Visual Foreign Correspondents: Issue 4 - The Netherlands is respectful. Russia is corrupt. by Igor Stromajer, Slovenia.

VFC is a series of audiovisual artworks for the public screen and online, in which distinguished artists from around the world are invited each month to give their personal visual commentary on events and situations from their local perspective. In The Netherlands is respectful. Russia is corrupt. Stromajer is in search of current verdicts about the different countries from East and West Europe. They take the form of stereotypical sentences and surprising quotes are run parallel across the screen. The hierarchical divide between East and West changes once you try to read the sentences.

Using the form of guerrilla style interventions the Slovenian artist Igor Stromajer is constantly searching for ever more intimate means of communication. In recent years Stromajer became internationally known for his internet performances Ballettikka Internettikka and Oppera Internettikka in which, together with Brane Zorman, he works with low-tech equipment on themes like emotion and trauma. Currently he is concentrating on political aspects of mobile and digital communication.

VFC is also set in the context of an international program of public debates ‘The Globalised Crystal Ball’, in which aspects of the new phase of globalisation is explored by panels of distinguished commentators. Tuesday 15th of January the discussion will be centred around upcoming economies. Guests are: Wawrzyniec Smoczyński leading foreign editor of the Polish Weekly ‘Polityka’, Lord David Howell director of the British Institute for Energy Economists and Andrei Piontkovsky senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington.

Location De Balie
Klein Gartmanplantsoen 10 Amsterdam
Aanvang 20.00

You can also see VFC in Oog, De Volkskrant online.

Kind regards
Nanette Hoogslag coordinator

editors
Annet Dekker
Nat Muller
Petra Heck
David Garcia
Eric Kluitenberg

Visual Foreign Correspondents is a cooperation between De Stichting Visuele Correspondenten, De Balie, Het Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst and CASZuidas. Dit project is made possible with the aid of Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunsten, het VSB Cultuurfonds and the Prins Bernhardfonds.