Come to the opening night of FOKUS 2014 video art festival on
Thursday February 6 from 6 to 10 pm
It is time for FOKUS 2014, and video art is everywhere at Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, with works big and small and secret, hidden away in corners, under stairs and right in the middle. On the opening night, the jury will reveal this year’s three winners of the open call competition, while the café under the big organ serves soup and you can quench your thirst at the bar.
Experience open call; Egyptian video art; Taste of Emotions, experimental culinary art in co-operation with Copenhagen Cooking; the world premiere of the first person film Skammekrogen (“The Doghouse”); a YouTube wunderkammer; the recurring Bring Your Own Beamer (this year at Tøjhusmuseet, The Royal Danish Arsenal Museum); and a string of premieres of Danish and international video artworks.
Video programmes on FOKUS 2014
New Danish video art
Mads Lynnerup, Katja Bjørn, Christina Christensen, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Kristina Steinbock
Egyptian video art
Mohamed Abouelnaga, Khaled Hafez, Maha Maamoun (curated by Sherif Awad)
Special feature
Angela Melitopoulos: Passing Drama
Open call 2014
The popular and prestigious open call competition is one of the main elements of FOKUS 2014. 147 videos from 15 countries are trying to win the jury’s favour. The interdisciplinary panel of jurors have narrowed down the field to ten nominees, and on the opening night, the jury will announce the three winners.
The ten nominees are
Yuval Yairi & Zohar Kawaharada (IL), Land, 2013
Helene Garberg (DK), Interim, 2013
Jacobus Capone (AUS), Foreign Fado, 2013
Mark Tholander (DK), ####, 2013
Margarida Paiva (NO), Every Story Is Imperfect, 2012
Marcus Shahar (IL), Seeds, 2012
Samira Hashemi (USA), Ou She'r Mikhanad (She Reads the Poem), 2013
Heidi P. H. Nikolaisen (DK), Education of the Dragchild, 2013
Katja Adomeit (DK), NOT AT HOME, 2013
C Franco Maldonado (PRI), Selfie as a Sundial, 2013
The three winners, the ten nominees as well as all the other open call entrants can be seen at FOKUS 2014.
The jury is Michael Thouber, head of the DR2 channel of the Danish broadcasting corporation; Lars Movin, writer and filmmaker; Angela Melitopoulos, artist and professor at The School of Media Art, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts; Elisabeth Delin Hansen, director, Nikolaj Kunsthal and Andreas Brøgger, curator, Nikolaj Kunsthal.
On top of all of this, FOKUS 2014 presents a special events programme, including debates and lots of other activities.
