VIDEO LINKS BRAZIL
An Anthology of Brazilian Video Art, 1981-2005
Friday 23 March - Sunday 25 March 2007
Tate Modern, London
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/videolinksbrazilananthologyofbrazilianvideoart19812005.htm
Video Brazil is a survey of the experimental single-channel video scene in Brazil. Starting with work from the 1980s, this three-part programme brings together an emblematic selection of tapes by some of the country's key video artists and includes both early and emerging work. The programme offers a diachronic perspective on the trajectory of the artistic, critical and factual use of video technology in Brazil.
Influenced by conceptualism, Tropicalia, the revolutionary project of Cinema Novo, televisual syntax and forms of popular culture, Brazilian artists have incorporated video into their practice since the 1970s, when a handful of multi-disciplinary figures assimilated the nascent media. But it was in the 1980s, with wider availability of video cameras and within the context of a new democratic socio-political conjuncture created by the end of the military government, that video technology took root in the cultural and artistic arenas.
As in other countries, video was embraced in Brazil for its immediacy, availability, potential as a community tool for social change and affordability for artistic exploration. As a hybrid medium, it has been appropriated for performance-based works, media critique, social portraiture, poetic, plastic and narrative experiments. With these facts in mind, this series has been designed as a point of intersection where these electronic texts can converge, reflect on each other and instigate fresh readings.
Curated by Antonio Pasolini.
Presented with support from Arts Council England and The Embassy of Brazil in London
Programme 1: Early Work
Friday 23 March 2007, 19.00
Programme duration 75 min
Introduction by the curator and presentation by Simone Michelin, artist, researcher at teacher at UFRJ (Federal University, Rio de Janeiro)
Focusing mainly on the work of the 1980s 'independents', this programme includes key videos by groups such as TVDO and TV Viva alongside more personal works and Vincent Carelli's project with native tribes. These pieces reflect the post-military democratic conjuncture in Brazil and the vibrant cultural scene it spawned.
Programme 2: Pause and Reflect
Saturday 24 March 2007, 19.00
Programme duration 75 min
Introduction by the curator and presentation by Simone Michelin, artist, researcher at teacher at UFRJ (Federal University, Rio de Janeiro)
This eclectic programme of works by established and emerging artists who explores body-centred video, authorial tapes, visual poetry, media, social and historical experiments, as well as works that disrupt the traditional cause-and-effect narrative binary. In their own way, these pieces aim at engaging the viewer in reflection.
Programme 3: Documentary
Sunday 25 March 2007, 15.00
Programme duration 85 min
Introduction by Antonio Pasolini, curator of the show
This programme comprises documentaries that break social barriers, establish new dialogues and try to reveal Brazil's elusive character. From the streets of Sao Paulo to the tribes in the outback, these tapes explore the electronic medium's potential to articulate truth, or something like it.
all screenings at :
Starr Auditorium
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Nearest Tube: Southwark / London Bridge / Blackfriars
Tickets to all screenings 5, booking recommended
Box Office: 020 7887 8888
www.tate.org.uk
