Intramuros de Kika Nicolela
Selecionei 5 trabalhos de épocas bem diferentes - desde o meu primeiro vídeo, A/través, até os meus dois mais recentes realizados este ano durante a pandemia. Todos refletem, de alguma forma, sobre solidão, confinamento e um processo de construção de si que passa pela relação com o entorno bem como com nossos medos e ansiedades. Com exceção de Flickering, todos as obras nasceram de uma colaboração criativa intensa com outros artistas e performers.
The simple act of crossing a street. An ordinary, daily act, shared by thousands of people in one only city in an exactly corporal moment; masses without identity. In the flow, the comfortable sensation of being anonymous. Suddenly, a rupture. This body in suspense starts to express and to reinvent itself. But which the way to follow?
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CREDITS
Director, Camera and Editor>> KIKA NICOLELA
Performer>> LETÍCIA SEKITO
AWARDS
Honorary Award | International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari, Romenia
GALLERY and ART SPACE EXHIBITIONS
L’Oeil Sur les Rues | Parc de La Vilette, Paris, France
Traversées : entre villes et déserts | Redbrick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan
Cinema de Artista: Kika Nicolela | Museum of Modern Art, Salvador, Brazil
Caged Bird Sings | Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Kika Nicolela – Selected Videos | 16mm, London, UK
A Arte de Kika Nicolela | 1ª Mostra Sesc Rio de Arte Eletrônica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kika Nicolela: Selected Videos | Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, US
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS (selection)
Backup Festival | Weimar, Germany
Anchorage Film Festival | Alaska, US
Mostra do Filme Livre | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mostra do Audiovisual Paulista | São Paulo, Brazil
Videoformes | Clermont-Ferrand, France
Festival Images Contre Nature | Marseille, France
International Short Film Festival Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany
Morbegno Film Festival | Morbegno, Italy
Mostra Audiovisual Dança em Pauta | São Paulo, Brazil
Mostra de Videodança Dança em Foco | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
SPECIAL SCREENINGS and RETROSPECTIVES
Manipulated Image: the Moving Still | Santa Fe, US
Berlin International Directors Lounge | Scala Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Festival Nacional de Dança de Jaraguá do Sul | Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil
Re:Play Kika Nicolela | Eden343, São Paulo, Brazil
Retrospectiva Kika Nicolela | Espaço Unibanco de Cinema, São Paulo, Brazil
Kika Nicolela Retrospective | Film Klub Póznan, Póznan, Poland
Total darkness. The artist repeats over and over again the same action: she lights up a match, and she brings it as close as possible from her face. We quickly understand that she can see herself, using the video as a kind of a mirror, like the first video art experiments from the 70’s. She uses the light of the match to explore her own face; we can divine that she feels its warmth as well. The match’s light goes off, and she lights up another one, then another. Her actions, and the resulting sounds, become superposed. But the flickering light of the match is always ephemeral, reminding us maybe of the impermanency of life. FLICKERING is a self-portrait in video, charged with emotion.
EXHIBITIONS
FILE Electronic Language International Festival. São Paulo, Brazil.
Rain of Down. Linnagalerii/Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia.
Absence / Presence. Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, US.
Wonderland: Actions and Paradoxes. São Paulo Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
100 to 1000. Escola São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
SELECTED FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Pocket Film Festival | Paris, France
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival | Oberhausen, Germany
Festival Internacional de Cine Digital | Santiago, Chile.
VideoChannel Cologne [self ] ~imaging. Cologne, Germany.
International Film Festival of Uruguay | Montevideo, Uruguay
VIVO Arte.Mov Festival | Belo Horizonte, Brazil
résumé
ENTRE-TEMPS fut tourné dans l’espace vide de l'ancien bâtiment du Musée Juif de Belgique en attente de destruction. Ce bâtiment est chargé d'une lourde l'histoire: hôtel particulier puis école, il fût ensuite occupée par les nazis pendant la seconde guerre mondiale – qui ont utilisé la cellule où la vidéo a été tourné comme prison. Plus récemment, le musée a été la cible d'une attaque terroriste dans laquelle 4 personnes ont été tuées. Dans ENTRE-TEMPS, un corps féminin, ses mouvements et ses sons établissent un dialogue avec l’architecture, l’histoire et l’énergie spécifique du bâtiment. La cellule vide attends la destruction imminente; c’est un bâtiment qui pulse dans les limbes, en suspension. La video bénéficie de la performance de l’actrice et danseuse Anna Tenta, et de la musique de Gauthier Keyaerts.
synopsis
MEANTIME was shot in the empty space of the old building of the Jewish Museum of Belgium which awaits for its destruction. A female body, its movements and sounds establish a dialogue with the architecture, history and the specific energy of the building. This place is loaded with a heavy history: occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War – who used the cell where the video was shot as a prison - the museum has been recently the target of a terrorist attack in which four people were killed. The artist collaborated with the actress and dancer Anna Tenta, and the musician Gauthier Keyaerts.
sinopse
ENTREMENTES foi filmado no espaço vazio do antigo prédio do Museu Judeu da Bélgica, que aguarda sua destruição. Este prédio é carregado de uma pesada história: mansão transformada em escola, foi posteriormente ocupado pelos nazistas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial – que utilizaram a cela onde o vídeo foi filmado como prisão. Recentemente, o museu foi alvo de um ataque terrorista que provocou 4 mortos. Em ENTREMENTES, um corpo feminino, seus movimentos e sons estabelecem um diálogo com a arquitetura, a história e a energia específica do prédio. A cela vazia encontra-se à espera de sua destruição iminente; é um prédio que pulsa no limbo, em suspensão. O vídeo conta com a performance da atriz e bailarina Anna Tenta e da música de Gauthier Keyaerts.
Screenings:
Fonlad Digital Arts Festival, Coimbra
Instants video, Marseille
Traverse video, Toulouse
Fuso festival, Lisbon
Valencia Meeting on Videodance // Valencia, Spain
Exhibitions:
Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels
MADA, Viaduto das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, US
Digital Contemplation, Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville, Belgium
VISIONS OF INSIDE is the first video made using the database of the Common Ground Project (CGP). The CGP was initiated by Kika Nicolela in April 2020 in reaction to
the covid-19 crisis. It promotes the creation of a shared database of videos, sounds and texts by worldwide artists, reflecting on the multiple issues raised by the crisis and the lockdown. Above all,
the Common Ground Project's goal is to collectively use creation as means of communion and resistance.
The CGP is supported by Transcultures and Pépinières Européenes de Création.
video concepted and edited by___ Kika Nicolela
with videos, sounds and texts by___
Aline Yasmin & Alex Cepile
Anna Berndtson & Yingmei Duan
Anthony Siarkiewicz
Carlos Landaeta
Carlosmagno Rodrigues
Cecilia Dougherty
Christophe Litou
CRACA
Daniel Silvo
Davi Cavalcante
Gauthier Keyaerts
Gerard Chauvin
Gustavo Marcasse
Ivelina Ivanova
Isa Belle + Paraside Now
Jan Kather
John Sanborn
Jorge Lozano
Junebum Park
Katia Maciel
Kika Nicolela
Luana Lacerda
Marcia Beatriz Granero
Marina Fomenko
Mateusz Vianna
Mike Hoolboom
Mirella Brandi & Muep Etmo
Nia Pushkarova
Nung-Hsin Hu
Philippe Boisnard
Phyllis Baldino
Rejane Cantoni
Samuel Bester
Sara Não Tem Nome
Simon Dumas
Simon Guiochet
Sonia Guggisberg
Susana Lopez
Ulf Kristiansen
A co-creation with Thomas Israel, INWARD revisits and reconfigures footage of several past projects of both artists. The result is an essay on on solitude, on isolation, on the fears imposed to us by ourselves and others, on our everlasting need to do more, to have more, to be more. INWARD has the collaboration of sound artist Gauthier Keyaerts, choreographer Manon Oligny, choreographer/performer Claudio Stellato, dancer-creators Anne-Marie Boisvert and Marilyn Daoust, writers/performers Mylène Mackay, Marie-Pier Labrecque and Philippe Boutin and performer Johann Cornu.
