Visual Foreign Correspondents is a platform for international video artists
to reflect on recent events and to take the role of correspondent through
their work. Die ZEIT online will provide additional background information
and interviews to the invited artists and projects, and invites for critical
discourse about the work.
Coinciding with the 20th commemoration of the fall of the Berlin wall, WL
Project Berlin | Hong Kong together with Visual Foreign Correspondents
Foundation, invited seven international artists to develop work relating to
borders and boundaries and to take different positions relating to the
nature of virtual or physical boundaries, walls or barriers as well as
reflecting on the current state of the world. In times of a global economic
crisis and international acts of terrorism, there is a clear tendency to
re-erect or strengthen existing barriers; just as the European Union is
strengthening its exterior borders.
A project of Visual Foreign Correspondents, Amsterdam, and WL Project Berlin
| Hong Kong in collaboration with ZEIT Online.
SCREENINGS IN BERLIN:
- U Bahnhof Kochstraße/Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin-Mitte
(21 September – 9 November 2009, 7 – 21 hrs, Sat & Sun 11:30 – 20 hrs)
- Media facade of Collegium Hungaricum, Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin (9
November 2009, after sunset)
SCREENINGS IN AMSTERDAM:
- Melkweg, Die Wende Festival, 1-30 November 2009 http://www.die-wende.nl/
- CASz in Amsterdam (December 2009)
(more information to follow)
ARTISTS:
Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil), Simon Faithfull (Great Britain), Mariam Ghani
(US, Afghanistan), Han Hoogerbrugge (Netherlands), Little Warsaw (András
Gálik & Bálint Havas, Hungary), Lena Merhej (Lebanon), Berit Zemke (Germany)
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