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The Vitruvian Woman Video Installation
The Vitruvian Woman Video Installation at Formverk Art Space
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The Vitruvian Woman
The Vitruvian Woman is a multimedia sculpture created by 34 artists from around the world. Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch; The Vitruvian Man, which idealises the classic proportions of the human body, in his case the male body, The Vitruvian Woman sets out to trace the multidimensionality of womanhood in a flow of five three-minute video sequences reflecting the nine bodily regions: the head, heart, stomach, sexual organ, right arm, left arm, left leg, right leg and feet.
This poetry of dismemberment screened on nine monitors draws on diverse chapters of female identity, from scenes of domestic life to the sensibilities of lingerie and lust. Allegories of the flesh and a male beaten to pulp add to the shaky image of female empowerment as it alternately pins its hope on Buddhist mantra and surrenders to the flux of collective consciousness.
Kim Wyon
Genova, Italy
The Vitruvian Woman is an off spring of The Exquisite Corpse Video Project.
Exhibitions
2009 | December 14 – 23 | Video Installation at Video Dia Loghi 2009, Video festival, Torino, Italy
2009 | March 14 – April 19 | Debut Screening at Formverk Art Space, Eskilstuna, Sweden
Online presentation for curators; contact Michael Chang on michael@michaelchang.dk
Press
Press Release | Formverk, Eskilstuna | 2009-03-07
Participants
34 artists from 15 countries
Aditi Kulkarni, (India)
Alberto Guerreiro (Portugal)
Alexandra Buhl (Denmark)
Alicia Felberbaum (United Kingdom)
Alison Williams (South Africa)
Ambuja Magaji (USA)
Anders Weberg (Sweden)
Anica Vucovik (Serbia)
Arthur Tuoto (Brazil)
Brad Wise (USA)
Bruno Penteado (Brazil) & Henrique Cartaxo (Brazil)
Christy Walsh (USA)
Dave Swensen (USA)
Debbie Douez (Canada)
Igor Amin (Brazil)
Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg)
Jan Kather (USA)
Joas Sebastian Nebe (Germany)
Joy Whalen (USA)
Kai Lossgott (South Africa)
Kika Nicolela (Brazil)
Michael Chang (Denmark) & Melanie Chilianis (Australia)
Niclas Hallberg (Sweden)
Per E Riksson (Sweden)
Renata Padovan (Brazil)
Ronee Hui (United Kingdom)
Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden)
Simone Stoll (Germany) & Anthony Siarkiewicz (USA)
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway)
Uma Ray (India)
Willy Darko (Italy)
Bios
Aditi Kulkarni, India. Aditi Kulkarni has a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. As an artist she is working in a wide range of mediums. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Aditi works with a variety of subject matters. Among these individual expression, perception, intuition, artistic notions and process. Aditi finds inspirations for her visual language in travels and the experiments she conducts.
Alberto Guerreiro, Portugal, b. 1969. Video and photography sampler. Among other things (anthropologist and museum curator) a new media performer: single-channel videos, film, found footage editing (video-cut), video-art and conceptual photography. Also the menthor of the FocFest - The Freedom of Choice International Video and Film Peace Festival: international video and film festival held simoultaneously in several countries in the world.
Alicia Felberbaum, England, b.1950 , Argentina. Alicia Felberbaum is a multimedia artist based in London, graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with a Master in Fine Arts. A recipient of several art grants, Alicia was awarded a Fellowship from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) for research on the relationships between interactivity, databases, and the narrative form. Her work includes installations, interactive projects and video shorts that have been shown internationally in festivals and exhibitions, including the EMAF, Osnabruck, Germany; F I L E 2005 and Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2005); Viper Basel Switzerland; Sónar A La Carte, Barcelona, Spain (2006); Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK; IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; Axis, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2000).
Alison Williams, South Africa. Alison is a self-taught artist, who holds degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Seeing art as a vision and a voice, her video arts seeks out the mundane as well as obtuse, and reveals, in things once hidden, that lost essence of life. Although she is mainly a performer, Alison’s video work has been shown in festivals around the world, and she paints when she has the time.
Anders Weberg, Sweden. Anders is an artist and filmmaker working in video, sound, new media and installations. Specializing in digital technologies, he aims to mix genres and ways of expression to explore the potential of visual media. Anders lives and works in the small coastal town of Angelholm in the south of Sweden, and he has exhibited at numerous art festivals, galleries, and museums internationally.
Anthony Siarkiewicz, USA. Anthony, painter and designer, works today mainly as art director. He has also co-produced the feature film ‘Onward to Calgary’ in 2007 and produced further art videos. In 2006, he co-organised the Sowa Film Festival Boston. He has a personal interest in video visuals and motion graphics projected at live events. Anthony has collaborated on several videos by Simone Stoll as producer and as sound designer. www.advancepictures.com
Ambuja Magaji, USA. Born in Bangalore, India, Ambuja Magaji currently resides in Cranston, Rhode Island. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art specializing in printmaking from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore, as well as a Master of Arts in Media Studies from Rhode Island College. As an artist, Ambuja’s work involves the social and political roles that define cultural identities. Her recent solo video installation in Bangalore, titled ”Body Desire,” was about the transgender people in India, known as “Hijras.”
Arthur Tuoto, Brazil. Arthur is an independent video maker and film critic in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His works include video art, short films, music videos, experimental documentaries, and photography. Using experimental digital narrative, he seeks to create contemporary, atmospheric and celebrative cinema. The subject of his work tends to be alienation, loneliness, and spirituality. His videos have been exhibited in worldwide festivals and TV Channels.
Bruno Penteado, Brazil. Born 1979 in Campinas, Brazil, Bruno Penteado is a multimedia artist who studied fine arts from 1991 to 1995 as a teenager. After graduating from high school, lived for 8 years in Florence, Italy. During this time he was able to get on with classic and renaissance art in its cradle and also with the contemporary Italian scene through friends who were into contemporary media including cinema, video, music, grafitti, street art and also traditional supports. Back in Brazil, he’s now a visual arts graduation student at the State University of Campinas and has participated in the past two years in several exhibitions in his living area working mainly with drawings, prints, paintings and has a small experience in interacting performing. The Vitruvian Woman project makes his début on video making.
Dave Swensen, USA. Dave Swensen currently reside in Des Moines, Iowa; working from his home based studio. Dave navigate in many different mediums. The subject matter he is exploring is consistently of a personal nature pertaining to life, death, psychology and chemistry. To date, Dave have been working primarily with video and sculpture. While collaborating with other artists in the midwest, he have also exhibited abroad exhibiting recently in Serbia and Norway.
Debbie Douez, Canada. Debbie Douez is a conceptual artist living in Spain who uses multiple mediums (painting, sculpture, installation and video) to express her ideas. She self-directed her studies in schools and studios in Canada, New York and Spain. After spending over 10 years working in Marketing and Business Development she decided to finally dedicate herself full time to the pursuit of her artistic callings in 2003 when she moved to Spain. As an artist, Debbie explores social, psychological and emotional themes especially as they relate to woman. Today Debbie shows her work locally and Internationally and directs part of her efforts to curating and promoting artist collectives.
Henrique Cartaxo, Brazil. Henrique is an audiovisual artist and currently an undergraduate student in Social Communication: Medialogy at the State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo. Altough his greatest interest is in film editting, he does significant part of his work in video-art, video-performance (with the electronic music and performance group Project GASP) and with video-dance and dance photography. His work has been shown in brazilian short-film festivals, dance and video-dance festivals and even in rave parties.
Irina Gabiani, Luxembourg. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, lives and works in Luxembourg. Irina is educated at School of Art of Tbilisi and Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art in Amsterdam. She has participated in solo and collective exhibitions in Georgia, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Estonia, Russia, Finland, England, Italy, France and Australia. In 2008 she was awarded 8° Premio Nazionale d’Arte Città di Novara, Video, III price at Museo Civico del Broletto, Salone Arengo, Novara, Italy. Her video performances have been shown in various festivals: Video Dia Loghi 2007 and 2008 (Torino, Italy), Perezagruzka 3 – New Georgian Art Festival (Moscow, Russia), Minividfest – Edinburgh Art Festival (Edinburgh, UK), Human Emotion Project (Melbourne, Australia; Rome, Italy; …) and at the Rustaveli Georgian National Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia).
Jan Kather, USA. Jan Kather teaches photography, video art, humanities, and women's studies courses at Elmira College in upstate New York, as well as photography courses at Cornell University. She is the recipient of several artist grants, including, a 2007 NYSCA Decentralization Artists Crossroads Program Grant for the community art installation, Aleatoric Video. She is also an active member of Rural Research Laboratories in Elmira and the State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca.
Joas Sebastian Nebe. B. 1968 in Germany. Joas is a self-taught artist who holds degrees in psychology and literature. Joas had lectureships about film for big companies like Reemtsma Cigarettes and for the University of Hamburg. Joas had exhibitions in China (Intrude Art & Life 366 Project, Zendai Moma), USA (Art Expos Architectural and Video Art Event), UK (Edinburgh Art Festival 08), Portugal (Focfest), the Netherlands (Shaping TI City) and Thailand (Switch Media eletron pathiharn (supernatural) Art Festival). Joas´s works are in collections of the Deutsches Institut fuer Animationsfilm, Dresden, Germany and the Joop van den Ende Collection, Amsterdam.
Joy Whalen, USA. Raised in Chicago, Illinois, Joy now resides in New York City where her work combines multimedia, drawing, performance, video, and installation. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in 2007, and, in May of that year, she had her first major solo show, What They Found, at Chicago’s Flatfile Galleries. Joy is also the 2008 recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Council Regrant Award.
Kai Lossgott, Germany. Kai Lossgott is a South African writer and artist working in video, performance art, and experimental film. Kai graduated in sculpture and painting at the National School of the Arts. He holds a BJourn in documentary filmmaking and dance theatre from Rhodes University and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. He has lectured in visual and digital art at the University of South Africa, at The University of Pretoria, and in the Department of Digital Arts at WITS University. As a writer, he holds a special interest in video poetry.
Niclas Hallberg, Sweden. Niclas is a freelance artist since the last 10 years. Working with video, photo, installation, painting... He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Sweden, China, Finland, Serbia and Poland. His works often deals with questions concerning identities, environment and humanity, in an experimental way. He has made several videos commissioned by other artists and museums. He is one of the founders of Formverk, an artist-run exhibition place in Sweden.
Per E. Riksson, Sweden. Per Riksson is a contemporary painter, performer, video artist, and comic illustrator in Stockholm, whose solo work has been exhibited in the US and Northern Europe. Trained at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, Per founded the noted multimedia and performance art group Cyberia City, for which he served as curator and projects leader from 1992-2007.
Ronee Hui, England. Ronee Hui is a London-based artist, whose work has been shown in Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Canada, China, and Cuba. Graduating from Middlesex University in 2002 with a Master in Fine Arts under Professor Jon Thompson, she works across a range of media including object- and text-based works, as well as sculpture, installation, video and photography. Her major shows include the 6th Sharjah International Biennial of Contemporary Art in the United Arab Emirates, and the 25th Viper International Festival of Film, Video and New Media, in Basel, Switzerland.
Simone Stoll, Germany. Simone Stoll studied in Berlin and London, has lived in France, Iceland and continues to travel. Her research is based on body and mind, human studies interwoven with her personal experience, earlier in form of painting, she now concentrates on drawing, photo and video. She has collaborated with neuro-scientist and multi-media artists. Her work is intimate and sometimes raw and always poetic in search for beauty. Her means are simple and direct; she is the sole performer of her videos and model to photos. She has been artist-in-residence with the Museum of Reykajvik, the Academ of the Arts Berlin and others. Her work can be found in European collections and has been shown in Canada, Europe and the USA. In 2007, she received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. www.simonestoll.com
Stina Pehrsdotter, Sweden. Stina Pehrsdotter is a curator and artist, working in street, installation, and performance art inspired by the human body and its environment. A Textile Arts graduate from Umeå University, Sweden, she has participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. As a curator, she has arranged several showings in a variety of contexts. She is also one of the founders of Formverk, an artist-run exhibition place in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
Ulf Kristiansen, Norway. B. 1969. Ulf Kristiansen is a painter and video-artist currently living at Nesodden, a peninsula outside of Oslo, Norway. While starting out as a figurative painter, Ulf is now mainly focusing on 3D animation and machinima projects that have been shown in numerous international video festivals and exhibitions.
Uma Ray, India. Uma Ray is a multimedia artist and sculptor based in India. She graduated from Visva Bharati University in July 2006 with a Master in Fine Arts. In the artists own words:
I like to experiment and am open to exploring different possibilities
of self expression. My creations have dealt with issues like traces left
behind through a passage of time and memories juxtaposed with self
preservation and/or the need to move out of self imposed peripheries
and the continuous cycle of life (appearance and reappearance in
various embodiments). They tend to be philosophical and fragile as
I believe the nature of life to be.
Willy Darko, Italy. Born in Croatia, living and working in Turin in Italy. Willy Darko use a mix of video and photography projected or printed on a wide range of materials. Resulting in an unpredictable and liquid juxtaposition of imagery situated on the edge of perception. Images of the body is central in Willy Darko’s works of art along with political and social disputes and musical events from the 70’s. In the work Anni 70 the artist reflects over his life using footage from the Archivio di Stato to tell a story from a period of his life. In the work he use a mix of video, photography and excerpts from lyrics performed by an actor to capture the strong emotions aroused by rock music in the seventies. Mixing photographs taken during concerts from the stage and video footage of riots and mass parties. In another of his works the artist use a micro-camera inserted in large size photographic works to capture still images of the audience. The images are then transferred to a nearby monitor giving the viewer the opportunity to see himself on the screen drawing on the element of surprise.
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