Artists: Abdelaziz Taleb (Morocco), Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo), Alessandro Amaducci (Italy), Apotropia (Italy), Badr El Hammami (Morocco), Bamba Diop (Senegal), Carlo Giuseppe Zuozo (Italy), Chanchal Banga (India), Clara Aparicio Yoldi (UK), Duo Strangloscope (Brazil), Eija Temiseva (Finland), Eleonora Manca (Italy), Enoh Lienemann (Nigeria), Fenia Kotsopoulou (Greece) & Daz Disley (UK), Francesca Bonci (Italy), Francesca Lolli (Italy), Guli Silberstein (UK), Haleh Jamali (Iran), Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg), Joas Nebe (Germany), Kai welf Hoyme (Germany), Karl Ingar Röys (Norway), Kent Anderson Butler (USA), Kokou Ekouagou (Togo), Laura Focarazzo (Argentina), Liliana Orbach (Israel), Lisi Prada (Spain), LucFosther Diop (Cameroon), Marie-Paule Bilger (France), Marta Azparren & Sergio Blardony (Spain), Mohamed Thara (Morocco), Pedro Sanchez III (USA), Piyali Ghosh (India), Roman Gomes (Argentina), Shivkumar KV (India), Simone Stoll (Germany), Slawomir Milewski (Poland), Tahir Un (Turkey), Valeria Lo Meo & Michele Manzini (Italy), Viviana Druga (Germany), Zlatko Cosic (Bosnia).
Established in 2008 by curator Kisito Assangni, TIME is Love...Screening has travelled to major cities in the world attracting a vibrant mix of media professionals, researchers, young people and families. The screening is accompanied by public discussions and performances.
Preoccupied with love, the project represents love stripped from its traditional clichés and timeless idealism. Each of the artists leads an interdisciplinary practice bringing a questioning and a criticism on a system of relation to others which appears to us as being dying.
Taking these ambivalent feelings as a starting point, the artists develop their own language according to their sensibility and history. The selected videos deal with prevented communications, disturbed feelings, globalisation, memory and spirituality. As a result, each video inspires the viewer to question the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
About the curator
Kisito Assangni is a Togolese-French curator, consultant and producer who studied museology at Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Currently living between London and Paris, his research primarily focuses on psycho-geography and the cultural impact of globalisation. Assangni investigates the modes of cultural production that combine theory and practice.
He’s heavily involved in video, performance and experimental sound. His exhibitions and public programs have been shown internationally including the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany; Venice biennale, Italy; Whitechapel Gallery, Ben Uri Museum, London; Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Es Baluard Museum, Palma, Spain; Pori Art Museum, Finland; Foundation 3.14, Bergen, Norway; Sobering Gallery, Paris among others.
He has participated in symposia, talks and events at numerous international universities.
Assangni is the founder/curator of TIME is Love Screening and Project [SFIP] - Platform for critical thinking, researching and presenting video art from Africa.
