Looking at the Big Sky – Young Video Art from Germany
HCMC: Lecture and Screening: “Looking at the Big Sky” with curator Dr. Renate Buschmann: Thu 10 Oct, 6 pm
San Art Laboratory
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Hanoi: Opening with lecture and screening: “Looking at the Big Sky”: Fri 11 Oct, 6.30 pm
Discussion with curator Dr. Buschmann: Sat 12 Oct (Need registration)
Exhibition: 12 – 20 Oct 2013, 9 am – 7 pm
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
Under the title “Looking at the Big Sky” 13 Videos of students from German art schools were chosen to be exhibited in Goethe-Institutes around the world. With the title “Looking at the Big Sky”, artists were supposed to be inspired to cross borders, to give free rein to ideas and illusions and think outside the box. The results offer an astonishing variety of motifs and practices when approaching the theme.
The Sky evokes a variety of different associations: The faraway horizon stands as a symbol for vastness of thoughts, freedom, openness, and unlimited possibilities, all that is connected with the blue Sky or a starlit night.
With the title “Looking at the Big Sky”, artists were supposed to inspired to cross borders, to give free rein to ideas and illusions and think outside the box. The results offer an astonishing variety of motifs and practices when approaching the theme. Some tell fictional stories, individual assertions and performances are shown, while others present pseudo-documentary formats. Reaching for the sky in so many different ways, the videos sometimes aim at an individual internal view, that finds meaning in the seemingly insignificant and unspectacular, and other times seek to formulate an outlook on the immeasurable and indeterminate.
Program
• Lecture and Screening: “Looking at the Big Sky” with curator Dr. Renate Buschmann
Thursday, 10.10.2013, 6pm
San Art Laboratory, 40/18 Pham Viet Chanh, Ward 19, Binh Thanh District, HCMC
(Englisch with Vietnamese translation)
• Opening with lecture and screening: “Looking at the Big Sky” with curator Dr. Renate Buschmann
Friday, 11.10.2013, 6.30pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
(English with Vietnamese translation)
• Discussion with curator Dr. Buschmann
In cooperation with Hanoi Doclab
Saturday, 12.10.2013
+ 9am – 12am: The role of the curator in media art
Dr Renate Buschmann speaks about her work as a curator and explains the practice of curating using works from the exhibition. Also, she will introduce the work of the imai – inter media art institute in Düsseldorf.
+ 2.30pm – 5.30pm: Photography and video art in the digital age and the future of media art
Dr Renate Buschmann gives a short introduction and comments on the works of young photographers and video artists.
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
(English with Vietnamese translation)
Registration until Thursday, 10.10.2013 at Hanoi Doclab: [email protected]
Exhibition | 12.10. – 20.10.2013, daily from 9am to 7pm
Venue | Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Free Entry
Language of all programs: English with Vietnamese translation
Please find more information on the following website: www.goethe.de/vietnam and www.imaionline.de
Renate Buschmann, director of imai – the inter media art institute in Düsseldorf curated the exhibition “Looking at the Big Sky”. On October 11th, she will give a lecture at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi on the development of the German video scene and the difference between video art and experimental or other forms of movies. Furthermore she will introduce “Looking at the Big Sky” and explain how the works are typical of young German video art. On October 12th, she will also conduct a workshop with young curators and artists from Hanoi.
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