Innovative Curatorial Projects – Paris / SingaporeLowave Collection
Lowave's film and video collection has been built between 2002 and 2014 and features over 250 video artists and filmmakers from around the world. The label has contributed to an important number of international exhibitions, biennials, film and video festivals, as well as academic programmes. As Lowave's activities evolve, we have stopped our film distribution and our catalogue serves now as an archive that documents over a decade of film and video art history. A selection of our DVDs is on sale at Re:Voir in Paris.
Stéphane Marti
*Lives and works in Paris.
Filmmaker and teacher, Stéphane Marti has been researching experimental cinema as an art form liberated of aesthetic codes and the economics of big budget cinema. His work is primarily focused on the themes of the sacred and the human body.
An avid supporter of the Super-8 format, he has been fighting for its merits as a tool. He has used this format film after film and has been sharing his experiences with new filmmakers during his workshops at the Sorbonne’s College of the Arts (Paris I).
Egbert Mittelstädt
*1963, Frankfurt, Germany. Lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Egbert Mittelstädt lives and works as an artist in Germany. He studied communications and design at Würzburg and at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne where he later started teaching. Since 2002 he’s been teaching at the Fachhochschule Darmstadt.
His work is situated somewhere between the disciplines of video art, photography, installations, and scenery. He has participated at a number of international expositions and festivals in which he has received numerous awards.
http://www.atelier-fuer-medienprojekte.de
Valerie Morignat
*1974, New Caledonia. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Valérie Morignat received a doctorate in Art and Art Science at the University of Paris and is an Associate Professor at the University of Montpellier III, France.
She's an artist, filmmaker, and researcher in digital arts at IDEAC (CNRS). She's also the artistic director at Actazé, an art and culture observatory.
Nastio Mosquito
*1981, Luanda, Angola. Lives and works in Luanda, Angola and Lisbon, Portugal.
A poet, performer, filmmaker and TV presenter, despite his relatively young age Nástio Mosquito has already lived multiple lives. For Angolan television, he has developed youth programs, made documentaries, among which Chá De Caxinde on one of Angola’s oldest cultural associations, acted as director of photography on several productions, and appeared as an anchorman on the country’s public channel. His artistic practice spans a wide range of media, from music to performance poetry, photography and video. He has taken part in numerous exhibitions, including the African Pavilion of the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), Cape 09 (Cape Town, 2009), and, in 2010, the São Paulo Biennale and Manifesta 08.
Mowoso
*2006, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Live and work between Paris, France and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mowoso is a Kinshasa-based creators' association dedicated to outside-the-box art forms (video, sound, music, dance, performance, electronic networks) and urban hybrid cultures. Mowoso builds links across diverse disciplines and forms of knowledge and focuses on emergent creative practices: open, participative set-ups, network-driven art endeavors, performative installations, urban in-the-street actions, research and creation workshops. It brings together artists and thinkers who value their independence, some self-taught and others steeped in knowledge passed on from generation to generation. Mowoso’s work has appeared in numerous contexts: exhibitions (Afropolis, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne, 2010), festivals (Transmediale 09, Berlin, 2009), publications (Transition, 2010; Livraison, 2011; Public Culture, 2011).
Takafumi Muranushi
*1977, Japan. Lives and works in Japan.
Takafumi Muranushi started his career as a filmmaker at the Osaka University of Arts. Since then he has been working as an assistant director for many independent films. 1+1-1 is his second self-produced short film. 1+1-1 was premiered at the Siena Film Festival, and awarded the CNI Award for Best Experimental film. Since then it has been screened at a number of international short film festivals. In April 2003 Takafumi directed his third short film 2-1... which tackles the theme of divorce of legally registered couples. The production process of this film was made into a documentary by NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai - Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in Osaka.
