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Open Video is a film and moving image exhibition initiated and curated by Norwegian artist Janne Talstad annually in Oslo since 2014. Hundreds of video works and over a hundred artists have been presented through Open Video, which has also been shown in the Orkney Islands, in Hong Kong and Italy. Last weekend in October this year Kunstrum Fyn is the location for Open Video VXI, which will include contributions from a hundred Norway- and Denmark-based artists.

A dedicated live program of talks, panels and performances will contextualise the exhibition.

Welcome to the opening of Open Video XVI Friday 27th of October 19:00 – 22:00

Open Video VXI is curated by Janne Talstad, Crispin Gurholt, Helga-Marie Nordby and Aaron Kriegh Moilton

Open call - Video art in Denmark

Video artists in Denmark are invited to submit their contributions to Open Video VXI through open call. The deadline for submission is October 6.

 A dedicated jury consisting of artist Janne Talstad, artist Crispin Gurholt (Kunstrum Fyn) and curator Helga-Marie Nordby (Kunstrum Fyn) will select the works.

Send your video to kunstrumfyn@gmail.com before October 6

Open Video screens over a hundred video works in its annual exhibition program and is a broad summon of video art. Its purpose is to be a representative platform for professional video art and to show a range of works regardless themes, type, and formats. If the quality is good, the work will be included in the program.

Due to the curatorial openness and the high number of artists involved, there is no fee available for participating artists.

It is otherwise normal practice for Kunstrum Fyn to honor artists who participate in their curated exhibitions.

Image captions
Above: Malie Robb, Shaved
Right: Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Unicorn

Open Video

Text by Kristian Skylstad

Open Video derives from the idea of Open Source, which means the open video is a video that can be freely used, changed, and shared. Thus the program in Open Video can be changed by both the curator and the artists involved over time. The program stays the same, with alterations based on natural needs. The program becomes a vessel for content, and in the arbitrary of the diverse content curatorial challenges will become obvious, which again creates the need for curatorial narration in the program. Janne Talstad has summarized the tendencies in the field through the development of the medium, and the curatorial instructions to the different artists became clear; do your best or do what you need. Some has done both.  One can say that this video program is the same as any, which is true in a sense, but it's different in the notion that it lacks a center, an agenda and an intention. The aspiration is both aesthetic, political and dealing with the medium as such, so by mixing the program as a note sheet a video graphic composition becomes apparent. The program bites its own tail, the identity of the artist becomes secondary, and the program turns into a joint effort of showing the variety of how to deal with and produce video. The program transforms into a vessel, a toolbox, which changes through the different venues it's presented, in size, quality and geography. The source code is open; generating a diverse landscape of work, through the media of video. The artists share one thing; a total dedication to their own practice, though video might only be one of their tools, one way of expressing oneself. 

Video is easy to carry, because you only need a memory stick. We intend on being the messenger.