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Ibraaz Channel: Videobrasil's 'Collection in Context #1'

010_03 / 1 August 2016
 

The Videobrasil Collection in Context #1 exhibition was staged in Sao Paulo in February 2016, at Galpão VB | Associação Cultural Videobrasil. The exhibition showcased the first edition of the artist residency project, Videobrasil in Context, spearheaded by Videobrasil and held in partnership with the Delfina Foundation (London) and Casa Tomada (São Paulo).

 

For this inaugural edition, Videobrasil invited two artists, Cláudio Bueno and Mahmoud Khaled, selected via open call, to create new artworks based on their interaction with the Videobrasil Collection. The results of their residency were presented in an exhibition, featuring video works that served as objects of research and conceptual references for Bueno's and Khaled's projects, which include video works by Akram ZaatariCoco Fusco, Lucas Bambozzi, and Wagner Morales, among others. Bueno and Khaled's two original pieces are presented here exclusively on Ibraaz Channel until 31 October 2016.

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Videobrasil

Associação Cultural Videobrasil is an institution geared towards the production and diffusion of information on contemporary art. The SESC_Videobrasil Festival has become established as an international reference for expressions of contemporary art from the South. Videobrasil is directed by Solange Farkas, a curator with an international career spanning twenty-five years, and the curator of the Bahia Museum of Modern Art and a jury member for the Nam June Paik Award.

 

Also in partnership with SESC, Videobrasil maintains one of the most important video art collections in the Southern Hemisphere; an online data bank on contemporary art; a residency program; a series of documentaries about artists; and an annual publication on art. Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Marina Abramovic, The Atlas Group, William Kentridge, Kendell Gears, Marcel Odenbach, Kenneth Anger, Coco Fusco and Peter Greenaway are among the artists featured in its exhibitions, publications, documentaries and festivals. Since 2009, Videobrasil is dedicated to linking the promotion of large contemporary exhibitions to educational programs devised to potentialize the audience's experience of artwork.