Sleepless Video Art Night 2025

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June 21, 2025, Venice, Italy

Tanya Akhmetgalieva, Disappearing Staircases, 2015. Still from video. — Tanya Akhmetgalieva, *Disappearing Staircases*, 2015. Still from video.

Sleepless Video Art Night

Where Deeds Echo

June 21, Saturday Night, 00.30–4.00

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Auditorium Santa Margherita—Emanuele Severino, Dorsoduro 3689, Venice

As part of Sleepless Video Art Night 2025 in Venice, CYLAND presents a curated screening of works from its long-standing media art platform, the CYLAND Video Archive, established in 2008. This program brings together video works from various years that reflect on the fundamental dimensions of human experience within today’s evolving technological landscape.

The selected works delve into imagined and remembered realms—distant and intimate, emotional and virtual. The featured artists explore love, the illusory bond between soul and body in digital space, historical and social memory, and the architecture of both past and future. They also venture into speculative, cybernetic landscapes, crafting poetic reflections on the intersections of technology, identity, and perception.

Participating artists:

Mariateresa Sartori, Those Who Go Those Who Stay Behind, 2009, 3 min 46 sec

Mariateresa Sartori recorded people embarking on the boats in Venice during the Sunday summer rush hour. Human traffic is regulated by the mariner who opens and closes access to the boat with a chain, blocking the ﬂow when necessary. Manners, gestures and expressions distinguish those who departed from those left behind. The artist has captured a micro-phenomenon that conveys the universal significance of the human condition, where a specific incident becomes symbolic.

Virginia L. Montgomery, Moon Moth Bed, 2023, 6 min 20 sec

Francesca Fini, White Noise, 2013, 6 min 04 sec

Lidiya Rikker, Braces System, 2021, 2 min 30 sec

Sid Iandovka and Anna Tsyrlina, horizōn, 2019, 7 min 14 sec

Lera Nibiru, Journey to the Other Side of Dream, 2020, 4 min

Regina Hüebner, Love-Letters for loving, 2024, 2 min 58 sec

Anna Sowa, Gohar Sargsyan, Land und Blut, 2022, 6 min

Polina Komyagina, Depleted Reality, 2020, 2 min 44 sec

Tanya Akhmetgalieva, Disappearing Staircases, 2015, 4 min 28 sec

Guilherme Bergamini, Plenitude, 2020, 5 min

AUJIK, Spatial Bodies, 2016, 4 min 06 sec

Anton Khlabov, Imaginary Center of Circle, 2022—2023, 1 min 30 sec