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Programa

Ben Coonley (Brooklyn, NY) “One Trick Pony” DV, 4:50

Introduces the audience to the rockin’ talkin’ pony, who provides musical accompaniment for a series of Texas country dance lessons.

Venus poseída por el espíritu de Aznar en cocina de casa ocupada

2 minutos. Mini-dv pal. Madrid 2002

La deriva histórica se ha materializado en la cocina de nuestra casa ocupada. Vivo en una ciudad donde los gobiernos son elegidos en función de la política inmobiliaria, una ciudad donde tener una vivienda digna se ha convertido en una tarea herculiana. En una ciudad donde la necesidad de encontrar espacios vitales donde crear, amar, vivir es una urgencia. Venus baila en la cocina. Es sorprendida por el mortal Aznar, que aprovechando un descuido de la diosa y adueñándose de su voluntad, proclama a los cuatro vientos y en italiano: “io sonno il capone di la mafia”.

Masayuki Kawai - About a Theological Situation in the Society of Spectacle　6'30", sound, 2001

TV stars and Mikados are ubiquitous not as a symbol but analogy to be referred to. The image quoted from Society of Spectacle hallucinate us the ruin of itself, by using deliberate imitation of mass-media image.

André Sheik Janelas, 1:30 2003.

"Janelas" - “windows” plays with the doubt on the gaze of the artist and of the expectator. Is it a mirror game? Televisions are openings to a ficticious world, but they reflect, literally a real world. "Janelas" is a relationship with "las niñas" from Velasquez. How to distinguish the simulacra from the reality?

Pascal Lièvre «Lacan Dalida» –, Paris, video, 2001, 6:00*

On the big screen, two silhouettes interpret a karaoke number post-mortem. An excerpt of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII is sung to the tune of "Mourir sur Scène" (literally Die on Stage or for marketing “Born to Sing”) by Dalida. This film shows the articulation of language structure between popular music and the words of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers – and at the same time presenting a spectral psychoanalytic transfer.

Leonardo Galvão MasturbaCão (“Masturbaddog”) 3:00 2003

Video extracted from the internet that, recombined and renamed, they re-signify the discourses of those videos. The possibilities of those combinations are great. The neologism “Mastuba-Cão = Masturba dog, Masturbação = Masturbation”, but it opens to interpretations on that re-signification: The child and the dog as part of the western cultural do hedonism.

Carlo Sansolo - A Rede 2003 (4:20 min). Imagens de arquivo.

This Video is about the traps and disguises, so common for me and for you. In our lives: at home and at work.

Erika Fraenkel - Porque eu quero surpreender (because I want to surprise) 2002 (5:00) uma homenagem a yves klein

The vertiginous ascension of the artist’s energy from the back up to the head, as a process of going from the contented to the non contended, from the intestine to the brain, rescuing the utopias that are biologically present in the body as art.

Video essay – videos from Hong Kong
interdisciplinary collaboration of writers e video artists.
Texts from the synopses by Érika Fraenkel

Young Hay/ Chan Chi Tak - Trespassing 2003 5:00

The person in a metro, submerged in the city, submerged to various sensations of bacteriological invasion, he feels influenced by and vulnerable by the events around his body.

Mark Chan/ Yu Fei – Vanish 2003 5:00

Filming a projection, where the table mediates the process of image and word, fantasy and human relations, the stroll of the camera as a fragile path of the life of a man.

Wong Sau Ping/ Kong King Chu Seven Incredibles: From Aberdeen to Mongkok

Movement and banality, the search for gestures, faces that are revealing inquietude, tedium or just the condition of life that is searching for opportunity, aims and a circular an continuous trajectory.

Hwan NG/ Dung Kai Cheung The method of disappearance

The sudden relation between forms that can be inhabit a city and the residues of the nature that live around these forms, not disturbing these great fluids that are related among the artificial condition of life, the utopia of necessity of the nature. Light, air, water as fluids that maintain our psychic survival.

John Wong/ Shu Kei, The Man with the mobile phone.

The exhibition of the Hyper text, as a simultaneity, and the infinitude of the information, the image of the camera inside an other image that fragments itself and expands the perception of the representation and the poetic inclusion of the impossibility of the tears.

Ellen Pau/ Huang Canran For some Reasons

The dialogue between photo and video, coming initially from one direction, later from all directions disorients our perceptions and reveal a great poetic sense.

Total aproximado : 80 minutes