07.02.2012
20,00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Visiting Artist Talk: Róza El Hassan
"No Corruption, Social Brand Wicker Art"
“No Corruption” was conceived as an international brand to produce functional objects based on wicker techniques. The products of the "No Corruption" brand demonstrate the high level and elegance of objects produced by the most discriminated people, if given temporarily, the same opportunities as the middle class.
In Hungary, about 600,000 people belong to the Roma minority. Most of them live in extreme poverty in small villages in eastern and southern Hungary. One of the traditional crafts of the region is a special wicker technique. When El Hassan arrived in the village of Szendrőlád, the elder masters still knew the ancient and unique techniques of wicker and special wood chip braiding, called szilács.
The starting point for El Hassan was in functional design: laptop-bags and camera-bags made of wicker. "No Corruption, Social Brand Wicker Art" brought together freelance artists and designers, scholars and Roma basket weavers to work alongside one another and develop products.
Project link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g28YYjPzMSc
21.02.2012
20,00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
During this session, Daniel Morgenthaler will be presenting excerpts from the book “See it Again, Say it Again: The Artist as Researcher”, edited by Janneke Wesseling and published by Valiz.
“See it Again, Say it Again” sheds light on the phenomenon of research in the visual arts. In ‘artistic research’, practical acts (the making) and theoretical reflection (the thinking) go hand in hand, in a manner similar to creating and thinking being inextricably linked with artistic practice. This volume has been written from the perspective of art as practice.
22.02.2012
20,00 Uhr
Process
Album 1 - From Kunstkammers to Vanitas
Charlotte Cheetham is a french curator of graphic design and runs the blog manystuff.org. She will visit Corner College and have a lecture about her exploration and promotion of graphic design. Her practice, constantly redefined, is based on an experimental approach embodied in publishing experiences, in exhibition moments, and in a flow of information over the Internet. Working on interpretation, on reinterpretation, she is interested in the thinking process - multi-disciplinary, poetic, experimental and surprising - that leads to the final "form".
29.02.2012
20,00 Uhr
DREAMING THE MAINSTREAM
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Art writer and science fiction novelist Mark von Schlegell will read from and discuss his forthcoming book DREAMING THE MAINSTREAM: critical fantasies of U.S. power (Merve Verlag, Berlin). The talk will propose the state of publishing today, the history and transformation of science fiction in the 21st century context -- and propose "fictocriticism" as a coherent generic response to the current cultural context.
06.03.2012
20,00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Film: Un Homme Qui Dort (A Man Asleep)
A young student (Jacques Speisser) decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. His inner musings, as he wanders the luminous streets of Paris, are narrated in the form of an unwritten diary by Ludmila Mikael. A sublime and sometimes terrifying film about existentialism and ennui, Queysanne’s masterpiece won the 1974 Vigo prize.
“Un Homme Qui Dort” is based on the novel by George Perec.
Directed by Georges Perec & Bernard Queysanne
Total Running Time: 77 Minutes
Language: English
13.03.2012
20,00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Text:
"Applied Social Arts" by Artur Żmijewski
Link:
http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/English/Applied-Social-Arts/menu-id-113.html
11.04.2012
20,00 Uhr
Stockhausen at Ground Zero
Cage & Stockhausen, 1958
A few days after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001, the German avantgarde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928−2007) held a press conference in which − taken out of context − he made the remark that they had been the greatest work of art. This caused great uproar and led to his condemnation by a general public who had not heard of him before. With some ten years distance, this lecture-performance will try to come to a less emotionally charged understanding of the ways in which these enigmatic comments may be interpreted.
17.04.2012
20,00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Text:
Excerpts from Text Zur Kunst / Issue 82: Artistic Research
Link:
http://www.textezurkunst.de/82/
24.04.2012
20,00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Harvey Stromberg "Keyhole"
Text:
"A Productive Irritant : Parasitical Inhabitations in Contemporary Art" by Post Brothers & Chris Fitzpatrick
Link:
http://fillip.ca/content/parasitical-inhabitations-in-contemporary-art
05.06.2012
20,00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
Text:
Excerpts from "The Coming Community" by Giorgio Agamben