For the eighth time, TENT presents the TAA, a competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animations from the Dutch art academies. On Thursday evening 19 July, the nominated films were shown in the Cinerama cinema where the jury, consisting of Arjon Dunnewind (director IMPAKT festival), Lars Henrik Gass (director Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen), Wendelien van Oldenborgh (visual artist) and Kees Brienen (IFFR, IDFA) chose a winner. The public could indicate whether they agreed with the jury's choice by means of an audience award.
New this year is the exhibition in TENT where, in addition to this selection, the previous editions of TAA are also presented. The presentation is designed by Ooze.
Tour
From the end of August, TAA 2007 will go on an (inter)national tour, including to Dresden, Milan, Istanbul, Gogbot Festival Enschede and Friesland Media Art Festival.
September 13-16, 2007 – Gogbot Enschede.
September 20-30, 2007 – Media Art Friesland.
November 7, 2007, during Sunset Cinema in the context of the cultural year of Luxembourg 2007.
October 4-28, 2007, during Paraat #3 in The Veemvloer en Horse Move Amsterdam.
November 2007, during one of the video events in Art History Postgraduate Program, Institute of Social Sciences – Istanbul Technical University
January/February 2008 – presentation in project room of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Hague.
Winners
The winner of the TAA 2007 is Dorien de Wit (AKV/St. Joost Academie, Den Bosch) with her film The limits of our universe. De Wit (NL) wins an artist-in-residency at Hangar, Centre de producció d'arts visuals in Barcelona (www.hangar.org).
The audience award went to the film Dageraad by Mostafa Heravi (Iran) from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
Experts visited all the graduation exhibitions in the Netherlands to make the selection for the TENT. Academy Awards '07. The TAA scouts of 2007 are:
Jelle Bouwhuis, curator, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; Ingrid Commandeur, editor-in-chief, Metropolis M; Mique Eggermont, visual arts advisor, Government Architect; Kees de Groot, artistic director, Gogbot Festival Enschede; Toine Horvers, Sub-Urban Video Lounge Rotterdam, artist; Machteld Leij, journalist; Patricia Pulles, curator, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam; Arjan Reinders, publicist; Arno van Roosmalen, director, Stroom The Hague; Bart Rutten, Curator, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch; Sue-an van der Zijpp, curator, Groninger Museum
Participating academies:
Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, University of the Arts Utrecht, ArtEZ Academy of Fine Arts Arnhem, AKI ArtEZ Enschede, AKV/St. Joost Breda & Den Bosch, Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht, Minerva Academy Groningen, CABK ArtEZ Academy of Fine Arts Zwolle