Descriptions & images of videos
Video večer / Video Evening #03
Contextual Face
A curated selection from artist and curator Evelin Stermitz from her online video archive ArtFem.TV.
NoHomeVideos© Code II
Duba Sambolec (SI/NO)
2000
Duration: 00:01:32
Video
Video performances CODE I, II, III and IV form one work. Nevertheless, each one of them might be presented separately. They are based on automated repetitive speech and on dialogs between two women where one woman dominates the conversation and sets up the momentum for the other one to answer illogically. They are reminiscent to the ping-pong game by exposing the (lack of) concentration, domination, subordination and resistance.
The idea derives from informative automatic audio recordings from everyday life. We hear them while calling various institutions, in public places such as are elevators, airports, shopping malls, etc. Consequently, these recordings can provoke us to search for people, who are hidden behind them in public institutions.
The characteristic of the video CODE II is a repetitive authoritative command to the viewer that might provoke anger/resistance and/or despair.
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Duba Sambolec was born on July 7, 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. From 1992 on, she has been Professor of Fine Art, Head of Sculpture at The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway and Professor/Coordinator, 1st year BA, Faculty of Visual Arts, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway.
Her other activities include public lectures and presentations, curatorial practice, writing texts on Fine Art, active participation at the international conferences and panel discussions, co-organization and leadership of international seminar, international tutorship of the BFA and MFA students, guest artist-teacher experience in Scandinavia, Slovenia and P. R. of China, external examination assessment and interviews in the TV, radio and printed media.
Her video opus is included in the AV archives DIVA / Digital Video Archive, SCCA Ljubljana, Slovenia that’s a part of GAMA / Gateway to Archives of Media Art, Europe and in the online Art and Feminism television programming ArtFem.TV, 19 video performances, production from 2005 to 1999.
http://artfem.tv/duba_sambolec/
Duba Sambolec had 33 solo shows and took part in numerous international group-shows. Her art covers multimedia installation, sculpture, drawing, video performance and digital photo-collage.
Selected solo and group exhibitions:
Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Gender Check, Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, Curator: Bojana Pejić, Warsaw, Poland, 2010. http://www.zacheta.art.pl/en/article/view/6/gender-check-femininity-and-masculinity-in-the-art-of-eastern-europe
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien / MUMOK, Gender Check, Curator: Bojana Pejić, Vienna, Austria, 2009/10. http://erstestiftung.org/gender-check/
6th International Festival of Contemporary Arts, City of Women, solo show, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2000. Museums of Contemporary and Modern Art; Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade, solo shows; 1998/88/83/82.
Aperto `88, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy, invited by Prof. Dr. Dieter Ronte, Germany, 1988.
São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil, invited by Pieter Tjabes, European selector, Amsterdam, NL, 1985.
I hate You
Michelle Handelman (US)
2002
Duration: 00:02:48
Video
In a moment of self-loathing narcissism, Handelman riffs off of Bruce Nauman’s early performance tapes and chants this negative affirmation into a song of personal endearment.
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Michelle Handelman makes confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness. Her videos, performances, and public installations have shown at the Pompidou Centre, Paris; ICA, London; American Film Institute, Los Angeles; San Francisco MOMA; MIT List Visual Arts Center; Winterfilm Festival for Expanded Media; Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In Fall 2007 Handelman’s work was chosen by Bloomingdale’s for their Fall Art Campaign. Prior to moving to New York in 1999, Handelman directed the feature documentary BloodSisters (1998 Bravo award) and collaborated for several years with Monte Cazazza, pioneer of the Industrial music scene in San Francisco. She has performed in several Lynn Hershman-Leeson productions for ZDF and Arte Television and recent collaborations include work with Eric Werner, co-founder of Survival Research Laboratories and conceptual artist Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky.
Her fiction and critical writing appears in Inappropriate Behaviour Serpents Tail, London); Apocalypse Culture (Feral House Press, Los Angeles); Herotica 3 edited by Susie Bright (Plume Books, SF) and several publications including Filmmaker Magazine and Indiewire.com.
She lives in Brooklyn and is an Associate Professor in the Film/Video Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston.
Migraine
Ana Grobler (SI)
2007
Duration: 00:05:23
Video
The video is some sort of a migrainic self-portrait. It was made in the time of a migraine attack, from shooting the scenes to the montage. The whole process of making the video is consequently permeated with those sensations. Video effects are used not only to show, but to draw near and to assist the spectator to feel the condition of a person in the time of the migraine attack. Migraine headaches experiences 10-12% of the population, a major part of the patients are women in childhood the number of boys and girls who suffer from migraine is similar. But in the adolescent period the number of women increases steadily. In the ages 35-40 the ratio is even 3 women to 1 man. At the end of the video the spectator is confronted with a question of the origin of this phenomenon. Is it biological condition or occurrence stimulated by society?
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The academic painter Ana Grobler is a postgraduate student of video art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. In the academic year 2009/10 she has received a study scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. She had exhibited at home and abroad and had received nominations and awards for her work. She has a permanent online exhibition of selected videos at ArtFem.TV and has been exhibiting at the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana (2005) and National Gallery in Ljubljana (2007) in Slovenia as a nominee of the Essl Award of Essl collection from Klosterneuburg in Austria. She participates in the International feminist and queer festival Red Dawns in Ljubljana as a member of the selection of visual art program and is an assistant at the Alkatraz Gallery at Autonomous Cultural Centre Metelkova City. In 2009 she had curated the first exhibition of Slovenian feminist art in the frame of the festival Red Dawns at the SCCA – Ljubljana, Centre for Contemporary Arts Project Room. Her book on feminist art in Slovenia is just about to be published at the Research institute of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She has also been active as a member of the working group of Station DIVA, Digital intermedia video archive (SCCA-Ljubljana). She is involved in curatorial work and attends the School for curators and critics of contemporary art World Of Art at the SCCA – Ljubljana, Centre for Contemporary Arts.
Water Portrait I, Portrait of Carmen Lipush
Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI)
2010
Duration: 00:02:06
Video
This video series faces women’s portraits of images mirroring from the water surface, filmed at the Ljubljanica river in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
These video portraits reveal experiences of violence against women, dedicated to the water. The form of this video work is an expansion of the former silent photographic portrait.
Water Portrait II, Portrait of Majda Gregorič
Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI)
2010
Duration: 00:02:06
Video
This video series faces women’s portraits of images mirroring from the water surface, filmed at the Ljubljanica river in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
These video portraits reveal experiences of violence against women, dedicated to the water. The form of this video work is an expansion of the former silent photographic portrait.
Water Portrait III, Portrait of Ines Zgonc
Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI)
2010
Duration: 00:02:06
Video
This video series faces women’s portraits of images mirroring from the water surface, filmed at the Ljubljanica river in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
These video portraits reveal experiences of violence against women, dedicated to the water. The form of this video work is an expansion of the former silent photographic portrait.
Water Portrait IV, Portrait of Asja Trost
Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI)
2010
Duration: 00:02:06
Video
This video series faces women’s portraits of images mirroring from the water surface, filmed at the Ljubljanica river in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
These video portraits reveal experiences of violence against women, dedicated to the water. The form of this video work is an expansion of the former silent photographic portrait.
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Evelin Stermitz, lives and works in Austria and Slovenia. She graduated with an M.A. degree in media and new media art from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is holding a master’s degree in philosophy from media studies. Her works are in the field of media and new media art with the main emphasis on post-structuralist feminist art practices. Evelin Stermitz received grants for the International Summer Art School of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, and the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria, within the media class by VALIE EXPORT.
Besides her artistic work, Evelin Stermitz’s research work is focused on women artists in media and new media art. Evelin Stermitz founded ArtFem.TV – Art and Feminism ITV (www.artfem.tv) in the year 2008 and received a special mention for ArtFem.TV at the IX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, in the year 2010.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 2010 23rd Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France / FORCE: on the Culture of Rape, Current Gallery, Baltimore, USA / Magmart | Video under Volcano, CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy / 2009 BAC! 10.0, Pandora’s B., Festival International de Arte Contemporáneo en Barcelona, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain / Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia / 2008 “Femmes, femmes, femmes”, MAC/VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France / Plus 3 Ferris Wheels: Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University / Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, New York / Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University / 2007 chico.art.net v.4, The Electronic Arts Program, California State University / Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, San Francisco / Video Art in the Age of the Internet, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA / FILE Rio, Brazil / 2006 Cyberfem. Feminisms on the electronic landscape., EACC Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain.
Like Me
Liana Zanfrisco (IT)
2009
Duration: 00:01:30
Video
“Man will sich selbst ein Fremder sein. Nicht in der Rolle. Wohl aber in der unbewussten Entscheidung, welche Art von Rolle ich mir zuschreibe, liegt meine Wirklichkeit.” Max Frisch: Stiller. (Oneself would like to be a stranger in oneself. Not in the role. But in the unconscious decision in which role I assign to myself, there is my reality.)
A video camera films my face, while I change one pose every second, and every second a part of my face is hidden by faces cut from newspapers.
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Liana Zanfrisco, born in Civitavecchia, Italy.
2001-04 Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, Prof. Jürgen Klauke, Prof. Valie Export, Prof. Dieter Jung.
2000-01 Master in Print and Online Design, Aachen, Germany, Microrep.
1982-86 Academy of Arts, Rom, Italy.
From 1988 to 2005 she lives and works in Belgium and Germany, currently she is living in Italy.
Ecstasy Poem
Kika Nicolela (BR)
2006
Duration: 00:02:46
Video
Side by side, two faces of the same woman looking at the camera are in an extreme slow motion. All nuances of her expressions can be perceived. In one portrait, she’s young, at the peak of her beauty. On the other one, she’s about 60 years old. The woman is the actress Liv Ullman, acting in two different films by Ingmar Bergman.
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Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist and experimental filmmaker. Her works include single-channel videos, installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Kika Nicolela also completed film courses at UCLA University. She was the recipient of several grants and has participated of nearly 100 solo and collective exhibitions in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK and US. Her videos have been screened and awarded in festivals of more than 30 countries, such as: Kunst Film Biennale, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, ACA Media Arts Festival, Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival, International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil and Exis Experimental Film & Video Festival. Since 2008, Kika Nicolela also curates and coordinates the Exquisite Corpse Video Project, an ongoing collaborative series of videos that involves more than 70 artists from 25 countries. In 2010, she was selected for the Rondo Studio (Austria), Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation (Germany), Gyeonggi Creation Center (South Korea) and the Casa das Caldeiras (Brazil) residency programs; she will also have a retrospective of her videos at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art in Salvador, Brazil. In 2011, she will be artist-in-residence at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (South Korea) and Route Fabrik(Switzerland). The artist is represented by DConcept, a São Paulo based art gallery, and Vtape, a Toronto based videoart distributer.
Endless Game
Vesna Bukovec (SI)
2006
Duration: 00:01:32
Video
Contemporary advertising no longer directly sells products, it sells emotions, desires and fantasies. Advertisers teach us how we have to look and behave to be competitive in today’s world. Most of the advertising uses eroticism as the primary force of attraction. Who is the target audience, male or female? Even if the product is made for women, the imagery addresses both sexes. A woman has to buy the product that will transform her in such a way that she can enter a man’s fantasy. And a man has to buy some other product to attract women that look and act like the ones in advertisements. The endless game of seduction is present everywhere. In case we forget, the first advertisement will remind us.
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Vesna Bukovec (1977, Ljubljana, Slovenia) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She works as a solo artist as well as in the art group KOLEKTIVA together with Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič. In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Maribor, Zagreb, Belgrade, Utrecht, Athens, Berlin, den Haag, Beijing, Linz, Graz, Vienna, Milano, Verona, Warsaw etc. She works with the themes such as memory, media, consumer society and the pursuit of happiness, uses a wide range of artistic strategies: research, documentary approach, appropriation, art activism, public actions, collaboration with the public and personal interpretation. Formally, her projects are based on video, photography, drawing and installation. Vesna Bukovec (with KOLEKTIVA) also curates video exhibitons and organizes video screenings. In 2009 she was co-curating international video exhibition Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative.
Sit Stay
Alison Williams (ZA)
2008
Duration: 00:03:20
Video
Gender abuse video – a woman has the right to her own voice, to speak out and be heard. Alison Williams – performance based video – gender based works / anti gender abuse – pro women’s rights art.
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Alison Williams is a South African video artist, filmmaker & painter based in Nelson Mandela Bay, RSA. Her works appear internationally in various Film Festivals, Galleries and Art Museums. She is concerned with visual emotion and the triumph of the human spirit, using mainly performance-based works with a strong tendency towards the dramatic. Her works are mostly one on one directions towards the viewing public, works produced in isolation or in remote areas.
Her main focus is the production of psychological works that disturb normal modes of being. She uses travel and personal life experience in her art, as she believes that life and art are inseparable entities. She is also the founder and director of Human Emotion Project which screens many international artists globally in 2009/2010. Selected exhibition listings: listed at http://alisonwilliams.com/generic.asp?id=2&hd=Exhibition list
traumraum revised:insomnia
Angelika Rinnhofer (DE/US)
2009
Duration: 00:04:41
Dancer: Erin Parsch
Narrator: Robert C. Solomon, “No Excuses”, Existentialism and the Meaning of Life: Heidegger on the World and the Self; The Teaching Company, 2000
Video
For *traumraum revised: insomnia*, I drew from my desire as a child to become a ballet dancer and used this experience to examine the relationship between memory, pain, dreams, and ambition.
In my previous work, up to that point, there was always a division between me as the art maker, my subjects, and my audience. For “traumraum revised: insomnia”, I focused on my own body and my presence to relate my concepts.
Fighting insomnia and contemplating life and death while driving to work every morning – the everyday finally recedes when bits of a childhood dream start to appear merely to imply its unattainability.
My childhood dream of becoming a dancer and its quick deterioration lent itself to being scrutinized. After years I took up practicing ballet again; the restrictions and discipline connected with it are still embedded in my body. These restrictions associated with ballet training proved to be a burden hardly possible to overcome. The sensation of pain to control and restrict my body’s movements were, at times, cause for limitless frustration but it corresponded to my concurring research on the objectless of pain and its interpretation in visual art. After acknowledging these obstructions, my mind became more receptive to considering ballet as an agent to make visual art. I engaged it as a means to create videos, drawings, and photographs. With time, doing barre exercises, reflecting on dance again, and the meditative quality of repetitive physical movements, transformed my art practice to be concerned with experimentation and self-examination.
The process of working on *traumraum revised* affected my own conception of memory as a force to make art and to use it to speak about cultural issues such as gender and society’s expectations related to it; feminist art; but also to touch on the randomness and pliability of one’s narrative.
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I work primarily in photography, video, dance and performance but incorporate non-traditional art media such as baking, gaming, and trace making into my practice. I investigate the importance of belonging and its effect on memory. My investigations rely on philosophical, historical, and scientific aspects of Western origin to inform my artistic concepts.
In 1995 I immigrated to the US from Germany where I trained as a commercial photographer. Since 2005 I have committed myself exclusively to my art practice and have since shown my work in solo exhibitions at the New Britain Museum of Art in 2008, at Light Work and the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in 2007.
I have participated in group shows at ConcentArt in Berlin, at the Museum Industriekultur in Nuremberg, both in Germany, and at Michele Mosko’s Gallery in Denver, to name but a few. In 2005 I was awarded the Dutchess County Arts Council Individual Fellowship. In the same year I was chosen as a resident artist at Light Work in Syracuse, NY. In addition I received a SOS grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2007.
I have been interviewed most recently on NYMPHOTO’s blog on September 17, 2009 (http://nymphoto.blogspot.com/2009/09/conversation-with-angelika-rinnhofer.html), as well as on WCNY Syracuse’s Food for Thought program in 2007. My images have been published in Photo District News, Contact Sheet, Photography Quarterly, and SHOTS, among others. Most recently I was granted a Master’s degree in Fine Arts in New Media from Transart Institute in Berlin.
What I Worry About????
Grace Graupe Pillard (US)
2007
Duration: 00:02:57
Video
Worry…worry…worry…what keeps me up at night and in the morning and afternoon! Personal issues such as aging, career, appearance, all contribute to the lines on my forehead….done with humor and pathos.
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Grace Graupe Pillard has exhibited her artwork throughout the USA with one-person exhibitions at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Ct., University of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, Ill., Aljira, Newark, NJ, in addition to NYC at The Proposition, Donahue/Sosinski Art, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Hal Bromm Gallery, and Wooster Art Space. She has also had one-person exhibitions at The Frist Center for The Visual
Arts in Nashville, Tenn., The NJ State Museum and The NJ Center for Visual Arts. In 2006, she had a one-person exhibit at Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and in 2008 she had solo shows at Payne Gallery at Moravian College, and Rupert Ravens Contemporary. In 2010 she had a one-person exhibition at Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, and in 2011 at Brookdale College, Lincroft NJ. She has participated in group exhibitions at The Noyes Museum, P.S. 1, Bass Museum, Indianapolis Museum, The Maier Museum, The Aldrich Museum, The Drawing Center, The Hunterdon Museum and The National Academy Museum.
Grace Graupe Pillard’s work has been written about in The Village Voice, The NY Times, Art News, The Star Ledger, The New Art Examiner, Newsday, Flash Art, Art Forum, and Art in America and Whitehot Magazine and many on-line publications.
Grace Graupe Pillard has also been involved with many on-line projects and showed her photos and videos at Scope Miami and Scope London, Art Chicago, ArtFem.TV and Cologne OFF, Found Footage, self-imaging and SHOAH.
Since 2003, Grace Graupe-Pillard has been the Coordinator of The Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Workshop – a fellowship program at The National Academy Museum and Art School in NYC preparing selected participants to compete for public art commissions.
Collecting
Dominique Buchtala (DE)
2006
Duration: 00:04:00
Video-Performance by Dominique Buchtala
The video work Collecting is a kind of examination of a common action. I asked myself: What happens if I collect as much spittle in my mouth as I can? Am I able to collect so much spittle, that I will burst
in the end? How much time will the process take? Will my mouth have been hurt? Will I swallow during the process of collecting? The video presents my face in a chewing movement to accumulate spittle in
my mouth. During the movement the lips automatically get wet. Through this a continuous process starts, which brings the collection to an end after four minutes have gone. The spittle just flew out of the mouth.
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Dominique Buchtala lives and works in Karlsruhe and Straubing.
1977 Born in Regensburg
2007 – 2008 Study of visual arts as guest student at the Carrara Fine Arts Academy of Bergamo in Italy, Professor: Eleonora Milesi
2006 – 2007 Postgraduate studies of visual arts at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Professor: Mike Hetz and Joachim Fleischer
2001 – 2006 Study of Installation Art at the State Academy for Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Professor: Leni Hoffmann
1998 – 2001 Vocational Education in Photography in Regensburg
Scholarship / Award
2007 Special Mention of the 14th Regensburg Short Film Week
2005 Erasmus Scholarship at the School of Art and Design in Norwich, England
Exhibitions and projects
2010 Since 2008 Participation at Internetproject „ArtFem.TV“ by Evelin Stermitz,
2010 6010 Film und Videofestival, Hilchenbach- Dahlbruch, Germany
2010 16th Regensburg Short Film Week, Germany
2009 „La Colomba“ International Art Prize, Venice, Italy
2009 „Tanz mit Bruce“, Neuer Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Swizzerland
2009 Air, Sound and Power – Soundinstallation, Escoitar, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2008 Annual End of Year Show at the Carrara Fine Arts Academy of Bergamo in Italy
2008 FEX “Stars und Sternchen”, Video- Installation, Long Night of the Museums in Stuttgart, Germany
2008 1. Bildrausch Videofestival, Saarbrücken, Germany
2007 filmnach8, Lothringer 13, Munic, Germany
2007 14th Regensburg Short Film Week, Germany
2007 Stuttgarter Kulturnacht, Videoinstallation im Heusteigtheater Stuttgart, Germany
2007 Videoperformance im Kaskadenkondensator Basel, Switzerland
2007 “It’s about to blow up!”, UAMO- Festival in den Kunstarkaden Munic, Germany
2007 “ELEMENTE”, Kunstverein Plauen – Vogtland, Germany
2007 “E.G.O. Kunstpreis 2006 – Tendenz Südwest”, Städtische Galerie Balingen, Germany
2006 “Lightfestival – Ende der Gemütlichkeit” im Heusteigtheatre Stuttgart, Germany
2006 “E.G.O. Kunstpreis 2006”, Oberderdingen, Germany
2006 “Offside – Art Festival “, Bravarija, Poreč, Croatia
2005 “If you see more than…”, Freiburg, State Academy for Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 “vier Positionen”, Gertrud Luckner Schule Freiburg, Germany
2004 “daeng” Projekt Zeitgleich-Zeitzeichen Junge Kunst im BBK 2004, BBK, Freiburg, Germany
2003 “Werder 5 – Räume ändern”, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany
2003 “Klasse” KünstlerWerkstatt Mehlwaage in Freiburg, Germany
Rose is a Rose
Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI)
2008
Duration: 00:03:52
Performance, Sound, Video by Evelin Stermitz
This performative video work shows a woman engaged in covering her face with rose leaves. As a metaphor for the absurd above and beyond term “beauty”, the fragility of beauty and the canons of beauty, the video reveals an obscure image of woman, which is also shaped by transiency and impermanence.
Excerpts from the poem “Sacred Emily” by Gertrude Stein, in which she created the sentence “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”, form the sound collage to the video work.
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Evelin Stermitz, lives and works in Austria and Slovenia. She graduated with an M.A. degree in media and new media art from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is holding a master’s degree in philosophy from media studies. Her works are in the field of media and new media art with the main emphasis on post-structuralist feminist art practices. Evelin Stermitz received grants for the International Summer Art School of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, and the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria, within the media class by VALIE EXPORT.
Besides her artistic work, Evelin Stermitz’s research work is focused on women artists in media and new media art. Evelin Stermitz founded ArtFem.TV – Art and Feminism ITV (www.artfem.tv) in the year 2008 and received a special mention for ArtFem.TV at the IX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, in the year 2010.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 2010 23rd Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France / FORCE: on the Culture of Rape, Current Gallery, Baltimore, USA / Magmart | Video under Volcano, CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy / 2009 BAC! 10.0, Pandora’s B., Festival International de Arte Contemporáneo en Barcelona, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain / Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia / 2008 “Femmes, femmes, femmes”, MAC/VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France / Plus 3 Ferris Wheels: Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University / Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, New York / Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University / 2007 chico.art.net v.4, The Electronic Arts Program, California State University / Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, San Francisco / Video Art in the Age of the Internet, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA / FILE Rio, Brazil / 2006 Cyberfem. Feminisms on the electronic landscape., EACC Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain.
ONDAS: Guerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls (US)
2009
Duration: 00:04:49
Produced by El Parlante Amarillo
The Guerrilla Girls are a bunch of anonymous females who take the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms and appear in public wearing gorilla masks. We have produced posters, stickers, books, printed projects, and actions that expose sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and the culture at large. We use humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be funny. We wear gorilla masks to focus on the issues rather than our personalities. Dubbing ourselves the conscience of culture, we declare ourselves feminist counterparts to the mostly male tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Batman, and the Lone Ranger. Our work has been passed around the world by kindred spirits who we are proud to have as supporters. It has also appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Bitch and Bust; on TV and radio, including NPR,, the BBC and CBC; and in countless art and feminist texts. The mystery surrounding our identities has attracted attention. We could be anyone; we are everywhere.
