Se pospone FIVAC

 

 

Se pospone FIVAC

El Comité Organizador del Festival Internacional de Videoarte (FIVAC) informa que la novena edición del evento, originalmente prevista del 5 al 12 de abril, ha sido pospuesta para los días del 14 al 20 de noviembre próximo. Múltiples han sido las razones que nos han conducido a esta decisión, aunque si tuviéramos que distinguir solo una de ellas, lo resumiríamos en las palabras de Diana Rosa Pérez Legón, Productora General, quien expresó: “Hasta sin dinero hemos hecho FIVAC, pero nunca lo hemos hecho sin la gente”.

Luego de ocho ediciones exitosas y un sólido recorrido como plataforma cultural, los organizadores del evento hemos preferido posponer el encuentro antes que cercenar el proyecto en varios de sus rasgos esenciales. FIVAC no surgió como un encargo de nadie y no responde a estrategias de conveniencia exclusivamente centradas en el simple hecho de “cumplir”. Este es un evento que responde a las expectativas de quienes buscan en cada reunión la oportunidad de crecer, de iluminar, de procurar la satisfacción en el acto insustituible e irrenunciable del diálogo inteligente.

Hasta hace apenas unos días, confiábamos aún en la posibilidad de hacer FIVAC desde la combinación de lo presencial y lo virtual, pero la situación epidemiológica que todavía existe en Cuba y el mundo nos alejan de esa intención. Desde hace varias ediciones, FIVAC ha encontrado en las redes sociales y plataformas digitales un aliado poderoso para ampliar nuestro alcance, pero no nos complace la manquedad de un encuentro en el que sus invitados no puedan compartir algo más que sus ideas que, si bien puede ser muy importante, no es lo único por lo que hacemos FIVAC.

Los abrazos en cada llegada y cada despedida, los proyectos que emergen en una calle cualquiera de la ciudad, la calidez y la complicidad de una sesión de trabajo fuera de programa hacen que FIVAC sea mucho más que sesiones teóricas y proyecciones de obras. Somos una zona cultural, somos un ámbito para el pensamiento comprometido e inquieto, somos lo que Jorge Luis Santana, presidente de FIVAC, ha querido siempre que seamos: “un espacio alternativo, inasible desde las hegemonías y atento a todas las pulsaciones de la videocreación nacional e internacional, pero hecho, sobre todo, por y para esta ciudad que con tanta historia, memorias y tradiciones es capaz de leer la y hablar desde ella.”

Nosotros confiamos en el reencuentro de noviembre y necesitamos que los artistas, los críticos, los curadores y el público también confíe y nos espere.

 

Comité Organizador

FIVAC

A people-to-people festival

The International Video Art Festival of Camagüey features the latest national and international video creation, and also provides participants and the general public with an opportunity to explore the city and exchange with artists, curators, art students and academicians openly and spontaneously.

As a people-to-people event, FIVAC is designed  to merge every activity within the festival´s program with the daily routine of the city. This is an opportunity for participants to create and live their own experiences.

The screening in squares and other places beyond the capital city, the city tour for participants, the night parties, and the partaking of people who are not directly linked to the fields of art, all in all these features have contributed to enriching the festival and increasing the number and diversity of participants.

Hierarchies tend to soften during the festival days, and is frequent to see artists, curators, students and the public in general mingled in either a discussion about visual aesthetics or dancing at the night parties. No doubt, this, along with the high standard quality of the competition, is one of the peculiarities of the festival that appeals most to returning participants. 

This way, FIVAC also serves as a reunion spot for old friends that have not met in years for various reasons, and also as a space where new projects, friends and even love, emerge.

The 7th edition of the event does not seem to be any different from previous editions in this respect. The great number of artworks and people willing to attend the event this year, attest to that. Even though the Organizing Committee has refused to provide further details, there is a trip to Santa Lucia Beach, a concert by a renowned Cuban artist in the closing ceremony and night parties featuring national and international DJ s to be confirmed as part of the program

In a nutshell, FIVAC is an opportunity to dialog about contemporary video creation, get to know one of the most beautiful and culturally-enriching cities in the country, and a unique option for everyone willing to live, experience and get to know this part of Cuba. 

José Raúl Gallego Ramos 
Traducción: Odeiny Gavira

FIVAC: Previews

Only a week before the end of the selection process of artworks in competition for the 7^th International Video Art Festival of Camagüey, the Organizing Committee of the event has released some good news as a foretaste of what´s coming:

-          Up to this moment, the festival has received almost 250 artworks from more than 30 countries representing each of the five continents. Even though most of the pieces are single-channel, there is a wide variety of video creation. There is video dance, video performance, video documentation, video animation, and digital art.  In a nutshell, there´s a little bit of everything. 

-          Nine curatorial projects have been confirmed to be screened at The Next Resistance, such as “Over the real”, by the Italian curator Maurizio Marco Tozzi, “VIDEOsPAIN” by Iuri Lech from Spain, and “Under the subway” by the Spanish artist and curator Antonio Ortuño. This section of the event will also present curatorial projects from other festivals, such as the International Video Art Festival “Between Islands”, and Cortos de Soria, as well as video arts from Cuba and the Caribbean. According to the coordinator of The Next Resistance, “the space will exhibit an appealing and diverse gamut of visual languages”.

-          The Theoretical Event will welcome Dr Martha Pérez Ibáñez, consultant professor at the University of Nebrija, Spain, who will deliver her lecture “The essence of the immaterial: the artists and the Spanish video art and new media market.” Similarly, Antonio Ortuño will introduce his topic “Low Cost Events, the other side of art”. They all add up to the current complex, controversial, and context-dependent changing topics in the fields of art. Also, Dannys Montes de Oca, director of Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art will provide details about the upcoming edition of the Havana Biennial.

-          Among the guest artists, the event will welcome the American artist Andrés Serrano who will present some of his current projects. Likewise, the Cuban curators Juan Delgado and Pepe Fernández will talk about the project “Detrás del muro” (Behind the wall).

The participation of other artists, art theoreticians and projects that will continue to raise the bar for this 7^th edition of FIVAC, are subject to confirmation over the next days. But up this moment, everything seems to be right on track…

Por:José Raúl Gallego Ramos
Traducción: Odeiny Gavira