MOOV 2002
Mexico - Quebec - New York
June 15 - June 16, 2002
White Box, 525 West 26th Street, New York
Overview
The 2002 MOOV media arts festival featured new video and performance work by emerging artists from Quebec, New York, and Mexico at White Box, a gallery and performance space in New York's West Chelsea gallery district.
The two-day exhibition was organized in collaboration with emerging curators and artists from Mexico and Quebec and featured works by 72 video, sound, and performance artists from New York (18 artists), Quebec (17 artists) and Mexico (37 artists).
Programs presented included a collaboratively produced Exquisite Corpse video project that featured the work of 13 artists from each region; 4 curated video programs representing work from each region; sound and video mixing performances by artists Arthur Henry Fork (Mexico), Women With Kitchen Appliances and DJ Scrap (Quebec), Damian Catera, Tarikh Korula and Paul Chan, and Charmaine Wheatley (New York); video installations by New York artists Lisa DiLillo, Tali Hinkis and Sharon Paz; and two discussions on media arts and international collaboration with several of the visiting artists and audience members.
A preview of the Exquisite Corpse program was presented in cooperation with the Mexican Cultural Institute and hosted by Arts International on June 12, with a discussion on cross border collaboration with the project organizers and several artists. An 84-page tri-lingual catalogue was produced that featured introductory text by the project collaborators, program information, and biographies of participating artists.
Co-Presenter
Video Lounge
Sponsors & Supporters
The MOOV 2002 exhibition and the accompanying catalogue were made possible by the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts, the Quebec Government House (New York), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (Mexico), CONACULTA-INBA (Mexico), ConnectingPoint Multimedia (New York), mercerMEDIA (New York) PRIM Arts mediatiques (Montreal), FRAGARPLURIMEDIAS (Montreal), and Centro Multimedia del CENART (Mexico).
Staff & Personnel
Director: Rachel Melman
Curators/Programmers: Rachel Melman and Charmaine Wheatley in New York,
Joanna Empain and Annie Murphy in Quebec,
and Alfredo Salomon, Fabian Castro, and Caludia Prado in Mexico
Graphic Design: Rachel Melman
Participating Artists & Artists Groups
Quebec Joanna Empain, Annie Murphy, Jan Jalbert, Jason Arsenault, Reine Saulnier, Marie-Christine Couture, Claudette Lemay, Laura Jeanne Lefave, Andree Prefontaine, Eric Gagnon, R謩 Lacoste, Marc-Olivier Lacroix, Richard B諡nger, and Women With Kitchen Appliances (WWKA).
New York Charmaine Wheatley, Erick Michaud, Jason Jones, Sharon Paz, Tricia McLaughlin, Tarikh Korula, Paul Chan, Carrie Dashow, Jacob Hartman, Lisa DiLillo, Txuspo Poyo, Jillian Mcdonald, Damian Catera, Tali Hinkis, Onome Ekeh, Torsten Z. Burns and Darrin Martin.
Mexico Fabian Castro, Grace Quintanilla, Paulina del Paso, Ivon Fuentes, Ximena Cuevas, Ivan Avila, Felipe Gomez, Mariana Miranda, Andres Villalobos, Alejandro Valle, Alejandro Cantu, El젳 Levin, Claudia Prado, Silvia Gruner, Cecilia Navarro, Amaranta Sanchez, A. Salomon, Carolina Esparragoza, Alejandra Echeverria, Naomi Uman, Claudia Fernandez, Ricardo Suarez Pareyon, Hector Pacheco, Jose Luis Garcia Nava, Roberto Lopez, Ivan Edeza, Andres Castaneda, Eusebio Banuelos, Oliver Seeman, Domenico Capello, Manolo Arriola, Neyeri Avalos, Ricardo Nicolayevski, Rodrigo Loyola, Fernando Llanos, Julia Barco, Arthur Henry Fork, and Xavier Becerra.