RADICAL THINKING FILM SEMINARS AT KONSTFACK 06/07

PICTURING KNOWLEDGE

A series of six lectures looking at artists' involvement with film, politics, literature and popular culture. Discussing film presence in the context of the art institution, the cinema, the film festival and an online archive. Examining structural relationships, methodologies, economies and discourses of film as a critical document

The moving image as an historical and critical document has gained even grater relevance in todays cultural and political existance. To tell a truth, to retell what has happened, to select and recompose fragments of images is a decisive practice and possibility for more people today than ever. Throughout a series of seminars approaches to film techniques, narrative structures, and strategies of representation will be adressed with the help of invited guests, readings, screenings and discussion.

The seminars are divided in two parts. One part for the students at Konstfack together with an invited speaker. The other part open for public. For the first part of the seminar students will have time to broaden their studies and discuss specific issues related to the theme of the seminar. The second part of the seminar is based on a lecture by invited speaker and a film screening.

Organised by Michele Masucci and Marysia Lewandowska

Wednesday 25th October 5.15 pm
1. THE CINEMATIC CITIZEN
MOVING IMAGE MAKING IN CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURE
Michele Masucci, artist based in Stockholm.

Wednesday 8th of November 5.15 pm
2. TALKING HEADS
THE FATE OF DIALOGIC PRACTICES
Carles Guerra, artist and curator based in Barcelona.

Wednesday 6th of December 5.15 pm
3. SOCIAL CINEMA
FRAMING RELATIONS IN OPEN FORMS OF PRODUCTION
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, artist based in Rotterdam.

Wednesday 17th of January 5.15 pm
4. BETWEEN STORIES AND DOCUMENTS
HOW IMAGES ARE USED TO CONSTRUCT INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY COURSES OF EVENTS
Petra Bauer and Kajsa Dahlberg, artists based in Stockholm and Malmö

Wednesday 14th of February 5.15 pm
5. OBSERVATIONAL MODE PLUS MINUS ETHICS
MANIPULATION, INESCAPABLE BIAS AND DRAMA IN ORDINARY EXPERIENCES
Alexander Vaindorf, artist based in Stockholm.

Wednesday 14th of March 5.15 pm
6. ACTING MOMENTS
WHEN FICTION IS OUR TRUE PERCEPTION
Miriam Bäckström in conversation with Michele Masucci