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Finnish Eija-Liisa Ahtila is one of the leading contemporary video artists working with video, photography, sculpture and drawing. Most important to her is story telling and the variation and combination of time, narration and space. She briefly talks here about her piece “where is where”. 
Eija-Liisa Ahtila is Finland’s most renowned contemporary artist and one of the most prestigious videoartists in the world. Here some sample of her videoart and photographic work exhibited at teh Jeu de Paume in Paris. 
As with many other artists who see this as their social role, Argentinian videoartist Sebastian Diaz Morales certainly projects himself as an image maker who takes sides. In ‘Lucharemos hasta anular la ley’, he makes use of existing news footage to depict notably the origins of the upsurge of discontentment: an individual’s feeling of being irrelevant. 
Alice Anderson has been building a kind of novel since 1999 in which each episode is a self-contained personal, poetic and absurd Adventure. In Bluebeard, a blue-bearded woman falls in love with a young man attached to his mother by a cord. 
This sequence features brief extracts from “Blackout (The Antiphony Video Supplement)” video by Disinformation – Barry Hale’s highly influential (and frequently copied) film of concrete parabolic air-defence Sound Mirrors, built at various sites on the UK coast before WW2. 
Allan Sekula is an American artist. His works make critical contributions on questions of social reality and globalization, and focus on what he describes as “the imaginary and material geographies of the advanced capitalist world”. 
Tania Maouraud is a French photographer, performance artist and film maker. Her career started in the 1970’s and has often deal with a real engagement with our surrounding society and with actual engagement with the spectator’s consciousness about his/her role within society. 
Michal Rovner is an Israeli artist who works in the media of videoart and installation. Her work often deals with the role of the individual in a society that pushes us towards anonymity. 
Veracruz is a fictional documentary from 2001 by Brazilian videoartist and photographer Rosangela Reno. It features an imaginary dialogue as the first Portuguese boat arrives to the coasts of Brazil in 1500. Reno’s work is notorious for merging a poetic display and a deeply involved political attitude. 
Young Peruvian artist Armando Andrade talks us through his installation at the Capella space in the MACBA museum in Barcelona. (in Spanish language) |
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