The 12th international “Waterpieces” contemporary and video art festival will as usual stimulate professional competition between video artists in the Baltic region, as well as provide a comprehensive insight into the latest global trends in art of the moving image through the presentation of selected programmes from renowned media and video art festivals. Among the selections on view during this festival will be short films from the futuristic urban British video art archive “Onedotzero”, the very best works from the technologically innovative “15th Japanese Media Arts Festival”, as well as a programme from the travelling video festival “CologneOFF” which focuses on geographic and artistic boundaries, while the impact of the crisis on art of the moving image will be reflected in “Austerity Measures” – a selection of videos compiled by Portuguese curator João Laia.

The festival programme will be enlivened by sets by Latvian VJs with participants including “Gas of Latvia” and F5 and performances by text group Orbīta, Kaspars Groševs, DJ Krii and $Kodek and TV Maskava.

The Program of “Waterpieces”

16 August – opening day of the festival

21:00 Presentation of the Baltics best audio-visual art works and awards ceremony

22:30  Text – group Orbīta performance / FM Slow Show

23:00 LV VJ set featuring:

“Gas of Latvia”;

“F5″

Zane Raudiņa un Jeļena Glazova “Reborn”

17 August – second day of the festival

21:00 Kaspars Groševs/ performance by deliberate

21:30 Curator João Laia’s (Pt) programme “Austerity Measures”

22:30 DJ Krii Kruu

23:00 “CologneOFF”- video art in a global context “Mexican Visions” programme

18 August – closing day of the festival

21:00 $Kodek and TV Maskava

21:30 “Onedotzero”- adventures in moving image programme “Citystates’10”

23:00 A selection of the best works from the “15th Japan Media Arts Festival”

Exhibition accompanying the festival: “4Dialogues” at NOASS gallery from 12:00-19:00, 15 – 30 August.

A lecture by the exhibition’s curator João Laia (Pt) will take place at 19:00 on 14 August on the NOASS floating arts centre.

Entrance free

Visit to the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum / June 1:

Participants: NOASS team together with artists Doron Polak (Israel), Eitan Vitkon (Israel), Felice Hapetzeder (Sweden), Doris Neidl (Austria), Jay Needham (USA), Ben Neufeld (USA), Shelley Jordon (USA) and curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) and our tour was led by Rabbi Menachem Barkahan

Artists Talks / June 1 – 2

Friday, 1 June 2012

Meeting at Floating Art Gallery NOASS 

Exhibition “How Memory Survives” – photography by Eitan Vitkon & Drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio

19:00 artists talks and lectures with Felice Hapetzeder (Sweden), Doron Polak (Israel) & Eitan Vitkon (Israel)

21:30  screening ‐ SFC – Shoah Film Collection, afterwards discussion

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Saturday, 2 June 2012

Meeting at Floating Art Gallery NOASS

Exhibition “How Memory Survives” – photography by Eitan Vitkon & Drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio

17:00 artists talks and lectures  with Ben Neufeld (USA), Cristiano Berti (Italy) & Shelley Jordon (USA)

21:30 screening SFC – Shoah Film Collection, afterwards discussion

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Sunday, 3 June 2012

Meeting at Floating Art Gallery NOASS

Exhibition “How Memory Survives” – photography by Eitan Vitkon & Drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio

19:00 artist talks and lectures with Doris Neidl (Austria) & Jay Needham (USA)

21:00 finalization with screening and discussion

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Event features

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SFC – Shoah Film Collection  1-8 June 2012

Will be screened  & exhibited on  1-3 June at the Floating Art Gallery NOASS  - and during the Conference of Holocaust Museums 4 & 5 June organised by Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museums at Academy of Sciences  Riga

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RIGA – performance by Doron Polak – 1 June 2012

The performance by the Israeli artist Doron Polak, whose family roots lie in Riga, is related to the memories of his father, and will take place on 1 June at Floating Art Gallery NOASS

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Exhibition  „How Memory Survives”   – 1 – 8 June 2012

The exhibition „How Memory Survives”  presenting photographs by the Israeli artist Eitan Vitkon (Israel), and drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio, forming the basis of his animated movie „Mortale”and part of SFC – Shoah Film Collection – at Floating Art Gallery NOASS – open on  1 – 3 June 19:00 – 22:00 and 4-8 June 12:00 – 19:00

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For additional information read here.

“T.P.A” (Turin Performance Art)

Performance Art International Festival

9-10 June, Turin, Italy 2012

The TPA festival aims to promote Performance Art, creating an opportunity for exchange between artists of national and international scene and the public in Turin.

Regulations:

1. Open to all artists interested in producing performance art / video performance

2. Proposals for live performance will take into account the internal and external space made available by Greenbox

3. Applicants may submit one or more proposals for performance or video performance

4. The selected artists will be notified by mail by May 6, 2012. They should therefore confirm their presence within 5 days from that date, if not they will be excluded from the Festival

5. Greenbox is committed to providing logistical support to the artists selected (only live section), meals and two nights

6. The material must be received no later than April 7 , 2012, after excluding/selection

7. The presentation of the projects:

The application form with all required attachments, must be received (by hand or by mail) no later than April 7, 2012 at the following address (if sent by mail, postmark date of postmark):

GreenBox-Incubator of Ideas 25

Via San Anselmo 10125 Torino (TO)

The envelope shall state as follows: “TPA section of live performance” or “TPA section videoperfomance”

8. Live performance section:

Applicants must submit an envelope for each project, containing the following documents:

a) main contact: name, address, e-mail, telephone number

b) complete video documentation of the performance – no promo (CD / DVD) showing the title and author’s name

c) will also be required in digital format (CD / DVD) and paper (A4) the following documents:

d) A brief description of the performance

e) a short statement

f) A brief biography

g) Curriculum Vitae

h) web site (if any)

i) a copy of identity document or passport (for all participants, in the case of groups)

9. Video Performance section:

Applicants must submit an envelope for each project, containing the following document

a) main contacts: name, address, e-mail, telephone number

b) video on digital media (CD /DVD) showing the title and author’s name

c) a brief description

d) a brief statement

e) brief biography

f) curriculum vitae

g) web-site

h) a copy of identity document or passport (for all participants, in the case of groups)

10. Excluded applications: if you wish to receive the material you sent, you should include in the envelope a stamp and an envelope with the request address.

11. Projects will be selected by the artistic direction of the TPA and the GreenBox

Contacts:

If you have a questions about T.P.A you can sent an e-mail to a link above: manumacco@yahoo.it

At the link below you can see the photo of the location:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/GreenBox-Incubatore-di-Idee/159185610771273?sk=photos

Info: +39 338 58 10 572

Web: www.greenbox.to – Mail: manumacco@yahoo.it

Ufficio stampa:

press@greenbox.to

All information from http://www.greenbox.to/eventi/tpa

]]> http://vecs.noass.lv/pas-notes/feed/into/en/ 0 http://vecs.noass.lv/eiropas-dejas-projekts-e-motional-bodiescities-atvers-durvis/ http://vecs.noass.lv/eiropas-dejas-projekts-e-motional-bodiescities-atvers-durvis/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:55:00 +0000 http://vecs.noass.lv/?p=4148 Association of Professional Contemporary Dance Choreographers of Latvia invites you to an “open house” of the project E-Motional Bodies & Сities in Riga in September 27th, 2011 at 19:00 on the Floating Arts Centre Betanovuss AB dambis 2, Riga, ]]>

During the “Open House” meeting we will introduce you to the mobility and artistic exchange project E-Motional Bodies & Cities. We will describe the various opportunities the project offers to the artists and art managers who wish to share their experience and ideas in the field of contemporary dance.

There are four Latvian artists who have joined the project now: Olga Zitluhina, Kaspars Lielgalvis, Katrina Albuze and Anna Dubrovska. At the open house meeting they will tell about their current artistic work and give an insight of their involvement in E- Motional Bodies & Cities project.

Besides, you will have an opportunity to meet Romanian artists – Mihaela Dancs and Madalina Dan – who have spent 28 days in artistic residence in Riga. They have lived in the Floating Arts Centre Noass in September, 2011, working on a dance piece that will be premiered in October, 2011, and performed for a wide Latvian audience in November, 2011. In the evening of September 27th Mihaela and Madalina will present an outcome of their creative process in Riga.

Meeting will end with friendly informal chat over a glass of wine.

Although the atmosphere is supposed to be warm, don’ t forget to take a) pullover for the chilly autumn evening on the Floating Art Centre!

E-Motional Bodies & Cities is a mobility and artistic exchange dance programme, gathering artists and managers from frorm five Europian countries – Cyprus, Ireland, Great Britain, Latvia, Romania. Project`s co–organizer in Latvia is Association of Professional Contemporary Dance Choreographers in Latvia.

Additional information about the project: www.e-motional.eu and www.dance.lv

Additional information about the event: Ilze Zīriņa, director at Association of Professional Contemporary Dance Choreographers in Latvia, e-mail: ilzezirina@gmail.com

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This invitation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

This project has been co financed by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.

]]> http://vecs.noass.lv/eiropas-dejas-projekts-e-motional-bodiescities-atvers-durvis/feed/into/en/ 0 http://vecs.noass.lv/udensgabali-2011-8-10-septembris/ http://vecs.noass.lv/udensgabali-2011-8-10-septembris/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:27:38 +0000 http://vecs.noass.lv/?p=4068 International Contemporary and Video Art Festival Waterpieces 2011 September 8 - 10 ]]>

September 10 – Final day of the Festival and Contemporary Culture Forum “White Night”

 19:00 – 22:00 Ambient Music Evening “Skaļā daba”

22:00 – 22:30 presentation of works from Waterpieces animation workshop “Naive Animation in Naive Art Museum”

22:30 – 23:30 “CologneOFF” programme “1 minute Cologne” – 60×60 60 videos in 60 minutes

23:30 – 01:00 Selection of works from 15th Japan Media Arts Festival (JMAF) Part II

Parallel to the screenings 5 programmes in the exhibition:

1. Videoart from Chile & Argentina
2. Space, Colour & Emotions – videoart from Latin America
3. 20/20 & Home-made Videos – Hong Kong
4. Blackmail – Solo: Marianna & Daniel O’Reilly (UK)
5. Inner Ruling: Perceiving the Real – videoart from Asia

WATERPIECES 2011

4 artists from the Netherlands (Ashkan Honarvar, Emile van de Coevering, Robin Koek, Sander Houtman) and 4 artists from Latvia (Gatis Stauga, Kaspars Grosevs, Kriss Zilgalvis, Roberts Galvins) met for the first time in Riga. The whole week went by exchanging ideas, thoughts and experiences, inspired from the environment, water, people, Riga and Latvia. Artists together created two installations which was presented on Saturday at floating art galleries Betanovuss and Noass as a live performances where all visitors were invited to participate.

The project is not over and both the artists and organizers are looking forward for Step 02, which will take place in September in Amstelveen (NL).

Don’t miss anything and stay informed about “Water. Sinking Cities.” – artists, new ideas, latest information, everything about WSC at www.watersinkingcities.org

Start of the week – introduction, meetings, brainstorming, exchanging ideas

Midsummer festival – nothing can stop Latvians from celebrating Midsummer – everyone participated, learned Latvian traditions and get inspired

Work and result

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