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Pierre Ajavon

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2015

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Pierre Ajavon (b. 1966, Paris) is a visual artist, composer & musician. He lives and works in Paris (France). Ajavon studied sociology and ethnomusicology with a particular focus on psychedelic culture, and he embraced video art as his main medium as it allowed him to combine image with sound. His works appeared at art institutions such as LACDA (Los Angeles), Fondazione Ragghianti (Italy), Royal Scottish Academy (Scotland), Pereira Art Museum (Colombia) and CICA Museum (South Korea) as well as events like the Vesuvio International Film Festival (Italy), Experimenta (Portugal), Cairotronica (Egypt), AIDFF (Greece) and MADATAC (Spain). Pierre Ajavon is also a musician and composer, mixing electronic music, psychedelic rock and field recording for his musical research, he hinges his musical thought on postmodern visual aesthetics. References to psychoanalysis and surrealism as well as the study of the relationship between pop imagery and sound constitute the backbone of his artistic practice.

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Pierre Ajavon (b. 1966, Paris) is a visual artist, composer & musician. He lives and works in Paris (France). Ajavon studied sociology and ethnomusicology with a particular focus on psychedelic culture, and he embraced video art as his main medium as it allowed him to combine image with sound. His works appeared at art institutions such as LACDA (Los Angeles), Fondazione Ragghianti (Italy), Royal Scottish Academy (Scotland), Pereira Art Museum (Colombia) and CICA Museum (South Korea) as well as events like the Vesuvio International Film Festival (Italy), Experimenta (Portugal), Cairotronica (Egypt), AIDFF (Greece) and MADATAC (Spain). Pierre Ajavon is also a musician and composer, mixing electronic music, psychedelic rock and field recording for his musical research, he hinges his musical thought on postmodern visual aesthetics. References to psychoanalysis and surrealism as well as the study of the relationship between pop imagery and sound constitute the backbone of his artistic practice.

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Fixing a Hole

Video & Sound Design ©Pierre Ajavon 2019 https://linktr.ee/pierreajavon SCREENINGS : - 2022 - Make Art Not Fear - Porto // Portugal - 2022 - ⋮nodoCCS⋮ Video Art Festival archive-MoDo Galeria, Caracas, Venezuela - 2022 - Video Sound Archive (online), Los Angeles // USA - 2022 - Metropolis Film Festival, Milan // Italy - 2022 - London Movie Awards, London // UK - 2022 - Milan Gold Awards, Milan // Italy - 2022 - Florence Film Awards, Florence // Italy - 2022 - Vesuvius International Film Festival, Napoli // Italy -BEST VIDEO POETRY AWARD - 2022 - Reykjavik Independent Film Festival, Reykjavik // Iceland - 2022 - Balkan Can Kino - Athens // Greece - 2021/2022 - Deluge Contemporary Art installation, Victoria // Canada - 2021 - Hummingbird International Film Festival Kolkata // India - 2021 - accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival, Napoli // Italy - 2021 - FIVAC SPMAV - Festival International de Videoarte, Pelotas // Brazil - 2021 - 1st Kerala Short Film Festival - Pune / India - 2021 - Over The Real / International Videoart Festival - Lucca / Italy - 2021 - Antimatter [Media Art) - Victoria // Canada - 2021 - Experimental Superstars festival - Novi Sad / Serbia - 2021 - Split Video Art Festival, Split // Croatia - 2021 - Cairotronica 3rd Edition "Data Fiction" - Cairo // Egypt - FINALIST - 2021- Kosice International Film Festival, Kosice // Slovakia - FINALIST -2021 - London International Monthly Film Festival, London // UK - FINALIST - 2021 - Sphere Digital, World Cinema Carnival - Calcutta // India - 2021 - Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival - Athens // Greece - FINALIST - 2021- 9th International Video Poetry Festival - Athens // Greece - 2021 - The Psychedelic Music & Mind Revolution Festival - New York // USA - 2021 - The Empty Space Film Festival - Pune // India - AWARD WINNER - 2021 - Uruvatti International Film Festival - Chennai // India - AWARD WINNER - 2020 - Veracruz World Film Festival - Veracruz // Mexico - 2020 - PLAY Semana de Videoarte - Corrientes // Argentina - 2020 - WINTER SOLSTICE 2020 Edition // PixelsGARAGE Awards of Excellence (online) - 2020 - IMAGE PLAY - International Video Art Festival - Edition II, Funchal // Portugal - 2020 - 24 International video festival VIDEOMEDEJA (online) - Novi Sad // Serbia - 2020 - Barcelona International Short Film and Video Festival 2020 - 2020 - Wild Out Video Festival - Tapei // Taiwan - FINALIST - 2020 - III Muestra de Video Arte Faenza (VAF) Bogota / Colombia - 2020 - 7th Siding Festival of Film - Creston // Canada - AWARD WINNER - 2020 - Mosaic World Film Festival - Rockford // USA - 2020 - 9th Athens International Digital Film Festival (AIDFF) - Athens // Greece - FINALIST - 2020 - Open SSA + VAS exhibition - Cutlog’s online gallery - Edinburgh / Scotland - 2020 - 4e Festival ECRÃ - Museum of Modern Art - Rio de Janeiro // Brazil - 2020 - International Kansk Video Festival - Kansk // Russia - 2020 - Web Biennale 2020 Apeiron - Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum - Istanbul // Turkey - 2020 - Unknown Festival - Yekaterinburg // Russia - 2020 - European International Film Festival - Best Video Art Award - St Petersburg // Russia - 2020 - ALC videoart festival - Alicante // Spain - 2020 - 3ª edición de la Muestra Internacional de Video Arte Faenza (VAF) - Bogota // Colombia - 2020 - Festival de Arte Lanzarote and Fuerteventura 2020 - Spain - 2020 - Dumbo Film Festival - New York // USA (semi finalist) - 2020 - Lisbon Film Rendezvous - Lisbonne // Portugal - FINALIST - 2020 - Spectral Film Festival -Wisconsin // USA - 2020 - 3rd Cosmic Rays Film Festival - Varsity Theater - North Carolina / USA - 2020 - Pugnant Film Series - Athens // Greece - 2020 - 33 Stuttgarter FilmWinter - Stuttgart // Germany - 2020 - Perspective 2020 - CICA Museum - Gimpo // Korea, Republic of. - 2019 - CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI" International Film Festival - Best Edit Award - Pune // India - AWARD WINNER - 2019 - V Festival Video nodoCCS - 3rd place Award - Barcelona // Spain - 2019 - Cutlog - Royal Scottish Academy - Edinburgh // Scotland - 2019 - XV Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground - Quilmes // Argentina - 2019 - 2nd Video Art Forum - Dammam // Saudi Arabia - 2019 - XV Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground - Tigre // Argentina o 2019 - The Wrong - The Digital Art Biennale - Epicentre : Valencia // Spain - 2019 - Cinetoro Experimental Film Festival - Cali, Palmira, Roldanillo and Toro // Colombia - 2019 - 23rd International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA - Novi Sad // Serbia - 2019 - Girona Film Festival - Girona // Spain - 2019 - Bideodromo 2019 International Experimental Film and Video Festival - Bilbao // Spain - 2019 - 10th Facade Video Festival - Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv // Bulgaria - TOP 10 SELECTED BY THE JURY AWARD - OFFICIAL DVD - 2019 - New Wave Film Festival - Hong Kong // China - 2019 - Kinolikbez Festival - Saint-Petersburg //

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