The Institute for Theory of Art and Design,
Zurich cordially invites you to
Stuff It _ The Video Essay in the Digital
Age
Symposium and Video Screenings
Friday - Sunday, May 31 - June 2nd, 2002
at the migros museum for contemporary
art
Stuff It_ an essential particularity of the
video essay is the compression of time and levels of meaning, mediated
through a dense configuration of image, text and sound tracks. Today,
this multi-layered, discursive video genre situates itself in the
context of new communications media and digital production which open
new dimensions to image technologies and means of diffusion. The video
essayist practice also responds in content to an increasingly complex
society. Thus, the primary concern of audiovisual essayists is not to
represent visible realities but to test conceptual connections through
the articulation of rather untangible social and cultural transitions.
The diverse ways in which this working method expresses itself in the
combination of precise observation and recording, subjective
narration, and theoretical reflection will be the subject of the
symposium.
Participants:
Nora Alter, theater and film studies, Florida
Ursula Biemann, video artist and curator,
Zurich
Christa Blümlinger, film studies, Berlin/Vienna
Steve Fagin, videomaker and writier, San
Diego
Sören Grammel, curator and cultural
theorist, Munich
Jörg Huber, cultural theorist,
Zurich
Angela Melitopoulos, video artist,
Cologn
Maurizio Lazzarato, cultural theorist, Paris
Walid Ra'ad, videomaker and cultural theorist, Beirut/New
York
Samir, videomaker and film producer, Zurich
Hito Steyerl, videomaker and author, Berlin
Mathilde ter Heijne. video artist, Amsterdam
Tran T. Kim-Trang, video artist, Los Angeles
Jan Verwoert. cultural theorist, Hamburg
Rinaldo Walcott, cultural theorist, Toronto
Paul Willemsen, video curator, Brussels
All lectures and presentations are held in the language of the
announcement.
19:00Double
Viewing - Über die Bedeutung des 'pictorial turn'
für
den ideologiekritischen Umgang mit Bildmaterial Jan Vorwoert
20:30Dinner : Paella by Stefan Reiner
22:00Video Screening History and Memory Rea Tajiri, 1991, 32 min. Alexia, Tran, T. Kim-Trang, 2000, 10
min. These Are Not My
Images, Irit Batsry, 2000, 78 min.
Saturday, June 1
11:00Video-Essayismus. Zur Theorie des Übergängigen Jörg Huber, anschliessend im Gespräch mit
Elisabeth Bronfen
12:15Zum
Wechsel der Dispositive Christa Blümlinger
13:30Lunch break
14:30Memory
and History: Reels, Tapes or Windows? Nora Alter
15:30"...but I don't want to talk
about that": Postcolonial and
Black Diaspora Histories in Video Art Rinaldo Walcott
16:30Break
17:00Panel
moderated by Samir with presentations by
Walid Ra'ad: Civilizationally, we do not dig holes to bury
ourselves:
excerpts from an interview with Souheil Bachar
Hito Steyerl: The Empty Center
19:00Dinner: Wok by Timon
Erdt
20:30Digitale
Montage und Weben: Eine Ökologie des Gehirns
für Maschinen-Subjektivitäten.
Sound Performance-Vortrag von Angela Melitopoulos
und Maurizio Lazzarato
22:00Video Screening Sea in the Blood, Richard Fung, 2000, 26
min.
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Johan Grimonprez 1997, 68 min.
Sunday, June 2
11:00Monologues of
Disembodiment. Figures of Discourse in
Steve Reinke's Video Work Paul Willemsen
12:00Take my Essay, Please
Take my Essay: Wit and its Relation
to Intellectual Intent Steve Fagin
Brunchpause
13:30The
Essay as Form. Video as an Instrument to Touch the Real Panel introduced and moderated
by Sören Grammel with presentations by Mathilde ter Heijne: For a Better
World Ursula Biemann: Performing Borders: the Transnational
Video
Tran T. Kim-Trang: Blindness and its Metaphors
An event of the ith - Institut for Theory
of Art and Design, HGK Zurich
in cooperation with the migros museum for
contemporary art, Zurich
and Videoex video & experimental
filmfestival Zurich
