Fwd: TORONTO VIDEO ART EVENT: E.U. NITE

E.U. NITE Committee - Euronight '06

From 7 pm on Saturday, September 30th
to 7 am on Sunday, October 1st, 2006.

On the occasion of the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto, the official
cultural representatives of seven member countries of the European
Union present major video artists from the European Union. This outdoor
garden exhibit will feature more than a dozen installations by renowned
European video artists. Many videos are Canadian premieres, each
exploring the vanishing line between reality and fiction in our global
world.



EURONIGHT 06 VIDEO ART Programme
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FILAND
Miklos Gaal
Juha Maki-Jussila
Sari Palosaari

FRANCE
Maider Fortune

GERMANY
Bjorn Melhus

GREECE
Myrto Apostolidou

THE NETHERLANDS
Eeleco Brand

IRELAND
Conor Kelly

ITALY
Stefano Cagol


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FINLAND
Subway lines, by - Miklos Gaal - was created in New York City, and
consists of sequences taken of and from moving subways, sometimes
speeding along in a blur, sometimes slowing to reveal vignettes of
people in a passing window or along a platform. In his work, Gaal
brings abstraction and figuration, sharpness and haziness playfully
together.
Hanger-on (Roikku) by - Juha Maki-Jussila - is an off-the- road
movie, taking place in Finnish forests. We follow a solitary and
aimless wanderer hanging from Tarzan