Opening of International Video Art Festival "Now&After’14" will take place 2 April 19.00 at the State Museum of GULAG, Petrovka str., 16.
International Video Art Festival "Now&After’14" will take place from 2 to 30 of April 2014 at the State Museum of GULAG.
International Video Art Festival "Now&After" http://now-after.org/eng is an annual event held in Moscow and traditionally hosted by a museum. During several weeks “Now&After” festival program is being demonstrated as a unique integrated video installation that includes all participants’ works. Apart from general demonstration, one video of the program is being presented every day, and during that day it is being demonstrated on the designated screen as video installation called “Video Now”.
Memory is a special human ability to accumulate the past and to keep it for the present and future, overcoming the oblivion. We suggest the artists to explore memory as a flexible structure that is migrating in time and space from person to person, from generation to generation, between social groups and nations, between cities and continents, between virtual and real world.
In 2014 "Now&After" festival is being held at the State Museum of GULAG – a place that has accumulated the memories of Stalin's punitive system. In the area of our special interest there is a traumatic memory: reliving and rethinking of the historical traumas, especially those related to the history of GULAG.
Founding director and curator of "Now & After" is Marina Fomenko.
More information is available on the festival’s website http://now-after.org/eng