Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16) afholder årets sidste FotoForum i forbindelse med udstillingen “Rewriting Histories”. Denne gang inviterer vi d. 9. december kl. 17 til SCREENING af “History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself” og Q&A med instruktøren Stéphane Gérard.
—————————————————————————-
Fotografisk Center invite you all to this year’s last FotoForum in connection with our exhibition “Rewriting Histories” on December the 9th at 17. We will have a SCREENING of the film “History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself” and Q&A (in English) will be held with director Stéphane Gérard.
—————————————————————————–
FILM: “History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself ” by Stéphane Gérard (2014). 84, min, HD Video, English, French Subtitles The Stonewall riots of 1969, an iconic moment in gay liberation, took place in New York City. In 2012, forty-three years later, History doesn’t have to repeat itself is an attempt to find the community born from these riots and how the wide project of transformation that inspired this movement is being continued and transmitted. Seven conversations about the politics of sexual minorities and the fight against the AIDS epidemic are combined in order to present their various perspectives, experiments and ideals. Their projects include archiving, video, activism and the creation of community spaces. They share a deep desire for justice which travels across decades: they have learned the lessons of the past and look now towards the future, craving utopia.
—————————————————————————
Pris: 40 kr inkl. et glas vin. Gratis entre for medlemmer af Fotografisk Center, DJ:Fotograferne, kunst/filmstuderende samt akkrediterede tilCPH:DOX.
Tilmelding: info@nullphotography.dk eller 3393 0996
—————————————————————————
BIO: Born in 1987, lives and works in Paris, France.Fascinated by cinematography, he started his film studies at Ciné Sup’ in Nantes.Then he moved to Paris and studied film history and audiovisual archives at LaSorbonne and Université de Marne-la-Vallée. He writes his master thesis Political Analysis of Film Representations of Aids under the direction of renowed Frenchcritic Nicole Brenez. His first video experimentations focuse on misuse ofprevailing images and audiovisual archives. Later, interested in documentaryforms, he directs Stéphane et le brouillon formidable (Stéphane and the perfect draft), the reconstitution of the genesis of a fiction film through its archives. Whilemaking more films and videos, he also works occasionally for the curator labelLowave or the Pompidou Centre’s annual documentary film festival, Cinéma du Réel ; is active in political groups and takes part to a scientific research groupabout cinema, theatre and emancipation.
Forfatter: FotografiskCenter
FotoForum hos Fotografisk Center: Sarah Vanagt screening og Q&A
Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16) inviterer d. 1. december kl. 17 til FotoForum med SCREENING af Sarah Vanagt filmen “Dust Breeding”.
Der vil efterfølgende være mulighed for (på engelsk) at stille spørgsmål til instruktøren Sarah Vanagt.
————————————————————————————
Fotografisk Center invite you all to FotoForum with a SCREENING of the Sarah Vanagt film “Dust Breeding” on December the 1st at 17 o’clock. Afterwards a round of Q&A (in English) will be held with director Sarah Vanagt.
————————————————————————————-
FILM: “Dust Breeding” by Sarah Vanagt
2013. 47 mins. Serbian/English, English subtitles.
What is the value of images as objective testimonies of a conflict? Can we believe what we see? In her new work, Sarah Vanagt turns her attention to an important chapter in recent European history: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The artist examines obstacles to reconstructing a war that is nevertheless well documented. She has started from a simple movement of the hand – a pencil being rubbed on a sheet of paper placed over an object – and adapted this Dzrevelatorydz rubbing process to the courtroom. The film Élevage de poussière / Dust Breeding offers a penetrating account of her exploration. Measuring the gap between the facts, the material proof of these facts, the images that represent them and their interpretation, she attempts to decipher the secret language formed by traces of war. Sharpening her eye until it becomes a microscope lens, Vanagt reveals a landscape of details inviting us to look at things differently
———————————————————————————–
Pris: 40 kr inkl. et glas vin. Gratis entre for medlemmer af Fotografisk Center, DJ:Fotograferne, kunst/filmstuderende samt akkrediterede til CPH:DOX.
Tilmelding: info@nullphotography.dk eller 3393 0996
————————————————————————————-
BIO: Sarah Vanagt (1976) makes documentaries, video installations and photos, in which she combines her interest for history with her interest for (the origins of) cinema. Her work includes films such as After Years of Walking (2003), Little Figures (2003), Begin BeganBegun (2005), Boulevard d’Ypres (2010), The Corridor (2010); and video installations suchas Les Mouchoirs de Kabila (2005), Power Cut (2007), Ash Tree (2007). Her work is shown atfilm festivals (FidMarseille, Viennale, Doclisboa, Idfa Amsterdam, Rencontres InternationalesParis/Madrid/Berlin, Hors Pistes Centre Pompidou), and in museums (FrankfurterKunstverein, Fact Liverpool, NGBK Berlin, Shedhalle Zürich). The silent short film Girl with afly (2013) was first shown at the 5th Biennale of Moscow. Vanagt’s most recent film In Waking Hours (2015) premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
FotoForum hos Fotografisk Center: Lin + Lam SCREENING
Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16) inviterer d. 26. november kl 17. til FotoForum med SCREENING af Lin + Lam filmene:
“Unidentified Vietnam No.” 18, 16 mm film, farve og sort/hvid med lyd, 2007, 30 min, Engelsk, ingen undertekster.
“After Engelman”, 2015, 12 min., HD video, Engelsk ingen undertekster.
English descriptions on the website of Lin + Lam: http://linpluslam.com/
————————————————————————————–
Unidentified Vietnam No. 18:
Efter Saigons fald i 1975 blev Den Sydvietnamesiske Ambassades arkiv flyttet til Kongressens Bibliotek i Washington DC. Arkivet indeholdt bl.a. 527 propagandafilm fra 1960erne lavet med hjælp fra USA, ved hjælp af amerikansk udstyr og typisk fremkaldt på Filippinerne. 17 af disse film er markeret: ”unidentified” og nummereret fra 1 til 17. Uidentificeret Vietnam No. 18 er en ”efterfølger” til de 17 film, og på foranledning af disse, sætter Lin + Lams projekt spørgsmålstegn ved de motiver og politikker, der omgiver opbygningen af en nation. Lin + Lam undersøger det omstridte forhold mellem Vietnam og USA ved at bede beskuerene redefinere de måder, historiske forståelser er konstrueret. Filmen funderer over hvordan amerikansk intervention har spillet fallit og vurderer farerne for gentagelse.
Efter Engelman:
I april 1938 på tærsklen til Sigmund Freuds eksil fra Wien, hvor han havde levet og praktiseret i 47 år, blev fotograf Edmund Engelman anmodet om at dokumentere fødestedet for psykoanalysen. 75 år senere tog Lin + Lam tilbage til Freuds tidligere hus på Berggasse 19, og tog Engelmans optgaleser af fortiden som deres ramme for nutiden. De gengiver Engelmans fotografier med en opmærksomhed på de nuværende betingelser for hvad der nu er Sigmund Freud-museet i Wien, så deres video optager således afstanden mellem nutid og fortid. Deres projekt overvejer, hvordan det 20. århundredes former for mægling og hukommelsesarbejde såsom psykoanalyse, fotografi og arkitektur er opbygget gennem krig og eksil…
——————————————————————————-
Pris: 40 kr inkl. et glas vin. Gratis entre for medlemmer af Fotografisk Center, DJ:Fotograferne, kunst/filmstuderende samt akkrediterede til CPH:DOX.
PRAKTIKANT TIL FOTOGRAFISK CENTER – forår 2016
Fotografisk Center søger en studerende fra kunsthistorie, visuel kultur eller moderne kultur med særlig interesse for fotografi til at assistere med organisering af Fotografisk Centers udstillinger herunder formidling. Som praktikant i Fotografisk Center vil du komme til at indgå i alle dele af processen omkring det at producere en udstilling herunder assistere med kuratering, fundraising, udstillingsopbygning, udstillingstekster og synliggørelse af udstillingen via sociale medier. Vi kan således tilbyde et alsidigt og lærerigt praktikforløb, der giver en god indsigt i både kuratering og drift af en lille kunsthal med store ambitioner.
Ud over interesse for og viden om fotografi, video og samtidskunst generelt forventer vi, at du er god til at formidle og kan arbejde selvstændigt, samvittighedsfuldt og struktureret. Vi forventer, at du i dit praktikforløb kan afse tre til fire dage eller ca. 20 – 25 timer om ugen i forårssemesteret. Vi tilbyder ikke løn i forbindelse med praktikken.
Fotografisk Center har eksisteret siden 1996. Vi viser ca. fem årlige udstillinger af kamerabaseret kunst med fokus på fotografi og video. Herudover arrangerer vi foredrag, seminarer og ’artist talks’. Vi har et scannerværksted og en mindre boghandel. For yderligere information kontakt Fotografisk Centers leder Kristine Kern på 3393 0996 eller kk@nullphotography.dk
Send en kort, motiveret ansøgning med beskrivelse af dine kvalifikationer inden mandag den 7. december 2015. Ansøgningen mærkes ’praktikant’ og fremsendes per mail til Kristine Kern: kk@nullphotography.dk
FotoForum: Akram Zaatari SCREENING + Q&A med Signe Kahr Sørensen
I er allesammen inviterede til FotoForum: Akram Zaatari SCREENING + Q&A med Signe Kahr Sørensen. Det foregår hos Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V).
—————————
FILMSCREENING:
“Video in Five Movements” by Akram Zaatari, 2006.
“Letter to A Refusing Pilot” by Akram Zaatari, 2013.
+ Q&A: Signe Kahr Sørensen (f. 1987) er cand. mag. i kunsthistorie med speciale i fotografi og arkiviske strategier i libanesisk samtidskunst med fokus på repræsentationen af og erindringen om den libanesiske borgerkrig (1975-1990). Signe har tidligere skrevet artiklen ”Fraværets potentialitet” (accepteret) i samarbejde med lektor Mikkel Bille til det kunsthistoriske tidsskrift Passepartout.
————————————————————————————-
Video in Five Movements by Akram Zaatari. 8 minutes 50 seconds – silent 2006.
In the 1960s, and the early 1970s Hashem el Madani used his super-8 camera to film his family and friends. This video looks at how a still photographer conceived movement and spontaneously directed his friends and family including himself. The rushes used in the five movements were shot in the late 1960s and early seventies in Egypt, and in touristic sites in Lebanon such as the Beiteddine Palace, Kfarhonah, a picnic site in a pine forest in Dahr el Ramleh, and Jezzine, which used to be Madani’s summer residence.
Letter to A Refusing Pilot by Akram Zaatari 34 minutes, 2013.
Taking a cue from Albert Camus’ epistolary essay “Letters to a German Friend,” in Letter to a Refusing Pilot, Zaatari conducts both an investigation and a stirring tribute to an act of resistance that marked his childhood memories: the refusal of an Israeli pilot to bomb a boys’ high school on June 6, 1982 in south Lebanon. Oscillating between documentary, essay and fiction, this elegant and multi-layered film and installation combine personal and archival documents as it seeks to recuperate historical truth from the annals of personal reminiscence, laced with both enchantment and fear. Framed like a coming-of-age filled with wonderment and insuperable curiosity, Letter to a Refusing Pilot humanizes a personal gesture in face of a greater conflict.
————————————————————————————-
Pris: 40 kr inkl. et glas vin. Gratis entre for medlemmer af Fotografisk Center, DJ:Fotograferne , kunst/filmstuderende samt akkrediterede til CPH:DOX.
Tilmelding: info@nullphotography.dk eller 3393 0996
FotoForum: SCREENING af “74 – The reconstitution of a struggle” + TALK med Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld.
I er allesammen inviterede til screening og talk på Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 København V) d. 19. november fra kl. 17-19.
FILMSCREENING: “74 – The reconstitution of a struggle”
By Rania Rafei & Raed Rafei
2012, 95 min. Arabic, English Subtitles
Lebanon 1974: Students demonstrate against a tuition increase. For 37 days,they occupy university offices. Any resemblance to recent events is completely intentional.
With the Lebanese student revolt of 1974 as their starting point, filmmakers Rania and Raed Rafei direct an absorbing documentary on the core issues of revolution and democra
cy. In addition to a meticulous re-enactment, they include theatrical improvisations in which activists give their interpretations of the student leaders ’actions in’ 74.
The simplicity of the film’s direction lets us focus on the debates, by turns impassioned, intelligent and even
annoying thanks to their ideologically driven didacticism. How do you change the world? The question has never been more relevant.
——
TALK:
Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld er billedkunstner og PhD stipendiat ved Københavns Universitet.
Kollektive udforskninger af, hvordan historiske brudstykker kan skabe nye affektive sammenhænge, er udgangspunktet for Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfelds kunstneriske forskningsprojekt Time in the Making: Rehearsing Reparative Critical Practices. Her udvikler Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld begrebet om den reparative critical practice – forstået som en kollektiv assemblage af fragmenter, i forhold til det det digitale billedes erindring og affekt. I kapitlet “Reconstitution: On the Contingent Screen of Rania and Raed Rafei” er en dialog med filminstruktørerne Rania og Raed Rafei om tilblivelsen af filmen 74 (The reconstitution of a struggle) om studenter oprøret i Libanon i 1974. Katrine diskuterer hvordan uforudsete events under optagelserne til filmen skaber et kollaps af forskellige tidsligheder i selve det filmiske billede, hvor fortiden ikke re-enactes men konstitueres i nuet.
Katrine har en MFA fra Kunstakademiets Billedkunstskoler og en MA i Contemporary Art Theory fra Goldsmiths College University of London. Hun har lavet videoinstallationen Leap into Colour (2015), movement (2012), Tid: Aalborg/ Sted: 2033 (2010) og Djisr (The Bridge) (2008).
——————————————————————————————
Pris: 40 kr inkl. et glas vin. Gratis entre for medlemmer af Fotografisk Center, DJ:Fotograferne , kunst/filmstuderende samt akkrediterede til CPH:DOX.
Tilmelding: info@nullphotography.dk eller 3393 0996
FotoForum: Artist talk med Robert Ochshorn
For English version see below.
ROBERT OCHSHORN: SCREENS
Control and illusion for the video interface
FotoForum i forbindelse med vores nye udstilling Rewriting Histories tirsdag, 10. november kl. 17-19 i Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V.)
“Much like the stabilized video from military drones, which allow commanders to observe and interfere with unfamiliar territory from aerial vantage, A Little Bit More Stable takes the viewer above and outside the normal passage of motion picture time. The source material, a promotion for video stabilization software that has been commercialized from its military applications, depicts the stabilization of home movies and implies a similar steadying influence on the lives of would-be customers.”
Den amerikanske kunstner Robert Ochshorn (f. 1987 i Californien, USA) bor i Californien og arbejder som medie og computer forsker. Han arbejder med media interfaces for at udvide muligheder for menneskelig perceptuel og udtryksfulde kapaciteter.
http://rmozone.com/
Værkerne på udstillingen Rewriting Histories genbesøger historiske begivenheder og undersøger hvad receptionen af fortiden betyder for opfattelsen af nutiden. Ved at genfortælle historien på en ny måde og fra et nutidigt perspektiv, peger udstillingens kunstnere på historien som en – ofte ideologisk – konstruktion.
Rewriting Histories bliver vist i sammenhæng med CPH:DOX. FotoForum vil foregå på engelsk.
—
ROBERT OCHSHORN: SCREENS
Control and illusion for the video interface
FotoForum in connection to our new exhibition Rewriting Histories on Tuesday, 10th of November from 5pm to 7pm in Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V.)
“Much like the stabilized video from military drones, which allow commanders to observe and interfere with unfamiliar territory from aerial vantage, A Little Bit More Stable takes the viewer above and outside the normal passage of motion picture time. The source material, a promotion for video stabilization software that has been commercialized from its military applications, depicts the stabilization of home movies and implies a similar steadying influence on the lives of would-be customers.”
American artist Robert Ochshorn (b. in 1987 in California, USA) lives in California working as a media and computer researcher. He is working on media interfaces for extending human perceptive and expressive capabilities. http://rmozone.com/
The exhibition Rewriting Histories is revisiting historical events and investigating what the reception of the past means for the understanding of the present. By retelling the history in a new way and from a present perspective are the artists of the exhibition pointing at the history as a – often ideological – construction.
Rewriting Histories is part of CPH:DOX program. FotoForum will be held in English.
FotoForum: Lasse Lau & Benj Gerdes
LASSE LAU & BENJ GERDES: COLLECTIVE PRACTICES
Rewriting Histories talk with the two curators and exhibiting artists
The first event in connection to our new exhibition Rewriting Histories is happening on Sunday, 8th of November from 2pm to 4pm in Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V.)
“The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.” (Walter Benjamin ‘On the concept of History’)
Benj Gerdes and Lasse Lau have worked as individual artists and as part of art and political collectives. When working at the intersection of art and activism, the question is often how to effect change in the present. To generate better tools, groups frequently immerse themselves in oral histories and subcultural archives to reclaim past histories of resistance and struggle. What are the projects and conclusions that result from this “archival impulse?” In this presentation the artists, themselves collaborators on this exhibition and both members of Kran Film Collective, will discuss some common ground between their experience in groups and collectives, as well as the different approaches and relationships those groups have had to earlier political movements and actions.
Benj Gerdes (b. in 1978 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA) lives in New York working as an artist, writer, and media arts professor. He is interested in intersections of radical politics, knowledge production, and popular imagination.
Lasse Lau (b. 1974 in Sønderborg, Denmark) lives in Copenhagen and New York, USA, working as a visual artist and filmmaker. His projects often function as a mediator and channel of crises and displacements that occur by frictions of reason in-between absolute, relative or relational spaces.
The exhibition Rewriting Histories is revisiting historical events and investigating what the reception of the past means for the understanding of the present. By retelling the history in a new way and from a present perspective are the artists of the exhibition pointing at the history as a – often ideological – construction.
Rewriting Histories is part of CPH:DOX program. FotoForum will be held in English.
FERNISERING: Rewriting Histories
(English version below)
Fotografisk Center inviterer med glæde til fernisering på udstillingen: Rewriting Histories.
Fernisering torsdag d. 5. november, kl. 17-19. (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V)
Udstillingen er åben fra 6. november til 20. december.
Rewriting Histories viser med udgangspunkt i Kran Film Collectives arkiv en række væsentlige internationale film-, video-dias- og fotoværker, der alle kredser omkring tematikkerne arkiv og historie.
Udstillingen er kurateret i samarbejde med billedkunstner Lasse Lau (DK) og professor Benj Gerdes (USA).
Rewriting Histories bliver vist i sammenhæng med dokumentarfestivallen CPH:DOX.
Værkerne på udstillingen Rewriting Histories genbesøger historiske begivenheder og undersøger hvad receptionen af fortiden betyder for opfattelsen af nutiden. Ved at genfortælle historien på en ny måde og fra et nutidigt perspektiv, peger udstillingens kunstnere på historien som en – ofte ideologisk – konstruktion.
Deltagende kunstnere på udstillingen: Akram Zaatari, Andrea Geyer, Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida, Benjamin Tiven, Katya Sander, Kajsa Dahlberg, Lasse Lau, Matthew Buckingham, Michelle Dizon, Nanna Debois Buhl, Pia Arke & Anders Jørgensen, Raed Yassin, Rania Rafei & Raed Rafei, Regina José Galindo, Robert Ochshorn, Sergio De La Torre, Sarah Vanagt & Katrien Vermeire, William E Jones.
***Alle er velkomne!
/// English:
Fotografisk Center invites you to our vernissage on the exhibition Rewriting Histories.
The vernissage is on Thursday 5th of November, at 5-7pm (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V).
The exhibition is open from November the 6th until December 20th.
Rewriting Histories is showing a number of important, international films, slides, photos and videoworks constructed from the archive of Kran Film Collective.
The exhibition is curated in collaboration with artist Lasse Lau (DK) and professor Benj Gerdes (US).
Rewriting Histories opens in conjunction with the documentary festival CPH:DOX.
The works at the exhibition Rewriting Histories are revisiting historical events and investigating what the reception of the past means for the understanding of the present. By retelling the history in a new way and from a present perspective are the artists of the exhibition pointing at the history as a – often ideological – construction.
Attending artists on the exhibition: Akram Zaatari, Andrea Geyer, Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida, Benjamin Tiven, Katya Sander, Kajsa Dahlberg, Lasse Lau, Matthew Buckingham, Michelle Dizon, Nanna Debois Buhl, Pia Arke & Anders Jørgensen, Raed Yassin, Rania Rafei & Raed Rafei, Regina José Galindo, Robert Ochshorn, Sergio De La Torre, Sarah Vanagt & Katrien Vermeire, William E Jones.
Foredrag om Jette Bang ved Leise Johnson
I forbindelse med udstillingen `Jette Bang i dialog´, afholder Fotografisk Center i samarbejde med Det Grønlandske Hus et foredrag med direktør, eskimolog og forfatter Leise Johnson.
Johnson har siden 2013 være direktør for Det Grønlandske Hus og udgave i 2014, den anmelderroste bog, `Jette Bang Fra isbjørnens bug´. Leise Johnson vil med afsæt i netop denne bog gå i dybden med sin viden om Jette Bang.
Det Grønlandske hus i Løvstræde blev indviet i 1974 med dronning Margrethe som protektor og danner rammen om udstillinger og arrangementer. Der er også informationsafdeling, uddannelsesvejledning og åben socialrådgivning.
Sted: Fotografisk Center. Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V
Tid: 17.00
Pris: 40 kr. Medlemmer af Fotografisk Center er gratis.
Tilmelding på: info@nullphotography.dk eller telefon: 33930996
