[spectre] Video Art Festival Electric Visions in St Petersburg

[Kirsi Väkiparta]

THE NORDIC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

THE INFORMATION OFFICE OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
IN ST PETERSBURG

THE STATE CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART (St Petersburg)

THE DISTRIBUTION CENTRE OF FINNISH MEDIA ART AV-ARKKI (Helsinki)

DOM KINO

Present


The first video art festival of Russia and the Nordic countries
in St Petersburg.

Electric Visions


Contemporary art on the big screen:
recent work by the best Russian and North European video artists.


DOM KINO
(Karavanaya,12)

16 December, 19:00 - Video Art of Russia
17 December, 19:00 - Video Art of Finland
18 December, 19:00 - Video Art of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden


"Electric Visions" is the first major presentation of contemporary 
video art from Russia and the Nordic countries. The programme 
contains the best works from the past several years made by Russian 
(25 works), Finnish (16 works), and Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and 
Swedish (23 works) artists. Among them are young but already 
well-known artists, the participants and prizewinners from the Venice 
Biennale and other prestigious international art exhibitions. After 
its premiere in St Petersburg the programme will be shown throughout 
Russia and in some of the most important European museums and centres 
for contemporary art.

"Electric Visions" is the result of a landmark collaboration between 
three institutions: The Nordic Council of Ministers, The Distribution 
Centre of Finnish Media Art AV-ARKKI and The State Centre of 
Contemporary Art (St Petersburg). The festival comprises three 
programmes:

Video Art of Russia (curated by Marina Koldobskaya and Maria 
Korosteleva of the State Centre of Contemporary Art, St Petersburg).

Video Art of Finland (curated by Kirsi Vakiparta of the Distribution 
Centre of Finnish Media Art AV-ARKKI, Helsinki).

Video Art of Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden (curated by Lars 
Bang Larsen, Copenhagen).

Video art is a broad field of practice, which includes digital 
animation, documentaries and staged scenarios as well as footage 
recording happenings and performances. The single thing that unifies 
this diverse group of artists and their unique brand of contemporary 
art is that at some point in its production, it incorporates the 
video camera - as opposed to more conventional film-based 
experimental and short film.

The history of Russian video art spans little more than 10 years. At 
the beginning of the 90s, when Finnish video art had already reached 
maturity, Russian artists were just beginning to experiment with the 
video camera. Since then Russian video art has come into its own, 
while in the countries of Northern Europe a new generation of video 
artists has come to prominence. This programme, which we are pleased 
to bring to your attention, will allow you to see the main tendencies 
of a Nordic contemporary video art whether from Iceland or Siberia.

For more information about the project, programmes, video works or to 
ask for illustrations, please contact The State Centre of 
Contemporary Art via e-mail at the following address: 
office at ncca-spb.ru

Dom Kino (box office) telephone  314-56-14, 314-06-38
or online at: www.domkino.spb.ru



Video Programs:

ELECTRIC VISIONS
Russian Video Art
Waiting for a New Myth

The New Lyricism or Nostalgia for Grand Style

Viacheslav Mizin, Self-portrait, 1999

Factory of the Found Clothes (Gluklya & Zaplya or Natalya 
Pershina-Yakimanskaya & Olga Egorova), Triumph of Fragility, 2002,

Lyudmila Gorlova, Happy End, 2001

Gor Chahal, Reveille, 2000

Boris Kazakov. Nestlings of the Sea. 1998

Viktor Alimpiev. A Few Presents for Oleg. 1997

Vladimir Bustrov. 22.07.2002. 2002

Anton Litvin. Last Hero. 2001

"Escape" program (Valeriy Ayzenberg, Anton Litvin, Bogdan Mamonov, 
Liza Morozova). Quartett. 2003,


The New Cynicism or Nailed-up Video

Kirill Shamanov. Emmanuelle. 2002

Dmitry Bulnygin, Viacheslav Mizin, Konstantin Skotnikov, Maksim 
Zonov. "The Blue Noses" Present 14 Performances in a Bunker. 1999

Dmitry Bulnygin. Lola.1999

"New Stupids" (Vladimir Kozin, Vadim Flyagin). Male & Female.

Viacheslav Mizin, Alexander Shaburov, starring Oleg Kulik. Death in 
Venice. 2003


The New Criticism or The Left March

FUGK. Rules. 2001

MAK & Moses. Dangerous video, part I. 2002

Andrey Ustinov. Exile from Paradise. 2003

Dmitry Vilensky. Contact. 2002

Maxim Iliukhin. Connecting. 2002

Dmitry Gutov and Radek Group. Demonstration. 2000


New Technologies or Reminiscences of the Future

Vadim Vyazantsev, Sergei Zhilin, Dimitry Karpov. Game over. 2002

Anna Kolosova. Bad Movie. 2001

Aristarkh Chernishev, Vladislav Efimov. Genetic Gymnastics. 2000

"The Blue Soup" group (Alex Dobrov, Daniel Lebedev). Panorama. 2002

Dmitry Shubin. Timeline. 2003

Yury Vasiliev. Russian Red. 2001


Electric Visions
Finland

part one: sound it out

Hanna Haaslahti, Solarium, 2003

Pekka Sassi, Wave, 2002

Pink Twins, Paini, 2001

Liisa Lounila, Play>>, 2003

Alli Savolainen, The Smile of Mona Lisa, 2001

Pirjetta Brander, Nature Morte, 2003

Elena Näsänen, Drive, 2003

Seppo Renvall, Woody, 2003


part two: look at yourself

Elina Brotherus, Miroir, 2001

Aurora Reinhard, Boygirl, 2002

Maria Duncker, Go-Go, 2002

Juha Mäki-Jussila, Suburban Studies: Vocabulary, 2002

Gun Holmström, Tanja Smokes Red North State, 2000

Oliver Whitehead, Track, 2002

Simo Rouhiainen, Blink, 2002

Mika Taanila, Physical Ring, 2002


Electric Visions
Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark

IMAGE

(NO) Unn Fahlstrøm
The Way You Make Me Feel #2

(DK) Jesper Just.
Ingen mand er en ø

(IS) Ragnar Jonasson
Lemon Steik

(SE) Johan Jonason & Emil Olofsson
Le Kurde

(DK) Jakob Boeskov
Mosquito

(SE) Kajsa Dahlberg
Whiteout

(IS) Egill Sæbjörnsson
You Are My Loving Insane

SPACE

(DK/NO) Ann Lislegaard
Room with a View

(DK) Kristine Kemp
2300 S. European Misery

(DK) Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
The Gathering

(SE) Space Campaign
Election day

(NO) Gardar Eidar Einarsson
South of Heaven

(SE) Kalle Brolin and Eva Linder
The Gothenburg Choir Event

(SE) Petra Lindholm
Idag stiger solen fem prick


MODES OF EXISTENCE

(SE) Anneli Furmark
Farbror Hjärta

(SE) Lars Arrhenius
The Man Without Qualities

(NO) Bodil Furu and Marthe Thorshaug
Its So Quiet

(NO) Kim Hjorthøy
Film om Joakim

(DK) Sonja Lillebæk Christensen
Mother Like Daughter

(NO) Christopher Nielsen
Narverfredag

(NO) Hilde Tørdal
Pøh

(SE) Cecilia Lundqvist
C

(IS) The Icelandic Love Corporation
Sympathy











-- 
Kirsi Väkiparta
AV-arkki
Toiminnanjohtaja / Director
Tel. +358 (0)9 685 4404

AV-Arkki, suomalaisen mediataiteen levityskeskus / Distribution 
Center for Finnish Media Art, Kaapelitehdas / Cable Factory, 
Tallberginkatu 1 E 76, 4. krs. / 4th floor, 00180 Helsinki, Finland, 
Tel.: +358 (0)9 694 4089, Fax: +358 (0)9 694 4187