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Monday 18TH APRIL 1900 RAUM 115 Hardenbergstrasse Udk
A space of filmscreenings Jeff Goldblum would like to introduce.
everybody is invited to show films he she wants to show. dicussions could be following
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

R:Phillip Kaufman, MGM, USA 1978

remake of the 50s KALTHorror “Invasion of the Body Satchers” directed by Don Siegel, USA 1956.

Invasion of bodysnatchers

Starring Donald Sutherland as a dreaded cuisine critic public health department man and Brooke Adams as his sensitive friend and partner. Lenard Nemoy in a satanic therapeutic role and of course Jeff Goldblum.

The most incredible filmestablishing sequence, a maniac thrilling camerastyle and an exceptional alien menace. A film that seems to change its style every 30 minuits. seems to be 4 films in one.

Roundtable, 7.2.2011, room 115, 4-7 pm
5-6 short presentations (10 min) of articles of the exhibition catalogue Projekt Migration
in relation to the concept of Heterotopies
Presentation of the video YESAT RAT, 5 min
and an excerpt of the documentary ‘Holger Hiller’ (working title) by Janine Jambere
Seminar, 8.2.2011, room 155, 3-6 pm
Presentation of the video Passing Drama by Angela Melitopoulos, 1999, 66 min
http://eipcp.net/transversal/1003/melitopoulos/de

• Life at Work: Bioeconomy and the Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism (Keynote Conversation)
Franco Berardi (it), Maurizio Lazzarato (it)
Moderation: Matteo Pasquinelli (it)
Sat, 5.2.2011 – 17:00, Auditorium
• Life in Excess: Transpersonality and Autonomy in the Age of Biopower (Focus Discussion)
Roberto Esposito (it), Beatriz Preciado (es), Judith Revel (fr)
Moderation: Matteo Pasquinelli (it)    

Sun, 6.2.2011 – 14:00, Auditorium

Dear students,
Elisa Balmaceda will present her work on our next roundtable.
(monday 4pm, room 115).
On tuesday we have Isabell Spengler as a guest in our seminar.
(3 pm, room 115).
Take a look at the text´s i sended via mailinglist. See you yara

Isabell Spengler will present a selection of Holiday Films, she was involved in, including titles such as: MUMMY (Berlin, 2006), TRANSFORMATION IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT (Texas, 2003) and QUOI QU’IL EN SOIT, JE BRULE (France, 1995).

Isabell Spengler is a Berlin based artist and filmmaker. Since 1998 her collaborative and solo works in film and performance have been shown in festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Since 2004 she works as a lecturer for experimental film at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

„Holiday movies are a violation of borders between holiday and work, expertise and amateurship, private and public spaces and fantasies.“, said a member of the Holiday Movies Initiative, in her personal manifesto.

The Holiday Movie Initiative, an international group with fluctuating members, was found in 2004 after the completion of the film THE NATURAL LIFE OF MERMAIDS. Since 1995 already, there had been an ongoing production of films made during group vacations. The films shared a certain process of lightheartedly appropriating situations, people, appearances, places and objects encountered on vacation as scenarios, characters, costumes, locations and props in their (fictional) film stories.

With the ongoing exhibition and distribution of these films, the group felt the need to describe the new genre they had coined appropriately: Each member of the 2004 group, which included but wasn’t limited to Antonia Baehr, Nancy de Holl, Alice Könitz, Jennifer Sindon, and Isabell Spengler, wrote their own manifesto outlining HMI’s purpose, goals, techniques and attitude

Up-coming Roundtables and Seminars and a happy new year 2011 !

The first meeting in 2011 is on the 4th of January at 3pm in room 115.

4.12.2011 _ Seminar about the exhibition project Projet Migration (www.projektmigration.de) with a selection of videos show in the exhibition in 2006 (for example ‘Passagen’ by Lisl Ponger, ‘Sonst wer wie du’ by Jean Faust,’105-7 by Pavel Bralla, ‘Hollow Bones’ by David Blandy) and the presentation of the book.

17.1.2011 Roundtable with a presentation by Flavio
Text by M.Foucault on the utopian body

18.1.2011 Seminar with the artist/filmmaker/writer Brigitta Kuster on her work on migration

24.1.2011 Roundtables with a presentation by Erika

Please check this blog for new updates.

Monday , 20th December 2010
4pm, room 115

For those who still is in town, this last meeting in 2010 we will discuss the film Route 181 by Eyal Sivan and see a few short videos that were shown in the exhibition PROJEKT MIGRATION, a interdisciplinary research between art and theorie that took place in 2006 in Cologne. (www.projektmigration.de)

See you
best regards
Angela

Dear students, the seminar on tuesday will start at 2pm.

We`re happy to have Tanja Ostojić as a guest! She will give a Lecture Performance called:

“Crossing Borders: Development of Different Artistic Strategies”

Tanja Ostojić, born 1972 in Yugoslavia (Serbia), is an independent performance, interdisciplinary artist and cultural activist based in Berlin. She studied art in Belgrade and Nantes. 

 Ostojic directly familiarized herself with popular border crossings strategies that migrants have been using for decades. In order to take her own rights that
 she has been restricted from by EU migration laws, she explicitly applied strategies of provoking public sphere and of violation of law, to gain the right to move freely and live and work in Shengenia. Ostojić includes herself as a character in performances and uses diverse media in her

artistc researches, thereby examining social configurations and relations of

 power. She works predominantly from the migrant woman’s perspective, while political positioning, humour and integration of the recipient define the approach in her work. 

Her series of works entitled Integration Project summarizes experiences and investigations related to the situation of being a women immigrant in Germany. The preceding project Looking for a Husband with EU Passport was an initial key frame that themathises gender politics and capitalism and describes the collision between isolation, poverty and the EU policies of exclusion: to obtain a residence permit for the EU she posted her nude photo on the Internet in search of an EU passport holder interested in marriage. The wedding as an act in the media of law followed a brief meeting in Belgrade.

 Ostojić includes herself as a character in performances and uses diverse media in her artistic researches, thereby examining social configurations and relations of power. She works predominantly from the migrant woman’s perspective, while political positioning, humour and integration of the recipient define the approach in her work. 

*More Infos:

Ostojic Performed in 2010 in: Spoken World Festival, Kaaitheater Brussels, Critcal Complicity Bolzano and Girl Monster, Kampnagel, Hamburg. In 2009: on: PSi conference in Zagreb, Re.act.feminism, Berlin, Performa NYC; as well earlier at: Venice Biennale (2001), ICA London (1999), Manifesta 2 (1998).

Her work has been exhibited most recently at “Esteticas Decolonilaes, ASAB, Bogotá (2010). 2009 & 2010 at Arts Homo Erotica in the National Museum in Warsaw, in Gender Check, MUMOK, Vienna, and Zaheta gallery Warsaw, The social Critique, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Agents & Provocateurs, HWMKV Dortmund and ICA Dunaujvaros, Transitland Europe, Transmediale Berlin and Ludwig Museum Budapest… Her last one women show was in Kunstpavillon Innsbruck in 2008.

 She published recently book Integration Impossible? The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojić, M. Gržinić and T. Ostojić eds., argobooks, Berlin 2009.

http://www.van.at/see/tanja/ http://misplacedwomen.wordpress.com/  

Dear Class, 

this monday we meet for the roundtable at the OKK at 4pm:

OKK/ Raum 29
Prinzenallee 29
13359 Berlin
U-Bhf Osloer Straße U9/U8

its 10 minutes with the U9 from zoologischer garten. 

-Candice will show her video works inside the exhibition. 

-Then me and jakub would like to present different groupworks at our self-organised exhibition “Battle of the Spectacle”.

(its about a 12 m inflatable “ProtestHammer” we sewed with the Eclectic Electric Collective and send to the Cancún Climate Conference (Cop16), 
as well about our past roadtrip to the Copenhagen climate conference (Cop15). 

More info about the exhibition and the project, please check our blog:
www.eclectic-electric-collective.blogspot.com

Alex Dunst, a friend and theorist will do some critical feedback.

ok. we are looking forward!

xx 

Artur & Jakub 

WS2010/2011, room 115, Guestprofessor: Angela Melitopoulos

NEXT WEEK

15th of November, room 115, 4-7 pm

Roundtable 2: Presentation of student works

16th of November, room 115, 3-6 pm

Seminar/Introduction on the second part of the text ‚Heterotopies’
and the first part of ‘The utopian body’ by Michel Foucault

Please check you txt-files.

Presentation of the video ‘Performing the Border’ by Ursula Biemann
http://www.geobodies.org/01_art_and_videos/1999_performing_the_border/

8^th of November, room 115, 4-7 pm

Ground Zero One is a new format for class meetings in the WS 2010.

We try together to open, deepen and share information without being interfaced by screens.

Solidarity instead of competition is the motto of Ground Zero One.

The preliminary discussion started up with the history of this ‘Klasse’ in comparison with different art-school models in the U.S / Australia / Italy / Chile / GB …

Some major questions became topics for the first discussion:

What means education in different systems of education in the arts?

What should be provided for the students ?

Privat vs. state universities ?

Neo-liberal concept of (art)education, language barriers and hierarchies,

exclusions in terms of class, race and/or privileges within different schoolmodels.

How to position yourself in/outside the artschool/ institiution

Please focus on these questions and prepare your possible answers for the next meeting !

9^th of November, room 115, 3-6 pm

Seminar/Introduction on the first chapter of the text ‚Heterotopies’ by Michel Foucault.

Please check you txt-files.

SEMINARS WS 2010/2011 Heterotopies

Heterotopies are spaces without place or histories without chronology. Heterotopies are universes that might be impossible to trace on a map because the do not belong to a place. They are born in our heads, in the cut up of our words, in non-places, dreams or, as Foucault said, “out of the sweetness of our utopies“. But they have a reality, a determined time, they can be fixed and measured on a map or in a calender. Foucaults’ concept of heterotopies largely influenced theories on mobility and migration.

We will discuss the subject in relation to videos that focus on subjectivity and mobility (films and video works by Brigitta Kuster, Ursula Biemann, Lisl Ponger, Jem Cohen, Eyal Sivan, Alessandro Sambini, Bouba Touré, Phillipe Scheffner, Chantal Akermann, MariaGiovanna Nuzzi, and others.)

Round Tables/Reading Groups/Open Source Meetings :

Every week on Monday, 4-7 pm, room 115, (not on the 22. 11 and 3.1)

Seminars

Every Tuesday, 3 – 6 pm, room 115, weekly (not on the 3.11 and 23.11)

Past Seminars

October 25^th , 4-7pm

First Roundtable: Janine Jambere presents two of her projects.

Allied presentation: Yara Spaett. Questions by Anna Tautfest.

October 26^th, 2-6 pm,

Seminar/Introduction

In the Gallery ‘Gentili Apri’, Schöneberger Ufer 69

(http://gentiliapri.com/)