Gabriela Golder

(VIDEO ARTIST / ARGENTINA) STUDIO 12

REOCUPACION : memory of work
FROM JANUARY, 4 TO JUNE, 30 2010

Gabriela Golder is interested in individual and collective memory, the notions of identity and endurance. At the CENTQUATRE she wants to develop a project in which memory unfolds as a vestige of successive transformations, demolitions and restorations; in a space where visible and erased traces rub up against one another, between memory and oblivion. The creation of a place for meetings and exchanges on the building of ideas and the utopia of projects follows on from her "REOCUPACION" project, a work on the devastating impact of globalization on the Argentinean industrial fabric, devised in different sections, which continues to be developed at the CENTQUATRE.

"A project about workers / about work /about the end or work, about disappearance /about the post-industrial era /about identity / about the devastating impact of globalization on the Argentinean industrial fabric and the workers / about deafening noise, and total silence, afterwards / about the memory of bodies /about the dismissal of thousands of workers whose know-how and expertise accumulated over the years are just written off /about the transformation that wipes out traces of the past and prospects for the future /about the memory of places."

Gabriela Golder

BIOGRAPHY
An artist, freelance curator and teacher of video and new technologies, since 1996 she has had residencies in many European countries as well as Canada and the United States. Her work has already been shown in various museums and cultural centres throughout the world. She has been awarded several prizes : the "Sigwart Blum" prize (Association of Art Critics of Argentina), the "Media Art Award" (ZKM, 2003, Germany), the "prize of the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales" (2004, Argentina), the "Videobrasil prize" (2003, Brazil), the "grand prize of the Vidéoformes Festival" (2001 and 2003, France) and the "Tokyo Video Award", (2002, Japan) for her video installations. Today she is working more particularly on net.art so that her works will be more widely accessible. Gabriela Golder is also the co-director of "CONTINENTE", a research centre for electronic arts, and the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, in Argentina.