VEM

VEM 2023

14 July
ÉSTA ES UNA PLAZA! – MADRID

19 July
COLLEGIUM – ARÉVALO

20 July
MUSEO VOSTELL – MALPARTIDA DE CÁCERES

22 July
CCB – CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM – LISBOA

26 July
O ESPAÇO DO TEMPO – MONTEMOR-O-NOVO

28 July
CASA DA CERCA – ALMADA

29 July
ESPAÇO DUPLACENA 77 – LISBOA

 

Programme
. Cinthia Marcelle: Cruzada (Brazil, 2010, 8:36)
. Rubén Martín de Lucas: República Mínima 7  (Spain, 2016, 1:23)
. Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn, David Van Tieghem: Ear to the Ground (USA, 1982, 4:25)
. Maxime Martinot: Les Antilopes (France/Portugal, 2020, 8:00)
. Rubén Martín de Lucas: República Mínima 12  (Spain, 2016, 1:31)
. Magda Gebhardt: Atlas (Brazil, 2012, 6:12)
. Genadzi Buto: Too Big Drawing (Bielorrusia, 2021, 5:13)
. Gary Hill: Round and About (USA, 1979-80, 4:45)
. Christina Schultz: Decision of No Return or A sense of territory (Germany/Spain, 2017, 8:08)

Cruzada (Brazil, 2010, 8:36) – Cinthia Marcelle

Sixteen musicians come from the four extremities of a cross, 4 from each side, wearing 4 colors: yellow, red, blue and green. The four groups (one with the ride cymbals, one with the snare and bass drums, one with the trumpets and trombones and one with the baritone saxhorns and tubas) each one at a time, come into action, playing the sounds in a chaotic way until they’ve reached the crossing point of the cross. When they all meet, face to face, they begin a duel, which ends up in a choreography where the musicians exchange places, forming then four music bands of colors and mixedinstruments. At the sound of the same song finally in harmony, the musicians leave the crossing point, each one at a time and spread around, through the four ways of the cross.

Repúblicas Mínimas 7 (Spain, 2016, 1:23) – Rubén Martín de Lucas

Minimal Republics is a set of «microstates» whose limit responds to an artificial criterion, geometry, have a constant area, 100 m2, a duration that never exceeds 24 hours and a single inhabitant, the artist himself.Some ridiculous and absurd states. A few fragments of territory that the artist appropriates, usually without permission, for a maximumof one day. The documentation of these actions, in the form of aerial photographs and overhead videos, invites us to reflect on the artificial and ephemeral nature of all borders and on the feeling of ownership that humanity exercises towards over an Earth that, however, transcends us in age.Microstate of 100m2, 1 inhabitant and 1 day duration carried out without permission in a field of harvested cereal at coordinates 40.7654770, -2.9947316. Plan shaped as a 10×10 square meter. Border built with blue carpet made of waste materials.

Ear to the Ground (USA, 1982, 4:25) – Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn, David Van Tieghem

Van Tieghem plays the streets of New York City with reckless abandon. The sound you hear is just as it happened.

Les Antilopes (France/Portugal, 2020, 8:00) – Maxime Martinot

One day, on the Moroccan shores, one hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of antelopes together threw themselves into the sea.”–Marguerite Durasne day, one hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of antelopes together threw themselves into the sea.” Marguerite Duras

Repúblicas Mínimas 12 (Spain, 2016, 1:31) – Rubén Martín de Lucas

Microstate of 100m2, 1 inhabitant and 5 hours and a half of duration carried out on a beach during the rise of the tide. Coordinates 43.399488, -4.358119. Plan shaped as a circle with a radius of 5.64m. Border built with local stones.

Atlas (Brazil, 2012, 6:12) – Magda Gebhardt

Magda, like Atlas, carries the world on her back, caught in a performance of construction and destruction of landscapes, whose space and time references are continually redefined. Magda Gebhardt’s work allows an analogy between landscape and image, two human creations whose artifacts lead to their own creation. This is how the artist gains prominence, in the role of someone who looks and observes – a place from which visions of the world are organized and distributed.

Too Big Drawing (Bielorrusia, 2021, 5:13) – Genadzi Buto

The drawing extends beyond the paper, outlining the real world.

Round and About (USA, 1979-80, 4:45) – Gary Hill

Around & About came out of a ‘what if’ scenario. What if I were to cut images to every syllable of a spoken text? (A way to keep me busy?) A daunting task in the time of U-matic machines and sloppy controllers. I did it all manually, hitting the edit button for every syllable. With each rewind I would listen and anticipate the coming syllable, learning as I went along to adjust for delayed reaction. I learned quickly—every ‘mistake’ was a step forward and one or more back. Rather quickly I wrote — I could almost say scribbled — a text, driven by a personal relationship breakup, yet, more to the point, directed to an abstract other; that is, someone a viewer could identify with.

Decision of No Return or A sense of territory (Germany/Spain, 2017, 8:08) – Christina Schultz

The video is made of 49 different sources featuring famous British detective television characters who investigate on a disturbing case, the decision of the British referendum of 23 of june 2016 to exit the European Union. The literary characters are Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, The Famous Five, James Bond, John Steed and Emma Peel, Monsieur Poirot, Mrs. Jessica Fletcher, Marlowe and Colombo as exceptions being either Belgium or American but born from British authors. The selection was made according to childhood heroes of the artist and the music is a hommage to ‘Why can’t we live together’ by Timmy Thomas made in collaboration with Mirim Casal Madinabeita.

Repúblicas Mínimas 4 (Spain, 2016, 0:43) – Rubén Martín de Lucas

Microstate of 100m2, 1 inhabitant and 1 day duration carried out without permission on fallow land at coordinates 40.720273, -3.241565. Plant shaped as an equilateral triangle with a side of 15.19m. Border built with local stones, displaced and aligned.

Oh I can´t stop (Polonia, 1975, 10:09) – Zbigniew Rybczynski

A story of a monster which, moving at an enormous speed, devours whatever comes across on its way: people, animals, cars, buildings.