The Documentary Real, Vooruit, Gent (B)

The Documentary Real

Thu 21 Oct 2010
10 am-6 pm
Vooruit (Domzaal)
Gent (B) 

English spoken, free

An initiative of KASK, Vooruit and Gent Film Festival, supported by VAF / Flanders Image

The symposium The Documentary Real invites artists and theorists to interrogate the ambiguous relation of documentary film to reality. To what extent can a reel of film capture reality – if this is possible at all — and when can we say that it calls a new reality into being? Do not most films oscillate between ‘document’ and ‘argument’; that is, between representing, rewriting and creating reality? Moreover, what strategies do artists use to document our daily lives? Is the detour through alienation and animation perhaps the proper way to make an outright and truthful work? Do new developments in media art provide new opportunities for documentary artists? Finally, how do these artistic experiments and their problems represent the culture we live in?

Speakers : Cis Bierinckx (curator, artistic director Beurshouwburg Brussels), Stella Bruzzi (film theory, University of Warwick), Edwin Carels (curator, art theory, KASK), Marc De Kesel (Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, Artevelde Hogeschool Gent), Katerina Gregos (curator), Johan Grimonprez (artist and filmmaker), Steven Jacobs (Art history, KASK & Antwerp University), Vincent Meessen (artist), Jasper Rigole (artist) and Duncan Speakman (artist).

CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid

Offmostoles 2010

CA2M

Centro de Artes Dos de Mayo

Madrid

October 15-17, 2010 

"Offmostoles" is the title of the contemporary video showcase that the CA2M holds every year during the third weekend in November. The event includes a variety of video screening programmes, concerts and round-table discussions about the latest trends in video art.


Some participants in this year programme, among others, are: Alberto Arce , Fernando Baños Fidalgo, Yael Bartana, Tatiana Blass,Javier Codesal, Andrés Duque, Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band, Carlos Irijalba, JULIO, Zerek Kempf, Jérôme Laffont, Mia Makela, Augusto Marban, Fionn Meade, Vincent Meessen, Julia Meltzer, Rosalind Nashashibi, Mohammad Rujailah, Miguel Salvatierra, Marinella Senatore, Mary Simpson, Lucy Skaer, Javier Téllez, The Dead Rat Orchestra, David Thorne, Marc Thümmler, Liu Wei, Sarah Wood.


Screening + Q & A
on October 16, 2010

KW. Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berlin

Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale
KW. Institute for Contemporary Arts

Once again KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is focusing on contemporary films by international artists. For the third time—after the great success in 2006 and 2009—highlights of the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale are presented in Berlin. In Berlin the program from the 2009 Cologne biennale is supplemented by a selection of new films. Two stories of KW aredevoted to films by Doug Aitken, Mirosław Bałka, Bjørn Melhus, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Javier Téllez, as well as works by the younger generation including Keren Cytter, Adam Leech, Dani Gal, and Alex McQuilkin. On the third floor films are presented in thematic archive stations. A fifth station is dedicated to works from last year’s BILD-KUNST

Promotional Award for experimental film competition and the submissions by students of film schools and art academies. On the fourth floor the films can be seen on a large screen. The program also includes a number of evening events.

Participating artists:

Doug Aitken, Mirosław Bałka, Guy Ben-Ner, Anina Brisolla, Mircea Cantor, Keren Cytter, Nathalie Djurberg, Omer Fast, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gal, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mihai Grecu, Claire Hooper, Sven Johne, Korpys/Löffler, Annika Larsson, Lars Laumann, Adam Leech, Cristóbal

León & Joaquín Cociña & Niles Atallah, Mark Lewis, Rä di Martino, Maix Mayer, Alex McQuilkin, Vincent Meessen, Bjørn Melhus, Deimantas Narkevičius, Kika Nicolela, Hans Op de Beeck, Nira Pereg, Reynold Reynolds, Magdalena von Rudy, Aïda Ruilova, Jani Ruscica, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Sam Taylor-Wood, Javier Téllez, Alexia Walther & Maxime Matray,

Clemens von Wedemeyer

KW

Auguststrasse 69

D-10117 Berlin

October 13-31, 2010.

Autograph ABP, London

Vita Nova by Vincent Meessen will be screened at Autograph ABP on October 15, 2010 at 6.30 PM.

The screening and the following dialogue with Autograph director Mark Sealy takes place in the frame of the two current major photographic exhibitions: James Barnor’s street and studio portraits from the late 1940s to the 1970s, in Ghana and England, and the W.E.B. Du Bois’ collection of portraits compiled for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Both aim to explore the notion of the photographic archive in relation to visual politics of race, representation and difference, as well as the question of modernity within post-colonial and transatlantic perspectives on photography in the 21st century.

Autograph ABP

Rivington Place

London EC2A 3BA

UK

Phone : + 44 (0) 20 7729 9200

video_dumbo, NYC

Video Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC

New contemporary video art screenings and installations
curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy

September 24 - 26, 2010

Participating Artists: Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Shaun Slifer, Torsten Zenas Burns, Douglas Fishbone, Pere Ginard & Laura Gines, Oliver Laric, Pilvi Takala, Gratuitous Art Films, Julie Casper Roth, Zbynek Baladrán, Estela Estupinyà-García, Arne Bunk, Vincent Meessen, Isabelle Hayeur, David Pierce, Maria Niro, Pavel Medvedev, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Penny Lane, Joseph Bennett, Ferhat Özgür, Christoph Schlingensief, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Avi Mograbi, Basma Alsharif, Aaron Oldenburg, Tamar Latzma, Theodore Tagholm, Tim Leyendekker, Redmond Entwistle, David Politzer, Melanie Crean, Pete Burkeet, Keith Sanborn, Bob Paris, Volker Schreiner, Ivan Faktor, Vivian Ostrovsky, Dave Griffiths, Julius Ziz, Emmanuelle Antille, Lena Maria Thuering, Gautam Kansara, Ken Jacobs, Sam Holden, Nicole Sloan, Jill Epstein, Axel Roessler, Base, Josh Weinstein, Allen Chen, Shelly Silver, Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, Christopher Udemezue, Melissa Potter, Erik Levine, Simon Mullan, Axel Petersén, Liz Rodda, Tomoko Inagaki, Toni Comas, Jonathan Cummin, Vianney Lambert, Magnus Bärtås, John Michael Boling, Wojciech Gilewicz, Jacob Tonski, François Vogel, Flatform, Peter Rose, Yorgos Taxiarchopolus, David Grainger, Leighton Pierce, Phyllis Baldino, Gerhard Funk, Ulrich Polster & Christine Scherrer.

Video Installations:

Marco Brambilla, Adam Leech, Hans Op De Beeck, Rimas Sakalauskas, Till Roeskens, Kristin Lucas, David Krippendorf, Lara Kohl and 0100101110101101.ORG

Live projector performances:

Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder (NY)
Alex MacKenzie (Vancouver).

DVD release:

40th anniversary of Experimental TV Center accompanied by a special program presented by Electronic Arts Intermix. Guest curated by Sherry Hocking, Kathy High and Rebecca Cleman.

Location: 112 Water Street (between Washington and Adams) DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

*Free Admission to all festival screenings