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 Pascal Liévre
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The French artist Pascal Liévre presents three videos that bring the universe of one massive cultural industry, something easy to be watched, presenting great elderly stars from TV and faces that could only be away from the audience screen, as well as musicals vulgarizing political speeches and also films related to a universe produced to be consumed with all voracity and audience of an MTV so as to say, which makes homogenous the whole musical production. Pascal reveals an immediate speech ready for consumption.
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Impakt Festival 2005,
vídeo Lisboa 2005,
Vídeoformes 2005 – Especial - Pascal Liévre.
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 mm não é confete
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The collective "M&M is not a confetti" presents a work that will have a dialogue with the idea of urban paranoia, control and safety, in a third world society with high unemployment indexes and many social problems (health, education). They show a "sandwich-man" or a "poster-man" (a man who holds a poster advertising a product), a representative of the informal economy workers, without work papers signed by a firm, who try to survive by exposing their bodies on the street. That represented body captures images of downtown Sao Paulo and broadcasts those images inside the institution. M&M's work accuses the systems of power and brings irony to the sentence 'Smile, you're being videotaped' as an icon of the persecution and distrust towards all beings filmed in public spaces showing a false happiness.
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*404 – Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica (2004 / Argentina / performance)
MAM - Rio de Janeiro (2004-2005 / Rio de Janeiro / instalação)
*VJ Itinerante - mixagens e projeções ao vivo e em tempo real nas construções pela cidade de São Paulo (2005 / São Paulo / performance)
iRAP-Nokia Trends, sob curadoria de Lucas Bambozzi (2005 / São Paulo / performance)
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 Niklas Goldbach
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Niklas Goldbach in his video "Looping my barrio" portrays Berlin in the summer of 2004 with an urban architecture which, according to the artist, doesn't present fragments of human life for they are extremely clean, safe areas, with surveillance cameras everywhere, what Niklas called non humanist conceptual architecture, a cold Berlin that represents great economical interests in its urban culture.
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*A-TV, Gallery Rush Arts, New York
*Transmediale, Berlin
*“Image Forum”, Goethe-Institut, Kyoto, Japan
*EMAF (European Media Art Festival), Osnabrueck, Germany
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Paul Rowley & David Phillips
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In Paul Rowley's and David Phillips' work, "Security fugue", a film from the 1970's with situations of rescue that alludes to a promise of total safety offered by great health insurance plans and other insurance companies. Infallible teams that guarantee life at a high cost. Finally, the companies grow because they bet on the protection against the unexpected of a violent society that needs to profit with the promise of safety and, because of that, it invests and speculates high amounts on fear. In that same line of thought we are able to find a relationship among all the four presented installations.
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*Dimplex Artists’ Award, museu irlandês de Arte Moderna.
*Golden Spire no San Francisco International Film Festival
*New Langton rts Bay Area Award para video
*Zemos:98 em Sevilla
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