11 October – 4 November 2012
CRANE ART CENTER
1400 N. American St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – U.S.A
I.C.E. International Curatorial Exchange Program

Visualcontainer is invited as Italian Videoart Platform to present italian artists for Inside the Moment project, a special event in the frame of I.C.E. International Curatorial Exchange.

Artists selected: Mauro Folci, Luca Christian Mander, Nicola Giunta, Global Groove, Anita Calà Testarossa, Liuba

The Icebox, The Grey Area, Gallery 102, Project Room
Crane Arts International Curatorial Exchange (I.C.E.)& The ~curARTorial LAB present:

Inside the Moment: An International Short Film Festival

Philadelphia curators Tracy Lisk & Anabelle Rodriguez reach out to avant film-makers from various parts of the globe to deliver a festival of short films on the subject of Time.
Inside the Moment is categorized into three major components: Narration, New Sequencing, and ‘Real’ Time. The festival will showcase perceptions of time on different planes and in various locales.
The films will be screened throughout various spaces in Crane Arts including the ICEbox, the Project Space, and Gallery 102.
Inside the Moment festival highlights include:

• New York sensation Martha Colburn
• Visualcontainer Selection (Italy)
• A selection from the 54th Biennale di Venezia Italo-Latin American Pavilion (IILA) by David Perez Karmadavis from the Dominican Republic
• A selection by Carolina Hellsgård nominated for the Berlin International Film Festival Generation Competition
• An animated video-collage by renowned Nuyorican artist Juan Sánchez
• A short by Hannleena Hauru from Finland
• Vintage shorts by Carles Santos from Barcelona
• Stop-motion animation by Prilla Tania from Indonesia
• New work by James Short & Maurice Wright
• “Telekinesis” performed by Muhammad Akbar
• Shorts by Belgian artist Els van Riel
• A site specific video installation by Rafael Rosario Laguna
• New animation by Bulgarian film-maker Jona Pelovska
• NYC’s Barbara Rosenthal presents a short meditation on “Space and Time”
• Siberia represented by Sergei Potapov’s “Waiting for Gulun”
• Ond?ej Hude?ek’s surreal “O-Ring” from the Czech Republic

October is international video month @ Crane Arts!

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11 October – 4 November 2012
CRANE ART CENTER
1400 N. American St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – U.S.A
I.C.E. International Curatorial Exchange Program

Inside the Moment: An International Short Film Festival
A cura di Tracy Lisk & Anabelle Rodriguez
in collaborazione con Visualcontainer
Places: Crane Arts, ICEbox, the Project Space, and Gallery 102.

Visualcontainer è stata invitata da Tracy Lisk & Anabelle Rodriguez a presentare una selezione di videoarte italiana all’interno del progetto “Inside the Moment: An International Short Film Festival”, all’interno del progetto I.C.E. (International Curatorial Exchange Program) ospitato negli spazi di Crane Art e in altri spazi dedicati.

Artisti presentati: Mauro Folci, Luca Christian Mander, Nicola Giunta, Global Groove, Anita Calà Testarossa, Liuba
Inside the Moment festival highlights include:

• New York sensation Martha Colburn
• Visualcontainer Selection (Italy)
• A selection from the 54th Biennale di Venezia Italo-Latin American Pavilion (IILA) by David Perez Karmadavis from the Dominican Republic
• A selection by Carolina Hellsgård nominated for the Berlin International Film Festival Generation Competition
• An animated video-collage by renowned Nuyorican artist Juan Sánchez
• A short by Hannleena Hauru from Finland
• Vintage shorts by Carles Santos from Barcelona
• Stop-motion animation by Prilla Tania from Indonesia
• New work by James Short & Maurice Wright
• “Telekinesis” performed by Muhammad Akbar
• Shorts by Belgian artist Els van Riel
• A site specific video installation by Rafael Rosario Laguna
• New animation by Bulgarian film-maker Jona Pelovska
• NYC’s Barbara Rosenthal presents a short meditation on “Space and Time”
• Siberia represented by Sergei Potapov’s “Waiting for Gulun”
• Ond?ej Hude?ek’s surreal “O-Ring” from the Czech Republic

October is international video month @ Crane Arts!

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Playtime
curated by Cecilia Freschini

in collaborazion with
l’Area Cultura del Comune di Verona e VisualContainer

ArtVerona | Veronafiere (padiglione 7)
18 – 22 october 2012

PLAYTIME
Freedom begins with irony

When we consider contemporary art it is probable that, at first sight, we do not think about those aspects centred on playing, jokes, or irony. And yet all of this is not just a very important part of our daily life, but it also is a very precise area of interest that – just as much as the banality of the life of each individual – should be a centre of interest for art events. We are dealing with a social attitude that, efficiently and knowingly, manages to combine both an ironical and a critical spirit.

This whole project is characterized by a heuristic aspect that fascinates us with the artists’ absurd and brilliant intelligence. On show are a series of videos made by ten Italian artists who, with their perceptive ideas, highlight the ambiguity inherent in existence: they force us to face up to intimate and spontaneous thoughts about daily life. Here their irrational and detached tones reveal the consistency of an uncertain and unpredictable present. From this there emerges a sense of precariousness that is sharply separated from all the well-known processes for turning everything into showbiz, a precariousness that affirms its opposition both through the explicit action of satire and through the light-heartedness of humour.

The incongruence of what we see leads to a rhetorical game which highlights some of the most tragic and absurd aspects of contemporary condition. A paradoxical amusement with the aim of demystifying and making a kind of complaint: Snow White kills a dwarf; an outdated prostitute only sells kisses; an Italian tries to lose his own passport; someone plays with a globe; a Mafia informer explains a recipe for rice croquettes; others, instead, vainly seek impossible balances and destabilizing situations.

Irony is an extraordinary cognitive tool that requires full mastery of abstract thought and, with just a few hints, manages to make flexible the boundaries of meaning and to act as a lubricant for social relationships. Like a matryoshka, it is able to reveal new levels of inquiry with regard to the same question. Thanks to a radical reversal of our own implicit and primary point of view we arrive at further meanings, and this happens because of a reconfiguration of the point of departure.

The resources of irony become basic whenever it is necessary to take into consideration the usual cognitive and affective positions that are implicit on the edges of our horizon. Of course, whether this process of putting things into perspective can be undertaken or not cannot be guaranteed in advance. However, our very awareness of disruption, and our acceptance of the incoherence resulting from the lack of adherence to determined expectancies, is a specifically human ability.

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