e-flux video rental

From March 5 to September 2005 the KW Institute for Contemporary Art will present e-flux video rental, a video library of artists' videos selected by over 50 international curators. The store will be in KW's project room.

The New York-based e-flux is an artist-run information bureau dedicated to worldwide distribution of information for contemporary visual arts institutions via the Internet, and is the most frequently used service of its kind.

Over 50 internationally renowned curators each chose a selection of video works by contemporary artists for the e-flux video rental, which grants a unique public access to a large and continually growing inventory of video art works.

For KW's term as hosting institution some ten to fifteen international curators and artists associated with KW were invited to propose new additions to the collection, in this way permanently expanding an inventory which at present amounts to some five hundred contemporary video works.

The collection's art films and video works will be on public loan free of charge for home viewing, and the newly established video library in the KW Project Room will further offer a screening facility during its opening hours of 3-8pm (daily except Monday). As of May 2005, when an outdoor cinema specially designed by the architectural firms Le Balto and INSTANT opens in the KW garden, the institute's courtyard will be the venue for regular film screenings and presentations by the participating curators and artists of selected works from the e-flux video rental. We will keep you informed on the details of open-air screenings and events.

E-flux video rental opens at 8pm on March 5, 2005 with presentations in the project room and Café Bravo by the two organizers of the New York project, Julieta Arenda and Anton Vidokle, who will show a selection of eleven works from the collection (including works by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Wilson Diaz, Judith Barry, Corinna Schnitt, Jozef Robakowski, Jakup Ferri). We cordially invite you and your friends to attend the opening.

The film and video works were selected by (listing to be completed): Fernanda Arruda, Zdenka Badovinac, Regine Basha, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, Kathrin Becker, Ariane Beyn, Daniel Birnbaum, Thomas Boutoux, Adam Budak, Catherine David, Mai Abu ElDahab, Power Ekroth, Eliu Elmonte, Elena Filipovic, Lauri Firstenberg, Annie Fletcher, Michelle F., Gabrielle Giattino, Massimiliano Gioni, Julieta Gonzales, Francesca Grassi, Jörg Heiser , Sofia Hernandez, Jens Hoffmann, Anthony Huberman, Pierre Huighe, Eungie Joo, Christoph Keller, Adam Klimczak, Vasif Kortun, Anders Kreuger, Fernando Llanos, Omar Lopez Chahoud, Jaros?aw Lubiak, Viktor Misiano, Perros Negros, Hans Ulrich Obrist, November Paynter, Natasa Petresin, Alia Rayyan, Karyn Riegel, David Rych, Itala Schmelz, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Henk Slager, Hanno Soans, Ali Subotnick, Barbara Vanderlinden, Gilbert Vicario, Frank Wagner, Florian Waldvogel, e-flux collaborators and the KW team.

E-flux video rental contains works by the following artists (listing to be completed): 24/7 TV, A-Clips, Doug Aitken, Lucas Ajemian, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Paulo Almeida , Alberto Bitar e Leonardo Bitar , Eliu Almonte, Can Altay , André   Amparo , Vasco Araújo, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Michel Auder, Miriam Bäckström, Dora Longo Bahia, Lucas Bambozzi, Edson Barrus, Sarah Beddington, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Roberto Berliner, Colectivo Bijari, Johanna Billing, John Bock, Manon de Boer, Michael Joseph Bouchet, Frank Boue, Andrea Bowers, Osman Bozkurt, Ulla von Brandenburg, Wojciech Bruszewski, Chris Caccamise, Mircea Cantor, Domenico Cappello, Carolina Caycedo, Alejandro Cesarco, Juan Céspedes, Paul Chan, Terry Chatkupt, Marcos Chaves, Loulou Cherinet, Olga Chernysheva, Heman Chong / Isabelle Cornaro , Alexander Costello, Roberto Cuoghi, Hubert Czerepok, Marta Deskur, Rafael Detanico, Angela y Lain, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, Ivan Edeza, James Elaine / William Basinski, Espacio La Culpable, Cerith Wyn Evans, Héctor Falcón, Jeanne Faust, Jakup Ferri, Alicia Framis , Jonah Freeman, Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Peter Friedl, Yang Fudong, Rene Gabri, Andrea Geyer, Gilbert & George, Jérémie Gindre, Francis Gomila, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Laurent Grasso, Loris Greaud, Christian Grou & Tapio Snellman, Eva Grubinger, Dmitri Gutov, RADEK, Driton Hajredini, Sharon Haynes, Daniel Herskowitz, Shere Hite, Karl Holmqvist, Judith Hopf / Stephan Geene, Tom Johnson, Ilya Kabakov, Leopold Kessler, Hassan Khan, Laleh Khorramian, Leszek Knaflewski, Korpys/Löffler, Katarzyna KOZYRA, Elke Krystufek, Pawet Kwiek, las indestables, Tim Lee, Crystobal Lehyl, Dominik Lejman, Jesse Lerner, Erik van Lieshout, Deborah Ligorio, Daniel Lima, Petra Lindholm, Fernando Llanos, Polonca Lovsin, Maria   Lusitano, Jorge Macchi, Joanna Malinowska, Teresa Marepe, Marssares Margolles, Jonas Mekas,   Bjørn Melhus / Yves Netzhammer,   John Menick, Ohad Meromi, Simone Michelin, Christopher Miner, Sarah Minter, Aleksandra Mir, Viatcheslav (Slava)Mizin / Alexander (Sasha) Shaburov, Avi Mograbi, Naeem Mohaiemen, Frédéric Moser / Philippe Schwinger, Melvin Moti, Tova Mozard, Felipe Mujica, Matthias Müller, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Deimantas Narkevicius, Juan Nascimento and Daniela Lovera, Argentino Neto, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Love Nordberg, Filip Noterdaeme, Yoshua Okon, Bjargey Ólafsdóttir, Anneè Olofsson, Yoko Ono, Anna Orlikowska, Tanja Ostojic/ David Rych, Philippe Parreno, Jenny Perlin, Diego Perrone, Alessandro Pessoli, John Pilson, Steven Pippin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Shannon Plumb, Wilson Diaz Polanco, Linda Post, Orit Raff, Anne-Britt Rage, Arturas Raila, Khaled D. Ramadan, Jeff Reiss, Robin Rhode, Józef Robakowski & Wieslaw Michalak, Douglas Ross, Karl Ingar Røys , Daniel Rumiancew, Natascha Sadr Haghigian , Anri Sala, Julia Scher, Markus Schinwald, Andrea Schneemeier, Karin Schneider & Nicolas Guanini, Meggie Schneider, Corinna Schnitt, Solmaz Shahbazi, Wael Shawky, Taro Shinoda, Santiago Sierra, Guy Silverio, Richards Smit, Michael Smith, Aaron Steffes, A.L. Steiner, Hito Steyerl, Tetine, The Otolith Group, Kika Thorne, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Maciej Toporowicz, Cecilia Torquato e André Amparo, Kerry Tribe, Caecilia Tripp, Johanna Unzuelta, Utopia Station, Mark Verabioff, Joe Villablanca, Barbara Visser, Jenny Vogel, Marek Wasilewski, Ryszard Wasko, Douglas Weathersby, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Lawrence Weiner, Suara Welitoff, Aleksandra Went & Alicja Karska, Michalak Wieslaw, Jordan Wolfson, Eric Wurm, Sislej Xhafa, Akram Zaatari, Olivier Zabat, Igor Zupe and others...

A project by Anton Vidokle & Julieta Aranda

Organization in Berlin: Hila Peleg