Public territories / Private territories

Why interrogate today from some singular art video pieces the woolly side of ethnological relations that build up between our privacy and our political concern by producing and sharing sensibility. Maybe because public space is going to disappear, to become under our very eyes a private territory, a global market full of logos, slogans and others publicity signs. May be because our private lives are at the same time more and more squatted, haunted, absorbed by medias which messages are done to decerbrate us, to fuse us together en one and unique socio-cultural world. May be because the contemporary artist resists despite everything, often in a very singular way, to this so called fatality of a standartisation and uniformisation of the human being, a fatality which is closely related to the erasing of our territories and lives the more intimate.

Public territories / Private territories titles:

• Eleonore de Montesquiou ( France) & Helena Tulve ( Estonia)
  Delta, 20', 2004
• Nina Kovacheva & Valentin Stefanoff ( Bulgaria)
  Currency, 6’, 2003
• Nina Kovacheva ( Bulgaria)
  So near, so far
  What is the color of sentiment, 5' 34, 2004
• Stalker ( Italy)
  Romolo Ottaviani & Aldo Romolo
  Untitled, 5', 2000
• Botto e Bruno ( Italy)
  In the same place, 6', 2002
• Emmanuelle Antille ( Switzerland)
  Reflecting parts, 4'50, 1998
• Nicoletta Stalder ( Switzerland)
  Frau Holle, 4', 2004
• Irene Maag ( Switzerland)
  Silk membrane, 3', 2002
• Hubert Czerepok ( Poland)
  Computerstudio 001, 8', 2002
• Marek Wasilewski ( Poland)
  Silence, 11', 2003
  

forum itinerant presentation and discussion:

Karine VONNA and Georges CAZENOVE will presented before the video projection the association forum itinerant, association of researchers of art based in Strasbourg since 1999. The forum itinerant aims at fostering visibility, legibility and intelligibility of artistic contemporary practices in and out the network of art spaces. To achieve its subject, it develops artistic, curatorial and critical activities. On the artistic level, individually or collectively, its members work with different mediums and propose different sorts of interventions : photography, video, installation, performance…. On the curatorial level, besides the personal, collective or thematical exhibitions that it organizes at its own artist run space hors champ and at institutional art operators’ request, it also proposes each year a series of events devoted to video art and performance.

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NB! The second part of “On Criticism” project, a seminar entitled "Curating the Balkans" will take place from the 25th to the 27th November 2004 in Belgrade.

The project “On Criticism” has been organized by:

Apollonia, european art exchanges
BAZA, Belgrade Art Initiatives
SEECAN (South-East European Contemporary Art Network)
French Institute, Sofia
InterSpace Media Art Center, Sofia
The Red House Centre for Culture & Debate
ATA Center/ Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia
Project in the frame of the European university

The project “On Criticism” has been carried out with thefinancial support from:
Programme Culture 2000 of the European commission
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Programme COCOP
French Ministry of Culture

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