Visible Poetry Project - VPP

 Visible Poetry Project (USA)

December -2017 - April 2018

The Visible Poetry Project - VPP (USA) was founded in 2017 with the goal of bringing together a collective of filmmakers to create a series of videos that present poems as short films. Drawing from works created by renowned poets, including Neil Gaiman and Tato Laviera, as well as emerging poets, the Visible Poetry Project strives to make poetry accessible, exploring how we can recreate and experience poems through the medium of film.

Throughout the month of April 2018 - National Poetry Month - VPP release one visual poem each day. An exercise in translation and a reclamation of both poetic and film discourses, the resulting thirty videos explore how we read, interpret, visualize, and hear poetry.

I choose a poem from the American poetJennifer Tonge. Since December I am working on a video for to visualize the poem of her.

However I see the project as collaboration project and therefore I stand in regulary contact with Jennifer Tonge about the developed of the video. The video willbe relased in the month of April 2018

https://www.visiblepoetryproject.com

New Website Art Projects

In the past two weeks I installed a new website under

https://www.johannesgerard-artprojects.com

This website refers exclusively to my activities and experiences as visual artist in the areas of:

Social sculpture, performance, workshops, school projects, lectures and collaboration projects.

In my work and projects, the boundaries are often fluid, for example, some workshops and school projects contain strong elements of performance, which can turn into collaborative work.

My work or projects in this area are based and reflect the concepts and ideas of social sculpture. The four basic elements of social sculpture are:

Body awareness, spatial awareness, creativity, cooperation

The presented works and projects have strong emphazie on  education, social and political areas and not only to artistic aspects.

The works and projects presented here have a strong connection to the areas of education .... therefore less purely artistic aspects are dealt with

The works and projects presented  have a strong connection to the areas of education, social and poltical issues. Therefore purely artistic aspects will be less  dealt with by the presentation

Respublika ! Unfolding-Unwrapped in Nicosia - New Variant

13 & 15 December 2017, Phaneromeni Square, Nicosia

On 13^th and 15^th of December I conducted the workshop/perfomance 3 & 4 in Nicosia on the Phaneromeri Square.

However at the end it turned to be out I created a complet new version of Unfolding-Unwrapped.

The beginning of the workshop/performance on 13^th didn´t get really from the ground. Very different from Limassol. Nevertheless within half hour I tried a new variation out for to catch the attention of people passing by. Material and basic concepted stayed te same. By now my role in the performance became more active and the project move more towards a participartory street performance then to be a workshop. It went so well at the end,that I tried and conducted the same new creation twice on the 15^th. Here are a link to a  short video  and some images about the new variation of Unfolding-Unwrapped 

https://vimeo.com/247803799.

(15th December 2017, second performance)

                                              13th of December 

15th of December- Performance I & II 

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Respublika Festival Unfolding-Unwrapped & Interview

Respublika Festival 
Limassol & Nicosia, Cyprus  08.12.2017-16.12.2017

Social Sculpture workshop/performance Unfolding-Unwrapped

At the Respublika Festival I conduct four workshops. All workshops happend in the public space. The idea is that also people who pass by can partcitipated spontaneously .
Two workshops already took place in Limassol at 9th and  11th of December  2017. The other two will take place on 13tn and 15th of December in the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia on the Phaneromeni (sometimes also written as Faneromeni) Square in the old town at 15.00 h (3pm).

The location of Unfolding-Unwrapped in Limassol was on Plateia Iroon (Heroes Square).

Here is a link to an interview I gave about my concepts and ideas concenring Unfolding-Unwrapped 

http://respublika.neme.org/art-projects/johannes-gerard

Reel Erotic Art Film Festival

December 6th, 2017, 18.00 h (6 pm)

The Cotton Club

16 Queens Street, St. John, NL A1C4K2, Canada 

The Reel Erotic Art Film Festival aims to celebrate the erotic arts by showcasing short and feature films that are sexual in nature stemming from around the world.But at the same time have a set genre and a meaningful story line and artistic value

Curator was the Canadian filmmaker and writer Mrs. Jenell Diegor

My video Two Lovers will be screened. A short and very metaphoric and symbolized video about love, lovers, memories, doubts and the inner strife which results from this kind of situation. However there can be more then one interpretation. Just to mention one : One lover for the heart and one lover for good sex

Link to video: https://vimeo.com/175066862  

(PLease note video contains nudity)

PODIUM PULCHRI in het gesprek... (talking with)

Taking part in PODIUM PULCHRI in gesprek...... with exhibiting artists of the ORIENT 2.0 show

The aim  of the talking series in gesprek.... (talking with) is to offer art lovers and guests from outside Pulchri the opportunity to get to know some of the exhibiting artist and their  work better. During this talk, the artists may talk about themself and their work in the ORIENT 2.0 exhibition , answer questions from visitors and thus provide more insight into their way of working. At the same time non-members are introduced to Pulchri Studio. This time in gesprek focus on four exhibiting artist of Orient 2.0 show: myself (Johannes Gérard) , Ine van Son, Dana LaMonda, Saad Jasmin. Moderation Loes Campfens

7 December 2017. 18.00 h

Pulchri Studio 

Lange Voorhout 15

2514 EA The Hague

Netherlands

3rd Int. Video Creation Festival - Close Up Vallarta 2017

3^rd Int. Video Creation Festival - Close Up Vallarta 2017

November 16^th – 18 November 2017

TheatroVallarta, Movie Picnic, among others venues 

Puerta Vallarta , Jalisco, Mexico

The Festival is a video exhibition designed for 3 days, in which materials that range from Video Art to new video trends are presented (projected). This year will be focused on both international video art and the production of videos by local artists. CLOSE UP offers the opportunity to present new video works of emerging or established artists and is interested in the fact that the art made in video not only circulates in museums and galleries, but also reaches other spaces and a wider audience.

My video: If it´s sense you are after.

What makes sense.Why must be a sense. Will be there a sense at all at the end. A journey into the weird subconsciousness, passing by dreams, inner strifes, sensualities and the even more hidden sexual, erotic dreams and desires.

Link Video :    https://vimeo.com/218262850

Link Festival : http://www.closeupvallartafestival.com