TIME is Love Screening

International video art program
Curateur : Kisito Assangni

TIME is Love Screening aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalisation of the art world. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.

Kisito Assangni est un commissaire d’exposition indépendant, consultant et producteur Franco-Togolais qui a suivi une formation en muséologie à l’Ecole du Louvre. Il partage aujourd’hui son temps entre Londres, Paris et Glasgow. Il est actuellement conservateur au CCA le Centre d’Art Contemporain de Glasgow. Très impliqué dans l’art vidéo, la performance et le son expérimental, son travail analyse principalement l’impact de la post-mondialisation et la psycho-géographie. Ses recherches se concentrent sur les modes de production culturelle qui combinent la théorie et la pratique. Ses projets ont été présentés dans le monde entier – à la Whitechapel Gallery, au Ben Uri Museum à Londres; l’Arnot Art Museum à New York, au Torrance Art Museum à Los Angeles, au Malmo Konsthall en Suède, au Musée d’Art contemporain de Séoul, au Centre National d’Art contemporain à Moscou, au Musée d’Art contemporain de Tenerife en Espagne, au Musée d’Art Contemporain de Pori en Finlande et bien d’autres.
Pour sa 11ème édition, TIME is Love Screening vous invite à découvrir et vivre l’art vidéo et la performance expérimentale du XXIe siècle. TIME is Love Screening est un évènement d’art contemporain annuel et itinérant, mettant en vedette les artistes internationaux autour du thème noble qu’est l’amour. Depuis sa création en 2008, le projet a présenté près de 300 artistes provenant de plus de 60 pays. Il a été montré au Museo Arte Contemporanea Ticino (Suisse), Espace apART, Guangzhou (Chine), Bildetage, Vienne (Autriche), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), Fondation Rich Mix, Tiwani Contemporary (Londres), Fondation Zet (Amsterdam), Institut Cornaro, Larnaca (Chypre), City Art Gallery, Kharkov (Ukraine), Sazmanab (Téhéran), Peanut Underground Art Projects (New York), Fondation 3.14, Bergen (Norvège), TEA Museum-Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Espagne), Photon - Centre pour la photographie contemporaine (Slovénie), Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles), Expressive Art Institute, San Diego (États-Unis), Zeta Art Centre (Albanie), Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (Espagne), Ljosi Light Festival (Islande), Mur Nomade Galerie (Hong Kong), SPECTRUM Festival (Autriche), Musée ZKM, Karlsruhe (Allemagne), Ex-New Contemporary Art Center, Sulbiate, MB (Italie)... etc,.

TIME is Love Screening

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Albert Bayona (Spain), Darrere la Benzinera, 2016, 03min 19
The gas station, next to disappear or transform, as we have known so far, with its associated components, gasoline, as stimulus, the car as an extension of the body and travel, as pleasure flight, along with the scene element the birds over her, causing chaos. All of that, is seasoned with a dose of humor to complement the information.

Lisa Birke (Canada), The Knits, 2017, 10min

A short art film that follows the arduous task of knitting a sweater, while at the same time watching this same sweater unravel as it makes its way across Canada.
Along the way, the film tugs at the crossed threads of familial ties, art versus craft, gendered materiality, and the relationship we have with mother nature and her great divide. “The Knits” is a loving yet humorous homage to the artist’s mother and her chronic affliction of “the Knits”.

Djibril Dramé (Senegal), Gardienne, 2016, 12min 23

This work challenges traditional narrative structures by weaving the story of Muluken and Lukas, sister and brother, with that of Israel Dejene, founder of Megabiskate to create to picture of life in Entoto.
In this narrative, Muluken teaches her brother about skateboarding and he is able to lift himself out of a cycle of poverty. The film mirrors the work of Israel Dejene, founder of Megabiskate.

Matilde De Feo (Italy), Il mio corpo a maggio, 2014, 01min 10

This short documentary about the body is the result of a series of meetings leaded by the documentarist Silvano Agosti.The conceptual nature of the work stems from the video-performative substance, no vfx had been applied, the movement of petals and leaves arises from the natural pressure of the flowers on the body.

Sandrine Deumier (France), Pink Party, 2017, 06min 52

Pink Party est un ballet mécanique à l’ère du cyborg et de l’artificialité des comportements humains. Composée de 21 tableaux où se côtoient très indistinctement chimères cybernétiques, humanoïdes et humains objectalisés aux comportements et aux identités réversibles, cette pièce dessine une série de possibles préfigurations artificielles de l’humain.

Helina Metaferia (Ethiopia, USA), Cyber Spiritual Selfie, 2014, 02min 38

These video performance projects are a series of camera investigations in which I explore the constructs of identity as it relates to the body. In the videos the audience becomes engaged in work that seeks to break the «fourth wall.».

Isabel Perez Del Pulgar (Spain), Imagen afeccion, 2016, 00min 59

La vidéo n’est autre qu’un premier plan, et au premier plan, il n’y a rien d’autre que le visage, une composante de toutes les images.

Vijay Raghavan (India), Techno Avatar, 2017, 00min 39

The movement and repeated action exploring the commodity of industrialize and how human habitual impacts mundane life for all of us is commoditised, tortured in mindless conflicts which are rendered sites of violation, political intolerance, and sexual impulse in urban modernity with pains of urban development over again and again.

Hiroya Sakurai (Japan), The Stream VI, 2014, 06min 52

This work is a ballet using the sound and the movement of the algae and water. With the waterway as the theater, I filmed the choreography of the algae that flows in the water.I shot this with a waterproof camera on a slider dolly . Using this device I created a simulated experience of walking through the waterway for the viewer.

Erick Tapia (Mexico), Territorium, 2015, 03min 25

Territorium ou Territoire est l’espace limité où différentes personnes vivaient, interconnectées avec le site. Reconstruire l’histoire d’une ancienne chapelle.

Céline Trouillet (France), Song N°27, 2017, 04min 46

Par le biais de la chanson, une activité apparemment superficielle et légère, Céline Trouillet aborde des sujets vitaux et soulève des questions qui peuvent être lourdes de sens. Il peut s’agir de faits de société, ou de situations privées qui peuvent mener à l’exclusion.

Susanne Wiegner (Germany), Love in the Age of the EU, 2014, 01min 59

The film starts with a peaceful, blue sea scenery full of hope and light. The recitation of the poem begins, that describes in a very drastic way the treatment of the boat refugees by the European Union. The sea scenery becomes dark and hostile and ends up in front of a wall. The ear-deafening noise of helicopters resounds. The camera pans upwards and one realizes that the walls were built by the European emblem and the whole scenery turns into the European flag. The helicopters disappears, the Fortress Europe «was defended successfully» once again.