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04.22–06.30 /2020
This Undercurrent art project invites reflection about this extraordinary situation. As the world looks quiet and unchanging under social distancing, COVIDEO-19 NOTES presents a living diary of curated video works periodically released on this platform.
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /04.22.20
Joey Gonnella Returning
JOEY GONNELLA /Returning /2020
Surrealist montage film experiment.
/Video duration 1:50 min
/joeygonnella.com/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /04.25.20
This is a collaboration between video artists around the globe. We wanted to share our common experience with this pandemic. There are no boundaries for anxiety, fear, grief and frustration. We are all in this long wait together. Today the world is on hold but we will be back. Thanks to all the artists for giving us a glimpse of where they live.
@Finn Harvor, @Maria Korporal, @sandra Bougerch, @ Tushar Waghela, @Muriel Paraboni, @Lisi Prada, @Eija Temiseva, @Ian Gibbins, @Jutta Pryor, @Sarah Bliss, @Darko Duilo, @Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, @Erick Tapia, @lori Ersolmaz, @AvantKinema, @Sarahjane Swan, @RogerSimian, @Lino Mocerino, @Francesca Giuliani, @Luis Carlos Rodriguez, @Willow Morgan
DEE HOOD + GLOBAL ARTISTS /Chant for A
Pandemic /2020
Chant for a Pandemic is a short, experimental film, made by collaborators across the globe in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Curated and edited by American experimental filmmaker, Dee Hood, the whole thing was shot and put together in less than two weeks.
Artists around the world are feeling a need to reflect and react to this new, fast changing, almost post-apocalyptic looking world with immediacy, and this is one early response created by a group of individuals who have mostly never met in real life but do have a shared vision and a passion for expression. We feel that video art and experimental approaches can shine a light on those areas of life which more traditional art forms or reportage cannot, getting deeper into those subconscious, dreamlike or even nightmarish feelings and sensations that we all experience but do not always acknowledge. -Dee Hood
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Curated and Edited by Dee Hood
Music by Tushar Waghela
Chant written by Finn Harvor - Singing by Finn Harvor & various artists
Filmmakers:
Finn Harvor (Seoul, Korea), Maria Felix Korporal (Berlin, Germany), Tushar Waghela (Durg, India), Muriel Paraboni (Milan, Italy), Sandra Bouguerch (Bolton, UK), Lisi Prada (Leon, Spain), Eija Temiseva (Espoo, Finland), Ian Gibbins (Adelaide, South Australia), Jutta Pryor (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Sarah Bliss (Montague, Mass, USA), Darko Duilo (Split, Croatia), Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Erick Tapia (Mexico City, Mexico), Lori Ersolmaz (Naples, Florida, USA), Avant Kinema / Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian (Scottish Borders, Scotland), Lino Mocerino (Foggia, Italy), Francesca Giuliani (Lamis, Italy), Luis Carlos Rodriguez (Spain), Dee Hood (USA), Willow Morgan (Ruskin, Florida, USA).
/Video duration 5:08 min
/www.deehood.net/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /04.27.20
LINDA LOH /Orb 1 2020
Sound: The Eternal Choir, Glorious Colours, 1993, courtesy of Listening Earth. /listeningearth.com/
/Video duration 6:49 min
/lindaloh.com/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /04.30.20
I’ve always been a fan of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now. Adapted from the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I think we are in a time much like when this film was produced. The End by The Doors drones on in the background. Jim’s father was one of the top ranking officers who started the Vietnam war. I find the contrast between father in son quite interesting. Marlon Brando’s appearance in this film really struck a chord in me as well.
“He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath:
“‘The horror! The horror!”
CIPRIANO ORTEGA /Apocalypse Now?
(updated) /2020
I’ve always been a fan of Francis Ford Coppola's film “Apocalypse Now.” Adapted from the novel “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad. I think we are in a time much like when this film was produced. The End by The Doors drones on in the background. Jim’s father was one of the top ranking officers who started the Vietnam war. I find the contrast between father in son quite interesting. Marlon Brando’s appearance in this film really struck a chord in me as well.
“He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror! - Cipriano Ortega
/Video duration 2:08 min
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.04.20
“If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.” – Nathan Wolfe
This video was created using footage and soundtracks in the Public Domain, or released as CC0 Public Domain materials, and is made entirely from recycled, repurposed and refashioned images and sounds.
Copyright © 2020 Wheeler Winston Dixon. All rights reserved.
WHEELER WINSTON DIXON /Pandemic /2020
If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them. – Nathan Wolfe
This video was created using footage and soundtracks in the Public Domain, or released as CC0 Public Domain materials, and is made entirely from recycled, repurposed, and refashioned images and sounds.
/Video duration 2:08 min
/wheelerwinstondixon/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.06.20
Vorrei girare il cielo come le rondini /
I would like to twirl in the sky as the swallows
A sensation of lightness but at the same time of inconsistent heaviness in observing an infinite space such as the sky. The flakes of poplars fly like the thoughts that haunt us in these weeks. We are forced to face and clash with ourselves during isolation. We entrust to the sky, and some to a god, our doubts, our uncertainties, our questions.
They fly like the swallows that bring a surreal spring, come to announce that we will no longer be the same. And upon their arrival, after more than a month waiting by our windows, we are pervaded by a sense of acceptance of our individual and human condition.
Video © Rosa Lacavalla
Music © Hernan Paulitti
ROSA LACAVALLA /Vorrei girare il cielo come
le rondini /I Would Like To Twirl In The Sky As
The Swallows /2020
They fly like the swallows that bring a surreal spring, come to announce that we will no longer be the same. And upon their arrival, after more than a month waiting by our windows, we are pervaded by a sense of acceptance of our individual and human condition. -Rosa Lacavalla
Video © Rosa Lacavalla. Music © Hernan Paulitti
/Video duration 4:13 min
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.12.20
JERRY CHAN /The Pace Of Mind + Uncertain
State Of Mind + Homesick /2020
3 short video segments telling one story. The Pace of Mind - is what my mind is like recently. Uncertain State Of Mind - I am imagining how my mind is moving on. Homesick - is a depiction of the feeling about quarantine and distance between people.
I work with drawing, animation, and installation. I juxtapose incongruous elements to articulate absurdities and some ridiculous incidents happening in politics and life. Influenced by some unconventional comics with alternative usage of symbols and multiple images, I create non-linear narratives with multiple scenarios. I believe every incident does have a causal relationship. This notion has led me to be interested in constructing subtle connections between peripherally irrelevant circumstances. As a Hong Kong artist living in New York. I have a strong sensation upon the tough circumstances within and beyond politics. I recently create multiple scenarios to depict the state of mind and the mixed feelings upon these issues. -Jerry Chan
/Video duration 00:50 min
/jerryccn.com/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.14.20
ZILVINAS KEMPINAS /113TH STREET /2020
6 minutes. Audio recording.
Best experienced with High-End headphones.
/zilvinaskempinas.com/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.16.20
This is part of a series of short videos made by Andrea Garcia Vasquez as an outlet to process and understand her experience and emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic. The short videos are representative of the different stages the artist experiences while living in Leipzig, Germany and keeping up with the news as she remains bothered by the situation in the United States, where she is from and where many of her loved ones still reside. The pandemic is effecting humans all over the world in different ways for different reasons and these short clips are artistic explorations from the perspective of one individual inspired by her own struggles with practicing solidarity by quarantining herself and social distancing as well as the increase in social media, computer, and cell phone use. These videos open up a visual dialogue about human connection, human emotion and longing, environmental impacts from the virus, and digital existence. They also visual question and contemplate what the pandemic will do to the future of these concepts and subjects.
ANDREA GARCIA VASQUEZ /Corona Clip 2:
Unrest & Staying Inside /2020
A video artistically showing my reaction to the new adjustments brought upon by COVID. This is video 2 of a series of 7 videos I have made while in quarantine in Leipzig, Germany. In this video Corona Clip 2: Unrest & Staying Inside, I began looking at live streamed street cams of New York City. At this time, I was read the news every morning and night hoping there would be a foreseeable end to this drastic transformation of every day life. I recorded myself reading segments of news articles wearing my pajamas and a nice blouse. The new business casual. This video captures my own personal anxiety and worry as I mentally and emotionally juggle between the situation in the two places I call home- Europe and USA. -Andrea Garcia Vasquez
Outsourced Videos: Youtube Street Cams from Amsterdam, Timesquare, Santa Monica Pier, and Key West. Sound - artist’s property. Text - a mixture of psychology and news reports regarding COVID.
/Video duration 2:21 min
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.18.20
Humanity periodically lives through a time that alters the course of history, plots the future, and marks the emergence of a new generation. Today is that time. Closedowns, shelter-in-place orders, and the like encapsulate this change, covered under the general term "Social Distancing."
VILIUS JUOZAPAS VINGRAS /Spiders /2020
Life (and death) of the initially unnoticed quarantine neighbor - the spider. - Vilius Vingras
/Video duration: 04:06 min
/viliusvingras/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.20.20
Erica Schreiner “Quarantine” 2020
ERICA SCHREINER /Quarantine /2020
MATURE! This film has no dialog and contains adult content. Password: 2020
There is no fruit inside the rinds or eggs inside the shells, and the flowers are dead. Counting the days, each day hardly differs from the next. We find, what is inside provides the greatest sustenance. -Erica Schreiner
/Video duration: 00:8 min
/ericaschreiner/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.22.20
Apparently, we become numb during self-quarantine Finally, spring comes to New York City Fortunately, we gain a chance to meet each other physically Soon, the ...
TYPE WITHOUT THINKING TYPE WITHOUT
THINKING /Momo Friends /2020
Apparently, we become numb during self-quarantine
Finally, spring comes to New York City
Fortunately, we gain a chance to meet each other physically
Soon, the Tibetan food restaurant reopened
Definitely, we need sunshine and food eventually not cooked by ourselves
Seriously, we wash our hands then enjoy momo
Shortly, we do a special one-day life recording
Happily, we memorize how loud we laugh together again
/Video by Ruisheng Zhong (@spongemermer)
/Music by Xiao Xu (@plasticpeco)
Special Thanks to Shawn Yang
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.24.20
Short. Experimental Film. Video duration 00:7 seconds. Submition to "COVIDEO-19 NOTES" virtual project. Link: https://undercurrent.nyc/exhibitions-and-events/2020/4/22/covideo-19-a-living-virtual-video-project
VIKA KARACIUBA /7 seconds /2020
Short. Experimental Film.
/Video duration 00:7 seconds
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.25.20
"When I keep staring at something over and over, I come up with finding that there are invisible things, like desire, anger, nostalgia, joy, or pleasure, hidden behind the side. Through looped GIF works, I depict the moments when I encounter new thoughts." - Yuna Kim.
Submition to "COVIDEO-19 NOTES" virtual project. Link:https://undercurrent.nyc/exhibitions-and-events/2020/4/22/covideo-19-a-living-virtual-video-project
YUNA KIM /About Power /2020
"When I keep staring at something over and over, I come up with finding that there are invisible things, like desire, anger, nostalgia, joy, or pleasure, hidden behind the side. Through looped GIF works, I depict the moments when I encounter new thoughts." - Yuna Kim.
Submition to "COVIDEO-19 NOTES" virtual project.
Link: https://undercurrent.nyc/exhibitions-and-events/2020/4/22/covideo-19-a-living-virtual-video-project
YUNA KIM /Run /2020
"When I keep staring at something over and over, I come up with finding that there are invisible things, like desire, anger, nostalgia, joy, or pleasure, hidden behind the side. Through looped GIF works, I depict the moments when I encounter new thoughts." - Yuna Kim.
Submition to "COVIDEO-19 NOTES" virtual project.
Link: https://undercurrent.nyc/exhibitions-and-events/2020/4/22/covideo-19-a-living-virtual-video-project
YUNA KIM / I wish and wish and… /2020
When I keep staring at something over and over, I come up with finding that there are invisible things, like desire, anger, nostalgia, joy, or pleasure, hidden behind the side. Through looped GIF works, I depict the moments when I encounter new thoughts. -Yuna Kim
/yunakim.art/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.27.20
Hand-painted 16mm film. Direct animation.
"A fever dream. An infinitely morphing kaleidscopic stained glass window; bells that remind me of the sounds of Amsterdam, my second home after New York. Frantic REM sleep kicks in around 5 minutes..."
"Mass for Shut-ins," a pandemic film made under quarantine, Spring 2020.
How do we survive this pandemic? We survive through art & music.
Copyright © 2020 Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. All rights reserved.
GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER /Mass for Shut-
ins /2020
Hand-painted 16mm film. Direct animation. 16mm hand-scratched, hand-crafted, and hand-painted and collaged film leader.
A fever dream. An infinitely morphing kaleidoscopic stained glass window; bells that remind me of the sounds of Amsterdam, my second home after New York City. Frantic REM sleep kicks in around 5 minutes...
Mass for Shut-ins is a brief cine-poem for art, light, and music made in the darkness of the plague time. A pandemic film made in the artist's kitchen sink under quarantine, Spring 2020.” -Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
/Music: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
/Video duration 07:54 min
/gwendolynaudreyfoster/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.29.20
Circles of quarantine. 2020.
MOACIR P. DE SÁ PEREIRA /Journull /2020
The newest addition to artist Lala Drona's video series "La Minute Ladrona (The Stolen Minute)" has just been released: Title: "The Like Me". to read more ab...
LALA DRONA /The Like Me /2020
As if social media were a cosmic invader on the human species, the video begins with a view of Earth from outer space, and lands in Lala Drona’s home city, Paris, France. The viewer finds the artist underground, inside an air shaft. Alone, and illuminated only by the light of her phone, she begins to voice opinions and expressions that have become all too familiar to anyone growing up post-millennial.
The performance art video “The Like Me” delves into the isolating effects of social media through its guise of connection. This video experience examines the normalized anxiety we feel on a daily basis.- Lala Drona
/Video duration 3:28 min
/laladrona/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.10.20
Video & Musik ©Pierre Ajavon 2020
Screenings :
o 2020 - 1er Festival des Arts confinés - Agora Off, online - Paris /France
o 2020 - Plague and Locusts 2020 - Ephemereye, online - San Francisco // USA
o 2020 - Undercurrent 70 - COVIDEO-19 NOTES - online - New York // USA
PIERRE AJAVON /Covid-19 Incident /2020
Spring 2020, dreamlike stroll in a Covid-19 era. -Pierre Ajavon
/Video duration 02:34 min
/pierreajavon/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.12.20
DIARY OF A PANDEMIC
FullHD 5` 40 min color/b/w sound stereo 16:4
Copyright Enoh Lienemann 2020
https://vimeo.com/425558978
Please scroll down for CV
Synopsis:
"Diary of a Pandemic" documents the relaxed mood in NYC and my fears at the same time in Germany.
At the end of February a huge amount of people were already infected with covid-19 in NYC, without being aware of it.
The sounds of New York are taken between February 22 and 29, 2020.
In Germany I began to become more and more afraid to go out and to meet up with my friends. We were already discussing the virus and the virus started to change our lives.
CV / BIO
Name Enoh Lienemann
Born 1959 in London, UK, to German/Nigerian parents.
Residence Krefeld, Germany
Email enoh.lienemann@gmail.com
Webside www.enoh-lienemann.de
Education Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Alfter, Germany
Since 2014 my focus is exclusively on video, video installation and photography.
Enoh Lienemann`s video works are shown on international video art screenings around our globe. Her work extends from video, video /performance to photography, installation and conceptual works.
How does political and social oppression influence the human nature? Is it possible for the single person to escape from destructive circumstances? These are main questions of her work from the beginning.
She continually does researches in the field of refugees, migration and womanhood. Her works of visual art are shown in solo and group exhibitions in Germany since 1994.
Enoh Lienemann was the founder and leader of an African woman refugee group and was a teacher of artistic educational work for children with a migration background.
International Video Art Screenings and Film Festivals (selection)
HONG GAH MUSEUM “Oceans and Interpreters” Taipei, Taiwan
„RIGHT AT THE EQUATOR“ Depart Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
ZKM – ZENTRUM FÜR KUNST UND MEDIEN, Karlsruhe, Germany
OSMOSIS - AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA Festival,Taipei,Taiwan
ADDIS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
SOFIA UNDERGROUND Performance Art Festival, Sofia – Bulgaria
VIDEOEX International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zürich Switzerland
ENOH LIENEMANN /Diary of A Pandemic /2020
In my experimental film I document the relaxed mood in NYC and my fears at the same time in Germany.
At the end of February a huge amount of people were already infected with Covid-19 in NYC, without being aware of it.
The sounds of New York are taken between February 22 and 29, 2020.
In Germany I began to become more and more afraid to go out and to meet up with my friends. We were already discussing the virus and the virus started to change our lives. -Enoh Lienemann
/Video duration 05:40 min
/enoh-lienemann/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.15.20
Portrait of an emotionally stormy day in self-quarantine under the worldwide COVID-19's lockdown order. Feelings in the pandemic can be: disrupted, insecure, upended, disoriented, restricted, deprived, groundless, afloat, overwhelmed, worried, furious, traumatic. We are all constantly moving between hopes and despairs.
CHUN WANG /One Day (COVID-19 Version)
/2020
Portrait of an emotionally stormy day in self-quarantine under the worldwide COVID-19's lockdown order. Feelings in the pandemic can be: disrupted, insecure, upended, disoriented, restricted, deprived, groundless, afloat, overwhelmed, worried, furious, traumatic. We are all constantly moving between hopes and despairs. -Chun Wang
/Starred / Filmed by Chun Wang
/Sound: The Newton Brothers <Grandpa>, Chun Wang, found audio from news
/Video duration 04:19 min
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.18.20
Where can we all go when we feel overwhelmed. A computer point of view of the Western-Wall reveals a poetic moment. A meeting point of human-animal-computer.
A computer drawings of a prayer could demonstrate how our species is viewed from an other intelligence's perspective.
BILI REGEV /All Creatures Sanctuary /2020
Where can we all go when we feel overwhelmed. A computer point of view of the Western-Wall reveals a poetic moment. A meeting point of human-animal-computer.
A computer drawing of prayer could demonstrate how our species is viewed from another intelligence's perspective. -Bili Regev
/Video duration 04:23
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.22.20
Created during C-19 Lockdown period in Ireland.
Animation and editing: Moran Been-noon
Music: Dave Murphy
MORAN BEEN-NOON /Trip Outside /2020
Trip Outside was created during C-19 Lockdown period in Ireland. The animation is an “Isolation Dance” in the artists’ mind, visiting imaginary places inside their home.-Moran Been-noon
/Animation and editing: Moran Been-noon
/Music: Dave Murphy
/Video duration 02:15 min
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