MAFIA

The MAFIA are: Judith Leysner, Bojana Panevska, Avi Krispin, Emile Zile, Paula Albuquerque, Lotte Geeven, Wouter Venema, Aukje Dekker, Marija Danilovic and Jelena Miskovic.

They will show a different perspective on the society we live in, how the perception is changing with the usage of internet; the transformation of the city by the way people re-act and re-imagine their connections with each other, and their drifting apart. ... more
The performance "R-rated" will trigger your need to rebel and understand what, when and why certain things are happening to you.

The borders between art and entertainment, performance and representation, reality shows and video art, visibility and authenticity, will be crossed, interchanged to the point of loosing the contrast, and producing new hybrids. When changes need to be made, it is impossible to keep the common sense, one needs to change ones perception and actions, separate them from the ego centrism, and deal with the situation in a new, sometimes unimaginable way. In that sense, one cannot be an ordinary person, but hybrid by definition.
The exhibition will be praising these changes, call the hybrids heroes, and connect the (fake) art with the (real) life.

The MAFIA will become one with the audience and the festival, invisibly directing and embodying the today’s concept of a city and its festivals.

Everything will be festivalized and made into a spectacular show.

Celluloid Remix Workshop
Celluloid Remix organises a workshop together with FreeJ where you can create your own short movie out of fragments from the archive of the Filmmuseum. We will use the newest version of the open source video tool FreeJ Vision Mixer under supervision of dyne.org developers.

Free entrance. Bring your laptop! ...more
About FreeJ
FreeJ is an open source software for making live video. FreeJ lets you interact with multiple layers of video, filtered by effect chains and then mixed together. Controllers can be scripted for keyboard, midi and joysticks, to manipulate images, movies, live cameras, particle generators, text scrollers, flash animations and more. It is written as a multi-threaded engine that runs efficiently on modern multi-core computers, where the resulting video mix can be shown on multiple and remote screens, encoded into a movie and streamed live to the internet. 
More information FreeJ:
dyne.org/
freej.dyne.org/

More information Celluloid Remix:
www.celluloidremix.nl

De Balie - Foyer

Judith Leysner
 “Dogg house”, video 

Ik probeer achter het “dagelijkse ritme” te gaan en diep te zoeken, los van alles wat ik  al ken, vanuit de onderbuik als het ware zoals de butoh dansers uit Japan; .. more
het leven met al z’n onvolmaaktheden te tonen. Ik gebruik mezelf meestal als uitgaanspunt om ook telkens die confrontatie met mezelf aan te gaan.Ook belangrijk is deze confrontatie om mijn kunstenaarschap te kunnen blijven ontwikkelen en kritisch te blijven,humor speelt hierin soms een belangrijke rol.

Thema’s zoals traditie, female masculanity,  en verlangen geef ik  vorm door gebruik te maken van culturele iconen/verschijnselen uit verschillende culturen.

Paula Albuquerque
 “GMT minus 5”, webcam research lab, video 

Two girls work in a New York bar. In the middle of the winter they are half-naked, mandatory condition or uniform in accordance with the tropical theme of the bar. .. more They kill time retouching make-up, talking on the phone, receiving the odd customer.

Through image and sound edit possible narratives are built and deconstructed, while ambients and atmospheres are constantly destabilized by the inclusion of noise, atonal music, street sounds, manipulations and soundscapes suggestions.

Breaking the harmony, one begins to approach, in the intermediate space, the experience of the moment and artificial proximity with the object, even if these exist only in a virtual space-time.

Avi Krispin
 “Echoing ghost”, video, collaboration with Art Johnson 

The video deconstructs an iconic film scene, by focusing on one pivotal moment that pushes the use of exaggerated sexual innuendo in the cinematic portrayal of romance to its limits. By repeating the same action again and again, it explores the reality of sensuality and awkwardness and the role of man and woman in a classic setup, reevaluating our internalized pop culture.

photos: part of a series of 12 photos, prints:
"April": size: 101x152.5 cm
"June:, "December", "January": size 60.5x40 cm collaboration with Renata Poljak

Emile Zile
 “Performance Anxiety”, video 

Steve Irwin's death. YouTube mourning. Wildlife revenge.
Completed during studio residency at Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam... more
Sound design by Carl Anderson.

Steve Irwin as the prime-beef export model of sun-drenched Australiana. Steve Irwin's family as the intersection of mourning, morning television and marketing. Steve Irwin trading on his own death before the fact. Steve Irwin's televisual and broadcast aura, sifted and re-presented in nine minutes.

Wouter Venema
 “Echoes”, short film 

“Elke avond lees ik een bericht uit een oude, haast doorzichtige krant. … : .. more
 Onder de steden die bedolven lagen onder de as van de Vesuvius heeft men sporen aangetroffen van nog oudere steden, op hun beurt begraven in een nog verder verleden. Hun bewoners hebben gebouwd op de aslaag die de vorige stad bedekte…”

De korte film Echoes (HD, 14'58") bestaat uit drie verhalen. Deze verhalen worden bijeengebracht door de hoofdpersoon: een jongen die zijn tent aan de rand van de stad heeft opgezet. Terwijl hij slapeloos voor zich uit staart denkt hij terug aan een krantenbericht dat hij herhaaldelijk leest. Hij raakt verwikkeld in zijn herinneringen. De chronologie van de belevingen wordt verwisseld. Dag wordt nacht en nacht wordt dag.

“Ik heb het krantenbericht nu duizenden malen gelezen. En elke keer denk ik eraan hoe het is om

Aukje Dekker
"Spoilt dissatisfaction"

The photographs are decorative and are concerning a spoilt dissatisfaction which arise from a feeling of over-composition, over image.

In a certain ‘beautiful’ way an already existing composition is adjusted, is the burning a cover-up for the glitter or the other way around? 

Bojana Panevska
 “R-rated” 

opening performance, Friday 9th October at 20.30

It is about the moment when you feel comfortable with your life, and have no idea what to do next. .. more
The moment when you start looking for a savior because of pure boredom, the moment when you realize that salvation, whatever salvation may mean, is not to be obtained by any reasonable terms. What is the one certain thing about the qualifications of a saviour? That he should not be an ordinary man. The saviour can only appear as the result of some extraordinary accident, quite contrary to whatever is normal. Having got everything you wanted, you discover you did not want it after all and now you must pay. The idea of sacrifice is a wrong idea.

Marija Danilovic
Futura'dam II - video schilderij

Een portret van een stad in de toekomst. In dit werk ben ik vooral geïnspireerd geraakt door broeikaseffect en daardoor klimaatveranderingen in Nederland. ...more
De zeespiegel is gestegen en rivieren toegenomen; alles ligt onder water. Amsterdam bestaat nog en heeft zich gevestigd op een gigantische windmolen. 

Jelena Miskovic
"Skilift Amsterdam 2007-2009",

This video installation with stills and animation shows one possible city reconstruction possibllity that could do a huge favour to the citizens of  Amsterdam, and artists and art world as well...
De zeespiegel is gestegen en rivieren toegenomen; alles ligt onder water. Amsterdam bestaat nog en heeft zich gevestigd op een gigantische windmolen.