2007 | BasementArtProject.com | AirVideo 3

Jorge Rivera

Oedipus Rex 7:35 2006

This video piece is based on an etching with the same title by the sub-realist artist Marx Ernst.

It proposes a fiction, which represents the personal relationship that would take place between the artist (in this case transforming into an sphinx) and the possibility or impossibility to create an artwork within this Oedipal context.

* Jorge Rivera was born in La Coruña, Spain1973 and works and lives in London. He is currently doing his PhD in sculpture at the Royal College of Art…

Maurice Bogaert

hekje (Fence) is a registration of a performance.
One morning (2001) I went to the supermarket to do some shopping. I took my fence with me, did my shopping, had a little chat with my neighbors and went back home.

hekje was originally shot on video8.

My visual work is an investigation into concepts of staging, of reality and fiction, and of origin and effect. The aim of this investigation is a research into the staged situations that are present in everyday social reality.

* Maurice Bogaert was born in Heerlen 1975 and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. After graduated from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, he has exhibited …

www.mauricebogaert.nl

Erica Scourti

The Speech of Reason 3’12” 2006

Snippets of the greatest hits of movie speeches (as chosen by American Rhetoric website) are collaged together and dubbed with a synthetic voice to create a piece of oratory that sends mixed messages about the ‘human condition’ and the leaders- real and fictional- who try to shape it.

* Erica Scourti was born in Athens, Greece in 1980 and now lives and works in London. Since graduating from BA Fine Art from Middlesex University, her work has been screened internationally and extensively in the UK, most recently at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival Lounge, in ‘Making Love to My Ego’ at Bureau gallery, Manchester, the Zebra Poetry Film Award in Berlin and online video gallery tank.tv. She is currently undertaking a diploma in Art & Philosophy at Birkbeck University, London.

www.ericascourti.com

	Airvideo 1 \| 17th Nov 2006
	Airvideo 2 \| 23rd-24th March 2007
	Airvideo 3 \| 1st-7th Sept 2007

Alternative Possible World

“Alternative Possible Worlds” involves 13 international video artists who have gained recognition as emerging talents. The work has been selected based around concerns about a rapidly changing world. From the effects of a shifting global economy, the destruction or suppression of indigenous cultures, mass building programmes and urban sprawl to dreams of possible futures, informed by a mixture of 1950s science fiction and advancements in cloning and genetic manipulation.

The artists “Alternative Possible Worlds” trace a fine line between the illusion of progress and potential catastrophe.

*click on the image to see the detail of video works

Gaia Persico	Michelle Letelier	Toine Klaassen
Steve Bishop	Noémi McComber	Ellakajsa Nordström
Zhenchen Liu	Andro Semeiko	Monica Rodriguez
Akiko and Masako Takada		Alexandra Crouwers
Ben Young

AirSpace Gallery | 4 Broad Street | Hanley
Stoke on Trent | Staffs ST1 4HL | England

Preview 31st Aug 2007 7-9pm
Exhibition 1st Sept - 7th Sept 2007

Gallery open Tue– Sat 11am-5pm

AirVideo is a series of artists’ film and video events co-curated by Matt Roberts and Yu-Chen Wang of BasementArtProject.com. The events take place at the AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent on 17th November 2006 and 23rd-24th March and 1st-7th Sept 2007.

AirSpace Gallery and AirVideo are funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council England.