NOW&AFTER'17

NOW&AFTER'17 theme is FLASHBACK’17

The Festival’s seventh edition will be held at the Center of Creative Industries FABRIKA

July 5th - 30th, 2017

OPENING: July 5^th at 8pm at CCI Fabrika (Perevedenovsky lane, 18)

Now&After'17 organizer Media Art Center Now&After

Now&After'17 co-organizer CCI Fabrika

Now&After Director and Curator Marina Fomenko

This year International Video Art Festival Now&After reviews the intermediate results of its first seven years and takes place without open call.

“Flashback’17” is a look both into the past and the future with the pause in the present. In 2017, we'd like to remember the best works and presenting their retrospective, as well as to show the new projects by the participants of the Festival previous editions. After all, a flashback is a deviation from the routine for a look back. This year our audience will see video works of 47 Russian and foreign artists.

At CCI Fabrika Olivier Hall we will present the namesake exhibition “Flashback’17”. It comprises new works of artists already participated in the Now&After Festival, including the previous editions' winners.

At CCI Fabrika Burnishing Department there will be the everyday nonstop retrospective screenings of all Now&After award-winning works 2011-2016.

Now&After Special Program involves retrospective screenings of different countries’ festivals’ video art programs, as well as performances, artist talks and round tables.

“Flashback’17” exhibition is dedicated to memory.

Participants of the exhibition: Leila Alaoui, Morocco, Crossings / Natasha Dahnberg, Baggage, Sweden / Vica Ilyushkina, Maya Popova, Lost Fragmets, Russia / Mairéad McClean, Mary | Encode Series 1, UK / Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, Face Book, Russia / Benjamin Ramírez Pérez, Body Snatcher, Germany / Maryam Tafakory, Poem and Stone, UK / Clemens Wilhelm, When You Change the Way You Look at Things, the Things You Look at Change, Germany.

Among the participants there is Moroccan artist Leila Alaoui (1982-2016), who died during the terrorist attack in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. We will always remember Leila. Her work “Crossings” that was awarded Now&After’14 Jury Honorable Mention will be presented at the exhibition. This video shows a long and painful migrants’ journey from Africa to the European shores. Artists from UK, Mairead McClean (“Mary| Encode Series 1”) and Maryam Tafakory (“Poem and Stone”) recall their childhood memories, integrate the past into the present and revive the childhood recollections stored in flecks of sunlight and in old photographs, in smells and body perceptions. Natasha Dahnberg (Sweden) gets her collection of memories out of a bottomless handbag (“Baggage”). Vika Ilyushkina and Maya Popova from Russia recreate in their work “Lost Fragments” the episodes of the past using language of plastique. Benjamin Ramírez Pérez from Germany creates a film - recollection, according to the author “a sort of parasitic science fiction remake” of Barbara Loden’s film “Wanda” (1970), combining the found footage and his own shots (“Body Snatcher”). Clemens Wilhelm (Germany) in his work “If You Change the Way You Look at Things, the Things You Look at Change” puts the missing and disappearing in the memory space and looks on the life of things leaving people behind the scene. Alexandra Mitlyanskaya transforms a memory of chance encounters into a constellation of lambent faces (“Face Book”).

More about Now&After Festival:

Video Art Festival Now&After annually presents a review of the world's contemporary video art to a wide audience. Now&After was held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2011-2013), at the State Museum of GULAG History (2014), at the State Museum of Architecture (2015) and at the State Darwin Museum (2016).

Since Festival's first year we received 4,500 applications from 80 countries across the world from Colombia to Australia. 209 artists from 42 countries have become Festival's participants. Over these 7 years Now&After has become a full member of the world community of video art festivals and has been represented in Italy, Germany, Spain, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Japan, Greece, India, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, USA, Peru, the Canary Islands. Every year Now&After programs are presented on the Italian VisualcontainerTV International Videoart Web Channel. Our project’s exhibitions and screenings were held in St. Petersburg (New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television), Samara (Victoria Gallery, TK Ambar), Krasnoyarsk (Cinema House), Kaluga (Music House), Kirov (Vyatka Vasnetsovs' Art Museum), Krasnodar, Saratov, etc. In Moscow Now&After was held at the Museum of Moscow and the RSUH, in the Polytechnic Museum’s "Electronic Living Room" and on the facade of the Darwin Museum, at the MARS Gallery and at the Timiryazev Biological Museum.

NOW&AFTER'17 CATALOGUE

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Now&After'17 info partners

Media report about Now&After’17

TV Culture Channel report about Now&After’17

Interview to RosPhoto of Now&After director Marina Fomenko

Interview wth Now&After curator Video artist Matina Fomenko prior to Now&After’17

Interview Of Now&After'17 participants Alexandra Mitlyanskaya and Natasha Dahnberg to ArtTube

NOW&AFTER live on the TV-radio channel Strana FM

Dni.ru about Now&After'17 Festival.

Participants

FLASHBACK’17 EXHIBITION

Curated by Marina Fomenko

Artists:

1. Leila Alaoui, Morocco, Crossings, 2012, 06:00

Crossings is a video art project exploring the experience of Sub-Saharan migrants who embark on the perilous journey to reach the much sought-after European shores. The film aims to re-create the disturbing and heartbreaking sensations of their crossings using chocking, often-tragic real life stories.

2. Natasha Dahnberg, Baggage, Sweden, 2016, 05:17

In search of something important, the film main character sorts out everything that has happened in her life and in a bustle misses what she has been looking for so long.

3. Vica Ilyushkina, Maya Popova, Lost Fragmets, Russia, 2014, 01:27

An attempt of reconstruction.The plots of video reminds classical sculptures. Choreographer restores the memories of the past by the analytical method.

4. Mairéad McClean, Mary | Encode Series 1, UK, 2015, 04:00

Mairéad McClean’s work disrupts and restructures events from the past highlighting the unreliability of history.

5. Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, Face Book, Russia, 2016-2017, 05:00

The light emanated by the screens and reflected by our faces, transfers us from the virtual world into the space of the universe whose flickering stars became the main motive for creating the work called "Face Book".

6. Benjamin Ramírez Pérez, Body Snatcher, Germany, 2016, 17:17

"Body Snatcher" conflates new 16mm material and found footage from Barbara Loden‘s film Wanda (1970) into an abstract, new narrative.

7. Maryam Tafakory, Poem and Stone, UK, 2015, 10:00

One experiences and records the present through bodily sensations that hold memories. Poem and stone interweaves performance, documentary and poetry, drawing on notions of belonging, absence and the impossibility of a return.

8. Clemens Wilhelm, When You Change the Way You Look at Things, the Things You Look at Change, Germany, 2016, 10:00

Why there is no such thing as nothing? The potential of the absent seems endless. This video is the paradox attempt to observe the permanence of change.

RETOSPECTIVE: BEST OF NOW&AFTER’11 - NOW&AFTER’16 FESTIVALS

NOW&AFTER’11

I place

Tamar Meir, USA, Potemkin, 2010, 02:05

II place

Taus Makhacheva, Russia, Go, 2010, 03:02

HONORABLE JURY MENTION

Timo Katz, Jan Fuchs, Germany, The World, 2008, 05:28

Lena Bergendahl, Sweden, We Will See a Different Sunset (part 3), 2009, 01:29

Enda O'Donoghue, Germany, «Etudo Anonimo», 2011, 03:09

Przemek Wegrzyn, Poland, Black T., 2010, 06:32

Pavel Kuznetsov, Russia, Rain, 2010, 02:37

Stefan Adamski, Poland, Re:, 2011, 03:19

Nikolay Alekseev, Russia, The Fall of Ikarus, 2011, 01:45

Eva Zhigalova, Russia, Am I Here?, 2010, 01:07