ART CITIES:Paris-Video Forever 29

Video Forever 29-Out Of Frame, Topographie de l’art ArchiveThe gallery Analix Forever, a nomadic gallery in Paris, is organizing video projection called “Video Forever” since December 2011. Video Forever are themed monthly animated video projections by Paul Ardenne, meetings with artists, experts in the video and other Gallerists. The sessions take place in a different place each time.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Topographie de l’art Archive

Creativity supposes, fundamentally, getting out of one’s frame, even if the artworks that result from such outgoing gestures get rapidly “reframed”, both physically and socially, through their new frame, strictly speaking, through the space in which they are shown, by the society which approves (or not) their validity and value and by the gaze of the public. In the “framework” of 29th session of VIDEO FOREVER, the participating artists explore that specific moment of the affirmation of a difference and the resulting energy that any novel standpoint generates. But the exit, the “coming out of frame“, sooner or later leads to re-entry into another frame. The “coming out” has thus to be reiterated again and again in order to be constantly renewing creative energy. Barbara Polla call this constantly regenerating energy “uncanny energy”. The selected videos address this momentum of difference, of risk, of revelation, of freedom, of daring, of regeneration, of fun and of strangeness, while getting off frame the unsettling strangeness of being (the uncanny) suddenly appears in plain sight. The videos presented all are somehow about getting “out of frame”, whether in a most literal form or in a symbolic one: out of the window, out of thttp://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-admin/post-new.phphe washing machine, out of advertising, out of one’s social frame, out of political clichés, out of jail, out of home (uncanny refers to the German word un-heim-lich), and out of gender stereotypes. They also explore the so-called “Uncanny Valley”, a hypothesis in the fields of aesthetics elaborated by the Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori, which holds that when creatures look and move almost, but not exactly, like natural beings, they create negative feelings in the viewers. The “valley” refers to the dip between familiar and strange, between recognized and rejected. Participating Artists: Moumen Bouchala, Sean Capone, Arnaud Cohen, Patrick Dekeyser, Marc Horowitz, Pauline Horowitz, C.N. Jelodanti, Evi Kalessis, Eva Magyarosi, Shannon Plumb, Joanna Malinowska & CT Jasper, Jhafis Quintero, Raymundo, Julien Serve, Tejal Shah, Matthew Weinstein, Julia Zastava.

Info: Topographie de l’art, 15 rue de Thorigny, Paris, Date 15/6/16, Time 19:00, www.topographiedelart.fr

Video Forever 29-Out Of Frame, Topographie de l’art Archive
Video Forever 29-Out Of Frame, Topographie de l’art Archive

 

 

Video Forever 29-Out Of Frame, Topographie de l’art Archive
Video Forever 29-Out Of Frame, Topographie de l’art Archive