28 November - 14 February 2010
With its ‘The One Minutes’ archive, the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam has conquered the world over the last ten years. The idea is clear and concise: to produce a video lasting exactly 60 seconds. The time limit is a constraint but also a liberation. It imposes hard choices but also produces moments of informality and makes One Minutes a highly democratic medium. Expensive post-production is no longer necessary; the important thing is the power of the idea. For this reason, the One Minutes project has tapped into areas of artistic activity where very few technical (or financial) resources are available. Over the last ten years, it has drawn countless contributions from people on the margins of society and of the art world. Deliberate efforts are made to draw further on this pool of latent artistic talent by holding workshops and special courses that make use of equipment belonging to the One Minutes organisation.
Still from Het maken van
Thijme Breukers, Jeroen Wollaars, Gerrit Dragt, 2001.
The worldwide character of The One Minutes was most clearly apparent during the showing of ‘The World One Minutes’ on the fringe of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. More than 800 videos from every part of the world were shown there. The exhibition subsequently toured to places as far apart as São Paulo, Paramaribo, Lisbon, Cape Town and Cairo and now forms the starting point for the Ten Years of One Minutes retrospective at Amersfoort’s Kunsthal KAdE. During this exhibition, a battery of beamers will create an all-round environment, a kind of Sistine Chapel of video images, enabling visitors almost literally to experience the whole world in the form of one-minute videos.
The over 800 videos from The World One Minutes will be supplemented by a number of other series of One Minutes, including videos of landscape shot from trains and series based on more abstract themes. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in the form of a DVD plus a booklet telling the story of the One Minutes project. The DVD carries a selection of 10 videos for each year of the project’s existence.
Still from Home beyond home
Qin Jiing, Chen Ziting, Guan Lili, Jiang Yingying, 2008.
The One Minutes are videos lasting exactly one minute. They may be small visual treats, indictments or encounters with other cultures. From the Netherlands to South Africa, China and America, The One Minutes project has expanded over the last decade into the United Nations of video art. Visitors to Ten Years of One Minutes can see the best videos from 90 different countries / a world journey through a train window / the 10 best videos from each year, plus special anniversary Minutes. A catalogue celebrating the exhibition and the tenth anniversary of the project will be published, together with a DVD carrying 10 x 10 One Minutes.
www.theoneminutes.org
10 Years of One Minutes
With its ‘The One Minutes’ archive, the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam has conquered the world over the last ten years. The idea is clear and concise: to produce a video lasting exactly 60 seconds. The time limit is a constraint but also a liberation. It imposes hard choices but also produces moments of informality and makes One Minutes a highly democratic medium. Expensive post-production is no longer necessary; the important thing is the power of the idea. For this reason, the One Minutes project has tapped into areas of artistic activity where very few technical (or financial) resources are available. Over the last ten years, it has drawn countless contributions from people on the margins of society and of the art world. Deliberate efforts are made to draw further on this pool of latent artistic talent by holding workshops and special courses that make use of equipment belonging to the One Minutes organisation.
Still from Het maken van
Thijme Breukers, Jeroen Wollaars, Gerrit Dragt, 2001.
The worldwide character of The One Minutes was most clearly apparent during the showing of ‘The World One Minutes’ on the fringe of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. More than 800 videos from every part of the world were shown there. The exhibition subsequently toured to places as far apart as São Paulo, Paramaribo, Lisbon, Cape Town and Cairo and now forms the starting point for the Ten Years of One Minutes retrospective at Amersfoort’s Kunsthal KAdE. During this exhibition, a battery of beamers will create an all-round environment, a kind of Sistine Chapel of video images, enabling visitors almost literally to experience the whole world in the form of one-minute videos.
The over 800 videos from The World One Minutes will be supplemented by a number of other series of One Minutes, including videos of landscape shot from trains and series based on more abstract themes. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in the form of a DVD plus a booklet telling the story of the One Minutes project. The DVD carries a selection of 10 videos for each year of the project’s existence.
Still from Home beyond home
Qin Jiing, Chen Ziting, Guan Lili, Jiang Yingying, 2008.
The One Minutes are videos lasting exactly one minute. They may be small visual treats, indictments or encounters with other cultures. From the Netherlands to South Africa, China and America, The One Minutes project has expanded over the last decade into the United Nations of video art. Visitors to Ten Years of One Minutes can see the best videos from 90 different countries / a world journey through a train window / the 10 best videos from each year, plus special anniversary Minutes. A catalogue celebrating the exhibition and the tenth anniversary of the project will be published, together with a DVD carrying 10 x 10 One Minutes.
www.theoneminutes.org