2012: .move forward

new mexican- european media art

05. bis 21. Oktober 2012, Halle

Press Release 25th September 2012

Submitted by Anita on

Werkleitz Festival for Media Art – October 5 to 21, 2012 – Halle (Saale), Germany
.move forward - new mexican and european media art

with Maria Vedder, Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, Laura Balboa, Rubén Gutiérrez, Amanda Gutiérrez, Kathrin Kur, Rebecca Lennon, Rosa Menkman, Dina Rončević, Tobias Rosenberger, Marissa Viani Serrano, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak und Florian Tuercke.

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Efemérides en

The term Efemérides refers to anniversary celebrations of historical events with patriotic significance. Three people read a text in front of the camera at the same time, rendering the words meaningless. The histrionics are emphasized by the frontal presentation and by the soldier who opens and closes the event by playing a trumpet. The few words we are able to grasp reveal that the text, written in an informal, vulgar language, is a public protest against the abuse of power by certain citizens.

Matamoros en

Matamoros is the story of an old drug runner. The lead, Pedro Vázquez Reyes, gives a detailed account of encounters, exchanges and armed confrontations, giving each character their own voice with warmth and hilarity. Edgardo Aragón decides to re-enact on film the events as told, but the images don’t match the words exactly, creating between the story and us viewers a space capable of transposing the truculent, terrible anecdotes into a distant, absurd world.

Reality 2.0

It was Autumn as I came to Germany. At this for me exotic place I thought I could distance myself a little from Mexico, but I was wrong. The narcos caught up with me in a brutal way.

A doc-animation about the endless spiral of drug-related violence in Mexico.

 

 

Press Release 28th August 2012

Submitted by Konrad Renner on

Opening on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, at 18:30 in Steintor Varieté

From October 5 – 21, 2012, .move forward presents new Mexican and European art on an exhibition pathway around the Steintor area of Halle. In a collision between art and exceptional places, the Alameda Park in Mexico City appears on the bare wall of a once legendary cinema, mariachis play the avant-garde piece 4:33 by John Cage, and the Virgin Maria appears in a municipal swimming pool.

 

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