Pierre Hébert
2 multimedia performances
“Only the hand that erases can write the truth” +  “Animation Exercises”

Tuesday September 29, 2009 - 21:30h.
INIT, via della Stazione Tuscolana 133, Roma
10 Euro

“Only the Hand” music by Stefan Smulovitz
For this duet, I choose to work from a sentence that had been brought to my attention by my French friend Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, an eminent specialist of Pasolini and of animation cinema : Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. Hervé knew very well that this sentence would interest me for many reasons : the fact that it expresses itself in the form of a paradox and also the fact that that it centers on the gesture of erasing which had become a central element of my live animation performances. He has heard about “the sentence” during a conference given by professor Carlo Ossola. Skipping the details, I should say that this sentence was apocryphally attributed to the German mystic Master Eckart. At any rate, this idea of associating truth and erasing has a very ancient history. Traces of it are found a bit everywhere, in the Gospels, in Dante amongst others. - Pierre Hébert

“Animation Exercises” music by Bob Ostertag
This project started as an experiment about non-linear animation which developed away from the public eye in the intimacy of my studio. They were studio performances that I have been doing once a day for an entire week. The objective was to explore how a very short segment of evolving animation (16 frames) could relate to itself through repetition and through simple formal video processing done digitally (reversing the direction of the flow, changing speed, shuffling the order of the images, three layers compositing, etc.). The animation is done manually on a white board with a dry erase felt pen, each of the drawings is recorded in a very short digital buffer so that after the 16th drawing, every new drawing override the oldest of the existing images in the loop. - Pierre Hébert

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Animation Breakdown is a weekend of screenings and discussion, exploring the relationships
between drawing, moving image, and the influence of digital technologies.
At Tate Modern, London, on 20 and 21 March 2009.

For the full programme visit:
http://www.animateprojects.org/events/events_2009/tate_modern_study_day

Animation Breakdown Study Day, Saturday, 21 March
With an emphasis on practice, and the artist’s perspective, the day will embrace an eclectic range of approaches, and ask how digital and hybrid technologies are influencing artists and their work.

Curators Stoffel Debuysere and María Palacios Cruz will kick things off with an illustrated talk to help "dismantle the common a priori assumptions on animation film and its limitations".

As part of their presentation, they’re showing some films, too:

- Snack and Drink (Bob Sabiston, USA, 1999, 3’40”)
- The Simpson Verdict (Kota Ezawa, GE/US, 2002, 3’)
- Infinite Justice (Karl Tebbe, Germany, 2006, 2’)
- The Quick and the Dead (Stephen Andrews, Canada, 2004, 1’30”)
- I've got a guy running (Jonathon Kirk, USA, 2006, 7’12”)
- Paths of g (Dietmar Offenhuber, Austria, 2006, 1’)
- Capitalism : slavery (Ken Jacobs, USA, 2007, silent, 3’)

The rest of the day is given over to three panels of artists, presenting and discussing their work:

Simon Faithfull, Ann Course, Samba Fall, Joshua Mosley, David Blair, Jennifer Steinkamp,
Dryden Goodwin, Emily Richardson, Ori Gersht

The panels are chaired by curators Angela Kingston, Steven Bode and David Chandler.

Animation Breakdown Weekend Screenings: Computer Baroque
Friday 20 March 2009, 7pm
Computer Baroque programme - digital animation art and experiment, curated by Richard Wright, featuring the works of Karl Sims, William Latham, John Witney, Paul Garrin, Shelley Lake and Ruth Lingford.

Saturday 21 March 2009, 7pm
WAX, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees, (David Blair, USA/Germany, 1991), followed by a Q&A with the artist.

For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/film
Study Day: £15.00 / £10.00 concessions
Screenings: £5.00 / £4.00 concessions