Date: 8 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart
EXPANDED CINEMA: DISCUSSION
Friday 8 December 2006, at 11am
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
THE FUTURE OF EXPANDED CINEMA
Guest artists and invited speakers will discuss issues related to the presentation and documentation of EXPANDED CINEMA works, addressing important questions concerning the conservation, presentation and study of this filmic performance art. EXPANDED CINEMA often demands the direct participation of the artist-creator, resisting re-enactment and reconstruction in their absence. Each projection is different, embracing chance and variation, and adapted to its exhibition environment, making it impossible to encapsulate a definitive performance. Given these conditions, how can such works be adequately recorded and studied outside of the live experience, whilst retaining the unique characteristics of this dynamic, ephemeral art form ?
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Mark Webber, curator, London
Katrin Mundt, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Iris Dressler, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Hans Christ, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Hans Dieter Huber, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart
Gaby Schiefer, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart
Peter Zorn, Werkleitz-Zentrum für Medienkunst, Halle
Marcel Schwierin, Werkleitz-Zentrum für Medienkunst, Halle
Edwin Carels, MuHKA, Antwerp
Inke Arns, HMKV, Dortmund
Tina Bastajian, Dutch Film Museum, Amsterdam
Barbara Engelbach, Museum Ludwig, Köln
Alice Koegel, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Anne Maria van Es, International Film Festival, Rotterdam
Claudia Müller-Hermann, Filmwinter, Stuttgart
Tony Conrad, artist, Buffalo
Bruce McClure, artist, New York
William Raban, artist, London
Karen Mirza, artist, London
Brad Butler, artist, London
Luke Fowler, MAP Magazine, Glasgow
Noam Elcott, Princeton University, Princeton
Sandra Naumann, curator, Berlin
Jonnie Doebele, filmmaker, Stuttgart
Florian Härle, photographer, Stuttgart
Angela Matyssek, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart
Cornelia Lund, Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart
Malte Hagener, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
Tabea Lurk, Aktive Archive, HKB Bern
Pierluigi Anselmi, photographer, Milan
Yvonne Maxwell, filmmaker, London
Renee Sutherland, artist, London
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Date: 8 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart, Tony Conrad
EXPANDED CINEMA: DEMONSTRATION
Friday 8 December 2006, at 3pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
TONY CONRAD: PICKLED FILM
In a radical approach to film preservation, Tony Conrad will discuss and prepare Pickled Film, methodically mixing raw film stock, vinegar, vegetables and spices.
Tony Conrad, Pickled Film, USA, 1974, 16mm performance, colour, sound, variable duration
Date: 8 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart
EXPANDED CINEMA: SCREENING
Friday 8 December 2006, at 7pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
Ken Jacobs, Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896, USA, 1990, 16mm, b/w, sound, 9 min
An archival film from the turn of the century, transformed into impossible 3D.
Hans Michaud, MorningFilms Double Projection 8/2001-10/2004, USA, 2004, 2 x 16mm, b/w, silent, 5 min
A celluloid sketchbook composed to a strict mathematical scheme.
Rose Lowder, Certaines Observations, France, 1979, 2 x 16mm, b/w, silent, 14 min
“Certain observations are used to define notions regarding the appearance of things in true or apparent motion.”
Yann Beauvais, Sans Titre 84, France, 1984, 2 x 16mm, colour, silent, 14 min
Photographs of the Arc de Triomphe, split into strips, reformed and transformed.
Werner Nekes, Gurtrug Nr. 2, Germany, 1967, 2 x 16mm, colour, sound, 13 min
Two triangular images, vertically aligned, form an X in space and time.
Ernst Schmidt Jr., Doppelprojektion, Austria, 1969, 2 x 16mm, b/w, silent, 5 min
Doppelprojektion explores the transformation of events from physical space into visual space.
Date: 8 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart
EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE: WILLIAM RABAN
Friday 8 December 2006, at 8:30pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
English artist William Raban is one of the leading practitioners of EXPANDED CINEMA, mixing the materialist aesthetic with time-lapse and observational documentary. The programme draws on key works from the 1970s, and features the world premiere of a new arrangement of Wave Formations.
William Raban, Surface Tension, UK, 1976, 2 x 16mm, b/w, sound, 15 min
William Raban, Angles of Incidence, UK, 1973, 2 x 16mm, colour, silent, 10 min
William Raban, Moonshine, UK, 1974, 2 x 16mm, colour, silent, 8 min
William Raban, Diagonal, UK, 1973, 3 x 16mm, colour, sound, 5 min
William Raban, Wave Formations, UK, 1977-2006, 5 x 16mm, colour, sound, 20 min
Date: 9 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart
EXPANDED CINEMA: LECTURE
Saturday 9 December 2006, at 3pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
WILLIAM RABAN: EXPANDED CINEMA AND STRUCTURAL FILM
Using film examples, William Raban will give a personal account of EXPANDED CINEMA at the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative throughout the 1970s, demonstrating how some of the multi-screen and film performance works came into being and will describe their relationship within a broader structural film aesthetic.
Date: 9 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart
EXPANDED CINEMA: SCREENING
Saturday 9 December 2006, at 7pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
Paul Sharits, Razor Blades, USA, 1965-68, 2 x 16mm, colour, sound, 25 min
“By opposing the eyes and ears against the mind, Razor Blades cuts deeply, both in our psychic and visceral bodies.”
Joost Rekveld, #5 (Variation 2), Netherlands, 1994, 3 x 16mm, colour, silent, 6 min
A luminescent action painting of abstract light forms in kinetic motion.
Carl Brown & Michael Snow, Triage, Canada, 2004, 2 x 16mm, colour, sound, 30 min
Each artist worked independently on one panel of a double screen ‘exquisite corpse’.
Date: 9 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart
EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE: BRUCE MCCLURE
Saturday 9 December 2006, at 8:30pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
McClure creates hypnotic and immersive film experiences from a minimal quantity of audio-visual information. Loops constructed by bleaching clear frames from opaque emulsion are manipulated live by the filmmaker, using guitar effects pedals and adapted 16mm projectors, which have been modified in order to vary their intensity, speed and framing.
Bruce McClure, Rack and Slide, USA, 2006, 3 x 16mm performance, colour, sound, variable duration
Bruce McClure, Nethergate, USA, 2006, 3 x 16mm performance, colour, sound, variable duration
Date: 10 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart
EXPANDED CINEMA: DEMONSTRATION
Sunday 10 December 2006, at 3pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
BRUCE McCLURE: DEMONSTRATION
Bruce McClure will discuss his work and give a practical demonstration of his uniquely modified projectors and sound processing units.
Date: 10 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart
EXPANDED CINEMA: SCREENING
Sunday 10 December 2006, at 7pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
Malcolm Le Grice, Castle One, UK, 1966, 16mm, b/w, sound, 20 min
One of the earliest expanded works, “The Light Bulb Film” questions the role of the spectator in film viewing experience.
Morgan Fisher, Projection Instructions, USA, 1976, 16mm, b/w, sound, 4 min
Every film must be performed by the projectionist. This one requires extra attention.
Lis Rhodes, Light Music, UK, 1975-77, 2 x 16mm, b/w, sound, 25 min, film environment
A dynamic and interactive sound and light environment in which image and sound are inextricably linked.
Date: 10 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: Expanded Cinema, Stuttgart, Tony Conrad
EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE: TONY CONRAD
Sunday 10 December 2006, at 8:30pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein
Tony Conrad presents two performances that propose alternative systems of film production and refer back to a sequence of interventionist works he made in the mid-1970s Bowed Film combines Conrad’s interests in film and musical minimalism. For Sukiyaki, unexposed film strips are stir-fried in the traditional manner prior to their unique projection.
Tony Conrad, Bowed Film, USA, 1974, 16mm performance, b/w, sound, variable duration
Tony Conrad, Sukiyaki, USA, 1973, 16mm performance, colour, sound, variable duration