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Videophagy /Videofagia is e-fagia collective’s first project that is totally dedicated to video. The medium of video continues to be transformed by changes in technology. With Videophagy / Videofagia we want to explore the different forms in which video production and transmission have been influencing art and society. The project is divided in three parts: The first part is the gallery exhibition Video Web and Politics at Function 13 Gallery; the second part is a Series of Screenings at Hot Shot Gallery presented in conjunction with talks, and a performance; the third part is an Online Channel presented on our website as well as on Vimeo
September 30th to October 10th
Function 13 Gallery
156 Augusta Avenue
Gallery Hours:
Monday to Saturday 11am – 7 pm
Sunday 11am – 6 pm
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Gallery Exhibition |
Video, Web and Politics
Artists: Julieta Maria, and Public Studio Collective: Elle Flanders, Eshrat Erfanian, Tamira Sawatzky and Zev Farber.
Curated by Arlan Londoño.
September 30th to October 10th
Opening reception:
Thursday, September 30th
from 6 to 9 pm
Function 13 Gallery,
156 Augusta Avenue
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As a collective of artists from a Latin American cultural background, we are aware of the political implications of video. Through this medium, artists have commented on issues of inequality and on the rhetoric of power. During the last years, this addressing the political through video, or video-politics, has jumped from the TV or gallery screens into the new gadgets like laptops and the cell phone screens that are part of network connections, creating what we could call web-politics. In this exhibition we present both approaches to working with video. Julieta Maria performs for the camera, reflecting on her own context while referring to broader issues, while Public Studio Collective reflects on the use of video through web and its distribution and transmission of meaning.
In Exercises in Faith Julieta creates a series of video-recorded, personal performances where she explores the acts of inflicting and being subjected to violence. She begins her process with a self-exploration shaped by Colombia’s violence and dispute over the land. In Kino Pravda 3G, Public Studio Collective creates a six channel video installation where they explore the video transmission of protests on mobile devices, following the political movements around the world. Kino Pravda 3G is a reflection on the political and epistemological variations of video transmissions.
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Exercises in Faith
By Julieta Maria
Multiple channel video installation
Indian anthropologist Veena Das suggested that pain is an expression which longs to find a home in the body of another. The videos I am presenting reflect on violence and oppression using the body as the point of departure. The videos reflect on fragility, beauty and violence, questioning the limits of our relationship to one another and to the world, exploring affective responses and indifference, and the humanity and inhumanity that lurks at the core of all of us.
Julieta Maria is a Colombian, Toronto based new media artist with an MFA in Visual Arts from York University. She works with video and interactive installations, using technology to provide the audience with an intimate space for reflection. Julieta's recent work has been centered on video documentation of staged actions, exploring the experience of violence as an intrusion in the everyday relationship between the subject and the world.
Function 13 Gallery, 156 Augusta Avenue
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Kino Pravda 3G
By Public Studio Collective
6 channel video installation
The revolution is being mobilized. From the most recent G20 protests, to the Green movement in Iran and the Red Shirts in Thailand, 3G follows the recent political movements around the globe. While mainstream media’s repetitive slick images of riots create grand narratives, mobile phones in the hands of the protestors, allow for the narration of their own stories.
Vertov’s Kino Pravda (literally “film truth),” based on the belief that truth lay beneath the surface of what is seen and that fragments of reality edited together would present a deeper truth, provide the groundwork for today's Youtube universe. With simple, unadorned and functional images, Vertov’s transmitted his revolutionary world. In Kino Pravda 3G, Public Studio —a transient Toronto artist collective— assembles the detritus of mobile phone footage over the last year to illustrate the current state of affairs in protests from Tehran to Toronto.
Function 13 Gallery, 156 Augusta Avenue
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Screenings Series |
Screening Series
October 8th and 9th
Opening reception:
October 8th from 6 to 12 pm
Hot Shot Gallery,
181 Augusta Avenue
Gallery Hours:
Saturday and
Sunday 6 to 10 pm
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The Videophagy / Videofagia Screening Series is an initiative in which we invited different artists and curators to curate and present a program of online video. With this project we want to explore the web as a channel, to investigate the different ways in which the Internet and other forms of video transmission are related. We are presenting traditional and hybrid contents that are present on the Internet and that participate of, or expand on, the notion of video. These series of screenings are presented and curated by several artists and curators that work with media and new media.
Artists and curators: Jorge Marulanda, Guillermina Buzio, Victoria Moufawad-Paul, Makila.TV, Lina Rodriguez, Brad Deane, Elle Flanders, Eshrat Erfanian, Tamira Sawatzky, Zev Farber and e-fagia Collective |
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PROGRAMME
Friday, October 8th
6:30 p.m.
Videophagy / Videofagia, an online project
Curated by e-fagia
8 p.m.
Inconsumable, curated by Victoria Moufawad-Paul
Direct Address curated by Lina Rodriguez,
9 p.m.
Dream Factory curated by Brad Deane
Kalavera Deliciosa / exquisite corpse #7
By Makila.TV (Montreal)
Hot Shot Gallery, 6 to 12 pm
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Saturday, October 9th
6:30 p.m.
And Exercises in Faith, artist talk by Julieta Maria
8 p.m.
Made in Oaxaca / Hecho en Oaxaca
Curated by Guillermina Buzio
9 p.m.
Kino Pravda 3G an artists talk
With Public Studio collective: Elle Flanders, Eshrat Erfanian, Tamira Sawatzky, and Zev Farber
Hot Shot Gallery, 6 to 10 pm
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Online Channel |
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The creation of the web has accelerated the popularity and consumption of video. The Online Channel is a selection of videos carried out through a call for submissions, where we explore the different approaches that contemporary artists take when working with video and the web.
Artists:
Gregory Chatonsky, Camilo Cogua Rodriguez - Video Red, Antonio Mendoza, Osvaldo Cibils, Mateo Rudas Vásquez, Heidi Neubauer-Winterburn, MUTO, Biying Zhang, Rosa Menkman, Stefan Riebel, Shashwati Talukdar, Derek Larson, Nicholas Fraser, Sincita, Jody Zellen, Richard Jochum and Ian Flitman
VIdeophagy on Vimeo
Online Channel
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