VIDEOHOLICA 2009, BULGARIA




VIDEOHOLICA Special Selection from International videoart festival in Varna, Bulgaria.
1st december 2009 – 15th january 2010

Visualcontainer is glad to presents a special videoart selection curated by Neno Belchev from Videoholica International Videoart Festival from Varna Bulgaria.

Videoholica 2009 took place over the period of 4 -13 August 2009 in Varna and passed under the PEKING DUCK OR VIDEO IN TIME OF CRISIS motto.
The venues of the International Video Art Festival Videoholica 2009 were the Varna Archaeological Museum and Varna Puppet Theater.
344 videos of 138 artists from 31 countries were submitted to the 2nd edition of the Videoholica festival.
The selection of Videoholica 2009 was made by Valeri Chakalov, Tsvetan Krastev, Georgi Krastev, Victor Petkov and Neno Belchev and presented 89 videos by the 71 artists from Australia, Austria, UK, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Canada, Cyprus, Macedonia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, USA, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Taiwan, Tunis, Finland, France, Netherlands, Chili, Sweden, South Korea and Japan.
The VIDEOHOLICA 2009 team comprised: Neno Belchev, Pavlina Mladenova, Petar Atanasov, Maya Manolova, Tsvetan Krastev, Valeri Chakalov, Victor Petkov and Geogri Krastev.

Videoholica 2009 was realized with the support of Varna Municipality, August in Art Foundation, Varna Archaeological Museum, Varna Puppet Theater and Inside Magazine

Artists:
Lia Chavez, USA / UK – “Penetration” – 2006 – 04:19
Guido Salvini, Italy – “Strength Text” – 2009 – 02:24
Andrea Kusti?, Croatia – “You Are Of No Importance!” – 2009 – 0 5:45
Marius Leneweit / Ricio Rodriguez, Spain – “…niland” – 2009 – 06:45
Finda Ozgunaydin, Germany – “Namus Belasi” – 2008 – 04:12
Christin Bolewski, Germany – “Mountain-water-painting” -2009 – 06:12
Roland Wegerer, Austria – “How To Clean A Puddle!” – 2008 – 01:44
Martin Kohout, Germany – “Moonwalk” – 2008 – 02:20
Lemeh42, Italy – “Study on Human Form and Humanity #01” – 2008
Christian Nikolay, Canada – “Ampli fly” – 2008 – 02:43
Justin Randolph Thompson, Italy – “Table” – 2009 – 04:10
Stuart Pound, UK – “Not You Again!” – 2009 – 03:49
Boris Eldagsen, Germany – “The Dying Widow” – 2008 – 06:19
Robin Whenary, UK – “The Boy, the Bike and the Apple” – 2007 – 04:30
Floriane Davin, France – “Cosmos” – 2008 – 01:59
Gordon Culshaw, UK – „Slinky” – 2008 – 03:46
Kristina Bozurska, Macedonia – “Polyptych” – 2008/2009 – 03:58
Charles A. Gick, USA – “Flowers from the mouth” – 2009 – 04:43
Inger Alfnes, Netherlands – “Exercise ?1” – 2008 – 04:44