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OVNI 2012 Call for entry
deadline november, 15th 2011
"freedom unites us, unity frees us" Ibn Arabi, Murcia S XII
BCN Tahrir VIDEO PROGRAM # 1
This program aims to provide tools to think about the process opened with the protests in the main cities of Spain since Myy 15th. Video_visions with information and situations that go beyond the specific moment, to look at the possibilities that until now seemed impossible. Now we present:
Attention, danger, travail, Pierre Carles, C.Coello, S. Goxe , Francia 2003, 1h 45 min. VOSE
Ten unemployed men and women talk about why and how they’ve decided to stop working. After a period of familiarity with the labour market, these men and women have turned away from factories, warehouses and offices, determined to reject the rules of the existing economic war. Far from the usual worried or depressed image of the unemployed these “unemployed people who don’t ask for work” openly talk about their reasons for seeking fulfilment outside of the workplace, with little financial resources but plenty of time to spend on themselves.
OVNI 2011 Des_Realitat
Program (Pdf)
Opening dis_REALITY Program, 90'
Dubai in me * Videocracy * Life 2.0 * Paradise Later * Self Fiction * La Guerra apenas ha empezado * Il corpo delle Donne * Consumming Kids * Hashish Army * Costa de Cemento * Science and non-duality * Goldfarmers * Lost Satsanga Nisarghadata * Virtual Nothing * Bitch Academy * Maya by Papaji * Tantra Tibetano * Sufisme d'Afghanistà * Oscuros Portales * In Purgatorio
“You are asleep and your vision is illusory; everything that you see is sheer image.(1)”
OVNI 2011 aims to exhibit and to reflect upon the different phenomena of dis_reality, their forms and implications, their repercussions and the horizons they illuminates, or recalls.
Some of the most radical questionings of reality arise from the culture of the image. “When the real world is transformed into mere images, mere images become real beings”.(2) Others emanate from mechanisms of simulation: “as soon as the copy ceases to be a pale reflection of the original image and begins to erode it in its totality, then the original is no longer anything but one copy among many, and not necessarily the one with the greatest verisimilitude.” The extreme condensation of these phenomena stems from digital technology: video games, simulation, virtual images, expanded reality, mutating into fields as diverse as leisure, military training, communication, industrial processes, personal relationships, the administration of pleasure… becoming the emotional and psychic habitat of a large part of the population.
Another of the forms of questioning is directly political in nature: the observation of the expansion of a dominant reality that threatens the fabric of other realities; that threatens to erase forms of knowledge, landscapes, people, ways of life, feelings… As if a thousand libraries of Alexandria, still inscribed in people’s daily lives, in their actions, in their spaces, were already burning once again. As if, within perhaps a very short space of time, all that will remain to be read, with any luck, will be their sad ashes cataloged by experts. There has never been such an intense or extensive expansion of a dominant reality as that of global capitalism, nor, in consequence, a comparable resistance or refusal. “Only the total refusal of reality reveals it to us in its reality, reveals it to us in its truth.”(3)
Surprisingly, this refusal of the world coincides with other visions, which stem from the poetic and the metaphysical: advaita Vedanta (Hindu non-dualism) or Sufi mysticism in Islam, among others… “The One is reality… multiplicity is only names and forms”. (4) By identifying ourselves with these names and forms, by becoming attached to them, we move away from our true nature. From this perspective, so-called “reality” only seems to persist through a kind of autosuggestion, that emanates from the dense network of desires, and fears, false identifications, actions and reactions… in an experience not too distant from a dream.
(1) The Secret Garden. Mahmud Shabistari. Persia. XII Century.
(2) Society of the Spectacle. Guy Debord.
(3) La Movilización Global (“The Global Mobilization”) Santiago López Petit.
(4) Be as You Are. Ramana Maharshi.
Program Highlights:
Videocracy Erik Gandini - Life 2.0 Jason Spingarn-Koff - Dubai in Me Christian von Borries- Paradise Later Ascan Breuer - The Hashish Army Guardian Films - Self Fiction Christian Barani - Il Corpo delle donne Lorella Zanardo - Atlantropa Samuel Stevens - Science and Non-Duality - Empotrados Alberto Arce - Soufis d'Afghanistan de Arnaud Desjardins - Oscuros Portales Falconeti Peña - Lost Satsanga Nisarghadatta - Costa de Cemento Robert Harding Pittman- Maya de Papaji - Virtual Nothing.
Videotalks: Pablo Beneito - Hakim Bey - Santiago López-Petit - John Zerzan.
General information
CCCB
February 22 to 27, 2011
Free admission
OVNI – Observatori de Video No Identificat.
Program: www.desorg.org
CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
Montalegre, 5
08001 Barcelona.
Telf.: 93 306 41 00
Opening: February 22, 2011, 8.30pm
Opening Program: dis_REALITY, 90min.
February 22 to 27, Thematic screenings
SIMULTANEOUS SCREENINGS:
AUDITORIUM AND HALL: Screenings 7pm – midnight. VOSE.
CONSULTATION OF ARCHIVES: HALL: 5pm - 11pm
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