2023

Postcards from the Edge by VISUAL AIDS

Looking back at 2022

MUESTRA DISLOCADA/DISLOCATED 2022- India Edition -

CASA CULTURAL COLOMBO ALEMANA - Cartagena, Colombia

Two events which took place on 13th and 14th December 13th 2022 at CASA CULTURAL COLOMBO ALMANA / COLOMBIAN GERMAN CULTURAL HOUSE (Goethe-Institut) in Cartagena, Colombia were the last live and in person project for 2022. The events included my Social Sculpture Workshop,a live Performance, a video presentation and an artist talk. I performed my Performance "Dialogue", which contains autobiographical elements. The focus of the video presentation was about the joint project "The Ashes of Eden Project", which was created together with the dancer Jana Schmück (Bautzen, Germany). The Ashes of Eden Project deals with the social and cultural environment of Upper Lusatia in the Eastern part of Germany after reunification through dance. The artist talk was not only about my career, but also contained my own critical views about my own work, visions and today's art scene 

HOME PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

my video performance “the glass between” in a private home

HOME PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

WHEN

Sunday 4th of December 2022

14:00-18:00

(After 18:00 audiences and artists are invited for dinner and feedback session)

WHERE

Tanja and Victoria’s apartment in Alppila. Sipoonkatu 2A 10, 00520 Helsinki, Finland

CORRESPOND

7. KURZstummfilmfestival - SHORT SILENT FILM FESTIVAL, Theme  “Shadows”

“stairs & corridors“ with Jana Schmück at

7. KURZstummfilmfestival - SHORT SILENT FILM FESTIVAL, subject “Shadows”

On Saturday November 19, 2022, Starts 15.00 h., at Zeche Carl, Wilhelm-Nieswandt-Allee 100, Essen, Germany

From November 15th, five films will be uploaded to the KURZstummfilmfestival YouTube channel every day. The channel will also be able to watch the award ceremony on November 19 from 7 p.m. – there will be a live broadcast from Zeche Carl.

“stairs and corridors“ is the 2nd segment from The Ashes of Eden Project. The Ashes of Eden is a collaboration project with dancer Jana Schmück from Bautzen, Germany.

Stuff MX Film Festival VII

1ST INTERNATIONAL GCB MINIPRINT 2022

The Violence Project 2022 @ The New Museum of Networked Art

One video work “sky above-sky within” and one sound piece “ominous” of mine are select for of the project

The Violence Project 2022 @ The New Museum of Networked Art ,curated, and coordinated by Agricola de Cologne, media artist

and curator from Cologne/Germany.

The project is divided in several sections: The Violence Code / Violence Radio / Violence TV / P/L –>Ukraine

Minimal. Signs and Forms of the Essential

Two photography works are presented at:

Minimal. Signs and Forms of the Essential

Photo, Video and Visual international group exhibition . Curated and organized by LoosenArt

30th September – 31th October 2022 / Monday to Friday – 9:00 am – 7:00 pm / Millepiani, via Nicolò Odero 13 – Rome, Italy

Works: Mug & Stone / All What Matters

 Acoustic Interiors

Presentation of Acoustic Interiors

New Emergences’ Acoustic Interiors project was presented on 19 October 2022 during a concert at the Institute of Sonology in the concert hall of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. The presentation also included 29 pieces published on postcards,

I created two sound pieces “345” and “dialogue in space” for the project and presentation .The 29 postcards where designed by me as well

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MINIMAL URBAN VIDEO PERFORMANCES

“Fallen” with Chen I-Yin, (Taiwan) at

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MINIMAL URBAN VIDEO PERFORMANCES

October 18th - November 13th, 2022

Sala Rekalde., Alameda de Recalde, 30 48009 Bilbao, Spain

Further more the video performances will be screened at two congresses and seminars in October

17-19 October/October 2022. Matadero Madrid, within the program of the Congress "Landscape and Sustainability: Listening to Diversity". Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). -

October 20/October 2022. CC Las Cigarreras (Alicante-Spain), within the program of the Sonic Seminar (i2) Research and Innovation in Architecture and Territory.

This 3rd edition of the Festival is entitled "The rururban body in action" and is made up of 69 videos that record a series of minimal, borderline, dislocated, peripheral and delocalized actions that activate nature in the city and the city in nature. The pieces show urban bodies in rural environments or/and rural bodies in urban spaces carrying out contradictory, uncertain, deviant actions that invite us to analyze the urban environment as a natural environment and vice versa. 

ESTAR SIENDO (BEING)

Video Performance "the HEALING" at

ESTAR SIENDO (BE BEING)

17 October – 22 October 2022, 25000 Saltillo, Mexico

Different venues and times within the city

is a relational art project coordinated and curated by multidisciplinary visual artist Mercedes Aqui. The aim is to promote contemporary artistic practices, which are intertwined, in this case, through performance. With the participation of different institutions of government, educational, entrepreneurs, cultural spaces and society. The proposal includes workshops, projections of video performances by international artists, art-action presentation at cultural venues and public spaces, within the city of Saltillo. Among others in the Desert Museum, Vanguardia Newspaper, Casa La Besana Cultural Center, Tavern El Pig babel, Crown Residences, Ruben Herrera Museum, The Creative Station Node, University Carolina, RCG Mega Screen, Mega Screen of Saraperos Stadium. 

A premier on radio "Voices in my Head" on CJSW Radio

PASA FESTIVAL

Pasa Festival took place in multiple locations in Seoul (South Korea) and Vietnam, from October 15 to December 4, 2022. My work “ steadily flowing-steadily moving” were exhibited at the

5th PASA Festival, Photo and science art Festival "Connect"

18.10.22 – 30.10.22

Blue Square Culture Center, Seoul, South Korea 블루스퀘어

PRINT MEET III International Printmaking Exhibition 

2022 Miami New Media Festival

Video work "steadily flowing - steadily moving " presented at 2022 Miami New Media Festival

October 8th, 2022 - October 29th, 2022.

ArtToSaveLives Contemporary, 9705 NE 2nd Ave, Miami FL 33138, USA

The Miami New Media Festival has selected “Civility vs. Violence” as a curatorial thesis for video art and site-specific installations for the XVII edition. Art projects around this topic will remind us how important is education and community to embrace peace. This edition will showcase artworks indoors as a traditional art exhibition, and outdoors as public projections, which is an alternative and effective way to exhibit video art.

7th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland

FIVA SPMAV - The 4th International Video Art Festival 

The 4th International Video Art Festival of the Master's Research Seminar in Visual Arts - FIVA SPMAV 2022, is an extensionist cultural action of internationalization linked to the Graduate Program in Visual Arts s at UFPel,(University Federal de Pelotas) and aims to promote the language of video art in its various possibilities.

SCHEDULE

October 4th to 7th in the exhibition space of the Museu de Arte Leopoldo Gotuzzo – MALG

October 4th to 6th from 7pm to 9pm projection on the facade of the Leopoldo Gotuzzo Museum of Art, Pelotsa Brazil–

Anniversary exhibition - B(ring) Y(our) O(wn) B(eamer)

Pulchri Studio

Opening Saturday 01 October 2022 om 18:00 uur / 01 October 2022 - 19 October 2022 / open Tue – Sun 12.00-17.00 h.

Lange Voorhout 15, 2514 EA The Hague, Netherlands

Four of my video works are represented in the exhibition:

1. "Sky behind the windows" in collaboration with Jana Schmück / 2. "steady flowing steadly moving"

3. "return...back...return" with Hung Yu-Li / 4. "Swirling Layers" with Alex Mars and Anna Grabowska

For the 175th anniversary,  Pulchri Studio is organizing an anniversary exhibition this October divided into three subject areas : past, present and future of Pulchri Studio. The future theme will be imagined as a B.Y.O.B. event. For this Pulchri Studio invited and selected artists (members and non-members) who work with (digital) film, video, projections, beamers, light or music visuals to beam their work in the Weissenbruch Room.

IMAF 2022 Festival Life Performance Part 

IMAF 2022 International Multi Art Festival 09.09-11.09.2022 Odzaci and Novi Sad, Serbia.

On 9 September I performed an “ improvised performance” in an old abandoned motel in Odzaci, Serbia.I had planned first to perform my performance Dialogue which is based on a totally different concept. However when I saw the building for the first time in the morning I changed my idea and concept for my performance in the afternoon. For two reasons first the opportunities the building offers, the second was the performance I had planned would be very difficult to present in this building. Finally I decided to go into a dialogue with the building were creating sound and noise would play a very important role.

Sunday the 11th of September 2022 I performed my second performance at the SULUV Gallery,(Union of Associations of Fine Artists of Vojvodina) Novi Sad, Serbia. The concept of my second performance was based on the concept of a dialogue that comes to nothing and failed The performance was accompanied by alienated sound elements and fragments of dialogues.

Video images : Werther Germondari. Curator Nenad Bogdanovic. With thanks to Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands  

IMAF 2022 Festival Video Works:"No Pandemic - No War" 

September 3rd and 8th, 2022.

The Theme "No Pandemic - No War" is a reflection of the wish that by the beginning of the 24th International Festival of Multimedia Arts - IMAF 2022, both of these crisis events, which are very difficult for humanity, will end. 30 video works, 37 artists from 18 countries around the world, were selected for the online presentation of video works, entitled "No Pandemic - No War". The online presentation of video works, on the official YouTube channel of the IMAF festival, will be realized between September 3rd and 8th, 2022. The premier online presentation of my work will on 6th September 19.15 (CEST),

You Tube link https://www.youtube.com/user/imafoffice/videos

 XVIII International Competition for Small Graphic Forms and Bookplates 

I am taking part  at XVIII International Competition for Small Graphic Forms and Bookplates Ostrów Wielkopolski 2022 exhibition

Opening Saturday 3rd September 2022, 11 a.m.  Museum/Town Hall

3 September - 19 October 2022

Ostrow Wielkopolski City Museum, Rynek 1, 63- 400 Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland

3º Festival Internacional de Videodança do RS – FIVRS 2022  

The video work “ View behind the curtain” a collaboration project with dancer Jana Schmück (Bautzen, Germany) was present at :

3º Festival Internacional de Videodança do RS – FIVRS 2022.

FIVRS 2022 were presented at two venues

02 September – 11 September, 2022 - Museu de Arte Leopoldo Gotuzzo , Praça Sete de Julho, 180 , Pelotas, RS, Brazil

&

01 September – 18 September 2022 - FUNDACÃO ECARTA , Avenida João Pessoa, 943, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2022 - Video Exhibition “Forest and Life”

Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2022 - Video Exhibition “Forest and Life” 

August 27 - November 30, 2022

Exhibition Venue : Supsokmaru in Yeonmisan Nature Art Park and others, Gongju City, Republic of Korea

A recent video of mine “ Forest Woman” is screened during the Biennale Video Exhibition 

The 4th International Biënnale Of Works Of Art On Paper 

In My Room

In My Room

20 August – End of October 2022, opening 20 August 2022 , 18.00 h

Studio Lux,  Tempelhofer Feld 145, 12099 Berlin, Germany

The exhibition focuses on the synergy of art and erotic culture. In My Room reflects the metaphorical meaning of spaces in the field of tension between inside and outside, conscious and unconscious.

My video works  "DARK" with Tsai Hsin-Ying and "sky above - sky within" with Wiebke Kahn will be presented

FOTOMANIKER

There is a small photo journal called FOTOMANIKER ( photomaniac) published in Berlin, Germany. Edited and publish by the Berlin photographer Hartmut Gräfenhahn. Issue 16 features a selection of photos from my portfolio/series “I can't see” under the heading of conceptual photography.

LACUNA FESTIVAL 2022, Theme 2022 : “CLASH”

LACUNA FESTIVAL 2022 , (international contemporary art festival), Lanzarote, Spain, Theme 2022 : “CLASH”, 02 – 29 July 2022

Various physical venues and virtual events. Sala El Aljibe in Haria and Casa de la Cultura Benito Armas Perez in Yaiza, Lanzarote, Spain

I wanted to approach the theme "Clash" from a different view. in a more quiet, hidden and introvert manner. Therefore I choose a very metaphoric style and to reflect and express the subject through objects we use and see daily... chairs. The chairs are placed in a situation which can be consider as a clash, no dialogue, to confronting each other. 

Statements in Blue + Yellow & White + Red

Group exhibition dedicated to solidarity with Ukraine and the Belarusian freedom movement

art association mehrkunst e.V

July 1 - 31, 2022, Tues-Sat 2-7 p.m , Casinostraße 44, 56068 Koblenz, Germany

The Koblenz art association mehrkunst e.V, have been planning an art campaign with the motto "Compass Europe: East Wind" for a long time. Inspired by the numerous peaceful protests in Belarus last year. Now events have escalated, Ukraine has been invaded, war is raging. Despite the feeling of helplessness and powerlessness, mehrkunst e.V wanted to react : with a jointly created work of art in yellow + blue and red + white. All works can be auctioned on site or bought directly. The proceeds go to aid associations and aid activities of Ukraine and the Belarusian freedom movement.

The five graphic works  are executed in mixed media, based partly on linocut and digital printing techniques.

12x12x12+ Nature

12x12x12+ Nature - / -Nature Art Cube Exhibition of Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2022

01/06/2022 - 10/08/2022 / Daily except Mondays 10.00-17.00 h

Exhibition Venue: Geumgang Nature Art Center, Gongju City, Republic of Korea

Nature Art Cube Exhibition, which has been conducted as one of the indoor exhibitions of Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, is a program that seeks to interpret and broaden awareness of nature in various ways of thinking and expression in a 12cm cube.

Title : Foliage  - Medium /Materials carton / nature based paper from Japan and Nepal / leaves

The idea was to keep strictly to a solid cube form. Finally the cube became an abstract collage of nature. The cube has no fixed front view, every side can be a front view 

«DO NOT GO OUT THE WINDOW»

«DO NOT GO OUT THE WINDOW»

13/06/2022 – 20/06/2022  Haze Gallery, 10783, Berlin, Germany

“Do not go out the window” online exhibition represents international artists and their works with a sharp political, and social message. Like ray of lights, artworks help us look at ourselves, at our problems, problems with which we don’t have to accept. They help us to remember serious political, economic, social, and environmental problems. Remember that it’s not the norm, and we must continue to stand up for our values and ideals.

The following works of mine are presented Photography works : "I can not see " & "Inside-Outside" Video Work “the glass between” 

LINES FICTION

My animation video PARALLEL UNIVERSES is part of : Film Project LINES FICTION

18/06/2022 - 24/08/2022, Galerie im Körnerpark, Schierkerstrasse 8 , 12051 Berlin, Germany. Open daily 10 – 20 h.

Accompanying the exhibition ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS 2022 the project Film LINES FICTION presents a screening with animations and drawing films.

In the exhibition LINES FICTION, international artists show their digital animations and animated films. Drawings on paper and drawings within the moving image are complementary poles that cannot exist without each other. Based on the line, they inspire and complement each other. The result is a film reel from A to Z that is as diverse as drawing as a medium itself.

LINES FICTION is initiated by Berlin-based artist and curator Bettina Munk.

URBANSONICS

URBANSONICS - A compilation of recordings and screenings of the @#$%&! strange year

Playing from 7 June to 14 August 2022 

cold bench,  Via Vallazze 7, 20131 Milano, Italy

My two sound and audiovisual works "Urban Pandemic " and "The Healing" will be present at URBANSONICS

2020 -2022 has been strange years. After the surreal quietness comes the new normal, how have we adapted it so far? New restrictions, no restrictions; new variants, no vaccination. These two years have brought out the best and worst in ourselves and the others. Urban Pandemic presents sound and audiovisual works that do not define right and wrong but echo the peace and fear; the calmness and confusion we have been experiencing during those years

KAOS 2022

Buddhist Art Meditations

Three graphic works of mine are published in The Buddhist Art Meditations (BAM) Journal (The Inaugural Issue 2022. Issue One May 2022, Singapore)

BAM (Buddhist art meditations) is an journal for exchanging ideas on connections between creative and Buddhist practice. It mainly showcases original, personal, creative interpretations of “Buddhist Art”.

Of all the major world religions, I have dealt with the philosophy of Zen Buddhism the most. Partly this was due to my years of living in the Far East. To this day, this has influenced my artistic visions, partly consciously and partly unconsciously

https://www.buddhistjournal.org/bam-2022-1

train journey 

train journey arrives at Albuquerque.

My video work “train journey” with Martin Toloko, Marlene G. Prinz, Amudzi Mawuenya and Sammy will be presented at :

EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA v17.2 

May 9-23, 2022

Albuquerque, NM, USA  

Festival Director: Bryan Konefsky

View behind the Curtain

“ View behind the curtain” a collaboration project with dancer Jana Schmück (Bautzen, Germany) will be present at :

10th Rockville Arts Festival

May 7- 8, 2022

VisArts Center Rockville , Rockville Town Square, Rockville , MA, USA

The work will be shown in the program section Turmoil & Error Peace Letters to Ukraine, CINEMA U8 of the Arts Festival, Cinema U8. Curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.

This video program documenting the networked collaboration between artists, curators and institutions is created in solidarity for the Ukraine. The video program is presented in collaboration with VisArts Center Rockville (MA)

“ View behind the Curtain” (The Ashes of Eden Project) is a collaboration project with dancer Jana Schmück (Bautzen, Germany). The project has so far included several video works. The aim of the project is to show a shared cultural experience shaped by the social and political conditions and the environment. “View behind the Curtain” is the 3rd segment of the Ashes of Eden Project 

SEAF - Seattle Erotic Art Festival / The Pan Eros Film Festival

My work “ Broken Naked Wall” with solo dancer Tsai Hsin-Ying will be presented at SEAF - Seattle Erotic Art Festival / The Pan Eros Film Festival

April, 29 – May 1, 2022

VENUE INFORMATION

SIFF Film Center in the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, 301 Mercer Street (at 3rd Ave N.) Seattle, WA 98109, USA

The Pan Eros Film Festival will run concurrently at the SIFF Film Center in the Seattle Center on April 29 – May 1,2022

The work focuses on dance and performance movements using a wall as a stage set. It’s a work based on improvisation of body movements and the surrounding space.

Healing - Listening to a Brave New World  

Healing - Listening to a Brave New World

A selection of 49 sound and audiovisual works presented by MediSouP in Cyprus(concert), Spain and Turkey (audio-visual)

My work “The Healing “ is part of

Video Works screening April 21, 2022

Istanbul Cinema Museum (Atlas) , 14.00-19.00 h TRT, Istanbul , Turkey

Centro Negra, AADK SP Blanca, from 20.00 h CEST onward Murcia, Spain

MediSouP brings together a selection of sound and audio-visual works from the Mediterranean and all over the world , presenting ways in which image and sound formulate the transcultural understanding of our present condition on damaged planet.

Curators : Juliana Espana Keller / Nicos Synnos / Neval Tarim  

OPEN SCREEN SPRING 2022 - Taos

My video work “ return – back – return “ with Hung Yu-Li will be screened at 

OPEN SCREEN SPRING 2022

Sat April 2, 4pm - 9:30pm

Taos Center for the Arts 145 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM, USA

Short films, documentary, animation, experimental works by over 50 filmmakers and creatives from Taos and beyond. Open Screen is about sharing projects with each other in a supportive public forum.

 Mini Salon Int. Small Works Traveling Exhibition

1st April 2022 - 5th April 2022, HOF Gallery Kibera, Sarit Centre Mall, Narobi, Kenya

The second leg of the Mini Salon tour was now in Nairobi, Kenya. Organized by Now Open Studio, Hof Gallery  and House of Friends Kenya. Images two of my five lino prints which are  traveling with the exhibition

S o r o - s o r O #1

S o r o - s o r O #1 - a Weekend of Indefinite Performance

Sat. 12- Sun.13. 03. 2022 :: 2 - 8pm - DE BOUWPUT | FERDINAND HUYCKSTRAAT 74 — AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Curator Mariko Hori . On 12th of March I performed DIALOGUE my latest solo and live performance. This performance is a hybrid work because it also integrates sound and noise. The performance deals with the topic of dialogue in the context of . A) A dialogue that leads to no result B) A dialogue without content, ramblings without substance C) About the voices that I hear in my head

EROS

Two video works from my ongoing A State of Bared project where screened at EROS project at the culture center

"Stowarzyszenie WL4 Przestrzeń Sztuki w Budynku Mleczny Piotr “ (Association WL4 Space of Art in the Milk Piotr Building)

EROS Exhibition

22.01.2022 - 27.02.2022

"Stowarzyszenie WL4 - PRZESTRZEŃ SZTUKI",

MLECZNY PIOTR, Stocznia Cesarska, Gdańsk, Poland

The works were “ bared to you and me” with Wiebke Kahn and “Dark” with Tsai Hsin-Ying

Acoustic Interiors

Between January 17th and 21st, 2022, I took part in the Acoustic Interiors project that was actually outside of the medium I work with...sound. Of course, when you work on video, it also affects the sound. But I've never really dealt with sound as an individual medium. This was partly due to my hearing loss. The project is based at two locations in the old building Royal Conservatoire and Amare the new culture center of The Hague. I focused on the old Royal Conservatoire building during January 2022 The initiator is NEW EMERGENCES and the curator is the sounds artist Mrs Anne Wellmer.

In the course of the year the project will be pursued further with events, among project presentations.

Link sound extracts from my project portfolio :  http://e.pc.cd/VVnotalK

Link Project information in general : https://acousticinteriors.cargo.site/

4th. Festival Internacional de Performance Art de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, LATITUDES HYBRIDAS.

The video art version of my performance “I can not see – Stay behind” which I conducted in collaboration with Eric Kofi (Kumasi, Ghana) in Kumasi, Ghana was screened at : 4th. Festival Internacional de Performance Art de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, LATITUDES HYBRIDAS.

The International Performance Art Festival took place from January 19 to 23, 2022 in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Under the curatorial direction of well known artist and curator, Hector Canonge, the festival is presented by the platforms Performance Art Bolivia, PABA, and Arterial Performance Lab, APLAB. 

Postcards from Europe

POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE

12 January – 25 February 2022

Art at the ARB, University of Cambridge,

Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT, UK

9am – 7pm, Monday – Friday. Closed weekends.

On 12 January 2022 POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE will open at Cambridge University, showcasing several hundred photographic images from across the continent. In a significant time in history this exhibition sets out to share aspects of European culture, spanning all genres of photography, and collating images which include social, political, historical, traditional and observational responses.