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Tocayo is an art event that happens for five years in Rio de Janeiro, once every semester. Last 7 june de 2008 it was the 11th edition. Tocayo gathers street art, graphic art, paints, sculptures, videos, music etc. Designed by Cartel Design, Tocayo was at Parque Lage this year.
A virtual reproduction of the videoart room below.
Text inside the display room:
Scenes, sounds and colors spread through the walls in a combination that runs in the opposite side of the traditional narrative way we are used to, reinforcing the power of the experience images allow.
This room invites the spectator to walk through moving images, getting involved with propositions suggested by the artists from Rio, Alice Miceli, Raïssa, Jo Serfaty, Johanna Steindorf, Gabriela Maciel e Luciano Cian, besides Cao Guimarães, from Minas Gerais.
The videos here gathered are a cut of the enormous recent national video art production. The selection shows the use of experimentation through the video.
Together with the other forms of art manifestations that Tocayo presents, this exhibition intends to inspire new productions in Rio and everywhere else!
1) Alice Miceli
Alice appropriates herself of pre-existing images for the creation of the series Decimal Expansion. Every work deals with the theme limit, which appears in the way they were edited, like a repeating decimal, where the end is impossible to be seen.
In 14 hours, 54 minutes, 59,9… seconds (Vídeo, 40”, 2006) she uses the last picture taken by the American photojournalist Robert Cappa before he died. He was crossing a mined camp during the Indochina war. We see the horizon of the picture found in his camera each frame closer, the horizon Cappa never achieved.
Dealing with other type of achievement, in 99,9 rase meters (Vídeo, 1’, 2006), scenes taken from the movie Olympia, by Leni Riefenstahl, show that according to mathematical principles, a runner can never get into the arriving line.
In Jerk off 2 (Video1`47``, 2006) a scene from the movie Mullholland Drive has been reedited. The videos talks about masturbation, one of the pleasure`s limits.
2) Raïssa
Pentimento (Vídeo 4`22``, 2007) shows the difficulty of making a choice. A choice means one way and the kill of other possibilities. Shall she take or leave her clothes?
3) Gabriela Maciel
Innerout (super 8 2004, digital video 2007, aprox. 6`) unites images and words creating a poetic universe that talks about the process of composing images.
4) Jo Serfaty
Self-Portrait with baloon ( Vídeo 20`, 2008) is an encenation with Bach`s Concert of Violin as background. The images was captured by the hand that doesn`t appear in the monitor. A metaphor for the malabars of the meetings.
5) Cao Guimarães e Rivane Neuenschwander
In Blow (5’30”, DV, P&B, 2000) a gas bubble travels through space reflecting the outside and keeping an empty world inside, full of images.
6) Johanna Steindorf
No title (aprox. 20`, 2007) breaks the quick rhythm TV and commercial films use, rescuing the initial of video art movement, in the seventies, when TV criticism was in use. Slowly, two candles get closer to each other until they are so attracted one by another that they reach the middle, turning into one.
7) Luciano Cian
ONADA, Fictional Building of Emptiness (video, 6' ,2008), presents the absence of the relationship between observer and observed, between the gap that separates spaces or between the actions that fulfil the night. Long-distant windows form a fictional building. The soundtrack (by Thiago Assis) was inspired on the work of the compositor Charles Ives, who studies the silent. An emptiness in each room.
A virtual reproduction of the videoart room below.
Text inside the display room:
Scenes, sounds and colors spread through the walls in a combination that runs in the opposite side of the traditional narrative way we are used to, reinforcing the power of the experience images allow.
This room invites the spectator to walk through moving images, getting involved with propositions suggested by the artists from Rio, Alice Miceli, Raïssa, Jo Serfaty, Johanna Steindorf, Gabriela Maciel e Luciano Cian, besides Cao Guimarães, from Minas Gerais.
The videos here gathered are a cut of the enormous recent national video art production. The selection shows the use of experimentation through the video.
Together with the other forms of art manifestations that Tocayo presents, this exhibition intends to inspire new productions in Rio and everywhere else!
1) Alice Miceli
Alice appropriates herself of pre-existing images for the creation of the series Decimal Expansion. Every work deals with the theme limit, which appears in the way they were edited, like a repeating decimal, where the end is impossible to be seen.
In 14 hours, 54 minutes, 59,9… seconds (Vídeo, 40”, 2006) she uses the last picture taken by the American photojournalist Robert Cappa before he died. He was crossing a mined camp during the Indochina war. We see the horizon of the picture found in his camera each frame closer, the horizon Cappa never achieved.
Dealing with other type of achievement, in 99,9 rase meters (Vídeo, 1’, 2006), scenes taken from the movie Olympia, by Leni Riefenstahl, show that according to mathematical principles, a runner can never get into the arriving line.
In Jerk off 2 (Video1`47``, 2006) a scene from the movie Mullholland Drive has been reedited. The videos talks about masturbation, one of the pleasure`s limits.
2) Raïssa
Pentimento (Vídeo 4`22``, 2007) shows the difficulty of making a choice. A choice means one way and the kill of other possibilities. Shall she take or leave her clothes?
3) Gabriela Maciel
Innerout (super 8 2004, digital video 2007, aprox. 6`) unites images and words creating a poetic universe that talks about the process of composing images.
4) Jo Serfaty
Self-Portrait with baloon ( Vídeo 20`, 2008) is an encenation with Bach`s Concert of Violin as background. The images was captured by the hand that doesn`t appear in the monitor. A metaphor for the malabars of the meetings.
5) Cao Guimarães e Rivane Neuenschwander
In Blow (5’30”, DV, P&B, 2000) a gas bubble travels through space reflecting the outside and keeping an empty world inside, full of images.
6) Johanna Steindorf
No title (aprox. 20`, 2007) breaks the quick rhythm TV and commercial films use, rescuing the initial of video art movement, in the seventies, when TV criticism was in use. Slowly, two candles get closer to each other until they are so attracted one by another that they reach the middle, turning into one.
7) Luciano Cian
ONADA, Fictional Building of Emptiness (video, 6' ,2008), presents the absence of the relationship between observer and observed, between the gap that separates spaces or between the actions that fulfil the night. Long-distant windows form a fictional building. The soundtrack (by Thiago Assis) was inspired on the work of the compositor Charles Ives, who studies the silent. An emptiness in each room.
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