PRESS
RELEASE
June 2004
the SNEEZE 80 x80............a Featured
Film
80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes
random, contagious, passing on, viral
connection, chaos, order, subject, object, spreading ,freedom, fantasy, epic,
still, moving, abstract, variable, recorded, live unseen, experiment, focus,
visible, aesthetic, contaminatory, subversive, rapture, metaphor, allegory,
exciting, changeable, be-able, induced, silent, 'a dizzying sophism whir' one
global context, narrative, explosion, sense, nonsense.
The Gazon Rouge Gallery Athens and artists Natasha Makowski and Peter Lloyd
Lewis have invited a global grouping of 80 international artists to present
videos that together produce one complete work, a celebration of image
diversity and unknown connections.
Applying a new equation to art synthesis and artist
collaboration.
This project
pays homage to and refers to Thomas Edisons innovative kinograph film
of a sneeze, a random and connective act. Acknowledging both the
importance of the event in moving image history and considering the idea of its
experimental reference the sneeze 80 x 80 explores the relationships between
video art, feature film, and the idea of connections being made between artists
and their work through the
questioning of hierarchies, the exploration of narrative and the
creative use of time structure. All experienced through the equation of 80 x
80. The concept has not been to form a cohesive and unquestioning result
but to use the format for ideas to clash and provoke re-readings of work and
their relationships through their placing with the other pieces presented.
The sneeze features a surprising and innovative selection of
practitioners so that expectations are perpetually confounded.
80 ARTISTS [ONE
WORK] THE SNEEZE 80X80, FEATURED FILM
www.80sneezes.com
aas - UK, Knut Asdam - Norway, Fabienne Audeoud - France, SE
Barnet - US,
Dave Beech / Mark Hutchinson - UK, Zoulikha Bouabdellah - Algeria,
Gary Breslin - US, Carmel Buckley - UK, Dmitry Bulnygin -
Russia, Nanna Debois Buhl - Denmark,
David Burrows - UK, Ellen Cantor - US, Adam Chodzko - UK,
Stuart Croft - UK, Alexandre Da Cunha -
Brazil, Julian Dashper /
Tania Doropoulos - N Z, Dana Duff - US, Amal El Kenawy - Egypt,
Solange Fabiao - US, Masaki Fujihata - Japan, Carlos
Garaicoa - Cuba, Raquel Garbelotti - Brazil,
Emil Goh - Australia, Wang GongXin China, Subodh Gupta - India, Karen Guthrie - UK, Mark
Harris - UK, Shari Hatt - Canada, Thalia Hioti - Greece, HK119 - Finland, Janet
Hodgson / Susan Ayton - UK,
Emil Hrvatin - Slovenia, Steven Hull - US, Ip Yuk Yiu -
China, Sabine Jelinek - Austria, Paul Ramirez Jonas - US, Nikos Kanarelis -
Greece, Bouchra Khalili -Morocco, Bharti Kher - India, Patrick Killoran -
US, Jinhan Ko - Canada, Germaine
Koh - Canada, Laresa Kosloff
- Australia, Pawel Kruk Ð Poland,
John Lane - US,
Brendan Lee - Australia, Peter Lloyd Lewis - UK, Hubert Lobnig - Austria,
Barry Mcgee - US, Dave McKenzie - US, David Mabb - UK,
Natasha Makowski - US, Thando Mama - South Africa, Lynne Marsh - Can, Despina
Meimaroglou - Greece, Jo Mitchell - UK, Wagner Morales - Brazil, Hiroharu Mori
- Japan, Ivan Moudov - Bulgaria. Moataz Nasr - Egypt, Mohamadou Ndoye-Senegal,
Ernesto Neto- Brazil, Jeroen Offerman - Netherlands, Irena Paskali - Macedonia,
Christoffer Paues - Sweden, Alexandros Psychoulis - Greece,
Rosangela Renno - Brazil,
Abigail Reynolds - UK,
John Russell - UK, Yorgos Sapountzis - Greece, Pekka Sassi - Finland,
Dallas Seitz - Canada,
Fatou Kande Senghor - Senegal, Sanjit Sethi - US, Michael Smith - USA,
Biljana Tanurovska / Bozhidar Jovanovic-Bole - Macedonia,
Rebecca Trost - Germany,
Dylan Volkhardt - Australia, Benjamin Weissman / Damon
McCarthy - US, Sue Williamson Ð S. Africa