Wandel | Maria Korporal

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:
• 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.