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Subject: Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009
– Sofia Launch Event
From:    "Art-Agenda" <art-agenda la mailer.e-flux.com>
Date:    Fri, September 18, 2009 08:38
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Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009
18th and 19th September

Organized by InterSpace, Sofia

Hosted by Goethe-Insistut Bulgarien, Sofia
http://www.transitland.eu/


The collaborative archiving project Transitland, realized on the occasion
of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, launches with a
comprehensive website and a series of discussions and screenings in Sofia,
followed by events in Budapest and Berlin.  It presents a selection of 100
single-channel video works, produced in the period 1989-2009 and
reflecting the transformations in post-socialist Central and Eastern
Europe. The selection of works was made by an international jury from 350
videos, proposed by 40 nominators - curators, art critics and artists.

The project focuses on an extensive and turbulent time and space span. The
territory of "Transitland" is quite close to being a half of Europe -
population and territory wise. Once called as the "Eastern bloc" without
further specification, it was conceived as somewhat homogeneous, dark side
of Europe behind the Iron Curtain. Central and Eastern Europe with
different sub-regions now covers 24 post-socialist European countries.
Twenty years ago this territory belonged to only 9 states.

Transitland is not only the widest-spanning presentation of video art from
Central and Eastern Europe but also a unique attempt to address and
reflect upon an extensive period of transformation and changes. The mere
breadth of time and geography and the complexity of the transition process
are still beyond perception not only from outside but also within the
region. Besides the numerous discursive and documentary attempts to
describe, analyze and contextualize the transformations, a multitude of
viewpoints and aspects, presented through the media of video art are meant
to provide a unique asset of aesthetic and critical positions to the
current discourse on the transition period.

The Sofia launch event features discussion panels and a series of
screenings. The first discussion panel addresses the question of
expectations right after the Fall of the Wall, the second one traces what
actually was happening in those 20 years and the third – leads to the
ultimate question where we are heading now. It gathers artists and
curators with personal curiosity, first-hand experience and intellectual
engagement with the transition period in Central and Eastern Europe. A
series of screenings and discursive events will be taking place in
Budapest organized by the Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and the
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in the following months. In Berlin the
project will be premiered by transmediale festival for digital arts and
culture from 6th to 8th November at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin. Further
presentations of the archive are being planned for 2010.

Transitland is realized by InterSpace Association Sofia, transmediale
festival for art and digital culture berlin and Agency for Contemporary
Art Exchange and Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, with
associated partners D Media, Cluj and Videoaktiv, Berlin.

It was made possible with support from Culture 2007-2013 Programme, the
Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe, the European
Cultural Foundation, the Culture programme of Sofia Municipality and the
Hungarian Cultural Fund.


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