{"id":3180,"date":"2017-04-01T10:14:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T09:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2018-06-03T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T14:34:35","slug":"our-stop-in-2017-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/en\/2017\/04\/our-stop-in-2017-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Our stop in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>October, 5: Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/h3>\n<p>A screening program in a partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videopoesia.com\/?lang=esp&amp;op=festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00a0VideoBardo<\/strong> <\/a>(Video poetry) created by Javier Robledo \u00a020 years ago, in the self-managed factory IMPA in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dakhla \/ Mauricio Saenz (Mexique) Parking Lot Attendant \/ Charlotte Clermont &amp; Alain Lefebvre (Canada) In Motion \/ Anabela Costa (Portugal \/ France) Share Peace \/ Susanne Wawra (Allemagne \/ Irlande) Beach Drawings Rekawa \/ Srinivas Mangipudi (Inde) Forever in a Day \/ Eden Mitsenmacher (France \/ Pays-Bas) Contemplation is watching \/ Susanne Wiegner (Allemagne) Smoke signals \/ Fran Orallo (Espagne\/Ecosse) mooon \/ Ottar Ormstad (Norv\u00e8ge) Red Lights and a Solstice Moon \/ Jason Moyes (Ecosse) Unusual \/ Albert Negredo (Espagne) Eclipse \/ Emilia Izquierdo (Chili \/ GB) Oh, You Sweet, Feminine, Feminist Artist \/ Secret Sauna Sirens (Finlande \/ USA)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3034 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Affiche-Argentine-1024x809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>August 24 to September 26: Bibliotheca Art Centre, Alexandria, Egypt<\/h3>\n<p>For the 2nd Video Art Exhibition of Alexandria, we state that <strong>Video art is Hypathia + electricity.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibalex.org\/en\/Center\/Details\/artscenter?Keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bibliotheca Art Centre<\/a> Hypatia of Alexandria, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher was murdered in 415 by the enemies of science and thought. Each time I come to Alexandria, I can feel Hypatia&rsquo;s heartbeat in each woman I meet. This is how I fall in love with the city and its inhabitants. In 2017, intelligence and knowledge are still threatened all over the world, and even more if it is embodied by women. This is why I choose to pay a tribute to all the nowadays Hypatia who express their sensitive intelligence with art.Ten artworks forming a choir from which emerges an emancipation song, sometimes serious, sometimes happy. Video art is Hypatia + electricity. A western tradition holds that pictorial art is a window open on the world, as if the world had been created to please human eye. But things can be seen differently. For instance, thinking about the famous construction in Gourna (a village next to Luxor) build by the architect from Alexandria Hassan Fathy. A large barred window allows the daylight to reach the walls and the ground. The eye doesn&rsquo;t face outward but inward. These ten artworks stand at the conjunction of these two possible movements of the eye, inside\/outside, the inner\/the other, the intimate\/the world.. The specificity of video art may also lies at this intersection.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Match<\/em> (2015) \/ Esm\u00e9ralda da Costa (Portugal \/ France) <em>Green tea cup: collectivities<\/em> (6&rsquo;25 &#8211; 2017) \/ Cheryl Pagurek (Canada) <em>Yellow Tea Cup: Refugees at Sea<\/em> (2&rsquo;58 \u2013 2016) \/ Cheryl Pagurek (Canada) <em>Last Words<\/em> (4&prime; &#8211; 2017) \/ Nic\u00e8ne Kossentini (Tunisia) <em>Preface to Damyang Pavilion2<\/em> (3&prime; \u2013 2014) \/ Yeh YiLi (Ta\u00efwan) <em>Future in the Past<\/em> (7&rsquo;07 \u2013 2015) \/ Susanne Wiegner (Germany) <em>Positions<\/em> (10&rsquo;20 \u2013 2016) \/ Kristina Paustian (Russia\/Germany) <em>Affordable Dreams<\/em> (6&prime; \u2013 2017) \/ Sandrine Deumier (France) <em>Dadaloop<\/em> (10\u2019 &#8211; 2015) \/ Francesca Fini (Italy) <em>Greffes \/ Graft<\/em> (2012) Samar Elbaraouy (Egypt)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2998\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2998 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Positions-1020-\u2013-2016-Kristina-Paustian-RussieAllemagne-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"314\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Positions (10&rsquo;20 \u2013 2016) \/ Kristina Paustian (Russia\/Germany)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>August 18 to September 3: Kyrgyz National Fine Arts Museum in Bishkek, Kirghizistan<\/h3>\n<p>In the frame of the<strong><em> Nomadic Art Camp<\/em><\/strong>, organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bishkekart.kg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0411\u2019Art Contemporary<\/a>, an artistic program under the title <em><strong>Beauty has to be reinvented<\/strong><\/em>. But what is beauty? Beauty cannot be taken for granted. It goes beyond us, it makes us feel more intense, more light, more deep. It springs up when a woman or a man upheaves. Look beyond the skyline. This line may be in the deep inside of yourself. We need to learn again how to pay attention to the world if we want to become more than the spectators of our own life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Smoke signals<\/em> (3&rsquo;28 \u2013 2017) \/ Fran Orallo (Spain\/Scotland) <em>Red Lights and a Solstice Moon<\/em> (2&prime; \u2013 2016) \/ Jason Moyes (Scotland) <em>Scarecrow<\/em> (7\u201948 &#8211; 2015) \/ Ameneh Zamani (Iran) <em>Video<\/em>\u00a0(8\u2019 &#8211; 2016) \/ Samuel Bester (France) <em>Disparitions<\/em> (6\u201938 &#8211; 2014) \/ In\u00e9s Wickmann (Colombia\/France) <em>It\u2019s Stonewall in My Navel<\/em> (7&rsquo;35 \u2013 2016) \/ Laurel Beckman (USA) <em>Cartoline Video<\/em> (20\u201909 &#8211; 2016) \/ Marc Mercier (France) &amp; Matteo Fadda (Italy)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2973\" style=\"width: 623px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/It\u2019s-Stonewall-in-My-Navel-Laurel-Beckman-USA.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>It\u2019s Stonewall in My Navel<\/em> \/ Laurel Beckman (USA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, June 20: World Refugee Day<\/h3>\n<p>Because in front of the unashamedly\u00a0cruelty of wealthy nations, once and for all let&rsquo;s require a radical hospitality to the only real wealth of the world : the others.\u00a0<strong><em>The poets state that decently the crime of solidarity should not exist<\/em><\/strong> (Patrick Chamoiseau in <em>Our migrants brothers \/ Fr\u00e8res migrants<\/em>) A screening program, \u00a0poetic video art touch for\u00a0a day of exchanges, debates, encounters (Philosophy-caf\u00e9, photo exhibition, food sharing, art\u2026), organised by a group of social workers from Marseille (from 2pm, Friche la Belle de Mai).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Yellow Tea Cup: Refugees at Sea\u00a0<\/em>(2&rsquo;58 \u2013 2016) \/ Cheryl Pagurek (Canada) <em>Cartoline Video\u00a0<\/em>(20&rsquo;09 &#8211; 2016)\u00a0\/\u00a0Marc Mercier (France) &amp; Matteo Fadda (Italy)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2951\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AF987.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AF987.jpg 1181w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AF987-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AF987-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AF987-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Yellow Tea Cup: Refugees at Sea<\/em> \/ Cheryl Pagurek (Canada)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2960 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bandeau-logos-JMR-300x59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bandeau-logos-JMR-300x59.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bandeau-logos-JMR-768x150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bandeau-logos-JMR.jpg 891w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>June, 12 to 15: \/si:n\/ Festival of art vid\u00e9o and performance &#8211; 5th edition<\/h3>\n<p>Co-founder of the festival in 2007, we curated this year an exhibition untitled <em><strong>All of the power to poetic imagination!<\/strong><\/em> that will be presented in Birzeit University Museum, with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Last Words<\/em> \/ Nic\u00e8ne Kossentini (Tunisia) <em>(video)<\/em> (8\u2019 &#8211; 2016) \/ Samuel Bester (France) <em>Future in the Past<\/em> (7\u201907 \u2013 2015) \/ Susanne Wiegner (Germany)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full program here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/en\/archives\/2914\">https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/en\/archives\/2914<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sin.festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>April, 25 to 29<\/strong>: we will take part in the 23rd edition of the International video art festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiav.ma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FIAV<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0in Casablanca (Morocco), and we invite Aix en Provence School of Art to present some students works.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u25cf 3 installations:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Ambush \/ Embuscade<\/em> (3\u2019 &#8211; 2015) \/ Aline X &amp; Gustavo Jardim (Brazil) +\u00a0<em>Match<\/em> (2015) \/ Esm\u00e9ralda da Costa (France) +\u00a0<em>Cartoline Video<\/em> (20\u201909 &#8211; 2016) \/ Marc Mercier (France) &amp; Matteo Fadda (Italy) <strong>\u25cf 1 sound performance<\/strong>: <em>R\u0115coRd\u0101t\u012do #2<\/em> (2015\/2017) \/ Esmeralda da Costa (France) <strong>\u25cf 4 screening programs:\u00a0<\/strong> 1)\u00a0<strong><em>Feminine State of poetic emergency<\/em><\/strong> Scarecrow (7\u201948 &#8211; 2015) \/ Ameneh Zamani (Iran) +\u00a0\u00e9tat d\u2019urgence \/ \u00e9tat d\u2019un corps (2\u201940 &#8211; 2016) \/ Aur\u00e8le Dumaret (France) +\u00a0La mari\u00e9e d\u00e9rob\u00e9e (un essai jamais concluant) (42\u201910 &#8211; 2016) \/ Marc Mercier (France) 2) <em><strong>The eye at work<\/strong><\/em> <em>La preuve par Prince<\/em> (5\u201912 &#8211; 1988) \/ Serge Daney (France) +\u00a0<em>video<\/em> (8\u2019 &#8211; 2016) \/ Samuel Bester (France) +\u00a0<em>L\u2019\u00c9g\u00e9e ou le trou du cul de la mort<\/em> (7\u201921 &#8211; 2014) \/ Eleni Gioti (Greece) +\u00a0<em>M\u00e9duse<\/em> (3\u201903 &#8211; 2014) \/ Emilie Marchand (Canada) +\u00a0<em>Water Box<\/em> (2&rsquo;16 \u2013 2014) \/ Esmeralda da Costa (France) +\u00a0<em>Yellow Tea Cup: Refugees at Sea<\/em> (2\u201958 &#8211; 2016) \/ Cheryl Pagurek (Canada) +\u00a0<em>Seventeen Point Plan<\/em> (3\u2019 &#8211; 2015) \/ Christin Bolewski (Germany) +\u00a0<em>Stray Dogs<\/em> (8&rsquo;53 \u2013 2017) \/ Fran\u00e7ois Lejault (France) +\u00a0<em>We teach life, Sir<\/em> (4\u201930 &#8211; 2011) \/ Rafeef Ziadah (Palestine\/GB) ` 3) <strong><em>Beauty has to be reinvented<\/em><\/strong> <em>Awakening<\/em> (1\u201940 &#8211; 2016) \/ Arzu Yay\u0131nta\u015f (Turkey) +\u00a0<em>Fractalegance<\/em> (0\u201951 &#8211; 2016) \/ Rawan Obaid (Palestine\/UAE) +\u00a0<em>Silk<\/em> (0\u201944 &#8211; 2016) \/ Reem Zaghmout &amp; Malak Elghuel (Belize\/Libya) +\u00a0<em>Live Fire Exercise<\/em> (7\u201958 &#8211; 2016) \/ \u0396\u03b1\u03ba \u03a3\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1 (Zak Spor) (Greece) +\u00a0<em>Out of Necktie<\/em> (5\u201928 &#8211; 2016) \/ Moslem AlJubouri (Irak) +\u00a0<em>Pardon<\/em> (2\u201924 \/ 2016) \/ Khadija Baker (Syria\/Canada) +\u00a0<em>Disparitions<\/em> (6\u201938 &#8211; 2014) \/ In\u00e9s Wickmann (Colombie\/France) +\u00a0<em>Comme si<\/em> (4\u201929 &#8211; 2016) \/ Nicole Jolicoeur (Qu\u00e9bec) +\u00a0<em>Leda<\/em> (23&prime; \u2013 2010) \/ Fran\u00e7ois Lejault (France) 4)<strong> Works by students from the School of arts presented by Fran\u00e7ois Lejault<\/strong> <em>Pneuma<\/em> (6\u201950 &#8211; 2015) \/ Belal Mohamed Ali, Yohan Dumas, Akram Heidar, Masahiro Suzuki <em>Grimace<\/em> (1\u201900 &#8211; 2013) \/ Sa\u00efd Rais <em>Conversations silencieuses<\/em> ( 2\u201930 \u2013 2013) \/ Trecy Afonso, Nada Rezq, Samar Amir, Marguerite Reinert <em>Sea Food<\/em>\u00a0(0&rsquo;45- 2013) \/ Ahmed Abulnasr, Karim Aboukelila, Eman Hamdy, Ma\u00eblys Rebuttini, Nourine Shenawy <em>Avant que J\u2019oublie<\/em> (5&rsquo;55 &#8211; 2016) \/ Ga\u00ebtan Trovato +\u00a0<em>Sus scrofa<\/em> (2\u201903 &#8211; 2016) \/ Chlo\u00e9 Vivien +\u00a0<em>La dame blanche<\/em> (3\u201947 &#8211; 2015) \/ Mona Ricci, Cl\u00e9ment Collange +\u00a0<em>Les eaux troubles<\/em> (1\u201930 &#8211; 2016) \/ Charlotte Causse +\u00a0<em>Cry Cry Baby<\/em> (1\u201957 &#8211; 2016) \/ Krizova Barbora +\u00a0<em>Une route<\/em> (1\u201925 &#8211; 2015) \/ Gaulthier Le Thous <em>Sikhism<\/em> (1\u201914 &#8211; 2016) \/ Elody Sanchis +\u00a0<em>Merci Norman<\/em> (2\u201904 &#8211; 2016) \/ Johanna Thomas +\u00a0<em>Bugne Bugne<\/em> (0\u201957- 2016) \/ Julien Calemard +\u00a0<em>Metro<\/em> (1\u201914 &#8211; 2016) \/ Minwoo Jun +\u00a0<em>Tetris<\/em> (1\u201922 &#8211; 2016) \/ Nina Sivager +\u00a0<em>Orchestre<\/em> (3\u201906 &#8211; 2013) \/ Hye Young Park +\u00a0<em>Control Game<\/em> (2\u201920 &#8211; 2016) \/ Xilun You<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2853\" style=\"width: 1068px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2017-03-03-\u00e0-15.07.02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2017-03-03-\u00e0-15.07.02.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2017-03-03-\u00e0-15.07.02-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2017-03-03-\u00e0-15.07.02-768x294.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2017-03-03-\u00e0-15.07.02-1024x392.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Conversations silencieuses<\/strong><\/em> \/ Trecy Afonso, Nada Rezq, Samar Amir, Marguerite Reinert + <strong><em>Out of Necktie<\/em> <\/strong>\/ Moslem AlJubouri (Irak)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>March 22 to 26<\/strong>: in Tunisia (Sousse \u2013 Mahdia), we are participating in a workshop organised by Les Yeux de l&rsquo;Ou\u00efe (<a href=\"http:\/\/latelierdesyeuxdelouie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Les Yeux de L&rsquo;Ou\u00efe<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>To open possibles to think the images of prison<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8211; 3 screenings, as <strong>a poelitic exploration of our own imprisonments<\/strong>; at the Cultural space Tisiri in Sousse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Real life is somewhere else<\/em><\/strong> <em>The future<\/em> (3&rsquo;59 \u2013 2014) \/ Gouri Mounir (Algeria) <em>The Cage<\/em> (5\u201945 &#8211; 2016) \/ Marcantonio Lunardi (Italie) <em>Lib\u00e9ration<\/em> (1\u201914 &#8211; 2015) \/ Khadija Elabyad (Morocco) <em>Yellow Tea Cup: Refugees at Sea<\/em> (2\u201958 &#8211; 2016) \/ Cheryl Pagurek (Canada) <em>Scarecrow<\/em> (7\u201948 &#8211; 2015) \/ Ameneh Zamani (Iran) <strong><em>Unfair prisons<\/em><\/strong> <em>Oh l\u00e0 l\u00e0 du narratif<\/em> (12&rsquo;37 \u2013 1997) \/ Sylvie Lalibert\u00e9 (Quebec) <em>Pour Cesare Vannini<\/em> (2&rsquo;20 \u2013 2009) \/ Giney Ayme (France) <strong><em>What is the word for almond tree flower?<\/em><\/strong> Polyphonie Po\u00e9tique Urbaine (Ramallah) (9&rsquo;41 \u2013 2011) \/ Marc Mercier (France) &amp; Kefah Fanni (Palestine) We teach life, Sir (4\u201930 &#8211; 2011) \/ Rafeef Ziadah (Palestine\/GB)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Taking part to the round table <strong><em>The Tunisian experience<\/em><\/strong>, with the members of the workshop of the prison in Mahdia, and about their art creations; at the Civilian Prison in Mahdia. &#8211; Participation in the meeting <em><strong>Experiences and artistic projects in Euro-mediterranean<\/strong><\/em>, with teams working in prisons; at Sousse School of arts. &#8211; Screening of <em>La Germination de l&rsquo;Utopie<\/em> (30&prime; &#8211; 2001) \/ Marc Mercier (France), at the cinema Le Palace, Sousse. &#8211; Attendance to the encounter <strong><em>What is at stake in artistic forms<\/em><\/strong>; at the Art school in Sousse.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>Since 2012, the association Les Yeux de l\u2019Ou\u00efe and its partners, are leading a series of long-term workshops of creation in prisons as well as cinematographic dialogues with the civil society. With theatre, cinema, digital arts, the teams of professionals and the inmates explored the potentials of artistic creation and grasp spaces of freedom within the prison.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Tuesday, February 21<\/strong> (5pm), Nimes University: invited by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.editions-lart-dit.fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Publisher L&rsquo;art-dit.fr<\/a> ,<\/h3>\n<p>Marc Mercier and Martial G\u00e9rez will have a conversation on the theme \u201cZappingjunkies\u201d (Zappeurs-n\u00e9s). A way to participate in a book in the process of being written.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>January, 28th<\/strong> at 5pm: we are invited by <a href=\"http:\/\/grainsdelumiere.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grains de lumi\u00e8re<\/a> to present a screening program in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fracpaca.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FRAC<\/a>\u00a0Marseille (Regional Contemporary Arts Fund)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE IN MIDDLE EAST\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> \u201cThere comes a time when things have to be made differently\u201d\u00a0(a sentence heard in the film<em> Everything is going fine<\/em> by Jean-Luc Godard)<\/p>\n<p>Video art is contemporary of a time when nobody wants to face reality. I didn\u2019t say front view, reality can be discreet. What I am speaking about is we facing up to our responsibilities as human beings. We do know (how to escape from the information overflow we get) that an unimaginable tragedy is happening above, below and around the Mediterranean. But there is a voice that keeps telling us \u201cMove along, there\u2019s nothing out there.\u201d And the voice is not wrong in that. As Bertold Brecht used to say, we are living in \u201cdark times\u201d. And frightened by the darkness, we keep saying everything is going fine to try to feel better. Waiting until it\u2019s over. Getting used to it. And in the end, we don\u2019t even expect anything to happen. No more desire. Darkness becomes our only horizon. Not further than the tip of our nose. And here comes identity and obscurantist mania. Or we might think that horror is a human mistake. And that humanity is very very human. What good would it do to pay attention to our mistakes? Everything is fine. Everything will be fine. And one day, we get our head out of the sand and realise that there is no more art. There are visuals, everywhere. There are art works, placed on the market. But in daily life, nothing. Hannah Arendt who caught Brecht\u2019s phrase, asked this question which is equally relevant now: \u201cHow to bring Humanity out of these dark times?\u201d. We all have the answer. To keep searching for a ray of light. This is the key, as it has always be throughout the ages. A firefly lighting the way. A poem penned with nails on a wall. A song rising from a prison. A film being made despite censorship. A body dancing amidst ruins. I can\u2019t see any other raison d\u2019\u00eatre for art: a mound to climb on in order to look further ahead. The art works presented below are glimpses on a world we don\u2019t want to see anymore. They turn angers into songs, dances, poems, let say into a joyful wisdom. But what is joy? It is when the strength both to stand alone and by the others succeed to weariness.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Scarecrew<\/em> (7&rsquo;48 \u2013 2015) \/ Ameneh Zamani (Iran) <em>Statement<\/em> (2&prime; \u2013 2012) \/ Lucia Ahmad (Palestine) <em>Rumeurs<\/em> (8&rsquo;30 &#8211; 2015) \/ Nayla Dabaji (Lebanon\/Quebec) <em>Silk<\/em> (0&rsquo;44 \u2013 2016) \/ Reem Zaghmout &amp; Malak Elghuel (Belize\/Libya) <em>My Motherland<\/em> (5&prime; \u2013 2015) \/ Fazila Amiri &amp; Hangama Amiri (Afghanistan\/Canada) <em>Awakening<\/em> (1&rsquo;40 \u2013 2016) \/ Arzu Yay\u0131nta\u015f (Turkey) <em>Chic point (Fashion for israeli checkpoints)<\/em> (7&prime; \u2013 2003) \/ Sharif Waked (Palestine) <em>Damage<\/em> (2&prime; \u2013 2009) \/ Rania Stephan (Lebanon) <em>Loudness Trouble<\/em> (3&rsquo;15 \u2013 2015) \/ Parya Vatankhah (Iran\/France) <em>Corrida urbaine<\/em> (3&rsquo;15 \u2013 2008) \/ Marc Mercier (France) <em>Sabra &amp; Chatilla Poem<\/em>\u00a0(12\u201935 \u2013 2011) \/ Marc Mercier (France)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Friday, January 27<\/strong>, Bezier multimedia library: <em>Youth and migrations in Mediterranean<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>together with \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromed-france.org\/spip.php?article1155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">REF<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nouas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NOUAS<\/a> , we organised an encounter where we talk\u00a0about the role of art and culture in debunking preconceived ideas.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Friday, January 27<\/strong>, in the <strong><em>Cin\u00e9ma Les Vari\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/em><\/strong> (Marseille):<\/h3>\n<p>Participation \u00a0with <a href=\"http:\/\/(www.altravoce-marseille.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Altravoce<\/a> (<em>Plumerage<\/em> by Giney Ayme) to a screening program organised by the <em>Association des ami.e.s et partenaires du cin\u00e9ma les Vari\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/em> in the frame of the evening \u201cThanks and congratulations\u201d (the cinema is safe).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/varietesmarseille.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vari\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Friday, January 6<\/strong> in Brian\u00e7on (Hautes Alpes): international video art screening program <em>State of Poetic Emergency<\/em> (extra time).<\/h3>\n<p>This evening is the last part of a series of video art awareness workshop led in different social work organisations in Gap and Brian\u00e7on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Vid\u00e9o<\/em> (8\u2019 &#8211; 2016) \/ Samuel Bester (France) <em>Yellow tea cup\u00a0: Refugees at sea<\/em> (2&rsquo;58 \u2013 2016) \/ Cheryl Pagurek (Canada) <em>Cartoline Video<\/em> (20\u201909 &#8211; 2016) \/ Marc Mercier (France) &amp; Matteo Fadda (Italy) <em>L\u2019\u00c9g\u00e9e ou le trou du cul de la mort<\/em> (7\u201921 &#8211; 2014) \/ Eleni Gioti (Greece) <em>Sabra et Chatilla Po\u00e8me<\/em> (12\u201935 \u2013 2011) \/ Marc Mercier (France) <em>Awakening (<\/em>1\u201940 &#8211; 2016) \/ Arzu Yay\u0131nta\u015f (Turkey) <em>Corrida urbaine<\/em> (3&rsquo;15 \u2013 2008) \/ Marc Mercier (France) <em>We teach life, Sir<\/em> (4\u201939 &#8211; 2011) \/ Rafeef Ziadah (Palestine\/GB)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October, 5: Buenos Aires, Argentina A screening program in a partnership with \u00a0VideoBardo (Video poetry) created by Javier Robledo \u00a020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2017e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}