LATINOS DE ACCIÓN

Argentinian dreamers - Version 2 [Camagüey]

DOC(K)S Akenaton

INTER 109

Imergencia

CAZ England Video-performance

Silvio De Gracia is present at SQUARE EYES 3 & DIRECT ACTION 2011 FESTIVAL

Performances on / for / at video screenings

Saturday 1st October
CAZ Projet space, The Basement, The Exchange, England

http://da2011.i-a-m.tk/ http://www.cazart.org.uk/

EPIPIDERME 20

SILVIO DE GRACIA at EPIpiDERME 20

Encontros a volta da performance

September 29
Espaco do urso e dos anjos
Rua Palmira n°5 / Lisbon, Portugal

http://www.epipiderme.blogspot.com/

3rd THESSALONIKI BIENNALE

BIOS Athens

Videoplay - Riga/Latvia

VIDEOPLAY Selection is presented at
CologneOFF 2001 Baltic Sea
Riga / Latvia
8 -10 September 2011
Waterpieces
Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival

Location:
Semi Island (AB -Dambis) and the floating Art Center NOASS and BETANOVUSS Riga / Latvia

Video Selection
ARGENTINIAN DREAMERS
Curated by Silvio De Gracia
Selected Artists: Gustavo Galuppo / La Nariz en la Taza / Marcela Rivera / Gabriela Alonso / Ricardo Rojstaczer / Silvio De Gracia

The PDF catalogue can be dowloaded for free
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2011_Riga.pdf

CHAIN LETTER

SILVIO DE GRACIA IS PRESENT AT CHAIN LETTER

CHAIN LETTER is a global group show wherein 10 artists have been to participate. Those 10 then invite artists that they admire. Those 10 invite 10 more and so on. This cycle continues for 30 days. The result is an exponentially massive, artist-curated group show based entirely on admiration.

CHAIN LETTER, Samson Gallery, Boston, USA

July 16th - 2011
http://www.samsonprojects.com/

[Hyper Body] Festival Miden

[HYPER BODY]
Curator Silvio De Gracia

Curator partner: The UnifiedField

A new curatorial project of VIDEOPLAY.
FESTIVAL MIDEN
7-9 July Kalamata, Greece

[Hyper Body] introduces a serie of video-performances where artists explore the most extremes possibilities of subversion and manipulation of the body. Through the use of the body in shocking and intense actions, these works reveal unexpected situations of psychological and physical tension. Most of the videos presented a body subjected to high stress states, involved in activities that require contortions, unusual movements, effort and resistance. The extreme body condition constructs images that impact and encourage the viewer to consider their own body under unusual emotional states that are beyond the field of their everyday experience. By manipulating the body in a hyper body dimension, artists can develop new forms of experimentation that articulate surreal approaches, absurd visions, and the crudest forms of a poetics of carnality. At the same time this type of work shed light on contrasting emotions that force the viewer to rethink their own emotions and thoughts in relation to extreme experiences of the body in the context of performance art. Silvio De Gracia

Selected artists

Angélica Chio [México] "Illusion" Marta Moreno Muñoz [Spain] "In Girum Imus Nocte"
Baggenstos-Rudolf [Switzerland] "Balloons" Suka Off [Poland] "XY Sex" Nerea Martínez de Lecea [Wales] "Untitled" * Bean [UK] "Sometimes I Feel Like A Pitbull Terrier" * Martha Atienza [Philippines] "Habagat" * Jennifer Campbell [Canada] "Point No Point" *

* Curated by The UnifiedField

FESTIVAL MIDEN http://www.festivalmiden.gr/

Direct Action 2011

Silvio De Gracia is present at DA2011

DIRECT ACTION Performance Art made on-for-at video

29 May 2011 Institut für alles mögliche, Berlin

Organized by Stefan Riebel and Marion Ritzmann http://da2011.i-a-m.tk/

Next exhibition: Konnektor #4 "Sommerfest" - Direct Action Performance Video Show 15-17 July Konnektor - Forum Für Künste, Hannover, Germany

TRANSVIDEOPLAY Fase 5 Spain

Argentinian Dreamers

ARGENTINIAN DREAMERS
Curated by Silvio De Gracia

Kharkiv - 19 March
Kharkiv City Art Gallery, Ukraine
Silvio De Gracia participates as guest curator in CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context - Cologne International Videoart Festival


Argentinian dreamers
This curatorial project tries to show a minimal and partial portion of the video scene in Argentina. The selection reveals and panorama that is strongly marked by a hibrid tendency, where the genres are mixed or confuses, with an intense presence of human action and performative elements, including ludic approaches, caustic irony and even extremes experiences of body art. The discourse of a body that operates and transmits the rawness and reality of his flesh and presence is very relevant, much more so than abstraction or experimental exercises with the medium. Bodies are testimonies. They live and dream and speak of the passage of time, life, death, and the fragility.
Argentinian dreamers exposes much more than simple video art. The medium is intensely questioned from the inside of bodies dreamers. Silvio De Gracia


Selected artists:
Gustavo Galuppo / Marcela Rivera / Gabriela Alonso / La Naríz en la Taza / Ricardo Rojstaczer / Silvio De Gracia /

http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=815

More than Bodies

[ Visual TV Container ]
Presents:
MORE THAN BODIES
Transvideoplay / Argentina
Curator: Silvio De Gracia

1 March - 4 April 2011
Only on VisualcontainerTV
http://www.visualcontainer.tv/


MORE THAN BODIES includes video performances and other works which, though not clearly framed within the category f action art, reflect a deep anchorage in the performance sphere. It is an attempt to reveal the presence of the body that is trapped and mediatized by video technology or else, to highlight the no-presence of a body that become virtual and electronic. It's an exciting body discourse, but this time the body has ceased to be an object-means to become a mediatized object. More than bodies refers to new bodies in a new intensely ghostly and dissolving presence. Silvio De Gracia

Selected artist:
Suka Off (Poland) / Eva Drangsholt (Norway) / Kim Youn Hoan (South Korea) / Guillermina Buzio (Argentina-Canada) / Sinasi Gunes (Turkey) / Tulio Restrepo (Colombia) / Igor Bosnjak (Servia) / Marta Moreño Muñoz (Spain)

Interview Visual TV Container

[ VISUAL TV

CONTAINER]

PRESENTS:

Interview

SILVIO DE GRACIA

Argentinian independent curator

Curator: Giorgio Fedelli

1 March - 4 April 2011

Only on VisualcontianerTV

http://www.visualcontainer.tv/

Together with the video selection MORE THAN BODIES from TRANSVIDEOPLAY International videoart festival (Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina), VisualContainerTV presents an interview to his curator Silvio De Gracia, an Argentinian artist and founder of several videoart festivals in Buenos Aires and all over the world.

Silvio here introduces to the video production in Argentina and explains about the current and prospective features of videoart. In particular, he focuses on the concept of "interferencia" and disturbing performance in urban environments and underlines the role of video distribution as a crucial step for the development of videoart in Argentina and beyond.

Curated by Giorgio Fedeli, this interview is the first step of a project involving exclusive interviews to international videoart curators and critics with the wish to inform about the most interesting and possibly unknown video experiences from the origin to the very contemporary days.

Interview produced by: VisualContainerTV in collaboration with Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Distributor.

Curated by: Giorgio Fedeli . Organization and editing: Alessandra Arno.

All right reserved VisualContainerTV 2011

Urban Disturbance [.BOX]

URBAN DISTURBANCE

VIDEO PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SPACE

Curator: Silvio De Gracia, Argentina

1 to 21 March 2011

http://www.visualcontainer.tv/

Vernissage 1 and 2 March from 19:00 to 21

Tuesday, March 1st at 19:00 [.BOX] Video Art Project Space presents the exhibit Urban Disturbance video, directed by Silvio De Gracia, curator and founder of the several video art festivals in Buenos Aires and around the world.

In this review, [.BOX] proposes an approach to the performance through actions in public spaces, with predominantly destructive intent or conflict. These works are strategies and actions that demonstrate the evolution of urban art.

Among the videos is proposed in this work "Quien puede borrar las huellas" (Who can erase the traces) of Regina José Galindo, Golden Lion (artist under 35) at the 51st. Venice Biennale.

Urban Disturbance

is pure poetic subversion aimed at the demolition of rationality and standardization of urban and social behavior. It is an opportunity to see the "undisciplined body", the body does not function to the rule, the body that deals with rebel predictability, trying to cross with micro-destabilizing events, unexpected, strange, new paths, or cracks to open further bewilderment in the logic of urban territories. It's a disorder embodied in an artistic process, ephemeral, contingent, and repetitive. Disorder gaps through strategies that make us see the new boundaries and work to break the boundaries between the space of "reality" abd the size metaphorical art. Silvio De Gracia

Urban Disturbance [Selected Artists]

Marta Moreno Muñoz (Spain) / Regina José Galindo (Guatemala) / Eva Drangsholt (Norway) / OASIS Project (South Korea) / Richard Martel (Canada) / Yingmei Duan (China) / Michela Pozzi (Italy)

[.BOX] Via Confalonieri 11. Milano, Italy

VISUAL LIBROS

SILVIO DE GRACIA EN LA MUESTRA RETROSPECTIVA DE PUBLICACIONES VISUAL LIBROS (2001-2010)

Desde el 1 de febrero y hasta el 31 de octubre se estará presentando en el Taller de Poesía Visual y Arte Correo Corona del Sur, en Málaga, una de las muestras más completas y ambiciosas de publicaciones de poesía visual y experimental del Estado español. Coordinada por Francisco Peralto, la muestra pretende abarcar todo tipo de publicaciones vinculadas al campo de la poesía y arte experimental.

En esta importante muestra se presentan los dos últimos números de la revista de Arte Correo y Poesía Visual HOTEL DaDA: HOTEL DaDA 7 Poesía Visual Española, Selección de J.M. Calleja; y HOTEL DaDA 8 Poesía Visual Latinoamericana, Selección de Silvio De Gracia. También, estará exhibibiéndose el libro "Rubberstamps Siegt!", de Silvio De Gracia, un pequeño volumen que combina poesía visual y sellos de caucho.

The Last Book / New York

SILVIO DE GRACIA EN EL ÚLTIMO LIBRO

EL ÚLTIMO LIBRO estará expuesto en la Biblioteca Aguilar de la New York Public Library desde el 2 de febrero hasta el 29 de mayo de 2011.

THE LAST BOOK will be on view at the Aguilar Branch of the New York Public Library from February 2 until May 29.

EL ÚLTIMO LIBRO

Curator: Luis Camnitzer

174 East 110 Street, NYC