28 jan
Harun Farocki: The Creators of Shopping Worlds
Harun Farocki Filmproduktion?Video, 2001, col., 72 min.
In his video-essay Farocki investigates how brave new shopping worlds are being created, a paradise under surveillance.
29 jan
Wanda Strauven : The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded
(talk/presentation)
The phrase “cinema of attractions” was introduced twentyfive years ago. Now it can also be applied to The Matrix, virtual reality and video games.
30 jan
Guy Sherwin: Messages
(DVD presentation)
Inspired by childpsychologist Piaget, Sherwin made this film when his daughter Maya was first learning to talk and write.
31 jan
Zachary Formwalt : In place of Capital
2009, single-channel HD video with sound, 24 minutes 30 seconds
A picture of the Royal Exchange building in London (1844) is used as a starting point to show how economic movements fail to appear photographically.
ma 1 feb
Eric Van Zuylen: ‘Stefan Themerson and language’
16mm, NL, 1976, 46 mins,
(presentatie nav DVD Release Themerson films/Lux)
The Themersons had a significant influence on the art and philosophy of the avant-garde of Eastern Europe during the 1930s. Eric Van Zuylen reminisces.
2 feb
Vincent Meessen : Vita Nova
26 min, colour, spoken, 2009
Taking a fifties’ cover of the magazine Paris- Match as his cue, the artist weaves together phantoms from the colonial past of Congo.
3 feb
Els Dietvorst (and guests): TIME IS A BOOK
Presentation
The artist invited fellow artists from all over the world to respond to the following question: How to create commited art today?
4 feb
Dora Garcia : STEAL THIS BOOK (2009)
presentation/talk
The publication Steal this Book documents eleven recent performative projects and as a sculpture is meant to be stolen. The artist explains.
5 feb
Lene Berg : Stalin by Picasso or portrait of woman with moustache
Video, 30 minutes, 2008
The film traces the personal, political, artistic and media implications of a simple artistic act: Picasso’s 1953 memorial drawing of Stalin.