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Cacotopía. FOKUS’12 | Nikolaj Kunsthal. Copenhagen

FOKUS FESTIVAL
Screen from has been invited to participate at FOKUS Art Festival 2012, the second edition of the festival initiated by Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen 2012.

Cacotopía (Daniel G. Andujar and Avelino Sala)2011. 23m 45 s. from avelino sala on Vimeo.

On this ocasion SFB has curated a programme that reflects on the different modes and strategies of production. We believe that these key issues of interest to artists, institutions and agents involved in the creative cultural field, enabling the collective discussion in the frame of FOKUS Festival. Furthermore, the selection will allow us to map out our methodology and explain our premises as a platform and a festival.

On another hand and beyond the strand of production, the pieces also share affinities in that they all portray a series of heterotopias, in the sense described by M. Foucault: they explore landscapes and places which encapsulate an strong “other” imaginaries, different from what they appear to be, and are situated at the heart of society –be this symbolical, historical or physical- but constitute its margins, its limits. It is in a way an attempt to trace a spectral geography of histories blurred by official narratives, the suspended time of the prison, the remnants of the spectacle, and the dystopias of the metropolis

SCREENING PROGRAMME

Uriel Orlow, Holy Precursor (), 14' 13''
Co-produced by the artist and Galerie Campagne Première Berlin, Utopiana, Yerevan/Geneva and Anadolü Kültür, Istanbul
LOOP '11 Award

Daniel G. Andújar + Avelino Sala, Cacotopía (2011), 22'
Produced by Screen from Barcelona and the artists (Barcelona, Spain).

Mohammed Bourouissa, Temps Mort (),14'
Produced by Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Tourcoing, France).

Cooperativa General Humana, The Aura of Things (2011), 5' 30''
Produced by (Barcelona, Spain).

An artist who uses irony and presentation strategies that employ new communication technologies to question the democratic and equalitarian promises of these media and criticise the desire for control lying behind their apparent transparency. Based on the confirmation that new information and communication technologies are transforming our everyday life, Daniel G. Andújar created a fiction (Technologies To The People, 1996) designed to make us increase our awareness of the reality around us and of the deception in promises of free choice that are converted, irremissibly, into new forms of control and inequality. A long-time member of i rational.org (international reference point for art on the web) and founder of Technologies To The People , he is the creator of numerous projects on the Internet such as art-net-dortmund, e-barcelona.org, e-valencia.org, e-seoul.org, e-wac.org, e-sevilla.org, Materiales de artista, etc. He has directed numerous workshops for artists and social collectives in different countries.

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