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Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize: Times Square

[ 01:17 ]

Highlights from the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize event in Times Square on December 17 2009. Competition Judge Isabella Rossellini oversaw the action as the winning videos were screened on giant jumbotrons in the heart of New York City.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page

02:41

Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize: Times Square and After...
Extended highlights from the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize event in Times Square in December 2009 and the awards presentation and after-party at New York's Jonathan Levine Gallery. Competition Judge Isabella Rossellini oversaw the action as the winning videos were screened on giant jumbotrons in the heart of New York City.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page

01:30

Wakarusa Festival Road Trippin' with Ice Cream Man...
The hippies are still in their tents and the festival is barely over but we’ve got a little taste of what went down in our weekly Monday morning teaser! Ice Cream Man transports you to the wonderful Wakarusa festival. Set in the Midwest on the side of Mulberry Mountain in Arkansas this festival brings in waves of people from all over, here to have a good time and lose themselves for a while. You’ll also get a little look at the special performance we get from So-Cal natives (like Ice Cream Man!) Fishbone. Enjoy. Look out for full performances from them and The Uglysuit in this week’s episode, up on Thursday. For more in the series go to babelgum.com/icecreamman

05:21

Vodka Empire: Ep 2 A Lesson in Family History
Following a chance discovery of his grandmother's diaries, Dan Edelstyn discovers he is heir to a vodka factory in the Ukraine and sets about becoming a 21st-century vodka baron. In the second episode of this epic new series, Dan interviews his family to find out more about their history.

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is destined to become a full-length feature film scheduled for broadcast in the UK on More4 in 2011.

00:53

European Mobility Week 2008 - Zagreb
Zagreb was one of the three finalists in the European Mobility Week Award 2008. The clip shows the city's achievements to improve mobility. For more content from this Branded Channel, check out Babelgum’s Green TV

04:00

Mika Rottenberg
For our final video taking a closer look at this year's Whitney Biennial, we travel to the Harlem studio of video artist Mika Rottenberg. Known for videos depicting women engaging in elaborate systems of production that often harvest their own body, Mika shows us the set of her latest piece (and Biennial installation), "Cheese" and tells us the backstory of making the video. We also spend some time at the former brewery talking over her motivations and strategies—from the role that sound plays to finding her actors online.

03:56

Cool Hunting: Olaf Breuning
In honor of Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's inclusion in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, this video visits his Manhattan studio. In the midst of working on his two-part installation for the show, Olaf takes the time to explain his inspiration and thinking behind his mini army made of readymade objects and a recreation of a 1932 photograph. There's also plenty of examples of his other playfully absurd photographs, videos and sculptures as well as a few comments about how materials spark his creativity, pop culture and the differences of working out of a place of pleasure vs. struggle.

03:26

Whitney Biennial 2008
This time around we chose to cover the Whitney Biennial with help from the museum's exhibition designer, Mark Steigelman. Last week's video on Olaf Breuning included a glimpse of his Biennial installation at the Park Avenue Armory (an off-site component that's new this year) and this episode is a select survey of the works by the 50-odd artists showing at the Whitney. Mark explains the challenges of laying out such a monumental exhibit, shows us a few of his prized sight-lines and points out architectural features unique to the Marcel Breuer-designed building.

04:23

Xiaoqing Ding: Off the Hook
Chinese artist Xiaoqing Ding paints in her Brooklyn studio as she prepares for her solo exhibition at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery on Oct 23- Nov 20, 2010.

04:31

PAM: Wonderland
Runner Up in the Grand Prize category of the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

Space takes on multiple definitions. For me, I understand space as the sum of cultural and social forces that act on me. Through the space, my body feels all changes around me instantly and intimately. When I move from Korea to the United States, my body became a gauge that felt my displacement and recognized not only the conformity inflicted on me in the United States, but it also allowed me to deconstruct the rule from my hometown that I had taken for granted as normal. In my video piece, I attempt to convey the feeling of displacement and conformity by acting of walking. I perform walking forward and other people seem to be walking backward. However, I was walking backward in the real scene and I made it simply reversed. The space of being neither here following correct rule nor there following incorrect rule is precisely what I try to convey in this video. I finished NYC Time Square version and will make Portugal version next week. It will continue in several cities.

Artist: Hye Yeon Nam.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.

To find out more about the Metropolis Art Prize, visit babelgum.com/metropolisartprize.

00:37

New in New York: Trailer
Trailer for The Resident's New in New York, an exclusive new Babelgum series bringing you the lowdown on the latest, most unlkely New York crazes and hotspots. Presented by Lori Harfenist, whose long-running web series The Resident has made her one of YouTube's all-time Most Subscribed.

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