Emma Rozanski & Gonzalo Escobar Mora present new work at Elastic Arts Chicago →

Our Emma Rozanski and Gonzalo Escobar Mora have curated a group collaborative show with Liz Gomez and Elastic Arts Chicago for the North American premiere of 3-channel video ‘Walden [verb]’

Walden [verb] is a mixed-media show consisting of work made by members of the cast and crew of a 3-channel video installation called Walden [verb]. The 3-channel work will be the central piece of the show, and ten satellite pieces in different media will form a creative grouping to accompany. Each artwork will be connected to and inspired by the main work either by theme, underlying discussion, visual aesthetic, materials, or location/space.

Artists in show: Liz Gomez, Yoni Goldstein, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Madigan Burke, Zach Barner, Hadley Austin, Ronen Goldstein, Guy Fixsen, Bobbie Meier, Steve Meier, and Daniele Wilmouth

When: July 12th - July 25th 2024

Where: Elastic Arts - 3429 W. Diversey #208, Chicago IL, 60647    -   https://elasticarts.org

About ‘Walden [verb]’, the 3-channel video installation: A twenty-two minute impressionistic adaptation of the book ‘Walden’, with playful abstractions relating to critiques of his life and work. We follow a young woman in the snowy woods as she undertakes various ritualistic procedures in nature and in symbolic spaces. The film links themes of environmentalism and human discord to weave fragments of dystopian narrative, the three channels linked by a single soundscape.

Notes: 

-The exhibition will also be on display in a limited capacity during the evenings of the regular performance schedule of Elastic Arts - video sound will be restricted.

-Appointments for private viewings can also be requested

-Live music tickets available directly through Elastic Arts (booking recommended): https://elasticarts.org/events

Emma Rozanski's 3-channel video installation 'Walden [verb]' continues its journey →

Emma Rozanski's 3-channel video installation Walden [verb] continues its journey this month with screenings at these festivals/galleries:

FIC Autor, Guadalajara Jalisco – Mexico, October 2023

and

Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille and Aix en Provence, France October 2023 – January 2024

https://www.instantsvideo.com/blog/video/walden-verb/

Their videopoetics friendships will also screen the work internationally at these places/dates:
   October, 20 -> 25 : Aknoon art Gallery & Safavi Museum, Ispahan (Iran) for 2 exhibitions
   October   (date to be confirmed): screening with Cairo Video Festival (Egypte)
   October, 18 -> 1er November : [.BOX] Videoart project space in Milan (Italy) for a screening-installation
   October, 18 -> 21 November: Visualcontainer TV (Italy) for a screening program available 24h/24
   November, 2 (6.30pm) : MMAG Foundation (Amman) and Medearts association (Irbid)  (Jordanie) for two screening programs followed by a conversation
   November 6 : French Institute in Palestine for a screening in the frame of Digital November: Gaza and Ramallah.

Earlier thsi year Walden [verb] also screened in these festivals [we forgot to post the news!]

March 2023: Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Modena – Italy

April 2023: Wide Open Film Festival, Oklahoma – USA

Kaori Oda to exhibit her 'Muse' Series of paintings @KUGURU Japan →

新作『セノーテ』と共につくっていた絵の一部をYIDFF2019連携プログラム「muse series – paintings of Cenote」として展示していただけることになりました。
＠とんがりビル1階KUGURU9/26(木)~10/20(日)入場無料です。

YIDFF会期中お時間の許す時に覗いていただければ嬉しいです。
https://tongari-bldg.com/2971

Exhibition of 'muse series – paintings of Cenote'
@KUGURU, 1F of TONGARI BLDG.
26/9/2019 〜 20/10/2019

YIDFF2019 collaboration program
Kaori Oda exhibition
muse series
paintings of Cenote

In conjunction with the 16th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2019, which will begin on October 10, we will exhibit and introduce painting works by filmmaker Kaori Oda. Oda learned from master Tal Bella in Sarajevo, and his work “Mine ARAGANE”, which was closely linked to miners working in Bosnian coal mines, was selected for YIDFF2015 “New Asian Currents” and attracted attention.
This exhibition “muse series – paintings of Cenote” will exhibit a part of the “Muse” series of 100-piece paintings that Oda drew in his room during the editing period of the new work “Cenote” taken in Mexico. Cenote is a spring in a cave dotted in the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula. In the days of the Mayan civilization, it was considered a sanctuary linking the present life and the yellow spring for those who have roots in the Maya who still live in the surroundings. Like the previous work “Mine AKAGANE”, what was Oda's vision that he saw and felt in the underground world? Along with the movie “Cenote” to be screened at YIDFF2019 “New Asian Currents” this time, please come to this exhibition where light and darkness, life and death, movies and paintings come together.

Planning: kanabou

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At the beginning of 2017, I watched "Snake Dance" in a movie about Lumière Brothers. I was fascinated by the shot and started drawing pictures of dancers, and I became involved with the pictures of the Mexican underwater cave that I am working on day by day.
They drew their faces while thinking of the girls who were thrown into the spring in the cave as a ginger because of the rain. During the shooting in Mexico, I met many people, listened to many stories, and dive into an unknown underwater space.
I feel like I was trying to refute what my mind and body had experienced by making an output of drawing pictures every day while gathering the shooting materials after returning to Japan.
Kaori Oda (September 2019)

Bistrik7 mentor Béla Tarr to show new work in Vienna →

Bistrik7 are so very excited and our hearts are so very warmed by the announcement that our beloved mentor, Bela Tarr from our film.factory family, is presenting a new work:

Béla Tarr: Missing People

DATES

Thu, 13. June, 6.00pm , 9.00pm 
Fri, 14. June, 6.00pm , 9.00pm 
Sat, 15. June, 6.00pm , 9.00pm 
Sun, 16. June, 6.00pm , 9.00pm

LOCATION

Halle E im MuseumsQuartier 
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien

On 15 June both screenings of Missing People by Béla Tarr offer free admission to everyone who can present a current issue of the Viennese street newspaper Augustin.
Subject to availability, tickets can be obtained on 15 June from the evening box office in the foyer of Halle E+G at MuseumsQuartier.

FESTWOCHEN EXTRAS

Masterclass with Béla Tarr
Talk with Béla Tarr and Jacques Rancière

INTERVIEW

About the piece:

Vienna is the city with the highest quality of living in the world – this was confirmed yet again in 2018. But the city’s immaculate façade made of Habsburg splendour, Sacher torte and snow-white Lipizzaner horses is only half the story. Many inhabitants do not fit into this picture and are hidden from sight owing to poverty and social hierarchies. Béla Tarr’s Missing People makes them visible again. Tarr’s magnum opus, Sátántangó, is widely regarded as one of the most important works in film history. And according to his director colleague Gus Van Sant, the Hungarian comes closer to the actual rhythm of life than virtually any other filmmaker. This is also true for his new project, which is his first time directing after a long creative break. Using just a few shots, Tarr shows these invisible people in the kind of place to which they would normally have no access. This work, created in the intersection of film, installation and performance, will be presented exclusively during the Wiener Festwochen – at the filming location itself. While the visitors remain amongst themselves, only traces of the protagonists are left behind. A powerful plea for humanity.

(courtesy of https://www.festwochen.at/en/programme/programme/detail/missing-people/ )

Roman Susan Gallery and Wedge Projects screen Rozanski's experimental dance film →

‘On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood’, an experimental dance film by Emma Rozanski, made as part of The International Museum of Surgical Science’s Summer/Autumn Residency 2018, will screen in Chicago in a group video show at The Roman Susan Gallery and Wedge Projects streetlight space.

Works will be on two monitors at Wedge 24/7, and projected at Roman Susan after dark – both sites visible from the street when the spaces are closed. Video will be on view at Wedge May 6-26, at Roman Susan May 7-24. Both sites will be playing video on random shuffle. 

On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood in Chicago's STREETLIGHT exhibition →

Our Emma Rozanski’s dance-video installation ‘On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood’ will be exhibited in Chicago next week (4/8 - 4/14) as part of the Roman Susan Gallery’s STREETLIGHT series at Wedge Projects (Howard Street).

The work will be projected in the window of the gallery 24/7 during the week 4/8 - 4/14 , along with a piece by Tracy Miller-Robbins - so put on your spring walking shoes and take a stroll on by Chicago (it’ll be visible from the street). 

ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND THE BLOOD was originally made during Rozanski’s Artist Residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science in 2018. The piece was also photographed by @Bistrik7 ‘s Gonzalo Escobar Mora, and performed by Sienna Broglie and Steveie Stevens of SAIC.

Streetlight at Wedge Projects, 1448 West Howard Street, Chicago, IL, USA
January 7, 2019 - May 26, 2019

Rozanski's solo capstone exhibition at The International Museum of Surgical Science →

Kicking off in Chicago (USA) in November is Emma Rozanski’s solo video art and mixed media exhibition at the International Museum of Surgical Science.

The opening reception is on Friday 2nd November 5.30pm to 7.30pm and is free to attend and drinks will be provided. After that, the exhibition will run until December 2nd 2018. She’s created four new experimental video pieces (including dance, animation and shadow puppetry), a sound installation and a few text-based mixed-media pieces - everything is inspired by and created using the Museum’s vast collection.

Here’s all the info: https://imss.org/specimens-of-chance-and-play-artist-in-residence-capstone-exhibition/

Emma will also be conducting a workshop at the Museum on Sunday 11th November called ‘The Poetry of Movement’ - a workshop for self-expression through abstract dance - no dance or performance experience required!

Exciting things all ‘round!