Saturday 09.09.2006
11 a.m.
exhibition guided tour
12 a.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
Jerusalem My Love
Jeppe Rønde
DK 2003, 73 min, Danish with English subtitles
2 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
UTOPIA AND THE PRESENT
Introduction by Angelika Richter
Malinovy zvon / The Sound of Malines
Alina Rudnitskaya
RU/DE 2006, 30 min, Russian with English subtitles
Sanctus, Sanctus
Thomas Werner
GDR 1988, 12 min, German
The Actors of Subliminal History
Christian Pogacean
RO 2004, 2:50 min
Sovetskaja elegija / Soviet Elegy
Alexander Sokurov
USSR 1989, 37 min, Russian with German subtitles
4 p.m. Weinecksaal
Belief in Transition
lecture by Boris Buden, Berlin
Moderation: Solvej Helweg Ovensen
6 p.m.
exhibition guided tour
8 p.m. Weinecksaal
Populist Paradise
Performance by Bernadette La Hengst, Till Müller-Klug, Cal McBride, Featuring: Knarf Rellöm, Pastor Leumund, local special guests
10:30 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
CURIOUS ABOUT EXISTENCE
Introduction by Jan Schuijren
Low Attention Span / High Curiosity Rate (Portrait of Peter Elliot)
Tiago Carneiro da Cunha
BR/GB 2000, 7 min
The Idiot
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1999, 7 min, Dutch with English subtitles
Walkabout
Caitlin Hulscher
NL 1994, 2:09 min, English
Die Menschen sind töricht, sie können nicht fliegen / People Are Foolish, They Don't Know How to Fly
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1998, 5 min, German
Qingjing Jing / Purity and Tranquility Scripture
Hung Chih Peng
TW 2004, 19:38 min
Zoals het werd geopenbaard aan Jeroen Eisinga / As It Was Revealed Unto Jeroen Eisinga
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1998, 8 min
Curious About Existence
Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
CA 2003, 11 min, English
The Wandering Mind
Caitlin Hulscher
NL 1994, 1:54 min
Towards a Common Understanding
Doug Fishbone
US/GB 2005, 12:30 min, English
One Black / One White
Hung Chih Peng
TW 2001, 2:44 min
Naïve Melody
Kerry Tribe
US 2002, 4 min, English
Essence
Ralph Jürgen Colmar
GB 2005, 1:30 min, English
10 p.m. Happy Believers Club
Sakropop „When using a beat band, the volume should be considerate to the congregation!"
commented Djing by Frank Apunkt Schneider, Bamberg (monochrom)
followed by / followed by
DJ Bigbork, Halle & DJ Beatnik, Weimar
Towards a Common Understanding
A narrative filled with bizarre anecdotes and filthy jokes, homespun proverbs and strange social analyses. Towards a Common Understanding investigates the culture of media saturation that confronts the contemporary attention span at every turn. Using photo imagery downloaded straight off the internet and feeding it back to the viewer with a dispassionate narrator’s commentary, the piece uses a slide show format with virtually no moving images at all, blending a number of disparate worlds in an oddly compelling way. Only the off-commentary by the artist evokes new meanings to the artistic image sequences, creating an attention span between the first statement “statistics are like bikinis” and “everything is totally relative”. Worldly interpretations and western civilisation are ironically questioned and taken to the absurd.
“In my current work I am investigating the language of the mass media to critique some of the more problematic aspects of our culture – greed, violence, pornography and indifference – by using its own delivery of imagery as the basis for the work. All of the images in the video, with the exception of only a handful, were downloaded straight off the Internet, and the video turns the vulgarity of our society’s freely available visual information back on itself.”
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