moving image festival
CONTAGION15 June - 24 July 2020
15 June - 24 July 2020
DEMO Contagion is an online moving image festival, whose aim is to address the topic of Contagion through a series of works by moving image artists and researchers. Taking the current Covid-19 crisis as a starting point, the notion of Contagion will be explored as an aesthetic and political paradigm. A series of screenings, newly commissioned special projects, and a reader will be presented on DEMO’s online platform.
The online platform, designed by Pekka Airaxin and programmed by Akinsola Lawanson, is an uncanny virtual scene where the entire diversity of the festival programme is embedded into a conflation of natural and manmade objects frozen in time. The virtual scene mirrors the design problem of the pandemic: the virus contaminates the collective human body as a result of the continuously advancing intrusion of human culture and infrastructure into the sphere of wildlife. The scene further invites one to consider the precarity of a human managed planet — one of the underlying themes of the festival. Each work on the platform is presented individually and is available for a limited period of time.
COMMISSIONED by
The Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes’ Together Alone project
PARTNERS:
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER:
Nordland School of Arts and Film
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