Kika Nicolela

Performing Art: Video, Installation, Performance, Photography

City & Country: São Paulo, Brazil

Artist in Residence at the Rote Fabrik from: July to September 2011

Curriculum Vitae

• 2011: Objectifs AIR (Singapore) / L’Oeil Sur Les Rues (Paris)
• 2010: Exhibition Abroad Award (Biennial Foundation, Brazil) / GCC AIR (South Korea)
• 2009: Distant Affinities (solo show, Finland) / Kunst Film Biennale (Cologne, Germany)
• 2008: Loop Barcelona (festival) / Body Language (group show, New York)
• 2007: Windmaker (solo show, São Paulo) / Space Invaders (group show, Toronto)
• 2006: Production Grant (São Paulo Arts Council) / Videometry (group show, Barcelona)
• 2005: Kunst Film Biennale (Cologne) / Ocupação (group show, São Paulo)
• 2004: Palace Hotel (group show, São Paulo) / Japan Media Arts (festival, Tokyo)
• 2003: Video and New Media Biennial (Santiago, Chile) / Backup (festival, Weimar, Germany)

THE FILM THAT IS NOT THERE is a multi-media project that dismembers the idea of a film that will never come to existence as such. Instead of shooting the movie, I want to dissolve it into several parts, all of them relating to a whole that will only be inferred, that will never exist as a unity. Along with invited collaborators, I develop several pieces in different medias - videos, photos, texts, drawings, costumes – based on a feature-film script I have written. These artworks relate to each other as pieces of a puzzle and take the viewer off his passive demeanor, provoking him to build his own narrative.

Each version of this project is unique; each residency provides a different setting, language, culture, and collaborators for me to work with. I plan to unify all these versions in a future wider exhibition, making all the pieces interact.

My proposal demands a long and time-consuming process and an environment favorable to the creative output, cross-cultural dialogues and the realization of partnerships with other international artists working in different media. I believe the residency at Rote Fabrik provides the ideal atmosphere to dedicate to my research, execute this proposal and exchange with other artists.

Artist Website: kikanicolela.wordpress.com

                           www.dilemastudio.com

                           www.vimeo.com/kikanicolela

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