EYE/VIEW x REX Box February
2–23 February 2023, daily, 13:30 to 24:00
7 February at 19:00 in front of Rex BOX: introduction by Linda Christa Bill and Andrea Domesle, Videocity director.
Kassenhaus des Kino REX Bern, Schwanengasse 9, 3011 Bern.
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Im Mai 2022 startet eine Kooperation des Kino REX Bern mit dem internationalen Netzwerk Videocity der Kuratorin und Kunsthistorikerin Andrea Domesle. Videocity kuratiert unter dem Motto «Eye/View – Augen/Blick» bis April 2023 11 Monatsprogramme mit jeweils drei bis fünf Arbeiten von Schweizer und internationalen Künstler:innen. Der Zyklus greift zwei zentrale Motive der Kunst- und Filmgeschichte auf, insbesondere interessiert das Zusammenspiel von Betrachten und Betrachtet-Werden. Das Wortspiel «Augen/Blick» meint sowohl die einzelnen Komponenten Augen und Blick wie auch das Kompositum «Augenblick».
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Starting from May 2022, Videocity presents a series of artistic interventions, installations and videos in the former ticket window of the REX cinema in Bern. Under the title "Eye/View", Videocity will curate eleven monthly exhibitions until April 2023, each with three to five works by Swiss and international artists. The cycle explores two central motifs in the history of art and film, with a particular interest in the interplay between looking and being looked at. The play on words "Augen/Blick" (Eye/View) refers to both individual meanings, as well as the “moments" the two words co-create.
Artists: Aliyah Alawadhi, Raheed Allaf, Mia Bailey, Dorian Sari.
Curated by Alya Al Awadhi, Videocity Project Manager in Abu Dhabi.
Concept
Our contemporary existence is continuously mediated by a lens – whether of a camera or the gaze of a loved one. Are we only what others see? If so, the digital world becomes a site of relentless excavation of the self. Constrained by the limits of our technology, we capture the content that feeds our algorithms yet are estranged to the media we consume. What does it mean to our hybrid existence when our devices become agents of their own right? What does it mean when someone – or something – curates our media feeds and thoughts for us? Who would we be if no one was looking? Who would we be without a (real or assumed) gaze?
The four selected video works critically examine the limits of technology and its implications on our understanding of ourselves and all the worlds we occupy.