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Arab countries have recently produced an impressive array of works: video art, personal essays and experimental documentaries. These works deal with interstitiality between countries, cultures, influences, politics, ideologies, and subjective dispositions/dispossessions. They incorporate a fascinating blend of critical stances and traditional (filmic and cultural) influences. J.S.

Jayce will show tapes and extracts of some of the video's. Also present will be Nesrine Khodr.
The complete programme is available for viewing at the World Wide Media Lounge at Baby, Keizersgracht 676, Amsterdam until November 11th.

After this evening the World Wide Media Lounge in Baby will be open.

A Video Concert by Walter Verdin
Among the key themes of the 19th World Wide Video Festival this year is African media art. linked with this, on Friday, November 2, Walter Verdin presents the video concert 'X<Afrika 3.1' in the Brakke Grond. This concert for image and sound is based on percussion rhythms from the Malinke and Bété tribe from West Africa and combines rhythmically edited video with percussion music performed live.

X<Afrika 3.1
Late in 1993 Verdin travelled to the Ivory Coast with percussionist Frank Michiels. This became a journey of discovery, seeking African percussion rhythms, basic material for the video concert 'X<Afrika', a creation for the ArtFESTIVAL des Arts in 1996. Since then various versions of the concert have been presented in The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Finland. The concert in the Brakke Grond is the third revised instrumental version, suitable for smaller auditoriums. This time it is a collaboration between Walter Verdin (samples and keyboards), Frank Michiels (percussion) and El Hadji Diayé Rose (sabar and djembe). El Hadji is the son of Doudou N'Diayé Rose, the world-renowned Senegalese master drummer.

Location
The Red Auditorium of the Brakke Grond, Nes 45, 1012 KD Amsterdam.

Programme:
- Fernando Alvim's introduction to the concept and the context of the project 'memorias intimas marcas' 1994 - 2000 for the comprehension of 'Gela Uanga - war and art of elsewhere'.
- Simon Njami about the mechanisms of the project 'Memorias intimas marcas' and the impact on contemporary African history.
- Fernando Alvim on the exhibition 'Unconscious skin' and the project 'Mbutu muande visionary nation'.
- Ola-Dele Kuku on the links between the project platform 'Mbutu muande visionary nation' in Turnhout Belgium 2001 and the project 'Unconscious skin' for the World Wide Video Festival 2001.
- Simon Njami point of view on the project 'Mbutu muande visionary nation'. A project for the city of Luanda in Angola 2002 - 2005.
- Fernando Alvim on the project 'SOSO' in Dakar 2002.
- Ola-Dele Kuku developed a cultural mapping on African cities for the 'SOSO' project.
- Fernando Alvim on the film 'Gela Uanga - war and art of elsewhere'.
- World premier of 'Gela Uanga - war and art of elsewhere' 2001, 52 min. A film faction by Fernando Alvim and Valérie van Nitsen reflecting ex post on the multimedia art intervention 'memorias intimas marcas' based on the exorcism of the angolan-south african war.

Credits 'Gela Uanga - war and art of elsewhere':
Produced by Sussuta Boé, associate producer Rui Costa Reis, executive producer Fernando Alvim, editing Anne Laure, music by Alejandro Govea, supported by Hans Bogatzke Collection, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, World Wide Video Festival 2001 with the support of Hivos Culture Fund.