[syndicate] Film, Art, Experiment, Space: A conference within the context of the exhibition 1,2,3... Avant-Gardes

[Lukasz Ronduda]

Film, Art, Experiment, Space
A conference within the context of the exhibition 1,2,3... Avant-Gardes
(Open Form #2)
July 13-14, 2007

"Open form" (Oskar Hansen) originated in the 1950s as a response to the
formalized design principles of modernism and was intensively discussed
within the frame of architectural debates. The conference with
international
experts will discuss, starting from the exhibition 1,2,3... Avant-Gardes
(Open Form #2), the impact of Hansen's theoretical concept on
contemporary
visual culture and today's understanding of space. Lectures and talks
explore the connections and relations that were opened up between
physical
space and the space of representation in late modernist architectural
and
artistic discourse, and how these can be understood within the
context of
contemporary discussions. What possibilities were found to represent and
communicate a process-oriented understanding of space? What roles were
played by different media like photography, film, performance, or by
exhibitions in art and architecture contexts? How did a changed
concept of
space affect the representation of space, or vice versa, what effect
did the
experimental forms of expression have on the spatial perception of
participants?

The lectures and discussions will be in English.
Supported by MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg.


Friday, July 13

6.00 pm: Introduction: Axel Wieder, Lukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang
6.30 pm: Ulrich Bernhardt (Stuttgart): On the exhibition project "New
Art
from Poland", 1981
7.00 pm: Joanna Mytkowska (Centre Pompidou, Paris): Applied Social Arts.
Oskar Hansen and Artur Zmijewski
8.00 pm: Michal Wolinski (Piktogram Magazine, Warschau): From
Sculpture to
Social Interaction. The Art Activity of KwieKulik and Gutt & Raniszewski


Saturday, July 14

2.00 pm: Introduction: Axel Wieder, Lukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang
2.30 pm: Uhr Lukasz Ronduda (CCA Ujazdowski Castle Warschau): Between
Conceptualism and Nominalism. The Polish Art Scene in the 1970s
3.30–4.00 pm: Break
4.00 pm: Talk with Marc Glöde (Freie Universität Berlin): "Continual
Passages" in Cinema and Architecture
5.00 pm: TJ Demos (University College London): Notes on the Open
Form, Today
6.00–7.00 pm: Break
7.00 pm: Felicity D. Scott (Columbia University, New York): Future
Adaptability
8.00 pm: Discussion


Friday, July 13, 2 pm: Special Event. An Excursion, curated by Joanna
Warsza.
Meeting point: BW-Bank, Kleiner Schlossplatz 11, 70173 Stuttgart


About the participants:

Ulrich Bernhardt is an artist. He was director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
from 1978 to 1986.

TJ Demos is an art critic and a lecturer in the Art History Department,
University College London. He is the author of The Exiles of Marcel
Duchamp
(MIT Press, 2007). He is currently working on a book provisionally
titled
Migrations: Contemporary Art and Globalization.

Marc Glöde is film historian and since 2002 researcher at the SFB "
Performative Cultures", Freie Universität Berlin. He was the curator
of film
festivals on "film and architecture" in Berlin, Los Angeles and London.

Joanna Mytkowska is curator at Centre Pompidou for contemporary art.
She was
co-founder of Foksal Gallery Foundation (with Andrzej Przywara and Adam
Szymczyk) in 1997.

Lukasz Ronduda ist art historian and curator of the Archive of Polish
Experimental Film at Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in
Warsaw. He is co-curator of the exhibition "1,2,3 ... Avant-Gardes"
at CCA
Ujazdowski Castle and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

Felicity Scott is an assistant professor of architecture at the Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia
University, and
a founding co-editor of Grey Room, a quarterly journal of
architecture, art,
media, and politics. Her book, entitled Architecture or Techno-Utopia:
Politics After Modernism, is forthcoming on MIT Press in November.

Joanna Warsza is an artist and theatre director. She organized the
project
Virtual Museum (with Beat Gugger and Rudi Steiner) in Warsaw.

Michal Wolinski is an art critic and curator. He is the founder and
editor
of Piktogram magazine.

Florian Zeyfang is an artist and professor of video, film und
installation
art at the art academy in Umea, Sweden. He is co-curator of the
exhibition
"1,2,3 ... Avant-Gardes" at CCA Ujazdowski Castle and Künstlerhaus
Stuttgart.

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Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Reuchlinstrasse 4b, D - 70178 Stuttgart
Tel.: (0711) 617652, Fax: (0711) 613165
info at kuenstlerhaus.de

Admission: 3.00 EUR (reduced: 1.50 EUR, members: free)