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PRESS RELEASE Video Art Miden travels to Espacio Enter, Tenerife
Miden travels to Espacio Enter festival, Tenerife, presenting 2 videoart programs that complete each other, both exploring borders & isolation in a globalized world. Espacio Enter is taking place at TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes), 12-18 of December, 2016. More info and the complete program of Espacio Enter 2016: www.espacioenter.net Total duration: 67 min
The world is not enough // curated by Gioula Papadopoulou 37min Getting ready for an invisible enemy that never comes. Secret outlaw inhabitants in the woods. Practicing for a war against cardboard copies of yourself. A borderline, built and destroyed. A reconstruction war site in the form of a “Noncity”. A house and a flying iceberg as a metaphor of displacement. A large chewing mouth that can shallow you in the middle of an empty and quiet local street. Creating an atmosphere of fear & isolation, these artworks make us wonder about our relations to the other, the fear of the other, if there is a real enemy and, finally, who (or better yet “what”) the real enemy is. 1. Kristina Paustian, Positions, Germany 2016, 10.20
2. Jan Brand, Rosenthal, Germany 2009, 6.04
3. Shahar Marcus, 1,2,3 Herring, Israel 2011, 2.27
4. Arnaud Brihay, Granica Grenze, German-Polish border 2013, 8.30
5. Hanna Ben-Haim Yulzari, Noncity, Israel 2009, 3.22
6. Mauricio Saenz, Casa iceberg, Mexico 2015, 3.10
7. Mattias Härenstam, Closed Circuit (In the middle of Sweden), Sweden/Germany 2011, 3.01
Aperture // curated by Margarita Stavraki 30min How the focus of attention, creates and discovers places with common characteristics and then isolates them from everything else. A dangerous game of communication and noncommunication in a rich universe! 1. Carla Chan, When a circle meets the sky – the cold, Germany 2016, 3.50
2. Jem Raid, The story of the industrial Leotard, UK 2016, 5.00
3. Mario Santamaria, Palace of Versailles 1min 8s. Running Through the Museum, Spain 2013,
1.18
4. Teymur Daimi, Window, Azerbaijan 2015, 11.22
5. Przemek Wegrzyn, Security Measures, Poland 2014, 5.55
6. Samer Ghorayeb, From My Window, Lebanon 2012, 2.31
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One of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece, Festival Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005 in Kalamata, it seeks to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research. Through collaborations and exhanges with major international festivals and organizations, it has been recognized as one of the most successful and interesting video art platforms internationally and as an important cultural exchange point for Greek and international video art. It also provides an alternative meeting point for emerging and established artists and a communication hub between artists, organizations, festivals and art spaces around the world. (*Miden means “zero� in Greek) Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou & Margarita Stavraki Info: www.festivalmiden.gr || www.facebook.com/festivalmiden e-mail: festivalmiden@gmail.com