Choreography
of the html code Independent
curator Viera Levitt and Ursula Endlicher will discuss new media
art in the USA and introduce Ursula's project html_butoh, that brings
the human body back to the technical world of the Internet.
May 1st, 2008, FreeDom, Bahon, Slovak Republic
Viera
Levitt
(formerly Viera Jancekova) worked as
a curator in one of Slovakia's leading Contemporary
Arts Museum, the Jan Koniarek Gallery located in the
historic town of Trnava from 1997. She became director
of this space in 2002, as the youngest director ever
in a public art museum in the Slovak Republic. Since
1996, she has curated or co-curated more than thirty
exhibitions in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany,
Austria, Luxembourg, and the USA.
She gave lectures or presentations about contemporary
art in Bratislava, Berlin, Rotterdam, Hiroshima, New
Delhi, Caracas, Wakefield or Providence, RI.
From January 2006, she has lived in Rhode Island, USA
as an independent curator.
Viera Levitt in the exhibition spaces of
the Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Slovakia
University of Rhode Island & Kingston Train Station,
January - February 2008
2. New Video Art from Central Europe
Curated for the RISD Museum, the video project presents
a rotation of three programs. Each program centers on
emerging questions specific to this post-communist region.
New Video Art from Central Europe, Part 1: Art
Power (pdf file)
With an eye for Central European artists' marked sense
of irony and sarcasm, this program explores contemporary
art's social side, its relationship to power, and how
it can be used or misused by artists such as the Azzoro
Group (with artists Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojciech
Niedzielko, Lukasz Skapski) of Poland, Anetta Mona Chisa
& Lucia Tkacova of Slovakia, and Little Warsaw (with
artists Andras Galik and Balint Havas) of Hungary.
New Video Art from Central Europe, Part 2: Global
Impact (pdf file)
Are artists from the Central European region dealing
with the same issues as Americans? This program underlines
the connections between Central Europe and United States,
looking at omnipresent globalization and notions of
civilization. Artists include Ilona Nemeth (Slovakia),
Pavel Mrkus (the Czech Republic), and Juraj Dudas (Slovakia).
New Video Art from Central Europe, Part 3: Their
Stories (pdf file)
The final instalment of this series, featuring artist
Pavlina Fichta Cierna (Slovakia), looks closely at the
stories of those who live on the margins of society;
and forgotten histories from the communist past in Zbynek
Baladran's video collages using the archive materials
(Czech Republic).
