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Jalal Toufic the autor of “Credits Included” is giving a lecture Tu evening at UdK dance dept. at Uferhallen Berlin (Wedding). Always at 6 pm I Free Admission
Uferstudios, Studios 11, Uferstraße 23, 13357 Berlin
U8: Pankstraße, U9: Nauener Platz, S-Bahn: Station Gesundbrunnen

looking for volunteers to participate in 3D scan work.You ll learn how 3D scan technology works and how to use it. i d be extremely grateful for your participation, also.
We ll restage an event from the Bosnian war and 3D scan it to be printed as an abstract sculpture cum video later on. It is about a black man who went missing when kidnapped with 19 others by armed men at Strpci station in 1993. None was ever seen alive again. In contrast to the other 19, name and identity of the black person remain unknown to this day. As he was led away the leader of the paramilitary unit turned around, tapped him on the shoulder, said: here is my brother and kissed him. The work is about this kiss. It is about missing bodies, wrecked images and their bodies.

This concerns the symposium Tracing Mobility at  hKW on 2sixth November. If you send me ur names quickly, you ll get free entrance as opposed to 20E entrance fee.
Btw I m not dyslexic, someone ruined my keyboard recently  so several letters and numbers are missing. Nov. twentysixth. it is. btw what a lovely previous post down here.

WARMWINTERTIME
monday screening is back with a new version and a new cycliatric exploitation of unsound morals and questionable visual themes. everybody is invited to consume or produce with monday screeming.
every MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY
18 O’*# CLOCK
ROOM 115
HARDENBERG STR 33, udk headquarters

first lesson this monday 21 NOVEM 18 HUNDERT R 115

EDUCATION

we re shooting out the pop hits of atomic age first / anything you need to know about throwing your body under a table, helping daddy to put sheets infront of the cellar window, the triangle of life and how to cook your contaminated potatoes.
presented for you by trustworthy american scientists and u.s. army instructors.
be afraid no more – after this videos insultings of your unpreparedness will no longer be appropriate.
we also watch THE ATOMIC CAFE(1982) Dir. Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty- a found-footage masterpiece, completely without narration and highly narrative still— lured through history by calssroom films, us army training clips and civil defense  goodies – deep into the dirt of a not-quite-so-funny lifestyle of a bomb loving nation: made in the 80s unbelievable.
 
come this monday
bring your parents and friends.
 
its gonna be
warm
safe
comfy

http://lensbased.net/wiki/index.php/Monday_screening:warm_winter

EYAL WEIZMAN, FORENSIC AESTHETICS Monday Nov 14th, 14H, R 115
The last decades of the twentieth century, often referred to as ‘the era of the witness’, were saturated with representation of testimonies of trauma—written, recorded, filmed archived and exhibited. This primacy of trauma as a site of history also leads to a depoliticised ‘politics of compassion’ apparent in the forums of transitional justice, truth commissions, human rights and humanitarianism. However, a recent shift of emphasis from human testimony to material forensics means that science has begun invading some of the legal and cultural grounds previously reserved for the speech of humans. Potentially, therefore, at its most extreme, new ways of using forensic science have blurred a previously held distinction: between evidence, when the law speaks of objects, and that of the witness, referring to subjects. The lecture would shift between several cases– close analyses of different forensic investigations. it will start with an account of the examination in 1985 of the exhumed skull of joseph mengele. This object/fetish will explained one of the great scientific and epistemic problems for forensics in the close of the 20th century. It is a historical hinge around which the turn to forensics in human rights context occurs. The lecture will be recorded. Eyal Weizman is an architect; director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and of the ERC funded research project Forensic Architecture.
 
HITO STEYERL, MISSING PEOPLE: The Bodies of Images

If forensic sciences revolve around images of bodies, or, more precisely, the matching of images to bodies, how can we conceive of the bodies of images? What is a forensic investigation of the image itself? How to equally think of objects – such as bones or landscapes – as images or monads, which condense forces, desires and strata of time? How can we untangle the same forces and sediments within 2D images and understand the bruises and glitches of the image as evidence of political and social violence?
The thing that is often, but not always missing from the image is the body it represents. But what is the state of missing? How does it relate to indeterminacy and limbo? How does it speak to the failure to match a body to an image, a skull to a face, a bone to a name, a crime to a case? And how are these mismatches represented within the bodies of images?
Cast: Andrea Wolf, Erwin Schrödinger, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Elvis, Ernst Kantorowicz, General Franco and many others.
 

Seminar: past surpassing catastrophe
takes place here on Monday 7.11: Arsenal offices and cinemas are at Filmhaus Potsdamerstr.2. Meet 10am in cinema 1, 2nd basement.
Location: Die Arsenal Büros sowie das Kino befinden sich im Filmhaus, Potsdamer Straße 2
(http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/menu-oben/kontakt.html).
Wir treffen uns dann um 10 Uhr in Kino 1 im 2. UG.
 

Now (1965) Santiago Alvarez (click for a viable file)
experimental lecture in the seminar about the circulation of this image. who made it: the object, the subject, history, the camera, disciplinary power, the dog? who remade it? a talk based on transmission by Chinese wisper, to emphasize deflection, distraction and distortion.

after shooting there just couple weeks ago, we are organizing help for those affected by earthquake in van. the situation is dire, it is cold and help is slow. our friends are self-organizing transports to remote villages, where help hasnt manifested. anybody wants to contribute, get in touch. our friends are driving out soon. any help is extremely appreciated.

Sahin Okay IBAN: AT931100010609585400 BIC: BKAUATWW

wish these quakes could stop for a while…

courses run by Judith Siegmund
1. Seminar: Texte von Jacques Rancière zum Thema des Politischen und Sozialen in der Kunst und im Design
Donnerstag 16-18 Uhr, Raum 303, Lietzenburger Str. 45
Beginn: 3. November 2011
Scheinerwerb: Hausarbeit
Die Kunsttheorie, die laut Jacques Rancière in den letzten Jahrzehnten vermehrt Ort der Diskussion eines Scheiterns politischer Utopien wurde, beschränkt sich nicht mehr allein auf die Charakterisierung der Kunst, sondern thematisiert die Möglichkeiten, die eine Einflussnahme von Kunst und Gestaltung für neue gesellschaftliche Konstellationen haben könnte. Aber wie geschieht eine Bezugnahme von Kunst und Gestaltung (z.B. von Design) auf Gesellschaft heute genau? Im Seminar wollen wir uns mit der Theorie zu Ästhetik und Politik beschäftigen, die Rancière entwickelt hat und auf die er in seinen Texten immer wieder zurückkommt. Ziel des Seminars ist es, Rancières Texte besser zu verstehen und am Ende evtl. selbst einen Text dazu zu verfassen.Aus folgenden (ins Deutsche übersetzten) Texten Rancières werden Ausschnitte gelesen und diskutiert:
Das Unvernehmen, Frankfurt a.M. 2002.
Die Aufteilung des Sinnlichen, Berlin 2006.
Politik der Bilder, Berlin 2005.
Der unwissende Lehrmeister, Wien 2007.
Ist Kunst widerständig? Berlin 2008.
Der emanzipierte Zuschauer, Wien 2009.
Die stumme Sprache, Zürich 2010.
2. Seminar: Dokumentation und Wahrheit (Schreibseminar)
Im Laufe des Seminars werden drei kurze Papiere (drei Seiten) verfasst anhand der gemeinsamen Lektüre zum Verhältnis von Dokumentation und Wahrheit. Das schnelle Feedback auf die Papiere gibt Gelegenheit, die eigenen Schreibfähigkeiten weiterzuent­wickeln.
Freitag 12-14 Uhr, Raum 303, Lietzenburger Str. 45
Beginn: 4. November 2011
Literatur:
Ernst Tugendhat/Ursula Wolf: Wahrheit, in (dies.): Logisch-semantische Propädeutik, Stuttgart 1983.Brian Winston: Claiming the Real. The Documentary Film Revisited, London 1995.Hito Steyerl: Die Farbe der Wahrheit. Dokumentarismen im Kunstfeld, Wien 2008.Luisa Ziaja/Nora Sternfeld: Bilder als Dokumentation und Kritik, Wien 2010.