7 appears to be a hyper functional number
featuring multiple typical symbolic and meaningful encumbrances.
According to many, 7 is a sacred or primal number, a symbol of beginning
and creation. Others define 7 as the golden mean between the first
number 1 and the odd 13. According to some, 7 symbolizes the end or death,
because it closes a series of various human phenomena in a cycle of 7,
after which nothing happens. There
are concepts, according to which 7 symbolizes harmony, connectivity and
integrity bringing together 3 as a symbol of the intangible and
ideological and 4 - as that of intangible. If in this irrational
syncretism the disposition of 7 is also a base (beginning), medium, end,
and all taken together, then the math is definitely funny and a
hypothetical artistic study - very curious.
In its 7th year,
VIDEOHOLICA recognizes 7 as its own existential
performativity, but not to highlight its existing complex symbolism but
to provoke new multidirectional thinking, associations and
interpretations beyond the real potentiality of 7. What does 7 count
for/ depict? What is more and what is less than 7? Is 7 enough? Where is
the place of 7 in today's multitudinous/ multifunctional world? With
these and other questions we are searching for poetic, abstract, ironic,
conditional, metaphoric and literal comments on the moving image,
committed to decompose the audio-visual and conceptual matrix of the
figure 7.
04.08/18:00
Panel Discussion
Moderated by Iara Boubnova Participants: Antonio Geusa,
Jason Waite, Markus
Huber & Leung Mee-ping
06.08/19:00
Artist Talk
Leung Mee-ping (Hong Kong)
06.08/17:00
Metabolizing Labor
Programmed by
Margarida
Mendes (Portugal) and Jason Waite (USA)
05.08/19:00 Artist Talk
Arnaud
Brihay (Belgium)
06.08/20:30
Uncle Tony, Three Fools and the Secret Service Documentary by Mina Mileva
and Vesela Kazakova