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Tonight: optical devices on SESCTV

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Southern Panoramas features several pieces of work that focus on the means of gathering and perceiving image. In addition to the cultural issues addressed, such as the revival and/or dissemination of image production modes, there is a clear formal interest in these poetics – which have the power to renew our sight, despite the advanced stage of technological evolution of the means of production and their theoretical understanding. In some of the works, the very simplicity of resources causes us to direct our attention to visual phenomena and how their manipulation questions reality. Other works suggest displacements in time or physical positioning that either give way to cultural readings or subvert the senses.

Southern Panoramas: optical devices is the seventh program of Videobrasil on SESCTV series. Tonight, at 10:00 PM. Syntonize SESCTV: Channel 3, Sky TV. In the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro: Channel 137, NET Digital TV | Channel 28, Oi TV. Access here more information on Videobrasil on TV and the complete schedule.

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Interventions spread Eliasson’s art throughout São Paulo

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Olafur Eliasson has spread bicycles with mirrored discs instead of wheels across ten different spots in the city, such as the University of São Paulo’s School of Architecture and Urbanism, Paulista Ave., the Liberdade neighborhood, Oscar Freire St. (Jardins neighborhood), and Xavier de Toledo St. (downtown). Aside from the symbolic issues that the work raises, the resulting intervention is at once subtle, due to the natural character of the presence of these vehicles in the urban environs, and subversive, as it operates an enticing visual game that partially merges the bikes into the locality and reinvents the way we look at these surroundings. Eliasson had executed this piece, entitled Your new bike, in previous shows in places like Berlin (where the project began) and Kanazawa (Japan), in 2010, reinstating the profound dialogue that his exhibits maintain with the spatial and urban contexts in which they are inserted. Pictures of these bicycles, taken by Karim Aïnouz, will be a part of the book Olafur Eliasson – Your Body of Work, dedicated to the namesake show and published by Videobrasil and Edições SESC in partnership with the artist’s studio.

Photos below: Everton Ballardin/Videobrasil




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Innerscapes on SESCTV: cartographies of the individual and culture

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Though society and its political complexity is a recurrent theme in current art production, so is the intimate sphere of this reality. It may at times be investigated from the perspective of the different impacts exerted on it by collectivity, thus highlighting what society is made of, and in other cases it may emerge as an emotional demand that finds a translation. Many of Southern Panoramas’ selected artworks explore this universe, charting cartographies of affection, constructions capable of revealing ways in which art allows us to elaborate and investigate human emotions.
Southern Panoramas: cartographies of afection is the title of the next Videobrasil on TV program, aired 31st October at 10:00 PM by SESCTV.
Below, SESCTV’s video-pills and reproductions provide a sample of this thematic section. The website section Works displays more information on them.

E.S. Mayorga (Mexico/Germany, 1975)
The apparition of our ill-fated love, 2010 | Three channel video installation

Gianfranco Foschino (Chile, 1983)
Home, 2009 | Video, 6’08”, loop

HeeWon Lee (South Corea/France, 1978)
Phone tapping, 2009 | Video, 10’20”, loop

Natasha Mendonca (India, 1978)
Jan Villa, 2010 | Video, 21’12”

Taryn Takahashi (Peru/England, 1979)
Ensemble, 2010 | Video, 2’05’’, loop

Ana Prata (Brazil-MG, 1980)
Três cenas, 2010 | Video, 10’37”, loop

Bakary Diallo (Mali/France, 1979)
Les feuilles d’un temps, 2010 | Video, 4’36”, loop

Dan Boord (USA, 1951), Luis Valdovino (Argentina/USA, 1961)
Tree of forgetting, 2009 | Video, 8’51”

Bogdan Perzynski (Poland/USA, 1954)
A family and friends event, 2010 | Video, 5’07”, loop

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17th Festival at Universes in Universe

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Universes in Universe, a German web portal dedicated to the visual arts from the Americas, Africa and Asia, is a partner of Videobrasil in the online diffusion of the 17th Festival. In the website area dedicated to the show, there are information in three languages (English, Spanish and German) and exclusive contents, such as an interview with the general curator Solange Farkas. Gerhard Haupt and Pat Binder, creators of the portal, were in São Paulo during the opening of the Festival and also included a photographic tour of the exhibitions Southern Panoramas and Olafur Eliasson – Your body of work. Access Videobrasil at Universes in Universe.

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Southern Panoramas: political landscapes,
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Just as the curatorial prerogatives of major recent shows – such as the latest biennials of São Paulo, Sharjah, Istanbul, the Mercosur, and Lyon –, many works in Southern Panoramas provide a clear picture of the present moment, in which art and politics take on profound mutual implications. Be it from a more direct perspective, in which power and national identity issues take centerstage, or from an angle in which poetics prevail with regard to matters such as cultural belonging and social insertion, the political aspect of human reality is one of the strongest traits of the production featured. In the case of Southern Panoramas, this realm is further highlighted by the particular interest of artists in exploring the subject in the light of issues that involve the geopolitical area at hand.

Southern Panoramas: political landscapes is the title of the next Videobrasil on TV program, aired 24th October at 10:00 PM by SESCTV.

Watch below in video-pills produced by SESCTV fragments of some of those works. And also learn more about them at the Works section.

Bouchra Khalili (Morocco/France, 1975)
The mapping journey project, 2010 | Five-channel video installation

Edwin Sanchez (Colombia/Brazil, 1976)
Crossing points, 2010 | Four-channel video installation, scaffold, lamps

Gisela Motta, Leandro Lima (Brazil-SP, 1976)
Plan “y”, 2010 | Two-channel video installation

Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil-AL, 1982)
Projeto Pacífico, 2010 | Video, 12’35”, map, collages, 500 x 85 cm each

Regina Parra (Brazil-SP, 1981)
As pérolas, como te escrevi, 2011 | Four-channel vídeo installation

Roberto Winter (Brazil-SP, 1983)
Ensaio sobre liberdade, 2010 | Black paint on wall, black atomic brush, steel wire, 1 sq m

Vinicius Duarte (Brazil-SP/England, 1983)
La physique generale, 2010 | Video, 25’57”