Video Visions 2019

Channels Festival is a biennial program committed to the development and presentation of art involving video as a core component.We strive to be an active participant, provocateur and facilitator, engaged in building a dynamic and sustainable, local and global community that champions the essential role of video art practice within contemporary art.The 2019 Channels Festival, curated by Artistic Director Kelli Alred, will reflect on the urgent, unstable and fluid nature of our times, seeking to expand notions of difference, connectivity, power and place.Rolling out across Melbourne and beyond from 24 August to 15 September, the 2019 festival program highlights Australian and international artists working across video and performance. The program features exhibitions, new commissions, screenings, performances artist talks, lectures, conversations and discussions.

Channels Festival: International Biennial of Video Art

Video Visions is Channels Festival’s flagship open-call video art program, running since the inaugural festival in 2013.

Cinema Nova

Video Visions celebrates video works that are experimental, risky, critically-engaged and relevant to our time. It is Channels Festival's flagship open-call program, running since the inaugural festival in 2013.Presented as a feature-length cinema screening, the 2019 Video Visions program includes a curated selection of recently created, single-channel works that showcases the current energy and direction of video art.The 2019 screening will feature video works by Gianluca Abbate (Italy), Pablo-Martín Córdoba (Argentina/ France), CROSSLUCID (Poland/Hungary/Germany), Di Hu (China/Ireland), Maren Dagny Juell (Norway), Deborah Kelly and collaborators (Australia/Japan), Sonia Leber and David Chesworth (UK/Australia), Juyi Mao (China/USA), Alison Nguyen (USA), Ella Parkes-Talbot (Australia), Sophie Penkethman-Young (Australia), Caroline Rumley (USA), Devis Venturelli (Italy).The works were selected by a panel of Australian curators and video artists out of hundreds submitted from around the globe.This is a 15+ event.Viewer Warning: Video Visions screening may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised. If you have concerns please contact us; hello@channelsfestival.net.au

Image; CROSSLUCID, PRIMER (still), 2019

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