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Moving Image comes to London during Frieze week

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Moving Image, the fair dedicated entirely to video art that launched during The Armory Show in New York in March, will make its London debut to coincide with Frieze Art Fair this year.


Conceived by New York art dealer Ed Winkleman and business partner Murat Orozobekov, the London edition (13-16 October) will launch at the Bargehouse, a four-floor warehouse on the Southbank, only a stone’s throw from Tate Modern. The proximity is no coincidence. “The two museums that are really putting serious resources into collecting contemporary video are the Whitney in New York and Tate Modern,” said Winkleman. “It's clear that there's a recognition of the importance of video art in London.”


The fair will be almost exactly the same size as in New York, with around 30 galleries, and will follow the same format, featuring a mixture of single-channel works and larger installations, although there will be more emphasis on large-scale pieces. “With a total of 15 different rooms, the possibilities for more experiential installations are greater,” said Winkleman. The price of exhibiting remains the same: a single-channel monitor costs $2,500 and an installation $5,000.


An advisory committee, including John Con­nelly of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Found­ation, Sol­ange Far­kas of the As­sociação Cultural Videobrasil, Mami Kata­oka from the Mori Art Museum and Elizabeth Neilson of the Zabludowicz Collection, will recommend which galleries to invite. A fifth advisor will come from Europe, according to Winkleman, who is aiming for a truly international spread of galleries, something he concedes was lacking at the New York fair.


The inclusion of Farkas and Kataoka represents a deliberate push into the Asian and Latin American markets. “It was important for us to have Mami on the committee because one of the things we wanted to look at was bringing in more Asian galleries,” said Winkleman. “She is working specifically throughout East and Central Asia right now, so she's perfect.” Latin America is also very much on Winkleman's radar. “We invited Solange because we are reaching into South America at the moment,” he said.


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Modernism.ro // Romanian presence during the Armory Week, NYC

Added on by Alex Mirutziu.

Image: Alex Mirutziu/ Runway spill #2, 2011, HD video

LA-based Mihai Nicodim Gallery will present at this year’s Armory Show a series of Romanian visual artists. Also, following the 2010 participation to Independent art fair supported by RCINY, Sabot Gallery from Cluj-Napoca feat. Alex Mirutziu continues its presence in NYC during the Armory Week at the contemporary video works art fair Moving Image.

Alex Mirutziu (b. 1981) is a Romanian artist whose work cuts across multiple domains, including conceptual writing, performance, photography and video installations. His work endows social processes with ephemeral emergence as the main constructs in an attempt to reconfigure the relation between information and form, psychophysical language and content, challenging origins and meaning. After the disturbing soloist performance, “Atrocity Exhibition,” in 2004, he continued his research at the University of Fine Arts in Cuenca, Spain, where his performative approach resulted in the suppression of one of his projects, which provoked strong reactions among artists and scholars in both Spain and Romania. Starting in 2004, the investigation of the real began when a new anatomical specimen emerged, Lick&Destroy, a corrupt and ambiguous approach to identity, with which Mirutziu produced himself distinctively in discontinuous, contradictory virtualities. In 2007, the English director, John Britton, formed an experimental master class with eight heterogeneous performers, one of which was Alex Mirutziu. Shortly after the physically intensive training, he toured England with his social-comment performance, Leave Gordon Brown Alone, produced in Liverpool, Leeds and Berlin. He received international recognition in Madrid and Paris at Optica Video Art Festival, and was awarded Best Independent Artist. He frequently worked with Grit Hachmeister, VIP group, Arandjel Bojanovic, Liviana Dan and Noa Treister. Following his “Manifest of Flaw” show at Sabot in October 2009, Alex Mirutziu presented solo projects at Rüdiger Schöttle in Munich, and at Mihai Nicodim in Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include: Object-Orientation: Bodies and/as Things, in 2011, at Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA (USA), and Ars Homo Erotica, in 2010, at the National Museum in Warsaw (Poland).

The entity of fashion as a gerund status: fashion – a thing happening now, where the focus is on the emergent, potential ability to signal and set in motion moments during the performance. What is striking in the “Runway spills” videos is the diffusion of focus away from the garment and onto a situation that disrupts a specific convention (falling on the catwalk); the now of runway live performance that sometimes corrupts, and contradicts itself, in its redeployment of functions from the existence of an abstract idea to the tangible production.