Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. Through these five senses we interact with the world - and with other human peoples. They are our interface.
F.I.V.E. is the new international videoart project created by Magmart. After the international succes of 100x100=900 Project, and waiting for IX edition of Magmart Festival (that will start on 2014 fall), this new project want explore the five senses.
Like for previous project, the goal is always the same: look into the gaze of videoartists on the mankind. And if for 100x100=900 the subject was the human history of 1900s, F.I.V.E. focused on our senses - so on how we relate with other than one self. Senses are the medium between the world and us. Are the instruments of feeling. They channel to us all the informations that become from universe, they supply - even literally - the food for our body and for our mind.
Like any interface, they are two-faced. So the artist's research can be oriented to one of two - or both.
Therefore, the theme of human senses should be an intriguing challenge for artists. And - as already occur for previous project 100x100=900 - this can generate a positive and intense answer by them.
The fil rouge of Magmart activities and research in videoart field can be summarized in "how videoartists see the world", so it's clear why this choice. It's a new step on the same path. Is our (new) challenge.
The number five is a joining link too. Between the 5 senses, the 5 continents (where we want bring the project's tour) and the artists. An international jury will select, among submitted videos, five videoartists for each continent, in a manner that give back 25 videos, 5 for continent and 5 for sense.
The project work on two, different tracks: the artists and the curators.
Through an international call, the project mean collect videos on every senses, by a wide parterre of videoartists.
Through a collaborative program - like that involved for previous project - F.I.V.E. mean constitute a panel of curators, that will bring the project around the five continents.