In 2013, MELD was invited by ikono.tv as part of the first-ever On Air Festival, to present a special curated program of some of our favorite video artists from around the world.

 

SHAUN GLADWELL

Shaun Gladwell critically engages personal history, memory and contemporary cultural phenomena through performance, video, painting and sculpture. He completed Associate Research at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2001 and has since undertaken numerous residencies and commissions. His work has been exhibited in major national and international exhibitions, including The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London (2001) and the Yokohama 2005 Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus (Jumping from the Ordinary), Japan; First We Take Museums, KIASMA, Finland; and Space Invaders, Museum Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland. Gladwell was respresented in the 2006 Biennales in Busan (South Korea) and Sao Paulo (Brazil) and has work touring nationally and internationally in Vanishing Point, an Experimenta project, and Art Connexions, an international exchange initiative of the Goethe Institute.

 

JANAINA TSCHAPE

New York based Brazilian and German artist, “Janaina Tschäpe shares her forename with a Brazilian water goddess, and, not coincidentally, her photographs and performances-to-video feature sumptuously organic, watery, distorted female figures,” writes Frieze. Janaina Tschäpe deftly exploits and subverts notions of identity and reality in her work.

Since 1997, Janaina Tschäpe has employed the female body as her muse, creating universes of polymorphous landscapes, embryonic forms and ambiguous characters. Tschäpe’s drawings, photographs, films and installations seek to give form to the trance of art making, portraying not a dream world, but the sensation of being in one. Tschäpe creates an environment of dream and fantasy, where the everyday world metamorphoses into a mythical place, populated by fabricated creatures and florescent vegetation.

 

VINCENT MOON

Vincent Moon (real name Mathieu Saura, born August 25, 1979)[1] is an independent filmmaker from Paris. He was the main director of the Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows, a web-based project recording field work music videos of indie rock related musicians as well as some notable mainstream artists like Tom Jones, R.E.M., or Arcade Fire. For the past five years, Vincent Moon has been traveling around the globe with a camera in his backpack, documenting local folklores, sacred music and religious rituals, for his label Collection Petites Planètes. He works alone or with people he finds on the road, and most of the time without money involved in the projects, trying to produce and distribute films without following the established industry standards. He shares all his work, films and music recordings, for free on internet, under Creative Commons license.

 

 

ASA MADER

Asa Mader is an American film director, screenwriter and visual artist. Several of Mader’s large scale video and film installations were commissioned by Lille3000 for the exhibition “Bombay: Maximum City” (2006). In 2008, he exhibited film installations at Le Laboratoire in Paris, created expressly for a joint show with acclaimed photographer and preeminent photojournalist James Nachtwey. Asa Mader continues to create series of “film portraits” with leading artists, writers, philosophers and creative thinkers of our time.

Asa Mader is an American film director, screenwriter and visual artist. Several of Mader’s large scale video and film installations were commissioned by Lille3000 for the exhibition “Bombay: Maximum City” (2006). In 2008, he exhibited film installations at Le Laboratoire in Paris, created expressly for a joint show with acclaimed photographer and preeminent photojournalist James Nachtwey. Asa Mader continues to create series of “film portraits” with leading artists, writers, philosophers and creative thinkers of our time.