Future Perfect presents six nights of special screenings from Independent Curators International’s Project 35 Volume 2 for the first time in Singapore. In 2010, ICI launched Project 35, a multifaceted compilation of 35 works selected by an international group of 35 curators exploring video as a contemporary art medium. For this second installment, ICI invited curators from its extensive network to trace the complexity of regional and global connections among practitioners and the variety of approaches they take to the video medium. The project comprises four programmes of single-channel works, each identified by a curator for its importance to a specific audience, and its resonance for a wider, global one.
The international perspective of this project is reflected in the wide-ranging topics addressed by the videos. Protests in South Africa, youth culture in Ho Chi Minh City, and news broadcasts in China are among the subjects explored. The series also reveals the diversity of techniques and styles employed by contemporary video artists, ranging from documentary and online video aesthetics to claymation and digital animation. Project 35 is a study in the power of images, and the role of the media in shaping our collective experience.
Curators include:
Leezy Ahmady (Afghanistan/US), Meskerem Assegued (Ethiopia), Daina Augaitis (Canada), Defne Ayas (Turkey/The Netherlands), Regine Basha (US), Valerie CasselOliver (US), Rosina Cazali (Guatemala), Stuart Comer (US/UK), Veronica Cordeiro (Brazil/Uruguay), Christopher Cozier (Trinidad and Tobago), María del Carmen Carrión (Ecuador/US), Rifky Effendy (Indonesia), Özge Ersoy (Turkey), N’Goné Fall (Senegal), Amirali Ghasemi (Iran), Vít Havránek (Czech Republic), Hou Hanru (US/China), Virginija Januskeviciute (Lithuania), Abdellah Karroum (Morocco), Sun Jung Kim (South Korea), Pablo León de la Barra (Mexico/UK), Maria Lind (Sweden), Yandro Miralles (Cuba), Srimoyee Mitra (Canada), Nat Muller (The Netherlands), Sharmini Pereira (Sri Lanka), Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (France/ Slovenia), Kathrin Rhomberg (Austria), Mats Stjernstedt (Norway/Sweden), David Teh (Australia/Singapore), Philip Tinari (US/China), Christine Tohme (Lebanon), Raluca Voinea (Romania), Jochen Volz (Germany/UK), and Adnan Yildiz (Germany).
Artists include:
Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil), Marwa Arsanios (Lebanon), Zbyněk Baladrán (Czech Republic), Michael Blum (Israel/Canada) and Damir Nikšić (Bosnia/Sweden), Deanna Bowen (US/Canada), Pavel Braila (Moldova), Aslı Çavuşoğlu (Turkey), Park Chan-Kyong (South Korea), Josef Dabernig (Austria), Elena Damiani (Peru), Shezad Dawood (UK), Annika Eriksson (Sweden), Antanas Gerlikas (Lithuania), Annemarie Jacir (Palestine), Lars Laumann (Norway), Aníbal López (A-1 53167) (Guatemala), Reynier Leyva Novo (Cuba), Basim Magdy (Egypt), Cinthia Marcelle (Brazil), Bradley McCullum & Jacqueline Tarry (US), Ivana Müller (France/The Netherlands/Croatia), Ahmet Ögüt (Turkey), Jenny Perlin (US), Agnieszka Polska (Poland), Sara Ramo (Spain), Wok the Rock (Indonesia), Sona Safaei (Iran), Heino Schmid (The Bahamas), Prilla Tania (Indonesia), Alexander Ugay (Kazakhstan), Sun Xun (China), Jin-Me Yoon (Korea), Dale Yudelman (South Africa), Helen Zeru (Ethiopia), Chen Zhou (China).
-Future Perfect
Image: © Asli Cavusoglu
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