Following an exemplary panel discussion about the future of the visual arts within the expanded field of the moving image, Videotage, along with co-organizer CASA ASIA (Spain), will conduct an enlivening series of screenings towards the end of April and into early May titled, Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art: Ten Years of Critical Practices. Curated by Menene Gras Balaguer, this project recently awarded by ACCA, the Art Critic´s Association, as the Best Project Abroad.

The video art works gathered in this proposal are assembled in seven different chapters or sessions based on conceptual and contextual elements. The proposal comes from the powerful narratives built up by the 25 Spanish artists who are part of this project. All of them engaged with the medium and well known in different international scenes. Their works are not only representative of the expanded field of the moving image, but also of the social landscape of our daily life in all its dimensions. Antoni Muntadas, Dora García, Eugenio Ampudia, Carles Guerra, Eugeni Bonet, Daniel García Andujar, Marcelo Expósito, Marisa González, Josep M. Martín, Alicia Framis, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Albert Merino or Ivan Marino among others are some of the names specially recommended to articulate the current issues this project deals with, although all of them deserve to be mentioned here for one reason or another.

Screening 1: The Art System Threatened by its current Gatekeepers / El sistema del arte amenazado por sus guardianes.

1. Eugenio Ampudia, The Game / En Juego, 3’, 2006.

2. Albert Merino, The Flight of the Hen / El vuelo de la gallina, 40’, 2013.

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Screening 2: Reading history. How to Use Stock Images? / Lecturas de la historia. ¿Cómo utilizar imágenes de archivo?

1. Eugenio Ampudia, The Truth is an Excuse / La verdad es una excusa. 4´45´, 2007.

2. Rogelio López Cuenca, Málaga 1937, 19´50´´, 2007.

3. Joan Leandre, Toni Serra – AliAbu, Babylon Archives / Archivos Babilonia, 39´30´´, 2005.

4. Eugeni Bonet, A Spanish Delight, 4´45´´, 2007.

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Screening 3: Digital Literacy and Media Socialization / Alfabetización digital y socialización de los Media

1. Marcelo Expósito, The Radical Imagination / La imaginación radical (Carnavales de resistencia), 60´, 2004.

2. Daniel García Andújar, Irrational 10 / Clip / Cynism / TTTP- promo/ X – devian, 9´01´´, 2006.

3. Carles Guerra, Last Days of December with Alan Sekula / Los Últimos días de diciembre con Allan Sekula, 25´, 2005.

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Screening 4: What are words used for? / ¿Para qué sirven las palabras?

1. Dora García, The Inadequate, 40´, 2011.

2. Iván Marino, A Bravo Day / Un día bravo, 23´25´´, 1987-2005.

3. Diana Larrea, Cinéma Doré / Cine Doré, 3´30´´, 2004.

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Screening 5: Handbook of subalternity. The power of fear / Manual de la subalternidad. El poder del miedo.

1. Antoni Muntadas. On Translation: Fear / Miedo，36´, 2005.

2. Marisa González, They , The Philipines / Ellas filipinas, 53´, 2010.

3. Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Bluesky / B. Sd o D. (Training Attitude), 12´, 2009.

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Screening 6: Landscapes that talk / Paisajes que hablan

1. Josep M. Martín, Made in Chile, 39´02´´, 2012.

2. Patricia Dauder, Les Maliens, People from Mali, 12´49´´, 2007.

3. Sergi Aguilar, From Phnom Penh to Srepok W. Area / De Phnom Penh a Srepok W. Area, 11´ 39´´, 2005 – 2008.

4. Magdalena Correa, The Disappearance / La desaparición, 14´07´´, 2008 – 2011.

5. Dionisio González, Thinking Hanoi, 11´40´´, 2008.

6. Perejaume, Gustav Courbet, 10´, 2000

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Screening 7：Short tales

1. Carles Congost, A Determined Mystique / Un mystique determinado, 17´05´´, 2003.

2. Alicia Framis, Lost Astronaut, 34´33´´, 2010.

3. Jaume Pitarch, Invading Forces under fire of Bombcorn , 6´08´´, 2002.

4. Javier Peñafiel, The Difficult Answers of the Same Questions of Zitym / Las dificiles respuestas de la misma pregunta de ziudad, 6´17´´, 2006.

5. Francesca Llopis, Rhythm & Ink, 5´ 38´´, 2012.