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MF ProgrammeTRANSITLAND: Video art from Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-2009
Central and Eastern Europe — a common information space, recovering from common historical turmoil in the 80s and 90s, at the same time this part of Europe is represented by very different countries with their own destinies and traditions. Each lived with an eye to the global context and used artistic techniques to investigate and re-form their own national identity. What we all have in common? What makes us different?
30 May — 30 June Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Tverskoy blvd., 9) Vernissage — 19 June at 8 p.m. Organizers: MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Mediafest. Supported by Goethe Institute Russia ‘We don’t know enough about ourselves and our neighbors’ — the organizers of the Tranzitland project must be thinking. As extensive work being done in Europe and America on the preservation, classification and analysis of their own heritage — the classics of video art, as we see it, we, in turn, have not so many opportunities to analyze and compare the informational and artistic context of Central and Eastern European Modern Art. Thus the project was initiated by the leading centers of modern art in several countries, former comrades in the Iron curtain: InterSpace Modern Art Center (Sofia, Bulgaria), the famous Transmediale festival for art and digital culture (Berlin, Germany) and Ludwig Museum of Modern Art (Budapest, Hungary). From numerous entries an international jury selected a hundred of the most brilliant – video quintessence of ideas, opinions, cultural and social events, which showed the era from 1989 to 2009. In any case this was the main decisive factor of selection. First screenings of works from the compiled archive were held in Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany and other partner countries of the project. They were accompanied by lectures, workshops, round tables and other activities, which are able to raise public interest to the basic problem. Central and Eastern Europe — a common information space, recovering from common historical turmoil in the 80s and 90s, at the same time this part of Europe is represented by very different countries with their own destinies and traditions. Each lived with an eye to the global context and used artistic techniques to investigate and re-form their own national identity. What we all have in common? What makes us different? Mixing of the European ways and destinies, post Soviet period and time after the fall of the Berlin Wall are examined by Adrian Paci, Yael Bartana, Anri Sala, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Artur Zmijewski, Egon Bunne, Hristina Ivanoska, Milica Tomic, Azzoro, Kai Kaljo, Sergey Shutov, Elena Kovylina, Radek and Dmitry Gutov, Mariana Vassileva, Martin Zet, Mare Tralla, Eleonore de Montesquiou. These artists tell their national story. Sometimes it becomes very personal, sometimes its elements become symbols that later break political and geographical borders. Countries where most of the project's participants come from do not exist anymore. Instead there is one unified Europe and globalization. As Kathy Rae Huffman, one of the judges on the project jury board stated: They are symbolic, impressionistic, journalistic, subjective, narrative, humorous, and most of all, political works of Transitland. They express the idea of transformation and change. <...>. Now we take these works as the window to the reality of New Europe, as well as the outlook on people's life, history, and places that are often forgotten". Transitland Project jury:
Screenings programme: Transitland — Documentation
The Media Forum 2010 Transitland project also includes: 20 June, SundayAt the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (Moscow, 19A Obraztsova str.): 15:00 — workshop by Anri Sala (Albania, France) 21 June, MondayAt the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture: 15:00 –– “Video art after the fall of the Berlin Wall” panel discussion with the participation of major Russian and foreign critics, artists and art historians. 18:00 — workshop by Egon Bunne (Germany) 22 June, TuesdayAt the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture: 19:00 — Transitland collection screening: Part I «Out of bounds» 23 June, WednesdayAt the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture: 15:00 — Transitland collection screening: Part II «Documentation» 17:00 — Transitland collection screening: Pert III «Performance» |
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