04.09.–30.09.2005

Portikus is pleased to present e-flux Video Rental (EVR), a project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda comprised of a free video rental store, a public screening room, and an archive. Its collection, selected in collaboration with a large group of international curators, consists of more than 550 art films and video works, and is available to the public for home viewing free of charge.

EVR started a year ago in a small storefront on the Lower East Side in New York - the international headquarters of the Electronic Flux Corporation. Since then it has travelled to venues in Berlin, Amsterdam, Miami, and will soon appear in Seoul and Vienna amongst other locations. For each of its new locations, EVR expands its inventory to include new selections by local curators invited jointly with the hosting institutions. A program of talks and special screenings will continue at all branches.

The opening of the Frankfurt branch at Portikus will be accompanied by a book launch of EVR catalogue, published by Revolver Press, with essays by Julieta Aranda, Jens Hoffmann, Brian Sholis and Anton Vidokle. The book, inspired by the experiments of the expanded cinema, functions as a further extension or a translation of the project into the realm of text. EVR catalogue can be ordered through Revolver www.revolver-books.de

The installation of EVR at Portikus will include a screening room at which every work in EVR inventory (total duration approximately 201 hrs 34 min) will be screened throughout the duration of the show, keeping the space open 24 hours on some days. For schedule and program details contact: info@portikus.de

The film and video works were selected by (listing to be completed):

Eliu Almonte, Fernanda Arruda, Regine Basha, Katrin Becker, Ariane Beyn, Daniel Birnbaum, Adam Budak, Luca Cerizza, Mariana David, Catherine David, Power Ekroth, Mai Abu Eldahab, Hedwig Fijen, Elena Filipovic, Lauri Firstenberg, Susanne Gaensheimer, Gabrielle Giattino, Massimiliano Gionni, Julieta González, Francesca Grassi, Jörg Heiser, Arne Hendriks, Sofia Hernandez, Jens Hoffmann, Anthony Huberman, Pierre Huyghe, Eungie Joo, Christoph Keller, Adam Klimczak, Anders Krueger, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Fernando Llanos, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Jaroslaw Lubiak, Raimundas Malasauskas, Franco Marinotti, Viktor Misiano, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, November Paynter, Gabriel Perez Barreiro, Natasa Petresin, Alia Rayyan, Karyn Riegel, David Rych, Itala Schmeltz, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Henk Slager, Ali Subotnik, Gilbert Vicario, Florian Waldvogel, Nathalie Zonnenberg.

e-flux Video-Rental contains works by the following artists (listing to be completed):

24/7 tv, a-clip, doug aitken, lucas ajemian, jennifer allora & guillermo calzadilla, paulo almeida, can altay, carlos amorales, andré amparo, vasco araújo, assume vivid astro focus, michel auder, Sven Augustijnen, miriam bäckström, lucas bambozzi, edson barrus, judith barry, yael bartana, taysir batniji, thomas bayrle, sarah beddington, elisabetta benassi, kazimierz bendkowski, roberto berliner, colectivo bijari, marc bijl, johanna billing, julien jonas bismuth, alberto bitar e leonardo bitar, john bock, manon de boer, mike bouchet, frank boue, andrea bowers, osman bozkurt, ulla von brandenburg, wojciech bruszewski, martin butler, chris caccamise, mircea cantor, domenico cappello, carolina caycedo, alex cecchetti & christian frosi, alejandro cesarco, juan cespedes gch, paul chan, terry chatkupt, marcos chaves, loulou cherinet, olga chernysheva, heman chong & isabel cornaro, kerstin cmelka, joost conijn, alexander costello, alfredo b. crevenna, roberto cuoghi, federico curiel, hubert czerepok, marta deskur, angela detanico y rafael lain, sebastián díaz morales, wilson diaz, melissa dubbin & aaron s. davidson, ivan edeza, james elaine/william basinski, fouad elkoury, shahram entekhabi & mieke bal, annika eriksson, espacio la culpable, héctor falcón, matias faldbakken, jeanne faust/jorn zehe, jakup ferri, dirk fleischmann, alicia framis, jonah freeman, gabrielle fridriksdottir, anna friedel, peter friedl, yang fudong, rene gabri, rubén galindo, andrea geyer, gilbert & george, jérémie gindre, christoph girardet, piero golia, emilio gómez muriel, francis gomila, dominique gonzales-foerster, rogelio a. gonzáles, rogelio a. gonzales jr., laurent grasso, loris gréaud, christian grou & tapio snellman, eva grubinger, dmitry gutov & radek group, driton hajredini, sharon hayes, daniel herskowitz, shere hite, karl holmqvist, judith hopf & stephan geene, vlatka horvat, las indestables, christian jankowski, tom johnson, ilya kabakov, franka kaßner, leopold kessler, hassan khan, laleh khorramian, leszek knaflewski, jeroen kooijmans, korpys/löffler, katarzyna kozyra, elke krystufek, pawel kwiek, tim lee, crystobal lehyt gch, dominik lejman, jesse lerner, xavier le roy, erik van lieshout, deborah ligorio, daniel lima, petra lindholm, fernando llanos, dora longo bahia, polonca lovsin, maria lusitano, jorge macchi, joanna malinowska, marepe, teresa margolles, gilberto martinez solares, trish maud, sean paul & david dempewolf, marssares, liza may post, jonas mekas, bjørn melhus & yves netzjammer, john menick, ohad meromi, wieslaw michalak, simone michelin, christopher miner, sarah minter, aleksandra mir, viatcheslav (slava) mizin / alexander (sasha) shaburov, avi mograbi, naeem mohaiemen, frédéric moser & philippe schwinger, melvin moti, tova mozard, felipe mujica gch, matthias müller, juan nascimento and daniela lovera, deimantas narkevicius, argentino neto, tuan andrew nguyen, love nordberg, filip noterdaeme (homu), yoshua okon, bjargey ólafsdóttir, anneè olofsson, yoko ono, anna orlikowska, tanja ostojic & david rych, the otolith group, philippe parreno, jenny perlin, diego perrone, alessandro pessoli, michael pfrommer, john pilson, steven pippin, michelangelo pistoletto, shannon plumb, rafael portillo & manuel san fernando, linda post, dean proctor & michael laub, the atlas group/walid raad, judy radul, orit raff, anne-britt rage, arturas raila, khaled d. ramadan, robin rhode, guy richards smit, józef robakowski, douglas ross, karl ingar røys, daniel rumiancew, natascha sadr haghigian, anri sala, samir, fernando sánchez castillo, beatriz santiago muñoz, julia scher, markus schinwald, andrea schneemeier, karin schneider & nicolás guagnini and jeff preiss, meggie schneider and bin-chuen choi, corinna schnitt, solmaz shahbazi, wael shawky, taro shinoda, santiago sierra, silverio, michael smith, sean snyder, aaron steffes, a.l. steiner, hito steyerl, superflex, mathilde ter heijne, tetine, kika thorne, rirkrit tiravanija, maciej toporowicz, cecilia torquato and andré amparo, kerry tribe, caecilia tripp, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, johanna unzueta gch, utopia station, mona vatamanu & florin tudor, mark verabioff, dmitry vilensky, joe villablanca gch, barbara visser, jenny vogel, Sharif Waked, marek wasilewski, ryszard wasko, douglas weathersby, clemens von wedemeyer, lawrence weiner, suara welitoff, aleksandra went & alicja karska, adrian williams, jordan wolfson, erwin wurm, cerith wyn evans, sislej xhafa, akram zaatari, olivier zabat, florian zeyfang, igor zupe.