IN|DUST|REAL|Video art event, VIIIth edition
Curator׃ Associate Professor Dr. Gabriela Diana Bohnstedt Gavrilaș
Visualcontainer’s Selection
The Museum of Ţării Crişurilor
20th of May 2017
7.pm – 12.pm
In cooperation with:
University of Oradea – Faculty of Arts – Department of Visual Arts
The Museum of Ţării Crişurilor, Oradea, Romania
Conflux Oradea (Romania)
Visual Container, Milano (Italy),
VisualcontainerTV International Videoart webchannel
[.BOX] Videoart Project Space Milano (Italy)
Artists: Eleonora Roaro – Lucia Veronesi – Barbaraandale – Barbara Ceriani Basilico and Alessandro Mancassola – Matteo Pasin – Patrizia Bonardi – Sonia Armaniaco – Antonello Matarazzo
Visualcontainer as a cultural partner since the first edition has been invited to present a selection of videotapes that will be installed at the Museum of Ţării Crişurilor at the festival which will also be part of the Night of the Museums.
IN|DUST|REAL’s international selection will be presented from 8 to 18 June at [.BOX] Videoart Project Space in Milan and streaming to VisualcontainerTV International Videoart Webchannel.
IN|DUST|REAL|Video art event, VIIIth edition
We live in an artificial and irrational world where the qualities of nature are replaced with episodic immediate values that miss the richness of the natural universe at a micro and macrocosmic level.
The contemporary society teaches the present generations to consume more than necessary. We constantly encounter recommendations to overconsume, through advertisements, the Internet, posters, etc. These make us less vigilant and undermine the knowledge of true effects on ecosystems and make the role of nature more relative, excluding or ignoring the effects of man’s forced intrusion into nature as a consequence of industrial overproduction.
The continuous product promotion lead to a generation most of the time unaware of the effects this excessive consumption has on the environment.
We are a consumer generation which forgets that waste production has a negative impact on the natural regeneration and the preservation of natural ecosystem.
The changes in climate have reached dangerous levels for the normal pace of life evolution and waste reintegration is by far much slower than the process of producing toxic substances that can be found in food, plastic, metal or electronic waste.
Questions regarding the protection and preservation of the environment have been raised worldwide:
-why the technological progress means, in many cases, environmental destruction and which are the ways of saving those natural ecosystems destroyed by excessive industrial development?
-how can we synchronize natural regeneration with the idea of technological evolution without undermining the natural development of ecosystems?
-can elements of nature be preserved by using modern technology? Can we look at this artificial preservation as a necessary measure to regenerate ecosystems?
-how can we cope with the mistakes we make while implementing new technologies?
-how do we protect nature by drafting sets of bioethical rules meant to produce beneficial effects upon nature?
The video artist’s suspicion related to these phenomena is materialised by interpreting images that are directly connected either with the essential attributes of the realities of nature or with the human actions upon nature. Thus the contemporary artist questions the technology – nature relation in a critical, conceptual and aesthetic manner and studies fragments from the natural reality or visual monstrosities produced by man’s intrusion in the natural environment.
Curator : Associate Professor Dr. Gabriela Diana Bohnstedt Gavrilaș
Video Selected:
Eleonora Roaro – 00:00:01:00, 1:00, 2016
Lucia Veronesi – Fuori, una gran notte di stelle, 4:00, 2016
Barbaraandale – Barbara Ceriani Basilico and Alessandro Mancassola – The sky is fallin, loop 7:54, 2017 In collaboration with Elio Marchesini.
Matteo Pasin – Weltanschauung – Il mondo come volontà di rappresentazione, 5:50, 2016
Patrizia Bonardi – melograno.pomegranate, 5:09, 2016
Sonia Armaniaco – no more UPGRADE – 7:57, 2016
Antonello Matarazzo – Karma n.1 (earth), 2:00, HDV 2011
Special thanks to: Dott.ssa Gabriela Diana Bohnstedt Gavrilaș e Dr. Aurel Chiriac