Video Art Night | The Goethe Institut Los Angeles
B-LA CONNECT Festival Los Angeles 2022
11.07.2022 | 6.30-10 pm | Goethe Institut Los Angeles
Artists: lla Bandouveris, Félixe de Becker + Georgia Azoulay, Carrick Bell, Mit Borrás, Andreas Bunte, Kirstin Burckhardt, John Butler, Cole M. James, Yama Li, Yuchi Ma, Rebekah Mei, Labkhand Olfatmanesh, Iman Person, Julia Charlotte Richter, Juliane Zelwies
curated by Clemens Wilhelm (Berlin) and Leslie Foster (LA).
Presented as part of B-LA CONNECT, an initiative to promote cooperation and networking between the creative communites of the sister cities of Berlin and Los Angeles. This event will feature the video art of 15 artists’ from both Berlin and LA for a night of viewing. The work, which ranges from the surreal to the hauntingly poignant, includes journeys in search of family, healing, and one’s own depths, as well as explorations of cosmic time, painstaking exercises in embodiment, and graceful, captivating rituals performed in isolation. Please join us and meet the artists from both sides of the Atlantic.
PROGRAM: BERLIN
Point Blank
Julia Charlotte Richter (7.35 minutes)
www.juliacharlotterichter.com | @julia_charlotte_richter
Pretend your thoughts are like plants I
Carrick Bell (5.46 minutes)
www.carrickbell.com | @carrickbell
Children of the Null
John Butler (5.35 minutes)
www.johnbutlerart.net
Off the Record
Juliane Zelwies (11.23 minutes)
www.juliane.de | @julianezelwies
How does it feel?
Kirstin Burckhardt (9.18 minutes)
www.k-burckhardt.de & www.bodymapinstitute.com | @kirstinburckhardt
Unterdruck
Andreas Bunte (12 minutes)
www.andreasbunte.net
Heavven, Adaptasi Cycle
Mit Borrás (14 minutes)
www.mitborras.com | @mitborras
PROGRAM: LOS ANGELES
Cycle II – Day 3
Labkhand Olfatmanesh (1.58 minutes)
www.labbiemanesh.com/labkhand-olfatmanesh | @labbiephotography
Ictus
Félixe de Becker (15.29 minutes)
www.felixedebecker.com | @felixedebecker
Fine
Ella Bandouveris (4.06 minutes)
www.ellarozebandouveris.myportfolio.com | @coolgirlella
New Air
Iman Person (17.06 minutes)
www.imanperson.com/home | @imanperson_studio
#4 (Womb)
Rebekah Mei (4.04 minutes)
www.rebekahmei.art/
evelground.co/news/cycle-essay-rebekah-mei | @rebekahmei.art
Manchego
Cole M James (2.46 minutes)
www.colejamesart.com | @colemjamesart
Water
Yuchi Ma (16.46 minutes)
www.streetcornyuchi.cargo.site | Instagram: @streetcornyuchi
Cycle II – Day 4
Labkhand Olfatmanesh (2.55 minutes)
www.labbiemanesh.com/labkhand-olfatmanesh | @labbiephotography
Hollow Me
Yama Li (9.15 minutes)
@yamawava_orz
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B-LA CONNECT FESTIVAL 2022 | LOS ANGELES
B-LA CONNECT is an initiative to promote the cooperation and interlinking between the two sister cities’ creative communities.
In June 2019, twenty art spaces from Los Angeles exhibited in 22 art spaces from Berlin. The interdisciplinary program included art exhibitions, film screenings, performances, talks, and more. This July, 2022, the Berlin art spaces travel to LA for a return visit with staggered openings throughout the city in 22 different art spaces, a film night at the Goethe-Institut LA, and a performance evening on the rooftop of The Bendix Building.
B-LA CONNECT sees itself as an international cultural exchange on a grass roots level. It brings together members of different art spheres and scenes from both cities. New opportunities for interacting and connecting with each other are created and extended locally inside and transnationally between the two cities. In the sense of a positive globality B–LA CONNECT seeks to advance the cultural partnership between Berlin and Los Angeles.
B-LA CONNECT wants to celebrate urban diversity, show presence and stand against reactionary forces. Berlin and Los Angeles share the urban self-image of being the world in small, a place of cultural diversity and individual freedom. In light of the rising authoritarian and regressive currents worldwide the two cities stand for a liberal and cosmopolitan openness towards the world.
B-LA CONNECT wants to build bridges where others erect walls.
more info on B-LA CONNECT