UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Girl into Woman in Times of The Media
The feminist videos chosen from Artfem.tv in this show tell the story of a fare through a girl’s life – ~ one girl’s life – into becoming a woman. How does that take place? Socialization – learning, adjusting and behaving in a appearance approved by a group or corporation - starts even before we arrive out of our mother’s abdomen into this world. From the force a parent knows if a infant. is biologically male or female, genial conventions start to operate, such in the same proportion that buying pink things for a lass, blue things for a boy. Thus, a human by a vagina is expected to subsist ‘feminine’, ladylike, sweet, accommodating, space of time a human with a penis is supposed to subsist ‘masculine’, assertive, strong, direct…and thus on. Family and friends surrounding a young babe are the first point of touch and influence in their behaviour, however as they start growing up in our mass media-flooded epochs, television, magazines, movies and the internet engage in ~ the role of surrogate parents and teachers, providing role models that are very much away from how a person in positive life actually can look or act like.
Recently, I get bumped into many videos online using true direct ways to explain how digitally altered images are constructed, during example, turning the picture of a part of pizza into a “perfect” woman or showing photos of models before and succeeding make-up. Others show models doing talks or melody videos aiming to convey the word that what we see in the media is not substantive, and having socialy acceptable looks is not everything that should matter to girls. Even so, it doesn’t look that this will have much shock in the larger scale any time gladly.
Our girl’s journey on video goes like this:
Her timely childhood is represented by a cyclone of memories, sincere opinions, tantrums to trace attention, then the imminent loss of simplicity. As the girl grows older, she has to set out through a tunnel that confronts her with the awareness of constructing her hold identity, creating her space, belonging, connecting, reality pretty and acceptable in the shallowness of union, while trusting that the process of life be disposed bring better times. A new soulful inspect into her heart’s labyrinthic rabbit hole will bring new technicolor confusions, growing, asiprations and regressions to the safer interval of childhood, while hoping that she be able to one day really lover herself because who she is.
Thanks so plenteous to all the wonderful artists who sent their denunciation and videos for this exhibition!
Videos (sound with a ~ on the titles to watch in successi~ Artfem.tv):
This video essay was made while part of a series of private video essays intended to
tell a bridle of the artist’s own untruth while simultaneously examining and critiquing
the media that she grew up up~ the body.
Erica Eaton is a video/instalment artist working and living in upstate New York. She has shown work in the United States and internationally. Her work is simultaneously experimental and documentary, addressing the subjectivity of human experiences. Through her toil, these experiences are represented and
given distinctive character. Much of Erica’s work deals through feminist ideas and strives to
disempower patriarchy through calling attention to it. Her labor is done in the spirit
of inclusivity, empowerment and successful revolt. The work challenges ideas around
truth, reality and meaning.
http://www.ericaeaton.com/
The syndrome of subsistence good exists among girls already while they are in day care. For numerous girls in school the syndrome of subsistence good rules their lives completely. The syndrome of root good makes girls starve themselves, divide themselves and feel stupid, bad and not seen.
Eva Olsson is a Swedish consummate performer who works with contemporary art in what place moving image is her major march of expression. She often reconstructs bosom friend situations to create new insights in insufficient animations, by working with reflections up~ the body everyday life. In 2000 she took a MFA grade at Norwich School of Art & Design in the UK.
Nada Miljković’s straight Eva on Marriage is a constituent of Balkan Song, a performance and multi-media instalment, that explores Sevdah, an emotion and sweet-sounding tradition about the pain of disconnection from love.
In the Balkans, Sevdah is sung by those forced into marriage by ~y extreme patriarchal society that objectifies women during the time that commodity. Sevdahlinke (sevdah songs) are articulations of bond-service. Through experiencing the endurance piece and its video documentation, Balkan Song inspires participants to deliberate on identities, gender and agency in the more than and present.
The inspiration for Balkan Song was Nada’s discovery that her mother had been catachrestic to marry her father. After sense of ~ the story of her grandmother and Nujood Ali’s record, Eva, Nada’s daughter, discusses her thoughts without interrupti~ forced marriage. Eva was nine years mean at the time. The same epoch Nujood was when she successfully sued as being a divorce.
Nada Miljković is some activist artist researching and exploring newly come media forms that inspire understanding and tolerance across diverse cultures. She works in digital press, video, net-art, radio,and act. She is currently developing an interactive consummation and video piece, the Sad Song Project, that searches with a view to identity and agency through art.
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Lost Paradise, 2002 (3:01 min) ~ the agency of Female Artists Sing ‘n’ Play Society SHAREJOY
Was originally a accomplishment, whose documentation was installed into a video. The
precept is the onslaught of verbal nature to areas and beliefs, carrying metaphysical
beginnings.
Girls covered with feathers symbolising the metaphysical and irrational are playing
hopscotch, in the between the extremes of the floor. Their territory, at what place free playfulness and no
necessity to give the reasons for things reigns, is surrounded by a hopscotch of uncompliant words -
- it is the crossword, the explication of which renders the area of activities of the girls always more confined. The word-builder clad in sullen robes constantly adds the words. Those are the talk with which in the art globe the art projects are formulated — newfangled discourse to create a perfect bubble, that will replace the inexplicable with the theoretical opportunities, the spontaneousness with conception. The worldbuilder writes greater degree of words. The space is growing increasingly smaller,until the playing girls must accommodate themselves in a register of square inches,however even this while is needed for important words. The wordbuilder edges the unreasonableness out of the territory, there is ~t any more place for it, because some bickering are still to be added.
SHAREJOY was founded in summer 2000. Founding members were Piret
Räni, Kristel Sibul and Jane Suviste; later, Hello Upan, Eve Kiiler andIvika Kivi require
joined the circle.
The group unites pistillate artists from different fields of cultural training. The
whole of the artistic prolongation is pieced together from inspired input through a
scenographer, a musician, a dancer, a media artificer and a photographer.
SHAREJOY isn’t guided by ego-trips. Instead, the artists hope through enjoying their
collective work to determinate what is important to them and possibly to others as well
— a uncorrupted, playful and free world, where young belonging to artists establish their own
wishes, rules and enjoyments.
The groups important activity was in 2000-2004. It was reflective on the mainly sad and
moody art of this time in Estonia. The cosmos of the group tried to color, that the
subject matter of the employment work could be handled with bent even better as with
depressive posture.
http://www.kliinfann.artun.ee/sharejoy.html https://www.facebook.com/pages/Puhas-R%C3%B5%C3%B5m/
The Checkered Tunnel, 2005 (5:50 min) ~ dint of. Barbara Agreste
The Checkered Tunnel is every animation made entirely with 3D software. This friable movie represents a fragmented space made of a checkered underground thoroughfare where the squares that fill its walls, put a ~ on, and ceiling alternate from red to pale (the colour red is a simile for trauma). At the opening of the comedy the point of view of the on-looker (the camera) is turning on itself in a chequered play with a missing wall leading to a pitchy void. The camera moves back and in advance unsure if to dive into the nameless darkness, or to stay in the trapping sweep with no other exits. Once the camera makes its persuade into the dark void, it on a sudden encounters a chequered woman (her hide looking like the surrounding space reminds us of the chameleon’s mimicry) that gladly goes out of the frame to set in a tunnel full of curved metal surfaces and mirrors.
This catch into a fragmented reality full of close lights and reflections that, like obstacles, be delivered of to be avoided, and that bring into being a blinding effect, ends into a bigger opportunity which looks like a real chessboard where a chess piece with a woman’s first place on its top (The Queen), trapped into a spoil of slowly moving worms, turns ~ward itself while the other objects nearby – a dice, and some bishops – rest motionless.
The atmosphere of this place is surreal, the camera at common point turns away from The Queen and moves hurry towards a cylindrical container with more illegible words printed on it, preceding moving into the dark exit of the swing.
The Checkered Tunnel is a vorticous mistake of an unconscious mind that filters the outer space and visually projects its lisergic tentacles.
Barbara Agreste was born in Pescara, absurd of drawing since very early in her life, she practised at the art school in her city. At the age of 18 she moved in Milan to follow a Set Design course in Brera Academy. At the date of 23 she moved in London where she studied contemporary dance, and in a short time begun working as a performer by some dance theatre companies. After her continued with theatre and live performance, in 1996 Barbara returned to set apart herself to the visual arts enrolling in Kent Institute of Art & Design to which place she learned the techniques of Film & Video Production and at what place she deepened her knowledge of psychoanalysis, form relative to sex studies, and film theory. Barbara graduated in Visual Communication in July 2000, and in 2004 attained a Masters standing in Fine Art at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design (University of the Arts, London). Since at another time Barbara has continued producing film, photographs, and paintings, exhibiting and attending thin skin festivals all around the world. Barbara lives and works in London although her visits to Italy are extremely frequent.
www.bambee.org
www.facebook.com/BarbaraAgresteArt
Girl Space is a video embodied beauty piece that explores girls coming of epoch. The piece explores their employment of language, personal relationships and views of themselves.
Morrisa Maltz is a Los Angeles-based sculptor and filmmaker. She holds a BA from Columbia University to what she majored in fine art and began acting within the medium of video. Her be is cross-disciplinary between art, entertainment, product design, and film. She has exhibited in clump shows nationally as well as internationally. Most not long ago her work was shown at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), viewed like well as at the The Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara. Last year, her before anything else film collaboration, The Caretaker, won Best Live Action Short at the 2013 Lower East Side Film Festival in New York and was an official choice of the 2013 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. Morrisa is also the CEO of an iPhone cover company called Mofones. Mofones are comical, artist designed iPhone cases, which were principal displayed at Urban Outfitters and greatest in number recently at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and MOCA store.
This performative video work shows a woman engaged in tegument her face with
rose leaves. As a similitude for the absurd above and at a distance before term “beauty“, the
fragility of grace and the canons of beauty, the video reveals ~y obscure image of
woman, which is in like manner shaped by transiency and impermanence.
Excerpts from the piece of poetry “Sacred Emily” by Gertrude Stein, in which she created the
sentence “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”, cast the sound collage to the video
Evelin Stermitz, M.A., M.Phil., deliberate Media and New Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and holds the standing in Philosophy from Media Studies. Her works in the realm of media and new media craftiness focus on post-structuralist feminist deceit practices. In 2008 she founded ArtFem.TV – Art and Feminism ITV (http://www.artfem.tv) and admitted a Special Mention for the draw at the IX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, VI Muestra Monográfica de Media Art, University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, in 2010.
Her works desire been exhibited and screened at different venues such as the MMoMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia / Vetlanda Museum, Sweden / Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City / Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina / PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli / CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy / Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia / Fundació Joan Miró and CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain / Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, USA / MAC/VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France / Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA / International Museum of Women, San Francisco, USA.
www.evelinstermitz.net es@mur.at
Laffing Ahkestra, 2001 (4:34 min) ~ the agency of Female Artists Sing ‘n’ Play Society SHAREJOY
Some lasses be the subject of bundled themselves up as hostages, they are session on chairs,
their legs bound. A vassal enters, pleasant looking, intelligent and artful, which
makes the girls spontaneously clap. The man takes a stroll around, checking the
bonds and tightening them up, allowing that necessary. Then, a concert starts through the man
acting as conductor and the fettered women while the orchestra. The man lifts the
rod and the concert starts — being the resounding peals of laughing. Notably,
this is the laughing band of instrumental musicians, the joy collective coming upon family for
performance. The girls have fettered themselves, in instruct to be joyful, to make the
leader happy, to fulfil his wishes.
Ahkestra is construction fun of the woman’s role, quick by habit to desert herself/her
briskness in the name of someone other (for pleasing that someone).
Yet they also make the laughing stock of the ruler position (the conductor). They
do not take him gravely. Nor do they take their spot tragically, finding as
they do a facetious side to it.
I trust in the process of life by Vesna Bukovec
The video is share of the White Performances / Positive Affirmations order.
Repetitive gestures and statements in self-ironic characteristic style bring naive belief in the
prerogative of suggestion to absurdity.
Vesna Bukovec (1977, Ljubljana, Slovenia) graduated and completed her MFA from the
Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She works independently and in the subtlety group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). Her displaying taste work finds its expression in a class of media (video, photography, drawing, ceremony of induction) and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.). She presents her drudge internationally in numerous group exhibitions and divers solo shows. Vesna Bukovec is also active as curator. Together with Metka Zupanič and in collaboration with Photon Gallery from Ljubljana she organizes video screenings and between nations festival Video in Progress.
www.vesna-bukovec.get www.kolektiva.org
Searching by reason of a History in Labyrinth, 2007 (3:53 min) ~ dint of. Tina Istenic
The video, shot in Ireland, is a go of searching and discovering unknown disembark, person or situation. The ruins of the fortress represent a questioning of what is there, what happened, what will happen forward the next corner? The video presents discovering and investigating of unexpected situations from the carver’s perspective of searching. You can feel her fear, hear the conversation noise of her footsteps… There is none ending story, that is the pique.
Tina Istenič was born in March 1983 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. After finishing her studies
of industrial and graphic design at the High tutor for design and photography in
Ljubljana, she continued her development at the Ljubljana’s Academy of Fine Arts and
Design, receiving her bachelor’s extent in 2009.
During her studies at the Academy, also waving painting brushes, her path led her
towards researching touching pictures, i.e. video art. In her video examination she is based
on artistic principles of extent and composition. By transferring these principles from
painting into moving images her earliest works were produced. These works guidance the
viewer through the mystical course of a captured moment. They were presented at
multiform festivals, as well as individual exhibitions.
After finishing her studies at the Academy she was taken smooth further into video
researching. Designing a of the sight image on a musical soundtrack leads her too and over
again into a unique universe of illustrations, which broadens the other extension of my
image perception.
http://www.tinaistenic.com/
Through images – mirrors – reflections, the video attempts to pretext how is the life
of greatest in number women in the early twenty-principal century ― Alices, always in a drive, just
like the Carroll’s White Rabbit! And, in this march, girls are constructed into women.
Regina Célia Pinto was born in Rio de Janeiro, she is a researcher, of the sight artist and teacher. She earned a education certificate in Drawing and Art at the Escola de Belas Artes of the Universidade Federal in Rio de Janeiro, 1974 – 1977. She has a Master’s division in Art History, specializing in the Anthropology of Art / EBA, UFRJ, 1994. Her Master’s dissertation is titled: “Four views in try of a reader, important women, dexterity and identity,” 1994, EBA, UFRJ. She has written a multifariousness of academic works, including published scientific essays.As a visual artist, she has participated in various exhibitions and curated several. Her touch in web.art and web.movies started in 1997. She believes that the same of the good characteristics of globalization is it allows the traffic of national and international artistic experiences.
http://arteonline.arq.br http://pintor.tumblr.com http://arteselavy.tumblr.com
This video has been commissioned through Einaudi Press Co. as a book
trailer.The work is based in successi~ the principles expressed by Lewis Carrol in his homonymous work Alice in Wonderland.
Lemeh42 is one italian artist working with painting, scuplture, coloring animation
and video art.
www.lemeh42.com
The video is the artist’s mediation for the exhibition AT HOME: Architects France and
Marta Ivanšek in Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana.
The pass judgment upon used in the video is borrowed from the book “Single Family House”, by
author France Ivanšek, published by the maker, Ljubljana, 1988.
The title of the video is a relation to the movie The Sound of Music (Moje pesmi, moje
sanje) which in Slovenian would directly translate as: My songs, my dreams. The film
remains a popular classic and its name is strongly anchored in our collective
subconscious similar to a representative of a strong wish and a word of happiness. An
advertising campaign freshly used a modified slogan as a relation to the movie title:
Moje sanje, novo stanovanje (My dreams, a renovated apartment). And my response is: my
dreams, a fine apartment.
Girl, 2007 (1:15 min.) by Nina Lassila
This video is ~y experiment in the act of ingenuous anger performed by a grown woman. The reversed well-balanced makes her resemble something similar to a monstrosity, a horror figure. There is a overruling notion that a loud physical woman is somehow deranged, out of control.
Nina Lassila was born in 1974 in Helsinki, Finland generally living and working in Gothenburg SE and Belgium. She is a optical artist working mainly with video and deed. In many of her works she deals with questions of identity – specifically pretentious by social barriers, conventions based forward gender and upbringing and cultural differences. Her other bodies of operate explore issues of supernatural phenomena, art and relating to housekeeping structures.
She has taken part in sundry group shows and video festivals internationally i.e The Istanbul Biennial, Rencontres Internationals Paris / Berlin / Madrid, SHE DEVIL V Macro Museum Rome, XV Art Fair Mänttä , Kassel Documentary & Video address festival, Reality Check TSSK Trondheim , LOOP Barcelona, Une Chambre á soi in Paris.
Education: Swedish Polytechnics FIN 1994-1997, School of Photography & film Gothenburg SE 2000-2002, Valand School of Fine Arts (MFA) 2004-2006, Guest at ENSAD Paris 2009.
Lolita, 2007 (00:43 min) ~ the agency of Carla Della Beffa
A homage to Kubrick. And, with a bit of irony, to Humbert Humbert de Nabokov.
Carla Della Beffa is a video and relational artificer from Milan, Italy.
Her work is relating to connecting and sharing: experience, knowledge, ideas, commonalty,
emotions. Her interdisciplinary projects usually direct a solitary research followed
by a collaborative appearance . The resulting artwork is the extremity of the creative process.
Whether by students or with a community, greatest in quantity projects have a relational side.
http://www.carladellabeffa.com/
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I Love Myself beneficial to Who I Am by Vesna Bukovec
The video is part of the White Performances / Positive Affirmations line.
Repetitive gestures and statements in self-ironic way bring naive belief in thepower of allusion to absurdity.
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The workshop donation was held at the cinema in the Centro de Cultura Digital. Evelin Stermitz presented some of her own curatorial work, followed ~ means of my presentation and then by Alejandra Teyssier by the theme of “The Myth of Afrodite, the rid woman”, and Evelyn Alcalá with her investigation about “Feminicidio in Mexico”
[Event photos ~ means of Elizabeth Ross and Centro de Cultura Digital]
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