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ArtistTalk Best Interview Award 2012

neja — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:14:07 +0000

ArtistTalk Best Interview Award was an international open call for the best video interview with an artist, curator or cultural worker, organised as part of ArtistTalk project in partnership with organisations MoTA, WRO and CIANT.

The aim of the open call was to stimulate dialogues with artists among art professionals as well as general public.

We have received around 80 submissions in total. Jury formed by MoTA, CIANT and WRO decided to award the First Prize and three Honorable Mentions. The winner received a 1000,00 eur prize and transport to the opening events of the 15th Media Art Biennale WRO 2013. The winner was announced and present at the award ceremony on 8th May 2013 at DCF Cinema House in Wroclaw.

The screening of winning works followed the announcement:

Agaconda: To explain the sense to the world. Joe Davis in 8 Chapters, 10’39”

Dalibor Martinis/1978 Talks to Dalibor Martinis 2010, 2010, 9’53’’

Camilla Haukedal: To all the important people, 2006, 5’10’’

Jeff Gardiner: Unkle Bob, 2012, 8’39”

ArtistTalk Best Interview Award – Honorable mention!

neja — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:53:10 +0000

Dalibor Martinis Talks to Dalibor Martinis is a time-travel project with a 31-year span. In 1978 artist Dalibor Martinis, at the age of 31, made a performance in the format of a TV interview. The performance was held and recorded in The Western Front Art Centre, Vancouver in front of live audience. It was then that the first half of the piece was created, as a fictional interview by the artist with himself, who, some 31 years later, was to give answers to the questions he asked himself. The questions were recorded on videotape and kept stored for 31 years.
On April 13, 2010 Dalibor Martinis, now at the age of 62, faced Dalibor Martinis from the year 1978, and answered the questions in TV program „Second Format broadcast by 2. channel of Croatian Television on April 13
The first question was: „Is Dalibor Martinis alive?”

ArtistTalk Best Interview Award- Honorable mention!

neja — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:39:44 +0000

The author speaks to ‘unkle Bob’, in front of his cabin in the woods, surrounded by trees, animals, nature and all the creative work that Bob does in an around of his house and in his life.

ArtistTalk Besti Interview Award – Honorable mention!

neja — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:15:43 +0000

In a one on one conversation, the author speaks to Joseph Beuys, asking the artist for help and advice regarding her artistic career, how to make people understand her, how to not let the misinterpret her work, how to make people remember her name etc. More than an interview, this video is an intimate conversation, in which the unapproachability and respect for Beuys are intertwined with a humorous approach by a young artist at the beginning of her career

ArtistTalk Best Interview Award Winner!

neja — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:26:44 +0000

Agaconda: To explain the sense to the world. Joe Davis in 8 Chapters, 10’39”
is the winner of ArtistTalk Best Interview Award.

This is the man who implemented a fragment of Heraclitus into the gene of the white eyes of fruit flies, who made bacteria listen to jazz, who put a map of the Milky Way into the ear of a mouse and broadcasted vaginal contractions into space. This is the man who grew the information about intransitivity of human being back to the biological world, whose life story is driven by curiosity, creativity, and a desperately honest interest in the use and evolution of human capabilities. Joe Davis, the man who kissed an alligator… This conversation was compiled from private talks and public discussions during Ars Electronica 2012.

The international open call for the best interview with a cultural worker received over 80 submissions. Jury formed by MoTA, CIANT and WRO decided to award the First Prize and three Honorable Mentions. The winner received a 1000,00 eur prize and a visit to the opening week of the 15th WRO Biennale in Wroclaw. The award ceremony took place at DCF Cinema House in Wroclaw on 8 May 2013.

The interview was published in the Outerviews book.