[im] videonale

[Miklos Peternak]

*VIDEONALE.16 Call for Entries*
The 16th Videonale -  Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts will run 
from February 17 – April 2, 2017.
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.
Entries selected by our international jury of experts will be presented 
at the VIDEONALE.16 exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
*The deadline for entries is 4^th July 2016.
*
You can find further information, as well as the entry forms, at 
v16.videonale.org 
<http://phplist.televisor.de//lt.php?id=Kh0ECQ9OAA1NAQZZCA8>
THEME
#Performance#Interaction#ExpandedSenses#Affect#SelfOptimization#BodyPolitics#Control#SelfImage#ExternalImage#SmartObjects#Immersion#Identity#Surveillance#Choreography#Participation#Space#Simulation#Manipulation
PERFORM! is the theme of the competition and festival programme of the 
VIDEONALE.16 ̶  Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts.
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.
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?
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?
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.
/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)]/
REQUIREMENTS
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.
The VIDEONALE
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.
EXHIBITION
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.
PRIZE
The works exhibited will compete for the Videonale Prize, worth €5,000.
FESTIVAL
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.
VIDEONALE ON TOUR
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.
VIDEONALE.16 is supported by (as per April 2016):
The City of Bonn; the Ministry for Families, Children, Youth, Culture 
and Sports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Preferred Logistics Partner: DHL
Technical partners: cine+, Berlin
Contact:
VIDEONALE e.V.
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
53113 Bonn
T +49-(0)228-69 28 18

accreditation at videonale.org <mailto:accreditation at videonale.org>
www.videonale.org 
<http://phplist.televisor.de//lt.php?id=Kh0ECQ9OAA1NAQZZCA8>
v16.videonale.org
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