October 1, 7PM in Riga, cinema K.Suns, Elizabetes 83/85. Tickets: 1,90 Ls
October 2, 6PM in Liepaja, Liepaja University Faculty of Humanities, Kurmajas prosp. 13
A programme of recent British video art from LUX, a London-based agency for artists’ moving images. LUX holds the largest collection of artists’ films and videos in Europe, which it makes available for screenings and exhibitions around the world. In addition, LUX organises a wide variety of exhibition projects and regularly publishes books and DVDs, as well as providing support and resources for artists, curators and researchers. The LUX newswire, a free monthly email gathering international news relating to art and the moving image, can be subscribed to via the website.
www.lux.org.uk
Sebastian Buerkner, author of the video "Realms Pin" will attend the screenings in Riga and Liepaja. Sebastian studied painting in Germany then moved to London to complete his fine art education with an MA at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2002, where he was awarded a Fellowship Residency the following year. His work has been exhibited in several group and solo shows internationally. Since 2004 his art practice has shifted exclusively to animation. He has had solo exhibitions in London at the Lounge Gallery in 2006 and the Whitechapel Project Space in 2007 and The Showroom in 2008.
October 23 at 7PM Riga, cinema K.Suns, Elizabetes 83/85. Tickets: 1,90 Ls
October 24, at 6PM Liepaja, in Liepaja University, Faculty of Humanities, Kurmajas prosp. 13
Impakt is the annual festival for idiosyncratic and innovative media art in Utrecht, the Netherlands Impakt Touring Programs offers an overview of the most remarkable new productions by young artists from all over the world. “Impakt Highlights: Second Nature”: Humans and animals are sometimes no more than an inch apart. Literally, because they share habitats, or figuratively, because some people behave like animals and animals sometimes have human characteristics.
October 30 at 7PM Riga, cinema K.Suns, Elizabetes 83/85. Tickets: 1,90 Ls
October 31, at 6PM Liepaja, Liepaja University, Faculty of Humanities, Kurmajas prosp. 13
Programme is organised with support of Austrian Embassy Riga.
Unlike the other programmes this one will focus on classics. The Viennese DVD label for experimental film INDEX DVD will offer two programmes which will be introduced by Isabelle Piechaczyk:
- Glimpses of INDEX. Selection of shorts from Kurt Kren to Dariusz Kowalski (77min)
- No Danube. Kurt Kren and his films. Documentary (dir. Hans Scheugl) (55min)
Additionally there will be possibility for video-on-demand screenings of the other masters of Austrian avant-garde in the library of LCCA (12-6PM):
Valie Export, Mara Matuschka, Martin Arnold, Kurt Kren and other.
November 27 at 7PM cinema Kino Riga in the frame of German Film Club, Elizabetes 61. Tickets: 1,50 Ls
November 28 in Liepaja , Liepaja University, Faculty of Humanities, Kurmajas prosp. 13
Programme is screened in collaboration with Goethe Institute Riga
The EMAF (European Media Art Festival) is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, lenders, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has had a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of experimental films, installations, performances, digital formats and hybrid forms, ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements.
The screening programme will introduce to the best works from the festival of 2008.
Organiser:
Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art
Project Manager: Agnese Luse
Supporters:
State Culture Capital Foundation, Goethe Institute Riga, Embassy of Austria, Art Research Laboratory of Liepaja Academy of Pedagogy and Liepaja Culture Department
