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Film Screening and moderated discussion: Hito Steyerl in attendance at the Hordaland Kunstsenter
In a special evening at the Hordaland Kunstsenter, several of Hito Steyerl's documentary film essays will be screened. Hito Steyerl will be in attendance and the artist speaks with curator and writer Tone Hansen
Pre-screening at 17.45: The Empty Centre (1998) 62:00 min
Artist in attendance starting at 19.00
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Through a conversation Steyerl's practice, where she examines social and political processes through working at the interface between film and visual art, will be discussed. Migration, cultural globalisation, feminist and political theory, as well as media are central themes of her artistic and theoretical works. In her documentary film essays she merges her own imagery with archival and fictional material, in which she takes a critical artistic position towards the circulation of images, and the relation between evidence and truth.
In the text In Defence of the Poor Image, e-flux Journal 11/2009 she writes:
The poor image embodies the afterlife of many former masterpieces of cinema and video art. It has been expelled from the sheltered paradise that cinema seems to have once been. After being kicked out of the protected and often protectionist arena of national culture, discarded from commercial circulation, these works have become travellers in a digital no-man’s land, constantly shifting their resolution and format, speed and media, sometimes even losing names and credits along the way.
http://www.kunstsenter.no/samtale-hito-steyerl-i-samtale-med-tone-hansen
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Students must register in advance.
Seating is limited. Please only sign up if you are sure you will be attending.
Required reading before screening:
In Defense of the Poor Image
A Thing like you and me
In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective
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Hito Steyerl studied cinematography in Tokyo and Munich and has a Phd in Philosophy. Her work has been showed in exhibitions such as the 3. Berlin biennial for contemporary art (2004), Manifesta 5 (2004), documenta 12 (2007), the Shanghai Biennial (2008), Gwangju and Taipeh biennials 2010 as well as numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe. She is professor of Media Art at the University of Arts, Berlin and has taught film and theory at different institutions such as Goldsmiths College and Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies. Steyerl also writes for a number of magazines and websites. Her book Die Farbe der Wahrheit: Dokumentarismen im Kunstfeld (Verlag Turia + Kant) was published in 2008.
Tone Hansen is newly appointed Director of the Henie Onstad Art Centre, where she has worked as curator since 2008. Lately she has curated The World Rehersal Court, Judy Radul, accompanied by the anthology (edited by Marit Paasche and Judy Radul) and symposium titled A Thousand Eyes: Media technology, the law and the aesthetics. In 2011she edited the reader (Re)Staging the Art Museum (2011, Revolver). In 2010 she curated a solo exhibition with the works of Hito Steyerl at the Henie Onstad Art Centre. Hansen held a research position at the Oslo National Academy of Art in Oslo from 2003-2008.
Organised by Ellen Røed and Michelle Teran (both research fellows at Bergen National Academy of the Arts and working within Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme) in collaboration with Hordaland Art Centre. Supported by the Bergen National Academy of the Arts and the Hordaland Art Centre.
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Pre-screening at 17.45: The Empty Centre (1998) 62:00 min
The film documents the transformations of the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin throughout the course of history, where both global restructuring as well as the perpetuation of social and political divides can be detected.
Lovely Andrea (2007) 30:00 min
If all pictures became current—in that they pass by and are thus connectable with one another, whether elegantly or obscenely, through translation or association—how would it be possible to fasten down a picture? Hito Steyerl’s light-hearted picture translations are about fastening things in an elegant-obscene way. In Tokyo she seeks a photo series for which she posed in 1987 as a "rope bondage" model. While making inquiries with experts and authorities in the bondage arts (which are mainly marketed online nowadays), she finds what she is looking for in a magazine archive.
November (2004) 25:00 min
In the 1980s Hito Steyerl shot a feminist martial arts film on Super-8 stock. Her best friend Andrea Wolf played the lead role of a woman warrior dressed in leather and mounted on a motorcycle. The engagement expressed in the formal grammar of exploitation films later became Wolf’s political praxis. In November Hito Steyerl examines the spectrum of interrelations between territorial power politics (as practiced by Turkey in Kurdistan with the support of Germany) and individual forms of resistance.
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Kurset starter 08.11.2011 / Uke 45, og varer til 08.11.2011 / Uke 45
Sted: Hordaland Kunstsenter
Tilbyder: Akademiet
MÃ¥lgruppe: Alle studenter
Årstrinn: Alle årstrinn
Antall plasser: 25
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