The State of the Moving Image
Friday–Sunday, September 17–19, 2021
Online symposium with presentations by Erika Balsom, Teresa Castro, Sophie Cavoulacos, Ali Cherri, Greg de Cuir Jr, Irmgard Emmelhainz, Lars Henrik Gass, Leo Goldsmith, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Olivier Hadouchi, Louis Henderson, Chrissie Iles, Karrabing Film Collective, Toby Lee, Almudena Escobar López, Pedro Neves Marques, Alison Nguyen, Noncitizen, Bahar Noorizadeh, Christina Phoebe, Raqs Media Collective, Rojava Film Commune, Oleksiy Radynski, Julian Ross, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Su Yu Hsin, Malena Szlam, Anton Vidokle, and Yang Beichen
Curated by Lukas Brasiskis
“An other cinema” (Raymond Bellour), “othered cinema” (Erika Balsom), “artists’ films” (Maeve Connolly, among others), “cinema d’exposition” (Jean- Christophe Royoux), “le temps exposé” (Dominique Païni)—these are just a few of many terms commonly employed to define ubiquitous practices of artists making films and/or exhibiting them in galleries, museums, and cinemas.
This symposium aims to address the current state of the moving image in relation to developing digital technologies and their infrastructures, the economies of contemporary art, the (post-)pandemic situation of curation, exposition, and distribution of artists’ films, the changing landscape for their perception and reception, and finally, the current sociopolitical and ecological concerns moving-image practitioners are addressing in their works situated between worlds of cinema and contemporary art. Instead of re-establishing or re-activating some grand theories, the symposium asks specific questions. Six panels comprised of artists, theorists, critics, and curators will explore topical concerns about moving images in/and alongside contemporary art.
The symposium is organized in conjuction with the online screening program An Other Cinema: Apparatus and Histories, streaming September 6–20, 2021 on e-flux Video & Film.
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Symposium program
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Friday, September 17, 2021
12pm–2pm EST
Panel 1: “In Between White Cube, Black Box, and Online Screens: Curation and Exhibition of Artists' Films”
Erika Balsom (moderator), Sophie Cavoulacos, Lars Henrik Gass, Chrissie Iles, Almudena Escobar López, Julian Ross, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
Saturday, September 18, 2021
10am–12pm EST
Panel 2: “Altering Visuality: Digital Image and Technopolitics”
Irmgard Emmelhainz (moderator), Bahar Noorizadeh, Raqs Media Collective, Yang Beichen
12:30pm–2:30pm EST
Panel 3: “Moving-Image Activism and Disobedience on Screen”
Olivier Hadouchi (moderator), Karrabing Film Collective member Elizabeth A. Povinnelli, Noncitizen members Amina Khalil and Christian Rossipal, Rojava Film Commune member Sevinaz Evdike
3pm–5pm EST
Panel 4: “Archival Impulse: Appropriation and Critique”
Leo Goldsmith (moderator), Greg de Cuir Jr, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Alison Nguyen
Sunday, September 19, 2021
10am–12pm EST
Panel 5: “Collectivity and Care: Moving-Image Art as Public Arena”
Toby Lee (moderator), Louis Henderson, Christina Phoebe, Oleksiy Radynski
12.30pm–2.30pm EST
Panel 6: “Eco-Futures and Moving Image”
Teresa Castro (moderator), Ali Cherri, Pedro Neves Marques, Su Yu Hsin, Malena Szlam, Anton Vidokle
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For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.