Vortrag: Masterstudiengang Curatorial and Critical Studies
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: To be here and not there, to be there, and not here. Embodiment and a locational turn in dOCUMENTA (13)
Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2012 19 Uhr, Aula
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a curator, author and researcher into artistic practices, the histories of art and the politics of aesthetics.
She was Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13) from 2009–12, which took place in Kassel, Germany, from June 9 – September 16, 2012. Portions of the project were located also in Afghanistan, Egypt and Canada. Previously, she was Artistic Director of the 16th Biennale of Sydney: “Revolutions - Forms That Turn” (2008), and Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum for Contemporary Art (2002–08, interim director in 2009). She was Senior Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center – a MoMA affiliate, New York, from 1999–2001. Her books include William Kentridge (1998), Arte Povera (1999), and for dOCUMENTA (13) the 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts series as well as The Book of Books (2011–12). Previous group exhibitions include “The Moderns”, Turin (2003), “Faces in the Crowd”, London and Turin (2004), "Citta' Natura" (1997), and "Molteplici Culture" (1992).
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012
HAMLET, MISE-EN-SCÈNE
Performance
HAMLET, mise-en-scène; by Städelschule’s Pure Fiction seminar imagining being trained in Reptilian Acting Technique
Developed by Mark von Schlegell
Dienstag & Mittwoch, 11. & 12. Dezember 2012, jeweils 19 Uhr, Portikus
As the “live” component and finale to the "EXTRA TROUBLE–Jack Smith in Frankfurt" festival, Portikus presents a nonexistent version of Hamlet. Channeling the ghost of American filmmaker and artist Jack Smith, Shakespeare’s most abused tragedy will be adapted, retold and performed by the Städelschule’s Pure Fiction seminar.
Directed by esteemed writer, Guest Professor Mark von Schlegell, with support by renowned artist Professor Michael Krebber, this rendition of Hamlet pays homage to Jack Smith by declining to represent him in coherent institutional fashion. Audiences will be invited to take part in the dynamism of creation coming to life on stage on two special nights at Portikus. The costumes were developed in collaboration with New York-based designer Susan Cianciolo.
Participants:
Inga Danysz, Hélène Fauquet, Adam Fearon, Genoveva Filipovic, Charlie Froud, Timothy Furey, Nik Geene, Edgars Gluhovs, Erika Landström, Ellen Yeon Kim, Yuki Kishino, Michael Krebber, Erik Lavesson, Oona Lea von Maydell, Daniel Murnaghan, Aislinn McNamara, Clare Molloy, Dana Munro, Luzie Hanna Karolina Meyer, Julien Nguyen, Olga Pedan, George Rippon, Mahsa Saloor, Simon Speiser, Anina Trösch, Colin Whitaker, Anna Susanna Woof-Dwight, Phillip Zach, Anna Zacharoff u.a.
Das Projekt wurde ermöglicht durch die großzügige Unterstützung des Kulturamts der Stadt Frankfurt am Main und der Hessischen Kulturstiftung.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
HAMLET, mise-en-scène; by Städelschule’s Pure Fiction seminar imagining being trained in Reptilian Acting Technique
Developed by Mark von Schlegell
Dienstag & Mittwoch, 11. & 12. Dezember 2012, jeweils 19 Uhr, Portikus
As the “live” component and finale to the "EXTRA TROUBLE–Jack Smith in Frankfurt" festival, Portikus presents a nonexistent version of Hamlet. Channeling the ghost of American filmmaker and artist Jack Smith, Shakespeare’s most abused tragedy will be adapted, retold and performed by the Städelschule’s Pure Fiction seminar.
Directed by esteemed writer, Guest Professor Mark von Schlegell, with support by renowned artist Professor Michael Krebber, this rendition of Hamlet pays homage to Jack Smith by declining to represent him in coherent institutional fashion. Audiences will be invited to take part in the dynamism of creation coming to life on stage on two special nights at Portikus. The costumes were developed in collaboration with New York-based designer Susan Cianciolo.
Participants:
Inga Danysz, Hélène Fauquet, Adam Fearon, Genoveva Filipovic, Charlie Froud, Timothy Furey, Nik Geene, Edgars Gluhovs, Erika Landström, Ellen Yeon Kim, Yuki Kishino, Michael Krebber, Erik Lavesson, Oona Lea von Maydell, Daniel Murnaghan, Aislinn McNamara, Clare Molloy, Dana Munro, Luzie Hanna Karolina Meyer, Julien Nguyen, Olga Pedan, George Rippon, Mahsa Saloor, Simon Speiser, Anina Trösch, Colin Whitaker, Anna Susanna Woof-Dwight, Phillip Zach, Anna Zacharoff u.a.
Das Projekt wurde ermöglicht durch die großzügige Unterstützung des Kulturamts der Stadt Frankfurt am Main und der Hessischen Kulturstiftung.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
ANDREAS SLOMINSKI & MARIO KRAMER
Vortrag
Andreas Slominski im Gespräch mit Mario Kramer
Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 19 Uhr, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
Andreas Slomisnskis Werke entstammen häufig der Alltagswelt, wie beispielsweise ein mit zahlreichen Tüten behängtes Herrenfahrrad eines Obdachlosen, das Slominski auf den Straßen Frankfurts sah und das ihn zu einer eigenen Arbeit inspirierte. Der Künstler hatte bereits zahlreiche internationale Ausstellungen wie 1997 auf der Venedig Biennale oder 2005 in der Serpentine Gallery in London. Slominski lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg und in Werder bei Berlin.
Mario Kramer ist seit Anbeginn des MMK der Sammlungsleiter des Hauses. Als Slominski 1987 seine erste Einzelausstellung in der Produzentengalerie in Hamburg hatte, war Kramer in einem angegliederten Ausstellungsraum tätig und verfolgt seitdem das künstlerische Schaffen Slominskis. Einen vorläufigen Höhepunkt fand ihre Zusammenarbeit in der umfassenden Werkschau Andreas Slominskis „Roter Sand und ein gefundenes Glück“, die 2006 im MMK zu sehen war.
Die Veranstaltungsreihe MMK Talks wird gefördert durch die Deutsche Bank Stiftung.
Eine Kooperation von Städelschule und MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Andreas Slominski im Gespräch mit Mario Kramer
Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 19 Uhr, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
Andreas Slomisnskis Werke entstammen häufig der Alltagswelt, wie beispielsweise ein mit zahlreichen Tüten behängtes Herrenfahrrad eines Obdachlosen, das Slominski auf den Straßen Frankfurts sah und das ihn zu einer eigenen Arbeit inspirierte. Der Künstler hatte bereits zahlreiche internationale Ausstellungen wie 1997 auf der Venedig Biennale oder 2005 in der Serpentine Gallery in London. Slominski lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg und in Werder bei Berlin.
Mario Kramer ist seit Anbeginn des MMK der Sammlungsleiter des Hauses. Als Slominski 1987 seine erste Einzelausstellung in der Produzentengalerie in Hamburg hatte, war Kramer in einem angegliederten Ausstellungsraum tätig und verfolgt seitdem das künstlerische Schaffen Slominskis. Einen vorläufigen Höhepunkt fand ihre Zusammenarbeit in der umfassenden Werkschau Andreas Slominskis „Roter Sand und ein gefundenes Glück“, die 2006 im MMK zu sehen war.
Die Veranstaltungsreihe MMK Talks wird gefördert durch die Deutsche Bank Stiftung.
Eine Kooperation von Städelschule und MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2012
HAMLET, mise-en-scène
11 and 12 December 2012, 7pm
HAMLET, mise-en-scène; by Städelschule’s Pure Fiction seminar imagining being trained in Reptilian Acting Technique
Developed by Mark von Schlegell
As the “live” component and finale to the EXTRA TROUBLE—Jack Smith in Frankfurt festival, Portikus presents a nonexistent version of Hamlet. Channeling the ghost of American filmmaker and artist Jack Smith, Shakespeare’s most abused tragedy will be adapted, retold and performed by the Städelschule’s Pure Fiction seminar.
Directed by esteemed writer, Guest Professor Mark von Schlegell, with support by renowned artist Professor Michael Krebber, this rendition of Hamlet pays homage to Jack Smith by declining to represent him in coherent institutional fashion. Audiences will be invited to take part in the dynamism of creation coming to life on stage on two special nights at Portikus. The costumes were developed in collaboration with New York-based designer Susan Cianciolo.
Wine. Nudity.
Participants: Inga Danysz, Hélène Fauquet, Adam Fearon, Genoveva Filipovic, Charlie Froud, Timothy Furey, Nik Geene, Edgars Gluhovs, Erika Landström, Ellen Yeon Kim, Yuki Kishino, Michael Krebber, Erik Lavesson, Oona Lea von Maydell, Daniel Murnaghan, Aislinn McNamara, Clare Molloy, Dana Munro, Luzie Hanna Karolina Meyer, Julien Nguyen, Olga Pedan, George Rippon, Mahsa Saloor, Simon Speiser, Anina Trösch, Colin Whitaker, Anna Susanna Woof-Dwight, Phillip Zach, Anna Zacharoff, amongst others.
13 December 2012–13 January 2013
Jack Smith—A display of ephemera from private collections
For the following month at Portikus, visitors have the opportunity to view the remnants of the mise-en-scène and a selection of rare ephemera by Jack Smith from the private collections of Cosima von Bonin, Michael Krebber, Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller.
The project was made possible with the generous support of Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main and Hessische Kulturstiftung.
Portikus
Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
60594 Frankfurt/Main
Tel: +49 69 962 4454 - 13
Fax: +49 69 962 4454 - 24
claudia.famulok@portikus.de
www.portikus.de
HAMLET, mise-en-scène; by Städelschule’s Pure Fiction seminar imagining being trained in Reptilian Acting Technique
Developed by Mark von Schlegell
As the “live” component and finale to the EXTRA TROUBLE—Jack Smith in Frankfurt festival, Portikus presents a nonexistent version of Hamlet. Channeling the ghost of American filmmaker and artist Jack Smith, Shakespeare’s most abused tragedy will be adapted, retold and performed by the Städelschule’s Pure Fiction seminar.
Directed by esteemed writer, Guest Professor Mark von Schlegell, with support by renowned artist Professor Michael Krebber, this rendition of Hamlet pays homage to Jack Smith by declining to represent him in coherent institutional fashion. Audiences will be invited to take part in the dynamism of creation coming to life on stage on two special nights at Portikus. The costumes were developed in collaboration with New York-based designer Susan Cianciolo.
Wine. Nudity.
Participants: Inga Danysz, Hélène Fauquet, Adam Fearon, Genoveva Filipovic, Charlie Froud, Timothy Furey, Nik Geene, Edgars Gluhovs, Erika Landström, Ellen Yeon Kim, Yuki Kishino, Michael Krebber, Erik Lavesson, Oona Lea von Maydell, Daniel Murnaghan, Aislinn McNamara, Clare Molloy, Dana Munro, Luzie Hanna Karolina Meyer, Julien Nguyen, Olga Pedan, George Rippon, Mahsa Saloor, Simon Speiser, Anina Trösch, Colin Whitaker, Anna Susanna Woof-Dwight, Phillip Zach, Anna Zacharoff, amongst others.
13 December 2012–13 January 2013
Jack Smith—A display of ephemera from private collections
For the following month at Portikus, visitors have the opportunity to view the remnants of the mise-en-scène and a selection of rare ephemera by Jack Smith from the private collections of Cosima von Bonin, Michael Krebber, Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller.
The project was made possible with the generous support of Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main and Hessische Kulturstiftung.
Portikus
Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
60594 Frankfurt/Main
Tel: +49 69 962 4454 - 13
Fax: +49 69 962 4454 - 24
claudia.famulok@portikus.de
www.portikus.de
Montag, 3. Dezember 2012
THOMAS SCHEIBITZ & BEATE SÖNTGEN
MMK Talk
Thomas Scheibitz im Gespräch mit Beate Söntgen
Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012, 19 Uhr, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
In der dritten Ausgabe der gemeinsam von der Städelschule und dem Museum für Moderne Kunst konzipierten Veranstaltungsreihe MMK Talks dreht sich alles um das Thema "The Artists". Herausragende Künstler aus der MMK Sammlung diskutieren mit jeweils einem Gesprächspartner ihrer Wahl.
Thomas Scheibitz *1968 in Radeberg bei Dresden, erforscht in seinen Gemälden und Skulpturen die Grenze zwischen Figürlichkeit und Abstraktion, indem er vertraute Erscheinungen aufgreift und in einem mehrstufigen Abstraktionsprozess in eine persönliche Bildsprache übersetzt. Ausgangpunkt für seine Themen und Motive sind Vorlagen aus der Alltags- und Populärkultur wie Film, Literatur, Musik und Werbung sowie Architektur, aber auch kunsthistorische Bildvorlagen aus dem Mittelalter oder der Renaissance. Aus zahllosen, archivierten Eindrücken übersetzt Scheibitz Gesehenes in eine neue Bildsprache und gewinnt so die Formen und Strukturen seiner Gemälde und Skulpturen.
Zusammen mit Tino Sehgal gestaltete er 2005 den deutschen Pavillon bei der 51. Biennale in Venedig und noch bis Januar 2013 ist seine Ausstellung One-Time Pad im MMK zu sehen.
Beate Söntgen *1963 in Stolberg ist Professorin für Kunstgeschichte an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
Sie studierte Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie und Neuere deutsche Literatur in Marburg und Berlin; 1991 Magister Artium, Freie Universität Berlin, mit einer Arbeit über die Selbstdarstellung Lovis Corinths. 1996 promovierte sie über den deutschen Realismus an der Freien Universität Berlin. 1996-1998 war sie Postdoc-Stipendiatin am Graduiertenkolleg «Rhetorik-Repräsentation-Wissen», Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder.
Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind zeitgenössische Kunst, Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts, Niederländische Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts, Kunsttheorie und Ästhetik, Theorie der Wahrnehmung, Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte und Geschlechterforschung.
Eine Kooperation von Städelschule und MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Thomas Scheibitz im Gespräch mit Beate Söntgen
Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012, 19 Uhr, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
In der dritten Ausgabe der gemeinsam von der Städelschule und dem Museum für Moderne Kunst konzipierten Veranstaltungsreihe MMK Talks dreht sich alles um das Thema "The Artists". Herausragende Künstler aus der MMK Sammlung diskutieren mit jeweils einem Gesprächspartner ihrer Wahl.
Thomas Scheibitz *1968 in Radeberg bei Dresden, erforscht in seinen Gemälden und Skulpturen die Grenze zwischen Figürlichkeit und Abstraktion, indem er vertraute Erscheinungen aufgreift und in einem mehrstufigen Abstraktionsprozess in eine persönliche Bildsprache übersetzt. Ausgangpunkt für seine Themen und Motive sind Vorlagen aus der Alltags- und Populärkultur wie Film, Literatur, Musik und Werbung sowie Architektur, aber auch kunsthistorische Bildvorlagen aus dem Mittelalter oder der Renaissance. Aus zahllosen, archivierten Eindrücken übersetzt Scheibitz Gesehenes in eine neue Bildsprache und gewinnt so die Formen und Strukturen seiner Gemälde und Skulpturen.
Zusammen mit Tino Sehgal gestaltete er 2005 den deutschen Pavillon bei der 51. Biennale in Venedig und noch bis Januar 2013 ist seine Ausstellung One-Time Pad im MMK zu sehen.
Beate Söntgen *1963 in Stolberg ist Professorin für Kunstgeschichte an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
Sie studierte Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie und Neuere deutsche Literatur in Marburg und Berlin; 1991 Magister Artium, Freie Universität Berlin, mit einer Arbeit über die Selbstdarstellung Lovis Corinths. 1996 promovierte sie über den deutschen Realismus an der Freien Universität Berlin. 1996-1998 war sie Postdoc-Stipendiatin am Graduiertenkolleg «Rhetorik-Repräsentation-Wissen», Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder.
Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind zeitgenössische Kunst, Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts, Niederländische Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts, Kunsttheorie und Ästhetik, Theorie der Wahrnehmung, Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte und Geschlechterforschung.
Eine Kooperation von Städelschule und MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Montag, 26. November 2012
Katharina Fritsch & Julian Heynen
Gespräch
Katharina Fritsch im Gespräch mit Julian Heynen
Freitag, 30. November 2012, 19 Uhr, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
In der dritten Ausgabe der gemeinsam von der Städelschule und dem Museum für Moderne Kunst konzipierten Veranstaltungsreihe MMK Talks dreht sich alles um das Thema "The Artists". Herausragende Künstler aus der MMK Sammlung diskutieren mit jeweils einem Gesprächspartner ihrer Wahl.
Katharina Fritsch wird 1956 in Essen geboren. Sie ergreift zunächst das Studium Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte in Münster, wechselt jedoch 1977 die Fächer und geht an die Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, an der sie bei Fritz Schwegler bis 1984 studiert. 2001 erhält Fritsch eine Professur für Bildhauerei an der Kunstakademie Münster und seit 2010 lehrt sie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Ihre Skulpturen, Objekte, Bilder und Installationen spielen mit der Spannung von Realität und Irrealem, von Surrealem und Unheimlichem, von Sein und Schein. In ihrer plakativen Zeichenhaftigkeit, ihrer Einprägsamkeit weisen die in veränderten medialen Zusammenhängen gezeigten Objekte durchaus Parallelen zur populären Bildwelt, zu computergenerierten Icons und Bildkürzeln oder comichaften Figuren auf.
Fritschs Objekte basieren auf einem die künstlerische »Vision« rekonstruierenden, aber zugleich auch an den industriell gefertigten figürlichen Alltagserzeugnissen ausgerichteten skulpturalen Entwicklungsprozess. Die Künstlerin bedient sich dabei aktueller Fabrikationstechniken, produziert Prototypen aus Polyester, Plastik, Plexiglas. Werke wie ihre bekannte Tischgesellschaft (1988), eine Installation männlicher Figuren an zwei Seiten eines langen, ornamental bedeckten Tisches, zeigen dies in ihrer formalisierten Figürlichkeit und der deckenden schwarz-weißen Farbigkeit der seriellen Gestalten, die dem gesamten Ensemble eine ebenso unpersönliche wie irreale Dimension verleihen. Zugleich erscheinen solche Arbeiten auch wie skulpturale Fassungen medial vermittelter Bilder, wie manifest gewordene Klischees.
Julian Heynen studierte Kunst- und Literaturgeschichte und promovierte über den amerikanischen Maler Barnett Newman. Seit den achtziger Jahren Kurator und Autor für zeitgenössische Kunst. Assistent am Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Ausstellungsleiter und stellv. Direktor der Krefelder Kunstmuseen (Museum Haus Lange, Museum Haus Esters, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum). Danach Künstlerischer Leiter von K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Seit 2009 Künstlerischer Leiter für besondere Aufgaben bei der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. 2003 und 2005 Kommissar des deutschen Pavillons auf der Biennale von Venedig, 2007 Ko-Kurator der Shanghai Biennale. 2007 bis 2010 Teilnehmer der Fernsehsendung „Bilderstreit“ (3SAT).
Eine Kooperation von Städelschule und MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Katharina Fritsch im Gespräch mit Julian Heynen
Freitag, 30. November 2012, 19 Uhr, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
In der dritten Ausgabe der gemeinsam von der Städelschule und dem Museum für Moderne Kunst konzipierten Veranstaltungsreihe MMK Talks dreht sich alles um das Thema "The Artists". Herausragende Künstler aus der MMK Sammlung diskutieren mit jeweils einem Gesprächspartner ihrer Wahl.
Katharina Fritsch wird 1956 in Essen geboren. Sie ergreift zunächst das Studium Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte in Münster, wechselt jedoch 1977 die Fächer und geht an die Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, an der sie bei Fritz Schwegler bis 1984 studiert. 2001 erhält Fritsch eine Professur für Bildhauerei an der Kunstakademie Münster und seit 2010 lehrt sie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Ihre Skulpturen, Objekte, Bilder und Installationen spielen mit der Spannung von Realität und Irrealem, von Surrealem und Unheimlichem, von Sein und Schein. In ihrer plakativen Zeichenhaftigkeit, ihrer Einprägsamkeit weisen die in veränderten medialen Zusammenhängen gezeigten Objekte durchaus Parallelen zur populären Bildwelt, zu computergenerierten Icons und Bildkürzeln oder comichaften Figuren auf.
Fritschs Objekte basieren auf einem die künstlerische »Vision« rekonstruierenden, aber zugleich auch an den industriell gefertigten figürlichen Alltagserzeugnissen ausgerichteten skulpturalen Entwicklungsprozess. Die Künstlerin bedient sich dabei aktueller Fabrikationstechniken, produziert Prototypen aus Polyester, Plastik, Plexiglas. Werke wie ihre bekannte Tischgesellschaft (1988), eine Installation männlicher Figuren an zwei Seiten eines langen, ornamental bedeckten Tisches, zeigen dies in ihrer formalisierten Figürlichkeit und der deckenden schwarz-weißen Farbigkeit der seriellen Gestalten, die dem gesamten Ensemble eine ebenso unpersönliche wie irreale Dimension verleihen. Zugleich erscheinen solche Arbeiten auch wie skulpturale Fassungen medial vermittelter Bilder, wie manifest gewordene Klischees.
Julian Heynen studierte Kunst- und Literaturgeschichte und promovierte über den amerikanischen Maler Barnett Newman. Seit den achtziger Jahren Kurator und Autor für zeitgenössische Kunst. Assistent am Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Ausstellungsleiter und stellv. Direktor der Krefelder Kunstmuseen (Museum Haus Lange, Museum Haus Esters, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum). Danach Künstlerischer Leiter von K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Seit 2009 Künstlerischer Leiter für besondere Aufgaben bei der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. 2003 und 2005 Kommissar des deutschen Pavillons auf der Biennale von Venedig, 2007 Ko-Kurator der Shanghai Biennale. 2007 bis 2010 Teilnehmer der Fernsehsendung „Bilderstreit“ (3SAT).
Eine Kooperation von Städelschule und MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Michael Stevenson
Vortrag
Michael Stevenson: Artist Talk
Donnerstag, 29. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Michael Stevenson (b. 1964) is a New Zealand born artist who lives in Berlin. He has become known for his large-scale installations yet his work also encompasses filmmaking, photography, printmaking, writing and publishing. His practice is based in research that more often begins by reviewing historical events; via auxiliary objects these histories are converted and re-told in a form that assumes the exemplary. Underlying this process is simply the need to visualize our complex relationship with things.
His projects have been exhibited at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Witte de With, Rotterdam; The Power Plant, Toronto; Arnolfini, Bristol; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Tate Modern, London: 50th Venice Biennale; Art Unlimited, Art Basel 38; and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach.
In this talk the artist will discuss the current Portikus exhibition and its development via and through earlier projects
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Michael Stevenson: Artist Talk
Donnerstag, 29. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Michael Stevenson (b. 1964) is a New Zealand born artist who lives in Berlin. He has become known for his large-scale installations yet his work also encompasses filmmaking, photography, printmaking, writing and publishing. His practice is based in research that more often begins by reviewing historical events; via auxiliary objects these histories are converted and re-told in a form that assumes the exemplary. Underlying this process is simply the need to visualize our complex relationship with things.
His projects have been exhibited at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Witte de With, Rotterdam; The Power Plant, Toronto; Arnolfini, Bristol; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Tate Modern, London: 50th Venice Biennale; Art Unlimited, Art Basel 38; and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach.
In this talk the artist will discuss the current Portikus exhibition and its development via and through earlier projects
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Christian Höller
Vortrag
Christian Höller: Dr. Shrinkelstein's Couch – Der späte Jack Smith und sein widerspenstiges (Nach-)Wirken
Dienstag, 27. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Christian Höller is editor of springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst and has written extensively on art and cultural theory. Between 2002 and 2007, he has been Visiting Professor at the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Geneva; in 2006–07, he was scientific editor of documenta 12 magazines.
He has been curator of the special programs Pop Unlimited? (2000), and No Wave New York 1976–84 (2010) at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (the latter was also shown at Austrian Filmmuseum Vienna in 2010, and at HAU – Hebbel am Ufer Berlin in 2011). In 2009, he was sub-curator of the exhibition See This Sound (Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz; section „Site Sound Industry“), and in 2011, he co-curated the exhibition Hauntings – Ghost Box Media (Medienturm Graz) as well as the accompanying concert series Sonic Spectres.
In 2001, he edited the anthology Pop Unlimited? (Turia + Kant, Vienna); in 2005, the volume Techno-Visionen (Folio, Vienna/Bolzano; co-editor) as well as the catalogue Hans Weigand (Walther König, Cologne); in 2012, editor of L'Internationale: Post-War Avant-Gardes Between 1957 and 1986 (JRP | Ringier, Zurich). His volume of interviews Time Action Vision: Conversations in Cultural Studies, Theory, and Activism was published by JRP | Ringier, Zurich / Les presses du réel, Dijon in 2010.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Christian Höller: Dr. Shrinkelstein's Couch – Der späte Jack Smith und sein widerspenstiges (Nach-)Wirken
Dienstag, 27. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Christian Höller is editor of springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst and has written extensively on art and cultural theory. Between 2002 and 2007, he has been Visiting Professor at the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Geneva; in 2006–07, he was scientific editor of documenta 12 magazines.
He has been curator of the special programs Pop Unlimited? (2000), and No Wave New York 1976–84 (2010) at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (the latter was also shown at Austrian Filmmuseum Vienna in 2010, and at HAU – Hebbel am Ufer Berlin in 2011). In 2009, he was sub-curator of the exhibition See This Sound (Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz; section „Site Sound Industry“), and in 2011, he co-curated the exhibition Hauntings – Ghost Box Media (Medienturm Graz) as well as the accompanying concert series Sonic Spectres.
In 2001, he edited the anthology Pop Unlimited? (Turia + Kant, Vienna); in 2005, the volume Techno-Visionen (Folio, Vienna/Bolzano; co-editor) as well as the catalogue Hans Weigand (Walther König, Cologne); in 2012, editor of L'Internationale: Post-War Avant-Gardes Between 1957 and 1986 (JRP | Ringier, Zurich). His volume of interviews Time Action Vision: Conversations in Cultural Studies, Theory, and Activism was published by JRP | Ringier, Zurich / Les presses du réel, Dijon in 2010.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Dienstag, 20. November 2012
Jerry Tartaglia
Vortrag
Jerry Tartaglia: Jack Smith and the Glamour of Sharkbait
Mittwoch, 21. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Jerry Tartaglia is an experimental filmmaker and writer whose work in Experimental Film and Queer Cinema spans four decades. He studied with the Abstract Expressionist Painter, Harry Koursaros, who introduced him to the work of Jack Smith, Jonas Mekas, and Gregory Markopoulos. Later, he co-founded Berks Filmmakers Inc, one of the longest surviving Micro-Cinema Showcases for Experimental Media Art in the U.S. In the 1970s he produced his lost feature, Lawless with Warhol Factory star Pope Ondine. He also assisted Tony Conrad in the manufacture & production of the Yellow Movie series in 1973. He was the first to write about the gay sensibility in American Avant-Garde film (1977) and his work is an ongoing examination of Identity and media politics through Cinema. The A.I.D.S. Trilogy (A.I.D.S.C..R.E.A.M., Ecce Homo, and Final Solutions) made during the early days of the epidemic in America, has been screened around the world.
His work was included in the Century-end retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, "The Art of the 20th Century." Seven of his films have been premiered at the Berlinale since 1990. In 1993 he was one of the twelve artists who created the Red Ribbon as a symbol of A.I.D.S. awareness through the Artists' Caucus of Visual AIDS in NYC, paving the way for awareness ribbons of all kinds. In the early 1990s, he began the work of restoring and preserving the film legacy of Jack Smith. He reconstructed Smith's three feature films and eleven shorts for the Smith Estate, and in 2011 restored the Smith oeuvre for the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in NYC.
His recent work in Live Film Performance premiered at MIX 24, the NY Queer Media Festival, and uses celluloid film, digital imaging, and live action to explore the element of Presence in moving image art. He also teaches Cinema, writing, and media production.
Jerry Tartaglia will discuss the horror of celluloid film preservation and the pitfalls of restoring the Jack Smith film oeuvre in an environment of art sharks, manic lobsters and dead fish.
Jerry Tartaglia: Jack Smith and the Glamour of Sharkbait
Mittwoch, 21. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Jerry Tartaglia is an experimental filmmaker and writer whose work in Experimental Film and Queer Cinema spans four decades. He studied with the Abstract Expressionist Painter, Harry Koursaros, who introduced him to the work of Jack Smith, Jonas Mekas, and Gregory Markopoulos. Later, he co-founded Berks Filmmakers Inc, one of the longest surviving Micro-Cinema Showcases for Experimental Media Art in the U.S. In the 1970s he produced his lost feature, Lawless with Warhol Factory star Pope Ondine. He also assisted Tony Conrad in the manufacture & production of the Yellow Movie series in 1973. He was the first to write about the gay sensibility in American Avant-Garde film (1977) and his work is an ongoing examination of Identity and media politics through Cinema. The A.I.D.S. Trilogy (A.I.D.S.C..R.E.A.M., Ecce Homo, and Final Solutions) made during the early days of the epidemic in America, has been screened around the world.
His work was included in the Century-end retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, "The Art of the 20th Century." Seven of his films have been premiered at the Berlinale since 1990. In 1993 he was one of the twelve artists who created the Red Ribbon as a symbol of A.I.D.S. awareness through the Artists' Caucus of Visual AIDS in NYC, paving the way for awareness ribbons of all kinds. In the early 1990s, he began the work of restoring and preserving the film legacy of Jack Smith. He reconstructed Smith's three feature films and eleven shorts for the Smith Estate, and in 2011 restored the Smith oeuvre for the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in NYC.
His recent work in Live Film Performance premiered at MIX 24, the NY Queer Media Festival, and uses celluloid film, digital imaging, and live action to explore the element of Presence in moving image art. He also teaches Cinema, writing, and media production.
Jerry Tartaglia will discuss the horror of celluloid film preservation and the pitfalls of restoring the Jack Smith film oeuvre in an environment of art sharks, manic lobsters and dead fish.
Charles Esche
Vortrag
Masterstudiengang Curatorial and Critical Studies
Charles Esche: Living and Working in Historical Times
Dienstag, 20. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Charles Esche (* 1962) is a curator and writer. He is Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and co-editor of Afterall Journal and Afterall Books based at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London. He is visiting lecturer at a number of European art academies and was a board member of Manifesta. In 2012 he received the European Cultural Foundation's Princess Margriet Award. In 2011, he co-curated Strange and Close for CAPC, Bordeaux. In the last years, he has curated the following biennials: in 2010 U3, the Slovenian Triennale in Ljubljana; in 2009 and 2007 with Khalil Rabah the 2nd RIWAQ Biennial, Ramallah, Palestine; in 2005 co-curator of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial with Vasif Kortun and in 2002 the co-curator with Hou Hanru and Song Wan Kyung of the Gwangju Biennale, Republic of Korea.
Between 2000 and 2004 he was the Director of Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, where he made solo exhibitions with Surasi Kusolwong, Nedko Solakov and Superflex a.o. and group shows including “Baltic Babel” and “Intentional Communities” From 1998 to 2002 he organised the international art academic research project called ‘protoacademy’ at Edinburgh College of Art. From 1993 to 1997 he was Visual Arts Director at Tramway, Glasgow where he curated exhibitions by Elisabeth Ballet, Christine Borland, Roderick Buchanan Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Monk, Stephen Willats and Richard Wright as well as group shows such as Trust and The Unbelievable Truth.
His main work has involved working on the constitution of art institutions, most recently the museum but also the qualities of the art centre or biennial. His writings on institutional possibility and policy are useful aids to rethinking the relation between art and social change. A book of his selected writings, Modest Proposals, was published by Baglam Press, Istanbul in 2005. He has written for numerous catalogues and magazines including: The Netherlands, for example (ed.), JP Ringier, 2007; Collective Creativity, Fredericianum, Kassel, 2006; Artur Zmijewski, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005; Shifting Map, NAI, Rotterdam, 2004. He has written for art magazines Artforum, Frieze, Parkett and Art Monthly among others.
Masterstudiengang Curatorial and Critical Studies
Charles Esche: Living and Working in Historical Times
Dienstag, 20. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Charles Esche (* 1962) is a curator and writer. He is Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and co-editor of Afterall Journal and Afterall Books based at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London. He is visiting lecturer at a number of European art academies and was a board member of Manifesta. In 2012 he received the European Cultural Foundation's Princess Margriet Award. In 2011, he co-curated Strange and Close for CAPC, Bordeaux. In the last years, he has curated the following biennials: in 2010 U3, the Slovenian Triennale in Ljubljana; in 2009 and 2007 with Khalil Rabah the 2nd RIWAQ Biennial, Ramallah, Palestine; in 2005 co-curator of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial with Vasif Kortun and in 2002 the co-curator with Hou Hanru and Song Wan Kyung of the Gwangju Biennale, Republic of Korea.
Between 2000 and 2004 he was the Director of Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, where he made solo exhibitions with Surasi Kusolwong, Nedko Solakov and Superflex a.o. and group shows including “Baltic Babel” and “Intentional Communities” From 1998 to 2002 he organised the international art academic research project called ‘protoacademy’ at Edinburgh College of Art. From 1993 to 1997 he was Visual Arts Director at Tramway, Glasgow where he curated exhibitions by Elisabeth Ballet, Christine Borland, Roderick Buchanan Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Monk, Stephen Willats and Richard Wright as well as group shows such as Trust and The Unbelievable Truth.
His main work has involved working on the constitution of art institutions, most recently the museum but also the qualities of the art centre or biennial. His writings on institutional possibility and policy are useful aids to rethinking the relation between art and social change. A book of his selected writings, Modest Proposals, was published by Baglam Press, Istanbul in 2005. He has written for numerous catalogues and magazines including: The Netherlands, for example (ed.), JP Ringier, 2007; Collective Creativity, Fredericianum, Kassel, 2006; Artur Zmijewski, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005; Shifting Map, NAI, Rotterdam, 2004. He has written for art magazines Artforum, Frieze, Parkett and Art Monthly among others.
Montag, 12. November 2012
Wolfgang Tillmans
Vortrag
Wolfgang Tillmans
Mittwoch, 14. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle
Wolfgang Tillmans was born 1968 in Remscheid/Germany and currently lives/works in Berlin & London.
He was a full-time professor for interdisciplinary art from 2003 to 2009 and is presently a honorary professor at the Städelschule.
Since 2006 he runs the exhibition space „Between Bridges“ in London.
Tillmans first attracted attention at the beginning of the 1990s, with his apparently mundane pictures of subjects taken from his own surroundings. After studying in Britain, he published photographs in prominent publications such as i-D, Spex and Interview. Today, these pictures are considered trendsetting for the young generation of the 1990s, and raise questions about subcultures and sexual identities. By turning everyday situations into almost monumental images, Tillmans very strikingly captured the spirit of the times. It soon became evident that his pictures renegotiate photographic conventions and reflect contemporary currents related to culture and identity. Since then, Tillmans has continued his in-depth investigations, expanding the the realm of photography and redefining the very medium as an artform.
Recently Tillmans' art has taken a number of different directions, revolving around various issues, everything from still lifes and modern landscapes to his lifelong interest in astronomy and the night sky. He has also taken his in-depth exploration of abstract photography even further. Tillmans’ abstract images are more closley related to the painterly tradition and he researches photography as a self-reflexive medium. Abstract images, such as Freischwimmer and Silver, are made in the darkroom, striking a balance between the deliberate and chance.
In recent years, Tillmans has been travelling the world taking photographs with the general title Neue Welt. These pictures relate to the new world of markets and trade, to politics and economics, and to the hypermodern. The title also refers to the new digital camera that Wolfgang used to take these pictures, which captures and documents more detail than we can perceive with the naked eye.
In the year 2000, he was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize, the first non-British artist and the first photographer to receive the prize.
In this talk Wolfgang Tillmans will present work he made since 2009, when his time of regular teaching at Städelschule ended.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Im Anschluss findet ein von den Studierenden ausgerichteter Umtrunk in der Mensa statt.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Mittwoch, 14. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle
Wolfgang Tillmans was born 1968 in Remscheid/Germany and currently lives/works in Berlin & London.
He was a full-time professor for interdisciplinary art from 2003 to 2009 and is presently a honorary professor at the Städelschule.
Since 2006 he runs the exhibition space „Between Bridges“ in London.
Tillmans first attracted attention at the beginning of the 1990s, with his apparently mundane pictures of subjects taken from his own surroundings. After studying in Britain, he published photographs in prominent publications such as i-D, Spex and Interview. Today, these pictures are considered trendsetting for the young generation of the 1990s, and raise questions about subcultures and sexual identities. By turning everyday situations into almost monumental images, Tillmans very strikingly captured the spirit of the times. It soon became evident that his pictures renegotiate photographic conventions and reflect contemporary currents related to culture and identity. Since then, Tillmans has continued his in-depth investigations, expanding the the realm of photography and redefining the very medium as an artform.
Recently Tillmans' art has taken a number of different directions, revolving around various issues, everything from still lifes and modern landscapes to his lifelong interest in astronomy and the night sky. He has also taken his in-depth exploration of abstract photography even further. Tillmans’ abstract images are more closley related to the painterly tradition and he researches photography as a self-reflexive medium. Abstract images, such as Freischwimmer and Silver, are made in the darkroom, striking a balance between the deliberate and chance.
In recent years, Tillmans has been travelling the world taking photographs with the general title Neue Welt. These pictures relate to the new world of markets and trade, to politics and economics, and to the hypermodern. The title also refers to the new digital camera that Wolfgang used to take these pictures, which captures and documents more detail than we can perceive with the naked eye.
In the year 2000, he was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize, the first non-British artist and the first photographer to receive the prize.
In this talk Wolfgang Tillmans will present work he made since 2009, when his time of regular teaching at Städelschule ended.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Im Anschluss findet ein von den Studierenden ausgerichteter Umtrunk in der Mensa statt.
Dienstag, 6. November 2012
Georges Didi-Hubermann
Vortrag
Georges Didi-Hubermann: Photos, Pathos, Pothos – L'«Image Vivante» Selon Roland Barthes
Institut für Kunstkritik
Freitag, 9. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle
With more than 30 publications dedicated to the history and theory of images, Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the most recognized French intellectuals. As a philosopher and art historian, he has published prolific books such as «Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde» (1992) and «Images in Spite of all: Four Photographs from Auschwitz» (2012). Didi-Huberman teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and curated several exhibitions including «L'Empreinte» at Centre Georges Pompidou (1997) and «ATLAS. How to Carry the World on One's Back?» at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2011).
A Project within the Framework of the European Cultural Days of the ECB - France 2012
in Cooperation with Institut Français D' Historie en Allemagne
Georges Didi-Hubermann: Photos, Pathos, Pothos – L'«Image Vivante» Selon Roland Barthes
Institut für Kunstkritik
Freitag, 9. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle
With more than 30 publications dedicated to the history and theory of images, Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the most recognized French intellectuals. As a philosopher and art historian, he has published prolific books such as «Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde» (1992) and «Images in Spite of all: Four Photographs from Auschwitz» (2012). Didi-Huberman teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and curated several exhibitions including «L'Empreinte» at Centre Georges Pompidou (1997) and «ATLAS. How to Carry the World on One's Back?» at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2011).
A Project within the Framework of the European Cultural Days of the ECB - France 2012
in Cooperation with Institut Français D' Historie en Allemagne
Gelitin
Vortrag
Gelitin: There is no Texture like Showtexture
Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle
Viennese artist collective Gelitin describe themselves as follows: "Gelitin is comprised of four artists. They met first in 1978 when they all attended a summer camp. They have been playing and working together. From 1993 they began exhibiting internationally."
Gelitin´s solo shows include "The Fall Show" at Greene Naftali Gallery (New York, 2012), "La Louvre - Paris" at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2008), Chinese Synthese Leberkäse at Kunsthaus Bregenz (2006), and "Die totale Osmose", a swamp surrounding the Austrian Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 2001. Their work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions such as the "Gelatin Pavilion" at the Biennale di Venezia (2011), "Zapf de Pipi", a sculpture of frozen urine at the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005), "Armpit", a human elevator of body builders at the Liverpool Biennale (2002), and "True Love IV" at the Gwangju Biennale (2002).
In cooperation with Rossmarkt 3
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Gelitin: There is no Texture like Showtexture
Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle
Viennese artist collective Gelitin describe themselves as follows: "Gelitin is comprised of four artists. They met first in 1978 when they all attended a summer camp. They have been playing and working together. From 1993 they began exhibiting internationally."
Gelitin´s solo shows include "The Fall Show" at Greene Naftali Gallery (New York, 2012), "La Louvre - Paris" at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2008), Chinese Synthese Leberkäse at Kunsthaus Bregenz (2006), and "Die totale Osmose", a swamp surrounding the Austrian Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 2001. Their work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions such as the "Gelatin Pavilion" at the Biennale di Venezia (2011), "Zapf de Pipi", a sculpture of frozen urine at the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005), "Armpit", a human elevator of body builders at the Liverpool Biennale (2002), and "True Love IV" at the Gwangju Biennale (2002).
In cooperation with Rossmarkt 3
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 22. Oktober 2012
David Cunningham
Vortrag
David Cunningham: Discontinuity, Digression and Non-Intentionality
Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Some people know David Cunningham's work as an artist whose installations explore the spectator's real time experience of the acoustic properties of a space. Others are more familiar with his parallel life as a record producer and musician who over many years has worked with an eclectic range of people, amongst many others The Flying Lizards, Michael Nyman, Johnny Thunders and Martin Creed. As composer, producer or performer Cunningham is driven by a strong impulse to collaborate which is directed in his artwork not only towards the musicians or artists he has worked with but crucially to the audience as well.
This is integral to his installation works which have inhabited the 11th Biennale of Sydney, Tate Britain, ICC Tokyo, Ikon Birmingham and more recently 1m3 Lausanne. These installations articulate the acoustics of a space in real time, an audible phenomenon integrated with the presence of the spectator.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
David Cunningham: Discontinuity, Digression and Non-Intentionality
Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Some people know David Cunningham's work as an artist whose installations explore the spectator's real time experience of the acoustic properties of a space. Others are more familiar with his parallel life as a record producer and musician who over many years has worked with an eclectic range of people, amongst many others The Flying Lizards, Michael Nyman, Johnny Thunders and Martin Creed. As composer, producer or performer Cunningham is driven by a strong impulse to collaborate which is directed in his artwork not only towards the musicians or artists he has worked with but crucially to the audience as well.
This is integral to his installation works which have inhabited the 11th Biennale of Sydney, Tate Britain, ICC Tokyo, Ikon Birmingham and more recently 1m3 Lausanne. These installations articulate the acoustics of a space in real time, an audible phenomenon integrated with the presence of the spectator.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
HANS-PETER FELDMANN & HANS ULRICH OBRIST
Vortrag
Hans-Peter Feldmann im Gespräch mit Hans Ulrich Obrist
Montag, 22. Oktober 2012, 19 Uhr, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
In der dritten Ausgabe der gemeinsam von der Städelschule und dem Museum für Moderne Kunst konzipierten Veranstaltungsreihe MMK Talks dreht sich alles um das Thema "The Artists". Herausragende Künstler aus der MMK Sammlung diskutieren mit jeweils einem Gesprächspartner ihrer Wahl.
Hans-Peter Feldmann lebt und arbeitet in Düsseldorf. Wichtigste Werke Feldmanns in der Sammlung des MMK sind die Serie Die Toten, 1967 – 1993 (1996 – 1998) und Das Kinderzimmer (2002).
Hans Ulrich Obrist ist Kurator und Kritiker. Seit 2006 Co-Direktor der Serpentine Gallery in London.
Mit dem Künstler und dem Kurator treffen beim nächsten MMK Talk zwei alte Bekannte aufeinander. Feldmann und Obrist arbeiteten bereits 1991 im Rahmen der ersten von Obrist kuratierten Ausstellung "The Kitchen Show" zusammen, bei der die Küche des Kurators in St. Gallen zum Ausstellungsraum wurde. Seitdem trafen sie in öffentlichen Gesprächen mehrfach aufeinander. Für Obrists "The Interview Project" (2010) antwortete Feldmann jeweils mit Bildern auf die schriftlichen Interviewfragen.
Eine Kooperation von Städelschule und MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Hans-Peter Feldmann im Gespräch mit Hans Ulrich Obrist
Montag, 22. Oktober 2012, 19 Uhr, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
In der dritten Ausgabe der gemeinsam von der Städelschule und dem Museum für Moderne Kunst konzipierten Veranstaltungsreihe MMK Talks dreht sich alles um das Thema "The Artists". Herausragende Künstler aus der MMK Sammlung diskutieren mit jeweils einem Gesprächspartner ihrer Wahl.
Hans-Peter Feldmann lebt und arbeitet in Düsseldorf. Wichtigste Werke Feldmanns in der Sammlung des MMK sind die Serie Die Toten, 1967 – 1993 (1996 – 1998) und Das Kinderzimmer (2002).
Hans Ulrich Obrist ist Kurator und Kritiker. Seit 2006 Co-Direktor der Serpentine Gallery in London.
Mit dem Künstler und dem Kurator treffen beim nächsten MMK Talk zwei alte Bekannte aufeinander. Feldmann und Obrist arbeiteten bereits 1991 im Rahmen der ersten von Obrist kuratierten Ausstellung "The Kitchen Show" zusammen, bei der die Küche des Kurators in St. Gallen zum Ausstellungsraum wurde. Seitdem trafen sie in öffentlichen Gesprächen mehrfach aufeinander. Für Obrists "The Interview Project" (2010) antwortete Feldmann jeweils mit Bildern auf die schriftlichen Interviewfragen.
Eine Kooperation von Städelschule und MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Mittwoch, 26. September 2012
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We cordially invite you to an afternoon symposium (in English)
Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012
4 pm, Robin Mackay
- Speculative Realism / Urbanomic
5 pm, Jan Verwoert
- “How Do I Know That What I Saw Last Night Was Real and Not Just Fantasy?”
Jol Thomson has invited guests Robin Mackay and Jan Verwoert to give presentations in the form of a symposium. The artist, instead of presenting his own object-oriented art works, offers the possibility of self-education and an investigation into the system of references that make up any (art) practice. These critically engaging lectures echo motives, which can be found throughout projects of the festival as a whole.
This project began from considering an art practice as a necessarily historical engagement with the past: "Art as citation". Jol Thomson summons and quotes the guest speakers, hosting an elaboration of the term ‘’artistic research’’ in order to define possible works from a possible future. Following this protracted inversion of time, he is interested in an approach that makes the future and past collide as a medium in the present, manifesting the referential as a “living” citation that is summoned from mutual directions in time. It is both the person speaking and the shadow of the person speaking that also defines the historical person from tomorrow.
Lecture at 4 pm,
Robin Mackay is a philosopher and director of UK publishing and arts organization Urbanomic, which promotes research activities addressing issues in philosophy and science and their correlation to contemporary art practice - it aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. Robin Mackay will present and discuss his work as a publisher, curator and philosopher in the broad and intriguing field of interdisciplinary investigation tht is speculative realisms and geo-philosophy.
Lecture at 5 pm
Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, based in Berlin. He is a contributing editor of frieze magazine, his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies and monographs. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous, MIT Press/Afterall Books 2006 and the essay collection Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want, Sternberg Press/Piet Zwart Institute 2010. His talk is, "On the vivid yet unverifiable reality of feelings, memories, inspirations, and other things that go bump in the night".
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Symposium (in English)
Hauptgebäude, Hörsaal A
Uni. Campus Bockenheim
Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012
4 pm, Robin Mackay
- Speculative Realism / Urbanomic
5 pm, Jan Verwoert
- “How Do I Know That What I Saw Last Night Was Real and Not Just Fantasy?”
Jol Thomson has invited guests Robin Mackay and Jan Verwoert to give presentations in the form of a symposium. The artist, instead of presenting his own object-oriented art works, offers the possibility of self-education and an investigation into the system of references that make up any (art) practice. These critically engaging lectures echo motives, which can be found throughout projects of the festival as a whole.
This project began from considering an art practice as a necessarily historical engagement with the past: "Art as citation". Jol Thomson summons and quotes the guest speakers, hosting an elaboration of the term ‘’artistic research’’ in order to define possible works from a possible future. Following this protracted inversion of time, he is interested in an approach that makes the future and past collide as a medium in the present, manifesting the referential as a “living” citation that is summoned from mutual directions in time. It is both the person speaking and the shadow of the person speaking that also defines the historical person from tomorrow.
Lecture at 4 pm,
Robin Mackay is a philosopher and director of UK publishing and arts organization Urbanomic, which promotes research activities addressing issues in philosophy and science and their correlation to contemporary art practice - it aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. Robin Mackay will present and discuss his work as a publisher, curator and philosopher in the broad and intriguing field of interdisciplinary investigation tht is speculative realisms and geo-philosophy.
Lecture at 5 pm
Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, based in Berlin. He is a contributing editor of frieze magazine, his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies and monographs. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous, MIT Press/Afterall Books 2006 and the essay collection Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want, Sternberg Press/Piet Zwart Institute 2010. His talk is, "On the vivid yet unverifiable reality of feelings, memories, inspirations, and other things that go bump in the night".
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Symposium (in English)
Hauptgebäude, Hörsaal A
Uni. Campus Bockenheim
Donnerstag, 2. August 2012
Das Festival der jungen Talente!
27. – 30. September 2012, Eröffnung: 27. September, 19 Uhr, Campus Bockenheim der Goethe-Universität und Senckenberg Naturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main
www.festivaljungertalente.de
www.festivaljungertalente.de
Mit Arbeiten von María Fernández-Aragón, Tilmann Aumüller, Bianca Baldi, Mathias Bär, Sulamith Bereiter, Philipp Bergmann, Elisa Caldana, Lena Ditlmann, Gal Fefferman, Timothy Furey, Gregor Glogowski, Benedikt Grubel, Seung Hee, Vytautas Jurevicius, Theresa Kampmeier, Arne Salasse, Margarethe Kollmer, Nadine Eleni Kolodziey, Lutz Krietenbrink, Tom Król, Tonio Kröner, Philipp Krüger, Veit Laurent Kurz, Melanie Matthieu, Carolin Millner, Robert Müller, Jonathan Penca, Manuel Roßner, Rushy Rush, Anja Sauer, Daniel Schauf, Ruth Schmidt, Matthias Schönijahn, Jan Philipp Stange, Nele Stuhler, Martin Tanšek, Jol Thomson u.a.
Das diesjährige Festival der jungen Talente! baut erstmalig auf ein Seminar der Kuratorin Anja Nathan-Dorn mit den teilnehmenden Studierenden auf. Die jungen Künstler_innen und die ehemalige Co-Direktorin des Kölnischen Kunstvereins, bekannt für ihr innovatives Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsprogramm, sowie zahlreiche interdisziplinäre Kooperationen, haben so gemeinsam das Festival unter dem Titel Simulation, Adaption, Illusion und Pose inhaltlich vorbereitet.
Diese sind Begriffe, die mit einem Übermaß an Inszenierung, Künstlichkeit und Realitätsfremdheit in Verbindung gebracht werden, die aber Alltag und Politik in einer mediatisierten Welt längst zu bestimmen scheinen. Es soll das Verhältnis hinterfragt werden, in welchem eine derartige Leistungsschau junger Kunst zu einer Gesellschaft steht, die von jedem/jeder einzelnen tagtäglich bestmögliche Performance, Kreativität und Selbstdarstellung verlangt.
Studierende der Bildenden Kunst, des Kommunikationsdesigns, des Tanzes, der Komposition, der Regie, der Theaterwissenschaft und der Dramaturgie präsentieren über zwanzig Performances, Installationen, Malerei und Fotografie in den Foyers des ehemaligen Hauptgebäudes der Goethe-Universität auf dem Campus Bockenheim (Jügelhaus), das Hörsaalgebäude und der Labsaal (die ehemalige Mensa der Universität) sowie ein Ausstellungsraum des Senckenberg Naturmuseums Frankfurt am Main.
Montag, 9. Juli 2012
Nora Schultz
Performance
Nora Schultz
Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr, Portikus
Nora Schultz’s show is the first solo exhibition to occupy the lower as well as the temporary upper floor at Portikus. She uses the duality within the space to develop parallel production cycles composed of sculptural sound works and printing installations that repeatedly intersect over the course of the show. Schultz’s work examines the genesis of pictorial representation and production as an artistic dynamic. She is less interested in the finished work than in how images and objects come into being and in the physical traces that process leaves behind. The actualities of production accordingly play a central role in her prints, printing machines, installations, and performances; process always remains legible.
For the second time since the opening of the exhibition, Nora Schultz will present a performance. She activates the "Portikus Printing Plant" in order to produce additional prints to be displayed in a new exhibition layout. The exhibition continues to change and evolve during its course, which further underlines the artist's interest in visualizing production processes.
Nora Schultz (1975) was born in Frankfurt and lives in Berlin. From 1998 to 2005, she was studying at the Städelschule with Christa Näher and then in the class of Mark Leckey. 2011 she was awarded the scholarship Villa Romana in Florence. Some exhibitions: Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA; Flaca/Tom Humphreys, Portikus (2011); Non-Solo Show, Non-group Show, Kunsthalle Zürich; Nora Schultz, Reena Spaulings (2008); The Metal Magazine, Galerie Meerrettich (2006).
Nora Schultz
Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr, Portikus
Nora Schultz’s show is the first solo exhibition to occupy the lower as well as the temporary upper floor at Portikus. She uses the duality within the space to develop parallel production cycles composed of sculptural sound works and printing installations that repeatedly intersect over the course of the show. Schultz’s work examines the genesis of pictorial representation and production as an artistic dynamic. She is less interested in the finished work than in how images and objects come into being and in the physical traces that process leaves behind. The actualities of production accordingly play a central role in her prints, printing machines, installations, and performances; process always remains legible.
For the second time since the opening of the exhibition, Nora Schultz will present a performance. She activates the "Portikus Printing Plant" in order to produce additional prints to be displayed in a new exhibition layout. The exhibition continues to change and evolve during its course, which further underlines the artist's interest in visualizing production processes.
Nora Schultz (1975) was born in Frankfurt and lives in Berlin. From 1998 to 2005, she was studying at the Städelschule with Christa Näher and then in the class of Mark Leckey. 2011 she was awarded the scholarship Villa Romana in Florence. Some exhibitions: Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA; Flaca/Tom Humphreys, Portikus (2011); Non-Solo Show, Non-group Show, Kunsthalle Zürich; Nora Schultz, Reena Spaulings (2008); The Metal Magazine, Galerie Meerrettich (2006).
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Dean´s Honorary Lecture
Städelschule Architecture Class (SAC)
Alejandro Zaera-Polo: Envelopes
Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr, Deutsches Architekturmuseum
The Dean's Honorary Lecture 2012 is given by Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Professor and Dean of Princeton University School of Architecture. Zaera-Polo came to international prominence in 2002 with the completion of the Yokohama Ferry Port Terminal. Since, while being at Foreign Office Architects, and, of recently, since founding Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture (AZPA), his work includes projects, such as, Birmingham New Street Redevelopment, Birmingham UK (2007-), BioPol Science Centre in Barcelona, Spain (2011-), Ravensbourne college on the Greenwich Peninsula, London (2005-) and many more. Zaera-Polo has had a prolific theoretical output. Experience with practice has turned his theoretical interest from a materialist critique of architecture to more practical concerns, such as a various forms of production that affects the practice of architecture. This includes looking to globalisation, information technology and organisational structures as well as iconography and representation in the cultural and political role of architecture. His theoretical work has been widely published and includes the book, Phylogenesis: foa’s ark, Actar, Barcelona (2003). The practical and theoretical speculations and experience have been exercised in teaching at schools, such as, Yale University School of Architecture, Princeton University School of Architecture, the AA in London - where he was unit master for eight years, and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam - where he was the dean from 2002-5. This spring, he was elected Dean of Princeton University School of Architecture.
Städelschule Architecture Class (SAC)
Alejandro Zaera-Polo: Envelopes
Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr, Deutsches Architekturmuseum
The Dean's Honorary Lecture 2012 is given by Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Professor and Dean of Princeton University School of Architecture. Zaera-Polo came to international prominence in 2002 with the completion of the Yokohama Ferry Port Terminal. Since, while being at Foreign Office Architects, and, of recently, since founding Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture (AZPA), his work includes projects, such as, Birmingham New Street Redevelopment, Birmingham UK (2007-), BioPol Science Centre in Barcelona, Spain (2011-), Ravensbourne college on the Greenwich Peninsula, London (2005-) and many more. Zaera-Polo has had a prolific theoretical output. Experience with practice has turned his theoretical interest from a materialist critique of architecture to more practical concerns, such as a various forms of production that affects the practice of architecture. This includes looking to globalisation, information technology and organisational structures as well as iconography and representation in the cultural and political role of architecture. His theoretical work has been widely published and includes the book, Phylogenesis: foa’s ark, Actar, Barcelona (2003). The practical and theoretical speculations and experience have been exercised in teaching at schools, such as, Yale University School of Architecture, Princeton University School of Architecture, the AA in London - where he was unit master for eight years, and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam - where he was the dean from 2002-5. This spring, he was elected Dean of Princeton University School of Architecture.
Karl Holmqvist
Vortrag
Karl Holmqvist: Word Text Vortex
Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
In his upcoming lecture at the Staedelschule, Karl Holmqvist will read excerpts from his new artist's book 'K which has just been recently published, while further attempting to establish possible links between writing and contemporary art. With a view of spoken word as performance, and a type of 'invisible visual arts' where the images are made up inside the listeners' minds, Karl Holmqvist will use techniques such as quotations of more or less familiar sources, repetition and ambiguity of meaning in order to point to the wide range of language's reach. All art can be said to be an act of communication–and of communion, tracing it back to its semi-ritualistic roots.
Karl Holmqvist has lectured, performed and exhibited since the early nineties, most recently with Kunsthalle Zurich and Bergen Kunsthall who are the joint publishers of his artist's book 'K together with JRP-Ringier. Last year Karl Holmqvist´s work was shown at the IllumiNations section of the 54th Venice Biennial (curated by Bice Curiger). This spring he was included in the Ecstatic Alphabets-Heaps Of Language exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in a oneperson exhibition Words Are People at Alex Zachary Peter Currie also in New York.
Karl Holmqvist: Word Text Vortex
Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
In his upcoming lecture at the Staedelschule, Karl Holmqvist will read excerpts from his new artist's book 'K which has just been recently published, while further attempting to establish possible links between writing and contemporary art. With a view of spoken word as performance, and a type of 'invisible visual arts' where the images are made up inside the listeners' minds, Karl Holmqvist will use techniques such as quotations of more or less familiar sources, repetition and ambiguity of meaning in order to point to the wide range of language's reach. All art can be said to be an act of communication–and of communion, tracing it back to its semi-ritualistic roots.
Karl Holmqvist has lectured, performed and exhibited since the early nineties, most recently with Kunsthalle Zurich and Bergen Kunsthall who are the joint publishers of his artist's book 'K together with JRP-Ringier. Last year Karl Holmqvist´s work was shown at the IllumiNations section of the 54th Venice Biennial (curated by Bice Curiger). This spring he was included in the Ecstatic Alphabets-Heaps Of Language exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in a oneperson exhibition Words Are People at Alex Zachary Peter Currie also in New York.
Dienstag, 3. Juli 2012
Renzo Martens
Vortrag
Renzo Martens: On the Institute for Human Activities
Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr Aula
In the transfer of critical art from a zone of intervention to a zone of reception, a gap seems to arise. This gap seems to be very similar to the division between labor and profit in other globalized industries. Art may expose the need for change in Nigeria or Peru, but in the end it brings opportunity, beauty, and real estate value to Berlin-Mitte, or Chelsea and the Lower East Side in New York.
Eight hundred kilometers upstream from Kinshasa, on the river Congo, the Institute for Human Activities mobilizes the modalities of art production and launches a five-year Gentrification Program.
Renzo Martens is an artist who lives in Brussels. His work was shown at Tate Modern, The Berlin Biennial, Stedelijk Museum, Van Abbemuseum, as well as on TV.
Renzo Martens: On the Institute for Human Activities
Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr Aula
In the transfer of critical art from a zone of intervention to a zone of reception, a gap seems to arise. This gap seems to be very similar to the division between labor and profit in other globalized industries. Art may expose the need for change in Nigeria or Peru, but in the end it brings opportunity, beauty, and real estate value to Berlin-Mitte, or Chelsea and the Lower East Side in New York.
Eight hundred kilometers upstream from Kinshasa, on the river Congo, the Institute for Human Activities mobilizes the modalities of art production and launches a five-year Gentrification Program.
Renzo Martens is an artist who lives in Brussels. His work was shown at Tate Modern, The Berlin Biennial, Stedelijk Museum, Van Abbemuseum, as well as on TV.
Helmut Krausser
Vortrag
Helmut Krausser: Für kurze Zeit unsterblich - Aufstieg und Fall des Alberto Franchetti
Dienstag, 3. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr Aula
Wie konnte es geschehen, daß der einstige größte Rivale Puccinis, der immerhin drei Welterfolge verbuchen konnte, so beinahe komplett aus dem Gedächtnis der Menschheit gelöscht war, bevor die Deutsche Oper Berlin im Jahr 2006 die "Germania" des Komponisten Franchetti auf die Bühne brachte. Wie konnte es geschehen, daß diese großartige Musik von vielen Kritikern mit Hohn und Spott bedacht wurde, als müsse man dem Juden Franchetti zum zweiten Mal Aufführungsverbot erteilen? Und auf welche Schwierigkeiten stößt man, wenn man es sich in den Kopf gesetzt hat, zusammen mit ein paar wenigen Mitstreitern, dieses Unrecht zu revidieren? Um diese Fragen dreht sich mein Vortrag, der in der Sache auch für jene interessant werden dürfte, die mit klassischer Musik nicht viel am Hut haben.
Helmut Krausser, Jahrgang 1964, lebt in Potsdam und Rom. Bekannt wurde er als Romancier, Lyriker und Dramatiker. Mit über fünfzig Büchern gilt er als produktivster Autor seiner Generation. Zwei seiner Romane wurden verfilmt. Er engagiert sich stark für die Wiederentdeckung des von den Faschisten verfemten Komponisten Alberto Franchetti.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Helmut Krausser: Für kurze Zeit unsterblich - Aufstieg und Fall des Alberto Franchetti
Dienstag, 3. Juli 2012, 19 Uhr Aula
Wie konnte es geschehen, daß der einstige größte Rivale Puccinis, der immerhin drei Welterfolge verbuchen konnte, so beinahe komplett aus dem Gedächtnis der Menschheit gelöscht war, bevor die Deutsche Oper Berlin im Jahr 2006 die "Germania" des Komponisten Franchetti auf die Bühne brachte. Wie konnte es geschehen, daß diese großartige Musik von vielen Kritikern mit Hohn und Spott bedacht wurde, als müsse man dem Juden Franchetti zum zweiten Mal Aufführungsverbot erteilen? Und auf welche Schwierigkeiten stößt man, wenn man es sich in den Kopf gesetzt hat, zusammen mit ein paar wenigen Mitstreitern, dieses Unrecht zu revidieren? Um diese Fragen dreht sich mein Vortrag, der in der Sache auch für jene interessant werden dürfte, die mit klassischer Musik nicht viel am Hut haben.
Helmut Krausser, Jahrgang 1964, lebt in Potsdam und Rom. Bekannt wurde er als Romancier, Lyriker und Dramatiker. Mit über fünfzig Büchern gilt er als produktivster Autor seiner Generation. Zwei seiner Romane wurden verfilmt. Er engagiert sich stark für die Wiederentdeckung des von den Faschisten verfemten Komponisten Alberto Franchetti.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Simon Denny: Information Design Attempts
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Simulation, Adaption, Illusion und Pose
Lecture series of the Hessischen Theaterakademie in the realm of Festival der jungen Talente!
Thursday, July 5, 2012, 7 pm, Simon Denny, Information Design Attempts, (in English)
Location: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, room A 208
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
http://www.hessische-theaterakademie.de/
In his installations Simon Denny has worked with the relics and ruins of past media formats - for example, the development from box-shaped monitors to the contemporary LCD monitors and the aesthetics and forms which arose out of the use of these instruments - some of which have long since become obsolete. In his publication „Envisaging Vocational Rehabilitation” published this spring he underlined the effects and sometimes inflationary and function-negating use of design-tools may have. In his lecture at Hessische Theaterakademie he will present his way of working which could be seen to be based on a quasi-archeological approach to the objects, instruments and reality of media, which seem to always be directed towards the future.
Simon Denny is a visual artist and lives in Berlin. In addition to group exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Kunstwerke Berlin (both 2011), Malmö Konsthall, Witte de With, Rotterdam (both 2010) and at Sydney Biennale 2008, he presented group exhibitions at Aspen Art Museum (2012), at Aachener Kunstverein (2011) and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2010). Beyond that he developed the settings for overview exhibitions at ICA London (2012) and Kölnischer Kunstverein (2010). Simon Denny is being represented by Michael Lett, Auckland, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln and Berlin, and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
www.hessische-theaterakademie.de
www.festivaljungertalente.de
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Simulation, Adaption, Illusion und Pose
Ringvorlesung der Hessischen Theaterakademie zum Festival der jungen Talente!
Donnerstag, 5.7.2012, 19 Uhr, Simon Denny, Information Design Attempts, (Vortrag in englischer Sprache)
Ort: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Raum A 208
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
http://www.hessische-theaterakademie.de/
Simon Denny beschäftigt sich in seinen Installationen mit den Relikten und Ruinen vergangener Medienutopien, beispielsweise mit der Entwicklung vom Kasten- zum Flachbildmonitor und Ästhetik und Formen, die aus dem Gebrauch dieser Apparate hervorgegangen, von denen einige aber längst obsolet geworden sind. In seiner im Frühjahr veröffentlichten Publikation „Envisaging Vocational Rehabilitation” demonstriert er, welche Blüten der inflationäre und Funktionalität negierende Gebrauch von Designtools treiben kann. In der Ringvorlesung der Hessischen Theaterakademie stellt er seine Arbeitsweise vor, von der man meinen könnte, sie beruhe auf einer nahezu archäologischen Annäherung an eine mediale, scheinbar stets auf eine Zukunft ausgerichtete Wirklichkeit, ihre Apparaturen und Objekte.
Simon Denny ist bildender Künstler und lebt in Berlin. Neben Gruppenausstellungen im Kunsthaus Bregenz, in den Kunstwerken Berlin (beide 2011), in der Malmö Konsthall, bei Witte de With in Rotterdam (beide 2010) und bei der Sydney Biennale 2008, präsentierte er Einzelausstellungen im Aspen Art Museum (2012) im Aachener Kunstverein (2011) und in der Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2010). Darüber hinaus hat er für Übersichtsausstellungen am ICA London (2012) und im Kölnischen Kunstverein (2010) das Ausstellungssetting entwickelt. Simon Denny wird vertreten durch die Galerien Michael Lett, Auckland, Daniel Buchholz, Köln und Berlin, und Friedrich Petzel, New York.
www.hessische-theaterakademie.de
www.festivaljungertalente.de
Scroll down for German version!
Simulation, Adaption, Illusion und Pose
Lecture series of the Hessischen Theaterakademie in the realm of Festival der jungen Talente!
Thursday, July 5, 2012, 7 pm, Simon Denny, Information Design Attempts, (in English)
Location: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, room A 208
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
http://www.hessische-theaterakademie.de/
In his installations Simon Denny has worked with the relics and ruins of past media formats - for example, the development from box-shaped monitors to the contemporary LCD monitors and the aesthetics and forms which arose out of the use of these instruments - some of which have long since become obsolete. In his publication „Envisaging Vocational Rehabilitation” published this spring he underlined the effects and sometimes inflationary and function-negating use of design-tools may have. In his lecture at Hessische Theaterakademie he will present his way of working which could be seen to be based on a quasi-archeological approach to the objects, instruments and reality of media, which seem to always be directed towards the future.
Simon Denny is a visual artist and lives in Berlin. In addition to group exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Kunstwerke Berlin (both 2011), Malmö Konsthall, Witte de With, Rotterdam (both 2010) and at Sydney Biennale 2008, he presented group exhibitions at Aspen Art Museum (2012), at Aachener Kunstverein (2011) and Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2010). Beyond that he developed the settings for overview exhibitions at ICA London (2012) and Kölnischer Kunstverein (2010). Simon Denny is being represented by Michael Lett, Auckland, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln and Berlin, and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
www.hessische-theaterakademie.de
www.festivaljungertalente.de
/
Simulation, Adaption, Illusion und Pose
Ringvorlesung der Hessischen Theaterakademie zum Festival der jungen Talente!
Donnerstag, 5.7.2012, 19 Uhr, Simon Denny, Information Design Attempts, (Vortrag in englischer Sprache)
Ort: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Raum A 208
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
http://www.hessische-theaterakademie.de/
Simon Denny beschäftigt sich in seinen Installationen mit den Relikten und Ruinen vergangener Medienutopien, beispielsweise mit der Entwicklung vom Kasten- zum Flachbildmonitor und Ästhetik und Formen, die aus dem Gebrauch dieser Apparate hervorgegangen, von denen einige aber längst obsolet geworden sind. In seiner im Frühjahr veröffentlichten Publikation „Envisaging Vocational Rehabilitation” demonstriert er, welche Blüten der inflationäre und Funktionalität negierende Gebrauch von Designtools treiben kann. In der Ringvorlesung der Hessischen Theaterakademie stellt er seine Arbeitsweise vor, von der man meinen könnte, sie beruhe auf einer nahezu archäologischen Annäherung an eine mediale, scheinbar stets auf eine Zukunft ausgerichtete Wirklichkeit, ihre Apparaturen und Objekte.
Simon Denny ist bildender Künstler und lebt in Berlin. Neben Gruppenausstellungen im Kunsthaus Bregenz, in den Kunstwerken Berlin (beide 2011), in der Malmö Konsthall, bei Witte de With in Rotterdam (beide 2010) und bei der Sydney Biennale 2008, präsentierte er Einzelausstellungen im Aspen Art Museum (2012) im Aachener Kunstverein (2011) und in der Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2010). Darüber hinaus hat er für Übersichtsausstellungen am ICA London (2012) und im Kölnischen Kunstverein (2010) das Ausstellungssetting entwickelt. Simon Denny wird vertreten durch die Galerien Michael Lett, Auckland, Daniel Buchholz, Köln und Berlin, und Friedrich Petzel, New York.
www.hessische-theaterakademie.de
www.festivaljungertalente.de
Freitag, 15. Juni 2012
Peter Cook
Vortrag
Peter Cook: Peter Cook and CRAB
Donnerstag, 21.06.2012, 19h, Aula
Sir Peter Cook is a world-renowned English architect, writer and educator. He was the Dean of the Architecture School at the Staedelschule, in the 1980s, injecting the programme with much of the experimental and international flavor that SAC stands for today. Cook, a pivotal figure within the global architecture world for over half a century, has been Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chair of Architecture at the Bartlett School of UCL and is Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Architecture, amongst other things.
Sir Cook is the director of CRAB Studio, formed in 2006. Since its inception CRAB has won competitions for the Verbania Theatre in Piedmont, Italy; the Law School of the Vienna Economics University and the School of Architecture building for Bond University in Queensland, Australia, amongst numerous other prizes including three versions of the Taiwan Tower in Taichung. CRAB studio is closely associated with the Bartlett and Architectural Association in London, ESA in Paris, Lund University in Sweden, and SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.
Sir Cook is a founding member of the 1960s radical experimentalist group Archigram having previously graduated from the AA. His achievements with Archigram have been the subject of numerous publications and public exhibitions and were recognized by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004, when Cook was awarded RIBA’s highest award, the Royal Gold Medal. In 2007, he was knighted. He has previously won the competitions for the Monte Carlo Entertainments Centre (with Archigram), the Historical Museum and Park in Bad Deutsches Altenburg, Lower Austria (with Christine Hawley) and the much-published Kunsthaus Graz (with Colin Fournier) completed in 2003.
Peter Cook: Peter Cook and CRAB
Donnerstag, 21.06.2012, 19h, Aula
Sir Peter Cook is a world-renowned English architect, writer and educator. He was the Dean of the Architecture School at the Staedelschule, in the 1980s, injecting the programme with much of the experimental and international flavor that SAC stands for today. Cook, a pivotal figure within the global architecture world for over half a century, has been Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chair of Architecture at the Bartlett School of UCL and is Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Architecture, amongst other things.
Sir Cook is the director of CRAB Studio, formed in 2006. Since its inception CRAB has won competitions for the Verbania Theatre in Piedmont, Italy; the Law School of the Vienna Economics University and the School of Architecture building for Bond University in Queensland, Australia, amongst numerous other prizes including three versions of the Taiwan Tower in Taichung. CRAB studio is closely associated with the Bartlett and Architectural Association in London, ESA in Paris, Lund University in Sweden, and SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.
Sir Cook is a founding member of the 1960s radical experimentalist group Archigram having previously graduated from the AA. His achievements with Archigram have been the subject of numerous publications and public exhibitions and were recognized by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004, when Cook was awarded RIBA’s highest award, the Royal Gold Medal. In 2007, he was knighted. He has previously won the competitions for the Monte Carlo Entertainments Centre (with Archigram), the Historical Museum and Park in Bad Deutsches Altenburg, Lower Austria (with Christine Hawley) and the much-published Kunsthaus Graz (with Colin Fournier) completed in 2003.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Vortrag
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Le Parc; An Illustrated Text for Two Voices
Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Initially realised as the second chapter of the artist’s book Café du Reve (published in 1985), this visual and spoken performance comprises a narrative read by one male and one female voice accompanied by 26 black and white slides.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz established himself in the 1970s with his evocative installations and performances. His installations have often included the artist’s photographs and his prototypes for fabrics, wallpaper and ceramics, as well as found objects and artworks by others. His work combines a sensitivity to the personal and the everyday with a highly developed sense of theatre and lifestyle. (ica.org)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Le Parc; An Illustrated Text for Two Voices
Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Initially realised as the second chapter of the artist’s book Café du Reve (published in 1985), this visual and spoken performance comprises a narrative read by one male and one female voice accompanied by 26 black and white slides.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz established himself in the 1970s with his evocative installations and performances. His installations have often included the artist’s photographs and his prototypes for fabrics, wallpaper and ceramics, as well as found objects and artworks by others. His work combines a sensitivity to the personal and the everyday with a highly developed sense of theatre and lifestyle. (ica.org)
Dienstag, 12. Juni 2012
Michael Riedel
Vortrag
Michael Riedel: 8 Kunst & Publikation
Dienstag, 12. Juni 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
... ich spreche über meine Publikationen aus den Jahren 97 bis 2010 der Vortrag dauert fünfundvierzig Minuten das sind etwa dreihundertsiebzig Bilder die ich zeigen werde davon sind sechzig schwarz eine meiner ersten Publikationen 1997 war eine Papiertüte auf die ich meinen Namen geschrieben hatte sie ist entstanden anlässlich eines Vortrags den ich gehalten habe an der Städelschule während meines Studiums in dem Vortrag ging es um Möglichkeiten Entdecke die Möglichkeiten hieß es damals bei Ikea oder auch Das Leben ist voller Möglichkeiten Audi und Nichts ist unmöglich Toyota und mit zunehmendem Maße ging es um die Möglichkeit an sich und der Existenz die an der Möglichkeit zu existieren scheitert so hieß es zumindest damals im Vortrag und der Vortrag endet damit dass ich mir diese Tüte aufsetze und sage ich bin Michael Riedel Beschriftung ist immer etwas von außen angebrachtes und in diesem Fall bin ich derjenige der außen steht und sich selbst beschriftet mit anderen Worten ich bin nicht mehr nur der Künstler der Kunst macht sondern vielmehr auch der Künstler der sich beim Kunst machen zuschaut und das als Kunst versteht damit verschiebt sich auch die Position des Betrachters der jetzt zuschauen muss wie der Künstler sich selbst zuschaut beim Machen ... Auszug aus dem Text "Publikation" (veröffentlicht in "Perlstein" – Michael Riedel, Koenig Books London, 2011)
Michael Riedel is known for his conceptual practice of restaging prior events and re-presenting existing texts, objects and audio recordings. Over the past decade, the artist's highly conceptual practice has embodied a wide range of mediums and formats, including large-scale works on canvas, fabric works, film and video, audio recordings, artist's books, posters, installations and events.
Michael Riedel: 8 Kunst & Publikation
Dienstag, 12. Juni 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
... ich spreche über meine Publikationen aus den Jahren 97 bis 2010 der Vortrag dauert fünfundvierzig Minuten das sind etwa dreihundertsiebzig Bilder die ich zeigen werde davon sind sechzig schwarz eine meiner ersten Publikationen 1997 war eine Papiertüte auf die ich meinen Namen geschrieben hatte sie ist entstanden anlässlich eines Vortrags den ich gehalten habe an der Städelschule während meines Studiums in dem Vortrag ging es um Möglichkeiten Entdecke die Möglichkeiten hieß es damals bei Ikea oder auch Das Leben ist voller Möglichkeiten Audi und Nichts ist unmöglich Toyota und mit zunehmendem Maße ging es um die Möglichkeit an sich und der Existenz die an der Möglichkeit zu existieren scheitert so hieß es zumindest damals im Vortrag und der Vortrag endet damit dass ich mir diese Tüte aufsetze und sage ich bin Michael Riedel Beschriftung ist immer etwas von außen angebrachtes und in diesem Fall bin ich derjenige der außen steht und sich selbst beschriftet mit anderen Worten ich bin nicht mehr nur der Künstler der Kunst macht sondern vielmehr auch der Künstler der sich beim Kunst machen zuschaut und das als Kunst versteht damit verschiebt sich auch die Position des Betrachters der jetzt zuschauen muss wie der Künstler sich selbst zuschaut beim Machen ... Auszug aus dem Text "Publikation" (veröffentlicht in "Perlstein" – Michael Riedel, Koenig Books London, 2011)
Michael Riedel is known for his conceptual practice of restaging prior events and re-presenting existing texts, objects and audio recordings. Over the past decade, the artist's highly conceptual practice has embodied a wide range of mediums and formats, including large-scale works on canvas, fabric works, film and video, audio recordings, artist's books, posters, installations and events.
Montag, 4. Juni 2012
Nairy Baghramian
Vortrag
Nairy Baghramian: Le Mépris. A talk without image-objects
Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
“....If the idealizing view of the idea of a work’s autonomy effectively renders that work a subject in its own right, the structures surrounding the work of art—of which we, as beholders, are part—come under threat; we are as though under the work’s spell, responding to it like schizophrenics. At the same time, there is the danger that the art critic comes to believe that it is enough to negotiate matters in intimate exchange with the work alone: now it speaks for itself, now it is part of his or her concept: the work of art becomes a projection screen that talks back. This is necessary but should only be a starting point. ..“
Nairy Baghramian is a Berlin-based artist known for her sculptural installations and photographs. Selected solo exhibitions include: Formage de tête, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2011); The Serpentine Gallery, London (2010); Butcher, Barber, Angler & others, Studio Voltaire, London (2009); The Walker’s Day Off, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2008), Affairen. Ein semiotisches Haus, das nie gebaut wurde, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2008); Es ist ausser Haus, Kunsthalle Basel (2006). She has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions at Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2011); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2011); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (2010); Museum Ludwig, Köln (2010); Tate Modern, London (2008) and at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2008).
Nairy Baghramian: Le Mépris. A talk without image-objects
Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
“....If the idealizing view of the idea of a work’s autonomy effectively renders that work a subject in its own right, the structures surrounding the work of art—of which we, as beholders, are part—come under threat; we are as though under the work’s spell, responding to it like schizophrenics. At the same time, there is the danger that the art critic comes to believe that it is enough to negotiate matters in intimate exchange with the work alone: now it speaks for itself, now it is part of his or her concept: the work of art becomes a projection screen that talks back. This is necessary but should only be a starting point. ..“
Nairy Baghramian is a Berlin-based artist known for her sculptural installations and photographs. Selected solo exhibitions include: Formage de tête, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2011); The Serpentine Gallery, London (2010); Butcher, Barber, Angler & others, Studio Voltaire, London (2009); The Walker’s Day Off, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2008), Affairen. Ein semiotisches Haus, das nie gebaut wurde, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2008); Es ist ausser Haus, Kunsthalle Basel (2006). She has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions at Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2011); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2011); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (2010); Museum Ludwig, Köln (2010); Tate Modern, London (2008) and at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2008).
Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2012
Can Altay
Lecture
Can Altay: Inhabitants, Settings, Collectivities
Thursday, 31. May 2012, 19.00 , Aula
Can Altay is an artist living in Istanbul whose practice traverses the fields of architecture, art, design and social commentary. Often taking the form of research projects or mixed-media installations, his work explores and delineates individuals’ relationship with their urban environments. Trained as as an architect, Altay studies improvise spaces in the city, as well as hidden structures of support, unauthorised systems of organisation and models of co-habitation.
Altay's recent solo exhibitions include: ‘COHAB: an assembly of spare parts’, Casco, Utrecht (2011); ‘The Church Street Partners’ Gazette’, The Showroom, London (2010) and ‘Setting a Setting / Forecasting a Broken Past’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2008). Recent group exhibitions include: Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2010). His work has been included in the Istanbul Biennial 2008; Havana Biennial 2003 and Gwangju Biennial 2008; and in museums and galleries such as the Walker Art Center (USA), VanAbbe Museum (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), PS1 MoMA (USA), and Platform Garanti (Turkey). He is a co-founder of art, design and publishing collective Diplomacy in Reflex, editor of Ahali: A Journal for Setting a Setting and was a co-curator of the 'Refuge' section of the 4th Architecture Biennial of Rotterdam in 2009.
Altay holds a doctoral degree and is assistant professor at the Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Architecture.
Can Altay: Inhabitants, Settings, Collectivities
Thursday, 31. May 2012, 19.00 , Aula
Can Altay is an artist living in Istanbul whose practice traverses the fields of architecture, art, design and social commentary. Often taking the form of research projects or mixed-media installations, his work explores and delineates individuals’ relationship with their urban environments. Trained as as an architect, Altay studies improvise spaces in the city, as well as hidden structures of support, unauthorised systems of organisation and models of co-habitation.
Altay's recent solo exhibitions include: ‘COHAB: an assembly of spare parts’, Casco, Utrecht (2011); ‘The Church Street Partners’ Gazette’, The Showroom, London (2010) and ‘Setting a Setting / Forecasting a Broken Past’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2008). Recent group exhibitions include: Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2010). His work has been included in the Istanbul Biennial 2008; Havana Biennial 2003 and Gwangju Biennial 2008; and in museums and galleries such as the Walker Art Center (USA), VanAbbe Museum (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), PS1 MoMA (USA), and Platform Garanti (Turkey). He is a co-founder of art, design and publishing collective Diplomacy in Reflex, editor of Ahali: A Journal for Setting a Setting and was a co-curator of the 'Refuge' section of the 4th Architecture Biennial of Rotterdam in 2009.
Altay holds a doctoral degree and is assistant professor at the Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Architecture.
Nora Schultz
Lecture
Nora Schultz
Wednesday, 30. May 2012, 19.00, Aula
Nora Schultz’s work examines the genesis of pictorial representation and production as an artistic dynamic. She is less interested in the finished work than in how images and objects come into being and in the physical traces that process leaves behind. The actualities of production accordingly play a central role in her prints, printing machines, installations, and performances; process always remains legible. Nora Schultz talks about her practice and her upcoming exhibition at Portikus.
Nora Schultz (1975) was born in Frankfurt and lives in Berlin. From 1998 to 2005, she was studying at the Städelschule with Christa Näher and then in the class of Mark Leckey. 2011 she was awarded the scholarship Villa Romana in Florence. Some exhibitions: Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA; Flaca/Tom Humphreys, Portikus (2011); Non-Solo Show, Non-group Show, Kunsthalle Zürich; Nora Schultz, Reena Spaulings (2008); The Metal Magazine, Galerie Meerrettich (2006).
Nora Schultz
Wednesday, 30. May 2012, 19.00, Aula
Nora Schultz’s work examines the genesis of pictorial representation and production as an artistic dynamic. She is less interested in the finished work than in how images and objects come into being and in the physical traces that process leaves behind. The actualities of production accordingly play a central role in her prints, printing machines, installations, and performances; process always remains legible. Nora Schultz talks about her practice and her upcoming exhibition at Portikus.
Nora Schultz (1975) was born in Frankfurt and lives in Berlin. From 1998 to 2005, she was studying at the Städelschule with Christa Näher and then in the class of Mark Leckey. 2011 she was awarded the scholarship Villa Romana in Florence. Some exhibitions: Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA; Flaca/Tom Humphreys, Portikus (2011); Non-Solo Show, Non-group Show, Kunsthalle Zürich; Nora Schultz, Reena Spaulings (2008); The Metal Magazine, Galerie Meerrettich (2006).
Montag, 21. Mai 2012
Carsten Nicolai
Vortrag
Carsten Nicolai: Display
Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Carsten Nicolai is a visual artist, composer and musician who lives and works in Berlin and Chemnitz. As a visual artist mainly creating objects and installations, Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of the art forms and genres to sensitize human perception to the interconnection of the different sensory levels.
Nicolai received numerous prizes and stipends, such as Villa Massimo, Rome (2007), Zurich Prize, Basle (2007), Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2003), Golden Nica, Ars Electronica, Linz (2000 und 2001), F6-Philip Morris Graphik-Preis, Dresden (2000). His works have been shown at national and international major. As well his works have been acquired by several private and public collections worldwide.
For some years now, Nicolai has released albums under the pseudonyms noto and alva noto which he has presented at live shows in national and international concert halls, clubs and museums. He has cooperated with renowned composers and musician including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Blixa Bargeld, Ryoji Ikeda, Michael Nyman, Mika Vainio, Olaf Bender + Frank Bretschneider (signal), as well as with diverse orchestras for modern music, such as Ensemble Modern, BCN 216 and zeitkratzer.
Carsten Nicolai will be speaking about his most recent works.
Carsten Nicolai: Display
Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Carsten Nicolai is a visual artist, composer and musician who lives and works in Berlin and Chemnitz. As a visual artist mainly creating objects and installations, Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of the art forms and genres to sensitize human perception to the interconnection of the different sensory levels.
Nicolai received numerous prizes and stipends, such as Villa Massimo, Rome (2007), Zurich Prize, Basle (2007), Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2003), Golden Nica, Ars Electronica, Linz (2000 und 2001), F6-Philip Morris Graphik-Preis, Dresden (2000). His works have been shown at national and international major. As well his works have been acquired by several private and public collections worldwide.
For some years now, Nicolai has released albums under the pseudonyms noto and alva noto which he has presented at live shows in national and international concert halls, clubs and museums. He has cooperated with renowned composers and musician including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Blixa Bargeld, Ryoji Ikeda, Michael Nyman, Mika Vainio, Olaf Bender + Frank Bretschneider (signal), as well as with diverse orchestras for modern music, such as Ensemble Modern, BCN 216 and zeitkratzer.
Carsten Nicolai will be speaking about his most recent works.
Suhail Malik
Vortrag
Suhail Malik: The Ruling Elite Have Feelings too
Dienstag, 22. Mai 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
How do the wealthy as a governing class continue to maintain and enhance their social and political legitimacy through this economic and culture crisis? One strategy: asserting the language and belief in individual merit, personal worth, and autonomy from collective determination, the ruling elite position themselves on the side of the just. Yet exactly this configuration of claims is no less the central to the critical tenets of contemporary art.
Mobilized through an appreciation and support of contemporary art, wealth power is then not only justified because it supports a social good (art in its politically progressive claims) but is moreover itself just according to the values heralded in contemporary art and its generic claims. Equally, the celebration of art (and the art system) is a celebration of the progressiveness of the ruling elites. Contemporary art is not in a forced marriage with the ruling elites and perhaps not even one of mutual convenience, but one of true mutual love (of art).
Suhail Malik is a writer and holds a Readership in Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, London. Recent publications include: “Tainted Love: Art’s Ethos and Capitalization” (with Andrea Phillips) in Art and Its Commercial Markets (2012), “Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Participate Again - Communism, Its Recurring Nightmare” in Waking Up From the Nightmare of Participation (2011), “Why Art? The Primacy of Audience” Global Art Forum, Dubai (2011); “The Wrong of Contemporary Art: Aesthetics and Political Indeterminacy” (with Andrea Phillips) in Reading Rancière (2011); “Educations Sentimental and Unsentimental: Repositioning the Politics of Art and Education” in Redhook Journal (2011); “Screw (Down) The Debt: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Austerity” in Mute, 2010; “You Are Here” for Manifesta 8 (2010).
In cooperation with the Curatorial and Critical Studies program.
Suhail Malik: The Ruling Elite Have Feelings too
Dienstag, 22. Mai 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
How do the wealthy as a governing class continue to maintain and enhance their social and political legitimacy through this economic and culture crisis? One strategy: asserting the language and belief in individual merit, personal worth, and autonomy from collective determination, the ruling elite position themselves on the side of the just. Yet exactly this configuration of claims is no less the central to the critical tenets of contemporary art.
Mobilized through an appreciation and support of contemporary art, wealth power is then not only justified because it supports a social good (art in its politically progressive claims) but is moreover itself just according to the values heralded in contemporary art and its generic claims. Equally, the celebration of art (and the art system) is a celebration of the progressiveness of the ruling elites. Contemporary art is not in a forced marriage with the ruling elites and perhaps not even one of mutual convenience, but one of true mutual love (of art).
Suhail Malik is a writer and holds a Readership in Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, London. Recent publications include: “Tainted Love: Art’s Ethos and Capitalization” (with Andrea Phillips) in Art and Its Commercial Markets (2012), “Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Participate Again - Communism, Its Recurring Nightmare” in Waking Up From the Nightmare of Participation (2011), “Why Art? The Primacy of Audience” Global Art Forum, Dubai (2011); “The Wrong of Contemporary Art: Aesthetics and Political Indeterminacy” (with Andrea Phillips) in Reading Rancière (2011); “Educations Sentimental and Unsentimental: Repositioning the Politics of Art and Education” in Redhook Journal (2011); “Screw (Down) The Debt: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Austerity” in Mute, 2010; “You Are Here” for Manifesta 8 (2010).
In cooperation with the Curatorial and Critical Studies program.
Dienstag, 15. Mai 2012
Gayatri Spivak
Vortrag
Gayatri Spivak: Art and the Ethical
Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2012, 20 Uhr, Aula
Is "art" free? What is it for Art to claim the ethical?
While she is best known as a postcolonial theorist (among others by her groundbreaking text "Can the Subaltern Speak?"), Gayatri Spivak describes herself as a "para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher". Her reputation was first made for her translation and preface to Derrida's Of Grammatology (1976) and she has since applied deconstructive strategies to various theoretical engagements and textual analyses: from Feminism, Marxism, and Literary Criticism to, most recently, Postcolonialism.
„My position is generally a reactive one. I am viewed by Marxists as too codic, by feminists as too male-identified, by indigenous theorists as too committed to Western Theory. I am uneasily pleased about this.“
Gayatri Spivak is University Professor and the Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in New York. She has taught in numerous academic contexts, among others at the Independent Study program at the Whitney. Her books include Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1974), Of Grammatology (translation with critical introduction of Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie, 1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Selected Subaltern Studies (ed., 1988), The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), Old Women (translation with critical introduction of two stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1999), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2005), and most recently An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012).
Gayatri Spivak: Art and the Ethical
Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2012, 20 Uhr, Aula
Is "art" free? What is it for Art to claim the ethical?
While she is best known as a postcolonial theorist (among others by her groundbreaking text "Can the Subaltern Speak?"), Gayatri Spivak describes herself as a "para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher". Her reputation was first made for her translation and preface to Derrida's Of Grammatology (1976) and she has since applied deconstructive strategies to various theoretical engagements and textual analyses: from Feminism, Marxism, and Literary Criticism to, most recently, Postcolonialism.
„My position is generally a reactive one. I am viewed by Marxists as too codic, by feminists as too male-identified, by indigenous theorists as too committed to Western Theory. I am uneasily pleased about this.“
Gayatri Spivak is University Professor and the Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in New York. She has taught in numerous academic contexts, among others at the Independent Study program at the Whitney. Her books include Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1974), Of Grammatology (translation with critical introduction of Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie, 1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Selected Subaltern Studies (ed., 1988), The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), Old Women (translation with critical introduction of two stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1999), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2005), and most recently An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012).
Montag, 14. Mai 2012
COSIMA VON BONIN AND MORITZ VON OSWALD
Vortrag
THE COSIMA VON BONIN AND MORITZ VON OSWALD EVENT IS CANCELLED.
Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Due to circumstances beyond their control Cosima von Bonin and Moritz von Oswald have been compelled to withdraw. We are able, however, at least to present remarks prepared by Cosima von Bonin to be read on the occasion. We hope that this will compensate in some measure for the cancellation.
In lieu of the event we will present the first screening of Cosima von Bonin's 1995 1. Grazer Fächerfest footage---filmed by Ingeborg Gabriel and compiled by Stefan Mohr.
REMARKS BY COSIMA VON BONIN PREPARED FOR THE OCCASION, TO BE READ ALOUD AT THE BEGINNING OF PROCEEDINGS WITH MORITZ VON OSWALD.
I just want to sit here as the technical assistant and best boy of the gentleman next to me.
He does not like to talk any more than I do.
But the motives are different.
From a 2011 interview:
FAZ: How did you, as one of the most influential Techno producers of the ‘nineties—the Techno decade par excellence—manage to maintain no media presence whatsoever?
MvO: My production partner, Mark Ernestus, and I worked on music, and wanted to do that alone. We did not want to take care of other difficult stuff. For me "the interview" is a type of conversation that I still find it difficult to do.
FAZ: So why, then, did you accept this kind of conversation today?
MvO: This is a thing—a matter of practicing to overcome my shyness.
Here he is on his Dub/Club Set:
“The Moritz von Oswald computerized Dub/Club Set is an up-tempo combination of electronic dance tracks channeling dub step and techno tracks with atmospheric relaxed-sounding rhythms.”
He brings research—into the possibilities of sound, sound exploration, sound research—along with him.
I have not brought anything along with me.
On this thing even of “being an artist"? I sometimes think about stopping—very different from him.
That is why I just want to sit here at the table and listen.
Maybe I could assist once in a while, if requested, in passing the microphone to the not-exhausted one.
I feel exhausted.
Regarding my work, I do not want to say much. I would rather evade my responsibility.
Leave it at that I am a thief. I steal from the left side and from the right side. I grab, take everything that could be useful to me, and for my purposes. And I steal others’ time. And all of this very fast. And then, also very fast, the thingy stands there or is mounted on the wall. And then, I am, once again, totally exhausted.
That is The Fatigue Empire.
It started with us two, sitting together.
In a spex interview, Dirk von Lowtzow said, “The Fatigue Empire […] is a reevaluation of social imperatives. To function constantly these days is seen as extremely virtuous. For many the worst thing would be to acknowledge that they are exhausted. Contemporary capitalism demands constant creativity, and that one deal with it, profitably. Not even losers are left in peace—they too should work on themselves continuously, and get involved permanently. The Fatigue Empire represents an opposing model that celebrates exhaustion very open-mindedly, as everybody knows of course.”
To speak to the topic tonight: Moritz von Oswald’s music heard in my exhibitions has the ability to add that excellent touch of “glitter & glamour”, and ghost nuances, because he listens very precisely, and carefully, and with immense perseverance. And he listens to me too. And then he produces the beat, the track, the song. And it’s perfect. And if not, then, he continues to work on it with this perseverance. He conducts research.
I do not.
He is not exhausted afterwards.
I am.
THE COSIMA VON BONIN AND MORITZ VON OSWALD EVENT IS CANCELLED.
Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Due to circumstances beyond their control Cosima von Bonin and Moritz von Oswald have been compelled to withdraw. We are able, however, at least to present remarks prepared by Cosima von Bonin to be read on the occasion. We hope that this will compensate in some measure for the cancellation.
In lieu of the event we will present the first screening of Cosima von Bonin's 1995 1. Grazer Fächerfest footage---filmed by Ingeborg Gabriel and compiled by Stefan Mohr.
REMARKS BY COSIMA VON BONIN PREPARED FOR THE OCCASION, TO BE READ ALOUD AT THE BEGINNING OF PROCEEDINGS WITH MORITZ VON OSWALD.
I just want to sit here as the technical assistant and best boy of the gentleman next to me.
He does not like to talk any more than I do.
But the motives are different.
From a 2011 interview:
FAZ: How did you, as one of the most influential Techno producers of the ‘nineties—the Techno decade par excellence—manage to maintain no media presence whatsoever?
MvO: My production partner, Mark Ernestus, and I worked on music, and wanted to do that alone. We did not want to take care of other difficult stuff. For me "the interview" is a type of conversation that I still find it difficult to do.
FAZ: So why, then, did you accept this kind of conversation today?
MvO: This is a thing—a matter of practicing to overcome my shyness.
Here he is on his Dub/Club Set:
“The Moritz von Oswald computerized Dub/Club Set is an up-tempo combination of electronic dance tracks channeling dub step and techno tracks with atmospheric relaxed-sounding rhythms.”
He brings research—into the possibilities of sound, sound exploration, sound research—along with him.
I have not brought anything along with me.
On this thing even of “being an artist"? I sometimes think about stopping—very different from him.
That is why I just want to sit here at the table and listen.
Maybe I could assist once in a while, if requested, in passing the microphone to the not-exhausted one.
I feel exhausted.
Regarding my work, I do not want to say much. I would rather evade my responsibility.
Leave it at that I am a thief. I steal from the left side and from the right side. I grab, take everything that could be useful to me, and for my purposes. And I steal others’ time. And all of this very fast. And then, also very fast, the thingy stands there or is mounted on the wall. And then, I am, once again, totally exhausted.
That is The Fatigue Empire.
It started with us two, sitting together.
In a spex interview, Dirk von Lowtzow said, “The Fatigue Empire […] is a reevaluation of social imperatives. To function constantly these days is seen as extremely virtuous. For many the worst thing would be to acknowledge that they are exhausted. Contemporary capitalism demands constant creativity, and that one deal with it, profitably. Not even losers are left in peace—they too should work on themselves continuously, and get involved permanently. The Fatigue Empire represents an opposing model that celebrates exhaustion very open-mindedly, as everybody knows of course.”
To speak to the topic tonight: Moritz von Oswald’s music heard in my exhibitions has the ability to add that excellent touch of “glitter & glamour”, and ghost nuances, because he listens very precisely, and carefully, and with immense perseverance. And he listens to me too. And then he produces the beat, the track, the song. And it’s perfect. And if not, then, he continues to work on it with this perseverance. He conducts research.
I do not.
He is not exhausted afterwards.
I am.
Dienstag, 8. Mai 2012
Superflex
Vortrag
Superflex
Dienstag, 8. Mai 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Superflex is a Danish artist group founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen. They describe their projects as Tools, as proposals that invite people to participate in and communicate the development of experimental models that alter the economic production conditions. Often the projects are assisted by experts who bring in their special interest, these tools can then be further used and modified by their users.
The projects are related to economic forces, democratic production conditions and self-organisation. The artists have examined alternative energy production methods (Supergas) and commodity production in Brazil, Thailand and Europe, which both expose and question the existing economic structures. These artistic activities — as, for example, the on-going project Guaraná Power, in which they developed a drink together with local farmers who cultivate the caffeine-rich berries of the guarana plant — are not necessarily opposed to commercialism and globalisation, but try instead to render economic structures visible and to establish a new balance.
Superflex has gained international recognition for their projects. They have had solo exhibitions, among others, at the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland (Supershow — more than a show), GFZK in Leipzig, Germany (Social Pudding in collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanija), Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main (Open market), the REDCAT Gallery in Los Angeles (Guarana Power), Mori Museum in Tokyo, Gallery 1301PE in Los Angeles and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Superflex has participated in international arts biennials such as the Gwangju biennial in Korea, Istanbul Biennial, Sao Paulo Biennial, Shanghai Biennial and in the "Utopia Station" exhibition at the Venice Biennale. They contributed to the exhibition Rethink Kakotopia shown at the Nikolaj Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen 2009 and at Tensta Konsthall 2010.
Superflex
Dienstag, 8. Mai 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Superflex is a Danish artist group founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen. They describe their projects as Tools, as proposals that invite people to participate in and communicate the development of experimental models that alter the economic production conditions. Often the projects are assisted by experts who bring in their special interest, these tools can then be further used and modified by their users.
The projects are related to economic forces, democratic production conditions and self-organisation. The artists have examined alternative energy production methods (Supergas) and commodity production in Brazil, Thailand and Europe, which both expose and question the existing economic structures. These artistic activities — as, for example, the on-going project Guaraná Power, in which they developed a drink together with local farmers who cultivate the caffeine-rich berries of the guarana plant — are not necessarily opposed to commercialism and globalisation, but try instead to render economic structures visible and to establish a new balance.
Superflex has gained international recognition for their projects. They have had solo exhibitions, among others, at the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland (Supershow — more than a show), GFZK in Leipzig, Germany (Social Pudding in collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanija), Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main (Open market), the REDCAT Gallery in Los Angeles (Guarana Power), Mori Museum in Tokyo, Gallery 1301PE in Los Angeles and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Superflex has participated in international arts biennials such as the Gwangju biennial in Korea, Istanbul Biennial, Sao Paulo Biennial, Shanghai Biennial and in the "Utopia Station" exhibition at the Venice Biennale. They contributed to the exhibition Rethink Kakotopia shown at the Nikolaj Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen 2009 and at Tensta Konsthall 2010.
Mittwoch, 25. April 2012
African Cinema Series
African Cinema Series, 9. – 13. Mai 2012
Längst ist das Oeuvre afrikanischer Filmemacher international bekannt und wird für seine eigenen, von den westlichen Konventionen des Erzählkinos verschiedenen Formen geschätzt.
Dazu setzen sich viele neue Produktionen thematisch und ästhetisch stark von den Filmen der Gründergeneration des afrikanischen Kinos (Ousmane Sembene, Moustapha Alassane, Souleymane Cissé u.a.) ab, sind auf der Suche nach einer zeitgemäßen, globalen afrikanischen Filmsprache. Deren experimenteller Umgang mit dem urbanen Leben spielt bei der Entwicklung neuer erzählerischer und stilistischen Formeln ebenso eine herausragende Rolle wie der differenzierte Rekurs auf den postkolonialen und Gender-Diskurs.
Der Portikus in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kuratorin und Filmwissenschaftlerin Marie-Hélène Gutberlet lanciert im Mai die Reihe African Cinema Series mit fünf aufeinanderfolgenden Filmabenden. Die Reihe wird in den kommenden Monaten regelmäßig Filme im Spektrum der Kunst-, Dokumentar-, Spiel- und Essayfilm- und Videoproduktion im Portikus präsentieren. Die Filme stammen aus den späten 1950er Jahre bis heute. Die Programme werden jeweils nach spezifisch ästhetisch/politischen und formalen Fragestellungen strukturiert.
Die Filme der ersten fünf Filmabende (9. – 13. Mai 2012, jeweils 19 Uhr) nehmen explizit Bewegung in den Blick – die wortwörtliche physische Gehbewegung ebenso wie Motive geopolitisch strukturierter Mobilität.
9. Mai, 19 Uhr: Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, Khalo Matabane, SA 2005, 80’
Der Dokumentar/Spielfilmhybrid Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon streunt durch Johannesburg auf der Suche nach einer inspirierenden Migrationsgeschichte.
10. Mai, 19 Uhr: Relentless, Andi Amady Okoroafor, Nigeria 2010, 91’, Deutschlandpremiere!
Der Spielfilm Relentless macht Streifzüge durchs nächtliche Lagos, um der Vergangenheit zu entfliehen.
11. Mai, 19 Uhr: Heremakono – Waiting for Happiness, Abderrahmane Sissako, Mau/Sen 2002, 95’
Der Spielfilm Heremakono parallelisiert verschiedene Ankunfts- und Abreiseerzählstränge zu einem multiperspektivischen Gewebe.
12. Mai, 19 Uhr: Vier Filme von Penny Siopis, SA, Filmlänge insgesamt 45’
Die südafrikanische Künstlerin Penny Siopis arbeitet mit gefundenem Amateurfilmmaterial. Ihre vier experimentellen, visuell und akustisch komplex montierten Filme – My lovely day, 1997; Pray, 2007; Obscure white messenger, 2010 und Communion, 2011 – bringen persönliche Erinnerungen und kollektive Bilder der Apartheid-Zeitgeschichte zusammen.
13. Mai, 19 Uhr: Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère – Indochine, Traces of a Mother, Idrissou Mora-Kpai, F/Benin/Vietnam 2011, 71’
Der gleichermaßen investigative und cineastische Dokumentarfilm Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère befasst sich mit der Teilnahme afrikanischer Söldner im französisch-vietnamesischen Kolonialkrieg.
Bio
Marie-Hélène Gutberlet (*1966) studierte Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie und Filmwissenschaft in Frankfurt am Main und Basel (Dr. Phil.), sie lehrte Film und Medien am Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Frankfurt am Main und ist als freie Autorin und Kuratorin tätig. Gutberlet ist Mitgründerin der Experimentalfilmreihe reel to real Frankfurt am Main (www.reeltoreal.de/) und Mitinitiatorin des laufenden Projekts Migration & Media (www.migrationandmedia.com/) mit Plattformen in Frankfurt/Main, Bamako und Johannesburg.
Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen, Herausgeberschaften und Zeitschriftenbeiträge zum afrikanischen Kino, Experimental- und Dokumentarfilm und Film im Kunstkontext.
Die Veranstaltung wird in Kooperation mit dem Lehrstuhl für Filmwissenschaft der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M. ausgeführt.
Portikus
Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
D-60594 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 96244540
Fax: +49 (0)69 962445424
info(at)portikus.de | www.portikus.de
African Cinema Series, May 9–13, 2012
The oeuvres of African filmmakers have long enjoyed international renown. Viewers appreciate the distinctive forms of African filmmaking, which differ from the conventions of Western narrative cinema. Many more recent productions distance themselves both thematically and aesthetically from the films created by the founding generation of African cinema (Ousmane Sembene, Moustapha Alassane, Souleymane Cissé, et al.), trying to define a contemporary and global African filmic language. Their experimental engagement of urban life plays a crucial role in the development of new narrative and stylistic formulae, as does a nuanced recourse to the discourses of postcolonial and gender studies.
This May, Portikus, in collaboration with the curator and film scholar Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, launches African Cinema Series with screenings on five consecutive days. Over the coming months, the series, held at Portikus, will present films from the spectrum of art, documentary, feature, and essayistic films and videos at regular intervals. The films were created between the late 1950s and the present. Each program will be structured to examine specific aesthetic/political and formal questions.
The films presented during the five initial screenings (May 9–13, 2012, always at 7pm) take an explicit look at motion—from literal movement, the physical act of walking, to issues of geopolitically structured mobility.
May 9, 7pm: Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, Khalo Matabane, SA 2005, 80’
The documentary/feature hybrid Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon roams Johannesburg, looking for an inspiring story of migration.
May 10, 7pm: Relentless, Andi Amady Okoroafor, Nigeria 2010, 91’, German premiere!
The feature film Relentless forays through nocturnal Lagos to escape the past.
May 11, 7pm: Heremakono – Waiting for Happiness, Abderrahmane Sissako, Mau/Sen 2002, 95’
The feature film Heremakono interweaves several parallel storylines about arrivals and departures to create a multi-perspectival fabric.
May 12, 7pm: Four films by Penny Siopis, SA, 45’ in total
South African artist Penny Siopsis works with found footage created by amateur filmmakers. Complex visual and acoustic montages, her four experimental films—My lovely day, 1997; Pray, 2007; Obscure white messenger, 2010; and Communion, 2011—blend personal recollections with collective images from the contemporary history of Apartheid.
May 13, 7pm: Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère—Indochine, Traces of a Mother, Idrissou Mora-Kpai, F/Benin/Vietnam 2011, 71’
Investigative and cinematically ambitious at once, the documentary Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère examines the participation of African mercenaries in the French-Vietnamese colonial war.
Bio
Marie-Hélène Gutberlet (b. 1966) studied art history, philosophy, and film studies in Frankfurt am Main and Basel (PhD) before teaching film and media at the Institute of Theater, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main. She is now a freelance writer and curator. Gutberlet cofounded the experimental film series reel to real in Frankfurt am Main (www.reeltoreal.de/) and co-initiated the ongoing project Migration & Media (www.migrationandmedia.com/) with platforms in Frankfurt am Main, Bamako, and Johannesburg.
Numerous publications, editorial contributions, and journal articles on African cinema, experimental and documentary filmmaking, and film in the art context.
This program of events is produced in collaboration with the film studies chair at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
Längst ist das Oeuvre afrikanischer Filmemacher international bekannt und wird für seine eigenen, von den westlichen Konventionen des Erzählkinos verschiedenen Formen geschätzt.
Dazu setzen sich viele neue Produktionen thematisch und ästhetisch stark von den Filmen der Gründergeneration des afrikanischen Kinos (Ousmane Sembene, Moustapha Alassane, Souleymane Cissé u.a.) ab, sind auf der Suche nach einer zeitgemäßen, globalen afrikanischen Filmsprache. Deren experimenteller Umgang mit dem urbanen Leben spielt bei der Entwicklung neuer erzählerischer und stilistischen Formeln ebenso eine herausragende Rolle wie der differenzierte Rekurs auf den postkolonialen und Gender-Diskurs.
Der Portikus in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kuratorin und Filmwissenschaftlerin Marie-Hélène Gutberlet lanciert im Mai die Reihe African Cinema Series mit fünf aufeinanderfolgenden Filmabenden. Die Reihe wird in den kommenden Monaten regelmäßig Filme im Spektrum der Kunst-, Dokumentar-, Spiel- und Essayfilm- und Videoproduktion im Portikus präsentieren. Die Filme stammen aus den späten 1950er Jahre bis heute. Die Programme werden jeweils nach spezifisch ästhetisch/politischen und formalen Fragestellungen strukturiert.
Die Filme der ersten fünf Filmabende (9. – 13. Mai 2012, jeweils 19 Uhr) nehmen explizit Bewegung in den Blick – die wortwörtliche physische Gehbewegung ebenso wie Motive geopolitisch strukturierter Mobilität.
9. Mai, 19 Uhr: Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, Khalo Matabane, SA 2005, 80’
Der Dokumentar/Spielfilmhybrid Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon streunt durch Johannesburg auf der Suche nach einer inspirierenden Migrationsgeschichte.
10. Mai, 19 Uhr: Relentless, Andi Amady Okoroafor, Nigeria 2010, 91’, Deutschlandpremiere!
Der Spielfilm Relentless macht Streifzüge durchs nächtliche Lagos, um der Vergangenheit zu entfliehen.
11. Mai, 19 Uhr: Heremakono – Waiting for Happiness, Abderrahmane Sissako, Mau/Sen 2002, 95’
Der Spielfilm Heremakono parallelisiert verschiedene Ankunfts- und Abreiseerzählstränge zu einem multiperspektivischen Gewebe.
12. Mai, 19 Uhr: Vier Filme von Penny Siopis, SA, Filmlänge insgesamt 45’
Die südafrikanische Künstlerin Penny Siopis arbeitet mit gefundenem Amateurfilmmaterial. Ihre vier experimentellen, visuell und akustisch komplex montierten Filme – My lovely day, 1997; Pray, 2007; Obscure white messenger, 2010 und Communion, 2011 – bringen persönliche Erinnerungen und kollektive Bilder der Apartheid-Zeitgeschichte zusammen.
13. Mai, 19 Uhr: Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère – Indochine, Traces of a Mother, Idrissou Mora-Kpai, F/Benin/Vietnam 2011, 71’
Der gleichermaßen investigative und cineastische Dokumentarfilm Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère befasst sich mit der Teilnahme afrikanischer Söldner im französisch-vietnamesischen Kolonialkrieg.
Bio
Marie-Hélène Gutberlet (*1966) studierte Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie und Filmwissenschaft in Frankfurt am Main und Basel (Dr. Phil.), sie lehrte Film und Medien am Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Frankfurt am Main und ist als freie Autorin und Kuratorin tätig. Gutberlet ist Mitgründerin der Experimentalfilmreihe reel to real Frankfurt am Main (www.reeltoreal.de/) und Mitinitiatorin des laufenden Projekts Migration & Media (www.migrationandmedia.com/) mit Plattformen in Frankfurt/Main, Bamako und Johannesburg.
Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen, Herausgeberschaften und Zeitschriftenbeiträge zum afrikanischen Kino, Experimental- und Dokumentarfilm und Film im Kunstkontext.
Die Veranstaltung wird in Kooperation mit dem Lehrstuhl für Filmwissenschaft der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M. ausgeführt.
Portikus
Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
D-60594 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 96244540
Fax: +49 (0)69 962445424
info(at)portikus.de | www.portikus.de
African Cinema Series, May 9–13, 2012
The oeuvres of African filmmakers have long enjoyed international renown. Viewers appreciate the distinctive forms of African filmmaking, which differ from the conventions of Western narrative cinema. Many more recent productions distance themselves both thematically and aesthetically from the films created by the founding generation of African cinema (Ousmane Sembene, Moustapha Alassane, Souleymane Cissé, et al.), trying to define a contemporary and global African filmic language. Their experimental engagement of urban life plays a crucial role in the development of new narrative and stylistic formulae, as does a nuanced recourse to the discourses of postcolonial and gender studies.
This May, Portikus, in collaboration with the curator and film scholar Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, launches African Cinema Series with screenings on five consecutive days. Over the coming months, the series, held at Portikus, will present films from the spectrum of art, documentary, feature, and essayistic films and videos at regular intervals. The films were created between the late 1950s and the present. Each program will be structured to examine specific aesthetic/political and formal questions.
The films presented during the five initial screenings (May 9–13, 2012, always at 7pm) take an explicit look at motion—from literal movement, the physical act of walking, to issues of geopolitically structured mobility.
May 9, 7pm: Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, Khalo Matabane, SA 2005, 80’
The documentary/feature hybrid Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon roams Johannesburg, looking for an inspiring story of migration.
May 10, 7pm: Relentless, Andi Amady Okoroafor, Nigeria 2010, 91’, German premiere!
The feature film Relentless forays through nocturnal Lagos to escape the past.
May 11, 7pm: Heremakono – Waiting for Happiness, Abderrahmane Sissako, Mau/Sen 2002, 95’
The feature film Heremakono interweaves several parallel storylines about arrivals and departures to create a multi-perspectival fabric.
May 12, 7pm: Four films by Penny Siopis, SA, 45’ in total
South African artist Penny Siopsis works with found footage created by amateur filmmakers. Complex visual and acoustic montages, her four experimental films—My lovely day, 1997; Pray, 2007; Obscure white messenger, 2010; and Communion, 2011—blend personal recollections with collective images from the contemporary history of Apartheid.
May 13, 7pm: Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère—Indochine, Traces of a Mother, Idrissou Mora-Kpai, F/Benin/Vietnam 2011, 71’
Investigative and cinematically ambitious at once, the documentary Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère examines the participation of African mercenaries in the French-Vietnamese colonial war.
Bio
Marie-Hélène Gutberlet (b. 1966) studied art history, philosophy, and film studies in Frankfurt am Main and Basel (PhD) before teaching film and media at the Institute of Theater, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main. She is now a freelance writer and curator. Gutberlet cofounded the experimental film series reel to real in Frankfurt am Main (www.reeltoreal.de/) and co-initiated the ongoing project Migration & Media (www.migrationandmedia.com/) with platforms in Frankfurt am Main, Bamako, and Johannesburg.
Numerous publications, editorial contributions, and journal articles on African cinema, experimental and documentary filmmaking, and film in the art context.
This program of events is produced in collaboration with the film studies chair at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
Montag, 23. April 2012
Peter Greenaway
Vortrag
Peter Greenaway: The Cinema is dead, long live the Cinema
Mittwoch, 25. April 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
"The cinema of our fathers and forefathers is rapidly changing. We have new technological languages and procedures of great and marvelous aspect. We should put new wine in new bottles, revise our cinematic intelligences, reinvent a new cinema that should certainly be architectonic, multi-medial and inter-active. We can say why the old cinema is dying, better still - we can intimate what the new possibilities might be. Here are some new possibilities".
Peter Greenaway was born in Wales and educated in London. He trained as a painter for four years, and started making his own films in 1966. He has continued to make cinema in a great variety of ways, which has also informed his making of installations for the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, the Joan Miro Gallery in Barcelona, the Boymans -van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the Louvre in Paris, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Hoffburg in Vienna, the Brera in Milan and the Armory in New York. He has worked and collaborated with the composers John Cage, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Wim Mertens, Louis Andriessen, Goran Brekovic, Giovanni Sollima and David Lang, and toured the world with his Tulse Luper Suitcases VJ Show. He has regularly been nominated for the Film Festival Competitions of Cannes, Venice and Berlin, published books and written for the theatre and opera. His first feature film, The Draughtsman´s Contract, completed in 1982, received great critical acclaim and established him internationally as one of the most original and important film makers of our times, a reputation consolidated by the films, The Cook, The Thief, his Wife & her Lover and The Pillow-book and most recently by Nightwatching and the documentary rembrandt’s j’accuse.
Peter Greenaway: The Cinema is dead, long live the Cinema
Mittwoch, 25. April 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
"The cinema of our fathers and forefathers is rapidly changing. We have new technological languages and procedures of great and marvelous aspect. We should put new wine in new bottles, revise our cinematic intelligences, reinvent a new cinema that should certainly be architectonic, multi-medial and inter-active. We can say why the old cinema is dying, better still - we can intimate what the new possibilities might be. Here are some new possibilities".
Peter Greenaway was born in Wales and educated in London. He trained as a painter for four years, and started making his own films in 1966. He has continued to make cinema in a great variety of ways, which has also informed his making of installations for the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, the Joan Miro Gallery in Barcelona, the Boymans -van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the Louvre in Paris, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Hoffburg in Vienna, the Brera in Milan and the Armory in New York. He has worked and collaborated with the composers John Cage, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Wim Mertens, Louis Andriessen, Goran Brekovic, Giovanni Sollima and David Lang, and toured the world with his Tulse Luper Suitcases VJ Show. He has regularly been nominated for the Film Festival Competitions of Cannes, Venice and Berlin, published books and written for the theatre and opera. His first feature film, The Draughtsman´s Contract, completed in 1982, received great critical acclaim and established him internationally as one of the most original and important film makers of our times, a reputation consolidated by the films, The Cook, The Thief, his Wife & her Lover and The Pillow-book and most recently by Nightwatching and the documentary rembrandt’s j’accuse.
Etcetera…
Vortrag
Etcetera… present the International Errorist: From the Relative Truth to the Absolute Error.
Dienstag, 24. April 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Today, errors and failures are confronting permanently with the social pressure to follow the preconception and stereotyped ideas of successful and perfection, the main motor of the all social life in the contemporary western societies. The title of the conference works as metaphor about both philosophic and scientific concepts, playing with the notions of absolute and relative truth, and taking the error as a key-word between relativism and dialectic.
Etcetera… was formed in 1997 in Buenos Aires by a group of visual artists, poets, puppeteers and actors. They all shared the intention of bringing art to the site of immediate social conflict -the streets- and of bringing this conflict into arenas of cultural production, including the media and art institutions. Etcetera… worked closely with the human rights group H.I.J.O.S. (Children for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence).
Etcetera members Federico Zukerfeld and Loreto Garin Guzman have exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial (Errorist Kabaret, 2009) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2011).
Etcetera… present the International Errorist: From the Relative Truth to the Absolute Error.
Dienstag, 24. April 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Today, errors and failures are confronting permanently with the social pressure to follow the preconception and stereotyped ideas of successful and perfection, the main motor of the all social life in the contemporary western societies. The title of the conference works as metaphor about both philosophic and scientific concepts, playing with the notions of absolute and relative truth, and taking the error as a key-word between relativism and dialectic.
Etcetera… was formed in 1997 in Buenos Aires by a group of visual artists, poets, puppeteers and actors. They all shared the intention of bringing art to the site of immediate social conflict -the streets- and of bringing this conflict into arenas of cultural production, including the media and art institutions. Etcetera… worked closely with the human rights group H.I.J.O.S. (Children for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence).
Etcetera members Federico Zukerfeld and Loreto Garin Guzman have exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial (Errorist Kabaret, 2009) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2011).
Richard Jackson
Vortrag
Richard Jackson: Unusual Behavior - Expanded Definition of Painting
Montag, 23. April 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Since the early 1970s, Los-Angeles-based artist Richard Jackson has expanded the definition and practice of painting more than any other contemporary figure. Beginning with his large scale site-specific wall paintings and room-size painted environments, and continuing with his monumental stacked canvases and more recent anthropomorphic painting “machines”, Jackson’s wildly inventive, exuberant, and irreverent take on Action Painting has dramatically extended its performative dimensions, merged it with sculpture, and repositioned it as an art of everyday experience rather than one of heroic myth.
Jackson´s work was shown in numerous exhibition such as ‘Art about Art’ (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978), the Venice Biennale (curated by Harald Szeemann in 1999) and ‘The Artist’s Museum’ (MoCA, Los Angeles, 2010). In his lecture at the Städelschule Jackson will show examples of 35 years of work and try to explain himself.
Richard Jackson: Unusual Behavior - Expanded Definition of Painting
Montag, 23. April 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Since the early 1970s, Los-Angeles-based artist Richard Jackson has expanded the definition and practice of painting more than any other contemporary figure. Beginning with his large scale site-specific wall paintings and room-size painted environments, and continuing with his monumental stacked canvases and more recent anthropomorphic painting “machines”, Jackson’s wildly inventive, exuberant, and irreverent take on Action Painting has dramatically extended its performative dimensions, merged it with sculpture, and repositioned it as an art of everyday experience rather than one of heroic myth.
Jackson´s work was shown in numerous exhibition such as ‘Art about Art’ (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978), the Venice Biennale (curated by Harald Szeemann in 1999) and ‘The Artist’s Museum’ (MoCA, Los Angeles, 2010). In his lecture at the Städelschule Jackson will show examples of 35 years of work and try to explain himself.
Dienstag, 7. Februar 2012
Rundgang 2012
Rundgang – Jahresausstellung der Studierenden der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule
Pressemitteilung: download
Freitag, 10. – Sonntag, 12. FEBRUAR 2012
Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung: Freitag, 10. Februar, 19 Uhr, Mensa Dürerstrasse 10
anschließend Rundgang-Party ab 22 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36
Öffnungszeiten der Ausstellung: Freitag - Sonntag, 10-20 Uhr
Der Eintritt ist frei
Einmal im Jahr öffnet die Städelschule, eine der weltweit führenden Kunsthochschulen, ihre Türen der
Öffentlichkeit. Drei Tage lang werden die Kunststudierenden ihre aktuellen Arbeiten in den Ateliers zeigen, die
Videokünstler und Filmemacher präsentieren ihre neuesten Produktionen in einem speziellen Filmprogramm.
Der Rundgang ist eines der beliebtesten Kunst-Events in Frankfurt geworden. Im Jahr 2011 nahmen mehr als
13.000 Besucher die Möglichkeit wahr, die Städelschule, ihre Professoren und Studierenden kennenzulernen. Im Jahr
2012 werden rund 180 Studenten aus den Klassen von Douglas Gordon, Judith Hopf, Michael Krebber, Christa
Näher, Tobias Rehberger, Willem de Rooij, Simon Starling und Ben van Berkel ihre Werke in der kürzlich
renovierten Städelschule ausstellen.
Highlights: (Gesamtprogramm siehe unten)
Freitag, 10. Februar
19 Uhr Eröffnung und Preisverleihung, Mensa
Moderation: Elif Erkan
Bernbeck-Stiftung Förderpreis (5.000€)
Preisträger: Seth Pick
Jürgen H. Conzelmann Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerin: Ana Vogelfang
PRE Real Estate Deutschland Preis (2.500€)
Preisträgerin: Zoe Barcza und Margarethe Kollmer
Rentenbank Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerinnen: Charlotte Simon & Jonathan Penca
Stylepark Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerin: Benedikte Bjerre
Linklaters Preis (3.000€)
Preisträger: Yuki Kishino
Ernst &Young Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerin: Helena Schlichting
Engel &Völkers Preis (3.000€)
Preisträger: Wendell Seitz
DIC Deutsche Immobilien Chancen Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerin: Theresa Kampmeier
Jury: Simon Starling und Anja Nathan-Dorn
22 Uhr Rundgang Party, Daimlerstraße 32
mit "Tribe has spoken" (Korea / München) electronic dubstep rave Band
Sebastian Kofink / Peter Parker (Karawanserei, Basic Patterns), House DJs aus Berlin
Cotsios o Pikatillis (G41), DJ´s, Berlin / Zypern
Teknon Brutus (Tonkind), House DJ aus Berlin
Benjamin Tritschler und Daniel Fort, (Robert Johnson, Tanzhaus West, Silbergold, Discocaine) neue altbewährte
House DJs Frankfurt
Eintritt: 7 €
Samstag, 11. Februar
14 Uhr Vortrag von Peter Fischli, Aula
Peter Fischli (und David Weiss) - kurz Fischli/Weiss, sind ein Künstlerduo, das seit 1979 zusammenarbeitet. Sie
zählen zu den renommiertesten Gegenwartskünstlern der Schweiz. Ihre bekannteste Arbeit ist der Film „Der Lauf der
Dinge“, der 1987 während der documenta 8 gezeigt wurde.
Für ihre Arbeiten bedienen sie sich einer großen Bandbreite der künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen vom Film über die
Fotografie und Künstlerbücher bis hin zu Plastiken aus unterschiedlichsten Materialien und Multimedia-Installationen.
Sie adaptieren Gegenstände und Situationen des Alltags, die sie mit Humor und Ironie in einen künstlerischen Kontext
stellen und so philosophische und theoretische Fragen nach der Erklärung der Welt stellen.
15 Uhr, Mark von Schlegell's Pure Fiction class
Buchpräsentation: "Tales from the Crypt", Bar Crypt,
17 Uhr, Lesung aus "Tales From The Crypt"
Drinks: Bloody Mary
Filmklasse Küche
Sonntag, 12. Februar
12 Uhr "Daimler Matinée" Daimlerstraße 32
Kulinarisch:
Es gibt durchgehend kalte und warme Küche in der Dürer- und Daimlerstrasse
Service:
Die Bibliothek der Städelschule hat während des Rundgangs von 10 - 18 Uhr geöffnet.
Publikationen und Editionen sind dort erhältlich sowie weitere Informationen über die Städelschule.
Samstags und Sonntags von 11 - 20 Uhr verkehren kostenlose Shuttlebusse zwischen Daimlerstrasse und
Dürerstrasse.
Rektor: Nikolaus Hirsch
Künstlerischer Koordinator: Jonas Leihener
Für weitere und aktuelle Informationen: www.staedelschule.de
Kontakt:
+49 (0) 69 605008-0
mailing@staedelschule.de
Der "Rundgang 2012" wird unterstützt von:
Hans und Stefan Bernbeck-Stiftung
Rechtsanwalt Jürgen H. Conzelmann
Ernst & Young GmbH
Frankfurter Volksbank
PRE Real Estate Deutschland 1aps
Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
Linklaters LLP
satis & fy AG
Städelschule Portikus e.V.
Stylepark AG
Engel & Völkers AG
DIC Deutsche Immobilien Chancen AG & Co.
Pressemitteilung: download
Freitag, 10. – Sonntag, 12. FEBRUAR 2012
Eröffnung mit Preisverleihung: Freitag, 10. Februar, 19 Uhr, Mensa Dürerstrasse 10
anschließend Rundgang-Party ab 22 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32 – 36
Öffnungszeiten der Ausstellung: Freitag - Sonntag, 10-20 Uhr
Der Eintritt ist frei
Einmal im Jahr öffnet die Städelschule, eine der weltweit führenden Kunsthochschulen, ihre Türen der
Öffentlichkeit. Drei Tage lang werden die Kunststudierenden ihre aktuellen Arbeiten in den Ateliers zeigen, die
Videokünstler und Filmemacher präsentieren ihre neuesten Produktionen in einem speziellen Filmprogramm.
Der Rundgang ist eines der beliebtesten Kunst-Events in Frankfurt geworden. Im Jahr 2011 nahmen mehr als
13.000 Besucher die Möglichkeit wahr, die Städelschule, ihre Professoren und Studierenden kennenzulernen. Im Jahr
2012 werden rund 180 Studenten aus den Klassen von Douglas Gordon, Judith Hopf, Michael Krebber, Christa
Näher, Tobias Rehberger, Willem de Rooij, Simon Starling und Ben van Berkel ihre Werke in der kürzlich
renovierten Städelschule ausstellen.
Highlights: (Gesamtprogramm siehe unten)
Freitag, 10. Februar
19 Uhr Eröffnung und Preisverleihung, Mensa
Moderation: Elif Erkan
Bernbeck-Stiftung Förderpreis (5.000€)
Preisträger: Seth Pick
Jürgen H. Conzelmann Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerin: Ana Vogelfang
PRE Real Estate Deutschland Preis (2.500€)
Preisträgerin: Zoe Barcza und Margarethe Kollmer
Rentenbank Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerinnen: Charlotte Simon & Jonathan Penca
Stylepark Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerin: Benedikte Bjerre
Linklaters Preis (3.000€)
Preisträger: Yuki Kishino
Ernst &Young Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerin: Helena Schlichting
Engel &Völkers Preis (3.000€)
Preisträger: Wendell Seitz
DIC Deutsche Immobilien Chancen Preis (3.000€)
Preisträgerin: Theresa Kampmeier
Jury: Simon Starling und Anja Nathan-Dorn
22 Uhr Rundgang Party, Daimlerstraße 32
mit "Tribe has spoken" (Korea / München) electronic dubstep rave Band
Sebastian Kofink / Peter Parker (Karawanserei, Basic Patterns), House DJs aus Berlin
Cotsios o Pikatillis (G41), DJ´s, Berlin / Zypern
Teknon Brutus (Tonkind), House DJ aus Berlin
Benjamin Tritschler und Daniel Fort, (Robert Johnson, Tanzhaus West, Silbergold, Discocaine) neue altbewährte
House DJs Frankfurt
Eintritt: 7 €
Samstag, 11. Februar
14 Uhr Vortrag von Peter Fischli, Aula
Peter Fischli (und David Weiss) - kurz Fischli/Weiss, sind ein Künstlerduo, das seit 1979 zusammenarbeitet. Sie
zählen zu den renommiertesten Gegenwartskünstlern der Schweiz. Ihre bekannteste Arbeit ist der Film „Der Lauf der
Dinge“, der 1987 während der documenta 8 gezeigt wurde.
Für ihre Arbeiten bedienen sie sich einer großen Bandbreite der künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen vom Film über die
Fotografie und Künstlerbücher bis hin zu Plastiken aus unterschiedlichsten Materialien und Multimedia-Installationen.
Sie adaptieren Gegenstände und Situationen des Alltags, die sie mit Humor und Ironie in einen künstlerischen Kontext
stellen und so philosophische und theoretische Fragen nach der Erklärung der Welt stellen.
15 Uhr, Mark von Schlegell's Pure Fiction class
Buchpräsentation: "Tales from the Crypt", Bar Crypt,
17 Uhr, Lesung aus "Tales From The Crypt"
Drinks: Bloody Mary
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Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012
Eyal Weizman
Vortrag
Eyal Weizman: The Future Archaeology of Israel's occupation - The Work of DAAR on Space and Law
Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Eyal Weizman is a writer and architect; director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2007 he is a member of the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture in Beit Sahour/Palestine which has received the 2010 Prince Claus Award for Architecture. In 2010/11 he was a guest professor at the Städelschule.
His books include "The Lesser Evil" (Nottetempo, 2009, Verso Books forthcoming 2011), "Hollow Land" (Verso Books, 2007), "A Civilian Occupation" (Verso Books, 2003), the series "Territories", and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. Weizman is a regular contributor and an editorial board member for several journals and magazines including Humanity, Cabinet and Inflexions. Weizman has curated the exhibition "Territories" at KW, and participated in numerous exhibitions such as Manifesta 7 (2008) and Bozar in Brussels (2009), Redcat in Los Angeles (2010), and most recently "Common Assembly" at Nottingham Contemporary.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Eyal Weizman: The Future Archaeology of Israel's occupation - The Work of DAAR on Space and Law
Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Eyal Weizman is a writer and architect; director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2007 he is a member of the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture in Beit Sahour/Palestine which has received the 2010 Prince Claus Award for Architecture. In 2010/11 he was a guest professor at the Städelschule.
His books include "The Lesser Evil" (Nottetempo, 2009, Verso Books forthcoming 2011), "Hollow Land" (Verso Books, 2007), "A Civilian Occupation" (Verso Books, 2003), the series "Territories", and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. Weizman is a regular contributor and an editorial board member for several journals and magazines including Humanity, Cabinet and Inflexions. Weizman has curated the exhibition "Territories" at KW, and participated in numerous exhibitions such as Manifesta 7 (2008) and Bozar in Brussels (2009), Redcat in Los Angeles (2010), and most recently "Common Assembly" at Nottingham Contemporary.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Daniel Wetzel / Rimini Protokoll
Vortrag
Daniel Wetzel / Rimini Protokoll: "This is not a performance"
On parasite performance strategies, globalized theater formats and how to turn the city into a multiheaded character.
Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Rimini Protokoll is the label for the works of Helgard Haug (born 1969), Stefan Kaegi (b. 1972) and Daniel Wetzel (b. 1969) in various team constellations (related to theatre, live art, radio plays and installation), often mentioned as inventors of a new wave of documentary theatre. Since 2000, Rimini Protokoll has brought its "theatre of experts" to the stage and into city spaces, interpreted by non-professional actors who are called "experts" for that very reason. Since 2004 Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi und Daniel Wetzel are artists in residence at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Berlin.
"Call Cutta", one of their recent works, was based on outsourcing: The performers or 'experts', who were employees of a call center, were located in Salt Lake, Calcutta, India, providing the audience in Berlin, Germany with individual cell phone performances, with each call center agent guiding just one spectator solely through the remote maze of lanes of Kreuzberg. Rimini Protokoll`s work includes among others "Karl Marx´ Kapital Vol. 1" (2006), "Deadline" (2004), "Shooting Bourbaki. Ein Knabenschiessen" (2002), "Mnemopark" (2005), "Hauptversammlung" (2009), and "100 Percent Karlsruhe" (2011, for the Supreme Court). "Call Cutta in a box" won a Honorary Mention by the Prix Ars Electronica 09 (International Competition for Cyber Arts) in the category Interactive Art. In 2011 Rimini Protokoll was awarded the Silver Lion of the 41th Biennale of Venice, established to honour new theatrical realities.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Daniel Wetzel / Rimini Protokoll: "This is not a performance"
On parasite performance strategies, globalized theater formats and how to turn the city into a multiheaded character.
Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Rimini Protokoll is the label for the works of Helgard Haug (born 1969), Stefan Kaegi (b. 1972) and Daniel Wetzel (b. 1969) in various team constellations (related to theatre, live art, radio plays and installation), often mentioned as inventors of a new wave of documentary theatre. Since 2000, Rimini Protokoll has brought its "theatre of experts" to the stage and into city spaces, interpreted by non-professional actors who are called "experts" for that very reason. Since 2004 Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi und Daniel Wetzel are artists in residence at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Berlin.
"Call Cutta", one of their recent works, was based on outsourcing: The performers or 'experts', who were employees of a call center, were located in Salt Lake, Calcutta, India, providing the audience in Berlin, Germany with individual cell phone performances, with each call center agent guiding just one spectator solely through the remote maze of lanes of Kreuzberg. Rimini Protokoll`s work includes among others "Karl Marx´ Kapital Vol. 1" (2006), "Deadline" (2004), "Shooting Bourbaki. Ein Knabenschiessen" (2002), "Mnemopark" (2005), "Hauptversammlung" (2009), and "100 Percent Karlsruhe" (2011, for the Supreme Court). "Call Cutta in a box" won a Honorary Mention by the Prix Ars Electronica 09 (International Competition for Cyber Arts) in the category Interactive Art. In 2011 Rimini Protokoll was awarded the Silver Lion of the 41th Biennale of Venice, established to honour new theatrical realities.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Sonntag, 22. Januar 2012
Brigitte Weingart
Vortrag
Brigitte Weingart: The Grammar of Glamour: Andy Warhol's Screen Test
Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Brigitte Weingart teaches Literary and Media Studies at Bonn University and lives in Berlin.
Her research and teaching areas focus on the intersections of literature, popular culture, and media history (especially film). She is currently working on a book on fascination. Former books include a study on Infectious Words. Representations of AIDS (Ansteckende Wörter. Repräsentionen von AIDS, Suhrkamp Verlag 2002) and co-edited volumes on »original copies«, the relationships between the visible and the speakable, and the communication of rumours.
Brigitte Weingart: The Grammar of Glamour: Andy Warhol's Screen Test
Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Brigitte Weingart teaches Literary and Media Studies at Bonn University and lives in Berlin.
Her research and teaching areas focus on the intersections of literature, popular culture, and media history (especially film). She is currently working on a book on fascination. Former books include a study on Infectious Words. Representations of AIDS (Ansteckende Wörter. Repräsentionen von AIDS, Suhrkamp Verlag 2002) and co-edited volumes on »original copies«, the relationships between the visible and the speakable, and the communication of rumours.
Emily Wardill
Vortrag
Emily Wardill
Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
It is rare to see a box of Quality Street chocolates juxtaposed with a pig’s trotter; as rare, perhaps, as witnessing a teenager in spats dressed as a killer whale having a panic attack. Familiarity and logic are, however, thin on the ground in Emily Wardill’s films. Generally speaking, the London-based artist wrestles with languages – visual, cinematic, verbal, musical – not in order to control them but to free them up, as if non-sequiturs or logistical leaps and slippages are closer to the way we process information than the demarcations of conventional logic we more often rely on. This is not to say that her films make no sense – they do, but in a very strange way. They are the least predictable things I have seen in a long time.
Jennifer Higgie, Frieze, 2010
Emily Wardill will talk backwards from her most recent project Fulll Firearms to SEA OAK – tracing a interest in artists film and the relationship between ideas and the way that they materialize. She will try to use work within the lecture and talk about it without explaining it whilst still attempting to be very clear.
Wardill is a London-based filmmaker. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2010), The Showroom, London (2009), the ICA, London (2008), Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (2005, 2006), Standard, Oslo (2008) and the performance event The Feast Against Nature, at PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York (2004). She has shown at Tate Britain, Film Festival Oberhausen, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Witte de With, the London and New York Film Festival, MOCA Miami, and at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Her most recent show at the Badischer Kunstverein opens on 26 January.
Emily Wardill
Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
It is rare to see a box of Quality Street chocolates juxtaposed with a pig’s trotter; as rare, perhaps, as witnessing a teenager in spats dressed as a killer whale having a panic attack. Familiarity and logic are, however, thin on the ground in Emily Wardill’s films. Generally speaking, the London-based artist wrestles with languages – visual, cinematic, verbal, musical – not in order to control them but to free them up, as if non-sequiturs or logistical leaps and slippages are closer to the way we process information than the demarcations of conventional logic we more often rely on. This is not to say that her films make no sense – they do, but in a very strange way. They are the least predictable things I have seen in a long time.
Jennifer Higgie, Frieze, 2010
Emily Wardill will talk backwards from her most recent project Fulll Firearms to SEA OAK – tracing a interest in artists film and the relationship between ideas and the way that they materialize. She will try to use work within the lecture and talk about it without explaining it whilst still attempting to be very clear.
Wardill is a London-based filmmaker. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2010), The Showroom, London (2009), the ICA, London (2008), Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (2005, 2006), Standard, Oslo (2008) and the performance event The Feast Against Nature, at PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York (2004). She has shown at Tate Britain, Film Festival Oberhausen, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Witte de With, the London and New York Film Festival, MOCA Miami, and at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Her most recent show at the Badischer Kunstverein opens on 26 January.
Dienstag, 17. Januar 2012
John Levack Drever
Vortrag
John Levack Drever: Where Field and Built Sound Synthesise
Freitag, 20. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32, Frankfurt am Main
Drever will discuss methods and fieldcraft related to environmental sound recording and editing, with particular reference to his work Ochlophonics Hong Kong, a sonic study on the auditory experience of living and coping in a crowded, postcolonial, ultra-modern city soundscape. The talk will reference concepts from acoustics, acoustic ecology, sociology and ecological urbanism pertinent to urban soundscape design.
John Levack Drever is a sonic artist and soundscape researcher who focuses on the minutiae of everyday soundscapes, background noise and human utterance. His practice bridges arts practice, environmental acoustics and noise control, and social sciences. He is a Senior Lecturer in Composition and head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. His works range from the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (1999) to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (2002). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Current research is concerned with the impact of sound design on vulnerable groups.
This talk is given in the context of techno +: Building Sound Machines, a workshop organised by "Post" during the lecture programme at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main.
John Levack Drever: Where Field and Built Sound Synthesise
Freitag, 20. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32, Frankfurt am Main
Drever will discuss methods and fieldcraft related to environmental sound recording and editing, with particular reference to his work Ochlophonics Hong Kong, a sonic study on the auditory experience of living and coping in a crowded, postcolonial, ultra-modern city soundscape. The talk will reference concepts from acoustics, acoustic ecology, sociology and ecological urbanism pertinent to urban soundscape design.
John Levack Drever is a sonic artist and soundscape researcher who focuses on the minutiae of everyday soundscapes, background noise and human utterance. His practice bridges arts practice, environmental acoustics and noise control, and social sciences. He is a Senior Lecturer in Composition and head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. His works range from the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (1999) to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (2002). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Current research is concerned with the impact of sound design on vulnerable groups.
This talk is given in the context of techno +: Building Sound Machines, a workshop organised by "Post" during the lecture programme at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main.
Freitag, 13. Januar 2012
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