As part of the VIDEONALE.18 - Festival for Video and Time-Based Art at Kunstmuseum Bonn, a total of 11 moderated digital video nights will take place via Zoom in March and April 2021.
Each evening, private individuals from Bonn and Cologne will host one artistic video from the current Videonale exhibition, which will be shown and discussed with each other in a moderated conversation. A webcam and a computer microphone are needed for participation.
The artists of the video works are connected from different countries of the world and enrich the discussion with their perspectives. The evenings are supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Participation in the video evenings is free of charge, registration is required at videoabende@videonale.org
ALL VIDEO NIGHTS
Digital Video night | Scenes from Trial and Error (DE/EN)
"Scenes from Trial and Error" by Tekla Aslanishvili
In her work, Aslanishvili searches for traces of the failed billion-dollar projects Lazika and Anaklia City on the Georgian coast: a futuristic city.
Host: Damian Paderta
Language event: The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language Video: Georgian with English subtitles simultaneously translated into German
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 10.03.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
Digital Video night | Cloud forest (DE/EN)
"Cloud forest" by Eliane Esther Bots
Five young women come closer to their parents' past and thus to their own identity by telling their own family history.
Host: Annette Ziegert
Language event: The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: Dutch with English subtitles simultaneously translated into German.
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 11.03.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
Digital Video night | Civil Twilight (DE/EN)
“Civil Twilight" by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
In strange environments, the artists present their cosmos of partly private, partly scientific research, of interactions with living and dead animals and plants as well as everyday observations.
Host: Nicole Rebmann
Language event The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: English spoken language without subtitles, simultaneous interpretation into German spoken language
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 19.03.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
Digital Video night | Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical (DE/EN)
“Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical" by Rhea Storr
Afrofuturism is not expressed here as a speculative black design for the future, but as a striving for a future in which blacks want to live, right now: The Afro-future is here!
Host: Sandra Karangwa (Black Lives Matter)
Language event: The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: English spoken language without subtitles, simultaneous interpretation into German spoken language.
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 23.03.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
The video evening is a cooperation with Black Lives Matter, Cologne.
Digital video night | Last man (DE/EN)
“Last Man" by Dana Levy
Last Man assembles live worldwide webcam images of eerily deserted squares and streets from the internet from the time of the first COVID-19 lockdown with scenes and sound clips from two 1960s post-apocalyptic horror films.
Hosts: Birgit Hauska (SK Stiftung Kultur), Georges Dupont and Gabi Kürschner
Language event: The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: English spoken language without subtitles, simultaneous interpretation into German spoken language.
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 15.04.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
Digital video night | Single copy (DE/EN)
“Single Copy" by Che-Yu Hsu
Two heads, four hands, and three legs: Chang Chung-Jen and Chang Chung-I were the first conjoined twins to be surgically separated in Taiwan. The work contemplates the relationship between body and memory, reality and fantasy from the perspective of one of the brothers and elaborates on the technologies of physical and virtual reproduction.
Host: Gerda König
Language event The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: Chinese with English subtitles simultaneously translated into German.
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 17.04.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org. The video evening will take place via Zoom.
Thu, 11.03.2021
"Scenes from Trial and Error" by Tekla Aslanishvili
In her work, Aslanishvili searches for traces of the failed billion-dollar projects Lazika and Anaklia City on the Georgian coast: a futuristic city.
Host: Damian Paderta
Language event: The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language Video: Georgian with English subtitles simultaneously translated into German
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 10.03.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
Fri, 12.03.2021
"Cloud forest" by Eliane Esther Bots
Five young women come closer to their parents' past and thus to their own identity by telling their own family history.
Host: Annette Ziegert
Language event: The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: Dutch with English subtitles simultaneously translated into German.
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 11.03.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
Sat, 20.03.2021
“Civil Twilight" by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
In strange environments, the artists present their cosmos of partly private, partly scientific research, of interactions with living and dead animals and plants as well as everyday observations.
Host: Nicole Rebmann
Language event The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: English spoken language without subtitles, simultaneous interpretation into German spoken language
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 19.03.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
Wed, 24.03.2021
“Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical" by Rhea Storr
Afrofuturism is not expressed here as a speculative black design for the future, but as a striving for a future in which blacks want to live, right now: The Afro-future is here!
Host: Sandra Karangwa (Black Lives Matter)
Language event: The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: English spoken language without subtitles, simultaneous interpretation into German spoken language.
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 23.03.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
The video evening is a cooperation with Black Lives Matter, Cologne.
Fri, 16.04.2021
“Last Man" by Dana Levy
Last Man assembles live worldwide webcam images of eerily deserted squares and streets from the internet from the time of the first COVID-19 lockdown with scenes and sound clips from two 1960s post-apocalyptic horror films.
Hosts: Birgit Hauska (SK Stiftung Kultur), Georges Dupont and Gabi Kürschner
Language event: The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: English spoken language without subtitles, simultaneous interpretation into German spoken language.
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 15.04.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org
The video evening will take place via Zoom.
Sun, 18.04.2021
“Single Copy" by Che-Yu Hsu
Two heads, four hands, and three legs: Chang Chung-Jen and Chang Chung-I were the first conjoined twins to be surgically separated in Taiwan. The work contemplates the relationship between body and memory, reality and fantasy from the perspective of one of the brothers and elaborates on the technologies of physical and virtual reproduction.
Host: Gerda König
Language event The video night will be held in German and English spoken language and will be supported by simultaneous interpreters.
Language video: Chinese with English subtitles simultaneously translated into German.
The number of participants is limited. Registration required by 17.04.2021, 12pm CET via Anna Holms, videoabende@videonale.org. The video evening will take place via Zoom.