Curated by 35 international curators
Project 35 is an evolving exhibition of video works selected by 35 international curators and designed in a flexible presentation format, reflecting the diversity and unique nature of the many national and international art spaces ICI partners with. For Project 35, each curator has been invited to select one artist’s video that they think vital for contemporary art audiences across the globe. The result heralds the new decade, and showcases a new exhibition concept for ICI, with an eclectic compilation of works that reveal the global reach that video has achieved as a contemporary art medium today. It is most fitting that this project begins with Guy Ben-Ner’s Berkeley’s Island (1999), which refers to George Berkeley’s famous dictum “to be is to be perceived”. It is the curators’ and ICI’s hope that these videos are “perceived” by diverse communities within the exhibitions spaces that Project 35 will travel to, inspiring debate and functioning as an international catalyst for dialogue and exchange.
The works are presented in 4 chapters, each containing 8 to 9 videos, and the exhibition unfolds simultaneously in multiple spaces, chapter-by-chapter, over the period of a year. Project 35 will show a diversity of approaches to making video, as well as the interests artists are addressing in their practice. Taking advantage of the medium’s versatility, Project 35 can be viewed in an auditorium, foyer, or in a gallery space. The DVDs can be projected or viewed on a monitor, depending on host venue needs and interests. It may be a key program component in a project space for a year; presented in weekly, monthly or quarterly screenings; or running in the cafe or education room every afternoon.
Project 35 recalls the founding initiatives of ICI. It was 35 years ago that ICI organized its very first exhibition, a seminal survey of video art titled Video Art USA for the São Paulo Biennial. It presented works by artists that included Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Keith Sonnier, Steina Vasulka, and Bill Viola among others. These artists were pioneers working in a medium that was just beginning to gain traction in the field of contemporary art, and ICI proved to be an early and committed proponent of it. The international scope of ICI was clearly indicated in this first exhibition, which went on touring 4 more countries across Latin America. With Project 35, ICI further draws from its extensive international network of curators formed over the past 35 years to organize a new exhibition of international video art, and support new collaborations between curators, artists and exhibitions spaces on national and international platforms.
Each DVD will be accompanied by a pdf with details of each video and a short introduction to each work by the selecting curator.
Curators include:
Mai Abu ElDahab (Egypt/Belgium), Magali Arriola (Mexico), Ruth Auerbach (Venezuela), Nicolas Bourriaud (France), Zoe Butt (Australia/Vietnam), Yane Calovski (Macedonia), Lee Weng Choy (Singapore), Joselina Cruz (Philippines), Sergio Edelsztein (Argentina/Israel), Charles Esche (UK/Netherlands), Lauri Firstenberg (U.S.), Alexie Glass-Kantor (Australia), Anthony Huberman (Switzerland/U.S.), Mami Kataoka (Japan), Constance Lewallen (U.S.), Lu Jie (China), Raimundas Malasauskas (Lithuania/France), Francesco Manacorda (Italy), Chus Martinez (Spain), Viktor Misiano (Russia), Deeksha Nath (India), Simon Njami (Cameroon/France), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Switzerland/UK), José Roca (Colombia), Bisi Silva (Nigeria), Franklin Sirmans (U.S.), Kathryn Smith (South Africa), Susan Sollins (U.S.), WHW (Croatia), and more
AVAILABLE anytime in 2010 through 2012
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Guy Ben-Ner, Berkeley's Island, 1999

Kota Ezawa, Lennon Sontag Beuys, 2004

Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Phu Nam Thuc Ha, Uh..., 2007

Robert Cauble, Alice in Wonderland or Who is Guy Debord?, 2003

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Topic 1: Contemporary Art, 2006
Raleigh, North Carolina
Storrs, Connecticut
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
October 1, 2010 - January 1, 2012
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
September 29, 2010 - November 10, 2010
Lagos, Nigeria
August 9, 2010 - August 20, 2010
Göteborg, Sweden
June 4, 2010 - February 13, 2011
Quito, Ecuador
April 22, 2010 - June 23, 2010
Los Angeles, California
March 30, 2010 - March 30, 2010
Skopje, Macedonia
March 29, 2010 - December 31, 2010
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 13, 2010 - March 13, 2011
West Hartford, Connecticut
February 18, 2010 - February 18, 2011
Lifehouse, 33 Sinari Daranijo, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
August 27, 2010
Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos Nigeria
August 26, 2010
E Për7shmja, Tirana, Albania
August 17, 2010
Qendra Sociale (Social Center), Tirana, Albania
August 16, 2010
The Douglas Hyde Gallery
Trinity College Dublin
C. Dublin, Ireland
5-6:30pm
May 13, 2010
Converge Curators Forum, Art Chicago
The Merchandise Mart
NEXT Talk Shop, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL
April 30, 2010
Mexico City, Mexico
8:30 pm
April 16, 2010
LAXART
2640 S. La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA
7 pm
March 30, 2010
Serialworks
Cape Town, South Africa
7:30-8 pm
February 20, 2010