EVR (e-flux video rental) is a project by artists Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda. It is conceived as a video archive, a projection space, and a free video rental. The video archive is comprised of VHS cassettes, a recently obsolescent format. Through the choice of this technology to present and store works EVR broaches topical questions of the musealization, presentation, circulation and marketing of video art.
The project was conceived in 2004 and first presented at 53, Ludlow Street in New York. In the years that followed, it was presented at various locations all over the world, with the inventory of videos continuously increasing with selections made by local curators, artists, and critics.
In 2010 the artists donated the entire video archive to Moderna galerija in Ljubljana. Currently, the project archive comprises over 950 videos. The list of all videos may be viewed in EVR (e-flux video rental) booklet, published by Moderna galerija on the occasion of the opening of Museum of Contmporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM in 2011. The project is presented in the ground-floor.
Video still on the photo: Driton Hajredini, Somewhere in Prishtina, 2003
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Works selected by Anton Vidokle & Julieta Aranda 8/7 - 13/7
1. an-artist who cannot speak english is no artist (mladen stilinović)_jakub ferri (3'55'')
2. somewhere in prishtina_driton hajredini (3'44'')
3. the market (rynok)_jósef robakowski (4'22'')
4. los rebeides del sur_wilson diaz (11'19'')
5. mixlanguage mixrice (3'30'')
6. you don't love me yet_johanna billing (7'41'')
Works selected by Eve Lambert 15/7 - 20/7
1. notes on a primatology conference_daniel herskowitz (29'47'')
2. bread cube of 90x90 cms_santiago sierra (13'40'')
3. red chewing gum_akram zaatari (10'42'')
4. happy meal_shahram entekhabi (12'37'')
5. false teeth_bjargey ólafsdóttir (3'54'')
Works selected by Ewa Lajer-Burkhart 22/7 - 27/7
1. 1,2,3 operator's exercise(1,2,3 cwiczenie operatorskie)_pawet kwiek (7'52'')
2. yyaa_wojciech bruszewski (2'58'')
3. an area(obszar)_kazimierz bendkowski (4'44'')
4. i am going(ide)_józef robakowski (2'55'')
5. a-b-c-d-e-f=1-36_ryszard wasko (6'25'')
6. chlopcy_katarzyna kozyra (3'48'')
7. chinese vase_joanna malinowska (3'45'')
Works selected by November Paynter 29/7 - 3/8
1. minibar_can altay (3'28'')
2. papermen_can altay (9'52'')
3. autopark_osman bozkurt (15'37'')
4. clustered in_christian grou & tapio snellman (9'10'')
5. excerpts from tehran 1380_solmaz shahbazi & tirdad zolghadr (17'54'')
Works selected by Esra Sarigedik 5/8 - 10/8
1. run_nasan tur (3'53'')
2. everything is ok_tintin wulia (4'50'')
3. morcegos-bats_camila rocha (2'46'')
Works selected by Christine Tolme & Mai Abu Eldahab 12/8 - 17/8
1. hostage-the bachar tapes(17&31)_the atlas group/walid raad (16'14'')
2. miraculous beginnings-no, illness is neither here nor there_the atlas group (1'39'')
3. i only wish that I could weep_the atlas group (7'33'')
Works selected by Nermin Saybasili 19/8 - 24/8
1. miss lebanon_vahram aghasyan (15'20'')
2. granny_özlem sulak (9'15'')
3. cousin_özlem sulak (10'03'')
4. indecisive_adnan yildiz (9'42'')
5. remote sensing_ursula biemann (55'37'')
Works selected by Kim Sung Won 26/8 - 31/8
1. eclipsed_matias faldbakken (1'19'')
2. you don't love me yet_johanna billing (7'41'')
3. secret strike_alicia framis (6'03'')
4. stock exchange_sislej xhafa (2'52'')
5. hostage-the bachar tapes(17&31)_the atlas group/walid raad (16'14'')
6. a history of unmanned flight_melissa dubbin & aaron s. davidson (3'08'')
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EVR (e-flux video rental) is a work by Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle, New York 2004, donated to Moderna galerija by e-flux.
