VAFA (Video Art For All) is the only international video art festival in Macau.
VAFA 2016, organised by AFA and Orient Foundation, brings back to the public the only Macau international video art festival dedicated to the media expression in the contemporary arts field. With a record of 266 submissions this year’s open call provided the festival with an extensive variety of artworks by artists with different origins and backgrounds.
In this year’s open call there also a record on female artists submissions which bring us to a much desired balance on the genre of arts practitioners. More than that is the fact that on the eight finalists that make the exhibition all the five awards of this year are going to female artists (Belgium, China, Germany, Brazil and Sweden) breaking with the past and showing to everyone that their voices are rich in content and novelty.
On this fifth edition of VAFA the festival continues its collaboration with similar festivals around the world with a special conversation in a screening prepared by videoclub (UK) and Videotage (HK). In the past VAFA had collaborated with Videobrasil (Brazil), FUSO (Lisbon, Portugal), Proyector (Madrid, Spain), Danube Video Art (Austria).
For this year our highlight on the invitation artist is the work of the Russian collective AES+F with two screenings and a talk by Tatiana Arzamasova the A in AES+F. Events made possible in collaboration with Art Statements gallery (Tokyo, HK).
VAFA aims to transform video art and film experience in Macau into a laboratory of emotions and perceptions made with moving images. With VAFA the viewer is part of the magical world of expanded cinema where he is offered the opportunity to discover and explore the interplay between the senses and new forms of communication.
When: 10am – 7pm, November 5 – 30
Opening ceremony: 5:30pm, Saturday, November 5
Where: Casa Garden, 13 Praca de Luis de Camoes, Macau
How much: Free admission
More information on screening schedule and full program is on afamacau.com
