【Press Release】
35th Asolo
Art Film Festival
Spotlights on the Contemporary
Video Art and Dance from Taiwan
《ECO AS A VERB》&《TAIWAN VIDEA2.0》
The oldest international art film festival in
the world takes place in the mountain town of the northern Italy－Asolo. In 1973, it was founded by Flavia Paulon, a
significant figure of Venice International Film Festival. The 35th
edition of Asolo Art Film Festival is coming around on September 10-18, 2016. The
magnificent scenery of Asolo was fascinated by many Italian Old Masters, like Giorgione, Andrea
Palladio, Paolo Veronese, Antonio Canova. This year’s festival will focus on “Animae” to concern about
life, ecology and spirit. Taiwanese curator Yunnia Yang is
invited to curator the focal theme video exhibition for the 35th
edition, presenting the curatorial concept “Eco As A Verb”. The majority know about Most people know to love the planet and raise the
environmental awareness, but there are big steps from awareness to actions. The
green documentaries or contemporary videos here are nor to initiate another
environmental activism, but to suggest that after watching these films each
viewer may think what he can do by his own for the good sake of our environment
to improve the current situation. There is no need to make any alliance, but to
be touched, then just do it! Although the notion “Eco as a Verb” is proposed in
the 35th Asolo Art Film Festival, we truly hope it can work in
practice all over the world. The focal theme project“Eco As A Verb” includes five categories: “Eco
Creativity”, “Eco Apocalypse”, “Eco-Human Chain”, “Eco Mythology”, and “Special
Focus: Dancecology”.
In addition,
the curator Yunnia Yang has receive great comments on the Taiwanese Avant-Garde
Video Exhibition《TAIWAN VIDEA》and the International
Creative Video Exhibition《Imagining Crisis》for the 34th
edition. The film festival organizer ALA(Armonioso Labirinto Asolano) continues
to invite her to curate the video art project《TAIWAN VIDEA2.0:Cultural Encounter》, experiencing a culture in more internal ways instead of making a
stereotype of it. Eleven videos will present the nomadic perceptions of these
Taiwanese artists while they are travelling, studying aboard, having a
exhibition or a residency in a foreign country. With the spirit of Baudelaire’s “ flâneur”, the cultural encounters of the artists cannot be put in words for the artists instill their
own life experiences into this process of cultural encounters. In their
artworks, viewers may perceive alternative cultural understandings, to overturn
the cultural stereotypes given by this commercialized world, to encounter
multiple cultures with sensibility.
Dancecology’s “ Flowing
Landscape” as Opening/Closing Performances
Fusing the notion of ecology into
the contemporary choreography, Dancecology
from Taiwan is one of the kind. Founded in 2009, the artistic director Peng
Hsiao-Yin employs the concept of “Circulation and Coexistence” from ecological
system to create organic movements, in the form of interdisciplinary arts to
invite all the audience to experience the aesthetics coexistent with
environment and space. For the 30th edition in 2011 , Dancecolgy presented “ Dancing of Time”,
which spread out the energy of dancing all over Asolo. Just like an aesthetic
reflection of a plant’s growing strength and nature itself. This works was
favored by film audience and local inhabitants. In the 35th anniversary, Dancecolgy would like to dedicate to
the metaphor of life color with the new work “ Flowing Landscape” as the
opening / closing performances and “Whisper in Town" series, in memory of
the spiritual leader of Asolo Art Film Festival –Attilio Zamperoni. Besides,
since 2012 Dancecolgy explores the
filmic language of Dance Video, continues to bring the ecological concern into
videos. This edition will present six Dance Videos of Dancecolgy.
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| Dancecology flowing body brushes at the top of Rocca di Asolo in 2011 |
Internationally Well-Known Artists to Gather in Asolo for “Animae”
The theme “Animae” of the 35th edition
is so unusual to devote to the spiritual leader of Asolo Art Film Festival- Attilio
Zamperoni, who passed away unexpectedly this June, in memory of his long-term
efforts to glorify the significance of Asolo with the art film festival. Despite
many difficulties, the festival team decides to overcome them and fulfill
Attilio’s art passions as a flaming phoenix and gives out excellent programs
this year. Following the 34th edition’s “BRICS Art”, the team prepares
the program of creative videos and interdisciplinary arts from the BRICS
countries (Russia, Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Italy) to enrich international visions and multiple viewpoints. The Indian-born
music maestro Zubin Mehta will be awarded with Asolo City Award for the Cultural Dialogue for his musical
contribution. It will be screened the German film director Bettina Ehrhardt’s “
Allegro with Fire. The Musical World of Zubin Mehta”. The Indian film director Mike
Pandey, who is well-known for his great devotions to animal protections, is
invited to screen several representative films, including the“Green Oscar”award-winning film 《Shores of Silence - Whale Sharks in India》. Besides
screening the films in competition, there are special screening programs from AVIFF (France)
, GO Film Festival(Brazil), and Russian
film delegation VGIK.
《Eco As A Verb》
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35th
Asolo Art Film Festival Focal Theme Video Exhibition
Curator: Yunnia
Yang
Artists: Marcy Cravat(USA)/Sergey Tsyss(Russia)/Tsui
Kuang-Yu(Taiwan)/ Zhang Xu
Zhan(Taiwan)/Rick Fisher(Canada)/AES+F(Russia)/ Lynn Estomin(USA)/ Isabelle Hayeur(Canada)/ Marie-France Giraudon(Canada)/ Michael Snyder (Peru,
Brazil)/ Su
Rynard (Canada)/Kip Andersen& Keegan Kuhn (USA)/Michael Matheson Miller(USA)/ Josh Fox(USA)/ Ali Alvarez (UK)/Albert Merino(Spain)/Jawshing
Arthur Liou(Taiwan)/Dancecology
(Taiwan)
Time : 2016/09/10-09/18
Venue: Eleonora Duse Theater in Asolo, Italy
(Please find 《Eco As A Verb》Screening Schedule & Film Synopsis in the following articles of Blog )
《TAIWAN
VIDEA2.0:Cultural Encounter》
The Taiwanese
Avant-Garde Video Exhibition
Curator: Yunnia
Yang
Artists: Tsui Kuang-Yu/ Chou Tung-Yen/ Huang Yu-Hang/ Wang
Ya-Hui/
Chang Huei-Ming/Chen
I-Chun /Wu Tzu-An /Pu-Shuai Cheng / Jawshing Arthur Liou /Cheng Li-Ming
Time: 2016/09/16 (Fri.) 21:30
Venue: Eleonora Duse Theater in Asolo, Italy
Time: 2016/09/16 (Fri.) 21:30
Venue: Eleonora Duse Theater in Asolo, Italy
(Please find 《Taiwan Videa2.0》 Film Synopsis in the following articles of Blog)
