Videoscreening

PROGRAMME 12/13 April. Sala Kutxa. C/Arrasate. Donostia

1. "City-gas", 2000, Seamus Harahan
2. "Taja y sus amigos", 2000, Iñaki Garmendia
3. "A last look round", Miriam de Burca
4. "Capital", 2000, Seamus Harahan
5. "Everything you need", Miriam de Burca
6. "My Fair Lad", 1998, Inazio Escudero
7. "Arena", 2001, Seamus Harahan
8. "Love", 1998, Daniel Jewesbury
9. "Gatika doble final", 2001, Jon Mikel Euba
10. "Cityscape", Valerie Smyth
11. "Everyone is a cut away", 2001, Phil Collins

*Programme organised in collaboration with Catalysts Arts (Belfast)

Phil Collins (Winchester, 1970) is an artist who has lived in a great many places. His work focuses on the use of photography and video as a means of exploring personal and national identity in the social reality of conflictive places. Belfast, Belgrade, Baghdad or Tirana are some of the contexts that Collins has based his work in.
Collins often uses the interview format and the portrait to interpret everyday routines.
He has taken part in Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, and other recent exhibitions such as The Armory Show, New York, and Becoming More Like Us, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
Real Society is the project that he is carrying out for D.A.E.

Jon Mikel Euba's work (Amorebieta, 1967) revolves around personal and collective identity. In his work he alludes to group situations, with extremely ambiguous images based around activities that produce movement.
Using drawing, video and photography at the same time, his work directly reflects the mental mechanisms and conceptual processes that the artist devises to reach his aims. Some of his latest exhibitions have been Gaur, Hemen, Orain, Bilbao, Kunsthalle Bethanien, Berlin and he is preparing exhibitions in the Tapies Foundation in Barcelona and Artium in Vitoria.

Inazio Escudero's work (Bilbao, 1972) is based on the anarchic use of various narrative elements not without humour and sarcasm and with a certain leaning towards auto-sabotage. His videos can be classified as genuine boutades, and range from a tribute to Nanni Moretti's Dear Diary, to auto-eroticism and a tendency towards bizarre absurd situations. His video production provides a counterpoint to what might be expected from "a selection of videos by artists from Northern Ireland and the Basque Country". He has taken part in the exhibition Gaur, Hemen, Orain, in Bilbao and is preparing an exhibition at Le Triangle, Bordeaux.

Miriam de Burca (Munich, 1972) is an Irish artist who uses video as a medium for investigating personal autobiographical memory. Her main theme is visual perception and how we give meaning to what we have seen. Her two films in this screening session are an example of this, in which she uses video as a medium to examine the distance between the objective and subjective elements in our interpretations.
De Burca also writes for the Irish art magazine Circa Magazine.

Daniel Jewesbury (London, 1972) lives and works in Belfast, and he is also professor of Fine Arts at Ulster University. An artist and a writer, his work acquires the aspect of an essay regardless of the form that it may take. His work mainly alludes to the post-colonialist and identity-based discourse.
He has exhibited his work at Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Museum in Progress, Vienna.
He has published texts and essays in Flash Art, Art Monthly, Circa Magazine and also the book In Between Lines, Bookworks, London.

Seamus Harahan (London, 1968) moved to Belfast in 1996 and he still lives there. He works with video and the focal point of his work is everyday life. By using a style with direct editing, based on cuts in the images and music, Harahan combs Belfast society in search of deprived poverty-ridden situations. His recent exhibitions are Perspective, Ormeau Bath Gallery, Belfast, Pandemonium, Lux Centre, London. He is currently resident artist at NIFCA, Helsinki.

Iñaki Garmendia's work (Ordizia, 1972) maintains a balance between turbulent elements and a certain feeling of fragility. The impression it conveys is of something unfinished that is still in progress. He always shows a definite interest in certain forms of youth culture and its music, rituals, group behaviour and policies. A recent project is Rock Radical Vasco, a video-installation that focuses on the musical energy of the 80's. He worked on the documentary Goierri Konpeti along with Asier Mendizabal, which will be premiered by D.A.E. in June 2002.

Valerie Smyth is a young artist living in Belfast who bases her artistic activities on the use of the video format. The work shown here tries to get in touch with the heart of Belfast to present a neutered fresh image, to the rhythm of Leftfield's Africa Banbaata. On Saturday nights, the centre of Belfast operates by following the same youth leisure culture codes that are used in any other European city.

Speaker in the talk on the 13th: Karen Downey (Dublin, 1973) is director of the photography archive "Belfast Exposed".