Videoscreening
SCREENING / 28th SEPTEMBER – 3rd OCTOBER 20.00-23.00 / ROTERMANNI KVARTAL
Every year the Plektrum Festival brings forth new video art pieces based on the artist and the theme. This year an official call was sent out to Estonian video and animation artists and international networks. The content of the four video programs originates from the festival’s key topic of 2009 “Do You Live in a Reality?” and it’s source “Where is Virtuality?”.
Program 1: Argentinelee
Argentinelee was born in Korea in 1975, lives and works in Paris. She works with video, sound, installation and performance. She organizes her exhibitions so as to provoke audience participation. Her work harmonizes performance, situations and concepts. In her works the artist questions the identity of the individual who is standing on the boundary between technology and humanism and expresses the unstable feeling of chaos and wandering.
Programm 2: manic.fiction
Curator Lucas Czjzek has put together a collection of videos produced by artists of the sonance.artistic.network in Vienna, Austria titled “Manic.fiction – re.sonance.dvd.007″. “I think people in wealthy parts of the world are living within a manic fiction, broadcasting that production isthe only worthy thing to do. It will force people to forget about the value of inactivity and the opportunity of downtime. Manic.fiction approaches the need to reduce speed and rethink time,” says producer Simon B. Haefele.
Program 3: Young Anima
A diverse selection of the works of animation and scenography students offers classical narrative approaches, interesting pictorial language, social criticism and travesty. Techniques from pixilation, puppet and photo films to 3D and flash animation.
Program 4: Cinema class meets Plektrum
It is now possible to see on the big screen the works that were created during a joint three day video art and VJ workshop of Vanalinna Hariduskolleegium and Plektrum experts. Everything that falls under the category “interesting soundscapes” – modern rhythms, runic songs and improvisation – have inspired the authors to create their first music videos. Travel stories, deep minimalism, introspective realizations and humorous surreal style of directing – this is an appropriate short introduction to the young author’s video program.
Escaping Camera’s View & Digital Body
26th September-4th October 12.00-20.00 / East Gallery
The solution is to stop producing digital images, escape the camera’s view, reduce the huge amounts of information or locate art in town in place of the museum. The struggle is human beings against technology.
Lúmine
26th September-4th October 12.00-20.00 / East Gallery
Marit Ilison’s master’s project, installation-collection Lúmine uses esoterics, quantum theory, string theory and alternative medicine, plays with time and space and challenges the senses. Are the space and objects around us the inexorable truth or an illusion
Disconnected Gestures Series 1-9
26th September-4th October 12.00-20.00 / East Gallery
This work is composed of nine short videos made as elements of a series. Each of the nine chosen body parts performs a particular gesture.
HYPEReSPACE & EILE
3rd October 20.00-21.00 / Von Krahl
HYPEReSPACE is a hypnotic experience of escape and dream in a fantasy space, a mix of sound and image. By its minimalism it resembles the universe of video games and sci-fi films.
Tales of A Sea Cow
27th September 19.00-19.30 / Von Krahl
The parable „Tales of a Sea Cow“ describes recent scientific research on the first translation of animal thought. The song of the now extinct Steller’s sea cow is put into words and visuals and presented as a testimony, a critique of the human desire for a true separation of body and mind.
Chronicle
26th September-4th October 12.00-20.00 / East Gallery
The video takes place in an underwater world. The aim of changing realities is to create an illusion of a metaphysical atmosphere where everything is beautiful. Yet this is a desire to escape into a metaphoric womb - our beginning.
What you sleep is what you are
29th September-3rd October / Laste Maailma Gallery
What do we do every night? Party, rest, think, try to fall asleep, snore, pretend to be “someone else”, find ourselves in unbelievable situations, escape? The exhibition explores candidly, boldly and playfully what sleep is made of.
Musical Etude For Mobile Phones
26th September / 19.00-19.30 / Kumu
The performance introduces a new spatial musical instrument that consists of hundreds of old mobile phones and a synthesizer. The recycled phones collected from all over Estonia represent the history from the first models to modern polyphonic phones.
Emoticonize me!
24th September-4th October / Cityspace
The idea to transfer Skype iconography into the physical dimension arose when the artist discovered Skype was developed in Estonia. As a street artist Karo will interpret people´s faces as Skype emoticons translating emotions into their symbolic equivalent in the online world.
Videoscreening
28th September - 3rd October 20.00-23.00 / Rotermanni kvartal
Every year the Plektrum Festival brings forth new video art pieces based on the artist and the theme. The content of the four video programs originates from the festival’s key topic of 2009 “Do You Live in a Reality?” and it’s source “Where is Virtuality?”.
