PROJECT 35

Sep 24 - Dec 01 2012

35 vidéos/videos, 35 artistes/artists, 35 commissaires/curators

 

Raw Material Company and Independent Curators International (ICI) bring to Dakar an international collection of 35 video works of an eclectic group of emerging and established artists from accross the globe.

Project 35 is an evolving exhibition of video works selected by 35 international curators and designed in a flexible presentation format, reflecting the diversity and unique nature of the many international art spaces ICI partners with.

For Project 35, 35 curators have been invited to select one artist’s video that they think is important for contemporary art audiences around the world. The result heralds the new decade, and showcases an international compilation of works that reveal the global reach that video has achieved as a contemporary art medium today.

The works are presented in 4 chapters, each containing 8 to 9 videos. In the first chapter, 9 emerging and established curators who collectively have worked in countries as disparate as Colombia, Egypt, Japan, Lithuania, Nigeria, South Africa and Vietnam truly represent the international range of the project. The collective desire for communication—for sharing perspectives—is evident through the subjects dealt with by each artist. These range from reinterpretations of philosophical propositions to uprisings and protests in South Africa, propaganda news broadcasts in China, and emerging youth culture in Ho Chi Minh City. The works also reveal the diversity of approaches artists are now taking to the medium, using various animation techniques, as well as borrowing from the language of cinema, performance, and YouTube to produce work that weave between documentary and fiction.