From the 2nd of June to the 2nd of July 2021
Curated by Simon Guiochet
VIDEO PROGRAM #1 : OUR EYES WIDE OPEN WITH CLOSED EYELIDS
Artists: Bettina HOFFMANN, AL / Methas CHANTAWONGS, TH/ Rick NIEBE, IT / Roberto CATANI, IT / Mati PIRSZTUK, AR / Yuka SATO, JP / Milos PESKIR, RS / Jason MOYES, UK / Takahiro SUZUKI, JP,
VIDEO #2 PROGRAM : THE SOUND OF THE WORLD IS OVERFLOWING FROM OUR EYES
Artists: Max HATTLER, DE / Verónica LUYO & Álvaro ICAZA, PER / Guillaume VALLÉE, CA / Pablo-Martín CÓRDOBA, IT / Adrian GARCIA GOMEZ, US / LEYOKKI, FR / Takahiro SUZUKI, JP / CHOQUET Clémence et GAMIO Mickaël, FR / Eric SOUTHER, US.
In May 2020 we had to cancel our 10th Oodaaq Festival, a retrospective anniversary edition that wanted to highlight 10 years of video programming with a selection of 100 videos.
This year we still cannot offer festive and convivial events as we would like. So we have changed our event: The Oodaaq Festival loses its F to become « L’Estival Oodaaq, a summer of nomadic and poetic images », with 120 artists from 30 nationalities, in 10 places in Rennes.
VIDEO PROGRAM #1 : OUR EYES WIDE OPEN WITH CLOSED EYELIDS
When our eyes are closed, what do we see? Where does this endless flow of mental images come from? What do they tell us from deep within us? Images keep appearing around us, whether we have our eyes open or closed, whether we are awake or not, they hatch endlessly and haunt our mind.
The videos in this program invite us to follow them on an inner journey beneath the surface of the world, deep in our personal memories. A path is traced, probing the abyss, straight towards the bottom, inside, as beyond, we cannot see anything. And in the lack of seeing appear forms between visible and invisible.
Displaced, Bettina HOFFMANN, AL, 7’14, 2020
Phased out geometry, Methas CHANTAWONGS, TH, 4’58, 2020
Prélude, Rick NIEBE, IT, 1’, 2019
Per tutta la vita, Roberto CATANI, IT, 5’, 2018
Color Noises , Mati PIRSZTUK, AR, 0’47, 2020
Birthday, Yuka SATO, JP, 8’10, 2020
Digital Fossil Corrupt Galatian, Milos PESKIR, RS, 3’15, 2019
From Scotland with Love, Jason MOYES, UK, 3’41, 2019
Life, like water, flows to greater bodies, Takahiro SUZUKI, JP, 5’55, 2020
VIDEO #2 PROGRAM : THE SOUND OF THE WORLD IS OVERFLOWING FROM OUR EYES
Let us saturate our eyes once again to appreciate the diversity of the world and its cruel reality.
Let us saturate our ears to hear what surrounds us and overwhelms us. Let us saturate our brains with information, stories, references, amplified realities.
And let’s see a part of the world as it is, with a bang and frontally!
And let us tear this surface of appearances to seek what could be beyond.
Serial Parallels, Max HATTLER, DE, 9’, 2019
Despedida para un obturador vanidoso, Verónica LUYO & Álvaro ICAZA, PER, 3’11, 2020
Are you haunted, daddy ? (about anxiety), Guillaume VALLÉE, CA, 2’07, 2020
Postdigital flipbook, Pablo-Martín CÓRDOBA, IT, 4’30, 2019
Primavera, Adrian GARCIA GOMEZ, US, 5’, 2020
Croquis Boeuf, LEYOKKI, FR, 4’05, 2020
Union Pacific, Takahiro SUZUKI, JP, 4’42, 2020, 4 tracks(dodes’kaden), COMMA (CHOQUET Clémence et GAMIO Mickaël), FR, 7’16, 2017
Space Time Form, Eric SOUTHER, US, 11’13, 2020
The Oodaaq Festival has existed since 2011. Every year, it offers an artistic journey through the city of Rennes. It brings together exhibitions, video art screenings, performances, installations in public space, conferences and round tables around nomadic and poetic images.
The programming of the Oodaaq Festival is divided between an international call for projects, and carte blanche offered to local and international cultural structures.
The call for projects is distributed through our network of artists, international video art festivals and cultural and political partners, by the FRAAP (Federation of Networks and Associations of Plastic Artists), the CNAP (Center National of plastic arts), CIPAC (Federation of contemporary art professionals) and through the network of art schools in Europe.