FIBER and LIMA present: The LIMA Collection #97
Doors: 19:30
Start time: 20:00
After the performative & immersive art meetup and performance programme, we continue the program on Sunday evening with a screening programme of video art, digital and performance artworks.
For this special occasion FIBER collaborates with LIMA, the international platform for sustainable access to media art, and made a selection of video’s taken from LIMA’s extensive historical archive.
► PROGRAMME
Media art – what is that exactly? Was the history of media art ushered in with the artistic use of television sets and computers during the 1960s, or by performance artists in the early 1970s who turned video cameras on themselves? Is media art about the introduction of a new aesthetic by artists who researched the medium itself, and used the possibilities offered by technology to create a new visual language? Or is it about the use of the video camera as a tool for readymade cinema?
Media art includes all of these aspects. The history of media art consists of multiple histories, exciting stories that have been written about and retold by artists, theorists and a curious public. These various histories are always in flux, open to reflection and reinterpretation and are always being discussed. At the very least the history of media art embraces the histories of performance art, theatre, activism and medium specificity – four major themes that recur frequently and in many guises. Since their inception, new media have been used, analysed, become the subject, or criticised in a surprising range of artworks.
The LIMA Collection includes of all of these histories, with installations, videos, performances and born-digital artworks dating from the 1970s to the present day. With works by Marina Abramovic, Jan Fabre, Telco Systems, The Vasulkas, Nicolas Provost and Douwe Dijkstra, this media art collection is full of stories about people, techniques, trends, and the past and present – some histories have already been told but there are still plenty to discover.
► ABOUT
As part of transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2016 festival, Amsterdam-based FIBER presents a collaborative two day programme at SPEKTRUM with audiovisual performances, an artistic meetup and a screening programme. The event is co-created with LIMA, Berlin based Retune and SPEKTRUM’s local communities. This cultural exchange is part of an ongoing research trajectory to setup an artistic production network for emerging artists between European festivals.
FIBER at SPEKTRUM is supported by The Creative Industry Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie)
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