News
16.04.2025
Loops Expanded 2025-2026
International Open Call and decentralised exhibition
SUBMIT YOUR WORK UNTIL JUNE 2nd 2025
Solo and collective exhibitions, debates, interviews and more througout Portugal, Spain, Italy, Brazil and The Netherlands – always building and deconstructing the fundamental role of the Loop for moving images, art philosophy, and more. This is Loops Expanded, an international network of curators and partner organizations holding exhibitions in Portugal since 2015, and internationally since 2020.
With its 2025 – 2026 open call, Loops Expanded invites artists and collectives from anywhere, anytime to submit their works dedicated to the Loop form, be they single or multi-channel.
We keep pushing for works that probe the idea, concept and multiple potentialities of the Loop, and not for works in which the Loop is used only technically for exhibition purposes.
The network’s partners will choose a Loops Expanded selection from all submissions to the open call. Each partner will select and exhibit locally one or more works from the current and/or previous selections. Depending on local conditions, the form of the exhibition could include shows or screenings in museums, galleries, theatres or outdoors screenings.
What we are looking for
This is not about an itinerant exhibition, but rather an ongoing network ongoing experiment: we explore an interrelated and interdependent approach in a global video art landscape and empower different perspectives to a unique form.
But what does that mean? From pre-cinema and the mechanical movement of creating moving images, up to the present time of computational, sound and audiovisual “infinite loops”, and even the ephemerality of GIFs, loops are still everywhere and the possibilities are truly countless, creating a naturally fertile ground for artists.
Beyond formal rigour, but without ever excluding it, we understand the Loop as every video artwork capable of providing a cyclical and fluid experience even in transitory situations. Regardless of the trigger and/or device used, and whether from a minimal visual unit or a longer elliptical narrative, Loops Expanded wants to select and display works exploring a pulsar, a continuous flow, a perpetual movement, an idea in positive permanence.
SUBMIT YOUR WORK:
takes to Gform: https://forms.gle/SyiPQZnhvoDPFi5p8
30.11.2024
Loops Expanded 2024-2025
International Open Call and decentralised exhibition
SUBMIT YOUR WORK UNTIL NOVEMBER 30th
Solo and collective exhibitions, debates, interviews and more througout Portugal, Spain, Italy, Brazil and The Netherlands – always building and deconstructing the fundamental role of the Loop for moving images, art philosophy, and more. This is Loops Expanded, an international network of curators and partner organizations holding exhibitions in Portugal since 2015, and internationally since 2020.
With its 2024 – 2025 open call, Loops Expanded invites artists and collectives from anywhere, anytime to submit their works dedicated to the Loop form, be they single or multi-channel.
We keep pushing for works that probe the idea, concept and multiple potentialities of the Loop, and not for works in which the Loop is used only technically for exhibition purposes.
The network’s partners will choose a Loops Expanded selection from all submissions to the open call. Each partner will select and exhibit locally one or more works from the current and/or previous selections. Depending on local conditions, the form of the exhibition could include shows or screenings in museums, galleries, theatres or outdoors screenings.
What we are looking for
This is not about an itinerant exhibition, but rather an ongoing network ongoing experiment: we explore an interrelated and interdependent approach in a global video art landscape and empower different perspectives to a unique form.
But what does that mean? From pre-cinema and the mechanical movement of creating moving images, up to the present time of computational, sound and audiovisual “infinite loops”, and even the ephemerality of GIFs, loops are still everywhere and the possibilities are truly countless, creating a naturally fertile ground for artists.
Beyond formal rigour, but without ever excluding it, we understand the Loop as every video artwork capable of providing a cyclical and fluid experience even in transitory situations. Regardless of the trigger and/or device used, and whether from a minimal visual unit or a longer elliptical narrative, Loops Expanded wants to select and display works exploring a pulsar, a continuous flow, a perpetual movement, an idea in positive permanence.
SUBMIT YOUR WORK:
takes to Gform: https://forms.gle/zrdB9rx36Q2cLJoH6
19-24.11.2024
Loops Expanded in RIZOMA Festival
From Ouroboros to the current loop
The exhibition ‘From Ouroboros to the current loop’ arises from the symbolism of *Ouroboros*, the central theme of the RIZOMA 2024 festival, where the serpent devouring its own tail represents an eternal cycle of creation, destruction and rebirth. This archetype of continuity appears in cultures as disparate as Norse mythology, Hinduism and Mesoamerican civilisations, becoming a universal emblem of the cyclical flow of life. In alchemy, it represents the unity of the elements and the constant change of form: nothing disappears, only transforms. This eternal cycle of life and regeneration inspires and is reflected in each work of this audiovisual exhibition.
The exhibition brings together audiovisual pieces that explore repetition as both a narrative and philosophical resource, in a dialogue between time, memory and nature. Curated by Loops.Expanded in collaboration with PROYECTOR for the RIZOMA Festival, the exhibition unfolds as a set of spiralling narratives that invite the viewer to reflect on the cyclical meaning of existence and the role of the individual in the vast landscape of human experience. The works by Anna Gimein, Ilaria di Carlo, Javier Olivera and Lukas Marxt offer unique perspectives on how the loop can reveal the hidden layers of our perception.
Gilles Deleuze explores in ‘Diferença e Repetição’ (1968) the idea that repetition is a form of differing: ‘One does not repeat the identical, but that which always changes in its becoming’.
In de la O, Anna Gimein plays with the ambivalence of the word ‘idle’, exploring its gender connotation and the boundary between stillness and madness. Through repetitive movement, her installation questions self-control and self-perception, as a visual reflection of the Ouroboros: a perpetually rotating figure that reminds us how old concepts of femininity are continually renewed, ‘going mad’ in an infinite self-exploration. As the artist points out, the twist in the piece evokes the struggle between discipline and its loss, alluding to the cycle of mastery and liberation posed by the Ouroboros.
Ilaria di Carlo, in The Divine Way, invites us on a descent inspired by Dante’s *Divine Comedy*, where a protagonist traverses an endless labyrinth of stairs. This journey evokes a visual narrative in which the spaces change and the immersion into the ‘underworld’ acts as an introspective cycle, a continuous descent that explores the search for identity and self-discovery. In the words of Nietzsche, ‘If you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you’. This piece reflects the cycle of death and rebirth in a metaphorical way, involving the viewer in a constant process of transformation.
In A possible portrait of my mother, Javier Olivera explores the nature of affection and memory. Through archival images and Super 8 films, he uses the loop as a resource that, like a mantra, evokes intimacy and the desire to preserve the past. This affective loop, an incessant repetition of memories, reflects the cycle of Ouroboros, where nostalgia becomes an act of continuous creation. The repetition of a single musical note throughout the piece enhances this trance-like atmosphere, suggesting that memory itself is an ‘infinite loop’, a spiral that never dies out, but is endlessly transformed.
Lukas Marxt presents in Circular Inscription and Reign of Silence two pieces that pay homage to the Land Art of the sixties and seventies, with a minimalist aesthetic that refers to iconic works such as Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. In Circular Inscription, a car spirals across the dry Lake El Mirage, while Reign of Silence shows the movement of a motorboat on a lonely lake, leaving an ephemeral wake. Both works highlight the relationship between humans and the natural environment and explore the notion of permanence versus the temporal. As in Ouroboros, the circles and spirals left by human intervention in the landscape eventually fade away, recalling the ‘temporal imprint’ that each being leaves in the universal cycle.
The looping structure of these works is, in turn, an echo of the evolution of cinema in a cycle of ‘death and rebirth’: from the advent of sound and digital cinema to the age of algorithms, the medium has survived, adapting to new demands and redefining its identity. Today, cinema seems locked in its own Ouroboros, in a continuous process of self-reference and transformation, where ‘the end is the beginning’. As Heraclitus stated, ‘Nothing is permanent except change’. In this cycle of creation and dissolution, ‘From Ouroboros to the current loop’ offers a visual and philosophical reflection on temporality, perception and the perpetual reinvention of art and life.
1.10.2024
Loops.Expanded 2023-24 in ITALY
SAMMMARTINO CINEMA (ARSENALE CINECLUB)
Antone Rodriguez Berastegui (BE) – Apnea (2017)
Cyril Galmiche (FR) – Intersection (2023)
João Cristóvão Leitão (PT) – in search of Averrois (2023)
11-22.09.2024
Loops.Expanded 2023-24 in SPAIN
PROYECTOR/Festival
September 11th – 22th, 2024
We received 110 of 40 countries submitted works is a testimony of the loop strengths and vitality. That’s the reason why we had a fascinating, but no easy (and slightly delayed) task. Fortunately enough, the submitted works enabled us having a real, beautiful and convincing discussion about purposes and meanings.
So in this list, we are sharing the works for which we have a commitment to show. Each curatorial partner will select one or more works and, depending on local conditions, the form of the exhibition could include shows or screenings in museums, galleries, theatres or outdoors screenings, symposiums and/or masterclasses. Hopefully, we will have a second list of more confirmed exhibitions.
This network aims to not to function as a traditional jury that just selects or rejects, but rather as a curatorial group whose goal is to unite and exhibit a ‘treasure trove’ around the loop. The present list is the autonomous but convergent work of programmers representing moving image projects in five countries: António da Câmara (Duplacena / Festival Temps d’Images, Lisbon – Portugal). Mario Gutiérrez Cru (PROYECTOR, Madrid – Spain); Sandra Lischi (Ondavideo, Pisa – Italy); Tom Van Vliet (WWVF, Amsterdam – Netherlands); Alisson Avila (Cine Esquema Novo collective (Porto Alegre – Brazil) and Irit Batsry and Alisson Avila (Loops.Lisboa / Festival Temps d’Images, Lisbon – Portugal).
We selected:
CRUCE
28 JAN 2024: Anna Gimein (EEUU) – de la O (2023)
SALA EQUIS
11-22 SEP 2024. Michael Fleming – SHOWT!ME (2022)
SPOLIA HAUS
11-22 SEP 2024. Antone Rodriguez Berastegui (BE) – Apnea (2017) and Anna Gimein (USA) – de la O (2023)
COLECCIÓN INELCOM
11-22 SEP 2024. Helena Ferreira (PT) – Blind Spot (2021)
11.01-03.03.2024
Loops.Expanded 2023-24 in PORTUGAL
The MNAC and Duplacena are proud to present for the 9th year an exhibition dedicated to the loop as a seminal form of the moving image.
Loops.Expanded 2023-2024 edition in Portugal features six works selected through its international open call. From poetry to artists’ formal and philosophical viewpoints, this selection deconstructs and reconstructs on this essential form of the moving image.
Opening the cycle in Duplacena77 is in search of Averrois, where Portuguese João Cristóvão Leitão weaves a majestic construction of the circularity of memory. In a second room, two short works are juxtaposed: THE DUCHAMP MANIFESTO («Besides, it is always the others who die»), by Spaniard Fermín Díez de Ulzurrun, , a cautionary tale of causes and consequences of deep fake; and the pandemic Notebook of the Plague – a critical, personal and intimate view by Terry Berkowitz, a North American video artist active since the 1970s.
At the MNAC, three works will be shown consecutively. The first is the iconic experimental videoart work 0778, by Brazilian Marcellvs L., a poem operating from the transition from analog magnetic to digital language in a long shot that jiggles with time, space and perception. In Chantier (2023), French artist Cyril Galmiche explores his ideas of simultaneity, superimposition and objective relativization of reality, by choreographing over 2h30 the movements of a construction site. And Blind Spot by Portuguese artist Helena Ferreira, is an installation that plays with the materiality of light and the possibility of considering images in and out of focus as the most paradoxical of loops.
28.01.2024
Loops.Expanded 2023-24 in SPAIN
CRUCE
28 JAN 2024: Anna Gimein (EEUU) – de la O (2023)
06-17.09.2023
Loops.Expanded 2022-23 in SPAIN
A selection of Loops.Expanded will be in Madrid in the Venue Ocho y Medio from 6th to 17th of September 2023.
Artists
Santiago Carlini (arg), Axel, (2021), 11:06
Santiago Carlini (Argentine): Reflashie, (2023), 1:48
12.08.2023
Loops.Expanded 2022-23 in SPAIN
A selection of Loops.Expanded will be in Granada in La Fábrica Lanjarón from 11th of September 2023.
Too Big Drawing, (2021) of Genadzi Buto (Italy)
La Fábrica Lanjarón
C. Hondillo, 119, 18420 Lanjarón, Granada, España
01.02-26.03.2023
Loops.Expanded 2021-22 in PORTUGAL
A selection of Loops.Expanded will be in Lisboa in the National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC from 1 of February to 26th of March 2023.
Artists
Chia-Yun Wu (Taiwan): Five, Four, Three, Two, (2021),13:30
Javier Olivera (Argentine): A possible portrait of my mother, (2021), 06:26
Anouk de Clercq (bel), Building, (2003), 12:00
Genadzi Buto (Italy), Too Big Drawing, (2021), 5:13
07-18.09.2022
Loops.Expanded 2021-22 in SPAIN
A selection of Loops.Expanded will be in Madrid in the Video Art Festival PROYECTOR from 7 to 18th of September 2022.
Artists
Chia-Yun Wu(Taiwan): Five, Four, Three, Two, (2021),13:30
Lina Jiménez Numpaque (Colombia): Con el CIELO entre los ojos claros. (2021), 10:00
Lorena Ruiz Pellicero(Spain): Fragmentos de una entrevista (Snippets of an Interview), 2021, 0:30
Ramón González Palazón (Spain): Despite the darkness, (2021), 25:11
Rina Venetucci(Ita): Three Times Akerman, (2019); 02:27
+ info:
www.proyector.info
19.02.2022
ART MADRID. – PROYECTOR 2022
PIONEERS
Sound, visual and performance installations
Every form of art has a beginning and an end, a beginning normally with a void, be it sound or visual, and a time when we already consider it finished. It fulfills a cycle and as such, a function, almost like infinity, like a perfect circle, almost magical, to which only art can take us.
This new collaboration ART MADRID–PROYECTOR, once again under the curatorship of Mario Gutiérrez Cru, we want to investigate the concept of the loop, or loop in Spanish, a word that not even the RAE dictionary knows how to define precisely. That is why we want to invite PIONEERS to rethink this concept, from an etymological, philosophical and, of course, artistic point of view, focusing on the sound, visual and corporal construction of said word.
For this new edition of Art Madrid’22 we offer you a tour over almost 2 weeks (from February 19 to 27, 2022), which consists of a theoretical base with professional meetings open to the public and another practice with installations, projection of international curators and actions at the fair itself. Focusing mainly on video art, experimental music and performance, all disciplines that will open this debate for us.
Starting with the most reflective part, inviting experts who, during the professional table, will talk to us about the meaning of the loop from very different positions, disciplines and perspectives. For this we have invited pioneers of video art and new media art both from the point of view of creation, as well as distribution and collecting: Gary Hill (USA), Tom Van Vliet (hol) and Sandra Lischi (ita), with the presentation and moderation by Tamara García (esp) specialist in the loop concept.
To continue investigating this concept, we would like to invite Irit Batsry (isr/usa), artist and curator of Loops.Expanded, to present and show key pieces of the moving image, both from its beginnings and from recent years. This international platform is made up of directors of video art festivals from Brazil, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands and Spain; some of them with almost 40 years of experience, such as Sandra Lischi (Ondavideo since 1985 in Pisa); or Tom Van Vliet (WWVF since 1982 in Amsterdam) or Irit Batsry, pioneering artist and curator of Festival Temps d’Images since 2003 in Lisbon, and new additions such as the Cine Schema Novo festival in Brazil since 2003 and PROYECTOR in Madrid since 2008. All of them will offer the attending public an exclusive selection of pieces under this loop premise. To end the day, the Colombian artist Lina Jiménez Numpaque , one of those selected by the Loops.Expanded platform, will perform her work Lucifero live at 7:30 p.m. at the El Águila headquarters.
As you have been able to observe, all of the above is carried out prior to the fair and with a more educational, reflective and contemplative character. For this reason, we want to involve the public and make them participate during the fair itself at the ART MADRID–PROYECTOR stand, which will allow us to enjoy two installation proposals by the pioneer of new media art Gary Hill. And as a closing, a couple of performance proposals will open and close the fair, from the language of the body and sound experimentation, a door to the loop through actions and audiovisual performances… Gary Hill himself and the pioneer of Spanish sound art Llorenç Barber.
Let’s enjoy the loop!
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CALENDAR
1. STAND IN FAIR
23-27 FEB. CIBELES PALACE GLASS GALLERY
Artist: Gary Hill
2. “PIONEERS” PROFESSIONAL MEETING
19 FEB. 12pm THE EAGLE ROOM AUDITORIUM
Speakers: Gary Hill, Tom Van Vliet and Sandra Lischi. Presentation of Tamara Garcia
3. INTERNATIONAL CURATOR SCREENINGS
19 FEB. 5:00 p.m. THE EAGLE ROOM AUDITORIUM
Historical screenings by Ondavideo (Italy) and WWVF (The Netherlands); and more current with Loops.Expanded (bra/por/hol/ita/esp). We will also have the presentation of Irit Batsry
7:30 p.m. Performance by Lina Jiménez Numpaque
4. CYCLE OF ACTIONS
23 and 25 FEB 2022. 8pm. CIBELES PALACE GLASS GALLERY
23 FEB 2022. 8pm. Performance by Gary Hill
25 FEB 2022. 8pm. Performance by Llorenç Barber
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ARTISTS
Madrid Art Fair
Gary Hill (USA), Switchblade, (1998-99)
Gary Hill (eeuu), Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings), (1979/1986), 4:17
Curating WWWF (hol)
Nan Hoover (hol), Returning to Fuji, 1984, 8:37
Bruce Nauman (eeuu), Good Boy Bad Boy, 1985, Fragmento de 17:14
Breda Beban (yug), Let’s call it love, 2000, 7:15
Eder Santos (bra), Neptune’s Choice, 2003, 15:30
Total: 51:06”
Curator Ondavideo (ita)
Michele Sambin (ita), Il tempo consuma, 1978, 5:00
Gianni Toti (ita), Per una videopoesia, 1980, Fragmento de 10:00
Robert Cahen (fra), Invitation au voyage, 1983, 9:00
Steina and Woody Vasulka – Peter Kirby (eeuu), Binary Lives, 1997, 43:00 Fragmento de 14:00
Total: 40”
Curated Loops.Expanded (international)
Abelardo Gil-Fournier (Spain) & Jussi Parikka (Finlad): Seed, Image, Ground, (2020), 09:38
Cyril Gamiche (France / Japan): Trajectory 2, (2019), 3:30
Javier Olivera (Argentine): A possible portrait of my mother, (2021), 06:26
Lina Jiménez Numpaque (Colombia): Lucífero, (2019), 01:55
Økapi (Italy), 13th floor, (2021), 4:12
Paula Lafuente (Spain), Industriales, (2018), 7:21
Pedro Vaz (Portugal): Ser, (2021), 15:48
Shir Handelsman (Israel): Rivka, (2017), 5:00
Tommaso Lunardi (Italy): Ulysses, (2020), 8:06
08-19.07.2021
Loops.Expanded 2021-22
Decentralized exhibition
The Loops.Expanded curatorial team has the pleasure of sharing the results of its work on the 2021 International Open Call.
Just as we said when the submission phase has ended, the quality and diversity of the 110 of 40 countries submitted works is a testimony of the loop strengths and vitality. That’s the reason why we had a fascinating, but no easy (and slightly delayed) task. Fortunately enough, the submitted works enabled us having a real, beautiful and convincing discussion about purposes and meanings.
So in this list, we are sharing the works for which we have a commitment to show. Each curatorial partner will select one or more works and, depending on local conditions, the form of the exhibition could include shows or screenings in museums, galleries, theatres or outdoors screenings, symposiums and/or masterclasses. Hopefully, we will have a second list of more confirmed exhibitions.
This network aims to not to function as a traditional jury that just selects or rejects, but rather as a curatorial group whose goal is to unite and exhibit a ‘treasure trove’ around the loop. The present list is the autonomous but convergent work of programmers representing moving image projects in five countries: António da Câmara (Duplacena / Festival Temps d’Images, Lisbon – Portugal). Mario Gutiérrez Cru & Araceli López (PROYECTOR, Madrid – Spain); Sandra Lischi (Ondavideo, Pisa – Italy); Tom Van Vliet (WWVF, Amsterdam – Netherlands); Jaqueline Beltrame and Alisson Avila (Cine Esquema Novo collective (Porto Alegre – Brazil) and Irit Batsry and Alisson Avila (Loops.Lisboa / Festival Temps d’Images, Lisbon – Portugal).
Thank you again to all the artists and collectives taking part in this international and decentralized network, dedicated to exhibiting and researching the concept and the form of the loop in video art / moving image. We want to explore an inter-related and interdependent approach in a global video art landscape and empower different perspectives to a unique form: from pre-cinema to the present time of computational, sound and audiovisual “infinite loops”.
The Loops.Expanded team
Selection
Abelardo Gil-Fournier (Spain) & Jussi Parikka (Finlad): Seed, Image, Ground, (2020), 09:38
Chia-Yun Wu (Taiwan): Five, Four, Three, Two, (2021),13:30
Cyril Gamiche (France / Japan): Trajectory 2, (2019), 3:30
Javier Olivera (Argentine): A possible portrait of my mother, (2021), 06:26
Lina Jiménez Numpaque (Colombia): Lucífero, (2019), 01:55
Lorena Ruiz Pellicero (Spain): Fragmentos de una entrevista (Snippets of an Interview), 2021, 0:30
Økapi (Italy), 13th floor, (2021), 4:12
Paula Lafuente (Spain), Industriales, (2018), 7:21
Pedro Vaz (Portugal): Ser, (2021), 15:48
Nelton Pellenz (Brasil): Atlântico, 2015, 8:09
Rina Venetucci (Argentine): Three Times Akerman, 2019, 2:27
Ramón González Palazón (Spain): Despite the darkness, (2021), 25:11
Rina Venetucci (Ita): Three Times Akerman, (2019); 02:27
Shir Handelsman(Israel): Rivka, (2017), 5:00
Tommaso Lunardi (Italy): Ulysses, (2020), 8:06
18-23.08.2021
Loops em Movimento
Loops in Movement is a low-cost, high-impact and high-visibility action, adapted to the social moment of the fight against Covid-19, produced by Duplacena and which aims to provide a relational experience and make video art in an environment known of transition, of movement.
The proposal consists of a van that will travel from Madrid to Lisbon, for closings to be defined in the week of August 18th to 23rd, showing an exclusive program of Portuguese video artists during the nights of the trip.
For this first edition, works exhibited from 2015 onwards in the scope of Loops.Lisboa, produced by Duplacena in the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museo Chiado (MNAC) were selected.
Always respecting the rules of social distance, the projects will be carried out in small and medium-scale environments, taking these works out of the exhibition environment and taking them to spaces open to the public projection. Contextual and educational information about the artists and their works will be provided in person by the curator who accompanies the trip.
Calendar
18.08.2021. 22:00h. ¡ésta es una Plaza!
Calle Doctor Fourquet, 24, Madrid
19.08.2021. 22:00h. Museo Vostell Malpartida
Carretera de Los Barruecos, s/n, Malpartida de Cáceres
20.08.2021. 21.30h. Jardim Municipal de Paço de Arcos
Praça 5 de Outubro 12, Paço de Arcos, Oeiras
21.08.2021. 21.30h. Centro Histórico da Vila de Oeiras
Rúa Febus Moniz 225, Oeiras
22.08.2021. 21.30h. Centro Cultural de Belém
Praça do Império, Lisboa
23.08.2021. 21.30h. Centro Cultural de Belém
Praça do Império, Lisboa
Artists
Período Azul, Mané (2018) 11:45
O Retrato de Ulisses, João Cristóvão Leitão (2015) 5:17
Aquela velha questão do som e da imagem, João Bento (2000) 2:48
Pandopticon, Eunice Artur – agendas obscuras (2020) 13:32
Zootrópio, Tiago Rosa-Rosso (2016), 14.00
08-19.07.2021
Loops.Expanded 2021 in SPAIN
A selection of Loops.Expanded will be in Madrid in the Video Art Festival PROYECTOR from 8 to 19th of September 2021.
Artists
Ariel Uzal – Julieta Caputo (arg), Catherine Radosa (fra), Emanuele Dainotti (ita), Francisco Pradilla Barrero (esp), Hasan Daraghmeh (pal), Juan-Ramón Barbancho (esp), Kika Nicolela (bra), Marc Clemente (esp/mar), Nacho Recio (esp), Shahar Marcus (isr), Tseng Yu Chin (twn) y W. Mark Sutherland (can)
+ info:
www.proyector.info
08-19.07.2021
Loops.Expanded International Open Call results
The Loops.Expanded curatorial team has the pleasure of sharing the results of its work on the 2020 International Open Call.
Just as we said when the submission phase has ended, the quality and diversity of the 257 submitted works is a testimony of the loop strengths and vitality. That’s the reason why we had a fascinating, but no easy (and slightly delayed) task. Fortunately enough, the submitted works enabled us to have a real, beautiful and convincing discussion about purposes and meanings.
So in this list, we are sharing the works for which we have a commitment to show. Each curatorial partner will select one or more works and, depending on local conditions, the form of the exhibition could include shows or screenings in museums, galleries, theatres or outdoors screenings, symposiums and/or masterclasses. As you can imagine, we were not able to find exhibition opportunities for all works that we appreciated: hopefully, we will have a second list of more confirmed exhibitions.
This network aims to not to function as a traditional jury that just selects or rejects, but rather as a curatorial group whose goal is to unite and exhibit a ‘treasure trove’ around the loop. The present list is the autonomous but convergent work of programmers representing moving image projects in five countries: Loops.Lisboa/Duplacena (Portugal), PROYECTOR (Madrid / Spain), Ondavideo (Pisa / Italy), WWVF (Amsterdam / The Netherlands) and Cine Esquema Novo (Porto Alegre / Brazil). Not to mention our valuable venue partners Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado (MNAC – Lisbon), Galería de Cristal / Palacio de Cibeles, Quinta del Sordo, Sala El Águila and Secuencia de Inútiles (Madrid), Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre), Arsenale Cineclub (Pisa) and more to be announced soon.
Thank you again to all the artists and collectives who have submitted their work to this new international and decentralized project, dedicated to exhibiting and researching the concept and the form of the loop in video art / moving image. We want to explore an interrelated and interdependent approach in a global video art landscape and empower different perspectives to a unique form: from pre-cinema to the present time of computational, sound and audiovisual “infinite loops”. And these are the works coming from the Loops.Expanded 2020 International Open Call:
DEHORS/AUDELA (Italy): Aporia 2019, 13:20
Miguel Escobar (Colombia): An Image of a Façade 2020, 12:40
Nacho Recio (Spain): Ant 2014, 15:00
W. Mark Sutherland (Canada): America a Videopoem 1988, 04:04
More news to be announced soon.
Looply yours,
16.07.2020
Loops.Expanded 2020 in PORTUGAL
@ National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC
October 7th, 2020 – February 14th, 2021
The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon receives from October 7th to February 14th, 2021 its local edition of Loops.Expanded – an international network of curators and programmers focused on the exhibiting and researching the loop format in video art and moving image.
The project continues and broadens up a project created in 2015 under the name Loops.Lisboa, at the time a national competition created by Duplacena, in close collaboration with MNAC; five editions of which were exhibited in the museum.
Now, the first edition of Loops.Expanded in Lisbon @ MNAC presents a selection of works from an International Open Call that received more than 250 entries by artists from 43 countries. Of the 18 works selected by the network of curators, 7 will be exhibited in Lisbon. Each of the 7 videos, by artists from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Israel, Italy and Palestine / Norway, will be shown for 3 weeks each in a 4 month cycle curated by Emília Tavares (MNAC), Irit Batsry and Alisson Avila (Loops.Expanded).
A parallel program consisting of interviews with the artists and a closing conference will be announced shortly.
The network, founded in 2019, expands the original initiative of Loops Lisboa started in 2015. Loops.Expanded founders are curators and organizations from the field of video art from five different countries: António da Câmara (Duplacena / Festival Temps d’Images, Lisbon – Portugal). Mario Gutiérrez Cru & Araceli López (PROYECTOR, Madrid – Spain); Sandra Lischi (Ondavideo, Pisa – Italy); Tom Van Vliet (WWVF, Amsterdam – Netherlands); Jaqueline Beltrame and Alisson Avila (Cine Esquema Novo collective (Porto Alegre – Brazil) and Irit Batsry and Alisson Avila (Loops.Lisboa / Festival Temps d’Images, Lisbon – Portugal).
THE PROGRAM:
Shahar Marcus (Israel)
Dig (2019), 5’35”
October 7th – 25th
Miguel Escobar (Colombia)
An Image of a Façade (2020), 12’40”
October 27th – November 15th
W. Mark Sutherland (Canada)
America, a videopoem (1988), 4’04”
November 17th – December 6th
Emanuele Dainotti (Italy)
Santa María (2018), 13’52”
December 8th – 31st
Kika Nicolela (Brazil)
Actus (2010), 16′
January 2021 5th – 24th
Ilaria Di Carlo (Italy)
The Divine Way (2018), 15m’
January 26th – February 14th
Hasan Daraghmeh (Palestine / Norway)
The Door (2020), 8′
January 26th – February 14th
Main Sponsor: Centro Colombo
16.07.2020
Loops.Expanded 2020 in SPAIN
The first exhibition of Loops.Expanded will be in Madrid in the Video Art Festival PROYECTOR from 9 to 20th of September 2020.
Artists
DEHORS/AUDELA (Italy): Aporia
Eunice Artur & agendas obscuras (Portugal):Pandopticon
Ilaria Di Carlo (Italy): The Divine Way
More news to be announced soon.
+ info:
www.proyector.info
Loops.Expanded International Open Call results
The Loops.Expanded curatorial team has the pleasure of sharing the results of its work on the 2020 International Open Call.
Just as we said when the submission phase has ended, the quality and diversity of the 257 submitted works is a testimony of the loop strengths and vitality. That’s the reason why we had a fascinating, but no easy (and slightly delayed) task. Fortunately enough, the submitted works enabled us to have a real, beautiful and convincing discussion about purposes and meanings.
So in this list, we are sharing the works for which we have a commitment to show. Each curatorial partner will select one or more works and, depending on local conditions, the form of the exhibition could include shows or screenings in museums, galleries, theatres or outdoors screenings, symposiums and/or masterclasses. As you can imagine, we were not able to find exhibition opportunities for all works that we appreciated: hopefully, we will have a second list of more confirmed exhibitions.
This network aims to not to function as a traditional jury that just selects or rejects, but rather as a curatorial group whose goal is to unite and exhibit a ‘treasure trove’ around the loop. The present list is the autonomous but convergent work of programmers representing moving image projects in five countries: Loops.Lisboa/Duplacena (Portugal), PROYECTOR (Madrid / Spain), Ondavideo (Pisa / Italy), WWVF (Amsterdam / The Netherlands) and Cine Esquema Novo (Porto Alegre / Brazil). Not to mention our valuable venue partners Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado (MNAC – Lisbon), Galería de Cristal / Palacio de Cibeles, Quinta del Sordo, Sala El Águila and Secuencia de Inútiles (Madrid), Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre), Arsenale Cineclub (Pisa) and more to be announced soon.
Thank you again to all the artists and collectives who have submitted their work to this new international and decentralized project, dedicated to exhibiting and researching the concept and the form of the loop in video art / moving image. We want to explore an interrelated and interdependent approach in a global video art landscape and empower different perspectives to a unique form: from pre-cinema to the present time of computational, sound and audiovisual “infinite loops”. And these are the works coming from the Loops.Expanded 2020 International Open Call:
DEHORS/AUDELA (Italy): Aporia 2019, 13:20
Miguel Escobar (Colombia): An Image of a Façade 2020, 12:40
Nacho Recio (Spain): Ant 2014, 15:00
W. Mark Sutherland (Canada): America a Videopoem 1988, 04:04
More news to be announced soon.
Looply yours,
01.06.2020
Loops.Expanded 2020 international open call: we’re thrilled about what we’ve got!
The quality and diversity of the 257 works submitted by artists and collectives from 43 countries and 4 continents (including self-determined ‘Transnational’ and ‘European’ ones) are already a testimony of the loop strengths and vitality. The works length range from a few seconds up to infinite loops and the intended exhibiting formats include outdoor projections, multiscreen installations, GIFs, gallery exhibitions and theatre screenings.
We’re looking forward to sharing our Annual Selection results at the end of June. The selected works will be invited to take part in different exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, Italy and Brazil. Each curatorial partner will select one or more works and, depending on local conditions, the form of the exhibition could include shows or screenings in museums, galleries, theatres or outdoors screenings, symposiums and/or masterclasses.
Thank you to all the artists and collectives taking part in this international and decentralized network, dedicated to exhibiting and researching the concept and the form of the loop in video art / moving image. We want to explore an inter-related and interdependent approach in a global video art landscape and empower different perspectives to a unique form: from pre-cinema to the present time of computational, sound and audiovisual “infinite loops”. And all we can say by now is that this first annual sample makes this experiment truly encouraging. See you at the end of June