Vortrag
Loretta Fahrenholz
Dienstag, 28. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula
During the past few years Fahrenholz has gained recognition for a style of digital cinema that merges an old school documentary ethic with the manipulations of contemporary image technologies. Inserting her camera into live social situations and institutional contexts, the artist constructs narratives with the real, using digital post-production to produce reconstructed documents. Her juxtaposition of pop culture references with intense human interactions creates an uneasy presence on screen and nods towards our interpersonal connections of the near future.
The talk will focus on Fahrenholz's New York films Implosion, an adaptation of a Kathy Acker script in a high rise condo near Ground Zero in Manhattan, Grand Openings Return of the Blogs, documenting a performance series of the collective Grand Openings at MoMA in 2011 and Ditch Plains, a futuristic disaster movie shot in Brooklyn at the time of Hurricane Sandy.
Loretta Fahrenholz lives in Berlin and New York. Recent films include: My Throat, My Air (2014); Ditch Plains (2013); Grand Openings Return of the Blogs (2012); Implosion (2011) and Haust (2010). Fahrenholz work has been shown at Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (2015); Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York (2013), The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (2014); 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014); Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, (2014), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2014); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2014); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2014); Artists Space, New York (2013); Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom (2013); Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (2012); and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2012).
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Freitag, 24. April 2015
Peter Wächtler
Vortrag
Peter Wächtler
Montag, 27. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula
Peter Wächtler works with sculpture, drawing and video. The most re-occurring element is the use of text, be it voice-over, subtitle, songtext or short story. His texts often share an distorted or exagerated tone and are mainly told by a multi-souled first person narrator (e.g. orphan, shoemaker, bad butler). These reports can remain text or eventually conclude into a video or a series of ceramic sculptures instead. Wächtler moves within a common system of imagery and connotations, describing a social grid of expectations, powers and limits, along with some of the blurred identities that haunt it.
In the lecture he will speak about his practice and will show excerpts of videos as well as images of his other works.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Peter Wächtler
Montag, 27. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula
Peter Wächtler works with sculpture, drawing and video. The most re-occurring element is the use of text, be it voice-over, subtitle, songtext or short story. His texts often share an distorted or exagerated tone and are mainly told by a multi-souled first person narrator (e.g. orphan, shoemaker, bad butler). These reports can remain text or eventually conclude into a video or a series of ceramic sculptures instead. Wächtler moves within a common system of imagery and connotations, describing a social grid of expectations, powers and limits, along with some of the blurred identities that haunt it.
In the lecture he will speak about his practice and will show excerpts of videos as well as images of his other works.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 20. April 2015
Zin Taylor: Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus
Ausstellung zur Nacht der Museen
Zin Taylor: Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus
Samstag, 25. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Portikus
"Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots" is a narrative video where lichen, a growth existing upon the surface of rocks, uses the characters of a stripe and dot to make visual the thoughts it has been thinking. This hallucinogenic proposition introduces the transference, and subsequent translation, of information from one form into another. The stripe and the dot, two analog building blocks of visual language, are seen giving form to the stories held within the ancient lichen organism.
"The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" is a radio-play imagining the translation of sound into form. A voice introduces a dot, and with the aid of an analog synthesizer, expands its characteristics into a series of stripes: the sign-wave of sound as an undulating stripe, led by the thoughts of an adventurous dot. Over the course of several minutes the characteristics of the stripe and the dot are developed and made audible as their movements describe different scenarios with sound.
Following the presentation of the video and audio works "A Story of Sound + Visuals (a small index of contemporary psych)" will unfold over the remaining hours of the evening. Taylor will play selections from his record collection of groups and individuals who seek to develop a language of psychedelia through the music they compose. Typically downtempo and contemplative, the collection presents a place where many of the ideas and observations employed within "Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots and The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" were developed. The music will be accompanied by projected footage of two people dressed as a stripe and a dot cavorting on a moon-ish landscape. The footage presenting a visual choreography to the music that is played, lending a visual setting to the audible soundtrack of the night.
Zin Taylor (1978, Calgary, Canada) lives and works in Brussels. Belgium. Recent solo exhibitions include "The Illustrator at 1646", Den Haag; "Foto/Studio/Zig-Zag", 21er Haus, Vienna; "Karl’s Body", Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna; "The Tangental Zig-Zag", Kunstraum, London; "SUN MILK", Maison Gregoire, Brussels; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7)", Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5)", Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island; and "Parrot Soup", Supportico Lopez, Berlin. Writing by Zin Taylor, and his artist books, have been published by Sternberg Press (Berlin), Bywater Bros. Editions (Port Colborne), Etablissement d’en face (Brussels), Mousse Publishing (Milan), Karma (New York), and Artforum (New York).
Zin Taylor: Stripes and Dots on the Isle of Portikus
Samstag, 25. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Portikus
"Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots" is a narrative video where lichen, a growth existing upon the surface of rocks, uses the characters of a stripe and dot to make visual the thoughts it has been thinking. This hallucinogenic proposition introduces the transference, and subsequent translation, of information from one form into another. The stripe and the dot, two analog building blocks of visual language, are seen giving form to the stories held within the ancient lichen organism.
"The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" is a radio-play imagining the translation of sound into form. A voice introduces a dot, and with the aid of an analog synthesizer, expands its characteristics into a series of stripes: the sign-wave of sound as an undulating stripe, led by the thoughts of an adventurous dot. Over the course of several minutes the characteristics of the stripe and the dot are developed and made audible as their movements describe different scenarios with sound.
Following the presentation of the video and audio works "A Story of Sound + Visuals (a small index of contemporary psych)" will unfold over the remaining hours of the evening. Taylor will play selections from his record collection of groups and individuals who seek to develop a language of psychedelia through the music they compose. Typically downtempo and contemplative, the collection presents a place where many of the ideas and observations employed within "Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots and The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" were developed. The music will be accompanied by projected footage of two people dressed as a stripe and a dot cavorting on a moon-ish landscape. The footage presenting a visual choreography to the music that is played, lending a visual setting to the audible soundtrack of the night.
Zin Taylor (1978, Calgary, Canada) lives and works in Brussels. Belgium. Recent solo exhibitions include "The Illustrator at 1646", Den Haag; "Foto/Studio/Zig-Zag", 21er Haus, Vienna; "Karl’s Body", Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna; "The Tangental Zig-Zag", Kunstraum, London; "SUN MILK", Maison Gregoire, Brussels; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7)", Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5)", Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island; and "Parrot Soup", Supportico Lopez, Berlin. Writing by Zin Taylor, and his artist books, have been published by Sternberg Press (Berlin), Bywater Bros. Editions (Port Colborne), Etablissement d’en face (Brussels), Mousse Publishing (Milan), Karma (New York), and Artforum (New York).
Nina Power: Philosophy and the public
Vortrag
Nina Power: Philosophy and The Public
Freitag, 24. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula
This talk will examine the political and aesthetic conditions for the possibility of 'publicness' in the age of the destruction of the welfare state and the rise of repression of all kinds. It will also examine the role that philosophy can have, as a speculative critical practice and what this might mean for art and artists. Drawing on several current projects, I will try to identify some of the main pressures and problems of our age, particularly around our understanding of the state, of work and of value.
Nina Power has a wide range of interests, including philosophy, film, art, feminism and politics. She is the author of "One-Dimensional Woman" (Zer0, 2009) and is interested in independent publishing and reviving certain political forms and genres of writing (the polemic, the pamphlet, the declaration, the address, etc.). She writes for a variety of different publications and journals, in a variety of genres and on various different topics (including music, critical theory, film, policing and protests). Some of the publications she regularly contributes to include frieze, Wire, Radical Philosophy, the Guardian, Cabinet, Film Quarterly, Icon and The Philosophers’ Magazine.
Nina Power received her PhD in Philosophy from Middlesex University on the topic of Humanism and Anti-Humanism in Post-War French Philosophy, and also has an MA and BA in Philosophy from Warwick. She has taught at Middlesex, Orpington College, London College of Communication, Morley College and Roehampton University, where she is also currently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy. She is a fellow of the RSA and a member of the British Philosophical Association.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Nina Power: Philosophy and The Public
Freitag, 24. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula
This talk will examine the political and aesthetic conditions for the possibility of 'publicness' in the age of the destruction of the welfare state and the rise of repression of all kinds. It will also examine the role that philosophy can have, as a speculative critical practice and what this might mean for art and artists. Drawing on several current projects, I will try to identify some of the main pressures and problems of our age, particularly around our understanding of the state, of work and of value.
Nina Power has a wide range of interests, including philosophy, film, art, feminism and politics. She is the author of "One-Dimensional Woman" (Zer0, 2009) and is interested in independent publishing and reviving certain political forms and genres of writing (the polemic, the pamphlet, the declaration, the address, etc.). She writes for a variety of different publications and journals, in a variety of genres and on various different topics (including music, critical theory, film, policing and protests). Some of the publications she regularly contributes to include frieze, Wire, Radical Philosophy, the Guardian, Cabinet, Film Quarterly, Icon and The Philosophers’ Magazine.
Nina Power received her PhD in Philosophy from Middlesex University on the topic of Humanism and Anti-Humanism in Post-War French Philosophy, and also has an MA and BA in Philosophy from Warwick. She has taught at Middlesex, Orpington College, London College of Communication, Morley College and Roehampton University, where she is also currently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy. She is a fellow of the RSA and a member of the British Philosophical Association.
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Zin Taylor: A Conversation on Lichen Voices
Vortrag
Zin Taylor: A Conversation on Lichen Voices
Donnerstag, 23. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula
In "A conversation on Lichen Voices" Zin Taylor speaks about his audio and video works, which are on view in frame of "Nacht der Museen" at Portikus.
"Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots" is a narrative video where lichen, a growth existing upon the surface of rocks, uses the characters of a stripe and dot to make visual the thoughts it has been thinking. This hallucinogenic proposition introduces the transference, and subsequent translation, of information from one form into another. The stripe and the dot, two analog building blocks of visual language, are seen giving form to the stories held within the ancient lichen organism.
"The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" is a radio-play imagining the translation of sound into form. A voice introduces a dot, and with the aid of an analog synthesizer, expands its characteristics into a series of stripes: the sign-wave of sound as an undulating stripe, led by the thoughts of an adventurous dot. Over the course of several minutes the characteristics of the stripe and the dot are developed and made audible as their movements describe different scenarios with sound.
Following the presentation of the video and audio works "A Story of Sound + Visuals (a small index of contemporary psych)" will unfold over the remaining hours of the evening. Taylor will play selections from his record collection of groups and individuals who seek to develop a language of psychedelia through the music they compose. Typically downtempo and contemplative, the collection presents a place where many of the ideas and observations employed within "Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots and The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" were developed. The music will be accompanied by projected footage of two people dressed as a stripe and a dot cavorting on a moon-ish landscape. The footage presenting a visual choreography to the music that is played, lending a visual setting to the audible soundtrack of the night.
Zin Taylor (1978, Calgary, Canada) lives and works in Brussels. Belgium. Recent solo exhibitions include "The Illustrator at 1646", Den Haag; "Foto/Studio/Zig-Zag", 21er Haus, Vienna; "Karl’s Body", Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna; "The Tangental Zig-Zag", Kunstraum, London; "SUN MILK", Maison Gregoire, Brussels; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7)", Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5)", Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island; and "Parrot Soup", Supportico Lopez, Berlin. Writing by Zin Taylor, and his artist books, have been published by Sternberg Press (Berlin), Bywater Bros. Editions (Port Colborne), Etablissement d’en face (Brussels), Mousse Publishing (Milan), Karma (New York), and Artforum (New York).
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Zin Taylor: A Conversation on Lichen Voices
Donnerstag, 23. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Aula
In "A conversation on Lichen Voices" Zin Taylor speaks about his audio and video works, which are on view in frame of "Nacht der Museen" at Portikus.
"Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots" is a narrative video where lichen, a growth existing upon the surface of rocks, uses the characters of a stripe and dot to make visual the thoughts it has been thinking. This hallucinogenic proposition introduces the transference, and subsequent translation, of information from one form into another. The stripe and the dot, two analog building blocks of visual language, are seen giving form to the stories held within the ancient lichen organism.
"The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" is a radio-play imagining the translation of sound into form. A voice introduces a dot, and with the aid of an analog synthesizer, expands its characteristics into a series of stripes: the sign-wave of sound as an undulating stripe, led by the thoughts of an adventurous dot. Over the course of several minutes the characteristics of the stripe and the dot are developed and made audible as their movements describe different scenarios with sound.
Following the presentation of the video and audio works "A Story of Sound + Visuals (a small index of contemporary psych)" will unfold over the remaining hours of the evening. Taylor will play selections from his record collection of groups and individuals who seek to develop a language of psychedelia through the music they compose. Typically downtempo and contemplative, the collection presents a place where many of the ideas and observations employed within "Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots and The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 4)" were developed. The music will be accompanied by projected footage of two people dressed as a stripe and a dot cavorting on a moon-ish landscape. The footage presenting a visual choreography to the music that is played, lending a visual setting to the audible soundtrack of the night.
Zin Taylor (1978, Calgary, Canada) lives and works in Brussels. Belgium. Recent solo exhibitions include "The Illustrator at 1646", Den Haag; "Foto/Studio/Zig-Zag", 21er Haus, Vienna; "Karl’s Body", Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna; "The Tangental Zig-Zag", Kunstraum, London; "SUN MILK", Maison Gregoire, Brussels; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 7)", Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto; "The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5)", Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island; and "Parrot Soup", Supportico Lopez, Berlin. Writing by Zin Taylor, and his artist books, have been published by Sternberg Press (Berlin), Bywater Bros. Editions (Port Colborne), Etablissement d’en face (Brussels), Mousse Publishing (Milan), Karma (New York), and Artforum (New York).
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Gabi Ngcobo
Vortrag
Gabi Ngcobo: "What's love got to do with it?"
Mittwoch, 22. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Weltkulturen Museum
In her talk "What’s love got to do with it?" Ngcobo discusses her research work in the Weltkulturen Labor.
Ngcobo is guest artist and curator at the Weltkulturen Labor. During her residency, she has been critically engaging and reviewing the museum's collection of contemporary art from South Africa.
Gabi Ngcobo is a curator, artist and educator based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2010, she co-founded the collaborative platform Center for Historical Reenactments and over the last four years has contributed curatorially, individually and collectively to a variety of projects organised by this platform. Ngcobo is a lecturer at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg. She is a member of the curatorial team for the forthcoming 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, to open in September 2016.
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37, Frankfurt am Main
Eintritt: 5€ / ermäßigt 2,50€
(The Talk is free for students of Städelschule. Student ID necessary.)
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Gabi Ngcobo: "What's love got to do with it?"
Mittwoch, 22. April 2015, 19 Uhr, Weltkulturen Museum
In her talk "What’s love got to do with it?" Ngcobo discusses her research work in the Weltkulturen Labor.
Ngcobo is guest artist and curator at the Weltkulturen Labor. During her residency, she has been critically engaging and reviewing the museum's collection of contemporary art from South Africa.
Gabi Ngcobo is a curator, artist and educator based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2010, she co-founded the collaborative platform Center for Historical Reenactments and over the last four years has contributed curatorially, individually and collectively to a variety of projects organised by this platform. Ngcobo is a lecturer at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg. She is a member of the curatorial team for the forthcoming 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, to open in September 2016.
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37, Frankfurt am Main
Eintritt: 5€ / ermäßigt 2,50€
(The Talk is free for students of Städelschule. Student ID necessary.)
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.
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