Against weapons of mass distraction Dare intimate caresses innovations At the heart of these 20C Instants Video: Palestine. “Heart” is the word that is used to signify love. It is also the body that is designed to kill the enemy. And the word “Palestine” when is it used? Most often as a metaphor that covers a reality that we refuse to admit: a territory occupied since 1948 by a powerful army, men and women are humiliated, expelled, parked, imprisoned, murdered daily. Everyone knows. For 60 years, they resist. Obstinately. With weapons. With stones. With poems. With movies. To do this, they certainly do not need our pity. Our listening, our eyes, our solidarity, yes. Our festival is symbolically opened October 6 at 20h for Nuit Blanche Gaza with the complicity of the French Cultural Centre. Instants Video existed for twenty years. They are born angry with the hope of a revolution to aesthetic and social well-being for all. Today, they would approach rather that gaiety which no longer hope Jean Genet speaks about the Palestinians, “the most joyous as the most desperate.” Work, nevertheless, against disillusionment. We all lost en route to our desire to subversion? No, because we heard the meaning (and sound) of the deep sub-version, the version below, underground stifled minor. Call this poetry. Call poetic revolution, the last chance given to humanity not to fall under the yoke of military, religious and mercantile. Instants Video only exist to be a color from ten thousand a huge global web woven by countless hands. A community of son (and needles) fragile without leader: artists, public associations, philosophers, friends, activists, met here and there, home or traveling. The 20C Instants Vidéo chemineront this year (in order of appearance): Gaza, Beirut, Avignon, Valence, Saint Denis, Marseille, Nice, Port-de-Bouc, Caracas, Paris, Martigues, Aix-en-Provence Munich, Liège. And during the first quarter of 2008, they extend their epic Palestine (Ramallah, Gaza, Jerusalem). They will host artists and works (video, installation, multimedia show, concert, poetry) from 54 countries. * We lost 8 January 2007, our poet friend Gianni Toti mail. Homage will. Shortly after, it was the turn of Thierry Kuntzel joining the cosmos. And here we are double orphans. It’s a job. A hard job, as exile. The voluntary exile of misconceptions and false illusions individualistic, old languages. Twenty years, it is now or never to invent a verb amourtier! Love and friendship together in one action verb. Planétoyens to tears! Tears of the gay science still be desirable and desiring beings. So we’re in big trouble. Where the bodies frolic. In short, we amourtions everything goes. And this is the only real reason why we decided to organize from 13 to 17 November in Marseilles the 1st Congress of specta (c) tors, video artists and poets non-aligned (on market criteria) where we act by excessive touches. Excess amourtié side, we will not mince welcoming the great artist Fatima Miranda Madrid whose voices generate multiple images: Diapassion II. Video and multimedia artists from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and North, poets, musicians, philosophers say what needs to internal or policies meet their poetic works. They say with their images, their voices, their bodies, their words. Twenty years of age to practice insolence, thumbed his nose at those who claim to know more than us about what to take to save civilization from its malaise. Age to confront boldly the speech to the facts, beliefs, situations, ideas circumstances. There are no images completed the world! We need to exacerbate the malaise in imitation destroy misleading appearances and incorporate us into what still seems unlikely. For these 20C Instants Vidéo, we dream that every spectator stands out as co-author of the works programmed. Not by membership but by extension productive of what he sees and hears. For the current challenge is not so much to invent a new culture, a cons-culture, but to invent a new use of the arts and culture by those who are interested in social transformation. That is why we look to kindly open a selection of works, unfinished essence, because their outcome is what we do in our daily lives. And those who, like us, can not simply will see and hear the works and lives now in hand, eye, ear, skin, breath, neuron, sweaty, voice, without hindrance. This is a radical change in our relationship to the images that we demand: do not reduce an image to its function as a metaphor (movement that connects the body or objects with the ideas they are supposed to mean), but s’ engage in image understanding in terms of the transformation, a movement that connects the body with other bodies. When creating video sells on this ground, it loses its status of electronic poem, its ability to transform our relationship to the world. We dream of a melee with the world of images, with all the erotic power and combative that contains this expression. We will then tender and fierce. Marc Mercier * South Africa, Germany, Algeria, England, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Congo Brazzaville, Korea, Croatia, Ecuador, Estonia, USA, Finland, France, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela …
