Cross_over is an articulated Time-frame/ Video Guerrilha Festival, Brazil 2012/2013, project based on a trans disciplinary platform of investigating and implementing creative projects worldwide exploring innovative /transformative evolution on new technology, science research and its interfaces with renewed social urban constructs communication systems and contemporary trans_cultural inner sensibilities of referential/reflective nature.
Time_frame Foundation is a recently established, institution based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, coming from an extensive research and projects implementation focused on new media art, Video Guerrilha is a Monumental Urban Space Video festival, exploring a wide range of multidisciplinary audiovisual interfaces with city public, as a meaningful instrument to promote social cohesion and inspiring new generation of artists to re- invent city creative dynamics within a dialogical contemporary cultural thinking.
Cross_Over is a contribution to the CYBERFEST Festival 2012, that refers the curatorial framework At Heaven’s Door. This concept contribution is articulated within the idea of crossing over the meta narratives of globalization, spirituality and established social constructs in which the creative exercise and practice contributes significantly to bridge world’s cultural understanding, a an essential building block to share creative inner sensibilities within the significance of the Other, and how its own tangible vision of the world, similarity within difference, the paradigms of the self and the social renewal. This group of artists, Alex Villar, Carolina Redondo, Mat Rappaport, Fernando Velazquez, Fernanda D’Agostino, Angie Bonino, Rachel Rosalen, Sergio Ulhoa, César Meneghetti, have a very meaningful interpretation, de- constructing self-awareness, and the world beyond their own immediate familiarity, bring to this project, At the heaven’s door, a new window of expanded artistic contemporary practice.
Miguel Petchkovsky
Curator Time_frame Foundation, Video Guerrilha 2012/2013
Alex Villar (Brazil-USA)
Breaking Into Business 2012
2012 9’
The main character in the video pushes a scaffolding-on-wheels unit through town in search of alternate routes of access into different constructed spaces. Instead of using doors, the established transitional space for crossing between public and private domains, he reaches toward a higher point of access into the interior of the building. In the process, he appropriates and displaces the normality of the situation.
Fernanda d'Agostino (USA)
Pool
2010 4’48»
Pool sets out to pair memory to place, drawing on the ancient mnemonic devices of the «Method of Loci.» A central image is of the Portland dancer and choreographer, Linda K. Johnson, submerged underwater, looking directly back at the viewer as she contracts, glides, tumbles, and hovers in a watery amnion of blue. Interspersed are images of a full moon; a book that has caught fire; salmon swimming upstream; a burning house; botanical frescoes from the House of Livia in Rome; and the words "Ars Memoriae." All of these have intensely personal meaning for the artist: herown home burned down when she was a child. Memories are often punctuated or exacerbate by trauma.
Fernando Velazquez (Brazil-Uruguay)
THE MINDSCAPES SUITE #6,#3
2011 3’
«We see with the eyes, but we see with brain as well, and see with the brain is often call imagination, and we are familiar with the landscapes about our imagination, our inscapes we live with them all our lives» (Oliver Sacks) Videos made by generative process. Rather than seek a literalness, the research uses computer algorithms to speculate about the processes, flows and relationships between the devices and systems conform us, and influence how we perceive the world, build awareness and articulate memoirs.
Carolina Redondo (Chile)
A Drop in a Bucket
2009 0’49’’
Like water running down a window the body swims and moves on the surface of life symbolized by a wall of stones. Put Yourself Together is a series composed of photography and video that was started in 2009. Redondo positions herself in private ephemeral performances that represent Sisyphean situations related to desires, fears, fantasies and struggle.
Angie Bonino (Peru)
Somewhere over the rainbow
2011 3’
Video performance where a woman is singing a song which gives title for the work of art, theme song of the movie «The Wizard of Oz» with Judy Garland as a main character. In the beginning she is shown only in a close-up shot, but when she is finished with singing the camera is zooming out long shot showing us the performer on paper airplane with proportional size to her, who is running with the plane taking the flight until it is colliding with the camera. This video is telling three phases as an immigrate person. First process is «taking decisions», with illusion and hope in spite of insecurity, facing with future situations, that is why the performer is singing the song of Dorothy who wanted to «search for a better life at the end of the rainbow», escaping from the moment she was facing, metaphor of the immigrate person’s thought. The second phase is travelling and going away from her territory and facing up positive and negative experiences, which means a fight entering a different society, that is why the performer is leaving on an airplane. The third one is the result of the journey, where the occurrences can be evaluated and that gives the real situation of the immigrant, that she can stay if she has accomplished positive results in a lapse of time or the exodus, the return is starting, something which is seen currently with the big amount of immigrants who are due to return, specially in case of «Latinoamérica»; because the «Hollywood dream» sold by the U.S.A. from 1910 with the Hollywood movies and the idea about Europe as the land of promise and success, has changed radically because of the economic crisis which resists. Therefore, the action of the video finishes when the performer crashes into the camera, metaphor of the immigrant in a difficult situation holding up in these countries.
Rachel Rosalen (Brazil)
First Essay on Waiting
2009 3’13»
A woman waits. First Essay on Waiting is a video about existence, the passing of time, duration and disappearance.
Cesar Meneghetti (Brazil)
(venice) requiem
2009 4’24’’
(venice) requiem is a video that trail traces of memories ever lived. Starting from a trip to the artist's ancestors birth towns this piece searches for intimacy between his experience and subjectivity and the viewer’s through the creation of a space, icons and objects as promoters of remembering and feeling. Venice as motherland of Cesar Meneghetti’s ancestors and at the same time the set of the Venice Art Biennale. Artist was invited by Irma Arestizàbal, curator of the Latin American Pavilion to make a video-oeuvre to be presented as a happening in the inauguration of her Pavilion on June the 5th 2009, but she died 2 weeks before the inauguration. The video-oeuvre became a tribute to her in a Venetian set.
Sergio Ulhoa (Brazil)
SKADA
2011 4’30»
Skada reveals a day in the life of a man who lives in a staircase. He searches for his true identity going through each step of the staircase experiencing different states of self. The staircase-home is the place where he wonders how his life would be if he was not himself.
Mat Rappaport (USA)
Way
2005 1’57’’
Way is a poetic exploration of the liminal spaces experienced between location and destination.