Friday 23 March – Sunday 25 March 2007
Tate Modern
Heróis 2, TVDO (1987-2003)
Video Brazil is a survey of the experimental single-channel video scene in Brazil. Starting with work from the 1980s, this three-part programme brings together an emblematic selection of tapes by some of the country's key video artists and includes both early and emerging work. The programme offers a diachronic perspective on the trajectory of the artistic, critical and factual use of video technology in Brazil.
Influenced by conceptualism, Tropicália, the revolutionary project of Cinema Novo, televisual syntax and forms of popular culture, Brazilian artists have incorporated video into their practice since the 1970s, when a handful of multi-disciplinary figures assimilated the nascent media. But it was in the 1980s, with wider availability of video cameras and within the context of a new democratic socio-political conjuncture created by the end of the military government, that video technology took root in the cultural and artistic arenas.
As in other countries, video was embraced in Brazil for its immediacy, availability, potential as a community tool for social change and affordability for artistic exploration. As a hybrid medium, it has been appropriated for performance-based works, media critique, social portraiture, poetic, plastic and narrative experiments. With these facts in mind, this series has been designed as a point of intersection where these electronic texts can converge, reflect on each other and instigate fresh readings.
Curated by Antonio Pasolini.
* Video Links Brazil: Early Work Friday 23 March 2007
* Video Links Brazil: Pause and Reflect Saturday 24 March 2007
* Video Links Brazil: Documentary Sunday 25 March 2007
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