AWARDS
European Parliament, Culture & Art Project NOASS, Shamir Riga and Riga Ghetto & Latvian Holocaust Museum and artvideokOELN international & Artists for Change
Under the Patronage of the ~ European Parliament, A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 is a media art project by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, media artist aund curator from Cologne/Germany starting in 2012. It is the physical and virtual manifestation of his project “Draft Title: Shoah featuring Shoah Film Collection”, including the preparations for the physical event during Agricola de Cologne’s residency at NOASS (Riga) 1-31 May 2012, the realisation of the physical event – 1-30 June 2012 including creating the virtual presence, and the post-event era forming the project online to become the virtual memorial including Riga as a place for Jewish life and the manifestation of “A Virtual Memorial”.The project is dedicated to the victims of Riga Ghetto and Rumbula Forest Ghetto and Nazism.
In this way, “A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012” became a common project of all participating artists, the involved hosting instances, the supporters and the audience. Depending on their involvement, each of them has a more or less individual active function, resulting a common media art project, which would not have happened or exist without them. One might speak, they were the tools for creating the physical and virtual art work.
https://riga2012.nmartproject.net/
https://ateamartistsforchange.wordpress.com
Special Jury Award – category “best experimental film”
1st International Cyprus Film Festival April 2008
One Day on Mars
A human being is obliged to spend at least one day in his lifetime on Mars. Mars the red desert planet, Mars the god of war. Mars can be anywhere, any place which is identified with the inhuman, violence, hate, rage, revenge and despair.
Agricola de Cologne filmed the original material 2006 during a visit in Palestine & Israel.
Bele Arte Lamia Festival Greece
videoart award – high commendation
Bareback – serial DIScharge, 2007, 6:00
The experimental film tells the story of a homeless person, who lost its identity in all the traumatic experiences it was undergoing. Again, Agricola de Cologne uses the form of the allegorical representation for pointing to essential questions of human existence. All people are homeless in on or the other way, most however, suffer from it without being aware of it. The film is a mirror of our time which has lost its roots.
FONLAD Video Award 2007
Fonlad – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Pt
Bareback – serial DIScharge, 2007, 6:00
The experimental film tells the story of a homeless person, who lost its identity in all the traumatic experiences it was undergoing. Again, Agricola de Cologne uses the form of the allegorical representation for pointing to essential questions of human existence. All people are homeless in on or the other way, most however, suffer from it without being aware of it. The film is a mirror of our time which has lost its roots.
Best Experimental Film
3rd Budapest International Shortfilm Festival
Synopsis
The video tells the story of the human desire to be as close to truth as possible. But who ever will succeed while living a life dominated by the fast running time and endless searching?
If there is any paradise, then monks or people really resting within themselves find a paradise close to truth close to GOD. But it is only truth people are believing in. Is there absolute truth?
The video consists of three sections, a spiritual and a physical section and the acting level, the artist who is filming the scene, an intruder who become witness of a ritual of truth.
This basic video was filmed in 2003 at the Rila Monastery, the spiritual centre of Bulgaria.
1st Prize of Digital Art Festival @ Museum of Contemporary Art Zulia Maracaibo
V Salon de Arte Digital” Maracaibo/Venezuela – 1-9 October 2006
Violence Online Festival and the artistic work on the subject of violence
5th Salon de Arte Digital Maracaibo/Venezuela 1-8 October 2006 – Violence Online Festival
House of Tomorrow
House of Tomorrow, 2005, 3:10
The house of tomorrow is the house of one’s identity, it does not need to be a concrete house or building, but represents a secure and protected place where people can stand for what they are and represent, a human being. And this human may have many identities in different fields, the sexual identity represents only one among many others.
House of Tomorrow, 2005, 3:10
The house of tomorrow is the house of one’s identity, it does not need to be a concrete house or building, but represents a secure and protected place where people can stand for what they are and represent, a human being. And this human may have many identities in different fields, the sexual identity represents only one among many others.
Biennale of Electronic Art
Family Portrait
receives MOSAICA Award 2005 – https://www.mosaica.ca/ – on the theme: Jews and Diaspora
Family Portrait
A Portrait of the Argentine family Partnoy which was captured by the dark shadows of the Argentine past.
In the center =>
Mother, daughter and grand daughter of the Partnoy Family – who survived the so called Argentine Holocaust.
The project created 2003-2005. focussing on the historical background and the work of these three visual artists and poets is a collaborative work between the 3 family members and Agricola de Cologne.
Agricola de Cologne’s collaborative project “Family Portrait” portrays three generations of the Partnoy family from Argentina in a triple diasporic tale of survival and artistic creativity. The Partnoys escaped persecution in Europe, fleeing to Argentina where they were once again persecuted during the so-called Argentine holocaust during the military dictatorships. After being “disappeared” and imprisoned in Argentina, Alicia (Raquel’s daughter) and her family found asylum in USA, where later in 1994 also Raquel and her husband Salomón emigrated to, and they all live now as visual artists, writers and poets.
In the framework of MOSAIC AWARD 2005, Agricola produced a third and final version of “Family Portrait” including new aspects of the story and a chapter about the lost son of the Partnoy Family. Agricola’s project spotlights poignant aspects of Jewish diasporadic history (Argentina) as well as artists whose identity and work is formed by this Jewish history.
Biennale of Electronic Art
Central TAFE’s Artist in Residence Perth/Australia September/October 2004
2004 – Biennale of Electronic Art Perth/Australia / 7 September – 17 November 2004
The RRF Project @ Central TAFE – artist in residence gallery
Artist-in-Residence North Metro TAFE149 Beaufort Street, Perth, Western AustraliaNM TAFE’s Artist-in-Residence is located within the School of Creative Industries, Perth, Australia. The Artist-in-Residence fronts Beaufort Street and comprises living quarters: (2 bedrooms/office), kitchen, laundry, bathroom, living area and courtyard. In addition a spacious studio is attached: a wet area/kitchen and a double shop front which can be used for exhibiting or working or both. The residency is located within the Cultural Centre precinct, serviced by the CAT free bus and within close walking distance to the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), the Alexander Library, the Western Australian Museum and the entertainment and dining mecca of Northbridge.Invited artists.
Proposals from designers, artists, craft and media practitioners, musicians and organisations who wish to apply to use the premises are invited. Successful applicants will contribute to the to the cultural enrichment of the college and the ongoing education program of Creative Industries students at NM TAFE by exhibiting their work or opening their studios, and conducting public programs such as artist talks and workshops for students and the wider community. Applicants can seek access to accommodation and/or studio. We also facilitate non residential applicants who want to work within the school, immersed in our amazing ceramic, jewellery, print or sculpture studios or use the shopfront as an exhibition or project space.
[R][R][F] 200X —> XP // Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting – the global networking project
has been realised by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne on occasion and invitation of BEAP 2004 – Biennale of Electronic Art taking place between 7 September and 12 November 2004 in Perth/Australia.
The printed catalogue is available as PDF
Agricola de Cologne was requested to create a global networking project dealing with the phenomenon of “memory” in avariety of different aspects. The global aspect is manifesting itself in the Location of the Internet based project, as such, in the concept to research how people from different contries rooted in different cultures, religions and social background deal with memory, by including artists and curators from different countries, cultural, religious and social background. It was the idea to demonstrate this dealing via different “memory channels”, each one dedicated to a different artistic digital medium.
BAEP 2004: Beap curator Jeremy Blank (right) & Agricola de Cologne (center)
While the Biennale exhibitions were installed at numerous art places and institutes, Agricola de Cologne was installed at the artist in residence gallery @ Central Taffe Institute of Technology Perth/Australia in an exchange between virtual and physical space, where he also was an artist in residence. Wilfried’s work was curated by Jeremy Blank, at that time teacher at Central Tafe School for Art, Design & Media which is also running the Artist in Residence Gallery.
Concept of The RRF Project installation
Inauguration, presentation and installation
Award in the category NetZin at MAD03 Festival Madrid/Spain – https://www.nmartproject.net/
MAD’03 – Festival of Experimental Arts was held in Madrid on 24 October – 16 November 2003.
*Violence Online Festival
Special Price of the OOrganizationCommittee -Computer Space Festival 2002 Sofia (Bg) /violencenmartproject.net.
A Virtual Memorial
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/ –
Prize for best foreign multimedia project on Computer Space Festival 2001 Sofia (Bulgaria)
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Jury member
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival 2012 – The Jury & the festival director – (from left to right) Magda Waligorska, Daniel Strehlau, Andrzej Serdiukow, Andrzej Kostenko & Wilfried Agricola De Cologne
Agricola de Cologne was a jury member of following events:
2015
Lisbon/Portugal – 26 Nov – 6 December 2015
https://www.voarte.com/en/festvoarte/inshadow/
CologneOFF 2015 Portugal II@ InShadow Festival Lisbon
26 Nov -6. Dec 2015
CologneOFF 2015 Portugal
CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival
@ InShadow – International Performance Festival Lisbon
http://www.voarte.com/en/festvoarte/inshadow/
26 Nov – 6 Dec 2015
Appassionata
The best of videoperformance
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne in collaboration with
City Breath Festival / Letters from the Sky curated by Kai Lossgott (Capetown/RSA)
List of videos
Louise Coetzer (RSA) – Dead Air, 2011, 5:12
Vibeke Bertelsen & Frederik Hilmer (Denmark) – Transient and Luminous, 2012, 4.04 min
Sara Holwerda (USA) – Chair Dance, 2012, 6:26
Khanyisile Mbongwa, James Taylor (RSA) – Fragmented, 4’53”, 2009
Agnes Pettersen (Norway) – All the Dreams, 2013, 12:31
Yuri Pirondi & Ines Von Bonhorst (UK) – Emergencia, 2012, 10
Damian Gromala (Poland) – PsychoKinetic, 2014, 5:11
Raquel Claudino (Spain) – Sing The Sand Into Pearls, 2014, 13:05
Meritxell Aumedes (Sweden) – mindsight, 2014, 06:39
Wilfried Agricola De Cologne
will attend InShadow Festival Lisbon between 2 and 6 December and hold a masterclass on Friday, 4 December 2015, 11.30h @ ETIC – ESCOLA DE TECNOLOGIAS, INOVAÇÃO E CRIAÇÃO Lisbon
2012
Warsaw/Poland – 25-30 October 2012
https://www.wjff.pl
A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2012
dedicated to the victims of Warsaw Ghetto 1940-1943
SFC – Shoah Film Collection
@ Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (WJFF)
25-30 October 2012
After the successful pilot project in Riga in June 2012 and a most challenging manifestation in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) in July 2012, a third presentation of Shoah Film Collection took place in Warsaw in October 2012. Shoah Film Collection was very honoured being invited to manifest itself via a selection from the pool of 70 art film and videos. It was an experiment to confront the audience who visisted the festival with the expectations to consume feature and documentary films like usual, with experimental artistic films confusing the festival vistors profoundly.
WJFF was featuring a selection from SFC – Shoah Film Collection, a worldwide unique international initiative founded in 2010 by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne – aimed to encourage young artists and filmmaker generations to deal with the topic of collective trauma ( like Holocaust) by using new technologies and contemporary approaches in art,includes currently 50 films and videos – experimental film, videoart and documentations.
After the successful start of the event series in Lativia in June – \\ A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 – Commemorative Interventions //
standing under the Patronage of the European Parliament – a collaboration with Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum – and Culture and Art Project NOASS Riga – 1-30 June 2012
https://riga2012.nmartproject.net – https://ateamartistsforchange.wordpress.com/category/latvian-category/
and afterwards in Cambodia – \\ A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012 //
dedicated to the victims of the genocide 1975-1979 @ META House Phnom Penh – 12-15 July 2012
https://phnompenh2012.nmartproject.net
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival is featuring — \\A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2012// – as the third event in form of the series
during the festival, and as a special intervention – Wilfried Agricola de Cologne is appointed member of the festival jury.
Cinema Perpetuum Film Festival Minsk
Minks/Belarus – 16-18 January 2012
https://cpm.kinaklub.org/en
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