Agricola de Cologne

Cuba

Havanna 2002-2006


2002 - 4th Salon Y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital Havanna/Cuba
2002 – *IV SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL – Havanna (Cuba) – June/July 2002

17 June – 17 July 2002
Identity of Colour, Never WakeUp, Compressed Affair
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“Identity of Colour”, 07:07:07, 2016

Film created by media artist Agricola de Cologne, based on the artist’s poem and voice performance of the same name created and executed in 2001.
The work combines DaDa like poetic texts, vector grafics and musical components created by the artist himself.

Never Wake Up.

There is another version of “Never Wake Up” in mp4 HD using the footage related to most recent warfares

Never Wake Up
movie created by media artist Agricola de Cologne.
It is based on the artist’s poem of the same name.

Subject:
Loss of identity: Soldiers become distorted, veterans of war are not able
to be reintegrated in society.

The poem/movie uses some fundamental images:
The soldier= metaphor for the human individual
War=metaphor for life, respectively the fights of all day life
Veteran of War=the human being who can not rid of the Shadows of the Past.

The work is developed according the principle of SAMAC
(Simultaneous Associative Media Art Composing) which describes Agricola’s individual way of experimental electronic writing: words, sound, images, animation, music and voice performance are developed simultaneously –depending on each other – in one long single process.

Voice and sound performance by Agricola de Cologne.
The movie is directed and produced by Agricola de Cologne in 2001.


Compressed Affair by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, interactive, 2001

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2003 - 5th Salon Y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital Havanna/Cuba
2003 – *V SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL – Havanna (Cuba) – June/July 2003


5th Salon – 16-20 June 2003
*V SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL 2003
16-20 June 2003

Watch – Seconds Forever, 2001, 3:20

Surveillance can become an obsession for those who observe and those who are observed. For the victim captured and tortured, seconds are never ending.

2004 - 6th Salon Y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital Havanna/Cuba
2004 – *VI SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL – Havanna (Cuba)

6th Salon – 21 June -21 July 2004


*VI SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL 2004 – 21 June-30 July 2004


2005 - 7th Salon Y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital Havanna/Cuba
2005 – VII SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL digital art festival in Havanna/Cuba

7th Salon – 17 -30 June 2005


VII SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL – 17 -30 June 2005

2006 - 8th Salon Y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital Havanna/Cuba
2006 – VIII SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL digital art festival in Havanna/Cuba – 19 June – 16 July

8th Salon – 21 June – 24 July 2006

VIII SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL Havanna/Cuba – 17/06-17/07 2006


Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau


Angel Alonso
Fernando Asián

Exhibition

enter –>The RRF Project 2006

enter—> Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina 2004

Message from Behind a Wall, 2005, 10:00
The segregation wall in Palestine is a fact. In November 2004, an artistic action against the wall ended, taking place at six different places in Palestine where walls were under construction, initiated by Palestine artists by inviting artists from different countries to paint an artistic message on the concrete.
When Agricola de Cologne was in Bethlehem in February 2005, he visited several places where the Israeli were erecting the wall. The part of the wall he was filming, is situated in opposite of the AIDA refugee camp (UN), and was at that time a temporary playground for children. And these children made their own contribution to the huge wall paintings.
“Message from behind a Wall”is transporting different messages, but the main message represents the action of children’s innocence.
The moving picture is a unique document of the day of 17 February 2005. Meanwhile, the construction of the wall in Bethlehem is since long time completed, and the area around the wall does not motivate children to use it further as a playground.

Coloquio


ICAIC – Cuban Film Institute


22 June Cuban Film Institute Havanna – presentation VideoChannel


VideoChannel program – “Memory & identity – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
including videos by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Rafel Alcalà, Empar Cubells, Calin Dan, Li Hyung Kim. Dana Levy, Daniel Lo Iocono, Christina McPhee, Margarida Paiva, Jens Salander / Mikael Strömberg

1. Daniel LoIocono (Germany) – Digital Snapshots, 2003, 2:30
2. Jens Salander/Mikael Stroemberg (Sweden) – Colossus by the Sea, 2003, 10:00
3. Christina McPhee (USA) – Salt, 2004, 9:26
4. Empar Cubells (Spain) – Infern domestic, 2003. 7:50
5. Calin Dan (Romania) – Sample City, 2003 10:00
6. Dana Levy (Israel) – Time With Franz, 2003, 10:00
7. Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Truth – Paradose Found, 2004, 3:00
8. Margerida Paiva (Portugal) – No title, 2003, 3:40
9. Rafael Alcala (Puerto Rico) – Smoke, 2003 3:00
10. Li Hyung Kim (South Korea) – Wo-men, Wo-rld, 2003. 3:34


Wilfried together with other participants in the Colloquium

Camaguey 2011

2011 - Videoart Festival Camaguey (Cuba)
2011 – Videoart Festival Camaguey (Cuba) – 25-29 Nov – CologneOFF 2011 – Videoart in a Global Context

Camaguey


CologneOFF 2011 Cuba
@ International Videoart Festival Camaguey – 25 Nov – 2 Dec 2011

Cologne International Videoart Festival
is happy to announce

CologneOFF 2011 Cuba
@ International Videoart Festival Camaguey 25-29 Nov 2011

presenting a selection from
CologneOFF VII – Art & the City: Mirrors
curated by Agricola de Cologne

This selection includes videos from the 7th CologneOFF festival edition to be launched in September 2011. “Art & the City” – is the title of a series of selections dealing with the urban context and how artists reflect and experience it – as a machine producing continuously memory, as a mysterious, frightening, absurd, creative or hopeless environment – once initiated now endlessly looping like a perpetuum mobile.


Agricola de Cologne and other participants

Ramon Suau Lleal (Spain) – Hoax, 2010, 4:23
Johanna Reich (Germany) – A State of Crystal, 2010, 3’19
Mattias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Leap of Faith, 2010, 3:02
Sarah Mock (Germany) – Is there a way out, 2011, 3 :47
Albert Merino (Spain) – The City and The Other, 2010, 3:09
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in The Desert, 2010, 5:05
Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva (Ukraine) – The 7th of November, 2009, 3:36
Ana Brotas (Portugal) – Okupa, 2009, 2:14
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Amora, 2011, 2:26
Liu Wei (China) – Hopeless Land, 2009, 7:28
Andrew Fedak (USA) – Orange County Surreality, 2011, 3:00
My Name is Scot (Canada) – Independance, 2011, 7:57

Download now the new PDF catalogue for the details

CologneOFF7 PDF catalogue CologneOFF 2011 Mexico & Cuba – 10 November – 2 December 2011


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