Our stops in 2023

July, 26 to 29

LTK4 Centre Court Festival, Köln, Germany

The Centre Court Festival is the annual inventory of sound based arts (Klangbasierte Künste) at LTK4 Cologne, ranging from installation to performance, creation to documentation, improvisation to fixed formats. Sound, in possibly all artistic forms, stands in the center of four days surrounded by a setting based mainly on gras&lawn as an example for acoustic & climatic change. It is a non-budget production with regional, national and international presentations and cooperations in self-governance. It is a mosaic of sounding possibilities of today: political, technical, poetic and always artistic. 

4 installations will be presented from July, 26 to 29 | 6 to 10pm
Video Hearings 

• Essential (3’22 – 2023) / Antoni Hidalgo (Spain)
• Umbrella Music (3′ – 2023) / Abinadi Meza (USA/France)
• Shooting (1’32 – 2023) / Brigitte Valobra (Spain)
• Molecular configurations (3’04 – 2023) / Ruxandra Mitache (Romania)

And 2 screening programs, on July, 27 and 28 | 7pm
The constant noise of machines (57’)
« The constant noise of machines, Which beats, which beats, which beats, Beaten for now, I’m barely able, To see the world in big » (M.)

Thursday July, 27 | 7pm 

Théâtre de l’Echange, Annecy 

For its 30 birthday, imagespassages offers a Carte Blanche to Festival Les Instants Vidéo, for a screening program Oops, I did it again (48’)
« I’m not that innocent
Can’t you see I’m a fool in so many ways
But to lose all my senses
That is just so typically me » (B.S.)

Thursday, July 6| 2pm

Cinema le Cinématographe, Chateaux-Arnoux

The screening program by programm’actors is presented in the frame of the beautiful festival Festival Regarde sous tes fenêtres

Mercredi 28 Juin | 18h 

Cinema le Gyptis, Marseille 3^e

A screening programme (34’47) of films taken from the archives of the Festival Les Instants Vidéo, chosen by inhabitants of Marseille, the programm’actors, keen to participate in the cultural life of their city. The ten films selected echo the lines of a poem by Kiyémis The night at my back pushes me towards other suns.

• Too big drawing (5’13 – 2021) / Genadzi Buto (Belarus)
• Wait & Sea (2’42 – 2017) / Judith Lesur (France) 
• Bounded by routine and duties (1’39 – 2013) / Agnieszka Niklewska (Poland / UK)
• Respite (2’12 – 2012) / Eva Olsson (Sweden)
• Essence (1’40 – 2017) / Ali Zare Ghanatnowi (Iran) 
• Great expectations (2’53 – 2008) / Alexei Gubenco (Roumania)
• Elle et la Poule (4’20 – 2017) / Kika Nicolela (Brazil / Belgium) 
• El Beso (2’16 – 2017) / Diego Mandelman (Argentina) 
• Tiny Tragedy in Life (4’05 – 2017 ) / Yi-Yu Tsai (Taiwan)
• Horizons (6’40- 2009) / Zlatko Cosic (USA / Yougoslavie)

Lundi 19 juin  | 15h

World Refugee Day – Friche la Belle de Mai, Salle Seita

The family as a constellation of possibles. In this programme, the artists explore notions such as otherness, intimacy, space, borders, dialogue and the family bond, giving us a glimpse of a knitted fabric of humanities.
Feeling free together, living in relatedness (32’)

• Traversées (1’09 – 2021) / Judith Lesur (France) 
• Comment expliquer l’art performance à ma fille adolescente (6’ – 2016) / Rachel Echenberg (Canada)
• Even The Birds Know It (3’ – 2017) / Rachel Cosic & Zlatko Cosic (Yougoslavia / USA)
• Baghdad Photographer (3’16 – 2017) / Mejd Hameed (Irak) 
• Jardins Paradise (5’24 – 2020) / Yza Nouiga (Canada)
• Arpatchay (5′ – 2022 ) Varduhi Sahagian (Armenia/France)
• The devil (7’50 – 2012) / Jean-Gabriel Périot (France

Wednesday, May 31 | 8.00pm

LTK4, Köln, Germany

Les Instants Vidéo are continuing their artistic conversation with LTK4, this time in the frame of KLANGKOLCHOSE NRW, a project which intend to give more space to sound based arts, to show LTK4 cooperation links. For the first edition, we are proud to present an installation by Mounir Fatmi. 

Technologia (15′, 2010) / Mounir Fatmi (France)
Technologia is an invitation to an audiovisual experience that puts the viewer’s sensorial capacities to the test. A continuous humming sound, hardly audible, is interspersed with strident frequency modulations, evoking the intense activity of some complex digital communications tools, while on the screen, twenty-five images mixing geometric motifs and religious Arab calligraphy are shown in rapid succession, testing the limits of retinal persistence.

Tuesday, May 19

Marseille, Friche la Belle de Mai

We welcome 15 art teachers from all over the PACA region for a day of work, exchange and practice around video art.

Saturday, May 13 : Festival Oodaaq – Video poetic friendship of the Festival Les Instants Vidéo 

Rennes

The video artist cannot deviate from experimentation. This may involve a bricolage of images, sounds, sensations, but it may also involve experiencing an “I” which, once in relation with the gaze of the other (the viewer), will become a strong and comforting we. This video program is of this temperament. It invites us to pay a sublime attention to the representations that surround us, to the words that build us, to the resistance that is necessary for us to overcome this patriarchal society, to raise our voices, to use derision and to bring out new forms of creation.

How I bite, how I bark (30′) Hey you, / What you’re looking for? / You’ve never seen a woman fighting? / Back in / The dreary town with me, / And I’ll reveal to you / How I bite, how I bark! (C L)

March, 23 Postponed

Paris 

Screening program by artists of Palestine(32’16) : Poetry, a weapon of mass resistance
« What binds us is an asymmetrical reciprocity. I cannot put myself in the place of the other and vice versa. But on the other hand, I can take the stories of others in hand to try to understand » Soumaya Mestiri (Tunisia)

• Promise / Lilly Ann Benson
• Chic point (Fashion for israeli checkpoints)/ Sharif Waked
• The Right To See / Mahmoud Al-Haj
• Mémoire de la Terre / Samira Badran 
• I, The News / Nizar Marzouqa
• We teach life, Sir / Rafeef Ziadah

In the frame of the “Assises for Palestine”, an event organised by the Platform of French NGOs for Palestine, and which is part of a process of inter-connection between actors of Palestinian solidarity and actors of international solidarity, to discuss the mechanisms of oppression and to exchange on the experiences of emancipatory struggles. The Assises will be guided by the dialectic between domination and emancipation.

Wednesday, January 25 | 8.00pm

LTK4, Köln, Germany

LTK4 a free art space curated by Rochus Aust & Verena Barié, which highlights the Festival Les Instants Vidéo with two art works presented in 2022 :

From December 2022 to February 2023 Rochus and Verena turn(ed) LTK4 into a LTKBar to celebrate their cooperations with New Zealand, France and India. This format was invented to take into consideration that audiences, artists & organizers need an “inspiring rest” after all the pandemic turbulences.

From 6 to 20 January: Mont(r)e tes plans workshop

Marseille, Friche la Belle de Mai

As part of the artistic and cultural education project “La friche à l’oeuvre”, 5 classes of secondary school students were invited to visit the exhibition of the 35th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, followed by a workshop to create a photo novel from images of the video works presented.