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Last week, Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same sex marriage, joining a small but growing number of countries in the international community to do so. The video above showcases a unique expression of the joy and passion in Tango dance, which has found a new home in Argentina’s gay community.
Paper Tiger TV, a volunteer video collective that works to challenge the control of mainstream media, recently traveled to the Gulf Coast to document the aftermath of the devastating BP oil spill. The trip has so far resulted in interesting video clips and photos that speak to the importance of alternative, open information sources. David McDononough’s photo essay of the trip is particularly intriguing. It reveals powerful art produced in the area in the aftermath of the spill, and also demonstrates the power of art (in this case, his own photographs) in educating and informing the public.
Additionally, PPTV is producing a series of short videos about the spill. So far, they include a frank and informative interview with ocean conservationist Jean Michel Cousteau and a unique video project that streamed live video of the spill directly from the BP website for two days. PPTV reminds us of the importance of art in documenting our lives and the world around us.
Check out more of their work and get involved here.
Free Speech TV has been providing free live video streams and video clips of the US Social Forum.
Click here to go directly to the live stream and view other video clips from the event.
Giving us a break in variation from the excessive, sometimes nausiating, dome of advertisment in New York’s Times Square, Creative Time has provided us with a thoughtful exhibit.
AT 44 1/2 Creative time presents video art on the HD screen in Times Square: “From June 15–July 15, Creative Time will present one video each by emerging artists Rob Carter, Graeme Patterson, and Allison Schulnik. The artists freshly mine the possibilities of stop-motion animation, which has been used in filmmaking for over a century. By constructing detailed microcosms of paper and clay, the artists in this series transport us into the kinetic worlds of a city experiencing exponential growth, a discrete memory of youthful contention, and a strange, alien planet. Simultaneously, the analog—and extremely time- and labor-intensive—process by which these worlds are rendered comes into stark contrast with the overwhelmingly digital landscape of Times Square.”
Click here for more on these pieces
Rob Carter, Metropolis:
Graeme Patterson, Grudge Match:
Above, Allison Schulnik, Forest
The loss of public space to obtrusive advertisement is something to lament. Billboards and the like stain our landscapes and architecture. That being said, the following is a beautifully told story of a dying art form: that of hand painted billboards. The following artists use a similar technique to that which Michelangelo used to paint the Sistine Chapel, but must constantly contend with faster and cheaper means of advertisement: a remaining luddite’s sentiment highlighted by the complexity of the ever mobile forces of production, advertisement, and invasion in the current age.
“Up There” from The Ritual Project:
http://www.vimeo.com/11175747
Tashi Dhondup is a Tibetan musician sentenced to 15 months of re-education through labour for “separatist activities” related to his music on January 5, 2010.
High Peaks Pure Earth , a blog reporting on Tibetan freedom, has more.
Wing Young Huie made his mark in the 1990s with his groundbreaking photo documentary of St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood. Several years later, he took on the entirety of Minneapolis’ Lake Street. Now he’s winding up his work on a six-mile stretch of University Avenue. Wing gives 3-Minute Egg a preview and invites the Egg along on a shoot at a small business along University. Wing is opening his studio to the public Saturday to showcase his University Avenue Project photos for a preview sale. The exhibition goes up to the broader public in May along storefronts, the sides of buildings and giant projection screens along University.
EFA Project Space
323 W 39 Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York
Tuesday March 2, 2010 | 6:30pm
A Video Serenade:
Selected works by artists from Norway, Serbia, Russia, and the UK
Recent works selected by ArtVideoExchange (AVE) and Format Network.
A VIDEO SERENADE presents a wide range of contemporary video, from the performative to the personal to the fictive and the documentary. The program aims to reflect the unique mix of themes and approaches to video as exemplified by the artists supported by these two groups.
AVE – Serbia
Program selection by Bojana Romi?
Big Bang / Bojana Romi? / 2009 / 2:30 min.
Never Gonna Give You Up / Goran Micevski / 2006 / 4:00 min.
Exhaustion of Europe / Jovan ?eki? / 2005 / 8:07 min.
Clay Pigeon / Milos Tomi?, 2005 / 6:41 min.
Atomic Watch / Nenad Kosti? / 2006 / 1:13 min.
FPS (First Person Shooters or Frames Per Second) / Wim Janssen / 2006 / 3:08 min.
Format Network, UK
Song Archive / Yvonne Buchheim / 2009 / 5:00 min.
Weightless / Matt White / 2008 / 7:55 min.
A Hard Place / Ronnie Close / 2009 / 4:54 min.
Curtain / Peter Bobby / 2009 / 4.52 min. (extract, HD Video)
AVE–Russia
Program selection by Vika Ilyushkina, CYLAND Media Lab
Son of King / Julia Zastava / 2008 / 4:29 min.
Little Black / Nikolay Kurbatsky / 2008 / 1:51 min.
I want to live through your death / Olga Jitlina / 2009 / 5:44 min.
Storage / Anton Hlabov / 2009 / 2:20 min.
Expulsion from the Paradise / Andrey Ustinov / 2003 / 2:01 min.
Vertigo / Kirill Shuvalov / 2003 / 1:43 min.
Never ending / Masha Sha / 2005 / 2:12 min.
Mom / Yuri Vasiliev / 2002 / 0:55 min.
Feedback / Maksim Svishev / 2009 / 5:42 min.
Purification / Veronica Rudyeva-Ryazantseva / 2008 / 4:30 min.
AVE – Norway
Program selection by Mona Bentzen
Amerika / Ane Lan / 2003 / 3:15 min.
Che Guevara’s Rolex / Birgitte Sigmundstad / 2009 / 4:40 min.
Par Hasard / BULL.MILETIC / 2009 / 5:15 min.
Opacity / Farhad Kalantary / 2005 / 5:30 min.
Erase / Margarida Paiva / 2009 / 3:30 min.
Felix Culpa, A Handmade Massacre / Martin Skauen / 2007 / 5:06 min.
RUR / Mona Bentzen / 2010 / 2:16 min.
A VIDEO SERENADE is organized by Madeline Djerejian, AVE-USA, in cooperation with ArtVideoExchange and Format Network, with support from the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), CYLAND Media Art Laboratory (St. Petersburg, Russia), and the St. Petersburg branch of the National Center of Contemporary, Art (NCCA).
AVE is an international exchange program and initiative between artists and curators that promotes the production and circulation of video programming worldwide. Format Network is an artists’ group based in Bristol, UK that focuses on staging activities of exchange and engagement, including screenings and exhibitions, lectures by invited artists, critics and theorists, and open-mic performance evenings.
[Text and graphic from EFA website. Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]
[Below, a vintage performance by the brilliant, irrepressible Patti Smith on the occasion of her sixty-fourth birthday. Rock on Patti!]
[Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6Z 2H7
Stan Douglas
Klatsassin
through November 8
Klatsassin takes its title from a Tsilhqot’in chief (the Tsilhqot’in are Athapascan-speaking Aboriginal people in British Columbia) and will include two series of photographs and a high-definition video projection. The video, set in 1864 in the forests of Canada’s Cariboo Mountains, focuses on the hostility between the Tsilhqot’in tribe and encroaching settlers seeking gold on the Chilcotin Plateau. Klatsassin led an insurgency but at first evaded capture. He was eventually lured with the gift of tobacco, taken prisoner, tried for murder, and hanged.
[text and graphic from google search for 'Klatsassin'. Caption: "Stan Douglas. still from Klatsassin (the prospector). 2006." Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]
