FAIR PLAY FILM & VIDEO Award 2008 2 3 Production & Concept: PLAY Platform for Film & Video Berlin ABOUT FAIR PLAY
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FAIR_PLAY FILM & VIDEO award 2008 2 3 production & concept: PLAY_ platform for film & video berlin 7 ABOUT FAIR_PLAY 10 CINEMA LUX 11 The Award 11 concept 13 history 15 curatorial commitee 17 artists 45 Carte Blanche 45 ovni – presentation with Joan Leandre & Simona Marchesi 48 Focus 80 Rossella Biscotti 82 Oliviero Toscani 84 Fine Arts Unternehmen AG Productions 86 Francesco Jodice 88 K10 90 Noah Stolz 94 Andrea Lissoni 96 Marco Scotini 98 4 5 Fair_Play about Founded in Berlin in 2003 as a curated screening platform, to foster the use of filmic language in art. Fair_Play awards contemporary artistic efforts in blurring technical and aesthetic distinction between art and film. Goal of the award is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art and to stimulate the development of new visual languages and narratives. Fair_Play focuses on film and video works which are conceived specifically for a single-channel, wide screen projection. Through the screening of film and video works, Fair_Play aims to create an international, multilateral platform of discussion about the relationship between art and film and to serve as a meeting point for a diverse and international group of professionals from the fields of contemporary art, film and video to engage and exchange in critical discourse. CURATORIAL committee_ Submission of works is by invitation only. Artists are proposed for submission of their most recent works by a Curatorial Committee, which is composed by independent curators, institution directors, artists and experts from the film industry. Each member of the curatorial committee brings expert knowledge in their respective fields and geographic locations, securing the widest possible range of international, talented artists nominated to participate to the competition. AWARD committee (JURY)_ The Award Committee is composed by 7 experts, exceptionally experienced in the field of video-art and film. Members of the committee are professionals of the film industry, curators, academics and artists. The committee will award a first, second and a third prize in money as follows: first prize euro 5.000, second prize euro 3.500, third prize euro 2.000. 6 7 Fair_Play about Founded in Berlin in 2003 as a curated screening platform, to foster the use of filmic language in art. Founded in Berlin in 2003 as a curated screening platform, to foster the use of filmic language in art. Fair_Play awards contemporary artistic efforts in blurring technical and aesthetic distinction between Fair_Play awards contemporary artistic efforts in blurring technical and aesthetic distinction between art and film. Goal of the award is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art art and film. Goal of the award is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art and to stimulate the development of new visual languages and narratives. Fair_Play focuses on film and to stimulate the development of new visual languages and narratives. Fair_Play focuses on film and video works which are conceived specifically for a single-channel, wide screen projection. and video works which are conceived specifically for a single-channel, wide screen projection. Through the screening of film and video works, Fair_Play aims to create an international, multilateral Through the screening of film and video works, Fair_Play aims to create an international, multilateral platform of discussion about the relationship between art and film and to serve as a meeting point platform of discussion about the relationship between art and film and to serve as a meeting point for a diverse and international group of professionals from the fields of contemporary art, film and for a diverse and international group of professionals from the fields of contemporary art, film and video to engage and exchange in critical discourse. video to engage and exchange in critical discourse. CURATORIAL committee_ CURATORIAL committee_ Submission of works is by invitation only. Artists are proposed for submission of their most Submission of works is by invitation only. Artists are proposed for submission of their most recent works by a Curatorial Committee, which is composed by independent curators, recent works by a Curatorial Committee, which is composed by independent curators, institution directors, artists and experts from the film industry. Each member of the curatorial institution directors, artists and experts from the film industry. Each member of the curatorial committee brings expert knowledge in their respective fields and geographic locations, securing committee brings expert knowledge in their respective fields and geographic locations, securing the widest possible range of international, talented artists nominated to participate to the competition. the widest possible range of international, talented artists nominated to participate to the competition. AWARD committee (JURY)_ AWARD committee (JURY)_ The Award Committee is composed by 7 experts, exceptionally experienced in the field The Award Committee is composed by 7 experts, exceptionally experienced in the field of video-art and film. Members of the committee are professionals of the film industry, curators, of video-art and film. Members of the committee are professionals of the film industry, curators, academics and artists. The committee will award a first, second and a third prize in money as follows: academics and artists. The committee will award a first, second and a third prize in money as follows: first prize euro 5.000, second prize euro 3.500, third prize euro 2.000. first prize euro 5.000, second prize euro 3.500, third prize euro 2.000. 8 9 The Award concept cinema lux Founded in Berlin in 2003 as a curated screening platform, to foster the use of filmic language in art. Fair_Play awards contemporary artistic efforts in blurring technical and aesthetic distinction between art and film. Goal of the award is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art and to stimulate the development of new visual languages and narratives. Fair_Play focuses on film and video works which are conceived specifically for a single-channel, wide screen projection. Through the screening of film and video works, Fair_Play aims to create an international, multilateral platform of discussion about the relationship between art and film and to serve as a meeting point for a diverse and international group of professionals from the fields of contemporary art, film and video to engage and exchange in critical discourse. CURATORIAL committee_ Submission of works is by invitation only. Artists are proposed for submission of their most recent works by a Curatorial Committee, which is composed by independent curators, institution directors, artists and experts from the film industry. Each member of the curatorial committee brings expert knowledge in their respective fields and geographic locations, securing the widest possible range of international, talented artists nominated to participate to the competition. AWARD committee (JURY)_ The Award Committee is composed by 7 experts, exceptionally experienced in the field of video-art and film. Members of the committee are professionals of the film industry, curators, academics and artists. The committee will award a first, second and a third prize in money as follows: first prize euro 5.000, second prize euro 3.500, third prize euro 2.000. 10 11 The Award history FAIR_Play 2003 AWARD COMMITTEE_ Ahu Antmen (TR) art critic and curator, Angelika Richter (DE) independent curator and art historian based in Berlin and Halle (Saale), Charlotte Mailler (CH) indipendent curator, Edgar Schmitz (UK) visiting tutor at Goldsmith University and London based artist and writer, Heike Munder (CH) director of the Migros Museum in Zurich, Michael Darling (USA) modern and contemporary curator at Seattle Art Museum, Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger (CH) artists, Patrick Huber (CH) director International Experimental Film & Video Festival Videoex Zürich. CURATORIAL commIttee_ Ellen Pau (HK), Francesco Manacorda (GB), Kathrin Becker (Germany), Leng Lin (China), Michael Courtesy the artists, 2006 Darling (USA), Michelle Maccarone (USA), Milovan Farronato (Italy), Ombretta Agro (USA). ARTISTS_ Jonah Freeman (USA), Matt Saunders (USA), Margaret Salmon (GB), Vesna Bukovec (SLO), Cecilia Lundqvist (SVE), Jón Saemundur Auòrson (IS), Shahram Entekhabi (IRAN), Debora Hirsch (BRA), Nuno Cera (PT), Johannes Maier (D), Nicolàs Serrano (ESP), Zhao Liang (CHINA), Wu Ershan (CHINA), Stella So (HK), GUP-py (JP), Sayaka Kasahara & Kenji Kamoshida (JP), Cacciagrilli (ITA), Gina Tornatore (AUS), Chiara Pirito (ITA). FAIR_Play 2005 AWARD COMMITTEE_ Anne Barlow (UK) curator at the New Museum, NYC, Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (UK) director Centre for Contemporary Art Research, University of Southampton, Bernd Milla (D) director Deutscher Kuenstler- bund e.V., Berlin, Thomas Munz (D) editor & program curator transmediale - festival for art and digital cul- ture, Theo Ligthart (D) artist, film director and author. CURATED BY_ Virginia Hackermann (UK) artist and critic. ARTISTS_ Courtesy Virginia Hackermann, 2005 Bankleer (D), Ellen Bornkessel (D), Vesna Bukovec (SLO), Nicole Cohen (USA), Joe Frazer (UK), Javier Gálan (ESP), HK119 (FIN), Matthew Horne (USA), Dawn Kasper (USA), Lauren Lavitt (USA), Dominik Lejman (PL), Pia Lindman (FIN), Victor Lucas (USA), Jens Lüstraeten (D), Trine Lise Nedreaas (UK), Monika Oechsler (D), Tracey Rose (ZA), Prem Sahib (UK), Daniel Segerberg (S), Ninia Sverdrup (S), Akram