The artist Vera Stevanovic's (Belgrade Serbia) ampull with water from the river Tamis, is a part of her project Collecting rivers, a project run over several years.
The project includes that she spreads out water ampulls to people, who can do what they want with it, document it and in that way be a part of the project.
Niclas Hallberg has made the piece Fluid transfer, with the body as ground, landscape, nature and the water from the ampull as a water drop, waterfall, river, ocean in the shape of an erotic act
Inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketch, The Vitruvian Man, video artists from around the globe are coming together to create a single multimedia sculpture called the The Vitruvian Woman. The body of the sculpture consists of nine monitors and nine DVD players, representing nine regions of the Vitruvian Woman: her head, heart, stomach, sex organ, right arm, left arm, left leg, right leg and feet. Each monitor shows a sequence of five individual video artworks (each three minutes in duration) that embody one of these regions. This results in a high tech, sculptural portrait of the Vitruvian Woman that adds up to fifteen minutes of international video art running simultaneously on nine monitors.
Significantly, twenty-two artists situated in nine countries across the world are working together to create this video sculpture. In doing so, they are also forging a new kind of collective consciousness, a sharing and shaping of ideas through both sound and vision. As pioneers in new communication technology, these artists are often called upon to use a second language to communicate with each other and to overcome the diversity of different cultures. Their attempts to work cooperatively have strengthened their respect for each other as artists, as global citizens, and as representatives for a new way of connecting peoples from all corners of our planet.
World Wide Debut Screening at Formverk, Sweden, 14 March 2009.
is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".
In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own work from that small portion. When the last participant is finished, the sheet is unfolded to reveal a strangely divergent, yet contiguous form or figure.
Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists' game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member's work. Each member is asked to incorporate these seconds into their piece, creating transitions as they please, until everyone's vision is threaded together into an instigating final "corpse."
The videos from the ECVP were created by artists who met online, at artreview.com, a networking site for artists, galleries, and collectors. The project was instigated and managed by Brazilian video-artist, Kika Nicolela.
While the Surrealists are said to have created the method almost a century ago, only recently could such a fast-paced, pan-global, audiovisual variation of this exercise be produced. The inspiring process of sharing and exchange between and among 'strangers' from around the world illuminates and celebrates the possibilities and potentials of globalized, collective creativity.
ECVP Screenings and exhibitions have been taking place in various countries since June, such as Sweeden, USA, Greece, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Africa. A book about the project will be released in the first semester of 2009.
Link to Exquisite Corpse videos 1-9
Exhibitions of Exquisite Corpse Video Project
2009
Corpse#1 to #9
The Lupa Art, Melbourne, Australia
Formverk at Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm
Formverk, Eskilstuna, Sweden
2008
Corpse #1 to #6
Monkey Town, Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York, USA
The AZAshortFILMfestiva, Greece
Alucine international short film festival, Toronto, Canada
Corpse #1 to #3
Vansa, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York, USA
Formverk, Nyköping, Sweden
Corpse #2
Belo Horizonte International film festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
A cooperation project between Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg. Misplaced human beings, lost and disoriented in untouched nature. Can we exist together, both nature and humans, both the real person and the unattainable, imaginary inner of yourself?
2009
June, Galerija ULUV-a, Novi Sad, Serbia
September, V.art09, Värnamo, Sweden
December, Galerija SULUJ, Belgrade, Serbia
2008
Garageprojektet, Hammenhög, Sweden
Formverk, Eskilstuna, Sweden
is ongoing video project concerning the exploitation and the environmentally breakup. The project is made in
several steps.
The first version; Exploit 1.0 was made after a journey to the Baltic states and Netherlands 2006. It was selected for the Art Video
Screening in Västerås, Sweden and Filmic art payed attention to the video and bought the rights to a new and upgraded version, Exploit 2.0. It
has been released on DVD 2007.
Exploit 1.0 was shown as a street art project during summer 2007, in Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and Germany.
Exploit 1.5 is a processed version of nr 1.0 with elements from Sweden, Denmark, Romania and Ukraine.
Exploit 1.5 was first shown at the Autumn Salon in Eskilstuna Art museum, Sweden 2007.
Selected for the Swedish participation at the 9th International Bienniale for Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac,Serbia 2008
2x3 cm videoscreen in plastic box 10x10x10cm, 4.00 min loop.
Silkscreen on plastic 10x10 cm
In "You Called Me Jacky", Pipilotti Rist mimes to a Kevin Coyne song, interspersing the images with shots of passing scenery viewed from a train window. As Rist, Niclas Hallberg creates a remix of fantasy and the everyday. While Rist mimes to the late great Kevin Coyne's Jackie and Edna (1973), looking like a cross between Annie Lennox and George Formby, Hallberg performs his own singing playing up the icon status. As in Rist, the simplicity of this video is what makes it so endearing and an enigmatic and emotive piece.
Hallberg explains that what brought him to create his piece was the love for Rist's work and that his homage is not a copy, but it conveys the same thought and feelings as her piece. And follows by saying that his intention was to make it as similar as possible to the original, singing, performing and playing the guitar himself.
text Alicia Felberbaum, m o m e n t emagazine
Water Preserves Video Installation 6 Feb-1 Mars 2009 at State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, New York. Curator, Jan Kaither
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT(HEP), manager and curator Alison Williams, South Africa
Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne 24 Feb - 9 March 2009
To show yourself shelterless and unbarked has a strong meaning, with associations to religious ceremonies and erotic situations.
Neo Verus is concerning masculinity and purification. In the work we witness an obvious male activity transfered to a ritual performance. By peeling the masculinity away the inner can appear. The refining process elucidates in closeup scenes with a sexual undertone.
