As an in-depth contribution to the “contemporary archaeology of video” prompted by the Festival, the LOOP Talks will provide a current reading of early video art. Eminent pioneering artists will be in dialogue with curators of peer and younger generations, so to establish formal and conceptual connections between the past and present and explore the influence of avant-garde artistic proposals on contemporary production.
Just like today’s artist films and videos often prompt reflection on modern technologies and modes of communication, in the sixties and seventies they reflected the desire on the part of their makers to radically redefine the experience imposed by television, and carry out a cultural and technological research through the potentiality of an accessible and communitarian medium.
Besides triggering the creation of brand-new technical equipment (such as artist-crafted synthesizers and processors), these early proposals took on various forms that ranged between conceptual and feminist performances recorded on analogue tape, experiments with video signals, the color and effects permitted by editing and post-production, and sharp documentaries on the counterculture deriving from the complex historical events taking place at the time.
The practitioners invited to personally revive the debate, and those evoked by expert curators in their presentations, will all be featured in the Festival’s selection, so to provide a well-rounded overview of the historical and artistic panorama taken into consideration. Five of them will showcase video installations or single channel projections in VIDEO REWIND, one of the program’s key proposals throughout the city, whilst Andy Warhol and Nam June Paik will be dedicated a monographic selection at Can Trinxet and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, respectively.
The participating speakers will be Don Foresta, Vincent Fremont, Menene Gras, Beryl Korot, Mary Lucier, Chip Lord, Neus Miró, Antoni Muntadas, Steve Seid, Kristin Scheving, Berta Sichel, Jin-suk Suh, Niels Van Tomme, Steina and Woody Vasulka.
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LOOP Talks 2017
VIDEOTAPED Live conversations on early video art
Overall schedule
THURSDAY 25 MAY
9:30 am — 10am | REGISTRATION (Fair, Welcome Desk)
10 am — 11:15 am Artists Steina and Woody Vasulka in conversation with curator Kristin Scheving (Head of Vasulka Chamber, National Gallery of Iceland) and researcher and theoretician Don Foresta (MARCEL, Paris)
11:15 am — 12:45 pm Artist Mary Lucier in conversation with Berta Sichel, Director and Curator of Bureau Phi Art
FRIDAY 26 MAY
10:00 am — 11:00 am Artist Beryl Korot in conversation with curator Neus Miró (Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK)
11:15 am — 12: 30 pm Artist Antoni Muntadas in conversation with curator Niels Van Tomme (Director of De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
12:30 pm — 13:45 pm Artist Chip Lord in conversation with Steve Seid (curator, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA)
14 pm — 15:30 pm | About Andy Warhol A lunch with and presentation by Vincent Fremont (President of Vincent Fremont Enterprises, Inc)
5:00 pm — 6:30 pm | Nam June Paik: Radical Video Curator Jin-suk Suh (Director, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea) in conversation with Menene Gras (Head of Culture and Exhibitions, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain). This session will be hosted by Casa Asia.