PREOCCUPATION Videoart selection
33 videos / 33 artists / 33 countries
Curated by FEMLINK ART International Videoart Platform
From the 21st of Novemver to the 22nd of December 2024
Artists: Maria Rosa Jijon (Ecuador) – Alena Kupcikova (Czech Republic) – Siti Almainnah Binte Ab Majid (Singapore) – Grimanesa Amoros (Peru) – Nicoletta Stalder (Switzerland) – Evgenija Demnievska (Serbia) – Dalia Al Kury (Jordania) – Véronique Sapin (France) – Marta Ares (Argentina) – Maria Papacharalambous (Cyprus) – Amaranta Sánchez (Mexico) – Victoria Melody (England) – Madelon Hooykaas (The Netherlands) – Alli Savolainen (Finland) – Yun Aiyoung (Korea) – Teresa Puppo (Uruguay) – Jessica Lagunas (Nicaragua) – Myritza Castillo (Puerto Rico) – Anna Malagrida (Spain) – Sabrina Montiel Soto (Venezuela) – Kirsten Justesen (Denmark) – Inas Hakki (Syria) – Natasha Dimitrievska (Macedonia) – Bridget Walker (Australia) – Cagdas Kahriman (Turkey) – Chantal duPont (Canada) – Larissa Sansour (Palestinian Territories) – Alicja Karska – Aleksandra Went (Poland) – Fatima Mazmouz (Morocco) – Sharon Horodi (Israel) – Marilena Preda Sanc (Romania) – Lucine Talalyan (Armenia) – CM Judge (USA)
List of Videos:
01 – WHAT DO YOU WANT, Maria Rosa Jijon (Ecuador / Equateur)
Women from the 1st Latin American Migrant Summit in Messico answer to the question What do you want? Qué QUieres? Everything? Is this what we would all answer when given the chance to say it?
02 – MY HEART, Alena Kupcikova (Czech Republic / République Tchèque)
I have decided to create my own heart.
03 – AN ASPECTUAL MINDSCAPE, Siti Almainnah Binte Ab Majid (Singapore / Singapour)
Lengthening thoughts, movements and the steps in which routinely stick by us, in a new pace and breaths.
04 – PREOCCUPATION, Grimanesa Amoros (Peru / Pérou)
I am preoccupied with that which can be seen
05 – SPINNING BABY, Nicoletta Stalder (Switzerland / Suisse)
What ever I’m occupied with, my children are always spinning around in a corner of my mind.
06 – IN TIME, Evgenija Demnievska (Serbia / Serbie)
Simultaneous action in two different places, the possibility for the lucky concordances, unpredictable combinations.
07 – THE KISS : SUSPENDED, Dalia Al Kury (Jordania / Jordanie)
I’m preoccuped with whether I should walk away before my fall, or enjoy the kiss while it lasts.
08 – TOO MUCH !, Véronique Sapin (France)
Overconsumption, overpopulation… We act towards our planet like virus.
09 – NO TITTLE, Marta Ares (Argentina / Argentine)
10 – PREOCCUPATION, Maria Papacharalambous (Cyprus / Chypre)
11 – STURM AND DRANG, Amaranta Sánchez (Mexico / Mexique)
This piece is a “storm” and the same time a “video that works around the self-portrait”. It reflects on both the contemplation of the natural landscape and the fear that is experienced in the presence of the totality of nature in which we discover our own self with terror.
12 – WITH WHAT I AM PREOCCUPIED TO DAY, Victoria Melody (England / Angleterre)
13 – WHEEL OF LIFE, Madelon Hooykaas (The Netherlands)
A poem about my engaged philosophy of life
14 – HECK OF THE TECH, Alli Savolainen (Finland)
New electronic devices and technical innovations confuse me.
15 – CAN YOU FEEL, Yun Aiyoung (Korea / Corée)
What destination ?
16 – BE ENGAGED, Teresa Puppo (Uruguay)
The images filmed are of the “villas miseria” arround the city of Montevideo. I sing the tonade “don’t worry, be happy” and at the same time I propose a linguist game and I work with the words “pre”, “ocúpate”, “ocúpen-se”, “des-preocúpense”..etc.
17 – PREOCCUPATION (GRAY HAIR) , Jessica Lagunas (Nicaragua)
The preoccupation with growing old and her obsession with gray hairs leads a woman to pluck out her gray hair.
18 – MORE THAN WORDS, Myritza Castillo (Puerto Rico)
The video in some way shows my preoccupation about nuclear war and the past disasters as an issue that is very updated today.
19 – OUR PREOCCUPATION, Anna Malagrida (Spain)
Is the distance which brings us closer the same as the one which separates us.
20 – PREOCUPACIÓN, Sabrina Montiel Soto (Venezuela)
Silent and constant, clouds come and take us with them.
21 – ICE CREAM (21), Kirsten Justesen (Denmark)
22 – NAKED, Inas Hakki (Syria)
To be free i have to accept who i am, that’s my preoccupation.
23 – I AM NOT A PLASTIC BAG, Natasha Dimitrievska (Macedonia)
Criticism of THE GLOBALIZATION, is in each of our countries where, we live the Copy Systems in every segment.
24 – PAST PERFECT – PRESENT CONTINUOUS, Bridget Walker (Australia / Australie)
25 – LIQUIDATION, Cagdas Kahriman (Turkey)
When nothing more remains to say…)
26 – SEE BEYOND, Chantal duPont (Canada)
My preoccupation is to see beyond what is to be seen. What is behind that frozen skin ? A tree to imagine.
27 – RUN LARA RUN, Larissa Sansour (Palestinian Territories / Territoires Palestiniens)
The video explores the idea of displaced identities, typical of societies that have undergone political turmoils, and their diasporas.
28 – RAIN, Alicja Karska – Aleksandra Went (Poland / Pologne)
The slow pace of the narration, almost suspended in time, causes the viewer to focus on the image itself. The meditative rhythm of the frozen-frame video and, especially, the tension between movement and stillness refer us to a different temporality and memory animated by the memory of the image on screen.
29 – THE LUNCH, Fatima Mazmouz (Morocco / Maroc)
30- DIS-COVER, Sharon Horodi (Israel)
A pamphlet I found on my car windscreen, made me contemplate about the erotic nature of the gap between collar and neck.
31 – DIVA, Marilena Preda Sanc (Romania / Roumanie)
Video Diva is based on a performance representing my body moving in a repetitive gym exercise illustrating our daily duty to preserve our body as women and the revolt expressed in the last picture of the video with the text The most I like is doing nothing.
32 – PRESENT, Lucine Talalyan (Armenia / Armenie)
The akward possibility to lose a dream in one’s life story.
For Karine Matsakyan who gave her work to Harutyun Simonyan.
33 – SECRET CHAMBERS: BODY, BLOOD, WIND AND WATER, CM Judge (USA)
Walking within a stone labyrinth a women is flooded with her preoccupations –body, blood, wind and water — the “secret chambers” within her.
FemLink-Art
The FemLink-Art collective (FL’Art) was founded in 2005 by two female visual artists, C. M. Judge (USA) and Véronique Sapin (France), with the aim of introducing sisterhood into the art world with a concrete, international dimension.
Building new forms of artistic networking and transnational cooperation appeared to them as a form of active solidarity that could contribute to raising the profile of the work of women artists.
Since October 2005, when FemLink-Art was launched, and February 2006, when the first video-composition was broadcast in the USA (during the WCA International Women Video), 143 artists from 63 countries on all continents have agreed to join the collective.