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).