Revised Websites and Online Shops

In the last few weeks I revise my website for applied photographic design including 
online shop and my other two online shops on Etsy and Dawanda, where someone can purchase work of my. My main website for my artistic work didn´t change.
In general the three sites offers photographic work. The work falls more in the catagory of applied photography and focus on nudes, urban, landscape images.
The shops offer a variation of motives with different sizes and image carries. But also individual wishes are welcome. 

http://www.jgvisualprojects.com 

This website gives also a lot information about work in the fiel of applied photography and shooting informations 

The other two websites offer a wide variation of motives. They are ideal for home and office decoration or as a special gift. 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/jgvisualprojects

http://de.dawanda.com/search?q=jg+visual+projects

Film Festival Tous Courts 

Aix-en-Provence, France 

30.11.2015 - 05.12.2015 

Different venues inside Aix-en-Provence

My video work Sunrise Memories (Taiwan, 2014, 6:50 min)  was selected in the catagory Sélection experimentale for the festival.This catagory was added for the first time this year. I will be present at the fesitval between 03.12 and 05.12.2015

The video will be on screen
Friday 04.12.2015 , 13.30 h
at the Institute de l´Image, 8/10 rue de Alumettes, Aix-en-Provence  

More information about the festival:

http://festivaltouscourts.com/
http://festivaltouscourts.com/expe/


Still image

Sunday Afternoon - Limited Calendar 2016 with nudes

This limited calendar with nudes and a circulation of only 100 copies, will be available from 15th of November 2015 on. 

Originally, these nudes should only serve as a template for paintings.

The shooting of the nudes took place in the one room apartment of the model, without major preparations such as lighting, cosmetics and scenes settings.

Therefore they don´t claim to be professional nudes in classical sense

But perhaps precisely because of that, these photos exude a natural intimacy and subtle erotic atmosphere at the end. The photo series was taken on a Sunday afternoon .From hence the title. 

Month wall calendar 14 sheets, 12 months (7 color and 5 b/w images) + 2 cover sheets

printed on one side 4/0 full color, A4 portrait (210 x 297 mm)

170g glossy high quality printing paper(metal spiral Wire-O bond)

High quality digital printing, Edition 100 copies, numbered 

Price Germany          9,95 € (postage included)

Price Other Countries 12,50€ (postage included)

For more information and orders , please visit: 

http://www.jgvisualprojects.com/shop/kalender-2016-calendar-2016/

info@jgvisualprojects.com

Artist Residence at 435ArtStudio

Now the residence time reach it ends. The residency projects included the work out of some new ideas some new ideas with the dancer Hsi-Ying Tsai, a Land Art Workshop and a lecture. However at the end I did a lot of photo and video shooting around Taipei and the surrounding locations. Places like Jinfen, Keelung, Yangmingshan, Maokong, Xianbian. The material will be used for future photo series and videos projects /installations.

The residency was supported by Stroom, The Hague, The Netherlands and partly by the New Taipei City Government, Taiwan.

Here are some images from the photo and video shots  

Artist Residence at 435ArtStudio

Lecture about my work 

After my Land Art Workshop from 1st of  October followed on 8th of October my lecture about my art work, the drastical change of disciplines,the difficulties I encounter  and the vision I have and the themes my work goes about it. 

Sheffield International Arist´s Book Prize

7th of October 2015 until 31st of October 2015

Private Preview 10th of October 2015

Opening times : Wed.- Sat. : 11 am - 16 pm

Bank Street Arts
32 - 40 Bank Street , Sheffield S1 2DS, UK 

The Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize is both the centrepiece of and inspiration for Opening up the Book. This year is the fifth edition of the Prize and this accompanying exhibition showcases over 200 books selected from nearly 400 individual entries coming from 42 different countries.

My artist book Metaphoric Seals was selected for the exhibition. Made from cardboard, Japanese paper, seals and gold leafs

http://openingupthebook.com/

Residence at 435ArtStudio, Banqiao, New Taipei City, Taiwan

14.09-14.10.2015

Since 14th of September I stay at the Artist Residency of 435 Art Studio. I work on a project with the working title Floating Worlds, The project includes a project with the Dancer Hsin-Ying Tsai, and a land art workshop which was hold on the 1st of October,a lecture about my work on the 8th of October. But mainly I am doing video and photo shootings in the area of Taipei, New Taipei City, YangMing Mountain, Keelung and the  mining area and gold villages of Jinguashi and Jinfen.

Here some links for more information about the residence 
http://www.435art.com/#!about/c11ip
https://www.facebook.com/435artstudio

Some images from my land art workshop I gave on 1st of October

Bideodromo Festival - Bilbao, Spain

11.09.2015 -28.09.2015

For this years Biodromo Festival my video work No More Women´s Land was selected. It was a Spanish Premier of the work. The work was screened at Sarean, Corazon de Maria 4

In Bangladesh

Sultan Art Camp " Faith and Truth ", in Narail from 25.08-30.08.2015
&
Stay in Dhaka for photo and video shootings from 23/24.08 and 30.08 until 04.09.2015

I spent time in Bangladesh at two places. One was at the Sultan Art Camp in the small city of Narail. With a group of 11 another artist from Bangladesh and India and myself we create art objects during a five day long festival in honor of the painter S.M Sultan. A well known artist in Bangladesh who lived and worked in Narail. 
I made one small side spefic installation made from rope and two objects with canvas, photos and rope. 
After the camp I spent a week in the capital Dhaka for to make photos and videos shootings for my own future projects, as well for to meet some other artist. 

More information about Sultan and Narail:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_Sultan

Photos of the installation and art objects

Kunst am Spreeknie 2015 / Art festival at Spreeknie 2015

In addition to participating at All That's Jazz at Villa Novilla and in the collective exhibition Central Station -(Zentralstation) in the building 59 of Wilhelminenhofkomplexes is on Saturday the 11th July and Sunday, July 12, 2015 between 11.00 and 18.00 hours my studio open for interested parties and the public.
On show are Photography, partly in collaboration with Gabi Heinrich, videos, and partly in collaboration with Hsin-Ying Tsai and Yu-I Kao.
There are also prints and fashion accessories on display such as own T- shirts and Dolly Club Bags presented  by Aili-Moli fashion Asccesoires

My studio is at:
Wilhelminenhofstrasse 83-85. Building 83, 2nd  floor in 12459 Berlin (Oberschöneweide)

Open Studio:

ICN 2015 
Images contre nature 

International festival of experimental video, P´Silo 

09.07.2015 - 12.07.2015

Different venues within the City of Marseille, France

videodrome 2 , Theatre de Chartreux ....

My video Sunrise Memories with Hsin-Ying Tsai will be shown at the fesival 

For more information about schedules and loations :

http://icn15.p-silo.org/festival2015A.php

Still image Sunrise Memories

All That´s Jazz  - Kunst am Spreeknie 2015 Art Festival

4 July 2015 - 12 July 2015

Vernissage Saturday 4th of July 2015  between 18.00 -23.00 h
Open: 16.00-22.00 h  4+5 July and 8 July-12 July 2015

Villa Novilla
Hasselwerderstrasse 22, 12439 Berlin (Niederschöneweide)

The groupshow All that´s Jazz at Villa Novilla is part of the Art Festival Kunst am Spreeknie 2015. Three video´s works of mine will be presented´during the exhibition:  
Here and Now
No More Woman´s Land
Definitation of Space II

The video´s are shownat the following times and days
Opening Saturday 4t of July at 21.30 h
Sun.     5 Juli    16.30 h
Wed.    8 Juli    19.00 h
Thu.     9 Juli    21.00 h
Fri.     10 Juli    17.00 h
Sat.    11 Juli    18.00 h
Sun.   12 Juli    21.00 h

Still images video´s

artvideoKOELN - audiovisual experiences 01

Saturday 16 May 2015  start : 19.00 h

TENRI Japanese-German Culture Center (Japanisch-Deutsche Kulturwerkstatt)
Kartäuserwall 20, 50678 Cologne, Germany 

This first time audiovisual event is organized and curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.
My video work No More Woman´s Land (in collaboration with Yu-I Kao and Hsin Ying Tsai) will be shown on Saturday 16 May in the second program part . the video will be shown for the first time in Europe and Germany

For full program information
http://artvideo.koeln/ave01/

Here some still images from the video

IIAS Photo Exhibition " Picturing Asia"

Exhibition : 26 March 2015 - 24 April 2015
Reception : 9 April 2015 , Speaker Dr. John Kleinen, Visual Anthropologist, University Amsterdam  

From March 26 until April April 24 a selection of the 1000 photos entered into the the IIAS photo contest will be on display at Leiden University Central Building , Rapenburg 70, Leiden, The Netherlands.

My photo with the title "Breakfast Ready To Be Serve" (Hanoi, Vietnam) was selected among 40 other photographers 

http://iias.nl/event/iias-photo-exhibition-picturing-asia

Я - I AM

Kunstfestival
03.04.2015 - 04.04.2015
Paper Bar Areal, Moskau, Russia

At this art festival, which was curate by the Russian artist Anna Korobeynikova, also the video work Here and Now made by me and Hsin Ying Tsai was screened.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D0%AF-I-AM/1530172303937423?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

6th FIVAC, Festival Internacional de Video Arte Camagüey

30.03.2015. - 04.04.2015
Camagüey, Cuba, (different venues)


From 31th March until 4th of April 2015  I participated  with my video work Here & Now (Aqui & Ahora) at the 6th FIVAC (Festival Internacional de Video Arte Camagüey) , Camagüey, Cuba.
The video was made in collaboration with the dancer Miss Hsin Ying Tsai (Kaoshiung, Taiwan).
During the festival I gave a lecture/talk about the concept and the collaboration with Hsin Ying Tsai in making the video.

Still images from the video 

A Shooting With a Difference

At the end of February 2015, I made a two days shooting with the Chinese model Jasmin. Part of the shooting belonged to the model own project " Temple of Orchid". Beside the model also the environment of rooms and location played in an important role.The photos are related to topics such as tea ceremony or mediation. Compare to other nude shootings I did before, also this shooting had much more the tendency towards erotic photography.

Some more information can be under: 
www.jgvisualprojects.com  &  www.johannesgerard.com