CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium accepts artists submissions to participate in the next exhibition season 2023-2024 featuring three group exhibitions at our CTAO exhibition room in Lavagna, Italy:
Next deadline: 30 November 2023 (flexible) "Art of Freedom 2" - Group exhibition, free theme 2nd edition of the exhibition cycle and Best Art of Freedom recognition Accepted artworks: bidimensional, wall installed, including video art; tridimensional with limitations
Mysterious transmissions, long-forgotten video posts, frozen images lodged in the mind, animation erupting from the unconscious – a programme of short artist films exploring the tensions between lived and imagined realities, with films by Adonia Bouchehri, Daniel & Clara, Duncan Poulton, Edwin Rostron.
I'm Here But I'm Not A Cat – a group exhibition exploring the tension between the digital and the material through works that express a desire to reconnect with lived experience and physical presence. Featuring artists Adonia Bouchehri, Daniel & Clara, Duncan Poulton, Edwin Rostron.
Dates:
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 18:00 to Sunday, October 1, 2023 - 18:00
Found footage filmmaking is a practice involving reappropriating and remixing previously shot or created materials for new, innovative purposes. Filmmakers working in this tradition utilize many different methods of transforming moving images—from physically manipulating motion-picture film to juxtaposing disparate content through clever editing to glitching digital video and video game software—to critically examine its original meaning, context, and cultural significance.
Dates:
Thursday, January 12, 2023 (All day) to Saturday, March 18, 2023 (All day)
For one weekend only Daniel & Clara's Landscape Imaginary comes to London with an exhibition at Lot Projects, Broadway Market Mews in Hackney.
An exhibition of moving image, polaroids and mail art exploring the relationship between psychology and place, looking at how we imbue places with meaning, and how in turn landscape, weather and the environment impact our imagination and state of mind.
Dates:
Friday, October 7, 2022 - 18:00 to Sunday, October 9, 2022 - 17:00
For the final stop on Daniel & Clara's Landscape Imaginary tour, they will be coming to Hamilton MAS in Felixstowe for an exhibition of moving image, polaroids and mail art.
For one weekend only, Daniel & Clara's Landscape Imaginary comes to 303 Projects in Lowestoft!
An exhibition of moving image, polaroids and mail art exploring the relationship between psychology and place, looking at how we imbue places with meaning, and how in turn landscape, weather and the environment impact our imagination and state of mind.
Dates:
Saturday, August 20, 2022 - 12:00 to Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 17:00
An exhibition of Daniel & Clara's video installation On The Island will be presented in the rooftop observation room at Jaywick Martello Tower, Essex, from Thurs 28th - Sun 31st July.
Responding to the psychological impact of the global pandemic and the physical restrictions of lockdown, On The Island is a series of 100 short videos depicting Daniel & Clara in the landscapes of Mersea Island, Essex, where they’ve been living since March 2020.
Dates:
Thursday, July 28, 2022 (All day) to Sunday, July 31, 2022 (All day)
Join us on Sat 26th March at 5:00 pm GMT for the MIA Masterclass with Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti, founders of Microscope Gallery which specializes in exhibiting moving image, sound, performance and digital art. Their presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
