ACCIDENTS

A selection of recent Brazilian videos

Artists: Roberto Bellini, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Cao Guimarães, Marcellvs L., Renata Lucas, Cinthia Marcelle, Wagner Malta Tavares, Wagner Morales, Amilcar Packer, Sara Ramo, Nuno Ramos.

"Accidents" is a selection of Brazilian videos made over the last six years.
For this screening, I chose video works that share an involvement with the idea of recording/ registering - an emphasis on what is in front of the video camera instead of what might be behind it (a constructed story, a formal device like abstract images of pixels or colors dissolving etc.) Instead of the complicated constructions of the film maker, the artists whose works are presented in "Accidents" deploy a performative engagement with the strategies of video art. Even if it presupposes that the artist instigates something to happen, activates the very process he or she will film, the perfomative is a way of allowing accidents into the work, of instrumentalizing the spontaneous and the possibly disruptive.
The risks and accidents, the errors and the imponderable factors that tend to be cast aside or suppressed in the video editing process, are here incorporated as structural elements of the works, articulating a plane on which it is possible to stroll and gain interpretive access to the works.
Wagner Morales

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