Тhe 3rd edition of VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival took place in Varna between August 10th and August 18th, 2010 accompanying AUGUST IN ART International Biennial of Visual Arts.

The curatorial team of Videoholica 2010 composed by Pavlina Mladenova and Neno Belchev selected 152 art pieces by 138 authors from the received 512 videos by 326 artists from 51 countries.

During the festival 9-day duration, according to the VIDEOHOLICA 2010 motto 'KEEP THE ILLUSION ALIVE', various video selections and projects describing diverse concepts and interpretations of the term ‘illusion’ as a phenomenon discovered and studied with the techniques of video art were screened and presented.

VIDEOHOLICA 2010 main program, part of which thematically divided into the selections 'East Asia', 'Dance' , 'BG', was presented in a series of evening screenings in four different open-air places, such as the inner yard of the Varna Archaeology Museum, the back yard of the Varna Puppet Theatre, the Rakovina open-air stage and the outside space of Music Cafe LOOK. In parallel with the evening screenings of the festival, daily presentations and screenings were hold at the Conference Hall of the Varna Observatory.

TEMPOGRAPHY
Video-based, ongoing conceptual art project
Guest Speaker: Anthony Bannwart (Switzerland)
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DANCE
Main Program &
NORA (2008) by
Alla Kovgan and
David Hinton
(USA, UK, Mozambique)
 <<< web page

PROJECTION
Video Art Exhibition Throughout Europe
Curators: Hanna Alkema, Camille Lenglois,
Emile Ouroumov
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BG
Main program
 

Authentic boys
International artist-alliance (NL, DE, CH)
Presentation of the films Threesome (2009' 10:00),
In Character (2008' 23:00)
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incite/
Hamburg based audiovisual electronics duo of Kera Nagel and André Aspelmeier.
<<< incite/ web site

East Asia
Main program

Dinu Li
Manchester, UK /
Hong Kong, China
Artists Talk
statement & bio >>>
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KIMUAK
Selection of
Basque Short Films
(San Sebastian, Spain)
<<< Kimuak web site

VIDEOHOLICA 2010 was organized by VIDEOHOLICA Association (Varna, Bulgaria) with the support of Varna Municipality (Bulgaria), Swiss Art Council Pro Helvetia (Zurich, Switzerland), Swiss Embassy in Bulgaria (Sofia, Bulgaria), Hamburg Municipality (Germany), August in Art Foundation (Varna, Bulgaria), Stalker Graphic Design Studio (Varna, Bulgaria), Archaeological Museum (Varna, Bulgaria), State Puppet Theater (Varna, Bulgaria), Observatory and Planetarium (Varna, Bulgaria), Music cafe LOOK (Varna, Bulgaria), Artin Vision (Varna, Bulgaria).
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