May 21 to 31, 2009

The seventh LOOP Festival will be held in Barcelona from May 21 to 31. After six successful years, LOOP has established an international reputation as a benchmark event for the diffusion and promotion of the best videoart, and as an unmatched meeting point for professionals and lovers of this discipline. Structured around three core sections - Festival, Fair and Panels - LOOP brings together recent works by the most highly acclaimed video artists and new pieces by up-and-coming creators, as well as recovering some of the most emblematic pieces from the history of video and bringing them to a wide audience.

This year’s Festival, which will once again spread over many city locations including museums, cultural centres and other venues, will explore the relationship between videoart and other disciplines and genres such as dance, cinema, theatre, design and music.

Program




International program of universities

LOOP establishes a series of collaborations and agreements with 28 universities of 12 countries involved with the education and diffusion of video art and coordinates a program of internship for students centred on the production, research and documentation on video. LOOP is not only a space of presentation of the most out-standing projects of universities but also aims to be a space of education: teachers and students will move their classrooms to the premises of the festival.

Alfred University, IUAV University, Escola Elisava, Escola IED, Escola Massana, Facultad Bellas Artes Universidad Barcelona, MECAD-ESDI, Escuela de Arte de SevillaUniversidad Europea de Madrid, Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad de Málaga, Monash University, Escuela de Artes y Oficios Vitoria- Gastéiz, Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad de la Laguna, Facultad Comunicación Audiovisual Universidad de Málaga, Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Facultad Bellas Artes Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, University of Texas at San Antonio, Master en Teoría y Práctica del Documental Creativo, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Technological Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication University of Ferrara, KHM University, Malmö Art Academy, University of New South Wales (COFA), WBK Vrije Academie, The Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences (Media Arts, Hauté Ècole d’Art et de Design Gèneve, The Royal University Collage of Fine Arts in Stockholm

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How to participate

The deadline for submissions to participate in LOOP09 was March 30, 2009.

Highlights

  • Curated by Laura Baigorri, in ¡Siempre en lucha! (at Caixaforum), cuban artists Luís Gárciga, Javier Castro and Grethell Rasúa use the video to explore the Cuban collective subconscious through ethnographic methods and the interview documentary style in order to raise a bittersweet criticism, among the humour, the irony, the endowment of visibility and the resistance.
  • At CCCB, Lo que dura un cante is a video program that explores different lines of experimentation currently developing in the hybrid borderland between visual arts and flamenco. The selection is based on a questioning of the traditional relationship between 'high' and 'low' culture, the rejection of prejudices and a thorough familiarity with flamenco as a complex, traditional aesthetic expression. This video programme is been co-organized with, P’alucine, the Audiovisual Flamenco Festival of Ciutat Vella.Video programme curated by Esther Regueira.
  • This Is Hong Kong presents a selection of artists from Hong Kong that reflect on the idea of politics, History, architecture, postcolonial issues and daily life in this territory. This Is Hong Kong presents an unique visual picture of what is Hong Kong now, through an analyses from video media, providing a fresh snapshot of development of the territory after postcolonial devolution in 1997. This selection comes from Para/site, the most cutting-edge center of that Asian city and it’s been curated by its director, Álvaro Rodriguez Fominaya.
  • “Pas d’histoires” is a selection of French artists and filmmakers selection arrives at the Arts Santa Mònica from the South London Gallery.
  • “Décadrages” is an amazing dialogue between the Godia Collection with a selection of works from the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, curated by Pascale Cassagneau.
  • Johan Grimonprez presents his more recent piece, “Double Take”, at Macba.