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.
Johanna Domke
*1978, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Johanna Domke is a visual artist working with film, video and photography, born in 1978 in Kiel, D. She grew up in Germany and Argentina and studied Fine Arts at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. She is now living in Berlin, Istanbul and Copenhagen producing film for a cross-over field between art and cinema with a both structural and socio-political approach. She received much attention in international group and solo shows and film festivals around the world.
Yves Dormoy
*France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Yves Dormoy and Rodolphe Burger have known each other since the 1980s in Strasbourg practicing multiple formations in both jazz and rock. The project Palentarium, created at the Cité des Sciences of Paris in September 2003, sealed their artistic reunion around an unprecedented proposal: computer and clarinet or saxaphone (Dormoy) and electric guitar and voice (Burger). They have performed regularly in concert thereafter, sometimes accompanied by images of Eric Vernhes or Ewen Chardronnet at the National Theatre of Montreuil, Mulhouse Jazz Festival, International Jazz Festival of Montreal, Festival of Avignon, Nancy Jazz Pulsations, Banlieues Bleues, Bandits-Mages festival, planetarium Poitiers, touring Japan, Uzbekistan, et cetera) They also composed all of the music for the Palais des Images du Pass in Mons, Belgium, and the French pavillion at the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan.
Christoph Draeger
*1965, Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Christoph Draeger is an international artist born in Switzerland who studied Fine Arts in Belgium and New York. His conceptual projects take form in installation, drawing, sculpture, video, and photo-based media to explore issues pertaining to disaster and media saturated culture.
http://www.christophdraeger.com
Felix Dufour-Laperriere
*1981. Lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
Félix Dufour-Laperrière studied in Montreal. His works oscillate between animation, experimental cinema and narrative essays. All of them are characterized by a strong graphic approach and alternative abstraction, figuration, narration and audiovisual explorations. He is the co-founder of the online gallery Lappentis.
Benoît Dervaux
*1966, Liège, Belgium. Lives and works in Bruxelles, Belgium.
Benoît Dervaux studied direction of photography at the Institute of Media Arts in Louvain-la-Neuve. This lead him to a lengthy collaboration with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardeene, working on many of their films, such as La promesse, Rosetta, L’enfant and Le silence de Lorna. In 2000, he directed La Devinière, which on the Library prize at the Cinéma du Réel festival of the Pompidou Centre. In 2002, he began collaborating with choreographer Heddy Maalem in the context of Time of Images, a festival co-produced by Arte and La Ferme du Buisson. This gave rise to the production of Black Spring (winner of the “Best Dance for the Camera” prize, New York, 2003). He then worked with Solveig Anspach and Daniel Danis. Since 2004, he has been researching abstraction and the hypothetical links between image in motion and painting. Elements of his work on this question were integrated in the staging of Sacre du printemps by Heddy Maleem. In 2005, he acted as cinematographer in the making of director Jean-Pierre Denis’s La petite chartreuse and, in November of that year, the Vienna cinémathèque organized a retrospective of his films.
