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Opening reception:
Friday, November 5, 2004, 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM -
FREE!
On November 5, three days after the
elections, Freewaves invites you to celebrate or mourn together.
The festival will turn the
MOCA Geffen Contemporary into a kaleidoscope of video feedback
with 30 simultaneous projections and installations, each presenting
an artist’s interpretation of a distressed world. Are they
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Weekend:
#1: Nov 5-7
#2: Nov 12-14
#3: Nov 20
#4: Nov 27
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Curated by Pooja Sood
Video Art from India and Pakistan
November 5-7, 2004, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The events following 9/11 have had a profound effect around the
globe. Responses by South Asian artists to the war waged by President
Bush in Iraq, have been unanimously angry, critical and confrontational.
Works range from overtly political about coercive potential of
information streams to deeply personal, performative videos about
violence, myths and rituals.
Featuring works by: Bani Abidi, Sheba
Chhacchi, Subba Ghosh, Subodh
Gupta, Ranbir Kaleka, Aisha Khalid, Ein Lall, Monali Meher, Rashid
Rana and Kiran Subbaiah
Horne Massive Sound System by Matt Hope
DJ Derek Rath (Cosmic Barrio)
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Curated by Miguel Petchkovsky Morais with
Jeffrey Normile
Video Art from Africa
November 5-7, 2004, 11:00
AM - 5:00 PM
As the works in this program attest, Africa is not a statistic of human conflict,
generating social instability as a measure of civilization. Africa knows about
paradise and the wounds of loss. Africa is the brunt of western indifference,
failing to attract the attention of the dossiers of globalization, but as Aimé Cessaire
said: It is when people are involved in the active work of destroying an inhibitive
social structure and building a new one that they begin to see themselves. They
are born again.
The artists are exploring visual vocabularies, investigating their own desires
and fears, identities and cultural contradictions, body and religion, ethics
and aesthetics.
Featuring works by artists: Abdelatif
Benfaidoul, Berry
Bickle, Andries Botha, Isaac
Carlos, Rehab
Elsadek, Zen Marie, Tracey
Rose and Abdelaziz Taleb |
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Selected by LA Freewaves
Video projections
November 5-7, 2004, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The camera lens does not merely observe; it can also seduce or repel. These various
modes are presented as a sequence of paradoxes around the gallery — ricocheting,
sparking, refuting, reinforcing or complementing on subjects spanning the sumptuous
to the sickening, the romantic to the unraveling.
Featuring works by: Bull.Miletic, Paul
Emmanuel, Jeanne C. Finley & John Muse, Louis
Hock, Bonita Makuch, NomIg., Chris
Oakley, Jim Skuldt, Kerry
Tribe, Ma Yongfeng, and (on opening night only): Ben
Shaffer and Tenzin Wangchuk |
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