“Video Trajectories.”
International symposium
Saturday 1–Sunday 2 February 2014
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
Chausseestraße 128 / 129
10115 Berlin
Germany
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday noon–6 pm,
Thursday noon–8 pm
Much rejected in the art world and exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s, video art today plays a key role in the current art scene. It principally differs from other media by its technicality, its intangible nature, as well as its flexibility and adaptability in terms of the aesthetic processes within the medium. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein examines this specificity of video art in an international symposium, taking place from 1 to 2 February. In lectures, panel discussions and artist talks, the contemporary video art practice is looked at from the perspectives of presentation, technological change, production and the public.
Curated by Kathrin Becker
Program
Saturday, 1 February
2:15–3:15pm
“Politics of Spectatorship in the Moving Image”
Keynote lecture and discussion with Nora M. Alter (Professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia)
In English
3:30–4:30pm
Artist talk
Chip Lord (artist, founding member of Ant Farm, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz) in conversation with Kathy Rae Huffman (curator, Berlin / Los Angeles)
In English
5:15–6:15pm
Artist talk
Sanja Iveković (artist, Zagreb) in conversation with Antonia Majača (curator, author, Zagreb / Berlin)
In English
6:30–7:45pm
“Producing video art”
Panel discussion with Christian von Borries (filmmaker, Berlin), Wulf Herzogenrath (curator, Director of the Visual Arts Section, Academy of Arts, Berlin), Erika Hoffmann-Koenige (collector, Berlin), Beatrix Ruf (Director Kunsthalle Zürich), moderated by Gregor Stemmrich (Professor of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin)
In German
Sunday, 2 February
3:30–4:30pm
Artist talk
Clemens von Wedemeyer (artist, Berlin) in conversation with Yilmaz Dziewior (Director, Kunsthaus Bregenz)
In German
4:45–5:45pm
Artist talk
Yael Bartana (artist, Tel Aviv / Berlin) in conversation with Kerstin Stakemeier (Junior Professor of Media Theory and Image Science, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich)
In English
6:30–7:45pm
“Exhibiting video art”
Panel discussion with Gerard Byrne (artist, Dublin), Bartomeu Marí i Ribas (Director, MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Mark Nash (curator, Professor, former Head of the Curating Contemporary Art Program, Royal College of Art, London), moderated by André Rottmann (art historian, research unit BildEvidenz, Freie Universität Berlin)
In English
