PROGRAM INFORMATION The International VideoArt Festival "Entre islas" ("Between Islands") emerges as a desire to connect internationally through the videoart language the artistic values of several geographical areas. Insularity and territorial issues are the artistic welding that connect these areas. The wealth of this social and cultural exchange promises to be overwhelming, and the subjects range from emigration or boundaries to concepts like identity, homeland or region. There will be curators from the different areas, and each will select a piece made by a local artist. There will be works from The Balearic Islands (Spain), The Canary Islands (Spain) Cuba, Cape Verde, Haiti and Taiwan. The festival wants to create an international conversation with a critical look at the "between islands" concept. The Festival has been shown in: -Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern Contemporani de Palma (Spain). October 2015. -Gran Canaria Espacio Digital. Gran Canaria (Spain). May 2015. -TEA-Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. Tenerife (Spain). May 2015. -Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito. Quito (Ecuador). April 2015. -Centro Cultural de España en Nicaragua (Nicaragua). April 2015. -III Encontro Internacional Cinema e Terrotório. Universidade da Madeira. Madeira (Portugal). April 2015. -Salón Indieras. Lanzarote (Spain). December 2014. Next projections: -Festival Internazionale VideoArte of Viareggio. GAMC (Italy). November 2015. -4º Ghetto Biennale (Haiti). December 2015. Curators and artists. Why inviting curators instead of choosing the artists directly? Because sometimes their work is not valued enough and it has to be highligthed. In addition, curators have a wide knowledge of their regions, so their choice will be more accurate and the works will be more interesting. The cooperation between curators builds up a very important interpretation, and viewers could enjoy the thorough research of the artistic focus around the suggested subject: insularity and territory. Moreover, unfolding a line-up of curators from different parts of the world is an added value, and the possibilities rise to infinity. The International Video Art Festival "Entre islas" could be defined as an international connection between artistic spokespeople. -Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta – The Balearic Islands – Artist: Laura Torres Bauzà. -Kisito Assangni – Cape Verde – Artist: Cesar Schofield. -Adonay Bermúdez – The Canary Islands – Artist: Jose J. Torres. -Suset Sánchez – Cuba – Artists: Celia y Yunior. -Leah Gordon – Haiti – Artist: Steevens Simeon. -Jau-lan Guo – Taiwan – Artist: Yu Cheng-Ta. Festival team: -Direction. Adonay Bermúdez. -Design. Vanessa Rodríguez. -Translates. Marivell Amendolara. -Logo design: Francisco Suárez. -Sponsor. Gran Canaria Espacio Digital, Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Puerto del Carmen y Ayuntamiento de Tías. -Contributor. No-Lugar. Contact: -Adonay Bermúdez. Director. +34 618 74 04 64 / [email protected] Link to the visualization of the cycle: https://vimeo.com/125554472 (Spanish version) Password: entre_islas Duration: 32 minutes (six videos). THE BALEARIC ISLANDS -Curator: Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta (Spain, 1976). -Artist: Laura Torres Bauzà (Spain, 1990). -Art work: “Sísif” (Sísifo) (2014). -Duration: 3’34’’ -Text: The artist Laura Torres Bauzà and the curator Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta set off from a concept as polysemous as is an island to construct an interesting project that reflects on origin and inheritance, on life and its transit, on identity and sense of belonging, on symbols and the need to interpret that which surrounds us. The idea of inhabiting, occupying, living, surviving and working, in relation to space, home, the place, the earth and the niche. The body and territory in contradiction, connection and symbiosis, comprise a series of investigations which were already common in some of the previous approaches of both and on which they rely to develop this proposal, thanks to a unique mechanism. Torres Bauzà and Gómez de la Cuesta set off from an intense process of exchange of video images and linked texts, which in a stroke of luck of exquisite corpse sophisticated and poetic; have shaped the project as their conceptions are embodied, at the same time different and concurrent with the idea of island. The result is this peculiar video-creation titled “Sísif” (Sisyphus) by Torres Bauzà which is accompanied by a text penned by two hands, the actual artist and the commissioner of the proposal. -Currículum of the curator: Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta. Art critic and curator. Graduate in Law, University of Barcelona and in History of Art, University of The Balearic Islands. Member of Associació de Comissaris i Crítics d’Art de les Illes Balears (Association of Art Curators and Critics of The Balearic Islands). Presently he is the director of the photography festival PalmaPhoto, he regularly collaborates with the magazine ART.es and is curating the series of exhibitions Camera Obscura, as well as, together with Pau Waelder, the series (HIPER)vincles (2012-2013) and Zona Zero (2010-2012), the three exhibitions at Casal Solleric in Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Curator at CRIdA (Centre de Residència i Intercanvi d’Artistes de l’Ajuntament de Palma (residencial and Exchange Centre for Artists, Palma City Council) (2011-2012) and co-director of the alternative space for visual arts La fábrica de licors de Palma (2004-2006). He has curated individual projects by prestigious artists of the calibre of Carlos Aires, Martin John Callanan, Jérôme Leuba or Guillermo Mora. At present he is preparing specific projects with renowned creators such as Ana Laura Aláez, Santiago Morilla, PSJM, Avelino Sala, José Luis Serzo, Javier Vallhonrat, Simon Zabell or Jesús Zurita. Among his last exhibitions stand out: Tabula Rasa o la (im)possibilitat de construir una generació (Es Baluard, Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani of Palma, 2014; MUU Kaapeli, Helsinki, Finland, 2014 e Hilvaria Studios, Holland, 2015), Bastard Painting: a new attitude between Afterpop, Google and Folk (Art:i:curate, London, 2014), Joan Cortés. Theorem of Space (81 Leonard Street, London, 2013 and Kunsträume der Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne 2014), High Society (CCC. Pelaires, Palma, 2013) or Pedro Vidal. Autorretrato con perro (Casal Solleric, Palma, 2013). www.curatoria.org -Currículum of the artist: Laura Torres Bauzà. A graduate of Fine Art, University of Barcelona. She has taken part in various group exhibitions such as Identidades: espacio, lugar, territorio (Identities: space, place, territory) in the gallery ABA Art as part of the festival Palma Photo 2013 (curated by Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta), ST’12 (University of Barcelona), Técnica Mixta in Fundación Vila Casas (Barcelona, 2012) or Art Jove de les Illes Balears (Palma, 2012). Finalist in Art Jove de les Illes Balears (2012) and winner Ex aequo of the Premi ciutat deManacor 2014 (Prize of the city of Manacor). She has participated in various self-edited publications such as Nenazas (2013), Vols Russos (2012) or Baba Artzine (2012).. Her residence at Ca l’Isidret Edicions, (Vilafranca del Penedès, 2014) can be highlighted. She has furthered her qualifications with a MA in production and artistic investigation (University of Barcelona) and with the programme Les cliniques de Balouard (Palma). She will soon be following the MA in comparative studies of literature, art and thought at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). www.laurabauza.com CAPE VERDE -Curator: Kisito Assangni (Togo, 1975). -Artist: Cesar Schofield (Cape Verde, 1973). -Art work: "Djaforgu na 1 minutu" (2013). -Duration: 1’ -Text: Spine chilling, the atmosphere of the isle of Fogo. Something moves beneath the earth. Maybe magma. To protect. To preserve. Earth, sea, air. Exclusive space, inclusive space. Territorial integrity is one of the principle functions of the State, along with food and housing. Slowly, trying to understand the intricate paths of development against the preservation of nature and social balance. A documentary in the form of a question. -Currículum of the curator: Kisito Assangni. Kisito Assangni is a Togolese-French curator, consultant and producer who studied photography, art history and museology. Currently living between London, Paris and Lomé, his practice primarily focuses on psychogeography and post-globalisation impact on contemporary african cultures. His projects have been shown internationally, including the Whitechapel Gallery, Ben Uri Museum, London; Arnot Art Museum, New York; Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Pori Art Museum, Finland; Motorenhalle Centre for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany; Foundation 3.14, Bergen, Norway; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul among others. Kisito has participated in symposia, talks and events at numerous international venues. He was also member of jury for the Award Letters From The Sky in Cape Town (South Africa) as well as the 28th Prix Videoformes in Clermont-Ferrand (France). Kisito is the founder/curator of Time is Love Screening and [SFIP] project - Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy (a platform for critical thinking, researching and presenting Video art from Africa.) www.timeisloveshow.org -Currículum of the artist: Cesar Schofield. César Schofield Cardoso is a caboverdean photographer and filmmaker. In 2006 he launched PRAIA.MOV, an urban culture movement in the city of Praia, Cabo Verde, in collaboration with architects, artists and other critical thinkers. In 2009