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> Data: 03 maggio 2008 16:27:52 GMT+02:00
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> Oggetto: VideoArtWorld Bulletin> LOOP 2008
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> May. 06 2008
> INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL & FAIR OF VIDEOART
>
> LOOP 08
> May. 06 2008 - May. 18 2008
>
> With works from all five continents, the sixth edition of LOOP  
> transforms Barcelona into an enormous showcase for international  
> videoart.
> The LOOP�08 FAIR presents 16 new, internationally renowned  
> galleries.
>
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> Barcelona
> +(34) 93 215 5260
> www.loop-barcelona.com
>
> With works from all five continents, the sixth edition of LOOP  
> transforms Barcelona into an enormous showcase for international  
> videoart.
>
> LOOP, which began with the aim of resolving the needs of the  
> different agents involved in the world of videoart, has established  
> itself as a platform and an annual meeting point for everyone who  
> is directly or indirectly involved in the artistic processes of  
> experimental and independent video.
>
> The LOOP network, which has grown from 48 to 61 participating  
> countries is set to reactivate in over 100 venues that range from  
> institutions like the CCCB, the Fundació Miró and thePavelló Mies  
> van der Rohe to restaurants and small business, all exhibiting the  
> latest in videoart. This year, LOOP will present the work of over  
> 800 artists, including highlights such asEija-Liisa Ahtila,  
> Deimantas Narkevicius, Jia Zhang-Ke and Mark Wallinger, among others.
>
> Festival LOOP (May 6 - 18)
> The festival includes work from all five continents, and has made a  
> qualitative leap thanks to the increased presence of curated  
> programs, internationally acclaimed collections and 22 prestigious  
> universities from 14 countries that have designed programs  
> especially for LOOP.
>
> Special highlights include the program "For Your Eyes Only",  
> exhibited in the Fundació Suñol and curated by Hilde Teerlinck,  
> with works recently acquired by the Frac Nord-Pas de Calais,  
> Dunkerque (France), which includes leading artists like Deimantas  
> Narkevicius (Lithuania, 1964). A program from the Col·lecció Cal  
> Cego d’Art Contemporani, curated by its artistic director Montse  
> Badia, will also be presented especially for LOOP.
>
> The festival will also exclusively show the collection of the Irish  
> Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin at the Fundació Joan Miró. The  
> program curated by its director Enrique Juncosa includes work by  
> the prestigious video artist Willie Doherty (Derry, Ireland, 1959),  
> among others.
>
> The Fundació Mies van der Rohe will show “Shenzhen–The Twin  
> Cities / Hong Kong–The Twin Cities City of Expiration and  
> Regeneration”, two documentaries by the Chinese filmmaker Jia  
> Zhang-Ke (Shanxi, 1970), who was the recipient of the Golden Lion  
> award at the 2006 Venice International Film Festival.
>
> LOOP'08, together with the Instituto Cervantes, will present the  
> vision:a in Spain for the first time. This program is an exhibition  
> of works by twelve Spanish and Latin American video artists that  
> has been shown in various Instituto Cervantes centres around the  
> world.
>
> And for the first time in Barcelona, the Casablanca-Kaplan cinemas  
> will present “Cinematic Works”, the title given to a compilation  
> of the most acclaimed video installations by the prestigious  
> Finnish video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila.
>
> LOOP Diverse
> To coincide with the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the  
> Festival will present the LOOP DIVERSE program. Restaurants,  
> hairdressers, and all kinds of businesses run by Barcelona’s  
> communities of foreigners, will become cultural embassies by  
> showing videoart created in their home countries. The communities  
> participating in this edition will be: Argentinean, Bolivian,  
> Brazilian, Chilean, Chinese, Columbian, Dominican, Ecuadorian,  
> English French, German, Italian, Moroccan, Pakistani, Peruvian, and  
> Filipino.
>
> LOOP FAIR’08 (May 8 – 10)
> The videoart Fair, which will be held at the Hotel Catalonia  
> Ramblas de Barcelona, will present over 40 highly prestigious  
> international galleries. In keeping with the traditional LOOP Fair  
> structure, each gallery will have one of the hotel’s rooms in  
> which to present a video and artist of their choice to  
> professionals and the general public.
>
> Some of the leading galleries participating in LOOP'08 for the  
> first time include Jocelyn Wolff and Gb Agency (Paris, France) and  
> Mummery + Schnelle (London, UK). The high level of international  
> participation is confirmed by the presence of prestigious galleries  
> from 14 different countries and the 29 nationalities of their 44  
> participating artists.
>
> Talks and Media Lounge
> Under the title “The Frontiers of Videoart”, the talks and round  
> tables in this edition will discuss the limits between videoart and  
> electronic art. For this purpose, LOOP has invited experts such as  
> Barbara London (MoMA, New York), Pip Laurenson (Tate Modern,  
> London), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery, London),  
> Christopher Eamon (Kramlich Collection, San Francisco), Erich  
> Berger (LABoral, Gijón) and Caroline Bourgeois (Frac Ile de  
> France), among others.
>
> The Hotel Catalonia Ramblas will also host a new space called the  
> Media Lounge on May 8 and 9 that will be open to the public, and  
> bring together leading video distributors, specialist magazines,  
> Internet platforms, universities and videoart festivals from around  
> the world.
>
> LOOP’08 Press Department:
> Rosa Raduà & Estefania R. Tozzi: press at loop-barcelona.com
> T. 93 215 52 60 // www.loop-barcelona.com
> www.youtube.com/LOOPFESTIVAL
> Images: www.loop-videoart.com/press
>