This year the Loop Festival is back with 3 video-installations at the Modern Art rooms of the museum, from the hand of three different artists:

• Olympia, by David Claerbout, from May 18, 2017, to January 14, 2018 (room 78):

This set up has two big screens where a computer simulation of the Berlin Olympic Stadium situated on a temporal space without human intervention and at the mercy of the cycles of nature is reproduced. This way the viewer can see the deterioration of the building under the atmospheric conditions of Berlin in real time.

• Ohio at Giverny, by Mary Lucier, from May 18 to May 28, 2017 (room 52):

This 10 days installation takes a look at the firsts video works of the 70s and 80s. The author ponders on the icons of modern society and the future of consumerism. According to the author, this work deals with convergence of disparate entities –geographies, epochs, sensibilities–, with transitions from one state of being to another and how within the frame of imagination and collective memory, these “dissolves” take place.

• Radical Videos, by Nam June Paik, from May 18 to June 30, 2017 (room 40):

Casa Asia presents a selection of videos by renowned artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006), considered as the father of video art. The exhibition is articulated though six of his most emblematic works, some of which predicted, more than half a century ago, issues as the technological future, the globalization of capital, the international expansion of mass media, as well as the impact of the Internet to the current society.

Programme:

• Hand and Face, 1961 (2 min)
• Video Commune: Beatles from Beginning to End (excerpt), 1970 (12:58 min)
• Electronic Opera No. 2, 1972 (7:58 min)
• A Tribute to John Cage, 1973 (29:17 min)
• Global Groove, 1973 (28:39 min)
• Guadalcanal Requiem, 1979 (60 min)