‘here and there, now and then’ at Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024
The video ‘here and there, now and then’ has been selected for the 5th Addis Video Art Festival, running from December 26 – December 30, 2024. The theme of this year’s festival is Re(Cover) Story. Screenings take place at multiple venues, including the Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Modern Art Museum.
The video features dancers Rion Taylor and Wyeth Walker interacting with the States of Being installation, with music by Jesse Stewart.
See the press release and poster for more information about the festival theme and program.
Press release with essay by Erin Honeycutt
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About the festival’s theme “Re(Cover) Story”, Erin Honeycutt writes: “In an era saturated with crisis narratives – conflict, environmental collapse, and technological upheaval – time-based media becomes a vessel for transformative storytelling. The 5th Addis Video Art Festival brings together works that reimagine fragmentation as a site of poetic and reflective possibility. These works turn narrative into a source of healing, revealing the undercurrents of our age while envisioning futures grounded in empathy and resilience. They invite us to reconsider this medium’s role in reframing stories of crisis, using the temporal and sensory dimensions of time-based media to facilitate recovery and transformation.
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Cheryl Pagurek’s Here and There, Now and Then uses dance to explore the porosity of time and identity. The film’s seamless transitions between the physical and virtual, invite viewers to allow the media to teach the eyes about reality, of how history is lived and remembered. The dancers move through blurred boundaries, embodying a vision of interconnectedness that is crucial for understanding our shared future…”
