CologneOFF

CologneOFF XP nomadic

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CologneOFF 20XX ‐ videoart in a global context
Searching for an ideal form of presenting “art & moving images”

As a dynamic media art event context and nomadic festival project designed, programmed, curated and directed by Agricola de Cologne in the framework of Cologne International Videoart Festival, “CologneOFF 20XX – videoart in a global context” started in 2010, a flexible work in progress, a process incorporating the idea of a festival, not bound to a physical location, but travelling from one venue, country and continent to another presenting a hybrid type of mono-channel videos, which can be presented in the same way via screening, projection and installation
A dual system is forming the supporting frame-work – virtual (online) components (see links) – all videos, info & event updates online – juxtaposed with the physical component in form of networked screenings & exhibitions- Agricola de Cologne’s curatorial opinion juxtaposed with the curatorial opinions of 40 curators (40 countries) demonstrating the multi-facetted diversity of artistic and curatorial approaches – the active presenter juxtaposed with the passively consuming audience to be activated via interventions like lectures, panel discussions, artists talks, round table or workshops, not to forget the different types presentation forms, in total, an interactive context intending to link the audience, artists, curators and institutions by thinking and acting in new terms without any restriction.

CologneOFF XP nomadic does not transport standardized screening programs to the partner venues, but featured programs prepared individually for each venue. So, the festival is travelling, but not the programs selected and curated by Agricola de Cologne. In this way, the screening programs, the individually selected works for different contexts and concepts and the aspect of curating get a new meaning and a particular relevance. In terms of curating as an artistic expression, these programs form the basis for the screenings, projections and installations generating continuously new images through these representations forms. While these images are accessible only to the individual viewer, the curated (created under individually artistic conceptual) programs presented to the audience of individual viewers get the actual relevance as the conceptual condition for generating individual images. Therefore in terms of representing the wider artistic value of CologneOFF as a media art project, these individually curated programs are defined as, so-called “pre-images”. In this way during many years, a remarkable collection of such “pre-images” was rising. Behind each below listed venue is standing at least one “pre-image”, however, very often the respective events were presenting several programs (“pre-images”) – the most extreme case was 2011 the festival event @ Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, where in total 22 programs (pre-images) were presented, so that the totality and the compositions of all pre-images were forming a new kind of global “pre-image”. The artistic concept has always to take the aspect of time into account, this is good for the individual video included in the program, as well as the respective program itself. While the artist is dealing individually with time in his own creation, these time based images, generated by screening the composition of individual videos, are – like the video und the preception of the moving images – not static, but represent the image of indivdual processes, initiated by the “pre-images” inside of a viewer. While the “pre-images” are a result of a curatorial (artistic) process, the “pre-image” is of an unstable consistance, because its manifestation in form of the listed videos is static, while the manifestation in form of the projection is not only initiating processes, but is representing a process itself. The “pre-image” is representing an intermediate state between thartistic curatorial process and the processes to be initiated by confronting the viewer.
The nomadic festival project can be considered as an artistic structure for initiating processes at most differerent places in most different cultural, economical, social, religious or ethnic conditions.

2014

2014 – 10 Years Cologne International Videoart Festival

1.
CologneOFF 2014 Greece I 1 Florina School of Visual Art (Greece – 19 January 2014

2.
CologneOFF 2014 Italy I
A Virtual Memorial Milan 2014 – @ [BOX] – videoart Project Space Miland – 25-27 January 2014

3.
CologneOFF 2014 Israel I
A Virtual Memorial Jaffa 2014 – @ Muza Plus – asopace for art Tel-Aviv/Israel – 25 January 2014

4.
CologneOFF 2014 Romania
A Virtual Memorial Timisoara 2014 – @ German Cultural Center – 27 January 2014

5.
CologneOFF 2014 Poland
1st International Festival of Artistic Film Lublin/Poland
27 March – 2 April

6.
CologneOFF 2014 Russia
A Virtual Memorial Moscow 2014 @ State Museum of Gulag Moscow @ Now & After International Videoart Festival Moscow – 2-30 April 2014

7.
CologneOFF 2014 India
@ The Research & Innovation Ashram, Guwahati/india
19 April 2014

8.
CologneOFF2014 Portugal I
@ FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Portugal
17 May 2014

9.
CologneOFF 2014 Germany I
@ Direct Action Festival Berlin
23-25 May 2014

10.
CologneOFF 2014 Portugal II
@ Fonlad Digital Art Festival
21 June 2014

11.
CologneOFF 2014 Greece II
@ Videoart Festival Miden Kalamata/Greece
3-5 July 2014

12.
CologneOFF 2014 Italy II
@ ARES International Film and Media Arts Festival Siracusa/Italy
August 2014

13.
CologneOFF 2014 Latvia
@ Waterpieces Video &Art Festival Riga/Latvia
15-17 August 2014

14.
CologneOFF 2014 Ecuador
Quito/Ecuador
23 August – 14 September 2014

15.
CologneOFF 2014 Germany II
@ Institut fuer Alle Moegliche Berlin
4 September 2014

16.
CologneOFF 2014 Israel II
@ Muza Pluz – a space for art Tel-Aviv (Israel)
13 September 2014

17.
CologneOFF 2014 Germany III
@ Onomato e.v. Düsseldorf/Germany
25 September 2014

18.
CologneOFF 2014 Greece III
@ 10th Athens International Videoart Festival
3-5 October 2014

19.
CologneOFF 2014 Germany IV
@ Damen & Herren – Düsseldorf/Germany
10 October 2014

20.
CologneOFF 2014 Spain
@ Proyector Videoart Festival Madrid
25 October – 14 November 2014

21.
CologneOFF 2014 USA – Los Angeles
6 Nov – 6 December 2014

22.
CologneOFF 2014 Poland I – Gdansk
26 November 2014

23.
CologneOFF 2014 Poland II – Warsaw
26 November 2014

24.
CologneOFF 2014 France – Paris
21 November 2014

25.
CologneOFF 2014 Peru
@ VideoBabel Festival Cuzco
24-27 November 2014

2013

01
CologneOFF 2013 India I
@ ArtFilm Guwahati/India – 26 January 2012

02
CologneOFF 2013 Iceland
@ Nordic House Reykjavik/Iceland – 7-10 February 2012

03
CologneOFF 2013 USA
@ Aferro Gallery Newark/NJ – USA – 23 Feb – 30 March 2013

04
CologneOFF 2013 India II
@ CeC- Carnival of eCreativity – Sattal/India – 22-24 February 2012

05
CologneoFF 2013 Cyprus
@ 2nd International Motion Festival
Nicosia/Cyprus – 22-24 March 2013

06
CologneoFF 2013 Greece I
@ Be There! – Corfu Animation Festival- 4-7 April 2013

07

CologneOFF 2013 Russia

@ Now & After – Videoart Festival Moskow – 22 April – 5 May 2013

08
CologneOFF 2013 Georgia
@ Contemporary Art Centre Tbilisi – 16-18 May 2013

09
CologneOFF 2013 Portugal I
@ FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Pt – 25 May 2013

10
CologneOFF 2013 Portugal II
@ Mudas Fest Madeira – 24-26 May 2013

11
CologneOFF 2013 Germany
@ Detmold International Shortfilm Festival – 31 May- 9 June 2013

12
CologneOFF 2013 Greece II
@ Athens International Videoart Festival – 7-9 June 2013

13
CologneOFF Greece III
@ Videoart Festival Miden /Kalamata/Greece – 4-7 July 2013

14
CologneOFF Italy I
@ Ares Film Festival – Siracusa/Italy – 11-14 July 2013

15
CologneOFF 2013 Poland
@ Quest Europe Film festival Zielona Gora/Poland – 17 July -25 Aug 2013

16
CologneOFF Finland
@ Strata Foundation Finland- 24 August 2013

17
CologneOFF 2013 Sweden
@ Vetlanda Museum/art:screen Sweden – August/September 2013

18
CologneOFF 2013 Lithuania I
@ JICC Vilnius – 23 Sept – 27 Oct 2013

19
CologneOFF 2013 Lithuania II
@ Regional Museum Kedianiai/Lithuania – 02-29 October 2013

20
CologneOFF 2013 Italy II
@ The Scientist Videoart Festival Ferrara/Italy – 11-13 October 2013

21
CologneOFF 2013 Greece IV
@ Ionian International Digital Film Festival Levkas- 9-12 October 2013

22
CologneOFF 2013 Poland
@ The Museum of the History of Polish Jews Warsaw
25-31 Oct 2013

23
CologneOFF 2013 Romania
@ Alternative Film Festival Tirgu Mures – 6-10 November 2013

24
CologneOFF 2013 Peru I
@ VideoBabel – Videoart festival Cuzco/Peru – 25 Nov-19 Dec 2013

25
CologneOFF 2013 Greece V
@ Florina School of Visual art – Florina/Greece – 3 Dexcember 2013

2012

1.
CologneOFF 2012 Belarus
@ Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Minsk – 16-18 January 2012

2.
CologneOFF 2012 Thailand
@ Bangkok Experimental Film Festival – @ Goethe Institute Bangkok
1 February 2012

3.
CologneOFF 2012 India
@ CeC – Carnival of eCreativity – 24-26 Februray 2012

4.
CologneOFF 2012 Philippines I
@ Generation Loss Festival Manila – 14-30 March 2012

5.
CologneOFF 2012 Serbia
@ International Short Film Festival Prokuplje/Serbia
13 March 2012

6.
CologneOFF 2012 Czech Republik
@ Anemic: Festival of Independent Film and New Media Prague
20 March 2012 @ Alliance Francaise Prague

7.
CologneOFF 2012 Portugal
@ FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Pt – 14-28 April 2012

8.
CologneOFF 2012 Colombia
@ 8th Festival Internacional de la Imagen Manizales/Colombia- 16-20 April 2012

9.
CologneOFF 2012 France
@ ARTchSo Video Festival Rennes – 26 April – 9 May 2012

10.
CologneOFF 2012 Greece I
@ Athens International Video Art Festival – May 2012

11.

CologneOFF 2012 Belarus II

@ Urban Culture and Fire Festival Minsk
18-20 May 2012

12.
CologneOFF 2012 Armenia
@ One Shot – International Film Festival – May 2012

13.
CologneOFF 2012 Latvia I
@ A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 @ Culture and Arts project NOASS
1-30 JUne 2012

14.
CologneOFF2012 Russia I
@ Now & After Festival Moscow – Museum of Contemporary Art
3 June 2012

15.
CologneOFF 2012 Spain I
@ CologneOFF @ Polytechnical University Valencia – 21-26 June 2012

16.
CologneOFF 2012 Spain II
@ Fundacion FIART @ Electrocuciones Madrid/Spain – 1#minuteCologne – 5 July 2012

17.
CologneOFF 2012 Greece II
@ Videoart Festival Miden Kalamata – 5-7 July 2012

18.
CologneOFF 2012 Cambodia
@ A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012 @ Meta House Phnom Penh – 12-15 July 2012

19.
CologneOFF 2012 Peru
@ VideoBabel Festival Cusco/Peru
18 July 2012

20.
CologneOFF 2012 Russia II
@ Linoleum Animation & Media Art Festival Moscow
10 July – 09 September 2012

21.
CologneOFF 2012 Italy
@ Ares Film & Media Festival Siracusa/Italy
July/August 2012

22.
CologneOFF 2012 Ecuador
@ National Cinematheque Quito
24 August 2012

23.

CologneOFF 2012 Russia III

@ XI International Kansk Video Festival
17-25 August 2012

24.
CologneOFF Latvia II
@ Waterpieces Contemporary Art and Video Festival 2012
16- 19 August 2012

25.

CologneOFF 2012 Hungary I

@ Busho – Budapest Short Film Festival – 4-9 September 2012

26.
CologneOFF 2012 Greece III
@ Ionian International Digital Film Festival – September 2012

27.
CologneOFF 2012 Sweden
@ art:screen Festival Orebro/Sweden – 4-7 October 2012

28.
CologneOFF 2012 Hungary II
@ Fine Arts Film Festival Szolnok
Szolnok/Hungary – 11-14 OctoberOctober 2012

29.
CologneOFF 2012 Poland I
@ Warsaw Jewish Film Festival – Shoah Film Collection
25-30 October October 2012

30.
CologneOFF 2012 Mexico I
@ ExTeresa Art Actual Mexico City/MX – 18 & 19 October 2012

31.

CologneOFF 2012 Bosnia

@ Anima – International Animation Festival Banja Luka /Bosnia-Herzegovina -23-28 October 2012

32.
CologneOFF 2012 Argentina
@ FIVA – Videoart Festival Buenos Aires -5-7 November 2012
@ Biblioteca Nacional Buenos Aires

33.
CologneOFF Poland II
@ EuroShorts Film Festival Gdansk/Poland – 21-25 November 2012
@ Laznia – Contemporary Art Centre Gdansk

34.
CologneOFF 2012 Morocco
@ Digital Marrakesh Festival – December

35.
CologneOFF 2012 Spain III
@ Proyector Videoart Festival Madrid – 14-23 December

2011

1.
CologneOFF 2011 Netherlands
@ Rotterdam Film Festival – 26 Jan – 6 Feb

2.
CologneOFF 2011 Finland I
@ Arctic Film Festival Jyväskylä – 10 February

3.
CologneOFF 2011 Finland II
@ Keuruu Art Museum11 Feb – 31 March

4.
CologneOFF 2011 India
@ CeC – Carnival of eCreativity Sattal – 19-21 Feb

5.
CologneOFF 2011 UKRAINE I
@ Goethe Institute Ukraine – 14 March

6.
CologneOFF 2011 UKRAINE II
@ Institute for Contmeporary Art Kiev – 15 March

7.
CologneOFF 2011 UKRAINE III
@ Kharkiv City Art Gallery – 16-20 March

8.
CologneOFF 2011 France
@ ArtChSo Festival Rennes/France – 18 March – 1 April

9.
CologneOFF 2011 Romania I
@ Arad Art Museum30 March – 2 AprilCologne

10.
CologneOFF 2011 Romania II
@ Cafecultour 2011 Festival Timisoara – 11-17 April

11.
CologneOFF 2011 Romania III
@ Timisoara Shortfilm Festiva – l4-8 May

12.
CologneOFF 2011 Laos
@ Vientianale – Vientiane Short Film Festival – 12-15 May

13.
CologneOFF 2011 Poland I
@ Cultural Observatory Szczecin – 2016 – Baltic Sea I -Szczecin12-14 May

14.
CologneOFF 2011 Russia I
@ Smolny UniversityBaltic Sea II- St. Petersburg I – 19- May

15.
CologneOFF 2011 Russia II
@ Pro Arte – Baltic Sea II- St. Petersburg II – 20 May

16.
CologneOFF 2011 Russia III
@ NCCA -National Centre for Contemporary Art – Baltic Sea II- St. Petersburg III – 21 May

17.
CologneOFF 2011 Armenia
@ One Shot – International Film Festival Yerevan – 17-24 May

18.
CologneOFF 2011 Finland III
@Arteles – Baltic Sea III- Tampere/Fi – 26-27-28 May 2011

19.
CologneOFF 2011 Finland IIII
@Galerija Rajatila – Baltic Sea III- Tampere/Fi – 28 May 2011

20.
CologneOFF 2011 Greece I
@ Athens Video Art Festival – 20-22 May

21.
CologneOFF 2011 Estonia
@ Estonian Academy of Arts – Baltic Sea IV- Tallinn (Estonia) – 1-2 June 2011

22.
CologneOFF 2011 Greece II
@ Videoart Festival Miden Kalamata – 7-9 July

23.
CologneOFF 2011 Spain
@ Proyector Festival 2011 Madrid – 11-17 July 2011

24.
CologneOFF 2011 Beirut/Lebanon
@ Shams The Sunflower Art Centre Beirut – 30 August- 3 September

25.
CologneOFF 2ß11 Hungary
@ BuSho – Budapest International Shortfilm Festival (Hu) – 1-5 September

26.
CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea V – Riga (Lat)
@ Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Video Festival -8-10 September –

27.
CologneOFF 2011 Rome
@ Arte Video Rome Festival 2012 – 21-23 October

28.
CologneOFF 2011 Poland II
@ InOut Festival – Laznia – Contemporary Art Centre Gdansk/Pl – 22-23 October

29.
CologneOFF 2011 Mexico I
@ ExTeresa Arte Actual – 10-11 November

30.
CologneOFF 2011 Mexico II
@ Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana – 14-18 November

31.
CologneOFF 2011 Cuba
@ International Videoart Festival Camaguey – 25 Nov – 2 Dec

32.
CologneOFF 2011 Mexico III
@ Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosi – 8 December

33.
CologneOFF 2011 Morocco
@ Digital Marrakech 2011 – 13-15 Dec