WINDOW – a new online screening room by Kontur Art Project

The aim of WINDOW, Kontur Art Project’s new online video initiative, is to highlight significant moving image works from the wider Central and Eastern European region and encourage audiences to engage with these works – either again or for the first time – in a way different from the experience of an exhibition space. Challenging the overwhelming amount of screen time and endless scrolling, the team behind Kontur Art Project advocates for attentive viewing and carefully selected works that can also be enjoyed on a smaller screen and without the atmosphere of the white cube / black box.

Within this new series, the works are contextualized and brought together around a specific theme, presented online for a limited time, and accompanied by an essay written by an invited curator that sheds light on particular aspects of the selection. WINDOW is by no means intended as a farewell to the cinema or the museum – rather, it extends the lives of certain video works, provides them with another platform, and encourages the audience of Kontur Art Project to rewatch, rethink, and return to them.

The first edition of WINDOW, launching in June, focuses on the theme of establishing new connections: how can we form new relationships – both with human and non-human entities – in today’s time of multiple crises? What methods or practices can help us learn how to connect and reconnect with each other, with ourselves, with our past, and with our environment? The selected moving image works explore different ways of forming resilient communities: they highlight inspiring historical examples, address the challenges of the individualized self in contemporary late-capitalist society, and envision more horizontal forms of coexistence for the future.

What connects these works is both curiosity and determination in exploring unknown or forgotten ways of reconnecting. Together, they extend the notion of connection beyond the self and the community toward the planetary.

Concept and curator of the first edition: Flóra Gadó

List of participating artists: Anca Benera és Arnold Estefán, Eva Bevec, Agnė Jokšė, Marie Lukačová, Daryna Mamaisur, Paula Malinowska, Joanna Rajkowska, Lala Raščić, Anna Zilahi