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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

The World Around You

“The World Around You” involves 15 international video artists who have gained recognition as emerging talents. The work has been selected based around an interest in the omni-presence of the media, the uniformity of places and ideas brought about through globalisation and the way in which the cinematic has affected our perceptions, and the ways in which we relate to each other. Urban Spaces, International Politics, Hip Hop music, and Rave Culture, all blur and transform before our eyes, questioning the disorientating effect of a Post-Modern plurality of cultures.

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

Angela Hiss	Yu-Chen Wang	Chris Oakley
Max Hattler	Noah Angell	Sheena Macrae
Renata Padovan	Elizabeth McAlpine	David Blandy
Lyn Lowenstein	Joshua Balgos	Kai-Oi Jay Yung
Clare Gasson	Emilia Ukkonen	Nisha Duggal

AirVideo is a series of artists’ film and video events co-curated by Matt Roberts and Yu-Chen Wang of BasementArtProject.com. The events will take place at the AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent on 17th November 2006 and 23rd-24th March and 27th-28th July 2007.

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