Thursday, December 4th, 2014 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in classroom 3, the artist Max Philipp Schmid will present his project in a two-hour speech at the Department of Audio and Vidual Arts. Also, the curator Chantal Molleur will present a Swiss video-artist panorama.

Schedule:

17:00-19:00 Max Philipp Schmid

19:00-21:00 Chantal Molleur

See also: Max Philipp Schmid - Frenetic Standstill

Biographies

Artist: Max Philipp Schmid

http://www.maxphilippschmid.ch/

Max Philipp Schmid was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1962. After studies in art history he qualified as a visual arts teacher at Basel’s Arts and Design University. He now works as an independent director and video-maker and since 1990 has devoted himself to creating experimental films, shorts, musical films and animation. His videos are accounts of feelings and situations no longer free of ambiguity, of bodies in search of equilibrium. Ambivalent moments, otherwise serving no purpose than that of a brief transition, become permanent. Although he typically shoots in a studio with actors, Schmid is less interested in the theatrical staging of a feeling than in his ability to use video technique to interpolate and fragment images, and with them personages, and thus propel them into his trademark destabilized state.

His works and installations have been featured among other places at the Swiss Pavilion at Expo Zaragoza 2008, plug in Basel, ZKM Karlsruhe, the Swiss Institute New York, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, the Kunsthaus Baselland and numerous festivals in Europe, Asia and North America. Several of his videos have been the recipients of distinctions, including the Golden Spire Award (Golden Globe Festival San Francisco), the Prix FNAC (Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand, France), the Prix Européen de la Création (Estavar-Llivia, Spain), the Swiss Award (Videoex Zurich) and the Award of the Canton of Lucerne (Viper Festival for Film, Video and New Media). Schmid has held several fellowships from the city of Basel and was artist in residence at the Fondérie Darling in Montreal in 2006. His work has been acquired to form part of a range of collections including the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Ursula Blickle Video Archive at the Kunsthalle Wien, among others.

Curator: Chantal Molleur

http://www.whiteframe.ch 

Chantal Molleur is co-founder and curator or White Frame, a Swiss nonprofit association that operates at the intersection of video art, cinema and photography ( http://www.whiteframe.ch ). She has worked twenty years for the Canadian media arts field before moving to Switzerland in 2005. She co-curated with Mireille Bourgeois their upcoming exhibition called (im)mobile showcasing the works of Swiss artist Edith Flückiger and Canadian artist Germaine Koh at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Canada. She is working with Swiss photographer Katrin Freisager and experimental filmmaker and photographer Ralph Kühne on the development of an exhibition project for Canada. She is Swiss delegate for the International Festival of Films on Art of Montreal. She is also holding a position as promoter for the video and animation departments of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and arts.