[spectre] CologneOFF 2011 in Rotterdam

[artINFO]

International Film Festival Rotterdam
ATTRACTION OF THE OPPOSITES
26 January - 6 February 2011

CUCOSA, Raampoortstraat 16, 3032 AH Rotterdam (Netherlands)
http://www.attractionoftheopposites.nl/program1.html

CologneOFF 2011 selection
"Attracted by the opposite?"
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=161
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2011_Rotterdam.pdf

Do people really feel attracted by the opposite? Black does not exist without white, good not without bad. The one is depending on the other. If an opposite is existing, at all, the existing "standard" is being defined via its opposite, which is setting the actual values, the relations between each other. Being attracted by the opposite is actually no more than searching consciously or unconsciously for the "whole", an attempt to find an unity combining and relating the two opposite poles to each other. An uptopia? The selection of videos is spotlighting not only the phenomenon of the duality from different points of views and positions, but also the resulting relativity.

Selected artists

Mihai Grecu (Romania) - Congulate, 2008, 5:56
Giuseppe Girardi (Italy) - Stranger, 2008, 2:54
Ascan Breuer (Germany) - "The Kurukshetra-Report", 2009, 8:00
Jamie Waelchli (USA) - Little Pleasures, 2007, 11: 00
Alex Lora (Spain) - (Buried) Over The Roofs, 2009, 11:00
Mikhail Zheleznikov (Russia) - Together, 2010, 4:20
Jeffrey Anderson Bliss (USA) - Telephone, 2009, 4:55
Rosa Futuro (Italy) - The Future is Rose, 2008, 8:00
Angela Washko & Chris Skinner (USA) Washko's Personal Record, 2010, 2:14
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) - 142-143 - 2010, 2:10
Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria) - [dis] connection - 2009, 1:58
Sai Kua Huan (Singapore) - Space Drawing No. 5 - , 2009, 1:02
Doug Williams (USA) - Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42

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CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project
1 January -31 December 2011

powered by
artvideoKOELN  - the initiative "art & moving images"
http://video.mediaartcologne.org
&
CologneOFF - Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org

2011 (at) coff.newmediafest.org
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