Global Videos
As the Australian venue
for this worldwide art-video exhibition,
Lismore’s Serpentine Community Gallery
is pleased to invite everyone to the screening of
'Global Videos'
on International Human Rights Day
– 10 December 2016.
Doors open at 7pm, Global Videos starts at 7.30pm.
Length: 2 hours including a short intermission.
Light refreshments will be available.
In When I Grow Up,
a featured art-video by Northern Rivers’ artist Neil Howe,
a collage of animated digital images and 21st century news reports paints a very grim picture of the world today,
as primary school children from Lismore and South Africa optimistically say how the world will be when they grow up.
This video won the Metropolis Award
at the 2010 Madrid Festival of Contemporary Audio Visual Arts, the Audience and 2nd Place Awards
at the 2011 Blue Banana Video Festival in Bavaria,
and was nominated for Best Byron Film
at the 2012 Byron Bay International Film Festival.
Worldwide Video-art Project Marks International Human Rights Day
On 10 December 1948 the UN Council adopted
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Each year this date is commemorated by
International Human Rights Day.
To mark the day, Dutch organisation `Global Village Artists Network` (stichting White Cube) has created a truly worldwide project.
Not only have video-artists from all over the globe contributed,
we have also arranged for Global Videos to be
shown simultaneously at 16 venues worldwide.
Stimulating cultural exchange between artists and the public is
the key factor in Global Village Artists Network (stichting White Cube) productions. The group is best known for its biennial art-project
Global Village, which began in 2010. ‘Meeting’ is the central theme: artists from all over the world meet each other and the public.
Every two years about 65 emerging artists are selected.
To date, Global Village exhibitions have taken place
in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, Azerbaijan and Macedonia. Stichting White Cube also organizes other
exhibitions and projects within the EU.
Global Videos is a daughter project of Global Village.
With the Global Village project we were faced with various logistical problems, such as transport costs, visa, customs, etc. which
prevented many artists from attending our exhibitions.
Artists from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia
especially found it difficult to get visas or to transport their art.
With Global Videos we have found a way to receive art-videos
from each part of the world by internet; no visa, transport or
customs problems. The internet also allows us to send the videos gathered back into the world to reach audiences outside
our regular exhibition circuit.
2016 is the first year we have organized Global Videos.
Our aim is to build up audiences in the coming 2 years,
so that in 2018, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrates its 70th birthday, we can organize Global Videos
at 70 locations around the world (on all continents)
with 70 art-videos made by artists from each corner of this earth.
Thanks to our partners the 28 art-videos featured in
Global Videos 2016 can now be seen on 5 continents,
with screenings organized in the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Poland, Nepal, Macau, Italy, Scotland, Macedonia, Brazil and Australia.
- 28 art videos from every part of the globe to every part of the globe.
Bringing the importance of human rights to GLOBAL VILLAGE a global audience. -
RED DOTS: screening locations || BLUE DOTS: video-artist locations
Human Rights is Global 1:31 Erik Sok the Netherlands
The Upper hand powered by money and wrong choices.
Remains 2:18 Daniel Wechsler Israel
Located far away from the center, static and calm, almost unaware. Re-sampled and unidentified faces re-create a personal encounter with what still remains.
La Marelle (Hopscotch) 1:27 Irene de Lucas & Julien Brumauld Spain & France
A game requires the freedom to choose; both where to go and when to stop and should we want it, to always be able to return. Freedom of movement is inherent to a children's game, and symbolizes the fundamental Human Right to mobility defended by Article 13 of the HR-declaration.
When I Grow Up 8:19 Neil Howe Australia
Against a collage of 2010 news media reports and animated digital images, that paint a very grim picture of the world today, a group of Australian and South African primary school children optimistically say how the world will be when they grow up.
Land 3:15 Ausín Sáinz Spain
The artist thinks critically about land ownership. Now many refugees and immigrants want to come to Europe. They want to improve their lives in another country. Rich people have full freedom of movement.
You Gotta Fight For Your Rights 2:30 Johannes C. Gérard Germany/the Netherlands
This work doesn´t focus on a pure political statement, neither is it a documentary or socially critical work in the context of human rights issues. The subject is built around a naked woman. The nakedness of the woman is a metaphor for vulnerability, unprotectedness of the human being.
Suomi F. Eurooppalinen (Finland European) 10:10 Sami Ala Finland
Finland European, is polemic, provocative and full of pathos that almost turns into a parody. It reveals the story of the Sami people, who were forced into becoming Finnish and about a Finland that has willingly turned into a European country.
State Of Liberty 1:22 Vanja Mervič Slovenia
Mervič's main subject of interest lies in society and its forms of expression when considering an individual. This relationship forms most of our thoughts and designs our lives.
Human Fights 1:40 Sonja Mischor Germany
My video shows human aggression, which often plays a part in the violation of human rights and the helplessness of parties affected. The viewer senses directly the meaning of violence and aggression.
Unohdettu (Forgotten) 2:17 Jouni Vesanen Finland
Human Dignity is the basis of Human Rights. This artwork wants to remind us that everyone has the right to be respected and treated as a person even if they lack the capability to be a productive member of society.
Stay Or Fly Away? 0:49 Maria Korporal the Netherlands
One of the most neglected aspects about refugees is that they are in a situation of emergency in which they have to take a decision immediately, and whatever they decide, there is no turning back.
Distance 7:10 Salvatore Insana Italy
Distance and absence. Surrendering. Fighting not to say goodbye. Having to do it anyway. Looking for a new horizon as resistance to the present time. Distance begins with a necessary, forced abandonment, that of one’s own land, one’s own loved world.
Angels And Demons 2:09 Małgorzata Białek, Katarzyna Kosajda & Kamila Buturla Poland
On October 3, 2016, thousands of women in Poland went out on the streets to fight for their fundamental rights and show their opposition to the legislative initiative by the Stop Abortion civic committee, who proposed stricter abortion law in Poland.
You Cannot Climb Mudan Mountain 2:37 Moses Tan Singapore
The video is the result of a research trip to Beijing, China, where “conversion” therapy is offered to homosexuals. One of their methods is to snap a rubber band worn on the wrist when an individual has a homosexual thought.
Inner Transition 0:59 LucFosther Diop Cameroon
The idea behind this video is to metaphorically show an experiment which expresses Diop's process of moving from a static state to a more active state.
Doing & Undoing. Motherhood 4:40 Cristiana de Marchi Italy/Lebanon
This video explores the dichotomy of exclusion/inclusion, sacrifice/salvation, through a juxtaposition of presences: the victim and the executioner, the witness and the mother, to symbolize all possible emotional attachments to all the involved roles.
Jokainen Nainen (Every Woman) 2:30 Mia Rantavaara & Sanni Hujanen Finland
This video is based on a Finnish book written in the 1950's. At the time it was a guidebook for women, advising on how they should behave in different kind of situations. The beautiful, independent Finnish women in this video show how much has changed in the last sixty years.
Focus 3:06 Max Leach UK
The work demonstrates the interaction between the artist and the equipment, in this film Max duels with the camera, challenging the engineering latency of the manufactured sensor. Looking at the fascination with a basic movement and how its mediated and monitored by technology.
19 Mujeres (19 Women) 2:50 Adriana Albi Argentina
The video deals with 19 women in Mossul who choose to be burnt alive, instead to being used as sex slaves. Death was their way to be free.
Silence 3 1:13 Gabriel Andreu Spain
The video is about physical disabilities; while studying in San Francisco the undulating environment made the artist consider the difficulties faced by disabled people.
Salt Mine 1:50 Tarah Rhoda USA
Nature resonates, resolving forms and echoing solutions, similarly at small and large scales. Throughout history man has used these links to contemplate his place in the world. It can even be said that theories of the microcosm and macrocosm emerge from the primitive human instinct of empathy.
PEACE HAPPY CANDY 1:00 Evelien de Jong the Netherlands
MAKE PEACE, NOT WAR. Love from HAPPY CANDY.
Tissit (Tits) 2:34 Elsa Trzaska Finland
What do human rights include? What is allowed? What can be shown? What has to be covered? The video comments on the discussion about burkinis, started earlier in this fall: a number of French municipalities banned the use of the burkini.
The Omonoia project 0:51 Athina Kanellopoulou Greece
The contemporary reflection on the uprooting of the inhabitants of a region under specific conditions is examined. And the structures of society and human relations are investigated. The interaction of people through the emotional fluctuations, the error of true and the kinesthetic fact.
A Love Song To Socotra Island 2:51 Amira Al-Sharif Yemen
This video is part of a larger project entitled ‘Yemeni Women with Fighting Spirits’. The core project searches for women who are pioneering, inspiring and make their own way in life. Importantly this project is not about feeling sorry for the women, but to admire and honor them.
Goran 10:40 Roberto Santaguida Italy/Canada
Joy and frustration as constructed by Goran Gostojić of Novi Sad, Serbia.
Class 1:49 Reza Golchin Iran
This film shows school classes in the mountains around Talesh.
Tissa Oukolo (We Are One) 1:38 Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani Togo
The video aims to promote love and peace among people. Regardless of race, ethnic background or religion, we must respect each other and live together in peace.
