FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Entering its second decade, this year’s “International Contemporary and Video Art Festival WATERPIECES” will set off around the world, offering visitors to the festival not only the latest trends and developments within video art, but also colourful and attractive selections of works from the most diverse countries and regions.

From 2 – 4 September we will kick off the festival with a creative animation workshop “Naïve animation at the Naïve Art Museum” which will be run by “Multenkulten” Studio, and attended by a select group of invited participants aged from 16 – 116 years. Apply for the workshop.

This year’s Waterpieces Festival has the special honour of welcoming the travelling video festival “CologneOFF – Video Art in the Global Context” programme, which combines video selections from all over the world. On the opening day of the festival, a lecture on video art in the global context will be given by CologneOFF Director Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.

“Cologne OFF” is one of the world’s most notable video festivals and stands out through the geographical diversity of its video selections, as well as the number of art curators it invites. Throughout 2011, the travelling video festival programme has visited more than 40 countries across six continents.

The festival’s traditional nightly outdoor screenings will also be held continuing the festival’s long-standing collaboration with the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, as well as the Japan Media Arts Festival.

This year, Oberhausen will present a programme of video works by young artists, while over two evenings the Japan Media Arts Festival will showcase the latest achievements in technology, as well as accenting the impact of pop culture and the development of video.

As part of the “White Night” Contemporary Art Festival – saying neither yes nor no, nor white, nor black – the conclusion of Waterpieces will be rounded off by an evening of ambient music “Noisy Nature” (Skaļā darba), as well as a presentation of video works created by the participants in the animation workshop.

During the festival, “Betanovuss” Floating Arts Centre will host an exhibition in which five different selections of video works will be shown every evening, showcasing programmes compiled by different curators from all over the world comprised of colourful, vivid and captivating works of video art, as well as three works made by Finish video artist Eric Mutel in 2010 – “2x IS”, ”Warm up”, “Mute”.

We look forward to seeing you soon at the 11th International Contemporary and Video Art Festival Waterpieces!

PROGRAMME:

September 8 – Opening day

20:00 Opening of The Festival

20:30 – 23:00 “CologneOFF VII” programme

Inner war (50 min.)
Mysterious Entanglements (50 min)
A Matter of Identity (50 min)

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

Parallel to the screenings of Waterpieces 5 instalations from CologneOFF will take place on the floating art centre “Betanovuss”. Videoart from the countries around the Baltic Sea:

1. Germany curated by Agricola de Cologne / Poland curated by Antoni Karwowski
2. Russia curated by Vika Ilyushkina / Finland curated by Pekka Ruuska
3. Sweden curated by Jonas Nilsson / Eva Olsson / Norway curated by Margarida Paiva
4. Estonia curated by Raivo Kelomees / Iceland / Denmark / Latvia / Lithuania curated by Agricola de Cologne
5. The Caucasians: Solo – Irena Gabiani (Georgia), Videoart from Armenia

September 9 – 2nd Day of the Festival

20:30 – 22:00 “CologneOFF VII” programme Art and the City

Mirrors (45 min.)
Velvet Undergraund (45 min.)

22:00 – 23:30 Selection of Films from The Archive of The International Short Film Festival Oberhauzen

Parallel to the screenings 5 programmes in the exhibition:

1. Still Fighting – Videoart from Africa
2. Solo Larissa Sansour / Videoart from Palestine
3. Black & White – CologneOFF VII – special selection
4. Land-scaping – CologneOFF VII – special selection
5. Expression of Freedom – Ex-Soviet Union

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

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