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(last minute of the show)
Article published in Le Quotidien de l’Art about Nice vidéo art festival OVNi
Why OVNi?
A peculiar organization, a collaborative experience without artistic committee, which free itself from traditional codes by trusting the partner-structures…
Video art, at the leading edge of contemporary creation, offering a large field of experimentation …
An unusual place that changes every year and which is in complete accordance with this event…
OVNi? Ovni is the french translation of UFO. The intruder. A feeling that often has inhabited me, the impression of always standing where I’m not expected.
Odile
Why is there no theme?
This “carte blanche” will encourage the curators, I hope, to base their program thinking of the general public, without entering arduous conceptual problematic.
The festival’s Creed is: “Love Video Art”
Museums and art centers are there to ensure and mediate multiple propositions, of which the most avant-gardist and strongly intellectual ones. It is their mission.
A hotel is a place where one seeks offering some dolce vita to its clients, an effortless visit like a dream.
I wish therefore this festival to immerse the public in various universes, in which every one can find a tasty piece of pie. Humor, poetry, sensations… not necessarily “easy”, but definitely accessible.