Kunstraum der Universitaet Lueneburg
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Die Regierung / The Government
Kunstraum der Universitaet Lueneburg
with Roger M. Buergel, Antke Engel and Ruth Noack
In cooperation with:
MACBA-Museu d`Art Contemporani Barcelona
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam
Secession Wien
http://dieregierung.uni-lueneburg.de
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Exhibition
University is a factory
opening
Thursday, January 29, 2004
8 pm
Halle 25, University Campus
with
Harun Farocki:
film sequence from "Die Schoepfer der Einkaufswelten" (2001)
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin:
film sequence from "Tout Va Bien" (1972)
Martha Rosler: Losing: A Conversation with the Parents' (1977)
Allan Sekula: School is a Factory (1978/ 80)
January 30 until February 12, 2004
opening hours
Thu 4-8 pm and
Fri, Sat, Sun 2-6 pm
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In the 2nd part of The Government we propose that each display, each constellation is, in fact, an action. This lesson is indispensible both in aesthetic and political terms. A short sequence from Tout va bien (1972) by Godard/Gorin is brought into dialogue with an equally short sequence from The creators of the Shopping Malls (2001) by Harun Farocki. Each portrays the supermarket (or hypermarche) as today's privileged exhibition space and social theatre.
Martha Rosler's video Losing: A Conversation with the Parents' (1976) displays an intimate situation as easily saturated with social norms.
As we are made to follow a parents reflection on their daughter's death from anorexia, we come to realize that their discourse employs the same empty gestures we revel in, while watching TV's soaps and talk shows.
For the debate about the future of the university-system (Lueneburg University, like so many other German universities, is now on strike), we expect some advice from Allan Sekula's inquiry School is a Factory (1978/80). There must be a link -- call it aesthetic form -- between the fordist technologies of education, explored by this piece, and the current crisis affecting the production of post-fordist mentalities.
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Sponsored by:
Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Government Foundation), die Allianz Kulturstiftung (Allianz Foundation) & Verein fuer Zeitgenoessische Kunst Lueneburg (Association of Contemporary Art, Lueneburg)
supported by: FRAC - Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain du Centre, Orleans
Adress:
Kunstraum der Universitaet Lueneburg
Project office
Scharnhorststr. 1
21335 Lueneburg
Telefon/Phone 04131 - 78 1210
Fax 04131 - 78 1246
kunstraum@uni-lueneburg.de
http://kunstraum.uni-lueneburg.de
Parallel to the exhibition:
BILDET REGIERUNGEN ! / IN/FORM GOVERNMENTS !
Gouvernementalitaet jenseits von Okonomisierung und Verwertungslogik
Opposing a logic of economic utilization in governmentality
A symposium at the University of Lueneburg
30. / 31. Jan. 2004
Concept: Dr. Antke Engel
http://dieregierung.uni-lueneburg.de/bildetregierungen.php
bildetregierungen@uni-lueneburg.de
Organization and preparation:
Antke Engel, Inga Koehler, Sonja Parzefall, Sophia Prinz, Tim Schmalfeldt,
Wanda Wieczorek
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How to get to the campus:
http://www.uni-lueneburg.de/service/service/wegzumcampus.html
Hotels in Lueneburg:
www.lueneburg.de
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01/26/04 
