The 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil confirms an orientation that first began to form a decade ago. The Festival’s opening up to all forms of artistic expression brings to fruition a gradual approximation with the visual arts prefigured over the course of four editions devoted to such languages as performance and cinema, and placing increasing importance on exhibition segments beyond their original remit. The intensification of this dialogue was in synch with the growing space allotted to video and the moving image on the contemporary art scene, in their capacity as the preferred mediums for artistic experimentation.
The Southern Panoramas exhibition was created out of a surprising body of submitted work, of which over a third was produced in languages not normally within the Festival’s remit. Coming from all regions covered by the exhibition—Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania—, they comprise four sections that informed the curatorial project and materialized as exhibition chapters.
Selected artists
- Adriano Costa
- Akram Zaatari
- Alexandre Brandão
- Ali Cherri
- Alonso Pafyeze
- Ana Prata
- André Favilla
- Andrei Thomaz
- Angelica Mesiti
- Anna Baumgart
- Aya Eliav
- Ayrson Heráclito
- Bakary Diallo
- Basma Alsharif
- Bogdan Perzynski
- Bouchra Khalili
- Cacá Vicalvi
- Carla Zaccagnini
- Carlos Adriano
- Carlosmagno Rodrigues
- Carolina Caliento
- Chico Dantas
- Christian Delgado
- Cinthia Marcelle
- Claudia Joskowicz
- Cristiano Lenhardt
- Damir Ocko
- Dan Boord
- Dan Halter
- Daniel Salamanca
- Danillo Barata
- Deyson Gilbert
- Dirceu Maués
- Dor Guez
- E. S. Mayorga
- Eder Santos
- Edwin Sanchez
- Fabiano Gonper
- Federico Lamas
- Felipe Barros
- Gabriel Mascaro
- Galina Myznikova
- Gianfranco Foschino
- Gisela Motta e Leandro Lima
- Gregg Smith
- Guilherme Peters
- HeeWon Lee
- Ian Haig
- Ilan Waisberg
- Iván Marino
- Jonathan Case
- Jonathas de Andrade
- José Villalobos Romero
- Laerte Ramos
- Lara Arellano
- Leandro Cardoso
- Liu Wei
- Lixin Bao
- Lucia Mindlin Loeb
- Luciana Ohira
- Luis F. Ramírez Celis
- Luis Valdovino
- Luiz Roque
- Marcello Mercado
- Marcellvs L.
- Marcia Vaitsman
- Marek Ranis
- Maya Watanabe
- Merilyn Fairskye
- Mihai Grecu
- Milton Machado
- Moran Shavit
- Natasha Mendonca
- Nazareno
- Nicola Morton
- Nicolás Testoni
- Nurit Sharett
- Ofir Feldman
- Orit Ben-Shitrit
- Pablo Lobato
- Paula Garcia
- Paulo Nimer Pjota
- Petrina Hicks
- Rafael Urban
- Regina Parra
- Ricardo Carioba
- Roberto Winter
- Roderick Steel
- Rodrigo Bivar
- Rolando Vargas
- Ronaldo Miranda
- Sebastián Díaz Morales
- Sergey Provorov
- Sergio Bonilha
- Shaun Gladwell
- Sherman Ong
- Shima
- Taryn Takahashi
- Tatiana Blass
- Tenzin Phuntsog
- Theo Craveiro
- Tiago Romagnani Silveira
- Vinicius Duarte
- Wagner Morales
- Wagner Malta Tavares
- Ximena Velásquez Sánchez
- Zafer Topaloglu
Selected works
- TapetesAdriano Costa, 2010
- Tomorrow Everything Will Be AlrightAkram Zaatari, 2010
- O Instante impossível [gotas e taça]Alexandre Brandão, 2010
- My Pain is RealAli Cherri, 2009
- 1976 - Lugar sagradoAlonso Pafyeze, Carlosmagno Rodrigues, 2010
- Três cenasAna Prata, 2010
- Somewhere in TimeAndrei Thomaz, 2009
- Planos N.2André Favilla, 2010
- Rapture (Silent Anthem)Angelica Mesiti, 2009
- Fresh CherriesAnna Baumgart, 2010
- Art IdolAya Eliav, Ofir Feldman, 2010
- BuruburuAyrson Heráclito, 2010
- Les Feuilles d'un tempsBakary Diallo, 2010
- The Story of Milk and HoneyBasma Alsharif, 2010
- A Family and Friends EventBogdan Perzynski, 2010
- Four Selected Videos From The Mapping Journey ProjectBouchra Khalili, 2010
- VermelhoCacá Vicalvi, Milton Machado, 2009
- Bravo-Radio-Atlas-Virus-OperaCarla Zaccagnini, 2010
- Santoscópio = DumontagemCarlos Adriano, 2010
- Todas as vozesCarolina Caliento, 2011
- Via RepúblicaChico Dantas, 2010
- La Habitación infinitaChristian Delgado, Nicolás Testoni, 2010
- CruzadaCinthia Marcelle, 2010
- Round and Round and Consumed by FireClaudia Joskowicz, 2009
- Solenidade de hasteamento da Bandeira Ao VivoCristiano Lenhardt, 2009
- The Age of HappinessDamir Ocko, 2009
- Tree of ForgettingDan Boord, Luis Valdovino, 2009
- Beitbridge MoonwalkDan Halter, 2010
- Un Impulso creativo / Cartografía de las ideasDaniel Salamanca, 2010
- Bruce Nauman`s FriendDanillo Barata, 2010
- Bandeira de água benta / Bandeira de água comum Deyson Gilbert, 2010
- Em um lugar qualquer - Outeiro Dirceu Maués, 2009
- Watermelons Under the BedDor Guez, 2011
- The Apparition of Our Ill-Fated LoveE. S. Mayorga, 2010
- PilgrimageEder Santos, 2010
- Crossing PointsEdwin Sanchez, 2010
- RDS - Do Sujeito / Localização / RuídoFabiano Gonper, 2009
- SandraFederico Lamas, 2010
- OrawaFelipe Barros, 2010
- Ponto de fugaFelipe Bittencourt, 2010
- As Aventuras de Paulo BrusckyGabriel Mascaro, 2010
- InspirationGalina Myznikova, Sergey Provorov, 2009
- HomeGianfranco Foschino, 2009
- Plan “Y”Gisela Motta e Leandro Lima, 2010
- Love, Jealousy and Wanting to be in Two Places at OnceGregg Smith, 2010
- Inimigo invisívelGuilherme Peters, 2011
- Phone TappingHeeWon Lee, 2009
- Chronicles of the New Human OrganismIan Haig, 2010
- TransfersIlan Waisberg, 2010
- LinhaIván Marino, 2010
- Machines for LivingJonathan Case, Marek Ranis, 2010
- Projeto PacificoJonathas de Andrade, 2010
- Funny GamesJosé Villalobos Romero, 2010
- Cartilha das NuvensLaerte Ramos, 2009
- Mientras paseo en cisneLara Arellano, 2010
- Arquivo bananaLeandro Cardoso, 2010
- Unforgettable MemoryLiu Wei, 2009
- AilleursLixin Bao, 2010
- RaízesLucia Mindlin Loeb, 2009
- Protetor solar de Murnau e espreguiçadeira móvelLuciana Ohira, Sergio Bonilha, 2010
- SuperbloquesLuis F. Ramírez Celis, 2010
- Filme douradoLuiz Roque, 2010
- Transferring, Storing, Sharing, and Hybriding: The Perfect HumusMarcello Mercado, 2010
- TogaMarcellvs L., 2010
- Estudo sobre a escuridãoMarcia Vaitsman, 2009
- AbrasisMaya Watanabe, 2009
- Aqua/OceanMerilyn Fairskye, 2009
- Surfaces: Coagulate and Centipede SunMihai Grecu, 2009
- ExploringMoran Shavit, 2010
- Jan VillaNatasha Mendonca, 2010
- Eu sempre soubeNazareno, 2010
- Remote Viewing Experiment #1Nicola Morton, 2009
- H2Nurit Sharett, 2010
- Men Die and They are not HappyOrit Ben-Shitrit, 2010
- Bronze reviradoPablo Lobato, 2010
- # 4 (Da série Corpo ruído - Estudo para um soterramento)Paula Garcia, 2011
- (Índice 1, contiguidade não imediata)Paulo Nimer Pjota, 2011
- The ChrysalisPetrina Hicks, 2010
- Ovos de dinossauro na sala de estarRafael Urban, 2011
- As Pérolas, como te escreviRegina Parra, 2011
- Perspectiva sobre fundo negroRicardo Carioba, 2010
- Ensaio sobre liberdadeRoberto Winter, 2010
- Até onde vamos?Roderick Steel, 2010
- Série UbatubaRodrigo Bivar, 2010
- Eight-Times-Twenty-FiveRolando Vargas, 2010
- One Second DelayRonaldo Miranda , 2010
- When the Horizon ... ShoreSarah Jane Gorlitz, Wojciech Olejnik, 2010
- OracleSebastián Díaz Morales, 2009
- Double Balancing ActShaun Gladwell, 2010
- TicketsSherman Ong, 2010
- Trinta e trêsShima, 2010
- EnsembleTaryn Takahashi, 2010
- Metade da fala no chão_ Piano surdoTatiana Blass , 2010
- Four RiversTenzin Phuntsog, 2010
- VanishTheo Craveiro, 2010
- Entre um ponto e outroTiago Romagnani Silveira, 2010
- La Physique généraleVinicius Duarte, 2010
- Beautiful, Ordinary, But Still Beautiful, Fucking BeautifulWagner Morales, 2010
- HeliumWagner Malta Tavares, 2010
- La ContemplaciónXimena Velásquez Sánchez, 2009
- Aisha in WonderlandZafer Topaloglu, 2010
Awards
- Grand PrizeTomorrow Everything Will Be AlrightAkram Zaatari, 2010
- FAAP Artistic Residency Prize – São Paulo, BrazilExploringMoran Shavit, 2010
- FAAP Artistic Residency Prize – São Paulo, BrazilJan VillaNatasha Mendonca, 2010
- Artistic Residency Prize - Kiosko - Sta Cruz de la Sierra, BoliviaTapetesAdriano Costa, 2010
- Artistic Residency Prize - Kiosko - Sta Cruz de la Sierra, BoliviaUnforgettable MemoryLiu Wei, 2009
- Artistic Residency Prize - Partage - Flic-en-Flac, MauritiusBravo-Radio-Atlas-Virus-OperaCarla Zaccagnini, 2010
- Artistic Residency Prize - Sacatar - Itaparica, BrazilRound and Round and Consumed by FireClaudia Joskowicz, 2009
- Artistic Residency Prize - Videoformes - Clermont-Ferrand, FranceAs Aventuras de Paulo BrusckyGabriel Mascaro, 2010
- Artistic Residency Prize - WBK Vrije Academie – The Hague, NetherlandsEm um lugar qualquer - Outeiro Dirceu Maués, 2009
- Honorable MentionOracleSebastián Díaz Morales, 2009
- Honorable MentionPilgrimageEder Santos, 2010
- Honorable MentionVermelhoCacá Vicalvi, Milton Machado, 2009
Jury members
Trophy design
The changes that characterize this 17th edition of the Festival find an icon in a trophy created for the Southern Panoramas show by Tunga, a Brazilian artist well known on the international contemporary art circuit. In the sculpture/object he has created for the event, elements from his own poetic repertoire, such as crystal and liquid amber, contained within a metal mesh, envelope a video camera and half‑obscure its lens. The fully‑functional camera‑trophy affords a view that has been irremediably tampered with by the artist.
Curator's text Solange Farkas, 2011
Strategies and Risks
The 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil confirms an orientation that first began to form a decade ago. The Festival’s opening up to all forms of artistic expression brings to fruition a gradual approximation with the visual arts prefigured over the course of four editions devoted to such languages as performance and cinema, and placing increasing importance on exhibition segments beyond their original remit.
The intensification of this dialogue was in synch with the growing space allotted to video and the moving image on the contemporary art scene, in their capacity as the preferred mediums for artistic experimentation.
The Southern Panoramas exhibition was created out of a surprising body of submitted work, of which over a third was produced in languages not normally within the Festival’s remit. Coming from all regions covered by the exhibition—Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania—, they comprise four sections that informed the curatorial project and materialized as exhibition chapters.
The first of these, Emotional Mappings, features works that could be understood as attempts to create possible representations for questions of a subjective order—very often arrived at via singular paths, though couched in a common language. In sundry forms, they deal with sensibilities, skirting the frontiers between the personal and the collective, the individual and society.The second section, Nature and Culture, comprises artworks that inquire how we might return to history in a free way, devoid of the prejudices and vices inherited from the past. Ironically, the answer may lie in the oldest structure of the art system: genre, host rather than home to artists not in search of comfort so much as somewhere to exercise their subversive parasitism. Their aim is not to restore the torn tissue, but to rend it further and more deeply.
The artists featured in the third segment, Political Landscapes, populate the field and circuit of art with dilemmas that hitherto belonged to the shared public and social domain. Old opposites, such as art/politics and local/global are reduced to the same vector. The strategy reveals a potency that seems to derive precisely from a total unconcern for appearing too literal or for following already beaten paths.The works in this chapter of the exhibition summon into the center of the debate the notion of a “generating” mechanism, in the broadest possible sense of the term. Frequently expressed in the construction of optical devices that alter the gaze and propose new visions, this option configures simultaneously as a starting point and a destination. Between one point and another, it opens space in which the new, the experimental, and the risk can impose themselves.
ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL. 17º Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea SESC_Videobrasil. De 30 de setembro de 2011 a 29 de janeiro de 2012. p. 26 a 33. São Paulo, SP, 2011.