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FemLink-Art, the international video artists collective brings together 149 women video artists from 64 countries to create video collages. FemLInk-Art's mission is to create a link between throughout the world between women video artists and their artwork; and, to assist women artists who live outside Europe and the USA who have difficulties creating, promoting, distributing, exhibiting and screening their art work. The idea for the collective began in 2005 when French visual artist and curator, Véronique Sapin and American intermedia art, C. M. Judge proposed a worldwide video project that would engage women video artists to create video shorts around common themes. During the first nine years, FemLink-Art video collages were exhibited and screened at 110 art centers, museums and galleries in 42 countries. ==History and Structure== In 2000, Veronique Sapin and C. M. Judge met at the Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France where they both were exhibiting video installations. A friendship ensued as each admired the other’s work. Sapin suggested to Judge that they collaborate on a project together. As they explored possibilities to make work together, a larger vision developed which would include other women video artists from around the world. Both understood the lack of opportunity to see women’s video art and to make personal connections to other women artists. They coined the term "FemLink" to describe the collective of artists they intended form and envisioned creating video collages. Sapin began to do outreach globally to invite artists to create video shorts for FemLink-Art. The response was overwhelmingly positive with thirty-two artists accepting the invitation to participate in the first theme, ''FRAGILITY''. Judge worked in the United States promoting the collages through feminist associations such as The Women’s Caucus for Art, The Feminist Art Project and university programs. Sapin proposed a purposely simple structure for the collages which has been used for all of the Collective’s work: one artist from each country is invited to create an original one- to two-minute video around a common theme. Each video must be created expressly for the collage with each artist’s contribution of her/his singular video artwork forming an essential component of the collective collage which is also viewed as a work of art in its own right. As videos are collected for the project they are added to the collage sequentially as received without regard to content. Each artist's creative response is valued with respect to the many diverse interpretations of the themes. Artists retains their author rights and iare free to screen their work as they wish. FemLink-Art is a curated project by personal invitation only and does not accept unsolicited works. A variation on the FemLink-Art structure was developed specifically for the topic ''PORTRAIT OF A FEMALE VISUAL ARTIST''. In an effort to extend further links for women artists, FemLink invited male video artists to create portraits of woman artists. FemLink collages have been exhibited as video installations with multiple projections and screened as single channel videos. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「FemLink-Art」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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