Curated by Macu Moran for Viva Collections on tour

Along with the MACBA Collection show La Sombra del Habla, MOCA Seoul exhibits every Saturday of September three selections from VIVA, International tour of Videoart and Collections works, along with curatorial program Restless (E)motion.

PROGRAMS FOR MOCA 2010

7.30pm – 8.30pm – All Saturdays of September

VIVA give access to audiovisual art collections inventory in dialog with a range of worldwide artists, through programs at different venues. VIVA selections do not necesarily follow a specific curatorial line, but carefully try to involve the audience into a specific dynamic, within which their attention is able to focus and establish an appropriate relation with the work.

Macu Moran, VIVA Chief Curator

September 4th – VIVA SPANISH NIGHT

VIVA Spanish night presents to the public a selection with the most relevant body of work developed by six contemporary artists originally from Spain. Manuel Saiz, an artist strongly committed to support audiovisual as artistic expression mean, includes three different works which reveal some of his recurrent interests and personal style. Animation as a tool for contemporary art comes by the hand of Ruth Gomez, in 2D and Damian Perea, in 3D. Another segment of the show will present a significant selection of works by the worldwide renowned Spanish artist Alicia Framis.

PROGRAM: (59 minutes)

Manuel Saiz
- Being Luis Porcar, 2005, 1’ Spain
- Social Sculptures everybody is an artist, 2005, 9’ Spain
- Paralell Paradises Ecuador, 2007, 8’ Spain
Jon Mikel Euba
- Gowar, 2003-2005, 6’43” Spain
Iñigo Manglano
- FM (0169275275275S) – 2000, 5’33’’ Spain
Ruth Gomez
- El artista de la vida moderna, 2003-2004, 1’56” Spain
Alicia Framis
- Ajax Football Stadium Ámsterdam 02, 2002, 3’52’’ Spain
- Against Domestic Violence Madrid 03, 2003, 2’46’’ Spain
- Secret Strike. Tate Modern. London, 2003, 11’ Spain
Damián Perea
- Podría ser Peor, 1999, 7’, Spain
- Locos por el cine, 2003, 3’03’’, Spain

SEPTEMBER 11th – VIVA MONOGRAPHIC NIGHT

VIVA Monographic night is dedicated to the Spanish-German artist Ana de Alvear, which body of work plays with psychological archetypes, allowing the viewer to sympathize with the different characters and so to discover the issues that more directly refer to the moment that he is at. Looking into her work taps fundamental questions of the human being, which are smoothly presented through friendly figures staging the disclosure hiding behind.

PROGRAM: (62 minutes)

Ana de Alvear
- The dream of Aksoo, 2003, 15’31’’
- From the other side, 2004, 6’
- Chinchia’s Voyage, 2004, 11’11’’
- Complete Confirmation, 2005, 7’47’’
- Cecile’s Difference, 2005, 6’
- Nothing ever Happens, 2006, 2’20’’
- The comfortable centre, 2007, 5’35’’
- Meanwhile … every night, 2007, 3’33’’
- Without Walls (the art of the possiblee), 2008, 4’03’’

SEPTEMBER 18th – VIVA INTERNATIONAL NIGHT

VIVA International selection serves a taste of artists acclaimed worldwide due to their extraordinary talents in the medium. Outstanding animations such as the ones developed by Dutch artists Joost Bakker, Douwe Dijkstra and Floris Kaayk, intermingle with the stop motion techniques of Nathalie Djurberg and the digital manipulations of Brazilian artists Andrezza Valentine & Guilherme Marcondes, bringing the audience to a fantastic sphere were the work of Mariko Mori and Anthony Goicolea can be plausible.

PROGRAM: (61 minutes)

Joost Bakker
- Laagtevrezers, 2004, 3’ Netherlands
Francis Alÿs
- El Gringo, 2003, 4’37’’ Belgium
Sofia Hulten
- Animal Refusal, 2006, 2’ Sweden
Douwe Dijkstra
- The Washing Machine, 2005, 4’23’’ Netherlands
Anthony Goicolea
- Class Room, 2003, 6’05”, Cuba
Patrick Tuttofuoco
- The golden night, 2005, 5’16” Italy
Nathalie Djurberg
- The rhinosaurus and the wale, 2008, 4’47” Sweden
Wolfgang Lehmann
- Rout to Cape Town, 2005, 5’ Germany
Mariko Mori
- Kumano, 1999, 12’ Japan
Rui Calçada Bastos
- Same old tune, 2005, 1’49’’ Portugal
Floris Kaayk
- Parts, 2008, 2’32’’ Netherlands
Andrezza Valentin & Guilherme Marcondes
- Tyger, 2006, 4’30’’, Brazil
Aili Chen
- Niñas, 2006, 2’50’’ Argentina
Narineh Daneghyan
- Chalk painting, 2003, 1’ Armenia
Simone Hooijmans
- Campsite Hortus, 2004, 1’ Netherlands
Simone Lecca
- Souvenir, 2001, 1’ Italy

SEPTEMBER 25th – RESTLESS (E)MOTION

Curated by Macu Moran

Restless (E)motion is dedicated to a selection of Spanish artists reflecting on the emotional uneasiness of the human being. According to 20th Century philosopher Ortega y Gasset, each generation represents certain vital sensitiveness, which confronts and develops former ideologies at the same time. An evolution configured under a structural form in which the human mass is receptive and limited to accept or oppose the proposals made by individuals with “avant-garde hearts and alert souls, condemned not to ever be fully understood”. This selection tries to upbring diverse matters of interests for a group of talented Spanish artists, mixing those specifically local, but with universal trascendence, with those universal in nature but that are perceived from the point of view of a generation of artists intrinsically attached to the Spanish culture.

PROGRAM – RESTLESS (E)MOTION (65 minutes)

Bigas Luna
- Collar de moscas, 1’10”, 2002
Fernando Baena
- Videos del Deseo, 8′, 2010
Chus García-Fraile
- Running, 2’43”, 2009
Amparo Sard
- Dudando del momento perfecto, 8′, 2004
Francesca Llopis
- Gotescauen, 2’07”, 2007
Oscar Seco
- Heaven came from hell, 5’10”, 2004
Maria José Chinchilla
- Transformation, 6’20”, 2008
Maria Cañas
- Toro’s revenge, 1’49”, 2006
PSJM
- Video Spot Mars, 2’20”, 2008
Evaristo Benítez
- Jeux de mains, 2’45”, 2008
Ana de Alvear
- Un unsual Mob, 6’22”
Enriqueta Rocher
- Under the skin, 4’32”, 2009
Felipe Ortega
- About reconciliation 10, 2’50”, 2010
Cristina Martin Lara
- Landpartie if, 1’40”
Dionisio Gonzalez
- Elegia 1938, 5’34”, 2008
Daniel Silvo
- Tecno-olives, 2’05”, 2002
Carmen Espla
- Rain, 3’09”, 2007