LUSTED MEN Book

 One of my photographic works entitled “By The Lakeside I” from my ongoing portfolio A State of Bared is published in the book LUSTED MEN

Where are the erotic photographs of men? Once we become aware of this question, it is difficult not to realize the absence of these images in our visual culture. Because if women, their image and their bodies are too often sexualized and eroticized, those of men are rather absent. Another story of domination of the heterosexual male gaze that would like to dictate our desires and our representations since always! So in 2019, a small group of women came together around this question. Photographers, researchers, art workers, feminist activists, and they said to themselves that we would launch a collection to invite everyone to photograph men and explore the political power of eroticism. This year 2024, part of this participatory photographic collection is for the first time brought together in a magnificent photo book signed LUSTED MEN. With more than 700 photos, accompanied by a selection of testimonies, a manifesto of the collective, an anthropological study, a text retracing the history of the LUSTED MEN community and an afterword written by our sponsor @maiamazaurette. In short, the book Lusted Men is a feminist photographic investigation, at the crossroads of art, research and visual activism.

LUSTED MEN / 2024 / Text mostly in French / Editor: Maia Mazaurette / Publisher : Gallimard - Les Éditions Hoëbeke , 75007 Paris, France (700 photos 768 pages)

ISBN: 9782073067951

OPEN NIGHTS FESTIVAL VOL. 9

 As part of the OPEN NIGHTS FESTIVAL VOL. 9 with the theme EARTH, two video works of mine, “Fields Of Home” and “Structures and Patterns” will be shown at the Timeless Museum/Diachronic Museum of Larissa in Larissa, Greece from 19^th October to 2^nd November 2024, daily from 8:00 am to 20:00 pm.

The festival itself will open on 17^th October and most events will run until 27^th October 2024, including a wide range of exhibitions, film screenings, performances and workshop performances at various locations in the city of Larissa, Greece.

I created both video works during my Pedvale project in Latvia in 2023 and reflect notions and themes related to earth, environment, identity and nature.

The inter-artistic and inter-scientific OPEN NIGHTS festival is organized by the group OFF ART – Stage Performances and the Vice-Mayor of Culture of the Municipality of Larissa with the support of the YPPOA and the Region of Thessaly. The idea, implementation and artistic direction of the festival is the choreographer Roula Karaferi. For one more year, the festival collaborates with cultural bodies, such as the Ephorate of Antiquities of Larissa, the French Institute - French Embassy, the NEON organization, the University of Thessaly - Department of Architectural Engineering and a multitude of artists and groups.

Link festival:

https://www.facebook.com/Open.Nights.Off.Art

Fonlad Festival Internacional de Video Art & Performance

 My video work “all the sadness to be” with Alex Mars and Anna Grabowska is screened at

Fonlad

Festival Internacional de Video Art & Performance

Coimbra, Portugal

26.09.2024 – 19.10.24

The programme of screenings will take place at various indoor and outdoor locations in Coimbra, as well as online. Among others : Républica da Praça / Pátio da Inquisição / CAV /

The Festival aims to promote and encourage artistic creation at the level of the new media, with special emphasis on video art and performance, through presentations, exhibitions, on-line shows, installations, workshops, residences and performances.

About “all the sadness to be”

Memory, grief and resilience. We also understand memory as a complete function, formed by two contradictory elements that include remembering and forgetting. One of the questions that we strive to articulate with you is to think about the limits between both elements of memory and forgetfulness. Does memory really exist? Or is it a subconscious action as a way to avoid remember a traumatic event? How do we remember? Do we remember through our senses or through our body? Is remembering a perception of the mind or the heart? What is remembering one more time?

BIDEODROMO 2024, international experimental film and video festival

My work “Dark Paths – Caminos Oscuros” with Tsai Hsin-Ying will be shown at

BIDEODROMO 2024, international experimental film and video festival in Bilbao, Spain.

14 October 2024 – 23 October 2024

Venues in Bilbao

Hika Ateneo: Eskola zumarkalea, 1

Kuna: Urazurrutia kalea,3

La Terminal: Zuloaga Ignacio Pintor kalea, 9

CMD San Francisco: Mariaren Bihotza plaza, z/g

BIDEODROMO is an international festival, open to experimental films of all kinds. Documentary, narrative, animation, video art and other genres are wellcome. BIDEODROMO is the node in the Basque Country for an internatioonal network of experimental film and video. Our intention is to promote meetings, learning and cultural exchange through cinema

“Dark Paths”

A visual metaphor for an indefinable latent threat. Present in an environment with no open exit.The search for a path that allows us to leave the threatening and hostile environment. Even the open sky is no relief as it too became part of a repellent environment.

www.bideodromo.com

8th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland

My graphic work “Out Of Balance“ is presented at the:

8th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland

various venues and dates:

09.10-31.12.2024

Szekler Museum of Ciuc,

Vár tér 2. 530132 Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania

10.10-30.11.2024

Transylvanian Art Centre

Str. Oltului nr. 2 / Str. 1 decembrie 1918, 5700023, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania

In the year 2024, the 8th edition of the Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland will take place, marking an important international artistic and professional event. For this occasion, the G8 suggests a thematic focus on the importance of balance and, conversely, explores questions surrounding its absence. Similar to previous years, a portion of the biennial’s core collection will be exhibited in Miercurea Ciuc, and several satellite events are scheduled to take place. “Political divisions, social inequality, wars, climate change, natural disasters. In recent years, a number of geopolitical events and ecological phenomena in the world have led us to take a closer look at our collective vision of the present and the future. We look at what happens when a relative social, political or natural balance is upset. A state in which opposing influences, circumstances or aspirations no longer seem to balance each other seems to break down. Equally important is the question of the inner equilibrium and tranquillity, or lack of it, of the individual soul. The G8 stresses the importance of individual and collective responsibility in maintaining balance, and the importance of the social role of the creator and of art in restoring it. The 8th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland invites visual interpretations of the importance of balance and, conversely, the lack of it, in such a way that the artistic intention focuses on the social role of the nature of the image through the creative attitude.

VIDEO SOUND ARCHIVE - Season S11

 

Since October 4, 2024, my video sound work J.7, which is also my most recent work in this genre, became part of the VIDEO SOUND ARCHIVE - Season S11

A working archive dedicated to video and sound works that reconsiders the current restructures and parameters. Implemented on January 13,2020, by artists Debbie Y.J. Lin and Bridget Moreen Leslie, both working in this medium. The hope is to build a network to foster connections, and create a place for the work to exist in a broader conversation -- a pure art exchange to experiment and express without buzz words, vanity metrics and artspeak.

Archives will exist on this website indefinitely. The goal is to create a space for like minded artists to find others working in the same medium.

Created and curated by Debbie Y.J. Lin + Bridget Moreen Leslie

Link to archive S11

https://www.videosoundarchive.com/archive-s11

Moving Waters

 My video work “Constantly Floating and So Rising” is presented at:

Moving Waters

Moving Waters is independently curated by A Sometimes Project on behalf of Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, near Launceston, Cornwall, UK

A Sometimes Project is an emerging, experimental arts initiative that aims to create opportunities for artists and audiences, at different locations, some of the time. The first project is Moving Watersa series of film screenings across 4 locations. Location One will be at : Terre Verte Gallery (Altarnun, Cornwall) There will also be 2 workshops! One on wet collodion photography and one soundwalk.

10.00am – 5.00 pm. 10/11/12 + 17/18/19 October 2024. Events/workshops 12 + 19 October

Terre Verte Gallery, Alternun (Cornwall) , PL15 7SJ, UK

11 edición de INTERMEDIACIONES

 

My video work Caminos Oscuras – Dark Paths is presented at the:

11 edición de INTERMEDIACIONES

3 days of art and audiovisual exploration!

Screenings, workshops and presentations await in different locations in Medellín, and at the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín (MAMM). It should be a special moment where someone can immerse yourself in the universe of video art and the best of experimental cinema with local, national and international screenings in Medellín!

08/10/2024 – 11/10/2024

Location: Museum of Modern Art Medellín (MAMM) and other venues within the city.

Medellin, Columbia