regroupés en association afin de faire valoir leurs droits et créer une communauté, au delà de la perte du travail. Les hommes puis les femmes ont reproduits la chaine et les gestes du travail à la chaine dans cette filature. Certains y ont travaillés en équipe de nuit pendant 35 ans.

Née en 1967. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, poursuit des études à la Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie de Berlin et à la Femis à Paris pour l`écriture de scénario. Elle réalise de nombreuses expositions et films où la question de l`image est mise en jeu. Elle utilise pour cela différents médiums : super 8, 16 mm, vidéo, photographie. Images fixes ou en mouvement fonctionnent comme substrat de la mémoire, mémoire tendue entre sa valeur de preuve et sa perte. Les différentes expositions personnelles comme au Plateau, Frac île de France, puis au musée Zadkine à Paris, sont des autant de prises de positions sur le statut des images et les possibles de la représentation.Ces oeuvres ont été montrées dans de nombreux pays, Allemagne, Espagne, Japon, Corée, canada, Argentine... Ses films sont diffusés sur Arte et au Centre Georges Pompidou à Paris. Pensionnaire de la Villa Kujoyama (2001) et Villa médicis (2007).

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The Crown Letter The Crown Letter is an international collective of women artists. It was founded by Natacha Nisic in April 2020, in response to the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Natacha Nisic created this art project to respond to a needandsupport women artists at a time when their lives, their networks and the visibility of their work were particularly disrupted. Beyond the circumstances that gave birth to it, The Crown Letter has become a fertile, organic, self-managed and independent space for creation and dialogue, crystallizing the lack of such openings to creation and the encounter of women artists. From the beginning, the artists have published a new edition of The Crown Letter online every week, with the works of many international contributors. These works reflect our current times through drawing, sculpture, photography, collage, writing, sound and video. In 2022, Natacha Nisic received the Hans und Lea Gründig Preis for the project in Berlin. Fluxus Art Project has promoted the project in 2022.

Exhibitions 2020 - Publication of the website 2021 - Photodays Paris, outdoor exhibitions at the square Chatelet and Vuillemin garden, Paris. Hyperfestival. - Fondation Fiminco, Photodays 2022 - KG+, French Institut Kyoto, Japan - Bienal Sur, Centro Cultural Cordoba - MAPI, Montevideo, Uriguay 2023 - Residencie at Luxfer, in Ceska Skalice, Czech Republic - We will want to dance tomorow. Tales for the future, Galerie 35, Institut Français, Prague Publication 2021 - Trigger magazine 3, "Care" - Moving Image Review and Art Journal, Volume 9, Number 2, London

The man’s presence lingers in the room that for years served as his study. Present and past intertwine as he follows threads of his memory and recalls events from the time of his participation in the colonial war against Ethiopia in 1935-36.

Rossella Nisio [IT] is a visual artist based in Rotterdam whose work has a strong focus on notions of memory, imagination and space. She has a background in the theory of cinema and performing arts; she pursued her practical training first within the field of documentary photography, eventually moving towards a more autonomous approach to still and moving image-making. She completed the advanced photography studies in Ar.Co in Lisbon in 2017 and earned an MA in Fine Art and Design at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2019.

Against the backdrop of a vacant house, two voices pursue the shadows of 1968 and its aftermath: Drifter, brooding over the revolution that never came, and his unnamed comrade, who addresses him from the ranks of a funeral procession. The film is based on the events surrounding the death of M.A., a left-wing activist.

Rossella Nisio is an Italian visual artist based in Rotterdam. She has a background in the theory of cinema and performing arts at the University of Roma Tre and holds an MA in Fine Art and Design from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her moving image works have been shown in festivals in the Netherlands and abroad and are included in the collection of the EYE Film Institute. She is a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2021-22.

In the background of complicated relations between the major population and gypsy community in Slovakia appears Gabriel, a young gypsy who is willing to establish a cultural life in his sleepy little village. The village sometimes wakes up, but than the most things happen in the pub. Gabriel offers more ? his own music as well as a folk ensemble, performing gypsy and non-gypsy dance. The village people look at him with mistrust. What has actually happened and what was only a dream? This story doesn?t answer it. It is only a testimony of a persistent attempt made by somebody who believes in himself and in people.

Ana Njemoga-Kolar was born in former Yugoslavia. She has been living in the Slovak Republic since 1993. She has contributed to the culture of both countries. Her plays were transmitted at the Radio Beograd, Novy Sad, Sarajevo, Ljubljana? and in the Slovak Republic in the programs of the Slovak broadcast station. She is the author of many theater plays and a publicist too. In this new environment, she started to dedicate herself to documentaries. Many awards were given to her for her documentary and literary work. Ana Njemoga- Kolar is preparing also other projects devoted to the themes of her new environment, which indeed always have a universal human undertone?

Breathing noise and Brazilian funk. The mouth is the window to the soul. In Xerém, a 97-year-old grandmother has never kissed on the lips. Nor has she ever consented to anything, to be honest. Meanwhile, the youth roams the streets and the woods. Mysteries of love and sexuality.

Born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Xerém, Ninah Nogino graduated in Film Studies at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. After her school experiments, "Relato de Xerém" is her first film.

This data-moshing work was created while in residence at Signal Culture, Owego, NY. Part of a video series that examines the early information age, this industrial film was produced at Bell Labs and represents early experiments in rendering human speech and the "Poem Fields" computer animation work of Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton. Many of the inventions predicted within this video area a reality and commonplace, as accessible as our mobile phone. The original industrial film was made available under Creative Commons license, at archive.org

Timothy Nohe is an artist, composer and educator engaging traditional and electronic media in civic life and public places. His work has been focused upon sustainability and place, and musical and video works for dance and live performance. Nohe has exhibited and performed his work in a range of national and international venues: ISEA: Paris and the Baltic Sea; Ars Electronica, Linz; the Danish Institute of Electro-Acoustic Music, Århus; Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo; the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Oxfringe Festival, Oxford; Fed Square, Melbourne; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The National Aquarium, Baltimore; Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia; and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York. He was the recipient of a 2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award from the Australian – American Fulbright Commission, and was awarded the Commission’s 2011 Fulbright Alumni Initiative Grant, which resulted in multiple exhibitions in the United States and Australia on view from 2012 – 2016. Nohe has been the recipient of five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, and a Creative Baltimore Award. A 2011 National Endowment for the Arts and William G. Baker Fund “Our Town Project – Creative Placemaking” grant supported his My Station North: Sounds Surrounding Us through the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. A 2015 Warnock Foundation grant recognized Nohe’s work as a “Social Innovator” in modeling urban forest stewardship. He was commissioned as an exhibiting artist for Light City 2017, Baltimore; the festival attracted 470,000 visitors. In November of 2017 he debuted a solo exhibition titled Voltage is Signal: Analog Video Works by Timothy Nohe at the Kohl Gallery at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. That solo exhibition will be on view in the Electronic Gallery at Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD July 16 – October 25, 2018. Nohe is the founding Director of the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Research in the Arts (CIRCA) and a tenured Professor of Visual Arts at UMBC. A committed citizen of the university, he served two terms as the President of the UMBC Faculty Senate and in other key leadership positions. Nohe was an Artist in Residence at the Centre for Creative Arts at La Trobe University from 2011 – 2014. He was granted and renewed in the rank of Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University, in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011 – 2015. He currently serves on the editorial board of the international journal, Unlikely, which is based in Melbourne, Australia. In fall of 2018 Nohe will be producing an immersive 360º video documentary on Baltimore’s failing sewage system and its interface with the watershed.

This video is the result of a performance carried out by patients and caregivers during lunch at the restaurant of the Institut Marcel Rivière in Verrière psychiatric hospital. It was made in collaboration with Régis Bouchet-Merelli and Dominique Larcher from the contemporary dance company K-Denza. The performance lasted 25 minutes but only 2'32'' have been kept to create this video, based on the body movements in connection with the architecture. The rhythm in this video is created by the surrounding noise of the meal (plates, cutlery, discussions...). This performance was conceived in relation with the restaurant's historical and architectural context: the hall in which the performance is set was reserved to the caregivers in the 1960's. This room is separated by large bay windows from another larger room where the patients have dinner. At the time, these bay windows allowed for the observation and diagnosis of the patients during lunch. This practice is no longer in use today, but the caregivers continue to dine in one room while the patients dine in the other. The aim of the performance was for everyone to dine together in the same space, and for the space, both open and closed because of the windows, to become a performance space, where objects lose their functionality: The tables are assembled and disassambled to form a dance stage, and the chairs no longer serve as seats. An attempt to disrupt the meal space and everyone's habits by creating a mental architecture.

Barbara Noiret was born in 1976. She currently lives and works in Paris. The Frédéric Giroux Gallery, where in 2005 she produced a personal exhibition, has been promoting her work since 2004. Thanks to the gallery, she took part in several collective exhibitions and contemporary art fairs - Artissima, Turin, and FIAC 2004, 2005 and 2006, in Paris. She has carried out exhibition and residency projects in two contemporary art centres, and the departmental estate of Chamarande invited her to produce a work of photography and video based on her final project on the domain's castle. Le Fonds National d?art contemporain acquired two photographic works produced on this estate in 2006. Some of her work was shown during the days of patrimony in September 2005, and was further displayed in the exhibition "L'esprit des lieux" from November 2006 to February 2007. At the end of her three month residence in 2000, the estate of Kerguéhennec, Bignan allowed her to present a personal project, "l'espace de l'image", on the abandonned floors of the castle. Barbara has exhibited her work at the Music and Art School in Brême, Germany. The school invited her to participate in the presentation of the student's works. She produced an installation video especially for the occasion. As for other projects, the Marcel Rivière Institute, a psychiatric hospital in Verrière, put a disused pavilion at her disposal two years ago and she continues to make use of it. She works in different spaces of the hospital in relation to the patients and the caregivers. In 2005, in the framework of this project, Barbara received individual creation aid and an installation allowance (material aid) from DRAC Ile-de-France. In 2001 she completed a short residency at La Casa de Vélasquez in Madrid, working on the directorial project "Sin Escenario1 Identité et Image" by David Ferré as a photographer screenwriter.

?Time of each session, something happens to the almost still things that are represented by these images. Someone comes, moves, upsets, or modifies a very precise point of the frame in order to do a precise use of the place ? fastidious exploration or just by standing. In that precise point of these minimalist narrations, the video is a photography that last long.? Eléonore Espargillière

I?m born in 1976 and I live and work in Paris. The Gallery Frédéric Giroux exhibits my work since the group exhibition ?Le Corps en Perspective? where I was invited in 2004. The gallery permitted me to do a solo exhibition in May and June 2005 and made take part in many contemporary art venues: Artissma, Turin, Italia, FIAC 2004 and 2005, Paris. I realized exhibitions and residence projects in two contemporary art centre: the Domaine Kerguéhennec, Bigan, France, where I presented at the end of the 3 month residence a personal project, the space of the image in he disused places of the caste (2000). The Domaine Départemental de Chamarande invited me this year to realize and photographic and video work around the memory of the castle in the estate. Some works, especially videos, where shown in the framework of the ?Journées du Patrimoine? in September 2005. The Fond National d?Art Contemporain just bought two pictures done in the Domaine de Chamarande. I exposed in Germany, in Bremen, at the Music School, Hochschule für Künste Bremen. The school invited me to take part in the presentation of students? works. I realized there a video in situ especially for the occasion. Regarding other venues, the Institut Marcel Rivière, a psychiatric hospital located in the Verrière, France, let for my use currently a disused pavilion for two years. My project is to work in the different spaces of the hospital in relation with patients and doctors. In this project framework I just received the individual creation scholarship form the DRAC Ile-de-France. I did a short residence in La Casa de Velasquez, Madrid, Spain, in the framework of a project of in Escenario staging ?Identité et Image de David Ferré?. I tool part as photographer director of the project in 2001. I obtained my Diplôme National Supérieur d?Expression Plastique with jury honours at the Beaux-Art of Anger in 2000 and my Diplôme National d?Art Plastique with honours at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts of Le Man in 1998.

In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century British photographer John Burke. Norfolk?s photographs reimagine or respond to Burke?s Afghan war scenes in the context of the contemporary conflict. Conceived as a collaborative project with Burke across time, this new body of work is presented alongside Burke?s original portfolios. The exhibition takes place in conjunction with an earlier complementary exhibition in March 2011 at the Queen?s Palace in the Baghe Babur garden in Kabul, supported by The World Collections Programme and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which resulted from a series of workshops with Afghan photographers, featuring work by Fardin Waezi and Burke alongside Norfolk?s own work.

Simon Norfolk was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1963 and educated in England, finishing at Oxford and Bristol Universities with a degree in philosophy and sociology. After leaving a documentary photography course in Newport, South Wales, Norfolk worked for far-left publications specializing in work on anti-racist activities and fascist groups, in particular the British National Party. In 1994 he gave up photojournalism in favor of landscape photography. His book For Most of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory, about the places that have witnessed genocide, was published in 1998. The work was exhibited at many venues, including the Imperial War Museum in London, the Nederlands Foto Instituut, and the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas. Photographs of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, published as Afghanistan: Chronotopia, won the European Publishers` Award for Photography and an award from the Foreign Press Club of America and was nominated for the Citibank Prize. In 2004, Norfolk won the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York and in 2005 Le Prix Dialogue in Arles. His most recent book, Bleed, about the aftermath of war in Bosnia, was published in 2005. His work appears regularly in the New York Times Magazine and the Guardian Weekend.

The film Thirst is a post-human choreography of machines and displaced plants. Millions of tons of Estonian peat end up in greenhouses in the Netherlands, where it is used as a soil substrate for tropical Phalaenopsis orchids. Meanwhile, local communities in Estonia are left with dry wells and a lack of drinking water as their fragile wetlands are drained for peat extraction. The orchids from the Netherlands then find their way back to supermarkets and homes in Estonia. It is a thirst for luxury and abundance that keeps the capitalist machinery running. Thirst is one episode from Kristina Norman’s Orchidelirium film trilogy. Commissioned for the Estonian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Author and director: Kristina Norman Cinematographer: Erik Norkroos Composer: Märt-Matis Lill Choreographer and cast: Mari Mägi Produced by Rühm Pluss Null in collaboration with CCA Estonia

Kristina Norman (b.1979, lives and works in Tallinn) is an artist whose interdisciplinary work includes video installations, sculpture, and projects in the city space, as well as documentaries and performance. She is interested in the issues of collective memory, the memorial uses of the public space, but also the subtle sphere of the body politic that transgresses the boundaries between the public and the private. In 2009 she represented Estonia at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, with a solo project; a multilayered mixed media installation entitled After-War. The project was a study of a conflict around the relocation of a Soviet monument in Tallinn. In 2022 at the 59th edition, the artist again represented Estonia with an ecocritical exhibition “Orchidelirium. An Appetite For Abundance”, a duo show with Bita Razavi, curated by Corina Apostol. Norman’s experimental film trilogy commissioned for the Estonian Pavilion, offers multiple ways to reflect on the legacies of colonialism from a specifically Eastern European perspective.

In an atmosphere ripe with nationalism, two young engineers are commissioned by the Estonian Ministry of Defense to erect the country?s most important monument ? a statue commemorating the War of Independence. With strong political and social pressure, the heroes find themselves in many tragicomic situations and a constant row of ordeals. All of this paints a colorful and unique picture of the creation of a symbol during a time of financial crisis in Estonia.

Kristina Norman visual artist and documentary filmmaker born in 1979 in Tallinn, Estonia lives and works in Tallinn Education: 2010 Estonian Academy of Fine Arts, MA

Jean-Pascal est un cadre supérieur actif dans sa société, impliqué dans son travail, soucieux de sa réussite professionnelle. Il est ce que l`on appelle un « rurbain » : vivant à la campagne, il effectue chaque jour de nombreux trajets en TGV pour se rendre sur son lieu de travail. Sa vie reculée à la campagne l`a amené, avec ces proches, à fonder un nouveau type de communauté, prônant le retour aux valeurs du terroir. Face aux problèmes que celle-ci doit surmonter, il entreprend de rencontrer de nouvelles personnes, elles-mêmes impliquées dans des réflexions sur la communauté.

François Nouguiès artiste et réalisateur vit et travaille à Paris - co-fondateur de Public> espace de diffusion de la création contemporaine www.onoci.com/public/infosgenerales.htm - représenté par la galerie Chez Valentin à Paris www.galeriechezvalentin.com - enseignant à l`école supérieur d`art de Grenoble depuis 2001 www.esag.fr/ François Nouguiès développe un travail vidéo lié à la performance et plus largement à l`organisation d`expériences, expériences sociales, recréant des contextes à caractère réactif. Tout d`abord présent sur la scène des Arts plastiques, il investit aujourd`hui davantage le champ cinématographique, notamment avec ses deux derniers films : « Le Dernier Film II », en 2004, et « Dancing Killing », en 2007, ainsi qu`avec son projet en cours : « Jean-Pascal pour la France ». À mi-chemin entre expériences et documentaires, le travail de François Nouguiès s`attache à faire apparaître les limites de certaines situations. PROJECTIONS 2007 « Prologue », autour de Fassbinder, http://conatus.series.free.fr/francais/saison1.html « Dancing Killing », Famu école de cinéma, Prague. Le Magasin, Centre National d`Art Contemporain, Grenoble. 2006 « Le Dernier Film II », l`atelier Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris. 2005 « Le Dernier Film II », Fémis, Paris. EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES 2004 « The Last Movie », Galerie chez Valentin, Paris. 2002 « Alex », Festival visu, Dieppe. Festival Nouvelles scène, Dijon. Festival de Belfort. Festival Tanze Um August, Berlin. 2001 « Alex », Festival Take Off, Théâtre de Châtillon. 2000 « SSA » Galerie chez Valentin, Paris. EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES 2007 « Territoires en expansion », Jeu de Paume hors les murs, Nogent-sur-Marne. 2006 « Re : re », Espace Paul Ricard, Paris. 2006 Galerie Dubellay, Rouen. 2005 Le magasin Hors Les Murs, Centre National d`Art Contemporain, Musée Dauphinois, Grenoble. 2004 « In/Ex-Hibition », Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris. 2004 « Double Trouble », La Galerie, FRAC, Montpellier. 2003 « Rencontres internationale de l?image », Ecole d?Art du Havre. 2002 « L?ami de mon amie », ENSBA, Cergy-Pontoise. 2001 « Bruit de Fond », Centre National de la Photographie, Paris. 2000 « TV Wonderland », Festival Belfort, France.

In Los Angeles, the city becomes electric when it gets dark. For artist Monica Nouwens, it's these hours after sunset when LA is most vibrant and alive in its diversity and spirit. Nouwens' body of work is comprised of her experiences after dark on the streets of South East LA and is, in many ways, a love letter to the City of Angels. Having first moved to Los Angeles in the '90s, Nouwens is has been noted for intimate and provocative portraits amidst continuously synthetic landscapes of decadence and decay. In her work, shot in a distinctly cinematic aesthetic reminiscent of old Hollywood noir, Nouwens captures the faces and scenes of those Los Angelinos who contribute to the cultural mosaic of the city.

Monica Nouwens is a fellow of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam. She studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy and California Institute of the Arts. Nouwens exhibited at Netherlands Photography Museum Rotterdam, Photography Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Wende Museum, and underground spaces. Nouwens first consideration are the people in the work, and so the work is shown first in the streets of Los Angeles. Her videos have been shown at the The rejected Film Festival. Nouwens teaches at the Departement of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles and taught at UCI, SCI-Arc, CalArts, University of Leiden, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico and CCA, Montreal.

Forensic video essay built as a performative research into the first international criminal tribunal case to enter convictions for rape as a form of torture and for sexual enslavement as crime against humanity. While working solely with visual archive and testimonies, The Silence of Reason acts as a memory itself: elusive, fluid, it rejects framing, moving in all directions, spatial and temporal. The singular experiences of violence and torture by women from the Fo?a rape camps during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina become our collective memories, surpassing time and space.

Forensic video essay built as a performative research into the first international criminal tribunal case to enter convictions for rape as a form of torture and for sexual enslavement as crime against humanity. While working solely with visual archive and testimonies, The Silence of Reason acts as a memory itself: elusive, fluid, it rejects framing, moving in all directions, spatial and temporal. The singular experiences of violence and torture by women from the Fo?a rape camps during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina become our collective memories, surpassing time and space.

"Desastres Naturales" est la rencontre de trois films, trois territoires. Une récit personnel qui, à travers des expériences traduites en images et les extraits d'un journal, dessine le portrait de rencontres vécues et de lieux habités, traversés par des forces naturelles, des couleurs, des accidents et des luttes.

Andrea Novoa (née en 1988) est cinéaste. D’origine chilienne, elle réside dans la région de l’Araucanie, au sud du Chili. Le développement de son travail photographique analogique et de laboratoire débute au cours de ses études à l'école Foto Arte du Chili, Santiago (Chili). Elle obtient par la suite un master en Cinéma d'Essai de la EICTV - École Internationale de Cinéma et Télévision, San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba), où elle réalise ses premiers films. De 2017 à 2019, elle est membre du collectif de cinéma expérimental CEIS8, Santiago (Chili), qui organise des espaces de rencontres, de formations et de présentations liés au travail filmique. En 2019, son projet "Desatres Naturales" est sélectionné dans le cadre des résidences de post-production de l'Atelier 105 de Light Cone, Paris (France). Andrea Novoa co-dirige actuellement Praeclara Imagen, une maison de production et laboratoire cinématographique dans la région de l'Araucanie (Chili).

"At first we could not believe it. We were terrified. ( ... ) Years we talked about Carly as if she wasn't there." Said Arthur Fleishmann about his autistic daughter, when a ten year old, for he first time in her life, made contact with the outside world, tapping on the keyboard "hurt" and "help". Her father's suprise resulted from the contact with her consciousness, which earlier didn't seem to him as a comparable to his. Visual basis of the work is passive video recording made by an animal. The theoretical - the concept of dissonance by social psychologist Leon Festinger. It's an unpleasant state of psychological tension that appears when at the same time there are two cognitive elements incompatible with each other. It leads to reformulation or addition of a new cognitive element. If the solution doesn't occur, unpleasant tension increases. Its value (force) is the greater the closer we are to the expected "point of relief." In the video work I realize perceptual dissonance between the remembered image - known to us, and the one being watched - experienced for the first time. The second one is strange, but elementary and first, which makes it close. The consequence of the transformation, which is conducted unconsciously by our 'self' is strengthening our ties with the object. Bill Viola wrote about one of his movies that watching them will 'penetrate the internal states and the connection with the animal consciousness that we all have'. An important product of the process described above is alleviation of bergson's intellect, which 'creates concepts to simplify certain entities so as to undergo quantification'. If the process of reformulation is successful, we have a chance to experience the intermediate borrowed intuition.

I graduated from University of Art in Poznań (2013). I study Psychology at University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań.