As the philosopher Raymond Tallis affirms in Johan Grimonprez' Raymond Tallis: On Tickling (2017), "We dialogue, therefore we are." The video is one of 30 works by contemporary international artists selected for VIDEONALE.17 - Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts, which will be shown as from February 21, 2019 at Kunstmuseum Bonn.

Tallis' words play on René Descartes' famous dictum, "I think, therefore I am."�

But they also raise a number of crucial questions explored in the exhibition, such as: How do we dialogue with one another today? Who speaks to whom and through which media? What reality (or realities) do we speak about and how do I recognize the reality of my interlocutor? And what artistic strategies are currently being developed to create alternative points of view, and to integrate new perspectives? Selected from over 1,100 entries from 66 countries, the works featured in VIDEONALE.17 address such questions in line with the festival theme of Refracted Realities.