14 - 20 November 2005

 

From the other side of the Pond

 

Opening Times : 11 - 6 daily

This video project was developed and put together by Elkin Calderon, a Colombian living on London.

15 Colombian video artists who live abroad has come together to show their recent projects in an exhibition to be held at the gallery from the 14 - 20 November 2005.

Victor Escobar's Autostop piece was selected and shown at the Cinema-scope event, -scopeLondon Art Fair 21 - 24 October 2005

 

FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND (FOSP)
Colombian video-artists abroad

FOSP gathers works by 16 young colombian video artists living abroad (all of them in first world countries). This survey shows the questioning of the medium in context, the developments and subjective search, proper to artists working in unknown frameworks and territories. Quite evident is the notion of background and origin; of identity; migration and exodus. Being foreign and coming from a country in turmoil such as Colombia with a heavy drugs and violence stigma acts as a ‘carte de visite’.*


This combination is complex when involving the question of origin and the use of video and the electronic image in the production of art; an artform determined by a technical mediation and the use of technological gadgets that weren’t ‘created’ to make art.


The works in FOSP exposes the conflicting situation of an art that absorbes and reuses elements from the entertainment industry.. (images, music and information taken from the internet, TV shows, video clips, etc). It gives new meaning and widens the scope of our perception of the established media. These works show relationships and direct commentaries towards a technological discourse and its artistic use. Video and its ‘clean’ image are used as records of daily events and performances; as well, the recorded images comes from new devices as such as mobile phones and digital photo cameras which pixelate and give new qualities to the images.


This screening also includes experimental pieces, hybrids between narrative, animation and audio as a vital experience of the work.


FOSP allows a dialogue between the creators, artists and all those interested in videoart in Colombia and abroad. It also widens the view of what Colombian artists are producing outside of their home country - Elkin Calderón


* The most televised image commonly associated and remembered of Colombia abroad is that of football player Andrés Escobar scoring an own-goal during the 1994 World Cup, and the absurd death he was victim of for such an ‘error’

Video artists

1. Sebastian Ramirez. Act like a rich. [3:20] London 2005


2. Valerie Bugman. I want my kiss back. [9:40] Sweden 2005


3. Johana Marin. Gosha. [2:05] London 2005


4. Elkin Calderon & Wilson Diaz. Sandwich man [1:50], Trolley Tape [3:50] London 2005


5. Santiago Caicedo. Unit Search.[6:40]. New York 2004


6. Carolina Petro. Sound Glass. [8:40]


7. Carlos Franklin. De goinfrerie et beuverie.[7:20]. France 2005


8. Nicolas Villegas. Ese goteo insesante… [8:40] Canada-Colombia 2001-2003


9. Hector Mora. Immigrant Protector. [8:50]. Sweden 2005


10. Beatriz Lopez. Tiempos Mejores. [1:26]. Mexico-London 2003


11. Pilar Barrios. Ecosistema. [1:47]. Spain 2005


12. Maria Linares. Interviewing Trilogy. [11:10]. Berlin 2004


13. Andrea Riviere. Zzzzz. [1:10]. London 2004


14. Adriana Garcia. Je veux Etre. [4:04]. Paris 2004


15. Victor Escobar. Autostop. [3:20]. Switzerland 2003


 

Photo : Richard Decaillet

Elkin CALDERÓN GUEVARA


NATIONALITY: Colombian


QUALIFICATIONS


1997-2003: Plastic Arts Degree at University of the Andes (emphasis in Media Arts). Bogotá,
Colombia.
1994-1996: Industrial Design. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.


EXHIBITIONS


Sept. 2005: Galería Santafe. Muestra de video Saltacharco. Bogotá. Colombia.
April 2005: Electric Greenhouse Residency. Artquest and B3 Media, London.
March 2005: Experimenta Colombia. Festival Latinoamericano de Artes Electrónicas.
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango. Bogotá.
June 2004: Locombia Project. Design for to catering caravan. Space, London.
June 2004: Zine Asterisk No 6.(Second Hand), Galería Santafe, Bogotá.
May 2004: WAY OUT - Helena Productions Project -. Video Host-ile Family. Elephant &
Castle Shopping Center, London.
Nov. 2003: World Blanco. Fondo Blanco & Santacruz. Video and graffiti. Galería Ganga,
Bogotá.
May 2003: International Biennial V of Venice. I bullet-gave. BALA-DI. .Barrrio Venecia,
Bogotá.
June 2002: Portátil. Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá.
Nov. 2001:17 internationales Kurzfilmfestival Berlin, Berlin. Selection of the videos: I
Am A Rebel, Sweet Dreams, Shot in My Leg and Improvisatech. Colombia was the special
guest.

Nov. 2001: 9 Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement. Geneva, Switzerland. Selection of the video
Sweet Dreams.

April-May 2001: IMPROVISATECH-NARRENSCHIFF. Tesis work. Cra 9 Not 58 47.
Bogotá.
May 2000: Electronic Art. Selection of Colombian works for web and multimedia. Museo de
Arte Moderno, Bogotá.
October 1999: First Festival of Stereoscopic Video. Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá.
August 1999: Zine Asterisk N 3. Gallery Sextant. Museión. Expociencia. Bogotá.
April-May 1999: Television. Electrónic Art. Museo de Arte Moderno. Bogotá.

* Projects developed with the artistic collective 'el vicio producciones' (conformed in 1998 and integrated by Carlos Franklin, Richard Decaillet, Santiago Caicedo, Simón Hernandez and Elkin Calderón, until 2002):
- Realization of the video fanzine COLEGIALA EN CINTA. Teatro La Carrera. December 2002 and Exhibition in the space LA REBECA. Bogotá 2002.
- Selection of the video Colombia Sport for the 1er Competition of Video Art of the IDB (Interamerican Bank of Development) December 2002.
- Collective exhibition "The Parable" Galeria Valenzuela y Klenner.Bogotá. November 2002.
- Entre Casa. Santa Fe Gallery - Planetario Distrital. Selection of the videos: digalbondiga and mi descaraga. Bogotá D.C, Colombia. 2002.
- The Group of Wednesdays. La Panadería, Méjico DF. Colombian young video-art 2001.
- The Office.Institute Distrital of Culture and Tourism. Santafé Gallery, Sala Alterna, Planetary Distrital. Bogotá 2001
 Alien Possession. Terror film directed by Jairo Pinilla Téllez. Gothic, Bogotá, October 31 of 2000.

PRIZES


August 2005: Winner Project 'Convocatoria Exposiciones Sala en Proyeccion 2005'. Galería Santafe. I.D.C.T., Bogotá, Colombia.

Selection of videos for Hannover. Germany 2000-2001.
June 2000. Convocatoria IDCT: Imaginacion y fiesta en el nuevo milenio. Exhibitions in the
Galería Santafe. Instituto Distrital de Cultura ty Turismo, Bogotá.

Oct. 1999: Second place category experimental video: Uña y Mugre. Equinoxio. VIII Festival of
the Image. National University of Colombia, Bogotá.
Oct. 1999: First place category documental video: Que Va! Equinoxio. VIII Festival of the
image. National University of Colombia. Bogotá.

ARTISTIC RESIDENCE

January-April 2005: Electric Greenhouse Residency. Artquest’s and B3 Media, London.

 

Video Stills

 

Hector Mora :Immigrant Protector

 

Valerie Bugman : I want my kiss back

 

Victor Escobar : Autostop

 

Elkin Calderon & Wilson Diaz : Trolley Tape