Now & After (in Moscow / Russian Federation / Asia)(curator: Marina Fomenko)
International Video Art Festival "Now&After" is organized and promoted by an independent non-profit organization Media Art Centre "Now&After" directed by Marina Fomenko. It pursues activity in the field of culture, development of domestic interregional and international communications in the media art sphere.
International Video Art Festival "Now&After" is an annual event in Moscow, Russia.
"Now&After" focuses on the presentation, development and promotion both Russian and international video art, getting together emerging and established artists from around the world to present their works to general audience.
"Now&After" takes place at museums’ venues. Within a few weeks all festival’s videos are shown in an integrated space of a video installation. Addition to the total show, every day a new video of the festival’s program is presented as a video installation "Video Now".
In 2011 - 2013 "Now&After" was held at Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
The festival presents its programs both as screenings and exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
"Now & After" started in 2011, its founding director is artist and curator Marina Fomenko.
Partner website: www.now-after.org/eng/index.php
Now & After organize the F.I.V.E. screening as follow:
The project F.I.V.E will be displaying for the whole day in the State Museum of GULAG History as a video installation (video projection in loop) as a guest program of International Video Art Festival "Now&After'14".
The screening will have place on 2014-04-17 at:
The State Museum of GULAG History was founded in 2001; the exhibition was opened in 2004. The Museum’s founder, Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, a well-known historian, writer and public figure, was himself a prisoner of Stalin’s labor camps. The museum collection comprises a documentary archive, letters and memoirs by former GULAG prisoners, their personal belongings and a collection of artworks by former GULAG inmates and contemporary artists offering their own vision of the subject. The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the rise, development and decline of the Soviet labor camp system, an instrumental and integral part of the Soviet state machinery in the 1930s – 50s, and its political, administrative and economic role. The exhibition room also displays personal cases of various people who fell victims of the Soviet repressive policy and were sentenced to labor camp imprisonment. One of the most important sections of the exhibition is a reconstruction of labor camp facilities, such as a prisoners barrack, a punishment cell, a watchtower (in a courtyard). The museum staff offers guided tours in Russian. The museum holds fixed and traveling exhibitions based on its own collections and in collaboration with other museums and archives, private collectors, painters and photographers. It regularly hosts conferences, meetings and presentations dedicated to new studies of the GULAG history and the problems of its interpretation. Indoor concerts, theater performances, readings and other events are held in the museum’s rooms and a courtyard.
Location website: www.gmig.ru
