LENS BASED GUESTS 2021

GUIDELINES

- When an artist talk is agreed, we should ask about documenting the talk.
- Only cc Leslie when the artist agrees on giving talks and start arranging a date.
- Don't forget to include the 'terms" (pdf file) with a logo when sending out your invitation - 2021 updated file link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G7mZhVlPorphHCm7ZHPnn_DwcJi6NVKz/view?usp=sharing
- Please add a marker to add name and email in the bottom of your email, which will make it sound more professional.

TEMPLATE INVITATION DRAFT

DEADLINE:

Please name the file yourname-yourartist

Template link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H_6OmuQCqoMaGnpj8VaEMNp6Gg8C2hYSHlQ8R4Mt2pA/edit?usp=sharing

VOTING

Voting
Results
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SlF1lazXApGMQFqpLyzDuKHxVu7bYwPHU1O8olpVLmw/edit#gid=0

COLLECTIVE WISH LIST

Guests options

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Adèle

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Miriem Bennani
3D enhanced sculptural documentaries / RESEARCH - Bennani works with video, sculpture, multimedia installation, drawing, and Instagram. -  
New York / http://meriembennani.com/

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Adèle

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Ana Vaz
Experimental documentary - Mixed media 16 mm and 3D / colonialism - environmentalism - man made ecological disturbances and resiliance
France-Brazil / https://iffr.com/en/persons/ana-vaz - https://vimeo.com/anavaz

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Adèle

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Céline Gillain
Multimedia artist : performances - music - podcast - video  / RESEARCH - (not more than 250  words.) - PLEASE INCLUDE RELEVANT LINKS: 
Bruxelles / https://linktr.ee/CelineGillain (I have her contact)

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: sylvie

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: HITO STEYERL 

Multimedia artist and scholar : moving image - writing / media, technology and the distribution of images - postcolonial and feminist criticism of representational logic 

ESSAY: IN DEFENSE OF THE POOR IMAGE https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/ 
VIDEO WORK: HOW NOT TO BE SEEN - A FUCKING DIDACTIC MOV. FILE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE3RlrVEyuo&t=4s&has_verified=1 

Berlin / https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/people/detail/person/show/hito-steyerl/  h.steyerl@udk-berlin.de / Universität der Künste Berlin

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME:sylvie

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: CHRIS KRAUS 
 Author, filmmaker - Author of I LOVE DICK and ALIENS & ANOREXIA, co-editor of independent press Semiotext(e) http://semiotexte.com (specified in critical theory, activist texts, art and philosophy)- cultural criticism, feminism, art theory, experimental approach to writing 
OVERVIEW WORK: https://monoskop.org/Chris_Kraus 
 Los Angeles / https://www.rcwlitagency.com/authors/kraus-chris/ literary agency  / Art Center

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Ariela PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Mercedes Azpillicueta DESCRIPTION OF ARTIST’S PRACTICE / RESEARCH - Mercedes Azpilicueta (born in La Plata, Argentina in 1981) is a visual and performance artist living and working in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires. Her practice involves research and production processes that explore the affective qualities and political dimension of language and voice, in connection to notions of performativity, post-colonial feminism and resistance. In 2018 she presented her first major solo exhibition at the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art. She received the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, Paris, in 2017 and was artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) in 2015—2016. She has an MFA from the Dutch Art Institute/ArtEZ (Arnhem, 2013), and a BFA from the National University of the Arts (UNA), Buenos Aires (2007); where she also took the Artists' Program 2009—2010 at the University Torcuato Di Tella. She has exhibited her work at Museion—Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Bozen/Bolzano, 2020), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, 2019), CentroCentro, (Madrid, 2019), REDCAT Gallery (Los Angeles, 2018), MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona, 2018), CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Móstoles, 2017), Onomatopee (Eindhoven, 2016), TENT (Rotterdam, 2015), Móvil (Buenos Aires, 2015), Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, 2014) and Het Veem Theatre (Amsterdam, 2014). In 2021 she has solo exhibitions at CAC Brétigny (Bretigny-sur-Orge) and Gasworks (London).

- PLEASE INCLUDE RELEVANT LINKS: www.mercedesazpilicueta.info
LOCATION / CONTACT POINT SUCH AS WEBSITE ETC  (including if they are affiliated  to any institution.):

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Ariela

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Mika Rottemberg
DESCRIPTION OF ARTIST’S PRACTICE / RESEARCH - (not more than 250  words.)

Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg is devoted to a rigorous practice that combines film, architectural installation, and sculpture to explore ideas of labor and the production of value in our contemporary hyper-capitalist world. Using traditions of both cinema and sculpture, she seeks out locations around the world where specific systems of production and commerce are in place, such as a pearl factory in China, and a Calexico border town. Through the editing process, and with footage from sets built in her studio, Rottenberg connects seemingly disparate places and things to create elaborate and subversive visual narratives. By weaving fact and fiction together, she highlights the inherent beauty and absurdity of our contemporary existence. - PLEASE INCLUDE RELEVANT LINKS: https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2019/Mika-Rottenberg-Easypieces/Described-Media/Cosmic-Generator

LOCATION NY / CONTACT POINT SUCH AS WEBSITE ETC  She is on Facebook.... (including if they are affiliated  to any institution.):

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Ariela

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Marisa Rubio
DESCRIPTION OF ARTIST’S PRACTICE / RESEARCH - (not more than 250  words.)

Words that describe my current work are "nomadic" and "infiltration", regarding to the identities or heteronym by which I live and work. The method by which I operate from these identities is infiltration. My interest is to interact with different networks or dimensions into reality, through profiles designed for each case, and that this interaction is self-sustaining and independent of one another. Since 2008 I work on a project called "Teoría del quehacer actoral cotidiano para intérpretes”. It is a project in which I intend to investigate the margin of interpretation from the representation of an identity (Naranja Milano Questa) who carries out her acting career while developing her own theory about acting. She uses this theory in practice to function within the environment and interact with the arena of film, television, etc., resulting in a series of films, short films, music videos, TV programs and advertisements in which she participates. Besides the implicit reflections on her forays into the circuit of the performing arts, the content of this theory (which is still in development) is the result of his explorations and analysis on the performance limits offstage, where she creates and develops different identities or characters (such as Clara Smart, Helene Líndelen or other) that operates every day in the real world and from which she develops and builds the main themes of her theory. These characters interact with the real world so that most of them operate in a given circuit obtaining a small income.

- PLEASE INCLUDE RELEVANT LINKS: https://marisarubio.com.ar/Helena-Lindelen-2009-2019

LOCATION / CONTACT POINT SUCH AS WEBSITE ETC Can get her phone number
(including if they are affiliated  to any institution.):

NOMINATING  STUDENT'S NAME: Luca
PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Tim Leyendekker
Visual artist, filmmaker and photographer Tim LEYENDEKKER (1973, Netherlands) obtained a master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and studied at the 
Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. He produces film and video art in which he explores the conceptual and formal boundaries of cinema as a narrative medium. Leyendekker is a 
regular guest at IFFR, and his formally rigorous short films Opening Night (2009), the Healers (2010) and BLINDER (2015) all screened at the festival. Feast is his feature debut 
with its world premiere at IFFR 2021.http://www.absentwithoutleave.org/about

NOMINATING  STUDENT'S NAME: Luca 
GUEST ARTIST NAME: Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz (born 1972, Johannesburg[1]) is a South African artist who works primarily in video and photography.[2][3] She won a 2007 Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize.[4] Her work 
is often characterized by multi-channel moving image installations, with a focus on the “attention economy” of contemporary media and culture,[5] often represented in the/ 
parallelism of the identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures and widespread indifference to global issues.[6] In 2017, she was selected to represent South/ 
Africa at the Venice Biennale.[7]
LINKS:
https://www.candicebreitz.net/
https://vimeo.com/candicebreitz/
https://www.instagram.com/candicebreitz/

NOMINATING  STUDENT'S NAME: Luca
PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Charlie Engman 
Compositional, sculptural, performative and active, the American artist’s photographs emerge from a desire to connect to the prosaic and the everyday, juggling ideas of intimacy, 
fantasy and imperfection. In his latest book, hundreds of images of his mom, Kathleen McCain Engman, destabilize the idea of “mother,” lifting her from the baggage of the real
 LINKS:
http://www.charlieengman.com/
https://www.instagram.com/charlieengman/?hl=en
https://www.kaleidoscope.media/article/charlie-engman

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Sacha PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Olafur Eliasson DESCRIPTION OF ARTIST’S PRACTICE / RESEARCH - Olafur Eliasson’s art is driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self. He strives to make the concerns of art relevant to society at large. Art, for him, is a crucial means for turning thinking into doing in the world. Eliasson’s works span sculpture, painting, photography, film, and installation. Not limited to the confines of the museum and gallery, his practice engages the broader public sphere through architectural projects, interventions in civic space, arts education, policy-making, and issues of sustainability and climate change. - PLEASE INCLUDE RELEVANT LINKS: BERLIN, GERMANY / https://olafureliasson.net/

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Sacha PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Francis Alÿs DESCRIPTION OF ARTIST’S PRACTICE / RESEARCH - Francis Alÿs (born 1959, Antwerp) is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. After leaving behind his profession as an architect and relocating to Mexico City in 1986. He has created a diverse body of artwork and performance art that explores urban tensions and geopolitics. Employing a broad range of media from painting to performance, his works examine the tension between politics and poetics, individual action and impotence. - PLEASE INCLUDE RELEVANT LINKS: https://francisalys.com/

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Sacha PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Julian Rosefeldt DESCRIPTION OF ARTIST’S PRACTICE / RESEARCH - Julian Rosefeldt (born 1965 in Munich) is a German artist and filmmaker. Rosefeldt's work consists primarily of elaborate, visually opulent film and video installations, often shown as panoramic multi-channel projections. His installations range in style from documentary to theatrical narrative. - PLEASE INCLUDE RELEVANT LINKS: https://www.julianrosefeldt.com/film-and-video-works/manifesto-_2014-2015/

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: geo

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Metahaven
DESCRIPTION OF ARTIST’S PRACTICE / RESEARCH - Metahaven’s work encompasses the practices of filmmaking, writing, design, and installation, and is united conceptually by interests in poetry, storytelling, digital superstructures, and propaganda. Their moving image works manifest as immersive installations, and share an aesthetic logic with the collective’s design work in an attention to surface, texture, and the intelligent simplification of complex logics and visual forms. Their work is frequently exhibited and published throughout the world. - PLEASE INCLUDE RELEVANT LINKS: https://theinfluencers.org/en/metahaven ; https://www.instagram.com/metahaven/?hl=en ; https://www.frieze.com/article/what-metahaven 
LOCATION / CONTACT POINT SUCH AS WEBSITE ETC  (including if they are affiliated  to any institution.):http://metahaven.net //// inquiries@metahaven.net

+ ++++++ + emily segal [artist and writer]

Amanda Beech [artist and writer]

Helen marten [installation art]

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Shannon

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Virginia Lee Montgomery
Working across video, performance, sound, and sculpture, her artwork is a research practice of feminist metaphysics. It is surreal, sensorial, and symbolic. While her artwork shifts in 
subject matter from ponytails to particle accelerators, to syrups, stones, moths and machines—VLM deploys an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary of repeating gestures like drilling, 
dousing, or reaching and recursive symbols like circles, holes and spheres. Her diverse artistic movements interrogate the complex relationship between physical and psychic structures, 
the poetics of physics, and the metaphysical connection between life's material and mental realms. 
New York, Texas /https://www.virginialeemontgomery.com/

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Shannon

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based writer, visual artist, and involuntary birdwatcher whose work often involves the rewards of close observation. On her book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the 
Attention Economy - When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so 
radical as… doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and 
to become more meaningfully connected in the process.
Oakland CA / https://www.jennyodell.com/

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Shannon

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Sophie Calle
Variously described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director, and even a detective, she has developed a practice that is instantly recognizable for its distinct narrative elements 
and frequent combination of images with text. Each of her projects can be seen as a chapter in a vast overall volume of references and echoes, in which Calle often blurs the boundaries between the 
intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life. Her work methodically orchestrates an unveiling of reality—her own and that of others—while allocating a controlled part of this reality 
to chance.
France /https://www.perrotin.com/artists/Sophie_Calle/1#news/

NOMINATING STUDENT'S NAME: Shannon

PROPOSED GUEST ARTIST NAME: Farah Al Qasimi
Farah Al Qasimi works with photographs, video, installation, and music. Al Qasimi’s work, which is primarily comprised of photographs taken in the United Arab Emirates and New York City, and which 
is currently being exhibited on bus shelters across the five boroughs, spins fabulism from the private pleasures of everyday life...Qasimi reminds us that every here is also an elsewhere.
New York, Dubai / https://farahalqasimi.com/