III INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUDIO-VISUAL ARTS VIDEOLOGIA 2006
Curatorial group of VIDEOLOGIA is calling for entries for the official
selection program of the III International festival of audio-visual arts that
will take place in Volgograd, Russia, in November of 2006. Artists and directors
working with short films, video art, animation, documentary films, net art and
various visual experiments are welcome to participate! All selected titles will
be screened in the cinema halls and art galleries and evaluated by the
independent jury and local audience.
I. Festival VIDEOLOGIA: brief introduction. The festival debuted in 2004. The
competition selection and hors concourse programs of international & Russian
festivals & curators were demonstrated for four days. Along with screenings
VIDEOLOGIA 2004 included video gallery, theoretical forums, concerts and
performative actions in clubs.
Works taking part in the selection program were subdivided into two nominations
according to the main conceptual lines of the festival:
1) Intersection of video with other arts (poetry, painting, photography, dance);
2) (V)ideological statement of an artist.
The II festival VIDEOLOGIA 2005 received more than 600 video and cinema works
from 42 countries. Three screening days of its selection program included films
based on three conceptual nominations:
1) Retrospection (works about displaced traumatic images of the past);
2) Current Moment (films about the present and its fixation by the audio-visual
means);
3) Infanteria Futura (video and cinema about the future embodied in the
childhood images).
Independent jury of VIDEOLOGIA 2005 consisted of artists, directors, curators,
theoreticians of contemporary art and musicians, who also played concerts, held
master classes and public lectures. Among the award winners of the festival were
Gerars Kairaschi (France), AES + F (Russia), Mehmet Bahadir Er (Turkey), Dmitry
Bulnygin (Russia), Patrick Rebisz (Poland USA), Pierre Daudelin (Canada). The
unique innovation of the VIDEOLOGIA 2005 became the internet conferences with
the artists who could not arrive to Russia but had a chance to present their
work to the local audience, answer their questions and watch the screening
programs on-line.
Foreign partners of VIDEOLOGIA 2005 in hors concourse programs were
International festival of cinema and video Visionaria (Italy), International
festival of experimental film Carbunari (Romania) and Inter American Videoart
Biennale (works of authors from South and Central America).
II. VIDEOLOGIA 2006: Thematic pattern
The key conceptual lines of VIDEOLOGIA 2006 will be articulated with the special
attention to the art works arriving to the festival. These lines will become the
result of synthesis of curatorial intentions and ideas of the festival
participants. Nevertheless, according to traditions of VIDEOLOGIA curators
formulate a thematic orienting point for artists and directors. It will enable
the festival selection program to become an integral, but not homogenous,
composition of conceptual series consisting of diverse artistic approaches.
Such orienting point of VIDEOLOGIA 2006 is the theme: THE ART OF TRANSITION:
STASIS EX-STATICS KINESIS. It is evident that there is no absolute
stasis in audio-visual imagery; even a silent and still representation possesses
a rhythm, attuning spectators perception and sense to a certain tempo. However
one can make a gradation of art works targeting at creating a dynamic effect to
a lesser or higher extent. For instance, a single shot video installation made
from one camera angle without editing and aimed for a gallery exhibition will
look less kinetic in a movie theatre than a short cinema work filmed from
different perspectives and edited to create a high tempo of narration.
VIDEOLOGIA festival is very much interested in both types of works. The festival
concentrates on comparison of stasis and kinesis in audio-visual arts, it is on
the quest for ecstatic artistic impulses, which mark transition from one state
to another and are inherent in both of them. Ecstatic impulse is understood here
as a rapture, as coming out of ones experience, which seems to be essential for
making an unpredictable work of art. Such condition of being outside oneself
because of grief or intellectual exertion, fury or joy is characteristic of any
sphere of human activity, from religion and politics to theory and love.
If you diagnose and explore political transitions from social disintegration to
centralized hierarchies; if your work is dedicated to unpredictable motions of
human mind and heart; if you experiment with the form of audio-visual art; if
you are fascinated by the rhythm itself of passage from despondency to ardour,
from art to politics, from thought to love, you might be very much interested in
taking part in the III International Festival of Audio-visual Arts VIDEOLOGIA
2006. Welcome! Shoot motion pictures, participate in the festival, carry on
polemics with audience, and modify ideas of curators!
III. Regulations of the III International Festival of Audio-visual arts
VIDOLOGIA 2006
1. Participation in the festival is free of charge.
2. The following formats are acceptable for selection program: DVD, Mini DV
(pal); 35 mm, 16 mm, 8 mm films.
3. Only works produced not earlier than January 1st 2004 are applicable.
4. Duration of works should not exceed 30 minutes (exceptions may apply).
5. The panel of coordinators of the festival will assemble the selection program
based on criteria of inventiveness, quality and correspondence to the thematic
pattern of VIDEOLOGIA 2006.
6. The entry form should accompany the work sent to the festival.
7. Deadline for submissions is November 1st 2006.
8. All deliveries from international participants should be marked: "no
commercial value - for cultural purposes only".
9. All entrants will be notified November 5th 2006.
10. The entry implies full acceptance of the regulations.
Entry forms can be found in the attached files. For any information mail to
volgafest@yandex.ru
Send your works to:
Yaroslav V. Khokhlov
Do vostrebovaniya
Volgograd 400066
Russia