Eye-View
Whether by another’s gaze or an artificial lens, rarely a moment goes by uncaptured in today’s world. The visual information we receive profoundly shapes our worldviews yet is infallibly susceptible to our own subjective experiences and beliefs. Our understanding of sight and its relation to our beings has only been complicated by digital immediacy and the prevalence of technology.
What was once a question of reality phrased in relation to not being seen, is now phrased in relation to not being documented, as being “seen” has taken on a completely new meaning in the wake of personal cameras, surveillance devices and digital media platforms.
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Eye-View x eBoard
14.03.2023–7.01.2024
e-billboard, Congress Center Basel, Messeplatz 22, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
Taking place in one of the busiest public and highly surveilled places in Basel, a self-deprecating critique is included. Escape no longer seems possible these days, even from a "Big Sister".
I View
6.04.–6.05.2023
Manarat Al Saadiyat, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hwy, Al Saadiyat Island - Cultural District, UAE, Abu Dhabi
This exhibition explores the dimension of time in our understanding of identity, agency, and accountability. Who, or what, are we looking at when we look through the past?
Eye/View – Ukrainian artists
1.03.–29.04.2023
The NewBridge Project, Clarence Walk, Shieldfield Centre 4 - 8, off Stoddart St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1AL
After the start of the war, Videocity’s annual curatorial concept of Eye-View acquired a highly relevant dimension: observing and being observed are now situations affecting everyone to an extraordinary degree.
Eye-View x REX Box
May 2022 – April 2023
Kassenhaus des Kino REX Bern, Schwanengasse 9, 3011 Bern.
Videocity has been invited to show video art in the REX Box, the former box office at the entrance of the cinema. Videocity's guest performance explores resonances between video art and feature film.
Foyer Public
15.02.–15.03.2023
Theater Basel, Theaterstrasse 9, 4051 Basel
Who looks? Who looks back? Where to? Whether through the gaze of a counterpart or through an artificial lens – in today's world hardly a moment passes that is not captured pictorially.
Eye-View Utopia Ukraine
28.08.2024 and 25.01.2023 with live DJ performances
In der Kubatur des Kabinetts – Kunstsalon im FLUC, Praterstern 5, Vienna
In the third year of the war, we ask – what is the role and task of art and cultural workers in the face of a war that continues and has become an “everyday normality" in its monstrosity?
Videocity St. Pölten
16.10. – 04.12.2022
Various locations in St. Pölten
Typical for an exhibition in public space is that the city forms and replaces the soundtrack of the videos. Coincidences of everyday life intervene in the compositions.
Eye-View x fanestrina da video
7.08. – 30.10.2022
Postauto Bus Stop, Sta. Maria Val Müstair cumün Plaz, CH-7536 Sta. Maria Val Müstair
Videocity visits fanestrina da video, in a former telephone box, with videos by Ukrainian artists from the Eye-View cycle.
Zeus x Insel 3 Freiburg
21. – 22.10.2022
Insel 3, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79098, Germany
Fundraiser weekend for Ukraine in collaboration with Artline Magazine.
Duisburg x Ukraine
26.08. – 28.08.2022
Platzhirsch Festival 2022, Duisburg
Satellite outdoor screening on the festival grounds of Eye-View x Ukraine.
Eye-View x Tehuantepec
10. – 30.06.2022
Casa Guietiqui, San Sebastian, 70760 Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
“Augen-Blick” translates from German as “Eye-View”, however the original word has another meaning. “Augenblick” is an instant, a moment in which something happens, it's what occurs in the blink of an eye.