WATERPIECES 2009

• ABOUT WATERPIECES
• SUBMISSION OF WORKS
• FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
• AWARDS
• PHOTOS

 

ABOUT WATERPIECES

Cultivating traditions through a synchronicity of evolution and progress, this year the Waterpieces festival will satiate the palates of audiovisual art connoisseurs for the ninth time. Throughout its history, experimenting and stretching the boundaries of artistic expression, the festival has preserved its specific aura by occupying the most diverse forms and scopes and addressing both artists and art lovers.

The festival is traditionally comprised of competition and festival programmes offering a miscellany of unusual acoustic, movement and visual presentations. It is also a showcase for globally renowned festival and experimental film archive programmes which are complemented by presentations by curators and creative workshops. This year, the festival will focus on “pixel art” which at an associative level brings to mind the first computer games such as the color classic “Tetris”, but which nowadays has become a stimulating and challenging medium of expression for artists. Waterpieces will consider this art form more extensively and in greater depth with the help of a panel discussion, artwork generating creative workshops and artists’ performances.

Waterpieces will get under way with an audiovisual art exhibition/competition, as well as a one man show by the winner of the 2008 festival Grand Prix, Krišs Salmanis warming up AB Dambis for the central festival programme which will take place from September 4-6.

SUBMISSION OF WORKSFOR THE FESTIVAL COMPETITION

RULES FOR SUBMITTING WORKS

Submission ended on 31 st of July.

Submission  of works for the WATERPIECES 2009 audiovisual festival competition ended on 31 st of July. The competition jury selected thirteen works which will be exhibited from September 4 until October 4 in a dedicated exhibition on the floating gallery “Betanovuss and Noass”, AB dambis 2, Riga, as well as being subsequently distributed in the 2009 competition DVD showreel.

GRAND PRIX – a bronze figurine “Udensgabals/Waterpiece” and 1500 LVL for a new art work profited by AB.LV Fonds. With agreement of the authors, the selected works will be distributed to other international festivals.

JURY Annika Räim – Manager of contemporary art collection of  KUMU Art museum of Estonia; Irma Stanaityte – Artist, Video Lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Art; Kaspars Groševs – Artist, Video Lecturer at Janis Rozentals Art Highschool.

ELECTED WORKS FOR COMPETITION

From 11th till 13th of August the jury meeting for International Video and Contemporary Art Festival ŪDENSGABALI/WATERPIECES 2009 was held. During the meeting session all the submitted video works were estimated and ten artist works were chosen for the exhibition.

“FIFION SINGING, KAI PAINTING” – Kai Kaljo (Estonia, 2008)

“Sinchronisation” – Rimas Sakalauskas (Lithuania, 2009

) “The Window of my parents bedroom” – Klāvs Mellis (Latvia, 2009)

“12233″ – Mārtiņš Ratniks (Latvia, 2009)

“5 kustīgas gleznas” – Anete Melece (Latvia, 2008)

“Message” – Eva Lilienfelde (Latvia, 2007)

“Football match 2″ – Kęstutis Šapoka (Lithuania, 2009)

“Football match 3″ – Kęstutis Šapoka (Lithuania, 2009)

“1,2,3…” / “One, two, three…” – Rudolfas Levulis (Lithuania, 2007)

“Vilnius From the Archives of My Childhood (I) Lazdynai” – Lina Miklaseviciute (Lithuania, 2009)

“Vilnius From the Archives of My Childhood (II) Movement” – Lina Miklaseviciute (Lithuania, 2009)

“Vilnius From the Archives of My Childhood (III) My Granny’s Seat” – Lina Miklaseviciute (Lithuania, 2009)

“Press” – Gintare Rakickaite (Lithuania, 2008)

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

FESTIVAL INTRODUCTORY EVENTS

August 31 – September 5.

“MEDIUM-DIODE WALL” Creative Workshop. Led by:  Kostya Mitenev (RUS), Peter Burr (USA).

Festival is taking place at  Floating Gallery “Betanovuss and Noass”, AB dambis 2, Riga. Festival club Dirty Deal Cafe is situated in Maskavas 12, korpuss 2, Riga.

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:

04.09. Friday 12:00 Panel discussion: “Video art – sounds-old fashioned?” 19:00 Opening Ceremony – Opening of solo exhibition by  Krišs Salmanis, the winner of the 2008 festival Grand Prix* – Opening of Baltic audiovisual art competition-exhibition* 20:00 AB.LV Foundation Baltic Award Presentation for the Best Work in the Field of Audio Visual Art in 2009 and the Festival Competition Works Awards Ceremony 20:30 Performance of sound and image  “Fullscreen Vjs” by vj Laimonas Zakas and dj Uran Uran (LT) 23:00 After party in the festival club Dirty Deal Cafe

05.09. Saturday 19:00 “Medium- Diode Wall” presentation of workshops 20:00 Video program “Cartune xprez”, curator Peter Burr (USA) 22:00 Performance of sound and image by vj Punte and dj Evgeniy Droomoff & Sound Meccano (LV) 23:00 After party in the festival club Dirty Deal Cafe

06.09. Sunday 20:00 Video program “Art Video Screening”, curator Jonas Nilsson and Eva Olsson (SE) 21:00 Video program “Pixels Out”, curator Anna Kolosova (RUS) 23:00 After party in the festival club Dirty Deal Cafe

FREE ENTRANCE TO ALL PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS, ENTRY TO THE FESTIVAL CLUB DIRTY DEAL CAFE WITH A FESTIVAL STAMP 1,-LVL

* EXHIBITIONS IS OPEN from 2009.09.04. till 2009.10.04., from 1 PM till 8 PM, Monday and Tuesday closed.

 

AWARDS

Rimas Sakalauskas has been awarded with AB.LV Baltic Award for the Best Work in the Field of Audiovisual Art 1500,-LVL  for the work “Sinchronisation”  (Lithuania, 2009).

PHOTOS