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<div><b>VIDEONALE.16 Call for Entries</b></div>
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<div>The 16th Videonale - Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts
will run from February 17 – April 2, 2017.</div>
<div>VIDEONALE.16 invites competition entries from around the world
on the theme “PERFORM!”. The competition is open to all forms of
moving image-based artworks (including single and multi-channel
video and video installations). We also welcome performance and
virtual reality projects.</div>
<div>Entries selected by our international jury of experts will be
presented at the VIDEONALE.16 exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.</div>
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<div><b>The deadline for entries is 4<sup>th</sup> July 2016.<br>
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You can find further information, as well as the entry forms, at <a
href="http://phplist.televisor.de//lt.php?id=Kh0ECQ9OAA1NAQZZCA8">v16.videonale.org</a></div>
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<div>THEME</div>
<div>#Performance#Interaction#ExpandedSenses#Affect#SelfOptimization#BodyPolitics#Control#SelfImage#ExternalImage#SmartObjects#Immersion#Identity#Surveillance#Choreography#Participation#Space#Simulation#Manipulation</div>
<div>PERFORM! is the theme of the competition and festival programme
of the VIDEONALE.16 ̶ Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts.</div>
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<div>In its earliest forms, performance as an artistic gesture was
an act of liberation – a rejection of the role models and
expectations of the art establishment. Yet today, performance has
increasingly come to stand not for freedom of expression, but
rather, for the imperative to act. Be it through our constant
interaction with digital devices, within which we leave behind
traces of ourselves; or through the relentless demand placed on
individuals to present themselves online, and to optimize
themselves as economic subjects – in all of these ways, our lives,
whether consciously or unconsciously, have become ongoing
performances. Our movements increasingly take the form of
choreographed displays in public spaces, over which we have only
limited control.</div>
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<div>This implies, on the one hand, constellations of control and
compulsion; and yet on the other hand, it signals entirely new
possibilities for participation in social, political and artistic
processes, as well as new forms of interaction, communication and
manipulation, all of which can be put to creative use. In the
process, the borders between real and virtual space, performer and
audience, the observer and the observed are becoming increasingly
blurred. How does this influence our relationships and
communication, our interaction as social and political subjects,
our actions in the public sphere?</div>
<div>How does the performative imperative alter our perception of
our own bodies and minds? When are we performers, when the
audience, when our own choreographers? When is performance simply
another word for conformity, control and reaction? And finally:
under what circumstances can performance still be an expression of
experimental, creative and, occasionally, subversive action?</div>
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<div>The VIDEONALE.16 competition invites artists from around the
world to submit works which deal with the issue of the
performative in art and society in all its facets.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i>Before the
mirror, the subject plays out its own real and its own
imaginary. Yet at the level of the object, on screens of all
forms and through all kinds of media technology, the world
becomes virtual; the object offers itself up as ‘potential’, and
plays its own game”. [Jean Baudrillard, Video World and Fractal
Subject (1988)]</i></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">REQUIREMENTS<br>
All types of experimental moving-image-based works (single and
multi-channel video, video installation and Virtual Reality
projects) as well as performance projects can be submitted to the
competition. There are no restrictions on the duration of the work
submitted, nor on the nationality or age of the artist. Works
submitted, however, may not be more than two years old (i.e. they
must have been produced after 1/1/2014). Artists are not permitted
to submit more than one entry.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">The VIDEONALE</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Established in
1984 in Bonn, the Videonale is an international platform for video
and time-based art forms. Featuring both an exhibition of the
works submitted for competition and a festival programme, it has
now been home to the latest developments in the area of moving
image and time-based art for over 30 years. Its central focus is
on new international artistic perspectives alongside established
representatives of the arts.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">EXHIBITION</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">For
VIDEONALE.16, around 40 works will be selected by an international
jury of experts to be presented at a six-week exhibition in the
Kunstmuseum Bonn.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">PRIZE</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">The works
exhibited will compete for the Videonale Prize, worth €5,000.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">FESTIVAL</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">During the
exhibition, a diverse festival programme will animate both the
Kunstmuseum and various locations around the City of Bonn. Talks
by artists, panel discussions, guided tours, workshops,
performances, educational events, and the student exhibition
project ‘VIDEONALE.Parcours’ in the city centre will all serve to
provide a comprehensive perspective on contemporary artistic
practice, as well as on current debates surrounding the moving
image and the digital arts.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">VIDEONALE ON
TOUR</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Following the
exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the works displayed at
VIDEONALE.16 will be exhibited at a series of further
international institutions. In previous years, Videonale works
have been exhibited at the Central House of Artists in Moscow,
Russia; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung,
Taiwan; the Insa Art Space in Seoul, South Korea; the National
Gallery of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo; MONA Inner Spaces in
Poznań, Poland; CCA/ Freedom Park Lagos, Nigeria; and many other
prestigious venues.</div>
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<div>VIDEONALE.16 is supported by (as per April 2016):<br>
The City of Bonn; the Ministry for Families, Children, Youth,
Culture and Sports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia</div>
<div>Preferred Logistics Partner: DHL</div>
<div>Technical partners: cine+, Berlin</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Contact: <br>
VIDEONALE e.V. <br>
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2 <br>
53113 Bonn <br>
T +49-(0)228-69 28 18</div>
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<a href="mailto:accreditation@videonale.org">accreditation@videonale.org</a>
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