B4 play video
International galleries present video art
at the Art Center Berlin
till October 3rd, 2005
Galleries: Blickensdorff / Germany - Brandstrup / Norway - Caprice Horn / Germany - Christian Roellin / Switzerland - Shilla / South Korea - Rafael Vostell / Germany
b4 play video is a forum for recent international video art and offers a wide audience the opportunity to encounter current video work. On three floors of the Art Center Berlin Friedrichstrasse, in a total exhibition space of almost 1500 sqm, six galleries from Germany, Norway, Korea and Switzerland present video works from their current programmes.
The gallery programmes are supplemented by a series of supporting and evening events.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Eugen Blume (director of the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin)
Rudolf Frieling (head of the video department of the ZKM)
Wulf Herzogenrath (director of the Kunsthalle Bremen)
OPENING TIMES
29 September - 03 October 2005
SUPPORTING PROGRAMME
Beryl Korot, born 1945 in New York. Lives and works in New York.
Steve Reich, born 1936 in New York. Lives and works in New York.
Title: "Three Tales" a documentary digital video opera by Beryl Korot and Steve Reich.
Oliver Ressler (Edition INDEX of Sixpackfilm), born 1970 in Knittelfeld, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna.
Title: "This is what democracy looks like!", (2002), german / english, 38min
Title: "Disobbedienti", (2002), italian /german/ english, 54 min (with Dario Azzellini)
Corinna Rosteck, born 1968 in Detmold. Lives and works in Berlin.
Title: "circular", commissioned for the new production facilities of the company B. Braun. The starting point of the artistic concept is the cycle of water.
Ira Schneider, born 1939 in Manhattan. Lives and works in Berlin. He was a member of the video collective "Raindance Corporation", founded by Frank Gillette, which published the journal "RADICAL SOFTWARE" from 1970 to 1974.
stereobild team, (Lukas Gloor, SHE, Wolfgang Hockenjos, Mark Washeim)
Stefan Heinrich Ebner, born 1965 in Freiburg / Breisgau. Lives and works in Berlin and Basel.
Title: "Video installation raumfilter 2.2"
Wolf Vostell, born 1932 in Leverkusen, died 03.04.1998 in Berlin. Title: "6 TV-dé-coll / age, 1963 - 95", variable size - 6 televisions, 6 filing cabinets, 6 original Vostell dé-coll / age films, 1 telephone, cress
EVENING EVENTS
30 September 05 from 9:00 p.m.
Corinna Rosteck introduces the working process of her commission for the new production facilities of the company B. Braun. She will talk about the issues that arise in the collaboration between industry, artists and architects. (in German)
01 October 05 from 9:00 p.m.
A presentation by the company Sixpackfilm from Vienna. Isabelle Piechaczyk introduces the edition INDEX and will talk about the publication and distribution of this video art edition of Austrian film, video and media art history. (in English)
02 October 05 from 9:00 p.m.
Ira Schneider and Willoughby Sharp, video pioneers from New York, present and comment on their work from the late 1960s and after. (in English)
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