Julieta Aranda‘s multimedia project-based work has frequently focused on the dissemination of information and the agency of the individual in contemporary society. Her current works allude to the present historical moment, when it starts to be possible to dismantle the cultural imperative, and transform the media so that they can function as tools for collective use, rather than as instruments for cultural domination.
Anri Sala‘s video art engages viewers with its soundscapes as much as its images. The music of Sala’s videos aren’t always separate soundtracks, but are often performances within the video, such as improvisation saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc‘s playing in Long Sorrow (2005), the first of Sala’s short films shown at this ...
Guido van der Werve’s creative work consists of films and videos of performances and actions. It is characterised by the artist’s own activities as a performer; he always appears as a protagonist in his works, often exposing himself to tremendous physical hardships and dangers.
Since his early works, Sala has attached a growing importance to sound, creating remarkable works in which he recasts sound’s relationship to the image. Linked to this development is Sala’s long-standing interest in performance, and particularly musical performance. Sala shows a selection of works focusing these topics.
Curated by Olaf Stüber and Ivo Wessel, the program shows innovative video art one Friday a month at Midnight at the Babylon Film Theatre in Mitte. The program showcases Berlin’s video artists, often including a Q&A after the screening, and is free and open to the public. The Huffington Post ...
The close critical engagement with the problem of how to deal with the past, in particular, illustrates that Marcel Odenbach's art is an exemplary reflection on the German post-war era and its social situation. Yet he also worked early on to embed this thematic emphasis in a wider horizon, expanding on the specifically German issues to achieve a more universal perspective. He studied different cultures and political constellations and integrated his observations into his work, drawing connections between the German trauma of Nazi rule and the Rwandan genocide, between images of masculinity in Turkey and the role of women in Venezuela, between the familiar and the foreign, between his own biography and the history of others.
This Unfortunate Thing Between Us (TUTBU) is an alternative shopping channel selling real life experiences in place of the standard fare of cheap jewellery, lawnmowers and fitness equipment. Viewers are offered the chance to buy an experience and enact it live on stage the following night.
Tuesday is on Friday - Alice Creischer's and Andreas Siekmann's seminar 'Militant Investigation' of the Masters course Space Strategies, Berlin Weißensee School of Art takes place within the frame of Videoart at Midnight.
Hito Steyerl's work straddles the borders between cinema and fine arts, and between theory and practice, exploring issues of militarization, the role of the media in globalization, and the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and knowledge brought on by digital technologies.
The Lost is based on material filmed in Berlin in the thirties. Turbulent times during the rise of the Nazi regime put a halt to the production of the film. Reynolds discovered, restored and remade the film between 2011-2013 at locations such as the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Sprengel Museum, Galerie Zink in Berlin and Christopher Grimes Gallery in Los Angeles.
Im Rahmen der Reihe „Videoart at Midnight“ im Berliner Kino Babylon wird als deutsche Erstaufführung das Werk „Treatments“ von Candice Breitz gezeigt. Darüber hinaus werden weitere Filme der südafrikanischen Künstlerin gezeigt. BLOUIN ARTINFO
Central to the multi-channel video installations for which Breitz is best known, is the question of how an individual becomes him- or herself in relation to a larger community, be it the immediate community that one encounters in family, or the real and imagined communities that are increasingly forged into being via the undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television, cinema and popular music. Candice Breitz presents footage from a selection of her multichannel video installations especially edited for the cinema.
art berlin Screening / Video Art at Midnight Friday 27th September – 12 Midnight Marie J. Burrows Our favourite monthly video art event is back with ‘Binibining Promised Land’, a film by Köken Ergun. Focussing on the thousands of Filipino guest workers living in the state of Israel, ‘Binibining’ refers ...
Geschafft! Die Berlin Art Week ist vorbei, die Menschen sind geschunden und regenieren im Grau nur langsam… Nun hält wieder die wunderbare Alltäglichkeit Einzug. Und ehrlich gesagt, die ist spannender als viele der glamourösen Veranstaltungen der letzten Woche. So kann man es sich am Freitag endlich wieder bei Videoart at ...
Berlin’s top openings and art events for the weekend (Sept 26th – 28th 2013): Art Hack Day, Video Art at Midnight, Lucky Trimmer & Pop-Up Gallery Vernissage Screening / Video Art at Midnight Friday 27th September – 12 Midnight Our favourite monthly video art event is back with ‚Binibining Promised ...
Köken Ergun gives a personal introduction and a statement to the incidents at Gezi Park in which he was involved this summer. Following he will show Binibining Promised Land (The film).
Martin Brand's works often range between documentation and fiction, between chance observation and deliberate staging. Topics such as youth culture, the search for identity, orientation on role models, influence by mass media and advertising, the establishment of cliques and in-groups, violence, hierarchies and mechanisms within groups are central to his work.
A film on life in Japan after March 11, 2011. Yet, not focussing on the visible damages caused by the earthquake and tsunami, nor on the reconstruction and cheer-up activities following the disaster. Rather, interested in non-descript and invisible changes.
Ivo Wessel and Olaf Stüber, the duo behind Videoart at Midnight, say they’ve found a way to give art films the audiences they deserve – by bringing them out of the gallery and into the cinema. Collector Ivo Wessel and gallerist Olaf Stüber come together once a month at Babylon ...
The 59th International Short Film Festival invited “Videoart at Midnight Edition” to present it’s recent issues within the market section of the festival: Nuclear Voyage, Armin Linke, IT, 2008, 10’30” FRI, 3. May, Studio, 19.00 Kiss, Melanie Manchot, GB, 2009, 10’30” SAT, 4. May, Studio 19.00 Parking, Erik Schmidt, GE, ...