Press Release: CologneOFF 2011- UKRAINE

CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project
1 January - 31 December 2011
[Focus in March: Germany & Austria]
returns in March 2011 from India back to Europe
precisely to Ukraine, where
CologneOFF 2011 UKRAINE
is taking place between 14 and 20 March 2011 in Kiev & Kharkiv,
a collaboration with the Goethe Institut Ukraine Kiev,
the Center for Contemporary Art Foundation Kiev, Media Lab Kiev,
Kharkiv City Art Gallery, Nuremberg House Kharkiv,
and Kharkiv National University.
The detailed program is available as PDF for download
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2011_UKRAINE.pdf
On 14 March 2011, the Center for Contemporary Art Kiev is organising between 14h and 18h a series of videoart screenings
featuring also the internationally reknwon German videoartist Johanna
Reich in a solo at the Goethe Institute Ukraine Kiev, at 19h the
lecture by Agricola de Cologne is scheduled, entitled: "CologneOFF 2011
- a festival as a creative tool", followed by a special screening at
20h, entitled "Corporate I" consisting of a selection of the basic
festival program CologneOFF VI and afterwards a discussion with local
artists, curators and the audience.
http://www.cca.kiev.ua/catalog/?id=213
On 15 March 2011, the Center for Contemporary Art Kiev is organising at
Media Art Lab Kiev a workshop with Agricola de Cologne, a pioneer on
the field of art and new media, entitled: "artONLINE" between 10h and
17h -   http://www.cca.kiev.ua/catalog/?id=208
The 2nd event place in Ukraine is the second largest city Kharkiv,
where the prestigeous City Art Gallery is organising "CologneOFF 2011"
as a three days festival between 17 and 20 March, starting on Thursday,
17 March at 17h with a lecture by Agricola de Cologne, a special
screening of Corporate II, followed by a meeting and discussions with
students of the local art school and university -
http://www.mgallery.kharkov.ua/galery-e.php
The actual screenings take place on 18 and 19 March presenting 12 hours
different screenings programs, including about 190 videos by 180
artists from 60 countries, featuring in a solo presentation "Henry
Gwiazda (USA) videoartist of the month February 2011.
CologneOFF 2011 UKRAINE is very proud to present in Kiev and Kharkiv a
wide range of different aspects of video as a global art medium, which
is underlined by numerous contributions by corporate or curatorial
partners like Athens Video Art Festival, Videoart Festival Miden
Kalamata/Griechenland, Oslo Screen Festival, City Breath Festival Cape
Town (RSA), Ventianale - International Film Festival Vientiane/Laos,
Kisito Assangni - curator from Togo, Nicole Rademacher - curator from 
Chile, Abir Boukhari - curator from Syria, Silvio de Gracia -  curator
from Argentina, Evelin Stermitz - curator from Austria, Yarina
Butkovska - curator from Ukraine and  Jonas Nilsson & Eva Olsson -
curators from Sweden.
The diversity of the video creation is manifesting itself also in
several thematic programs, like  "Performance in Videoart", "Digitalis
- aspects of digital video", or "The Female Eye" - videoart by young
female artists, all in total a celebration of videoart in a global
context.
In the framework of these events and days in Ukraine, the meetings,
discussions and exchange with local artists, students and the
interested audience has a special relevance.
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CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project
1 January - 31 December 2011
http://coff.newmediafest.org
Blog (Deutsch) http://coff2011.newmediafest.org
Blog (English) http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/
initiated by
Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
artvideoKOELN - curatorial initiative "art & moving images"
http://video.mediaartcologne.org
and
Le Musee di-visionsite - the new museum of networked art
http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
is designed, curated, coordinated and directed by
Agricola de Cologne - http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de
CologneOFF 2011 Ukraine is funded by Goethe Institut Ukraine Kiev
http://www.goethe.de/ins/ua/kie/deindex.htm
2011 (at) coff.newmediafest.org
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