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THE CURATORIAL INCUBATOR v.16:Living in Hope PROGRAM #5 Curated by Karina Griffith Endarkened Perspectives Join us tonight to view the final title in the program and Karina Griffith in conversation with artists , Thirza Cuthand, Penny McCann at 7:00 pm ET on https://www.vtape.org/event/c-i-v-16-living-in-hope... Abdi Osman, Labeeb, 2012, 4:23 Endarkened perspectives encounter performance in Labeeb. Sumaya, a mesmerizing Somali trans-woman, plays with expectations and with the spectator, taunting the gaze on her performance of a Somali ritual. The narrative is veiled and opaque, like the translucent shawl between Sumaya’s fingers. Where other endarkened cinemas in the programme skirted film convention with photo reversal, Osman balks at expectation with cuts that jump the axis and a dissected frame of diptychs and creative triptychs created with a mirror. Moments of silence further assert the right to be opaque.

The Curatorial Incubator v.16: Living In Hope PROGRAM #4 curated by Ivana Dizdar Niklas Sven Vollmer and Laura Kissel, Unfettering the Falcons, 2007, 07:20... to view this title follow the link https://www.vtape.org/event/c-i-v-16-living-in-hope #VtapeVideoArt #VideoArt #LivingInHope #EmergingCurator #Curator #Vtape #VideoArtDistribution #NewMediaArt #ContemporaryArt #Online #Screening #Vtape

The Curatorial Incubator v.16: Living In Hope PROGRAM #4 curated by Ivana Dizdar Sharif Waked, Chic Point, 2003, 07:15... Fashion for Israeli checkpoints, the artist calls it. To characterize Sharif Waked’s work as a dark comedy feels wrong, and yet it is both unquestionably dark and irrefutably within the margins of humornosatirenoabsurdity. It begins with a runway, with male models and their chiseled abs. High-cropped shirts, a collar misplaced above the naval, a horizontal zipper across the stomach, a gaping hole revealing chest hair and nipple. To be sure, the haute couture in Chic Point (2003) is designed to accentuate the midriff. Suddenly, documentary photographs reveal Palestinian men forced by Israeli soldiers to prove they are not carrying explosives by lifting their clothing and exposing their abdomen: an invasive and humiliating surveillance practice, an overture to fatal endings. Why not, Waked suggests, make this biopolitical choreography more efficient, more effortless, through innovations in fashion? After all, violence, here, has long been in vogue. to view this title follow the link :https://www.vtape.org/event/c-i-v-16-living-in-hope #VtapeVideoArt #VideoArt #LivingInHope #EmergingCurator #Curator #Vtape #VideoArtDistribution #NewMediaArt #ContemporaryArt #Online #Screening #Vtape