Bar Laika is very pleased to present Harun Farocki's Parallel, screening parts I and II on Thursday, March 7, 9pm and parts III and IV on Thursday, March 21, 9pm. Farocki's four-part cycle Parallel deals with the image genre of computer animation. The series focuses on the construction, visual landscape, and inherent rules of computer-animated worlds.

Join us at e-flux where artist Ricardo Basbaum will present his book Diagrams, 1994–ongoing published by Errant Bodies Press, 2016. He will be joined in conversation with art historian and critic Alexander Alberro, for a discussion of Basbaum's work in relation to the legacy of conceptual art, as well as Latin American neoconcrete art and the role it has opened up for the spectator in the process of production.

Join us for an evening with artist Tony Cokes, presenting selected excerpts from recent installation projects in Los Angeles and Vienna.

Join us for an evening with David Claerbout, discussing the artist’s notion of ‘dark optics’—looking back at the history of the camera, its relation between light, optics, and the belief-system it represented, as well as the current disintegration of this system.

An evening of videos, sounds, and recipes with artist Christian Nyampeta, starting with the trailer of Sometimes It Was Beautiful (2018); followed by Words after the World (2017); and extending with a live streaming of Radius, an online and occasionally inhabitable radio station. The menu for the evening is conceived in collaboration with writer Mary Wang.

Join us at Bar Laika for the fifth edition of Satellite, featuring Peter Zummo and Eve Essex.

Bar Laika is very pleased to present an evening with Dara Birnbaum, featuring a screening of selected video works and Q&A with the artist. 

Bar Laika is very pleased to present Harun Farocki's Parallel, screening parts I and II on Thursday, March 7, 9pm and parts III and IV on Thursday, March 21, 9pm. Farocki's four-part cycle Parallel deals with the image genre of computer animation. The series focuses on the construction, visual landscape, and inherent rules of computer-animated worlds.

Friday, April 5, 7–9pm and Saturday, April 6, 11am–8pm Only a few weeks prior to his untimely death in 2014, Harun Farocki briefly referred to navigation as a contemporary challenge to montage—editing distinct sections of film into a continuous sequence—as the dominant paradigm of techno-political visuality... With Ramon Amaro, James Bridle, Kaye Cain-Nielsen, Maïté Chénière, Kodwo Eshun, Anselm Franke, Jennifer Gabrys, Charles Heller, Tom Holert, Inhabitants, Doreen Mende, Gloria Meynen, Matteo Pasquinelli, Laura Lo Presti, Patricia Reed, Nikolay Smirnov, Hito Steyerl, Oraib Toukan, Vassilis Tsianos, Ben Vickers, and Brian Kuan Wood.

Now celebrating its sixth year, Art of the Real is the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual survey of the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction moving-image cinema and art. Organized by Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes, each edition features a selection of Spotlights that take a closer look at a range of practices in experimental documentary. This year, AOTR will collaborate with e-flux Bar Laika to present two spotlight events at Bar Laika with the artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire and the scholar and critic Erika Balsom.

Now celebrating its sixth year, Art of the Real is the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual survey of the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction moving-image cinema and art. Organized by Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes, each edition features a selection of Spotlights that take a closer look at a range of practices in experimental documentary. This year, AOTR will collaborate with e-flux Bar Laika to present two spotlight events at Bar Laika with the artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire and the scholar and critic Erika Balsom.