International Limestone Coast Video Art Festival 2020

Presented by The Riddoch & Main Corner Complex, the International Limestone Coast Video Art Festival is a biennial event that celebrates the creation of Video Art and places special emphasis on innovative and ground-breaking artworks. VIDEO ART DURING AND AFTER THE PANDEMIC, is this year’s theme of the Festival, to be held from 6 November - 6 December 2020, at The Riddoch & Main Corner Complex, Mount Gambier, South Australia. We encourage socially responsive works created by video artists. Our 2020 program will include an exhibition, conference, screenings, and workshops. We anticipate that the Festival will become a truly shared artistic space and international story-telling of solidarity and community well-being. The Riddoch invites Australian and international video artists to send us video works that convey how the global COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their lives and practice. As we are trying to understand the current situation, with many artists around the planet in lock-down or quarantine, facing the physical, psychological, and emotional effects, artists are undoubtedly coming up with creative solutions to the concerns and challenges caused by the COVID-19. We are bound to be a transformed society after the crisis. We, therefore, invite you to share your video art stories, to address these issues! Many of these stories will be addressing various anxieties, worries, and economic strains. But, there are also optimistic stories, filled with humour, contemplation, solidarity, community mindfulness, compassion, and cheerfulness. They will have in common that they are all based on the lived experience of COVID-19. Some of them will be collaborative.