ART:SCREEN
Private versus Public Selves
Curated by Jonas Nilsson and Eva Olsson (Sweden)

art:screen is an event and platform that showcases new, innovative and contemporary moving image from Swedish and international artists in single-channel screening programmes consisting of a number of short works. Private versus Public Selves brings together two personas that in principle contradict each other, since the first one refers to what we want to keep hidden and the other one to what we want others to see and acknowledge. But when does our private selves end and when does our public selves begin. How can one differentiate one from the other. And from a cultural, social and individual aspect will there be different ways of viewing these two personas. www.artscreen.se
 

Shopping   Shopping, by Maggie Brown (Australia)
2009, 2’32’’
This work is part of a series of performances for video entitled Self Restraint. It follows the progress of a woman who enters a convenience store with cumbersome old objects tied to her back.
     
subway   Subway, by Kathryn Mockler & David Poolman (Canada)
2007, 1’10’’
Subway is part of a series of absurd videos called The Reluctant Narrator about how we make assumptions in our deciphering of the world. "Subway" is adapted from an original poem about how "inconvenient" it is when someone jumps in front of a subway and makes you late for work. The video is comprised of a monologue over moving and still images.
     
The_Capsule   The Capsule, by Eva Olsson (Sweden)
2009, 1’18’’
To be seen.
To be respected.
To be listened to.
It is not the pill that will make you happy.
     
les_barbares   Les Barbares, by Jean-Gabriel Périot (France)
2010, 4’59’’
We are scum, we are barbarians.
     
Flickering   Flickering, by Kika Nicolela (Brazil)
2009, 2’43’’
From darkness to light and back to darkness; an emotional self-portrait.
     
Cassock   Cassock, by Malin Andersson (Sweden)
2009, 2’58’’
Clothes is symbol of identity, structure and power. Through clothes we are given certain rolls and function, whether its a uniform or a certain style of fashion. The videoproject "cassocks" works with what is real and what is not in the eyes of the viewer. Is it a performance? Is she really a priest, or just an artist?
     
The_city_and_the_other   The city and the other, by Albert Merino (Spain)
2010, 3’
A character that lives isolated in himself, transform the universe around him, after a casual meeting.
     
riders_on_the_4   Riders on the 4, by Cat Del Buono (USA)
2008, 2’31’’
This two screen single channel video installation showing New York City subway riders. While viewers form perceptions of the riders in these video portraits, voiceovers interrupt and give insight into who they are, conveying an attribute that may not have been visible to other riders on the train.
     
seclusion_II   Seclusion II, by Jonas Nilsson (Sweden)
2011, 3’45’’
‘I Hate People...But It's Nothing Personal’.
Social Anxiety disorder. A phobia is an irrational fear that leads to a conscious avoidance of a feared activity, subject or situation and usually disrupt people's ability to function in life. Social phobia is characterized by a marked and persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny by others and exposure to the situation may provoke anxiety.
     
beat_eat   BEAT EAT, by Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden)
2009, 3’
A slightly bizarre story about the wish to share hearty feelings with everyone, but still wanting them retained for yourself.
     
someone   SOMEONE, by Michelle Hannah (UK)
2011, 2’32’’
Working with the notions of identity, authority, surveillance and presence, the process of eliminating the self identity of this ‘someone’ with digitized pixelation and forced anonymity is used to create a unnerving experience for which no one in particular is responsible, but one where this hooded figure is directly addressing the viewer.