online now
e-flux is pleased to announce the release of the online video archive of Unitednationsplaza, Nightschool and The Building, comprising more than two hundred hours of recordings of lectures and presentations, at www.unitednationsplaza.org.Unitednationsplaza was a temporary, experimental school in Berlin, initiated by Anton Vidokle following the cancellation of Manifesta 6 on Cyprus, in 2006. Developed in collaboration with Boris Groys, Liam Gillick, Hatasha Sadr Haghighian, Nikolaus Hirsch, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic and Tirdad Zolghadr, the project traveled to Mexico City (2008) and, eventually, to New York City under the name Night School (2008-2009) at the New Museum. Its program was organized around a number of public seminars, most of which are now available in their entirety in the online archive.
After Unitednationsplaza left Berlin, Julieta Aranda, Magdalena Magiera and Anton Vidokle re-opened the building that housed it as The Building (2008-2009), which hosted e-flux video rental, a reading room comprising several thousand publications on contemporary art and theory, and a series of monthly lectures by the Berlin based critic Jan Verwoert titled Why are conceptual artists painting again? Because they think it’s a good idea—also available in their entirety in the archives.
The video archive, realized by Jan Gerber and Susanne Lang and designed by Min Choi and Jeff Ramsey, is organized in four chapters:
Thanks to: Paz Aburto Guevara, David Adamo, Saâdane Afif, Jennifer Allen, Sepake Angiama, Inke Arns, Marc Aschenbrenner, Fia Backström, Michael Baers, Silvia Barilla, Regine Basha, Ute Meta Bauer, Ethan Beckenbridge, Bibiana Beglau, Marc Bijl, Daniel Birnbaum, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Ellen Blumenstein, Monica Bonvicini, Daniel Bozhkov, Chloe Briggs, Willi Brisco, David Brown, Francois Bucher, Federica Bueti, Sussanne Bürner, Miguel Calderón, Adam Carr, Jota Castro, Olga Chernysheva, Keth Chukhrov, Joseph Cohen, Daniela Comani, Maike Cruse, Branka Cvjeticanin, Nuno daLuz, Tina diCarlo, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Antje Dorn, Severin Dünser, Ekkehard Ehlers, Hadassah Emmerich, Julien Enoka-Ayemba, Köken Ergun, Charles Esche, Chris Evans, Fantastic Nobodies, Christoph Faulhaber, Elena Filipovic, Iris Flügel, Anselm Franke, Liam Gillick, Adrienne Goehler, Avery Gordon, Florian Göttke, Natalie Gravenor, Grid, Raphaël Grisey, Boris Groys, Martina Haberzettl, Hadley & Maxwell, Adnan Hadzi, Erla Haraldsdottir, Mete Hatay, Nanna Heidenreich, Jörg Heiser, Dirk Herzog, Johan Hjerpe, Tom Holert, Karl Holmqvist, Judith Hopf, Gabriele Horn, Ashley Hunt, Instituto Divorciado, Jackson Pollock Bar, Christian Jankowski, Franz John, Khalil Joreige & Joana Hadjithomas, Hiwa K., Martin Kaltwasser, Vivian Kea, kein.tv, Christoph Keller, Erin Kimmel, Folke Köbberling, Sören Köhler, Alexander Komarov, Vasif Kortun, Brian Kuan Wood, La Stampa, Brandon LaBelle, Susanne Lang, Annika Larsson, Julia Lazarus, Tanya Leighton, Xavier Leroy, Deborah Ligorio, Maria Lind, Israel Cordero & Vanessa Lopez, Winy Maas, Caoimhin MacGiollaleith, Annette Maechtel, Magdalena Magiera, Chus Martinez, Emily Mast, Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Yvette Matern, Diana Mc Carthy, Clara Meister, Peter van der Meijden, Bjørn Melhus, Naeem Mohaiemen, mono.kultur, Nina Möntmann, Sarah Morris, Mousse, Rabih Mroué , Caroline Muntendorf, Christian Nagel, Deimantas Narkevicius, Sharyar Nashat, Piotr Nathan, Kito Nedo, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Lise Nellemann, Molly Nesbit, neurotransmitter, Angel Nevarez, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai, no credit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jason Oakley, Ylva Ogland, Stefania Palumbo, Pavlina Paraskevaidou, Hila Peleg, Haris Pellapaisiotis, Natasa Petresin, Martin Pfahler, Jan Pfeiffer, Adina Popescu, Pro QM, Walid Raad, Jan Ralske, Reynold Reynolds, Dieter Roelstrate, Julian Rosefeldt, Ruth Rosenfeld, Mathilde Rosier, Martha Rosler, Alix Rule, Natasha Sadr Haghighian, Stefan Saffer, Aykan Safoglu, Anri Sala, Jette Sandage, Eduardo Sarabia, Ines Schaber, Deborah Schamoni, Phillip Scheffner, Florian Schneider, Silke Schnellhardt, Mickey Schubert, Pit Schulz, Cristina Sescosse, Solmaz Shabazi, Setareh Shahbazi, Wael Shawky, Simon Sheikh, Ashkan Shepariev, Nicolas Siepen, Christiane Simon, Mariana Silva, Shelly Silver, Mike Smith, Snøfrid, Elena Sorokina, SPASM, Hito Steyerl, Supportico Lopez, Monika Szewczyk, Aneta Szylak, Constantinos Taliotis, Pelin Tan, Lene ter Haar, Valerie Tevere, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jalal Toufic, Andrej Ujica, Pelin Uran, Gigiotto DelVecchio, Jan Verwoert, Jons Vukorep, Renate Wagner, Danna Vajda, Lawrence Weiner, Stefanie Wenner, Stephen Wright, Florian Wüst, Adnan Yildiz, Florian Zeyfang, Rana Zincir Celal, Tirdad Zolghadr, and to the large rabbit that we never saw.
