VIDEONALE 12

VIDEONALE 12 - Festival programme from 26th to 28th March 2009

Festival of Contemporary Video Art
Exhibition from 26th March to 26th April in the Kunstmuseum Bonn

The complete programme of the festival can now be accessed online under www.videonale.org.

Some highlights:

VIDEO ART AND INTERNET - THE FUTURE OF THE MOVING PICTURE
VIDEONALE Symposium Day 1 - Thursday, 26th March 2009

With YouTube, a true renaissance of the short video has begun. Young artists have for some time been exploiting the potential of the web video service, to find their audience - in a virtual gallery, as it were.
On the first day of the VIDEONALE Symposium, the question will be discussed what influence the Internet can have on the production - and distribution - of video art. Prof. Dieter Daniels (Leipzig & Linz), one of the founders of the VIDEONALE, will open the series of lectures with a glance at current developments in video art. Light will be cast on the most varied perspectives of the topic, including Vera Tollmann (curator and author), who will consider the phenomenon of YouTube, Ama Walton (lawyer), who will deal with relevant legal questions, and Philine von Guretzky (tank.tv), who will present tank.tv, the non-profit platform for video art.

OPEN ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS OF PARTICIPATORY ARCHIVE PROCESSES
VIDEONALE Symposium Day 2 - Friday, 27th March 2009

During the 25 years of its existence, the VIDEONALE has collected a considerable body of pictorial, sound and documentary material, which will in the future be made available to the general public. In doing this, the VIDEONALE does not intend to create a self-contained archive system, but rather explore the possibilities and limits of an archive open in various directions.
For this reason, on the second day of the VIDEONALE Symposium, the possibilities and limits of collaboration and participation in the creation and interpretation of archives will be discussed by, among others, Gabriele Blome (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Media & Art Research Media, Linz), JŸrgen Keiper (project director, LOST FILMS Portal), and the two artists Mathias Jud and Christoph Wachter, with their internet-based archive "zone-interdite". In the concluding panel discussion, in which all the speakers will take part, especial attention is to be paid to the demand for democratisation with regard to authorship, selection processes and accessibility, against the background of current developments in Web 2.0.

INTERVENTIONS - ACTIONS AND PROJECTS OF VIDEONALE 12 in higher education
Saturday, 28th March 2009

Founded in 1984, the VIDEONALE saw itself from the beginning as a platform for an art form that was young at the time, and in particular one for young artists. On the occasion of the VIDEONALE's 25th anniversary, the association continues its commitment to this view, offering young and emerging artists a forum of their own within the framework of the VIDEONALE. For the Festival of VIDEONALE 12, four professors from various art academies, and their students, have been invited to present contributions under the title INTERVENTIONS.

The students' works are directed at audiences with a view to dialogue, in the museum and at various locations in the city, questioning existing structures, and thus forming a living pendant to the exhibition of the VIDEONALE in the Museum of Art - not only through the medium of the video, but also with performances and temporary installations and actions in the public sphere. The exhibition of students' projects in the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bšttger's bookshop, the Bonner Kunstverein, the city office of the Christian Democratic Party, and the filling station in the Kšlner Strasse, can be seen from Thursday to Sunday. All the other works and actions by students are concentrated on Saturday, 28th March 2009.

DIE AUSERWÄHLTEN (THE CHOSEN ONES) - THE VIDEONALE GENERATION ARCHIVE
Sunday 26th April 2009

The problems that can arise when we come to browse in our archives at some time in the future are anticipated by the video "Noriko.Manga - In Search ofÉ". This video, which will be shown on the occasion of the final ceremony of the exhibition on Sunday 26th April at 1 p.m., was made with the context of DIE AUSERW€HLTEN - the Videonale Generation Archive, the project of VIDEONALE 12 for the teaching of art. Young people from the Bertolt Brecht Comprehensive School, Bonn, together with senior citizens of Bonn, engage in an inter-generation dialogue about art, with special reference to the topic of archives. With this project, the VIDEONALE will commence the restructuring of its own archive holdings, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of ifs foundation.

"One central question relating to the utilisation of the texts and pictures contained in archives is that of selection." The initiators Birgit Bertram, art mediator (Bonn and Maastricht), and Tasja Langenbach of the VIDEONALE, ask what is selected to be preserved, by whom, and why.

From September 2008 to July 2009, DIE AUSERW€HLTEN, together with Birgit Bertram and the VIDEONALE team, have been and will be concerned with artistic, personal and institutional archives, investigating the possibilities and limits of participation and cooperation. Via the production of a video, together with performances and work with photographs, drawings and texts, they have been developing perspectives of their own which in turn will be incorporated into the work on the VIDEONALE archives. In the exhibition of VIDEONALE 12, the results from work on the project will be presented in a special display. The project as a whole will be presented at the final ceremony of the exhibition on Sunday 26th April. The Symposium of the VIDEONALE will be concerned with the topic of ARCHIVES on Friday 27th March.

VIDEOVOICES

A second mode of information of the VIDEONALE - VideoVoices - is based on "simultaneous guidance". Students from Bonn and Cologne, who have been trained in special seminars, will be available for consultation throughout the exhibition. With the constant presence of the VideoVoices at the exhibition, the visitor is not tied to traditional forms and times of guidance, but is able, according to his/her individual interests and requirements, to consult the students at any time with relevant questions that arise.

This year, the VIDEONALE was able to engage in cooperation with the art history departments of the universities of Cologne and Bonn for the preparation of the VideoVoices for their information activities. During the winter semester 2008-09, seminars on the VIDEONALE took place dealing with both the history of the festival and of video art in general, thus preparing the students intensively for guidance work in the museum. In the context of these seminars, the students also composed texts on the works presented in the exhibition, which will be published in the VIDEONALE catalogue.

CATALOGUE AND DVD ON THE VIDEONALE 12

On the occasion of VIDEONALE 12, once again a two-language catalogue is being produced with numerous illustrations of the works exhibited, scholarly essays, and a DVD containing the major part of the works presented in the Videonale.

VIDEONALE 12 is sponsored by the city of Bonn, the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW, the Stiftung Kunst der Sparkasse in Bonn, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cine plus (technology sponsor), Langenbach Cuisine Modern, the chief sponsor being the KfW Bankengruppe.

MAIN DATES OF VIDEONALE 12
Press conference: Tuesday 24th March 2009, 11.30 a.m.
Opening, and award of the VIDEONALE Prize: Wednesday 25th March 2009, 8.00 p.m.
Festival programme: Thursday 26th March to Saturday, 28th March 2009
Final ceremony of the exhibition: Sunday 26th April 2009 - Candice Breitz: presentation of works and discussion with the artist.

CONTACT
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