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February 2022 Virtual Program
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Sebastian Ziegler • skeletonized espresso machine fountain • 6 minutes 30 seconds
• Synopsis •
VIDEOKAFFE 24 November – 18 December 2016
Andrew Demirjian (USA), Erno Pystynen (FIN), Heini Aho (FIN)
, Henrik Mikander (FIN), Jack Balance (FIN), Jenny Mild (FIN)
, Mark Andreas (GER/USA),
Olli Suorlahti/Olegtron* (FIN), Sebastian Ziegler (GER/USA/FIN), Stas Bags (RUS)
, Thomas Westphal (GER/FIN)
Visiting artists in 2016: Daniel Neubacher (GER) Sha Feng (USA)
VIDEOKAFFE is an artist collective whose eleven members are from Germany, Finland, the United States and Russia. It has collaborated in various combinations since 2011.
The members of VIDEOKAFFE represent various skills: carpenters, sculptors, machine constructors, video artists and producers, audio designers, computer experts, art educators, and a watchmaker. This is one of the impetuses of their collaboration. In creating works, exhibitions and projects of a new kind, the members learn from one another and rely on each other’s special areas of talent and competence.
VIDEOKAFFE develops moving and functioning works of sculpture, combining high and low technologies, recycled materials, computer programming, work in wood and metal, and the presentation of results as performances. In doing so, VIDEOKAFFE explores the relationships that emerge between the following pairs of opposites among others: material – immaterial, tactile – information flow, sensory – knowledge based, sculpture – idea.
The works seek to provide their viewers with a comprehensive experience extending between various disciplines, areas of the arts and the concrete.
When the exhibition opens at Galerie Anhava, there will be several multidisciplinary pieces on show. Part of the gallery will be set apart as a laboratory, where VIDEOKAFFE will construct new works during the course of the exhibition. Visitors can follow the work, engage in conversations with members of the group, and possibly even take part in the work itself. VIDEOKAFFE’s method emphasizes process, community and the sharing of experience and knowledge.
Towards the end of the exhibition, on 15 December, the new works will be presented as a performance at the Finissage event.
The extremely fast recent development of technology poses new pressures and tensions for human mental capacities. VIDEOKAFFE seeks to respond to this challenge by combining in its art the most recent with the traditional and the immaterial with the tangible.
– Ilona Anhava
The video shows a collaboration work between the members of videokaffe. www.videokaffe.com It was filmed by the many of the members and edit by, Clément Beraud (F)
• Artist Bio •
Sebastian is an organizer who is seeking to increase the ability of himself and others to be surprised. He has worked mainly with performance, video, and interactive sculptures. His interest lays in the everyday magic that surrounds us. He is currently living and working in Turku, Finland and is part of Arte ry, Muu ry, BBK- Bremen, and is the founder of the new media art collective Videokaffe.
Violeta Mora • Impossible to Find Something Looking • 8 minutes 30 seconds
• Synopsis •
The endless search, the places at a distance, the impossibility. A toy telescope and a diary that accumulates fragments. Memories that are not written anywhere reappear. Everything is a child's game.
• Artist Bio •
Violeta Mora (Central America, 1990) Filmmaker and visual artist. She began to approach cinema as a way of understanding the past and the sensations of everyday life. Has directed some experimental and documentary shortfilms. She also explores the possibilities of embroidery through the project Araña Lunática. Her work has been exposed and projected in different museums and film festivals of Central America, Mexico, Spain, England and Holland.
Leah Beeferman • The Elements • 34 minutes
• Synopsis •
I shot "The Elements" during my third visit to Kilpisjärvi, northern Finland, in June 2019 - when the sun doesn’t set. The video, with voiceover text I wrote and recorded, explores what it means to observe and measure a landscape. What is an observation, and what does it mean to measure? “The Elements” builds an experience of Kilpisjärvi from several juxtapositions: layering images, offering multiple views of the landscape at once; contrasting poetic language with numerical or scientific description; and considering Kilpisjärvi’s wind and weather alongside data about wind and weather in outer space. How do we express what we measure — in images, numbers, or words? And what is an image, when all experiences — regardless of their source — end up as pictures in our minds?
• Artist Bio •
Leah Beeferman works with photography, video, digital drawing, text, and sound, asking what it means to observe — or measure — a landscape. She has had solo exhibitions at Rawson Projects, New York; Arcade on Stadium, Utah; and Sorbus, Helsinki. Recent group exhibitions include SOLU, Finland; Fiskars Village Biennial, Finland; Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland.
Beeferman has participated in many international residencies and her work has been discussed in a variety of publications. She published an artist book, Triple Point, with Lodret Vandret, Copenhagen. She received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Finland (2016-17) and is now based in Providence, where she is an Adjunct Lecturer at Brown University and a Critic at RISD.
Teja Miholič • So That Humanity Can Survive • 6 min 32 seconds
• Synopsis •
Two girls play detectives and discover a real serial killer.
• Artist Bio •
Teja Miholič (1993) graduated in Photography from the Higher School of Applied Sciences in Ljubljana and finished her master studies of Film and Audiovisual Media at École Nationale Supérieure de L’audiovisuel in Toulouse, France. She works in the fields of film, photography and digital art. Her films were presented in the festivals in Slovenia and abroad. She exhibited in multiple Slovenian galleries, such as MSUM, Galerija Fotografija, Dobra Vaga, etc. She is writing photobook reviews for a theoretical photography magazine Membrana.