And what he means is essentially what Viktor Sklovsky anticipated with his concept of alienation. Video can be seen as a metaphor for a world which is in the process of disappearing, as the recording instrument of a world which, in the next moment, will cease to exist as we see and know it. It acts as the imitative image of the place of the present, which, because of the increasing speed of the moment, is more and more difficult to distinguish from the past and the future.
Video acts as an intervention, a moment for pausing and distancing.
We hope that this festival will initiate communication between artists from the aforementioned regions as well as with those in the West - an improved exchange of artistic currents and concepts. And precisely in order to restore the sensation of life, to make things feelable, to make stone stony, that which is called art exists. If they re-invent the wheel, they invent a different one. Instead of making awards in the conventional sense of the term, we are making it possible for five of the Eastern or Eastern Central European artists selected by the jury to participate in the festival by being present in person and by presenting more of their work. GmbH for financial and organisational support of the festival.