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WORLD WIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL PRESS RELEASE |
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19 February 2003
10 - 20 June 2004
Including work of Andy Warhol, Aernout Mik, On Thursday 10 June the 21st edition of the World Wide Video Festival, the annual international festival for media art in Amsterdam, will be launched. Over a period of 10 days World Wide will present works by more than a hundred artists and show recent international developments. Many of the participating artists, from over thirty nations, will attend the festival in person. World Wide presents: the exhibition 'Double Vision' – on the unique role of double projection in media art; a selection of international new video's in the Auditorium and the World Wide Media Lounge; a special on Anna Sanders Films; a solo presentation by Kurt d'Haeseleer; and several personal presentations by artists.
double / triple projections Double projections play a unique role in the history of media art. In few other media two or more either horizontally or vertically adjacent images are applied in a similar fashion. World Wide presents the exhibition 'Double Vision' – an inquiry into the nature and meaning of double / triple projections, from Andy Warhol until the present. The exhibition's pivotal point is Andy Warhol's 'Outer and Inner Space' from 1965 – his first work for two screens and a very early example of video art. 'Outer and Inner Space' is a film in which Warhol combined experimental technology (video) with a multi-screen structure to create a multiple film and video portrait of Edie Sedgwick, Warhol's film star. In 'Outer and Inner Space' Warhol subtly analyses the different media worlds of video/television and film. The double projection 'The Third Memory' by Pierre Huyghe is about the reconstruction of a spectacular media event of 1972. On 22 August of that year John Wojtowicz attempts to rob a bank in Brooklyn in order to pay for the sex change operation of his friend. The robbery and subsequent hostage situation are broadcast live on TV. Later, based on these events, director Sidney Lumet makes the semi realistic movie 'Dog Day Afternoon' featuring Al Pacino as the bank robber. Almost thirty years later Huyghe asks the real John Wojtowicz to reconstruct the robbery and to re-enact it on the basis of his own memories of the event. By using double projection Huyghe demonstrates the complexity of the interaction between the actual events, the live coverage by the media, the truth-based fiction of the movie, and Wojtowicz's subjective memory. The audience construct their own story. Double projection raises a number of fundamental issues relating to the intrinsic properties of film and video such as the meaning of editing, of time and space, and the relationship between the two images. 'Double Vision' explores these formal, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of the multiple image. The title 'Double Vision' is also a reference to the unique character of the exhibition. In the evenings the exhibition rooms will display other works than the ones on show in the daytime, making it possible two see two exhibitions in one day. Besides 'Outer and Inner Space' by Andy Warhol and 'The Third Memory' by Pierre Huyghe work will be shown by artists including Sebastián Díaz Morales (Argentina/ Netherlands), Wang Gong Xin (China), Harun Farocki (Germany), Tracey Rose (South Africa), Franck Scurti (France) and Bruce Nauman (USA) and Aernout Mik (Netherlands). 'Double Vision' will consist of about twenty works.
At the 21st festival World Wide will present two installations and a number of films by Belgian artist Kurt d'Haeseleer (1974). Currently d'Haeseleer is finishing his video installation 'S*CKMYP'; an exploded experimental lounge film for four projection screens, based on a text by Belgian author/poet Peter Verhelst, with music by Köhn. 'S*CKMYP' immerses the audience in a mesmerizing universe of digital images and sounds. The images are like a feverish dream of our mediatised society, the text is like a mantra for the digital age. Using the latest technologies images are reworked and reshaped, sending the audience on a visual roller coaster ride, a stream of images that merge harmoniously with the language and voice of Peter Verhelst. 'Lullaby' (2003) is a installation about insomnia, with visuals by Kurt d'Haeseleer, live text projections by Wies Hermans and music by Guillaume Graux. The visitors sit in a small tent and are visually rocked to sleep under a canopy of digital stars that is projected onto the sides of the tent. This transforms the tent into one large projection screen where, besides the video images, the shadows of those present also tell a story.
Anna Sanders Films is a production company for both shorts and feature films. Created in 1997 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Charles the Meaux and Philippe Parreno, Frank Gautherot and Xavier Douroux, all converging over one interrogation, the shared desire "to make the portrait of a landscape as one would make the portrait of a person." With Anna Sanders Films productions the boundaries between separate disciplines fade away; although the artists apply cinematographic means, the issues they address deal with contemporary visual art. These productions all share some special characteristics: The artists often react to places and events. Locations are being observed with a certain detachment, without channeling the visitor's attention in a specific direction. Simple narrative structures that would determine the visitor's attention or response are carefully avoided. Time is a recurrent theme, or rather, the multiple layers of time and memory are. The artists create a space for the visitors where they can immerse themselves in the beauty of the images and their meaning. World Wide will present a comprehensive view of the productions by Anna Sanders Films, and a number of new productions will be premiered at the festival.
The festival presents several programmes of selections from the most special recent single-screen productions (video, dvd, net-art, cd-roms). The single-screen programme consist of the following elements:
The programme section Meet-the-artist will take place in the Auditorium. Here the audience can further acquaint themselves with the artists through lectures, interviews and introductions that address their work, background and motivation.
Location: POST CS (former TPG - building) Oosterdokskade 3 – 5 Amsterdam
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Ticket sales and reservation: The entire festival programme will be announced mid May in the festival brochure and on line via this website. Note to the editor (not for publication)
Press information: Lucienne Dunnewijk
T: + 31 (0)20 420 77 29
Publication of all visual material and images must include the name of the artist and © World Wide Video Festival.
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