RogueArt is proud to host 23 Reasons We Still Need Superman, a traveling video art festival devised and curated by Tim Crowley. This presentation is an extensive overview of video work from the last 15 years. In true Myspace/ Facebook fashion, the selection is both personalized and intentionally un-private, customized and compartmentalized yet available to all. It targets the interest of artists in investigating how images operate and construct our understanding of the world. They explore aesthetic concepts, everyday narratives, and sociopolitical realities and utopias. While some artists use the video to challenge our assumptions about the mimetic nature of the medium, the curatorial focus of 23 Reasons We Still Need Superman will be the relationship between performance and video, what reaction the works create in the audience and the subject matter as a catalyst for dialogue. Contemporary reality is an assemblage of whatever grabs our attention and we want these works to play part of the contemporary reality collage of the viewers, to form an alternative kind of map.
The opening of the video art festival is this Friday, 15 January 2010 from 7-10pm at 19 Jalan Berangan. The screening will also continue on Saturday, 16 January 2010.
Supported by Timeout KL and 19 Jalan Berangan.
The video art festival will continue its travel to Beijing, Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.
