Projeto IJO
FILE SAO PAULO 2015 FILE LED SHOW
“IJO” means dance in Yoruba. The project was born inside a series of actions with the objective of reframing the place of dance and a re-appropriation of the public spaces. Adapted to FILE FESTIVAL, the project unfolds its initial ambition, painting the walls and buildings of the city with dancing. By positioning themselves in front of “IJO”, the participants will have a visual representation of their bodies exhibited in real time on the FIESP building. Dance to tell who you are.

whether line
Commissioned by Fondazione Prada for its Milan venue, “Whether Line”, the large-scale multimedia installation, conceived by Lizzie Fitch (USA, 1981) and Ryan Trecartin (USA, 1981), represents the first output of a creative process begun in late 2016, investigating the perpetual promise of “new” terrain and the inherent instability of territorial appropriation.

Хилари Фэй
Faye has a magical eye for composition and colour, which especially shines through in her photography. Her collages meld objects, people, animals and landscapes together with haphazard cropping and appropriation, and the outcomes are compelling and enigmatic. She dabbles in layering and geometry; her chosen textures and tones are evocative of another era, with use of nostalgic film grains, which is at the forefront of her mixed media mantra. She has a knack of combining a myriad of elements and arranging them into a rich formation of imagery.

МЯО СЯОЧУНЬ
缪晓春
مياو شياو تشون
THE FAR SHORE
Miao Xiaochun was born in 1964 in Wuxi, China. He undertook an MFA at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China graduating in 1989, before embarking on a second MFA at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany, graduating in 1999. An influential figure in China’s wave of new media art, Miao Xiaochun is an artist primarily concerned with appropriation and East-West dialogue. For example, his photographs, assembled through a computer program, are sprawling panoramas of China’s social masses.

New Age Demanded
“Inspired by classical Greek busts, Jon Rafman uses computer software to digitally render three-dimensional forms. The forms act as the structural surface on which two-dimensional Internet-sourced images are applied. The series is presented as large-scale archival pigment digital prints. Each print is created with its own specific texture and sculptural mutation. Rafman uses historically recognizable works from canonized artists like Mark Rothko, Georgia O’Keeffe, Piet Mondrian, and Wassily Kandinsky as the subjects of his appropriations.”

electronic language international festival
Since year 2000, FILE is a non-profit cultural organization that has been promoting exhibitions, workshops and gatherings that seek to investigate the appropriations of the technologic media in artistic accomplishments. With annual exhibitions in Sao Paulo, in addition to participations in national and international events, FILE is the biggest electronic art event in Latin America.more…

Repressed Spaces
Le dessin occupe une place centrale dans le travail de Stéphanie Nava, aux côtés de sculptures-objets, de photographies et d’installations. Son travail s’attache à décrire des relations, qu’elles soient architecturales, linguistiques, sociales ou sentimentales. Privilégiant des questions liées à l’appropriation de l’espace et sa domestication, Stéphanie Nava s’intéresse à la manière dont un individu ou une société façonne son rapport au monde.

Cybill Shepherd/Phone Sex
Robert Heinecken is an artist who is hard to pin down. A photographer who rarely used a camera, he founded UCLA’s photography department in 1964. Skeptical of the documentarian role of photography, he mined images from mass media, prefiguring the appropriation strategies of Pictures Generation artists like Richard Prince and Sherrie Levine by at least a decade. Despite this, he was never able to achieve the notoriety accorded these artists.

Since year 2000, FILE is a non-profit cultural organization that has been promoting exhibitions, workshops and gatherings that seek to investigate the appropriations of the technologic media in artistic accomplishments. With annual exhibitions in Sao Paulo, in addition to participations in national and international events, FILE is the biggest electronic art event in Latin America. CALL FOR ENTRIES

Седрик Бернадот
Reappropriations

installation in grafenegg schlosspark

Balance Capsule

Für den Schlosspark von Grafenegg wurde eine Skulptur realisiert, die den Begriff des Parks kritisch untersucht: als gestaltete Landschaft, als Raum des Außergewöhnlichen, der Entdeckungen und Überraschungen, der inszenierten Blicke – gleichzeitig Themenpark und Museum. Die Telefonzelle stammt aus Westberlin, und der Titel der Arbei, “Balance Capsule”, gibt einen Hinweis auf die komplexen Zusammenhänge von internationaler Diplomatie, Modernismus, Raumfahrt und Telekommunikation. Die gelbe Zelle mit den abgerundeten Kanten, ein Modell aus den Siebzigerjahren und den österreichischen Telefonzellen jener Zeit sehr ähnlich, ist ein vertrautes Element des modernen öffentlichen Raumes, doch auf der hohen weißen Pyramide unerreichbar. Ein Grabmal oder Monument, ägyptische Kultur, durch westliche Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte gefiltert: Hier kommen Minimal Art, Romantizismus, Musealisierung, politische Skulptur, Messebau und Appropriation zusammen und sorgen für produktive Missverständnisse.

РЕЙНАЛЬД ДРУХИН
LANDSCAPE MONOLITH

MONOLITH is the title of French multimedia artist Reynald Drouhin’s latest art project which consists of a series of digitally manipulated images of stunning natural landscapes. In the middle of picturesque sunsets and serene Arctic landscapes, Drouhin pastes a mysterious prismatic shape and then flips it, thus creating a mind-boggling visual effect of an otherworldly transparent object hovering in desolate locations. The entire project is an ingenious appropriation of the famous monolith from Stanley Kubrick’s film ”2001: A Space Odyssey” where mysterious dark rectangular objects (dubbed as monoliths) were scattered across the solar system by an unknown alien civilisation which seemed to guide humans along a risky interplanetary journey. Reynald Drouhin’s MONOLITH series captures exactly the double nature of Kubrick’s monoliths: the inverted shapes in the photographs seem to be a window to another dimension, a physical anomaly which distorts the nature around it, and is both menacing and inviting.