Events

  • Michal Brzezinski: Fake Art

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    Michal Brzezinski: Fake ArtMichal Brzezinski: Fake Art
    10 November – 11 December 2011
    Opening: November 10, 2011 , 18h (2nd floor)
    BWA SOKÓL Gallery of Contemporary Art in Nowy Sacz
    33-300 Nowy Sacz, ul. Kosciuszki 34, Poland

    Michal Brzezinski is an artist faithful to the medium of video, who has been striving for a decade to restore the art of video to the position of experimental art and who has negated attempts at adapting and appropriating it to the role imposed by the context of the traditional visual arts. He attempts to discover new elements both in the montage and in visual aesthetics of this medium. The present exhibition constitutes another breakthrough in his creative output which has generated many a controversy so far. Since these controversies are not political but aesthetic in nature, his works are a far cry from scandal-seeking and populism. However, in the artistic context, this show is truly ‘volcanic’ and, following subsequent eruptions of Brzezinski’s ideas, the intellectual landscape is swept off the surface and the defining of a new aesthetic space commences.

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  • or-bits: Truth

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    Cover of the TIME magazine; 4 January 1983or-bits.com is pleased to present Truth,
    its new and fifth online programme.

    Featuring works by:
    Angus Braithwaite / David Raymond Conroy / Adelita Husni-Bey / Iocose / M+M (Marc Weis and Martin De Mattia) / Richard Sides

    Plus forthcoming guest curated pages by:
    Gaia Tedone / Christine Takengny & Ute Panned

    Cover of the TIME magazine; 4 January 1983

    Truth programme will be accompanied by an ongoing series of blog contributions by:
    Jennifer Steele (artist, researcher and lecturer) / Nathan Witt  (artist) / and other bloggers joining along the way.

    To find out more go to http://www.or-bits.com and the or-bits Blog.

     

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  • Xperimenta'11

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    Xperimenta'11 logoXperimenta, Xcentric's biennial meeting on the current state and issues of experimental film comes back in its third edition next November 4-6. Organized by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and curated by Miguel Fernández Labayen and Antoni Pinent, this year's edition centers on performance in a wide sense, 'from the practices of expanded cinema to the deconstructions of social, cultural and sexual actions'.

    The event open with a talk by German filmmaker Matthias Müller, who will also present a selection of his solo films as well as his collaborations with Christoph Girardet, and will also curate a 'carte blanche' programme. American artists Luis Recoder and Sandra Gibson will give a master class on their working methods and will present a selection of their collaborative performances using up to four 16mm projectors. The section Performing Pop includes Vaginal Davis, with her performance 'Memory Island', and a screening of video pieces by Carles Congost, both of whom will be the protagonists of a talk modarated by Marc Siegel.

     

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  • LA AIR 2: Rick Bahto

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    For Karen Johannesen (Rick Bahto, 2010)LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles filmmakers to utilize Echo Park Film Center resources in creating a new work over a four-week period.

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    Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 20:00 to Friday, October 28, 2011 - 19:55

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    Echo Park Film Center - Los Angeles, United States

  • Directors Lounge: Steven Ball - Travelling Practice

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    Directors Lounge: Steven Ball - Travelling PracticeDirectors Lounge: Steven Ball - Travelling Practice
    Digital video works 2003 - 2010
    Thursday, 27 Oct. 2011, 21 h
    Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

    These works travel near and far, across physical and virtual space using material collected en route. Steven Ball's video work is radically contemporary in its appearance. He generally uses his own camera footage, his own voice as text, and with it a different layer of discursive material. His audio-visual material appears to be straight, clear and sharp, but the themes the artist is concerned with are less easy to encompass. In very short it may possibly be described as an interest in landscape and the politics of its reproduction.

    It may not be immediately obvious that Steven Ball's work has been much influenced by his experiences in Australia. He lived in Melbourne for 12 years from 1988 to 2000, where he was a very active member of the local art and super-8 film scene. Upon returning to live in London, he made another decisive move to the then "new medium" of digital video. Another idea he brought in his luggage was the intellectual debate around native Australian thinking and the respect for traditional beliefs and myths. Ball's critical reflection on the seemingly unquestionable "truths" of the Western world may be related to this discussion.

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  • Plenty 12: Dichtung und Wahrheit

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    Dichtung und Wahrheit (Peter Kubelka, 2003)Plenty 12: Dichtung und Wahrheit
    Tuesday November 1st, 2011 19h
    Event Gallery, 96 Teesdale Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PU

    Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and truth)
    Peter Kubelka, Austria, 2003, 16mm, colour, silent, 13 minutes

    “Dichtung und Wahrheit contains collected pieces from publicity films with a common element: they show actors before they start and then begin to play what they are directed to represent. Repeated ready-made takes create cycles of symbolic significance, glorified glimpses of the contemporary human condition: the beauty from a hair conditioner, courting and insemination by chocolate-feeding, labourless birth onto a varnished floor, animal and inanimate companions. It was my aim not to shape the found material perfectly into an unambiguous message but to preserve the full richness of archaeological information. My point of view has changed from the contemporary artist into an observer looking into the distant past." - Peter Kubelka

    The screening series Plenty proposes a new way of looking at artists’ films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time and space to consider it. Selected by Mark Webber. The Brief Habits exhibition programme at E:vent is curated by Shama Khanna with support from Arts Council England and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

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