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 MOMENTUM Collection featured on Ikono TV
15 June – 15 August 2012
Screening Throughout the Day
on IKONO TV
 

Ikono TV is an outstanding all art all the time HD cable channel screening in over 30 million households across Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia. With a mission to bring art out of the museums and into peoples homes, Ikono TV makes art an integral part of every day life. MOMENTUM is proud to announce our partnership with this extraordinary initiative by screening selected works from the MOMENTUM Collection, and by sharing the content of our programs for SKY SCREEN, our Public Art initiative bringing international video art to the streets and skyline of Berlin. MOMENTUM shares with Ikono TV the goal to bridge across national and institutional boarders, bringing art to the people, through collaboration, exchange, education, exploration, and most importantly, inspiration.

Our first program on Ikono TV features selected works from the MOMENTUM Collection. The MOMENTUM Collection is a growing collection of international video art comprising the best and brightest artists we have shown and collaborated with worldwide. The Collection represents a cross-section of digital artworks at the top of the field. Ranging from some of the most established to emerging video artists, including work from Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Finland, the US, the UK, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Germany. For Ikono TV, we curate the Collection into 3 parts:

1. Subjects and Objects looks at works which address the individual as both subject and object of the gaze, of scientific enquiry and biological necessity, of the material expectations of beauty, and as objectified by the material traces of individual histories.

Nezaket Ekici, VEILING AND REVEILLING, 2009
Hye Rim Lee, OBSESSION / LOVE FOREVER, 2007 [5 Pieces edited for Ikono TV
out of series of 8]
Mark Karasick, MICHAEL, 2004
Gabriele Leidloff, IN PURSUIT, 2004
Fiona Pardington, ORGANIC, 2011 [animated series of 30 Digital Photogrpahs]

2. Rituals and Ghosts brings together works which look at the stories, traditions, and games we repeat to ourselves and to others, which define both the stark differences between cultures, and the sometimes uncanny similarities between them.

Martin Sexton, INDESTRUCTIBLE TRUTH (Tibet UFO), 1958/9
Eric Bridgeman, TRIPLE X BITTER, 2008
TV Moore, MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS, 2009
Hannu Karjalainen, WOMAN ON BEACH, 2009

3. Evolution/Revolution begins with the purity of nature, and moves on to ancient civilizations, the beginnings of society, racing in to the present day to address the many ways mankind misuses its hard-earned civilization.

Janet Laurence, VANISHING, 2009/10
Mariana Vassileva, MORNING MOOD, 2010
Eric Bridgeman, THE FIGHT, 2010
Martin Sexton, BLOODSPELL (Mexican UFO), 1973 – 2012
James P Graham, CHRONOS, 1999
Doug Fishbone, COMMUNISM, 29 May 2008
Sumugan Sivanesan, A CHILDREN’S BOOK OF WAR, 2010