HoritzóTV. Prospects for another possible television
La Capella, C/ Hospital 56, Barcelona
Television is over. A new world of audiovisual communication, micro-tvs, TVwebsites, TVblogs, community television and telestreets is appearing. HoritzóTV features screenings, facilities, audiovisuals and documentation on alternative television projects around the world.
HRTZTV is also providing four hours of live streaming between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. from Tuesday to Saturday for the whole of February. Come with your proposal!
HoritzóTV is an exhibition that uses events and screenings to present a dynamic, fragmented landscape of what new television communications might be. The exhibition comprises community television projects from districts of Buenos Aires and areas of Chile, artistic experiments in European telestreets, television from refugee camps, and a historical review of the relations between art and television in Catalonia and Spain.
In addition to the exhibition, contributions will be made by the directors of several of the world’s television broadcasters, including Catia TV (documenting Venezuela’s new community television project), La GalponeraTV from Buenos Aires, Señal 3 La Victoria from Chile, and, of course, independent television broadcasters from Spain. The encounter, which will take place from 29 January to 3 February, a week after the inauguration, will involve sociologists, journalists, activists and alternative television artists such as Franco Berardi “Bifo” from OrfeoTV Bologna, Raoul Marroquin from HoeksteenTV Amsterdam, film VJ Prince Joe from Uganda, and Barcelona’s NeokinokTv. World community communication theoreticians such as Michael Aldridge from South Africa, the Catia TV team from Venezuela, and representatives from all the community audiovisual projects in Catalonia and Spain will also take part.
HoritzóTV also features HRTZTV, an Internet television studio that will broadcast throughout February. Television broadcasts will be undertaken in collaboration with Barcelona’s Hangar centre for contemporary creation and the GISS server network, and will stream news, interviews, chats, proposals, and videos and materials by the invited groups and all local social agents, live in the afternoon from Tuesday to Saturday. All groups are invited to take part in this alternative television, and to stop watching it and start making it.
As well as Hangar, other city institutions have also joined the project: Caixaforum’s media resource centre is presenting several art and television materials and a monograph on the pioneering work of Jaime Davidovitch’s creation for television. The MX Espai gallery is presenting “Splitscreen”, a work for television by Dora Garcia, which was produced while in residence at Nau Côclea, Camallera, and was broadcast on “Canal Nord, the local channel of L’Empordà. In March, URL’s School of Communication will organise a conference cycle.
The project will be rounded off with a book that features contributions from theoreticians from all over the world who are building this new approach to alternative audiovisual communication. It will also have a website.
THE EXHIBITION
23 January to 1 April
* Screenings: continuous showings of television programmes selected by experts in different areas:
1. Agitprop and television: two different cases from the USA (nineteen eighties and nineties), and Hungary (nineteen nineties).
Schedule selected by Gabriel Villota
Two cases of alternative uses of television in social and political contexts that are very different yet coincide in the use of television as a form of unrest against a hostile situation- the media’s standard overriding content in the case of the USA, and political instability that has arisen from the fall of the socialist regime, in Hungary. In both cases videoart and independent experimental documentary are the fitting formal media with which to approach the conflict.
2. SCART disconnection: creation and television in Catalonia and Spain
Schedule selected by Eugeni Bonet
A selection of serial or isolated programmes, which have found both funding, a place, and even a regular slot in public and local television schedules. These programmes have put forward rather unusual cultural content, a unique perspective, and a laboratory for televisual creation. They often prompt reflection on television itself yet unlike the bulk of infotainment, because of their exceptional approach, they are not mainstream. In some cases, censure has ratified their status of marginality and prevented the broadcast of what was originally designed to appear on TV.
3. The other screens: community television in Latin America
Schedule selected by Maria Cecilia Fernandez
Community television is an experience of collective production and grassroots management of low-power television as a tool. This experience seeks to encourage the value of local identity, enhance the organisational capacity of residents in popular districts, and help to resolve conflicts in order rebuild the community’s social fabric.
4. Africa, alternative television
Schedule selected by Didac P. Lagarriga
While the African continent is the home of community radio, independent audiovisual and television broadcasting based on new technologies is also gradually establishing itself. Internet and digital publishing tools are becoming an unstoppable force that will shortly give way to a creative and polyphonic variety that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. The schedule covers different phenomena, new collective forms of receiving television, alternative indigenous community programmes and working parties from different countries such as South Africa, Mali, and the Saharawi Republic, with documents from Rasd-tv (showing television produced by and for the people of the refugee camp of Tinduf al Sahara), and reports by Indymedia-South Africa. All these are examples of civil groups who have assumed responsibility for the broadcasting of news, despite censorship and strict repression by official media.
5. Telestreets, creation, recreational television and civil disobedience
Schedule selected by Pamela Gallo
A collection of programmes created by Italian telestreet groups and Proxivisió and television in media-driven Europe.
The experience of Hoeksteen Tv in Amsterdam.
6. An a la carte consultation service and media resource centre
Bibliography, newspaper library, centre for media resources and general consultation
CARTOGRAPHY
Alternative audiovisual resources in Spain
Cartography produced by the SinantenaTV group. Coordination by Josevi Soria.
This interactive facility was produced on the basis of diverse alternative media contacts in 2005 and 2006. The cartography covers information on all the groups involved in the creation, production, distribution and broadcast of audiovisuals in the alternative sector. Data, interviews, videos. Interactive consultation.
HRTZTV STUDIO
A set for the creation of a different television. We are streaming live from 4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. on Tuesdays to Saturdays. We shall be in contact with alternative television broadcasters from all over the world, show interviews with our guests from America, Africa and Europe, and with the screening coordinators, and feature the movements of the world’s audiovisual groups and collectives.
Everyone is invited to make their programme. Anyone with a proposal should get in contact with Antònia Folguera antonia@horitzo.tv
ENCONTRES : 28 January to 3 February
This week will feature a series of guests from all over the world who will speak about community television, audiovisual creation, methods of reception in Africa, and audiovisual policies, etc.
Vive TV Venezuela (“El noticiero del Sur” and others)
Catia TV Venezuela (community television workshop)
La GalponeraTV Buenos Aires
Señal3 La Victoria Chile
Raoul Marroquin Hoeksteen TV Amsterdam
Franco Berardi (Bifo) OrfeoTV Bologna
Michael Aldridge South Africa
Prince Joe Uganda
RasTv Tinduf Sahara
There will also be different agents from alternative audiovisual communication in Spain and Catalonia.
OTHER HORITZO TV SITES
Mediateca of Caixaforum: 23 and 30 January, 20 and 27 February
Schedule of Art, television and creation.
Monograph: Jaime Davidovitch
Galeria MX espai 1010
C/Llibreteria 7 Barcelona
Dora Garcia
Splitscreen, facility. In collaboration with Nau Côclea, Camallera
Inauguration: 23 January
School of Communication. Universitat Ramon Llull. Barcelona (March)
Conference cycle
Working party
Production: La Capella. Virreina Exposicions. Culture Institute of Barcelona
Project coordinator: Clara Garí
Catalogue editor: Jordi Sànchez
Executive production: Manoli Mansilla, Antonia Folguera
Technical production: Robert Blank, Gloria Martí
Set: Pedro Soler, Antònia Folguera and Daniel Miracle
Streaming: GISS.TV
Exhibition: Xavier Manubens
La Capella director: Oriol Gual
La Capella coordination: Montserrat Rectoret
Caixaforum Mediateca director: Carme Garrido
Hangar technical director: Pedro Soler
URL School of Communication events coordinator: Jordi Sanchez
Nau Côclea directors: Clara Garí and Montserrat Moliner
RedTV cartography coordinator: Josevi Soria
Screening documentary makers:
Gabriel Villota
Fito Rodriguez
Cecilia Fernandez
Eugeni Bonet
Pamela Gallo
Didac P. Lagarriga
Josevi Soria
Videographic production: Hugo Barbosa
Graphic design: Albert Valero