Arthub Favorite: Week 45
The art season is not only coming to Shanghai this November, but a world of creativity will be blossoming in Geneva on Wednesday, November 9. Arthub is excited to announce the opening of Biennale de l’image en Mouvement (Biennale of Moving Image), organized by the Centre D’Art Contemporain.
If you happen to be in Geneva, make sure to participate in the biennale’s array of events, including: screenings, performances, talks, and premieres (taking place from 11/9–11/13). For a full schedule, please check out BMI’s program (available in French).
Artists Hicham Berrada, Phoebe Boswell and Kerry Tribe will be presenting works at the 2016 Biennale of Moving Image. On the occasion of their presentations in-depth interviews have been conducted to explore the concepts behind these projects.
1) Humans are vectors—they don’t create, but merely rearrange the “already existing.” So the artist can only position himself as an instigator or catalyst, an “energy operator.” Starting from this premise, Hicham Berrada talks to Ralph Rugoff about reactions, explosions and Boom, the project he will soon be presenting in Geneva.
Click here to read Berrada and Rugoff’s conversation.
2) Language, Kenya’s colonial past, the contradictions between the freedom of not feeling bound to a nation-state—nor to a race or a religion—and the idea of “home” are the elements at the heart of Phoebe Boswell‘s research. Boswell talks to Ndinda Kioko about Mutumia—in the artist’s mother tongue, the general term for “woman,” which loosely translates as “the one whose lips are sealed.” In this immersive multimedia installation, sequences of images, animations and sounds form a salute to women in African history who have used their bodies in direct acts of resistance in conflicts where they have not been permitted to use their voices.
Click here to read Boswell and Kioko’s conversation.
3) Lastly—though only in terms of alphabetical order—Kerry Tribe converses with Yann Chateigné about Exquisite Corpse, a 51-minute installation that follows the 51-mile Los Angeles River from its source in the San Fernando Valley, northeast of the city, to its mouth in the Pacific Ocean. Different ideas converge in this video, which tells us of the resilience of life where there is water, the effect of gentrification in transforming the area, and the activities that constantly flow around it, like the river itself, as well as its nature and life, and its communities.
Click here to read Tribe and Chateigné’s conversation.
On November 9 from 14:00-16:00, join the three aforementioned artists, in addition to Evangelia Kranioti and Boris Mitic, for a roundtable discussion. Geographies will be moderated by Doreen Mende, curator, theorist and professor at HEAD Genève, and Jean Perret, Director of the cinema department at HEAD Genève.