climate crisis

Wandel

20th March 2022Highlights, Recent Works & Highlights, Videos, Worksart and environment, climate crisis, Festiverd Venezuela

The title of this video, WANDEL, translated as CHANGE, may have at least two possible meanings. The first concerns climate change, while the second, connected to the first, pertains to the social and cultural changes we need to make to avoid a global environmental crisis caused by climate change.
In 1981, the Austrian poet Erich Fried wrote: “Wer will, dass die Welt bleibt, wie sie ist, will nicht, dass sie bleibt.” (Those who want the world to remain as it is, do not want it to remain). This timeless statement resonates with me as I stand with my bicycle on an infinite planet covered in asphalt. But when I start cycling, the planet comes alive, and a transformation begins. Animated images emerge, suggesting alternative energies and evolving into breathing life forms. The world revitalizes, and the planet begins to bloom again!

title: Wandel
technique: Experimental video, charcoal animation and digital animation
length: 3’38”
year: 2022
music in the first scene: “más preguntas” (excerpt) by Hernán Samá & Marcelo von Schultz (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) – link to source
music in the last scene: “The Spring” by Chad Crouch (CC BY-NC 3.0) – link to source
concept, camera, drawing, animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal

WANDEL got first-place ranking in the 10° Festiverd Venezuela: Somos Verdes, Festival Internacional de Cine y Vídeo Verde de Venezuela!

Screenings and selections:
• December 14, 2024: Sunset Screening & Performance, Bootshaus on Spreeuferweg, Berlin.
• November 15-17, 2024: GJON MILI IVAF, GAD Gallery, Korça, Albania.
• November 2-17, 2024: Art Video, gallery L’esTRAde – Photographie & Vidéo & Art Visuel, Athis de l’Orne, Normandie, France.
• September 6-8, 2024: Experimentelle Filme in den Studios ID as part of the Lange Nacht der Bilder in Berlin-Lichtenberg, curated by GISELA – Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, ID-Studios, Berlin.
• August 29 – September 25, 2024: Seoul Metro International subway Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea.
• July 19 – August 16, 2024: Qlimate Qronobot. Prompting for the Future of our Planet. Solo exhibition by Maria Korporal in GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin.
• July 3-7, 2024: Marin County Fair, San Rafael, California, USA.
• July 1-31, 2024: Canyon Flats Video Wall, City of Reno, Nevada, USA.
• June 30, 2024: VideoArt “Abgründe des Seins” with video artists Merit Fakler and Maria Korporal, Achim Freyer Kunsthaus, Berlin.
• June 1-21, 2024: Is anybody in?, screening program of Video Art Miden at the Open-Air Water Power Museum in Dimitsana, Greece.
• May 19, 2024: Frome International Climate Film Festival, Frome, UK.
• Semi-Finalist in AniMate – Australia Animation Film Festival, Season 4 – 2024
• April 26-28, 2024: Repair. Miami New Media Festival, WG Kunst, Amsterdam.
• December 2-16, 2023: Festival Nuvola Creativa, curated by Antonietta Campilongo, Villa di Massenzio, Rome.
• October 26, 2023: Pinus Sessions, São Paulo, Brazil.
• October 18 – November 10, 2023: Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France.
• October 7-29, 2023: Opening exhibition of Miami New Media Festival, IDART Lab, Miami, USA.
• June 24-25, 2023: Re:Think GAIA Festival, Video Art Miden screening with Re:Think Project at FarmaFifaPermaculture, Iroon Politechniou, Kalamata, Greece.
• April 21 – May 21, 2023: UPDATE 23, Galerie VBK Berlin.
• February 23 – March 12, 2023: T-Short Animated Film Online Festival 2023, Bizarre Competition
• February 23, 2023: Screening of 12 videos by Maria Korporal in the context of Premio Borgo Video, curated by gallery La scala d’oro, Sala Dionigi (Chiesa Valdese), Rome, Italy.
• November 10, 2022 – January 7, 2023: außer ich – inner ich / part 2, INSELGALERIE Berlin.
• November 3-18, 2022: IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival 2022 (PT), curated by Hernando Urrutia.
• October 7-9, 2022: Videomedeja 26th International New Media Art Festival, KS Svilara, Novi Sad, Serbia.
• October 3-5, 2022: 10° Festiverd Venezuela: Somos Verdes, Festival Internacional de Cine y Vídeo Verde de Venezuela.
• September 10, 2022: Under the Subway Video Art Night, St. Nicholas Park, New York City, USA.
• June 25 – July 9, 2022: FONLAD 2022, International Video Art & Performance Festival, Coimbra (PT) and online.
• June 4 – 25, 2022: Peace Letters to Ukraine 7, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles.
• May 15, 2022: M3:G3 ~ Cross encounters. Sphere, New Delhi.
• April 1 – May 20, 2022: Transformation, GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin.

Keep in touch to be informed about screenings!

Screening of WANDEL, September 10, 2022: Under the Subway Video Art Night, St. Nicholas Park, New York City, USA, video by curator Antonio Ortuño.

Breathing Bags

12th June 2021Highlights, Recent Works & Highlights, Videosart and environment, climate crisis

Breathing Bags are plastic bags with rubbish found on the streets, which inflate and explode with breathing movements and sounds. One-way plastic bags are so ubiquitous in the street scene that we no longer even notice them. By watching them explode, we become aware of how much plastic is flying around and how microplastic particles pollute our air.
The short film is a hybrid mix of digital and analogue animation, and shows some street scenes in Berlin, while the Breathing Bags explode. A single paper bag comes to life and transforms into a scene full of surprises. A glimmer of hope for our world.

Breathing Bags is part of the Anthropocene Project in the New Museum of Networked Art

Other screenings and selections:
• July 27 – August 23, 2024: The Summer of Anthropocene – The summer of solidarity, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne / The New Museum of Networked Art.
• July 19 – August 16, 2024: Qlimate Qronobot. AI and the Future of Our Planet. Solo exhibition by Maria Korporal in GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin.
• June 1-21, 2024: Is anybody in?, screening program of Video Art Miden at the Open-Air Water Power Museum in Dimitsana, Greece.
• October 23, 2023: Festival Film Bahari 2023 “Shifting Tides – Navigating Climate Change”, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
• August 14, 2023: The Short Nights of Berlin, Kino Central, Berlin.
• June 24-25, 2023: Re:Think GAIA Festival, Video Art Miden screening with Re:Think Project at FarmaFifaPermaculture, Iroon Politechniou, Kalamata, Greece.
• June 9, 2023: Magmart XIII Edition, screening of the 33 videos selected by the jury, CAM | Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy.
• from April 5, 2023: 24vids x Ibrida #19. Maria Korporal, Breathing Bags, on exibart.tv.
• April 1-30, 2023: Magmart XIII Edition, final selection, Magmart International Video Art Festival / CAM | Casoria Contemporary Art Museum & online, Italy.
• December 15-21, 2021: Cineaste International Film Festival of India (CIFFI), Noida, Delhi NCR, India.
• November 5-27, 2021: FONLAD Festival internacional de video arte e performance, Coimbra (PT) and online.
• June 18-20, 2021: 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin.

title: Breathing Bags
technique: Experimental video and animated charcoal drawing
length: 3’18”
year: 2021
background sound: Zsolt Sores – ArtuSound 2010 by Sounds of Europe, licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0
video concept, camera, charcoal animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal
© Maria Korporal 2021

Stills from the video:

Beuys for Future on radioeins

2nd May 2021Interviews & Publications, Newsart and environment, Beuys, climate crisis, Group Global 3000, Joseph Beuys, radioeins, sustainability

Interview (in German) with Maria Korporal and Petra Lehnardt-Olm, May 1, 2021 on radioeins, as part of the program “Fettecke – Der Radioday zu 100 Jahren Beuys”:
Link to the interview

The theme is the exhibition Beuys for Future in Group Global 3000 and their personal approach to Beuys.

S.A.D.

10th April 2021Highlights, Recent Works & Highlights, Video Poetry, Videosart and environment, climate crisis

The video above is a short trailer. The full video “S.A.D.” is 3:25 long.

Seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.) is no longer confined to winter depression. As the climate crisis grows, this disease occurs more frequently. When the environment is disturbed, we humans also suffer from disturbance – because we are just part of the environment.
Inspired by the sonopoem of Ilaria Boffa, which deals with this current situation, Maria Korporal’s video expresses these tensions between conflict and harmony. Using animated charcoal drawing on a deformed video of the seashore, the transformation of images leads us into a haunting universe.

title: S.A.D.
technique: Experimental video and animated charcoal drawing
length: 3’25”
year: 2021
poem: “S.A.D.” written and spoken by Ilaria Boffa *
soundtrack: field recording by Ilaria Boffa *
Lucio Battisti’s song “Nessun Dolore” (No Pain) recorded at George Washington University is performed by the I-Talians band during the NeMLA conference “Writing in a different language”.
video concept, camera, charcoal animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal
© Maria Korporal 2021

Stills from the video:

Screenings and awards:
• December 14, 2024: Sunset Screening & Performance, Bootshaus on Spreeuferweg, Berlin.
• November 30 – December 14, 2024: Nuvola Creativa Festival delle Arti – VII edizione 2024, curated by Antonietta Campilongo, Villa di Massenzio, Rome.
• July 5-21, 2024: Subtil, Galerie VBK Berlin.
• April 7-20, 2023: streetside cinema – a/perture, Winston-Salem NC, USA.
• June 24-26, 2022: 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin. June 25, 22-23h: Screening of the video S.A.D. on the quay by the canal at the gallery Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch.
• Semi-finalist in the category Animation of !Flick! Film Festival 2022, UNC Greensboro, USA.
• Screening premiere on November 28, 2021: Nature and Culture – Poetry Film Festival, organized by The Poetic Phonoteque, Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Online premiere May 20, 2021: Bologna in Lettere 2021, the festival online.

Screening on the 25th of June 2022 at the Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch during the festival 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin.

* Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet. She has published three poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018. Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sounds.
Her work can be read and listened here: https://linktr.ee/ilariaboffaIB

Lecture and work show on sustainability and art

9th April 2021Interviews & Publications, Newsart and environment, climate crisis, sustainability

Video recording of the online multimedia lecture by Maria Korporal on March 18, 2021, as part of a workshop series organized by SocialArt e.V., Kulturmühle Lietzen. The conference is in German language.

The artist tells about her way of working and she shows her works
– Passing By
– Desert Tree
– Give Us Back Our Shadows
– Underwater Desert
– Among the Leaves
– Rekall
– Breathearth
– Tree Travelling
– Emergency Call Center
– Thinking with my Knee
– and some collaborative projects and activities.

socialart.eu/online%20fachtag.htm

Railway Flower Labyrinth

26th February 2021Installations, Interactive works, Recent Works & Highlightsart and environment, climate crisis, railway flowers

Short presentation of KORPORAL MAZE-A-MAZE, or Railway Flower Labyrinth, an interactive installation by Maria Korporal. The video above presents some moments during the first exhibition Im bewegten Labyrinth, September 2020 in Galerie LortzingART, Hannover.

New presentation:
• May 21 – June 6, 2021: Medianautik, Gallery VBK, Berlin, together with the multimedial project Korporal Labyrinth

Klimakipppunkte

7th February 2021Newsart and environment, climate crisis, Verein Berliner Künstler

Due to Corona, the exhibition originally planned for 2020 has now opened in a modified form. In the showroom behind the windows of the VBK, contributions by Rosika Janko-Glage, Helga Wagner, Barbara Czarnojahn, Maria Korporal, Andrea Streit, Lupe Godoy and Tom Albrecht are shown. Other participants in the exhibition are Conrad Brockstedt, Burchard Vossmann, Lina Schobel and Paul Reßl as well as the Kollektiv thinking of Yves (Andrea Streit and Nancy Happ).

The exhibition was opened virtually via Facebook and will be accompanied throughout the duration of the exhibition. As soon as the Corona situation allows, the exhibition will be opened to visitors in its entirety and for real.

Virtual exhibition and ongoing project:
www.facebook.com/groups/klimakipppunkte/

The exhibition in the showroom behind the windows of the VBK is open from 12.2.2021 to 07.03.2021.

KLIMAKIPPPUNKTE: Climate Tipping Points – exhibition in VBK
In their work, the artists deal with the causes and effects of climate change – the forms of expression are completely individual and range from painting, collage, video and installation to conceptual art. The result is a very complex exhibition on a virulent topic – exciting, stimulating for discussion and entertaining at the same time.
The project is funded by GMS Immobilia KG.

Pressemitteilung_VBK_07-02-2021

: Emergency Call – video

: Emergency Call Center – installation

In the preview Maria Korporal shows her video Emergency Call.
When the exhibition finally takes place (in better times), she will present her new installation Emergency Call Center.

Tree Travelling

12th August 2020Installations, Interactive works, Recent Works & Highlightsart and environment, climate crisis, sustainability, Tree Travelling

“Tree Travelling” is a multidisciplinary project, consisting of the interactive installation “Tree Travelling”, the short video “Corona Tree Travelling”, the online interactive platform “Tree Travelling: Boom the Boom!” (which will soon be shown at the Festival Nuvola Creativa, Villa di Massenzio, Rome, from 2nd to 16th December 2023) and the print series “Tree Travelling Journal”.

The interactive installation includes a video of the world map with all airplanes that are currently flying, generated from a real-time radar. In front of the monitor there is a small tree trunk. When you move it, you fill the world with growing trees, while the airplanes slowly disappear.

Worldwide, more than 1.4 billion people now travel internationally every year, up from 500 million trips in 1995. The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) predicts that figure will reach or exceed 1.8 billion by 2030.
The tourism boom brings economic growth, but the damages are severe, especially from an ecological point of view. Almost all cheap international mass travels are flights. It is alarming when you realize how many airplanes are in the air right now and how much CO2 is emitted every moment.

With my little tree trunk I invite the spectators to stand stil for just a while and reflect about this boom. When they move the trunk, they let trees travel all over the world, interrupt the constant air traffic and make the air brighter. It’s time we become aware of what trees mean to our earthly life. We can hardly do anything better than planting trees to help to save the future of this planet.

Tree Travelling, 3 fine art prints mounted on forex

When this project was conceived, we were in the middle of a global tourism boom. But then the corona virus came. The tourism boom collapsed in no time. The real-time radar view of the aircraft has changed drastically. I created a new video work, “Corona Tree Travelling”, which is not interactive – the corona crisis make the trees grow without human intervention. The video première was on August 23 in the exhibition Die Sehnsucht nach dem Grünen.

Two stills from the video “Corona Tree Travelling”

An excerpt from the video in the exhibition
Die Sehnsucht nach dem Grünen.

The Tree Travelling Journal, digital prints on A3, follows the development of the project in times of coronavirus and climate change. It is a work in progress – what the future holds…

Exhibitions and screenings:
• The online version of the project, Tree Travelling: Boom the Boom! was shown in the 5° Festival Ecrã, which took place online on July 15-25, 2021, and from 19th to 21st June 2020 as part of the festival 48 Stunden Neukölln in Berlin
• The video “Corona Tree Travelling” was screened in the exhibitions “Green iDeal” (2020), Biennale della Tecnologia, Politecnico, Turin (Italy) and “Corona and Climate Crisis” (2020), Group Global 3000, Berlin.
• The entire multidisciplinary installation was shown in the exhibition Die Sehnsucht nach dem Grünen, Kulturmühle Perwenitz, August 23 – September 27, 2020.