///Seasonal Cuts///

///MAY 7, 2008. FROM 22:00 TO 23:45///

///Location///
Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) - Sin el Fil - Lebanon

///Curator by Bart Rutten & Nat Muller///

The “seasonal” has been a recurring and tried subject within the arts, especially in the visual arts and film. In its more mimetic forms it spans from realist painting to landscape photography (very recognisable within the Dutch canon). Even in Hollywood film it functions mainly as a recognisable metaphor for the change of time. Prime features of these approaches have been considerations with light, colour and the symbolism of typical issues such as the barren of winter, the rebirth of spring, the joys of summer, and autumnal harvesting. With “Seasonal Cuts” we stretch and twist the idea of the seasonal by redirecting the passage of time into the realm of politics and the realm of the playfully absurd. In addition, the works presented each share a concern with the technical and aesthetic properties of the moving image, so that the edits and cuts become carefully crafted indicators of moments where the slippage of time marks a condition of stasis, or the other way round, where inertia signifies change.

///The list of videos///
Driessens Verstappen (NL) “ Frankendael 2001”
Guido van de Werve (NL), Nummer Negen (The day I didn't turn with the world)”
Yane Calovski (MK) & Fos (DK), “An Early Lost Play”
Adel Abidin (IQ/FI), “Vacuum”
Michael Blum (AT), “The Three Failures”
Meiya Lin (CN/NL) “Lost Paradise”
Manuel Saiz (ES/JP), “Parallel Paradises”
Guido van de Werve (NL), “Nummer acht (Everything is going to be alright)”

///More///

///Article///

///季節片斷///
///2008年5月7日//
///地點：黎巴嫩 Libanaise des Beaux-Arts學院///
///由跋特路騰 和 那特幕樂 策劃///

在藝術領域里“ 季節性” 已成為經常被討論，並廣泛使用的藝術主題，尤其是在視覺藝術和電影。在其更多的運用形式中，它更是跨越從寫實繪畫到景觀攝影（容易辨認的包括佳能相機在荷蘭的使用）。即使是在好萊塢電影，它的職能通常被隱喻為時間的變化。總體來說，這方面的思考已涉及了與光，顏色和其他象徵意義的典型問題，例如貧瘠的冬天，重生的春天，歡樂的夏天，和秋天的收穫。與“季節片斷”我們延伸並變奏了季節性的概念，而重新定位時間的推移的方向，涉入政治環境和調侃荒謬的境界。此外，這些作品同時俱備關注並結合技術上和美學畫面的特點，使剪輯中精心設計的修改和削減的動作成為方向， 而讓延誤時間留下痕跡，或從另外一個角度說，在那裡的慣性意味著改變。

///參展藝術家///
Driessens Verstappen (NL) “ Frankendael 2001”
Guido van de Werve (NL), Nummer Negen (The day I didn't turn with the world)”
Yane Calovski (MK) & Fos (DK), “An Early Lost Play”
Adel Abidin (IQ/FI), “Vacuum”
Michael Blum (AT), “The Three Failures”
林美雅 (中國/荷蘭) “失去的天堂”
Manuel Saiz (ES/JP), “Parallel Paradises”
Guido van de Werve (NL), “Nummer acht (Everything is going to be alright)”