Welcome to ET4U's newsletter where you can read about the video and performance project MEETINGS and what happens during the MEETINGS Festival 1.-10. September 2017.
What is MEETINGS?
MEETINGS is a video and performance project taking place in the 7 municipalities (Herning, Lemvig, Struer, Holstebro, Ringkøbing-Skjern, Ikast-Brande og Skive) included in the Cultural Collaboration in Central and West Jutland in 2016-2019.
During the 4-year period, we invite international contemporary artists for shorter or longer residences in the Central and West Jutland area to produce a number of videos and performances dealing with, taking place in, and produced in collaboration with the Central and West Jutland area - an artistic look at the area seen from the outside. The project will be a manifestation and development of the area's identity through the production and presentation of art works created by artists in collaboration with the area.
The project will have 2 festivals - 1.-10. September 2017 and 30. August - 8. September 2019 – where we will show the produced works among other things. We will also seek to exchange and show the produced works elsewhere.
The association ET4U in collaboration with a wide variety of other associations and institutions organizes MEETINGS. The Culture Agreement for Central and West Jutland 2015-2018 (The Ministry of Culture), Central Denmark Region, European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017, Lemvig Municipality, The Obel Family Foundation and The Danish Arts Foundation support MEETINGS.
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TIME, SITE & LORE
TIME, SITE & LORE is an OFF ROAD collaboration between 4 culture-historical museums, 5 Central and West Jutland localities, 5 international artists and ET4U about an artistic interpretation of selected museum objects or stories - contemporary art at the intersection of museological knowledge and local lore.
Five artists have been on a short research trip to Central and West Jutland in October 2016 and based on this they have each created a video on a selected museum piece. The video works are shown at the respective museums during the OFF ROAD Festival 11. April to 6. May 2017, and during the video and performance festival MEETINGS 1.-10. September the videos will be shown both on the sites from which the museum objects originate, and again at the museums.
See interview (15 min.) with the five participating artists here
Here's what OFF ROAD is and where and when you can meet TIME, SITE & LORE during the OFF ROAD Festival
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Video project in Staby
The two French artists Anne Loubet and Sophie-Charlotte Gautier from Marseille have been on two residencies in Staby in 2016, a couple of weeks in June and a couple of weeks in November. They were staying with two different families and felt very welcome in Staby. It was two very intensive residencies where they went duck hunting and deer hunting with some of the locals, went for a night orienteering with Husby Efterskole (continuation school) among lots of other things. They tried to get a broad-spectred impression of Staby and they returned with piles of video material that they are now editing into a new video work. This video work will be shown for the first time in Staby during the MEETINGS Festival 1.-10. September 2017.
See more about Anne and Sophie-Charlotte's work and stay in Staby here
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Open Call for Works for Topophilia Exhibition
Topophilia is a group exhibition that addresses different aspects of domestic life from different parts of the world through video and installation. Topophilia will take place in the uninhabited farmhouse Nørager in Nees (Lemvig Municipality), Denmark, as part of the MEETINGS Festival 1.-10. September 2017.
Deadline for the open call: March 31st, 2017
Mediums: film, video, moving image, animation, installation, or new media
Curated by Amanda KM & Eto Otitigbe
Read more and download application form here
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What happens during the MEETINGS Festival 1.-10. September 2017?
For the festival 1.-10. September 2017 the following new works produced specifically for MEETINGS based on the artists' residency in Central and West Jutland 2016 and 2017 will be shown:
A video work in Staby by Anne Loubet (France) and Sophie-Charlotte Gautier (France).
A performance work in Nees-Skalstrup by Leena Kela (Finland) and Jean-Léon Pallandre (France).
A video work in Lemvig by Jette Ellgaard (DK) and Amanda Kerdahi (Egypt).
A performance work in Thyborøn by Molly Haslund (DK) and Will Owen (USA).
Five video works in the project TIME, SITE & LORE by Gigi Scaria (India), Bassem Yousri (Egypt), Sadik Kwaish Al Fraji (Iraq / Netherlands), Yuval Yairi (Israel), Gunilla Josephson (Canada / Sweden). TIME, SITE & LORE works will be shown in the following locations during the festival: The Open Air Museum Hjerl Hede, Struer Museum, Fur Fossils 55 million years, Lemvig Museum, Sdr. Lyngvig, Humlum, Oddesund Nord, Stenøre - Fur Harbour and Rom.
In addition to the above-mentioned new works, the festival will show a number of already produced works, curated by: Leena Kela (Finland), Gigi Scaria (India), Belén Conesa (Spain), Amanda Kerdahi (Egypt), Eto Otitigbe (Nigeria/USA) and Klavs Weiss (DK).
Admission is free to all the video and performance presentations during the MEETINGS festival (except the video presentations at the museums in the TIME, SITE & LORE project, where normal museum admission is paid), and a program and subsequently a catalog will be published in both print and a web version.
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Open symposium at Skærum Mølle 31. August – 4. september 2017
During the festival there will be an open symposium at Skærum Mølle 31. August – 4. September 2017, attended by all the artists who have produced new works for MEETINGS.
During the symposium, we will go around and see all the festival's video and performance works in the daytime, and in the evenings, there will be video screenings and/or artist talks. We set the stage for the symposium working as a networking event for artists, curators, villagers and anyone interested. Everybody is welcome to attend the free evening events. Program will follow.
Price for room and board at Skærum Mølle during the symposium is 2840 DKK per person. Call Karen Havskov Jensen on tel. +45-2065 1830 for more information or send an email to karenhavskov(at)yahoo.dk
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