VIDEONALE.scope #10
A experimental film and video art series by Videonale Bonn
The experimental film and video art series VIDEONALE.scope has complemented the Videonale Bonn programme since 2013. In addition to the biennial VIDEONALE – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, which presents the latest positions from the field of moving images, VIDEONALE.scope expands the event spectrum by a cinema format with a focus on thematically conceived programmes that bring young and historical positions into dialogue. The format thus ties in with the 1st Videonale (1984), which already presented film and video as part of the festival program at the time.
VIDEONALE.scope #10 − Open Your Scope - Counter Narratives
Video, short film, performance
30.11. + 01.12.2023 | Turistarama Cologne
This november we organized 10th edition of our video and experimental film series VIDEONALE.scope in cooperation with IMAI - Inter Media Art Instituteon 30.11. + 01.12.2023 at Turistarama in Cologne. For the anniversary edition, four filmmakers and artists who have already accompanied VIDEONALE.scope on other occasions − Eli Cortiñas, Ayesha Hameed, Ji Su Kang-Gatto and Vika Kirchenbauer − have curated a program for the thematic framing "Open Your Scope − Counter Narratives". In the programs, dominant narratives were questioned and alternative constructions of reality were tested under changing focal points. "Scope" is literally understood in translation as an expanded frame or room to maneuver: Away from the canon, the artistic works process marginalized knowledge and experiment with new narrative forms.
LOCATION
Turistarama Köln
Mauritiussteinweg 102
50676 Köln
Fotos: Sandra Stein
Since 1995, Theo Cuthand has produced approximately thirty-five video works that often address issues of queerness, indigeneity, and mental health from a first-person perspective. His works show the self in context and identity in constant flux. This creates affective infrastructures in which multiplicity and difference are inherent. What may appear at first glance as introspection turns out to be an artistic approach deeply interested in relational issues and aimed at exploring spaces of possibility for reparative, collective futures.
On view are:
- Lessons in Baby Dyke Theory, CA 1995
- Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement, CA 2000
- Love & Numbers, CA 2004
- You Are a Lesbian Vampire, CA 2008
- Sight, CA 2012
- 2 Spirit Introductory Special $19.99, CA 2015
- Reclamation, CA 2018
- Extractions, CA 2019
- Less Lethal Fetishes, CA 2019
Language beyond language. Language inspite of language explores the sea, feminine strength, seismic forces and the shamanic through gestures, glitches in movements, breathing and sounds. Together, these concepts form their own materially tactile vocabulary. Through videos by Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Jane Jin Kaisen, and Alberta Whittle, a sound work by Himali Singh Soin and a conversation about language, gestures and silence with Anna Jäger, SAVVY Contemporary, language becomes saturated with itself, pointing to deeply internal aspects that transcend what is said.
On view are:
- Sancintya Mohini, Simpson Blood-Link, 2013
- Alberta Whittle, Reset, 2019
- Jane Jin Kaisen, Offering – Coil Embrace, KOR 2023
- Himali Singh Soin, An Affirmation, 2022
At the early days of the pandemic, there was a brief period of bonding. Many spent time at home processing their worries in homemade food and drink. While the first season Identities and Recipes (Pre-Pandemic) deals with the hybrid identity of Ji Su Gatto, the second season provides insight into the kitchens and living conditions of others. The YouTube videos now find their way to the big screen three years later. They are works made, produced and developed by both artists and non-artists. Season 2 ends with Suse Itzel's work How to make lentil stew without touching your hands - using extended kitchen utensils that give the impression of drawn weapons, for protection. But the cooking process does not look professional, but deliberately flawed.
On view are works by:
Ji Su Kang-Gatto, Johann Husser, Federico Gatto, Giorgi Gedevanidze + Sissy Schneider, Dilara Raika Er, Julia Jesionek + Luisa Alfonso, Ida Kammerloch, Hani Gimna + Yonghyuk Kim, Anastasia Pusch, Victoria X Ruhe, Carlos Backes + Victoria Lund, Seongmin Yuk, Tanja Ritterbex, Dani Kim, Julius Continental, Sana Afzal, Hyeseon Jeong, Seongjin Park + Sungae Kim, Luisa Stricker, Lotta Aurora, Arometz, Thomas Lambertz, Jeesoo Hong + Kihuun Park, Mathilde Hawkins + Max Mauro Schmid, Suzin Bahc, Victoria Herzog, Nathan Schönewolf, Suse Itzel
Zur Anfangszeit der Pandemie gab es eine kurze Zeitspanne des Zusammenhalts. Viele verbrachten Zeit zu Hause und verarbeiteten ihre Sorgen in selbst-gemachten Speisen und Getränken. Während die erste Staffel Identities and Recipes (Pre-Pandemie) die hybride Identität von Ji Su Gatto behandelt, gewährt die zweite Staffel Einblick in Küchen und Lebensumstände anderer. Die YouTube-Videos finden nun drei Jahre später ihren Weg auf die große Leinwand. Es sind Arbeiten, die sowohl von Künstler:innen als auch von Nicht-Künstler:innen gemacht, produziert und entwickelt wurden. Staffel 2 endet mit Suse Itzels Arbeit How to make lentil stew without touching your hands – unter Einsatz von verlängerten Küchenutensilien, die den Eindruck von gezückten Waffen erwecken, zum Schutz. Doch der Kochprozess wirkt nicht professionell, sondern bewusst fehlerhaft.
Zu sehen sind Arbeiten von:
Ji Su Kang-Gatto, Johann Husser, Federico Gatto, Giorgi Gedevanidze + Sissy Schneider, Dilara Raika Er, Julia Jesionek + Luisa Alfonso, Ida Kammerloch, Hani Gimna + Yonghyuk Kim, Anastasia Pusch, Victoria X Ruhe, Carlos Backes + Victoria Lund, Seongmin Yuk, Tanja Ritterbex, Dani Kim, Julius Continental, Sana Afzal, Hyeseon Jeong, Seongjin Park + Sungae Kim, Luisa Stricker, Lotta Aurora, Arometz, Thomas Lambertz, Jeesoo Hong + Kihuun Park, Mathilde Hawkins + Max Mauro Schmid, Suzin Bahc, Victoria Herzog, Nathan Schönewolf, Suse Itzel
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