Projection Video Art: Tom de Peking (France)

Tom of Peking is not really Chinese but French, from the Saboya, and he lives in Paris. He is a militant artist, a graphic artist and a producer, and becomes interested in the relationship between images and symbols, always in the erotic-recreational sense. He has worked for the Têtu Magazine, but also for Amnesty International or Aids. He has produced video clips which have been shown at numerous international festivals, and this spring he opened an exhibition at the famous headquarters of the French Communist Party. Since 2000, which was marked by a journey to China and it Maoist aesthetic, he has replaced with humour in his drawings war paraphernalia with sexual gadgets. Recovering images from the Little Red Book or wartime posters, Tom fights for a sexual revolution, the only valid one to his mind. His objective: to free us from moral oppression! In multi-coloured cartoons full of jubilation, his soldiers boast penises like banners and his oriental animators show breasts like shields... Tom of "Peking", then, as opposed to Tom of Finland, carries on with the jokingly intended slogan "make love, not war". As well as projecting some of his most ironic works in our inaugural festival, Tom has co-operated with the Mostra in designing the cradle of the presentation of the festival.

Gender Trouble. 2005. 4'
Madame H. 2003. 2' 50"
Barbara Cartland. 2007. 4' 26s"
Pine Pong. 2003. 5' 20"
Gode Save The Gouine. 2002. 4' 30s"
Fist Power. 2003. 5'
Jean Paulo Erik Riton. 2006. 3'
Come On Girls. 2007. 5' 28"

Música: DJ Madel (Spain)
(Madelman / Chico y Chica / Fever / Pantys. Bilbao)

DJ Madel is known for his musical groups Madelman and Chico y Chica. He has composed music for installations of the artists Txomin Badiola ("Tres Tipos esperan 1999") and Dora Garc ía ("DJ los Muertos" 2005). He works as a musical producer and re-mixer for other musicians and special singers (Begoña, Bunbury, Fangoria, Foyu, Astrud, etc): As a disc-jockey he was resident at the club Arrebato in Bilbao from 2001 - 2004 and currently he is resident and programmer at the PINK FEVER hall in the same city. Also, he works for the organisation and public relations for the fancy-dress party PANTYS and the choreography competition MIRA QUIEN PANTYS (2006 - 2007) and MIRA QUIEN FAMA (2008), also in Bilbao.

www.chicoychica.com
www.myspace.com/djmadel
www.myspace.com/elpantys