REPAIR / Miami New Media Festival, Amsterdam 2023-2024

 

My video work “ the HEALING" will presented at:

REPAIR / Miami New Media Festival, Amsterdam 2023-2024

26.04.24 – 28.04.24 - Opening 26.04.24, 17.00 h

WGKunst

Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaan Straat 28, (WG Terrein), 1054 SP Amsterdam, Netherlands

From April 26 to 28, the WGKunst headquarters (WG Terrein) will present the 2nd edition of the Miami New Media Festival Amsterdam with 18 video art proposals: five works selected through the recent call, five works by invited artists, and nine works from the international selection of the "Global Healing" edition (2023)..

From the international selection, the following artist will be present: María Korporal (DE), Johannes Christopher Gerard (NL), Fran Orallo (SP), Sara Bonaventura & Gianmarco Leprozo (IT), Alydia Wever & Ryan Oduber (AW/NL), Pedro Morales (USA/VZL), Laura Cabrera & Sira Cabrera (SP), Matteo Campulla (IT), and Steven Baboun (HAT) with RANTRE.

The Miami New Media Festival is a public art platform that has been promoting artistic creation through technology and new media for 20 years. MNMF Amsterdam's coordinator: Hugo Palmar

WHAT NOW?

 A photographic work of mine entitled “Welcome Emptiness, Welcome Loneliness” from one of my Berlin portfolios is published in the book WHAT NOW?

WHAT NOW? ,

Author Kat Mahale.

First published in the UK in 2024 by CMF – Feel More Creative, Esher, Surrey, UK

A collection of photographic works and interviews about and from the pandemic, highlighting how our creativity serves as a vital and powerful force, guiding us through challenging times. In the broadest sense, the series of interviews and photographic works is about how creativity helped survive the lockdown, redefining it as a time from which we can learn and a catalyst to change the way how we respond to difficult times in our lives.

https://www.feelmorecreative.org/whatnow

NUDO, Barcelonas annual poetry festival

The Spanish version of my video poem Night, Street, Lantern, Pharmacy - La Noche, La Calle, El Farol, La Farmacia – Poet: Aleksander Blok / Voice: Alena Antonowa / Performance: theater groep STAGE DFT / Music: Podington Bear will be presentedat Proyección Mostra de Videopoesia V2 VERSOS&VISUALS. The projection is part of

NUDO, Barcelonas annual unleashed poetry festival (07.04-14.04.24)

Screening 13 April 2024, starting 16:00 h

Centre civic Pati Llimona (Gòtic)

Salón de actos

Carrer del Regomir, 3, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

Annual poetic meeting in Barcelona that celebrates the unexpected links between beings and things, between ideas and forms. 1/3 NUDO Barcelona: April 7-14, 2024

About the work:

2017, 4:50 min

Link English Version: https://vimeo.com/224809432

Interpretation and reflection of the poem Night, Street, Lantern, Pharmacy by the Russian poet Aleksandr Blok . It was written in October 1912 and it is one of my favourite poems by Blok. The video is as well an experiment for to combine two different ways and styles of interpretation into one film. With urban scenery of St.Petersburg at night and the metaphoric and abstract interpretation of poem by the theatre group STAGE DFT (St.Petersburg, Russia). At the same time it´s a homage to St.Petersburg. The idea for a visual interpretation I got during a streetcar ride through St. Petersburg late a night. Aleksandr Blok (Александр Блок) (1880-1921) was the foremost of the Russian Symbolists, who changed the face of Russian letters from the late 1890s through until the Russian Revolution, leading Russian literature into a ‘Silver Age’ after the great works of the previous century. Even the poem is very short it is not easy to translate into another language. There are various English translation which differ quite a lot from each other . So I tried to make a visual interpretation of it.

Night, street, lantern, pharmacy,

a meaningless and dull light

Even if you live another quarter of a century

All will remain the same. There is no exit.

You´ll die - then you´ll begin all over again

Night, the canal´s rippled icy surface

pharmacy, street, lantern 

obsceno 1st edition - World Premiere

 My video work “all the sadness to be / Toda la tristeza por ser” with Alex Mars and Anna Grabowska is celebrating its world premiere in Puebla, Mexico at 1st Edition of

“obsceno”

dark arts meet

29 & 30 March 2024

Opening 29 March at 19:00 h

3 sur#508, Centro Historico, La Casona de los Santos, Puebla, Mexico

obsceno is an international meeting of graphic, plastic, visual arts, poetry, art in movement and music. Which seeks to give space and make counter cultural expressions visible that take place from the viscera of the contemporary city.

We know that we contain a universe of emotions, and that, within this eclipse of sensations coexist those that are condemned as shameful, indecent, impure, unspeakable, those that shake our innermost being, which weigh, worry, which are exposed as negative due to to a series of inherited irrational beliefs, cultural thoughts rooted and a manipulated context, but that, even if we try to ignore it, live inherently in us and are part of the spectrum of the human experience.

https://vimeo.com/johannesgerard/allthesadness?share=copy

UNITY - Felt Sense gallery - THE PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO SHOW

 

My work photographic “Together” is presented at

UNITY - a 'Felt Sense' gallery

THE PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO SHOW

Sat 16.03.2024 to Tue 19.03.2024 Open daily 10;00 am to 5:00 pm

The NEC, Birmingham, UK

Experience a new and exciting perspective to photography that challenges and redefines how we experience images.What makes curator Kat Mahale's exhibitions UNITY, different is that images are selected based on the strength of their emotional responses.

"PHOTOSYNTHESIS:2023Faliro" on tour

 "PHOTOSYNTHESIS:2023Faliro" on tour

The cycle that opened in August 2023 concludes in March 2024 with a
presentation of the exhibition at the CULTURAL CENTER OF
DIONYSOS COMMUNITY, Nikolaou Plastira 50, 14576 Athens, Greece.
The exhibition will be open from 13:00 to 17:00 on Saturday, March 2^nd and Sunday, March 3rd., 2024

My image “a crossing ferry” part in the exhibition

Brushing Up My Etsy Shops

 After a few months it was time to brush my two Etsy shops. I have added new articles. Photography works featuring predominantly colorful and vibrant floral motifs and a range of conceptual and contemporary prints. However, most works can now be purchased by directly downloading the motif. The advantage is that you can decide for yourself which paper you want to print on and in which size. Another benefit is saving on postage, which has become ridiculously expensive. This way it is also a little more environmentally friendly 

Please feel free to take a look around my shops

Shop with photography and graphic works 

https://www.etsy.com/nl/shop/jgvisualprojects

Shop with nude and erotic photography

https://www.etsy.com/nl/shop/eroserotic