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Congratulations everybody to a fantastic and inspiring show in Leipzig.
It came out very well, specifically the new works made for the exhibition. Apart from the show itself I was impressed by the spirit of cooperation, teamwork and harmony prevailing in the preparation for the show.

This is due in large parts to the fantastic support by curators, who put up a really impressive range of shows and gave us unusually good conditions. But main credit goes to Leon, who organized the event, got the class invited and, apart from editing his own beautiful piece for the show carried and drove the equipment as well as setting and curating the overall framework. Thanks! Thanks also to everyone who installed electricity, painted cables, schlepped vitrines and flat screens, bought tickets and breakfast and played Star Wars with Esme. Pls also everybody send more pictures, installation shots especially of Leons exhibit and of Chih Ying who took everybody elses pictures.! the post is still in progress: I need more pictures to fully represent the show, so send them on…

lensbased class  is happy to announce it’s participation in this years F-Stop Festival for Photography in Leipzig. The festival focusses on the concept of documentation and the problematic of visual media coverage. Our contribution revolves around the idea of speculative mobility, what-if movements, unlikely encounters, revolving and retracting spaces, the architecture of both rendering and rendition, compressed trajectories and incompossible futures.

 
 
artist list:
Emma Cossee, Chih Ying, Bruno Siegrist, Kamil Markiewicz, Justus Harris, Boaz Levin, Julia Mensch, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Julia Neuberger, Gianluigi Scarpa, Paida Larsen, Steven Paul, Andreas Gruner ,Till Wittwer, Flavio Degen, Aniol Fernandez I Macau,Lennart Krauss, Vincent Grunwald, Leon Kahane, Konrad Mühe, AUNVEL#
You are warmly invited to join us at the opening and the following party in Leipzig. Friday, 22.6.2012, 7:00 pm at: Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei Spinnereistr. 7 04179 Leipzig
www.f-stop-leipzig.de
 

Hello all,
this is to remind you of signing up for the double-weekend seminar on the phenomenon of BIENNIALS. HERE::::  null@fakultaetnull.org
Most texts we look at will be in english, the rest will be translated back and forth on the fly.
Some buzzwords for the discussion on Taipeh Biennial, Documenta, Manifesta, Venice:
large scale exhibitions as ideological machines, national and ethnic representation, european identity construction, city & area-branding, globalisation, hegemony and counter-hegemony. (sure we will also be able to find some cool aspects, like, gigantic and mega-expensive art, more tourism, etc.)
We will have guests, presenting their research on or experiences from inside the biennial parcour.
(Andre Raatzsch will talk about his exit from the Roma Pavillion in Venice)
The second weekend will be devoted to the discussion on the 7th Berlin Biennial, maybe to wrap up and review what has been going on the last months.
Hope to see you //
Naomi & Arnela
Zustand: Kritisch
Zur Politik der Biennalen
Condition: critical
On the Politics of Biennials
dates: 16./17.06 & 30.06/01.07.  12am – 5pm
first meeting: Saturday, 16th, 12am at room 9 (Asta, ground floor, Hardenbergstrasse 33)

1.6 Charles Heller: The Drift, R115, 10h, followed by discussion about F-Stop show. scroll down for details.
2.6 House of World Cultures 16.30h Objectifiction 3D and documentary. Yourselves in poor 3D.
4.6 fantastic edition of Money Monday with Lior Shamriz, Max Linz and Richard Quest in: Disgusted by Pentecost
5.6 12.30h R115 Grundlehre students welcome.
7.6 documenta excursion. lets meet 12h in front of Fridericianum and start drifting.
11.6 junkspace: Former Stasiheadquarter Normannenstr. 10am guided tour of museum organised by Vincent:
as announced  we will visit the former Stasi head quarter (state
intelligence of the GDR) next monday at 10.00.
Meeting point will be 9.45 Subwaystation Magdalenenstr. (U5 Line).
If anyone wants to do a small presentation on Intelligence service and
Art using handbeams
(Think of Trevor Paglen or anything else related to that topic) feel
free to contact me.
19.6 new date for Grundlehre students to apply 12.30h, R115.
 

hello everybody,
unfortunately it seems that the lensbased wiki has become a popular playground for spambots that change the pages. we managed to keep them out for a while by blocking IPs but now they change so fast that it’s not possible anymore, so it looks like password protecting the page is the only possible option.
since i hope the bot is stupid i’ll try a dumb login first:
username and pass are both set to the room number of the class meetings (just the number, nothing else)
let’s hope that keeps them out and sorry for the inconvenience.
christoph
 
 

“A fuzzy empire of blur, it fuses high and low, public and private, straight and bent,
bloated and starved to offer a seamless patchwork of the permanently disjointed.”

1.6. 10h Charles Heller, Geneva
2011 is the deadliest year in the Mediterranean. The war in Libya forces many people to leave the country. During this period, a vessel loaded with 73 refugees runs out of fuel at sea. During it´s long drift it is spotted by several NATO ships and helicopters, none of which help. All but 11 of the refugees die. Charles Heller talks about the juridical, visual and imaginary construction of the Mediterranean. His lecture addresses the reconstruction of the drift (co-authored with Lorenzo Pezzani) and the construction of a juridical case involving multiple layers of testimony and evidence using remote sensing tools and oceanographic calculation. It refers to the building of the Mediterranean as a selection tool and filter by overlapping international and national jurisdictions as well as by the imagery deployed to deter people from crossing it.
Imagine this was the reverse shot. Now edit.

Walter Benjamin, Tropical Islands, 28.4.2012.
 
 

public space

Thanks to Ernst-Busch students at camp  Zinnowitzerstr. for organising such a brilliant action and space!

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