The 10th edition of the video and experimental film series VIDEONALE.scope in cooperation with IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute took place on 30.11. + 01.12.2023 at Turistarama in Cologne. For the anniversary edition, four filmmakers and artists who have already accompanied VIDEONALE.scope on other occasions − Eli Cortiñas, Ayesha Hameed, Ji Su Kang-Gatto and Vika Kirchenbauer − curated a programme for the thematic framing "Open Your Scope − Counter Narratives". In the programme, dominant narratives were questioned and alternative constructions of reality were tested under changing focal points. "Scope" is literally understood in translation as an expanded frame or room to maneuver: Away from the canon, the artistic works process marginalized knowledge and experiment with new narrative forms.

Language beyond language. Language inspite of language explores the sea, feminine strength, seismic forces and the shamanic through gestures, glitches in movements, breathing and sounds. Together, these concepts form their own materially tactile vocabulary. Through videos by Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Jane Jin Kaisen, and Alberta Whittle, a sound work by Himali Singh Soin and a conversation about language, gestures and silence with Anna Jäger, SAVVY Contemporary, language becomes saturated with itself, pointing to deeply internal aspects that transcend what is said.

On view were:

Sancintya Mohini, Simpson Blood-Link, 2013
Alberta Whittle, Reset, 2019
Jane Jin Kaisen, Offering – Coil Embrace, KOR 2023
Himali Singh Soin, An Affirmation, 2022

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35511