01 Dec 2015

Ikono TV for ARTCOP21

ART SPEAKS OUT
24-Hour global stream for the environment.

Climate change is not a purely political issue; nor is it limited to the COP21 conference in Paris. It is above all a human issue, one that connects us all, everywhere in the world.
In this context, Elizabeth Markevitch is launching ART SPEAKS OUT

She explains: “At ikonoTV — the only broadcaster in the world to showcase art and only art 24/7 — we believe that art can give a new and powerful voice to the pressing concerns of global warming and man-made natural disaster, and that we can use art’s emotional appeal intelligently to convey the urgency of these issues in a deeper, more immediate way.”

The project is to invite artists to join forces and to put together a 24-hour playlist of contemporary video works based on environmental themes, free of any additional commentary. Because these concerns affect us all, and because art’s language is universal, artists are probably best equipped to enlighten and to touch us.

“This is why we present these issues from an artist’s point of view — to implement art’s power to speak out on this serious matter and appeal directly to human feeling.”

ART SPEAKS OUT will be a global event, broadcast exclusively on ikonoTV.
It will run uninterruptedly from:
6 p.m. on Saturday, December 5 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, December 6 (CET).

ikonoTV’s global reach includes satellite transmission, SmartTV applications with access to over 200 million households worldwide; a 24/7 stream for all online and mobile devices; and over 135,000 Amazon downloads in only five months, making us the number one app in our category in the US, the UK, and Germany.

ART SPEAKS OUT is a worldwide forum — an invitation to open our eyes to climate change, our responsibility to the planet, and the necessity of adopting measures of sustainability.

The on-air video art exhibition Art Speaks Out presents five curated sections of video works about environmental issues, which build up a crescendo of concern and disquiet. The exhibition guides us through different emotions and degrees of urgency (Contemplation, Concern, Anxiety, Fear and Hope), which are disclosed in a recurring way during the show.
Art Speaks Out features over 60 international artists and over 150 artworks and gives Carte Blanche to
1 guest curator: Kathy Rae Huffman
2 collections: DSL collection, MOMENTUM
2 organizations: Blinkvideo, Magnum Photos

These guests will curate and present their own selection within the Art Speaks Out program.

Participating Artists: Olafur Eliasson, Antti Laitinen, AK Dolven, Janet Laurence, Ursula Biemann, Su Rynard, Isabelle Hayeur, Enrique Ramirez, Markus Hoffmann, Simon Faithfull, Nicolás Rupcich, Ubermorgen, Gwen MacGregor, Jeffrey Peakall, Romy Pocztaruk, Ahmet Albayrak, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Daniel Beerstecher, Shingo Yoshida, Eelco Brand, Carlos Casas, Arjen de Leeuw, Beth Derbyshire & Ulrike Haage,Kota Ezawa, Wobbe F.Koning, Catherine Gfeller, Anna Lena Grau, Joe Hamilton, Olaf Holzapfel,Oto Hudec, William Lamson, Clare Langan, Tamara Lorenz, Thomas Porett, Anxiong Qiu, Orit Raff, Johanna Reich, Linda Sanchez, Wang Sishun, Xue Song, Michele Spanghero, Joon Sung, Myriam Thyes, Lisa Weber, Isadora Willson Gazmuri, Ayako Yoshimura, Con.Tatto, Fisher&Rice, Sandra Boeschenstein.

With the participation of Magnum photographers:
Bieke Depoorter, Chien-Chi Chang, Jerome Sessini, Jonas Bendiksen, Michael Christopher Brown, Moises Saman, Paolo Pellegrin, Sohrab Hura, Stuart Franklin, Thomas Dworzak.

Selected Artists of the Art Speaks Out open call: Gianluca Abbate, Yoshiyuki Katayama, Anna Macleod, Jordan L. Rodgers, Arya Sukapura Putra, Katy Unger, Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero and David Cass, Müge Yildiz, Simone & Max.

ABOUT IKONO TV
Founded by Elizabeth Markevitch, IkonoTV is a unique television channel broadcasting art and only art 24/7 on HD.
Offering a pure visual experience, an ever-changing playlist of art films is produced in close collaboration with more than 400 international artists, over 200 collections, archives and the most important museums of the world.
All productions are free from additional sound or commentary, allowing an international audience to be exposed to a completely new approach to the arts of all epochs, from antiquity to contemporary art.
In other words, your screen is transformed into a lively painting.
IkonoTV is viewable in more than 30 countries worldwide (average technical HD reach: 37 million households) through IPTV’s in Germany and France, through IPTV and ArabSat in the MENASA region, and internationally on our HD webstream.