[Reader-list] [Announcements] In the Absence of Recombination 2: Delhi

[Vivek Narayanan]

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Date: 	Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:02:39 +0530
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ONF.org in collaboration with The Embassy of Mexico presents:

In the absence of recombination 2

A video screening and semiosis in progress by

Mexican artist Rubén Gutiérrez at

VOLGA RESTAURANT

Friday, December 2, 2005 from 20:00 to 23:00 hrs

129-B, N-19, Connaught Place, New Delhi





VIDEO PROGRAMME



MIYAGUI ROBOT, 2004

VIDEO BY GERARDO GARCIA

DVD 11:11



CRITICAL PARADIGMS, 2004

VIDEOINSTALLATION BY RUBEN GUTIERREZ

DVD 10: 11



ARTMEDIA FC VS USA, 2005

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION AND VIDEO GAME (VIDEO DOCUMENT)

BY LEONARDO MARZ

DVD 15:00



VANITY, 2005

VIDEOINSTALLATION BY RUBEN GUTIERREZ

DVD 04:45



SCENES FROM NEXT WEEK, 2005

VIDEO BY ANDREW DEMIRJIAN

DVD 3:50



HOW DO YOU SEE THE DISAPPEARED?, 2004.

VIDEO BY MARIAM GHANI,

DVD, 9:00



EVIL 8, 2004

VIDEO BY TONY COKES

DVD 5:00



RWANDAREMIX, 2005.

VIDEO BY MATHIEW BORYSEVICZ

DVD 7:00



FEAST, 2004

VIDEO BY LISELOT VAN DER HEDDEN

DVD,2:00.


PROGRAMME



Robot Miyagui is a project developed by Gerardo Garcia; it consists in
videos, digital prints and sound pieces. It recreates the way a
didactic game works. Some kind of encyclopedic "ouija" that make
relationships between questions and answers.

Objective robots, which were given (although fake) by man, are
expected to support man in tasks which seem difficult and hard for
man. In turn, man will create more robots and provide them with
energy. Man and robots should keep a good partnership with each other.
Aiming to realize such a future society, in this video the artists
propose and wish to demonstrate an ideal relationship between man and
robot in visual forms.



Artmedia FC vs USA is an interactive video game and the first of a
series of relational pieces made by ONF.org curator Leonardo Marz. In
this piece a virtual soccer team made up with mainstream dead or alive
artists confront in the field with the USA soccer national team. From
Duchamp to Parreno and Hirst and also including the ONF staff
(Leonardo Marz, Ruben Gutierrez and David Guzman) this team is based
in a series of semiotic relationships and it reflects what the art
world is in terms of competition, spectacle, cult figures and
business.



Critical Paradigms, 2004 and Vanity, 2005, a couple of videos by Ruben
Gutierrez, where several conceptual and formal worries that disturb
him since time ago are reflected: the awareness of history as a file
of information, the capacity of the artist to be a DJ that selects
from among everything that exists and was previously produced that
that interests and intrigue him, and finally, the capacity of
"fiction" to represent what happens in that which we call reality or
everyday life.

These images build a non-lineal fiction and a metaphor of the presence
and absence of reflections on our idea of reality, language and
conscience.



In "The scenes from next week" Andrew Demirjian shows simple daily
things, such as doing the dishes, and bringing the garbage outside,
under a upbeat melody mimicking the soap opera announcements and
questioning the impact of such on our lives.



Mariam Ghani critics in her "How do you see the disappeared?" the US
Immigration policy. In this work, she addresses several cases of
people who for an unclear reason have been detained, and making the
often randomness used by the IRS even more clear by pointing out her
personal situation: born in America from a Pakistan mother and an
Afghanistan father, she carriers an US passport, but isn't be able to
re-enter the US without being questioned.



The work of Mathieu Borysevicz shows a little hope in a country that
has been terrorized by wars: Rwanda. Showing young children singing
and laughing, welcoming a group of ' red- crass-workers'. Sadly
enough, this hope is just for a short moment, as the war continues and
the end isn't nearby.



After September 11 Tony Cokes made a series of videos that related to
the articles appearing in the New York Times about terrorism and the
information on the current situation in Afghanistan. He compares the
pieces with articles from early dates. It is surprising to see the
similarities in wording of the issues concerning the Middle East.



"Feast. Hommage a Marchel Broodthaers" is a work by Lislelot van der
Heijden. She thinks that in a time when people have to watch what they
are say, it is more interesting to watch what is said by what is not
said. The work juxtaposes a series of statements - "this has nothing
to do with oil," "a vulture is not an eagle" and "this is not
political" - with a continuous video loop showing a close-up of a
group of vultures ferociously fighting to seize a bite.



"Patriot Act" by Robert Boyd takes a global sampling of iconic leaders
of the Left and Right since World War II. The work is about the men
who lead and the people who adore them - without question, without
fall, time and again throughout the course of history.

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