Group Melitopoulos

Termine / Dates 2011 Hito Steyerl

2011-03-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

These are the first dates for the summer term 2011. Meetings will take place weekly on tuesday 2.00 p.m.

April 12
2.00 p.m.

Presentation of the concept for the semester,
including brief introduction of the staff,
introduction of the communication structure (a Wiki will be build up),
comment on the theoretical part
Discussion on the main interest of the class members

April 19
2.00 p.m.

Presentations of class members

April 26
2.00 p.m.

2011-02-04T04:38:00.000-08:00

Roundtable, 7.2.2011, room 115, 4-7 pm

5-6 short presentations (10 min) of articles of the exhibition catalogue Projekt Migration
in relation to the concept of Heterotopies

Presentation of the video YESAT RAT, 5 min
and an excerpt of the documentary 'Holger Hiller' (working title) by Janine Jambere

Seminar, 8.2.2011, room 155, 3-6 pm

Presentation of the video Passing Drama by Angela Melitopoulos, 1999, 66 min
http://eipcp.net/transversal/1003/melitopoulos/de

Transmediale Saturday & Sunday

2011-02-02T05:24:00.000-08:00

• Life at Work: Bioeconomy and the Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism (Keynote Conversation)
Franco Berardi (it), Maurizio Lazzarato (it)
Moderation: Matteo Pasquinelli (it)
Sat, 5.2.2011 - 17:00, Auditorium
• Life in Excess: Transpersonality and Autonomy in the Age of Biopower (Focus Discussion)
Roberto Esposito (it), Beatriz Preciado (es), Judith Revel (fr)
Moderation: Matteo Pasquinelli (it)

Sun, 6.2.2011 - 14:00, Auditorium

Next roundtable and Seminar 31.1 & 1.02

2011-01-28T03:48:00.000-08:00

Dear students,
Elisa Balmaceda will present her work on our next roundtable.
(monday 4pm, room 115).
On tuesday we have Isabell Spengler as a guest in our seminar.
(3 pm, room 115).
Take a look at the text´s i sended via mailinglist. See you yara

Isabell Spengler will present a selection of Holiday Films, she was involved in, including titles such as: MUMMY (Berlin, 2006), TRANSFORMATION IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT (Texas, 2003) and QUOI QU’IL EN SOIT, JE BRULE (France, 1995).

Isabell Spengler is a Berlin based artist and filmmaker. Since 1998 her collaborative and solo works in film and performance have been shown in festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Since 2004 she works as a lecturer for experimental film at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

„Holiday movies are a violation of borders between holiday and work, expertise and amateurship, private and public spaces and fantasies.“, said a member of the Holiday Movies Initiative, in her personal manifesto.

The Holiday Movie Initiative, an international group with fluctuating members, was found in 2004 after the completion of the film THE NATURAL LIFE OF MERMAIDS. Since 1995 already, there had been an ongoing production of films made during group vacations. The films shared a certain process of lightheartedly appropriating situations, people, appearances, places and objects encountered on vacation as scenarios, characters, costumes, locations and props in their (fictional) film stories.

With the ongoing exhibition and distribution of these films, the group felt the need to describe the new genre they had coined appropriately: Each member of the 2004 group, which included but wasn’t limited to Antonia Baehr, Nancy de Holl, Alice Könitz, Jennifer Sindon, and Isabell Spengler, wrote their own manifesto outlining HMI’s purpose, goals, techniques and attitude

2011-01-02T01:42:00.000-08:00

Up-coming Roundtables and Seminars and a happy new year 2011 !

The first meeting in 2011 is on the 4th of January at 3pm in room 115.

4.12.2011 _ Seminar about the exhibition project Projet Migration (www.projektmigration.de) with a selection of videos show in the exhibition in 2006 (for example 'Passagen' by Lisl Ponger, 'Sonst wer wie du' by Jean Faust,'105-7 by Pavel Bralla, 'Hollow Bones' by David Blandy) and the presentation of the book.

17.1.2011 Roundtable with a presentation by Flavio
Text by M.Foucault on the utopian body

18.1.2011 Seminar with the artist/filmmaker/writer Brigitta Kuster on her work on migration

24.1.2011 Roundtables with a presentation by Erika

Please check this blog for new updates.

2010-12-15T05:54:00.000-08:00

Monday , 20th December 2010
4pm, room 115

For those who still is in town, this last meeting in 2010 we will discuss the film Route 181 by Eyal Sivan and see a few short videos that were shown in the exhibition PROJEKT MIGRATION, a interdisciplinary research between art and theorie that took place in 2006 in Cologne. (www.projektmigration.de)

See you
best regards
Angela

2010-12-10T09:40:00.000-08:00

Dear students, the seminar on tuesday will start at 2pm.

We`re happy to have Tanja Ostojić as a guest! She will give a Lecture Performance called:

“Crossing Borders: Development of Different Artistic Strategies”

Tanja Ostojić, born 1972 in Yugoslavia (Serbia), is an independent performance, interdisciplinary artist and cultural activist based in Berlin. She studied art in Belgrade and Nantes.

Ostojic directly familiarized herself with popular border crossings strategies that migrants have been using for decades. In order to take her own rights that  she has been restricted from by EU migration laws, she explicitly applied strategies of provoking public sphere and of violation of law, to gain the right to move freely and live and work in Shengenia. Ostojić includes herself as a character in performances and uses diverse media in her  artistc researches, thereby examining social configurations and relations of   power. She works predominantly from the migrant woman’s perspective, while political positioning, humour and integration of the recipient define the approach in her work.

Her series of works entitled Integration Project summarizes experiences and investigations related to the situation of being a women immigrant in Germany. The preceding project Looking for a Husband with EU Passport was an initial key frame that themathises gender politics and capitalism and describes the collision between isolation, poverty and the EU policies of exclusion: to obtain a residence permit for the EU she posted her nude photo on the Internet in search of an EU passport holder interested in marriage. The wedding as an act in the media of law followed a brief meeting in Belgrade.

Ostojić includes herself as a character in performances and uses diverse media in her artistic researches, thereby examining social configurations and relations of power. She works predominantly from the migrant woman’s perspective, while political positioning, humour and integration of the recipient define the approach in her work.

*More Infos:

Ostojic Performed in 2010 in: Spoken World Festival, Kaaitheater Brussels, Critcal Complicity Bolzano and Girl Monster, Kampnagel, Hamburg. In 2009: on: PSi conference in Zagreb, Re.act.feminism, Berlin, Performa NYC; as well earlier at: Venice Biennale (2001), ICA London (1999), Manifesta 2 (1998).

Her work has been exhibited most recently at “Esteticas Decolonilaes, ASAB, Bogotá (2010). 2009 & 2010 at Arts Homo Erotica in the National Museum in Warsaw, in Gender Check, MUMOK, Vienna, and Zaheta gallery Warsaw, The social Critique, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Agents & Provocateurs, HWMKV Dortmund and ICA Dunaujvaros, Transitland Europe, Transmediale Berlin and Ludwig Museum Budapest… Her last one women show was in Kunstpavillon Innsbruck in 2008.

She published recently book Integration Impossible? The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojić, M. Gržinić and T. Ostojić eds., argobooks, Berlin 2009.

http://www.van.at/see/tanja/ http://misplacedwomen.wordpress.com/

Roundtable, Monday 6 dec

2010-12-06T01:28:00.000-08:00

Dear Class,

this monday we meet for the roundtable at the OKK at 4pm:

OKK/ Raum 29
Prinzenallee 29
13359 Berlin
U-Bhf Osloer Straße U9/U8

its 10 minutes with the U9 from zoologischer garten.

-Candice will show her video works inside the exhibition.

-Then me and jakub would like to present different groupworks at our self-organised exhibition "Battle of the Spectacle".

(its about a 12 m inflatable "ProtestHammer" we sewed with the Eclectic Electric Collective and send to the Cancún Climate Conference (Cop16),
as well about our past roadtrip to the Copenhagen climate conference (Cop15).

More info about the exhibition and the project, please check our blog:
www.eclectic-electric-collective.blogspot.com

Alex Dunst, a friend and theorist will do some critical feedback.

ok. we are looking forward!

xx

Artur & Jakub

2010-11-04T03:11:00.000-07:00

WS2010/2011, room 115, Guestprofessor: Angela Melitopoulos

NEXT WEEK

15th of November, room 115, 4-7 pm

Roundtable 2: Presentation of student works

16th of November, room 115, 3-6 pm

Seminar/Introduction on the second part of the text ‚Heterotopies’
and the first part of 'The utopian body' by Michel Foucault

Please check you txt-files.

Presentation of the video 'Performing the Border' by Ursula Biemann
http://www.geobodies.org/01_art_and_videos/1999_performing_the_border/

8^th of November, room 115, 4-7 pm

Ground Zero One is a new format for class meetings in the WS 2010.

We try together to open, deepen and share information without being interfaced by screens.

Solidarity instead of competition is the motto of Ground Zero One.

The preliminary discussion started up with the history of this ‘Klasse’ in comparison with different art-school models in the U.S / Australia / Italy / Chile / GB ...

Some major questions became topics for the first discussion:

What means education in different systems of education in the arts?

What should be provided for the students ?

Privat vs. state universities ?

Neo-liberal concept of (art)education, language barriers and hierarchies,

exclusions in terms of class, race and/or privileges within different schoolmodels.

How to position yourself in/outside the artschool/ institiution

Please focus on these questions and prepare your possible answers for the next meeting !

9^th of November, room 115, 3-6 pm

Seminar/Introduction on the first chapter of the text ‚Heterotopies’ by Michel Foucault.

Please check you txt-files.

SEMINARS WS 2010/2011 Heterotopies

Heterotopies are spaces without place or histories without chronology. Heterotopies are universes that might be impossible to trace on a map because the do not belong to a place. They are born in our heads, in the cut up of our words, in non-places, dreams or, as Foucault said, "out of the sweetness of our utopies“. But they have a reality, a determined time, they can be fixed and measured on a map or in a calender. Foucaults' concept of heterotopies largely influenced theories on mobility and migration.

We will discuss the subject in relation to videos that focus on subjectivity and mobility (films and video works by Brigitta Kuster, Ursula Biemann, Lisl Ponger, Jem Cohen, Eyal Sivan, Alessandro Sambini, Bouba Touré, Phillipe Scheffner, Chantal Akermann, MariaGiovanna Nuzzi, and others.)

Round Tables/Reading Groups/Open Source Meetings :

Every week on Monday, 4-7 pm, room 115, (not on the 22. 11 and 3.1)

Seminars

Every Tuesday, 3 – 6 pm, room 115, weekly (not on the 3.11 and 23.11)

Past Seminars

October 25^th , 4-7pm

First Roundtable: Janine Jambere presents two of her projects.

Allied presentation: Yara Spaett. Questions by Anna Tautfest.

October 26^th, 2-6 pm,

Seminar/Introduction

In the Gallery ‘Gentili Apri’, Schöneberger Ufer 69

(http://gentiliapri.com/)

Seminar about the project Assemblages - an audiovisual research project by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato on Félix Guattari and his revolutionary psychiatric practice, his political activism as well as his ideas concerning ecosophy and interest in animism, especially in the Brazilian and Japanese context.

2nd November, room 115, 3-6 pm

Ground Zero One - preliminary discussion

A preliminary discussion for setting up and structuring topics. You should think about what is urgent for you to find out about the institution you are working in! Yara Spaett will collect all questions.’Ground Zero One’ is our platform for communicating and exchanging information collectively.

WS 2010/2011, room 115, Guestprofessor: Angela Melitopoulos

2010-10-07T12:20:00.000-07:00

NEXT WEEK

October 25^th , 4-7pm

First Roundtable: Janine Jambere presents two of her projects.

Allied presentation: Yara Spaett. Questions by Anna Tautfest.

October 26^th, 2-6 pm,

Seminar/Introduction

!!! We meet in the art gallery ‘Gentili Apri’, Schöneberger Ufer 69!!!

(http://gentiliapri.com/)

WS 2010/2011 Heterotopies

Heterotopies are spaces without place or histories without chronology. Heterotopies are universes that might be impossible to trace on a map because the do not belong to a place. They are born in our heads, in the cut up of our words, in non-places, dreams or, as Foucault said, "out of the sweetness of our utopies“. But they have a reality, a determined time, they can be fixed and measured on a map or in a calender. Foucaults' concept of heterotopies largely influenced theories on mobility and migration.

Every week on Monday, 4-7 pm, room 115, (not on the 22. 11 and 3.1)

Seminars

Every Tuesday, 3 – 6 pm, room 115, weekly (not on the 3.11 and 23.11)

NOVEMBER (UPDATE FOLLOWS)

2nd November, room 115, 3-6 pm

Ground Zero One - preliminary discussion

A preliminary discussion for setting up and structuring topics for the first meeting of the platfrom ’Ground Zero One’ for communicating and exchanging information collectively. What is urgent to find out about the institution you are working in ? Yara Spaett will collect all questions.

8^th of November, room 115, 4-7 pm

Ground Zero One is a new format for class meetings in the WS 2010. We try together to open, deepen and share information without being interfaced by screens.

Solidarity instead of competition is the motto of Ground Zero One.

Seminare Winter 2010/2011 -- Christoph Manz

2010-10-07T12:16:00.000-07:00

hello everybody,

below the list of the seminars i'll hold next semester. they
will be all workshops with limited space, so i you're
interested it's important you let me know.

i'll try to find the time for an english translation before
i leave.

laters
++ christoph

Seminare Winter 2010/2011 -- Christoph Manz
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Beginn der Vorlesungen: 18. Oktober 2010 (Montag)
Ende der Vorlesungen: 19. Februar 2011 (Samstag)
Akademische Ferien: 20. Dezember 2010 (Montag) bis 1. Januar
2011 (Samstag)

-- 1) --
Projektbetreuung Film/Video/Photographie
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Veranstaltung: Projektbetreuung Film/Video/Photographie
Veranstaltungsart: theoret.-prakt. Lehrveranstaltung
Sprache: deutsch/englisch
Semester: Winter 2010/2011
Tag: Mi
Zeit: 13:00-17:00
Rhythmus: wöchentlich
Raum: Ha33 - 098

Kommentar:

Technische Betreuung von studentischen Film-, Video- und
Photoarbeiten, mit analogen und digitalen Medien.

Technical assistence and advice on film, video and photo
projects. digital and analog media.

Jeden Mittwoch, Termine nach Vereinbarung.
Ganzes Semester, auch vorlesungsfreie Zeit (dann Mi und Do).

-- 2) --
Analog / Digital
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Veranstaltung: Analog / Digital
Veranstaltungsart: theoret.-prakt. Lehrveranstaltung
Sprache: deutsch/englisch
Semester: Winter 2010/2011
Tag: Do/Fr
Zeit: 13:30-18:00
Rhythmus: Blockseminar
Dauer: 4 x 2 Tage zu 4.5 Stunden
Raum: Ha33 - 115

Kommentar:

Ein sehr grosser Teil der Audio, Photo und Videotechnik ist
schon auf die digitale Produktion umgestiegen, und in
wenigen Jahren werden analoge Medien praktisch vollständig
aus unserem Alltagsleben verschwinden. Der Hauptgrund liegt
in der Effizienz, Kontrollierbarkeit und Qualität welche mit
der Digitaltechnik erreichbar sind.

Was bedeutet aber überhaupt digital und analog? Was ist
abgesehen von den technischen Vorteilen der Unterschied? Wie
ist unsere emotionale Reaktion zu digitalen und analogen
Bildern? Und wie beinflusst es unsere Arbeitsweise?

In diesem Workshop werden wir verschiedenste Beispiele aus
beiden Welten anschauen und ausprobieren und über diese
Fragen diskutieren.

Termine:
Do/Fr 28./29. Okt. + 4./5. Nov. + 11./12. Nov. + 18./19. Nov

Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt, nur mit Voranmeldung.

-- 3) --
Videotechnik: von der Aufnahme zur Präsentation
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Veranstaltung: Videotechnik: von der Aufnahme zur Präsentation
Veranstaltungsart: theoret.-prakt. Lehrveranstaltung
Sprache: deutsch/englisch
Semester: Winter 2010/2011
Tag: Do/Fr
Zeit: 13:30-17:30
Rhythmus: Blockseminar
Dauer: 3 x 2 Tage zu 4 Stunden
Raum: Ha33 - 115

Kommentar:

Die rasante technische Entwicklung, und die veränderten
Geräte haben einerseits zu einer Vielzahl an Möglichkeiten
zum Arbeiten mit Video geführt, aber auch zu einer grossen
Anzahl von Problemen, vorallem in der Endfertigung. Aufgrund
der vielen Kombinationen und damit verbundenen Fehlerquellen
ist es notwendig die Grundlagen und Funktionsweise dahinter
zu kennen um schon bei der Aufnahme und der Postproduktion
sinnvolle Entscheidungen zu treffen.

In diesem Workshop geht es also darum die Videotechnik zu
verstehen, mit dem Schwerpunkt der Präsentation. Es werden
ausführlich die verschiedenen Formate, Kabel und Geräte
besprochen und ausprobiert.

Termine:
Do/Fr 25./26. Nov. + 2./3. Dez. + 9./10. Dez.

Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt, nur mit Voranmeldung.

-- 4) --
Fluch und Segen des Internets
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Veranstaltung: Fluch und Segen des Internets
Veranstaltungsart: theoret.-prakt. Lehrveranstaltung
Sprache: deutsch/englisch
Semester: Winter 2010/2011
Tag: Do/Fr
Zeit: 13:30-17:30
Rhythmus: Blockseminar
Dauer: 3 x 2 Tage zu 4 Stunden
Raum: Ha33 - 098

Kommentar:

Das Internet nimmt eine immer grössere Wichtigkeit in
unserem Leben ein. Nicht nur persönlich, sondern auch
beruflich, wirtschaftlich und politisch. Es verändert die
Gesellschaft so stark wie wenige technische Errungenschaften
zuvor.

In diesem Seminar soll es zum einen darum gehen die
technischen Grundlagen zu verstehen, wie das Internet
funktioniert und aus welchen Bestandteilen es überhaupt
besteht sowiee konkreten Anwendungen und Tips zur Nutzung.

Zum anderen soll es auch zu Diskussionen anregen wie es uns
als Individueen und als Gesellschaft beeinflusst und
verändert.

Termine:
Do/Fr 13./14. Jan. + 20./21. Jan. + 27./28. Jan.

Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt, nur mit Voranmeldung.

Semesterplan SoSe 2010

2010-04-09T00:48:00.000-07:00

Hello,

here is the updated plan for our semester. (Please note changes !!)

Basically it is taking place in mai and June, but then more densly.
There are seminars, Reading Groups, Round Tables and Wokrshops and a Festival !
If you would like to take part or visit the workshop and for meetings with me please contact me by mail-

The festival BERLIN DOCUMNETARY FORUM between the 2-6 of June is worth to plan time for it.

All updates will be posted on this email list. If you are not yet on please contact Yara (yara_spaettATyahoo.com>,

I ma happy to see you soon

All my best,
Angela

Klasse Melitopoulos

Sommersemester 2010, Seminars, Round Tables, Reading Groups, Viewing Archives

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1 - Reading Group /3 May/4-6 pm/room 115/article : Gilles Deleuze ‚The new archivist’)

2. Workshop/4-7 May/all day/ Feminism and Performance Art with Bettina Knaup (application necessary) room 115

3. Seminar /7 May/3 pm/ Feminism and Performance Art /Bettina Knaup / room 115

4. Round Table /May 10/ 4-7 pm/ room 115

5. Reading Group /May 17/4-6 pm/ room 115 Extra-disciplinary Art Practices and Media Activism/Brian Holmes/ article from the book Escape the Overcode

6. Seminar /May 21/10.30-1.30 pm/ Extra-disciplinary Art Practices and Media Activism/Brian Holmes/ room 115

7. Workshop /May 18-21/ Extra-disciplinary Art Practices and Media Activism/Brian Holmes/ (application necessary), room 115,

8. Round Table/May 24, 4-7 pm/ room 115

9. BERLIN DOCUMENTRY FORUM 1/ 2-6 June/all day/ Haus der Kulturen der Welt (You are invited to attend the entire festival !)

Möglichkeitsraum Screen Performances

June 3, 10 pm (evening) The Life of a Film Archive with Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

June 4, 12 h Extra-disciplinary Art Practices and Media Activism with Brian Holmes

June 5, 2.30 pm Feminism and Performance Art with Bettina Knaup

10. Round Table/June 10/4-7pm/ room 115

11. Reading Group/14 June/4-6 pm/room 115

12. Reading Group and seminar 28 June/11am-3 pm, The Life of a Film Archive (location will be announced)

13. Viewing Archives /June 29/ The Life of a Film Archive (time and location will be announvced)

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Seminar

‘Der Möglichkeitsraum’ (The Blast of the Possible)

On the Bio-politics and Archives

Short Text

The ‘new” archivist, who Deleuze recognizes in Foucault, has apparently created something fundamentally new: he cuts transversely through existing language systems across scientific languages, every day enunciation's and schizophrenic nonsense. He wants to stay agile and does not care about juxtaposed sentences or about the keyboard of his type writer. He does not want to speak about the ‘other’ or follow dialectics of conflict because by doing so he can’t differentiate the possible from the actual. He just wants to consider enunciation with all their omissions and breaches.

The seminar ‘Möglichkeitsraum’ invites to think the ‘new’ archivist along the work of three curators and cultural producers on their film and video archives who are collaborating (with me) on a screen performance that will be staged in the Berlin Documentary Forum in the House of World Cultures Berlin between the 3^rd and the 5^th of June 2010.

With Bettina Knaup (curator), Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Arsenal Institute for Film - and Videoart) and Brian Holmes (cultural theorist) the three screen performances elaborate the possible and actual potentialities of a history and art production along three archives. We consider Foucault’s idea what an enunciation with it’s omissions and breaches can be in time. We work on ‘rules of transition’ of an enunciation from one time period to the next - within the moving images.

Der Möglichkeitsraum proposes to work in a laboratory like platform, an assembled space in that functions of cinema, theater and prostproduction studio are intertwined with each other. The platform contains a double screen projection, a database and a video- and sound mixer on stage. The screen is connected with the archaic function of theater that is to assemble, switch, combine and perform heterogeneous language flows.

1. Feminism and Performance Art with Bettina Knaup

The video archive assembled for the exhibition project re.act.feminism by the Berlin based curators Bettina Knaup and Beatrice E. Stammer show an exemplary overview of gender-critical performance art of the 1960s and 1970s and its current ‘return’ in form of appropriations, re-enactments and archival or documentary projects. The emergence of feminism and performance art critiqued patriarchal forms of knowledge production, political speech, bio-politics and the capitalizing function of the art market. The Blast of the Possible with Bettina Knaup address the idea of relational feminism within performance art that transgresses gender relations and identity politics in direction to urban bio-politics, knowledge production, therapy and ritualized speech.

(www.reactfeminism.org).

Performance art emerging in the 1960s and 70s was infused with ideas of social emancipation and fundamentally influenced by women artists interested in feminism. Performance art explored the intersection of art and life, of private and public. By focusing on the sentient, creating, knowing, speaking body it is the ideal medium to deconstruct the status of women as art objects and appropriate the subject position, to dramatize the social and physical vulnerability of women’s bodies in a patriarchal society and to deconstruct and subvert notions of stereotypical identity. Moreover, as a new art form, occurring outside the confines of the traditional art space, performance was a medium for collective and social intervention in the public sphere.

Bettina Knaup is a cultural producer with a background in political science, theatre, film, TV studies and gender studies. She has been involved in developing or managing a range of interdisciplinary and transnational cultural projects operating at the interface of arts, politics and knowledge production. These include the open space of the International Women's University (Hanover) and the trans-disciplinary Performing Arts Laboratory, IN TRANSIT (Berlin). For the past three years, she has co-curated and co-produced the International Festival of Contemporary Arts, CITY OF WOMEN, Ljubljana. As LabforCulture manager, Bettina oversees the development and production of the LabforCulture project.

Reading Group: 3 May, 4 to 6 pm, room 115, article Gilles Deleuze : ‚The new archivist’

Workshop: 4-7 May, all day, (application necessary), room 115

Seminar: 7 May, 3 to 5.30 pm, room 115

Screen Performance at the BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM 1 :

5 June, 2.30 pm_Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Viewing Archives: 8 June, 11 - 5 pm, room 115

2. Extra-disciplinary Art Practices and Media Activism with Brian Holmes

Four Pathways through Chaos is based on Brian Holmes' political theory about cybernetic governance and extra-disciplinary art practices /media activism.

Activism in a networked society has to confront a complex order of cybernetic norms governing affects, thought, desire and social relations through automation, economic deregulation and overcoded environments. So-called 'second-order cybernetics' operates through the mapping of dispersed, multi-agent populations, aiming for the modulation of complex flows; its characteristic media form is the worldwide web. The bio-political government of control society integrates forms of individualized production of subjectivity. How do social life forms resist the over-coding that constantly tracks and analyzes data about our behavior? 'Any struggle in the fields of knowledge has to begin as extra-disciplinary practices', moving beyond the calibrated access between science and art.

Four Pathways through Chaos is becoming a live montage, exemplifying four historically different audiovisual regimes that occurred in the USA since World War Two: broadcast television in the Cold War consumer society; video in art practice and activism as a subversion of the televisual norm; networked computing and its new forms of 'control environments'; and new communication tactics of migration movements.

Brian Holmes is an art and cultural critic, activist and translator interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. was a member of the graphic arts group Ne pas plier from 1999 to 2001, and has worked with the French conceptual art group Bureau d'études. He is a frequent contributor to the international mailing list Nettime, a member of the editorial committee of the art magazine "Springerin" and the political-economy journal "Multitudes", a regular contributor to the magazine Parachute, and a founder of the new journal "Autonomie Artistique".

Reading Group_17 May, 4-6 pm, room 115, article from the book Escape the Overcode by Brian Holmes

Seminar 21. May, 10.30 - 1.30 pm, room 115

Workshop 18-21.May, all day, (application necessary), room 115,

Viewing Archives 8 June, 11-5 pm, room 115

Screen Performance at the BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM

4 June, 12 h (mittags) Haus der Kulturen der Welt

3. The Life of a Film Archive with Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

A re-envisioning of moving images on the biography of the archive of the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video art

‚Must cinema screenings be organised by political activists for that new political films can be made?’ (Citation of a movie maker in the assembly ‘Les états généraux du cinema, Mai 1968, from the film ‚Das ist nur der Anfang – der Kampf geht weiter’ von Claudia von Alemann

The criteria of showing, spreading and distributing moving images contains a bio-political dimension that regulates active forces of life because through moving images heteronormative categories in our gaze, gestures and languages are immediately composed or rejected and thus affect our relations.

The Arsenal Institute for Film - and Videoart works with the active forces and fugacity of cinema images and thus understands each screening as a singular event in that the gaze, gestures and languages of it’s public co-determine the archive an it’s location.

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, director of the Arsenal Institute for Film - and Videoart proposes to look at the possible and actual bio-political agency of an archive with a selection of feminist and queer films that composed three historical cinema events in the Arsenal cinema in Berlin :

- The exemplary event of 1973 with the 1. International Women’s Film Seminar organized and conceived by Helge Sander and Claudia von Alemann that triggered a follow up of other feminist and queer film festivals

- It’s actualisation in the event of 1997 called 'Films, Festivals and Feminism ‚…es kommt darauf an, sie zu verändern'

- And the event of 2009 'LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming in a Rented World

The feminist film of the 70ties was a thought-provoking tool. It had to be constituted against a large opposition and many difficulties. A political enunciation resulted that is still actual today: a crystalline vision about economic exploitation, heteronormativity and the (bio) political struggles that continue today.

Screen Performance at the BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM _

3 June, 10 pm (evening !) Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Reading-group/seminar 28 June, 11 - 3 pm, (location will be announced)

Viewing Archives 29 June, (time and location will be announced)

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Round Tables

We continue the format of the round-table for presenting and discussing student projects. Each presentation should be prepared in collaboration with another student or expert who can elaborate a short comment on the presented topic.

Please reserve your dates for your presentations with Yara Spaett.

May 10, May 24, June 7, June 21

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Last Klassentreffen for this Semester bring Drinx and Snax

2010-01-28T11:36:00.001-08:00

Dear All,

we meet on Monday 1. February 4 pm in Room 115!

Se you there

yara

26.january

2010-01-26T00:24:00.000-08:00

I will show the installation in the UDK, room 115, tomorrow at 11 - in a preview for the Forum Expanded 2010 - with three projectors.

Best regards
Angela

ASSEMBLAGES

is an audiovisual research project by Angela Melitopoulos an Maurizio Lazzarato about philosopher and psychiatrist Félix Guattari an his revolutionary psychiatric practice, his political activism as well as his ideas concerning ecosophy and his interest in animism especially in the Brazilian an Japanese context.

It is shown in the exhibition Animism (22 jan 2010 - 02 may 2010) curated by Anselm Franke for Extra City and the M HKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst) in Antwerp http://www.muhka.be/) as a first outcome of the research in the form of a video installation.

In Guattari's work and in the same manner as in animist societies, subjectivity loses the transcendent and transcendental status that characterizes the Western paradigm. Guattari’s thought and that of animist societies can find common ground in this understanding of subjectivity. Aspects of polysemic, transindividual, and animist subjectivity also characterize the world of childhood, of psychosis, of amorous or political passion, and of artistic creation.

The installation presents excerpts from documentaries, essay-films, radio interviews, conversations with friends and colleagues of Félix Guattari, and material on the clinic La Borde in France and institutional psychotherapy including films by Fernand Deligny, Renaud Victor, François Pain an others, as well as new material produced in Brazil in the course of the research on this project.

Presented as a triptych of differently sized screens, the installation refers to ideas of movement and gravity eminent in the cartographies of animistic art as well as to concepts of the immaterial in asiatic art. Each screen intensifies a modality of the senses: seeing, hearing, reading. The montage of the archival material is conceived as a mirror to Guattari's concept of an 'assemblage', which is also a main topic throughout the installation.

With the participation of

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, anthropologist, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro

Éric Alliez, philosopher, Paris

Jean Claude Polack, psychiatrist, psycho-analyste, Paris

Barbara Glowczewski, anthropologist, Paris

Peter Pál Pelbart , professor of philosophy , Sao Paolo

Janja Rosangela Araujo, master of Capoeira Angola, professor , Salvador de Bahia

Jean Jacques Lebel, artist, Paris

Archives

Tetsuo Kogawa, Suely Rolnik, François Pain, Institut Auiovisuel Parism ISKRA Paris and others

ANIMISM

22 jan 2010 - 02 may 2010

A collaboration between Extra City and M HKA

Animism is a long-term exhibition and publication project first presented between 22 January and 2 May 2010 in Antwerp in a collaboration of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA). A second version of the exhibition will be shown at Kunsthalle Bern from May till July 2010. Subsequent versions will be developed at the Generali Foundation in Vienna and the House of World Cultures in Berlin in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

The project approaches the concept of animism - coined by 19th century anthropologists in the context of the colonial encounter - from a contemporary perspective. It addresses the current increase in interest in animism, which stems from a widespread re-visioning of modernity, by a reflection on aesthetic processes seen through the prism of an exhibition.

http://www.muhka.be/

23 December !

2009-12-22T05:20:00.000-08:00

christmas and birthday evening
at 9 pm in the cafe/bar Marianne, located in Mariannenstrasse 6, Kreuzberg.

see you there

greetings yara

No meeting tomorrow 21. Dez!

2009-12-20T05:04:00.000-08:00

Hello,

I would like to shift the class meeting tomorrow to the 4th of January
but invite you for a christmas and birthday evening this wednesday,
the 23rd of december at 9 pm in the cafe/bar Marianne, located in Mariannenstrasse 6, Kreuzberg.

I am sorry for the short notice,
I hope to see you on wednesday,

with my best regards,
Angela

Tomorrow 15:Dezember Seminar canceled!!!!

2009-12-14T11:47:00.000-08:00

Hallo,
ich muss morgen, am Dienstag, leider das Seminar absagen und es auf Januar verschieben, da ich erkältet bin.

mit besten Grüßen
ANgela

Update Seminar Monday 7. December

2009-12-06T12:31:00.000-08:00

As scheduled the seminar takes place at 10 am in room 115.
We will look at an excerpt of the interview recorded with Félix Guattari in 1991 by Canal Déchainé
and the film 'Ce gamin la' on Fernand Deligny's work on autism and schizo-analytical cartographies.

See you tomorrow,
best regards
Angela Melitopoulos

Open Seminar

2009-11-14T09:54:00.000-08:00

Screens of Perception
Felix Guattari and the Cinema of the Institutional Psychotherapy
Guestprofessor: Angela Melitopoulos

Guattari’s thinking and practice is also a history of resistance through political movements starting at the psychiatric asylum of St. Alban during World War Second. We continue with the discussion between political movements in France taking place at the clinic of La Borde before and after 1968, ending with Guattari’s elaboration of a New Ecology in which an ‘animist’ intuition plays an important role. With a rich collection of documents and films showing the history of ’Institutional Psychotherapy’ at St. Alban and La Borde, with interviews and documents that display Guattari’s way of speaking, arguing and thinking, and with a series of interviews recorded with his dearest friends and colleagues, we will compose a series of lectures that translate Guattari’s thought in diverse media. Many filmmakers such as Jean Rouch, Fernand Deligny or René Lalou, visited and worked at the clinic of La Borde. They formed within the movement of ‚Cinema Verité’. La Borde, similarly to St. Alban during World War II, became an important meeting point for political movements, intellectuals and artists who translated their experiences into film and text.

Félix Guattari (1930 – 1992)
Félix Guattari was a French militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher, the founder of both Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy. Guattari is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). He strongly influenced the work of Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, Brian Massumi and Gilles Deleuze. Guattari's post-Marxist vision of capitalism provides a new definition not only of mental illness, but also of micropolitical modes of subversion. Concepts such as ‘Micropolitics’, ’Schizoanalysis’, and ’Becoming-Woman‘ open up new horizons for political and creative resistance in the post-medial era. Guattari's energetic analysis of art, cinema, youth culture, economics, and power formations introduce a radically inventive thought-process engaged in liberating subjectivity from the standardizing and homogenizing processes of global capitalism.

Lectures:
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Francois Tosquelles
date: 10. November, 10 am – 2 pm
location: Universität der Künste Berlin, room 115, Hardenbergerstrasse

Video : ‚Une Politique de la Folie’ by Francois Pain, 54min, 1989, and excerpts of the interview with Francois Tosquelles (raw material )

A video about the catalan psychiatrist Francois Tosquelles, the founder of the Institutional Psychotherapy at the asylum of St Alban during World War II.
The psychiatric asylum of St. Alban was the modell-clinic of La Borde, where Felix Guattari worked his entire life. The film shows French resistance fighters in St. Alban and the practice of an institutional psychotherapy that transformed the psychiatric asylum from a closed institution into an open one. This revolution in St. Alban is narrated by François Tosquelles, who was the thinker and practitioner of a form of psychiatry which broke down the walls of the hospital and allowed patients to be an active part of society.

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La Borde
date: 16. November, 10 am – 2 pm
location: Universität der Künste Berlin, room 115, Hardenbergerstrasse

Videos:

‚Les Dents du Singe’ by René Lalou, animation film, (1960, 11 min)
‚La Borde ou le Droit à la Folie’ , documentary by Igor Barrère (1977, 60 min)
‚Min Tanaka à la Borde’ by Joséphine Guattari and François Pain (1986, 25min)

Félix Guattari worked in the psychiatric clinic of La Borde with patients but also with peasants, workers, migrants and with artists, philosophers and activists. The clinic became a platform for the invention of and experimentation with new modes of organisation, that demonstrate fundamental interest for the schizophrenic and psychotic expressions of life. Still today, the clinic retains an idea of work organisation as a part of the institutional psychotherapy that Félix promoted with passion: everybody’s role changes; no task was attributed specifically to anyone in particular because everyone and not only the professionals had a potential for healing; everyone participated in the cure. Many filmmakers and artists discussed and worked in the clinic of La Borde.

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The cinema of Fernand Deligny
date: 24. November, 10 am – 2 pm
location: Universität der Künste Berlin, room 115, Hardenbergerstrasse

Videos: Le Moindre Geste, France, 95 min , 1962-1971

Fernand Deligny considered himself a poet and an ethologist. At Armentières asylum, in Lille during World War II, in the course of the “Grande Cordée” project, and later at Cévennes, he came up with spatial tools such as open-ended mapping systems that were distinct from standard notions of cartography. He pushed limits, observed and transcribed the lines of „wanderings” of the autistic children. This “deterritorialization” preserves the notion of location. The lines of wandering are not the lines of escape nor the Rhizome of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Deligny’s references to species and ethology go hand in hand with his thought regarding the notion of territory as an environment.

Deligny considered environment as the elected ground of the autistic “lack of want”. His critique of teleology echoes the precautions of the ethologists of his time where they tackle the notion of instinct and the erroneous opposition between the acquired and the innate.

http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Fernand-Deligny-imager-le-commun
http://unspokencinema.blogspot.com/2009/05/least-gesture-deligny.html
http://www.desterritoires.com/spip.php?article75

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Glossarium : concepts of Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze
date: 1. Dezember, 10 am – 2 pm
location: Universität der Künste Berlin, room 115, Hardenbergerstrasse

Text: concepts : Assemblage of collective enuncaition (agencement collectif d’énonciation); Assemblage of collective action; schizo-analytical cartographies (cartographie schizo-analytic)
becoming,/ becoming animal (devenir/ devenir animal); molaire/moleculaire; Significant and
a-siginificant semiotics (sémiotiques signifiante et a-signifiantes); territorialisation/deterritorialisation ; production of subjectivity; chronological and non-chronological time (temps chronologique /temps non chronologique); the aesthetical paradigm

Videos:
excerpts of a lecture of Felix Guattari in New York in 1992 recorded by Josephine Meckseper

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Assemblages

Seminar with guest lecturer Maurizio Lazzarato and Francois Pain (to be confirmed)
Date: 7. December
location: Universität der Künste Berlin, room 115, Hardenbergerstrasse

Subjectivity does not reside exclusively in the subject and in language. It is disseminated to different degrees (Guattari speaks of „degrees of existence“) in nature, the cosmos, machines, in the social, etc. Intuitively, the first connection to animism can be identified here: a multiplicity of ‘foyers of human and non-human subjectivities’ that disperse the exclusive concentration of subjectivity in the human being.

Guattari’s interest in archaic cultures, the mad, children, minorities etc. demonstrates a concern with how a multiplicity of modalities (physical, ritual, verbal, visual and sexual) are put into play with one another in an autonomous and non-hierarchical relationship. None of these levels takes precedence or has power over the other, whereas in modernity all polyphony of expression, the richness and poly-semantic levels of the word, gestures, singing, the voice, the image, etc., become interdependant and subordinated in a hierarchy that is established by the signifiers of a language that reproduces a specific consciousness and a representation of the individual subject.

Videos : Francois Pain about his artistic practice in the clinic of La Borde (1965-1987)
Video interview with Félix Guattari on the Gulf War 1991 recorded by Canal Déchainé Paris

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Seminar with guest lecturer Francois Pain (to be confirmed)

Date: 15. December
location: Universität der Künste Berlin, room 115, Hardenbergerstrasse

videos and text
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Lygia Clarke
date: 5. January, 10 am – 2 pm
location: Universität der Künste Berlin, room 115, Hardenbergerstrasse

videos and text

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Anti-Elektra
date: 11. January, 10 am – 2 pm
location: Universität der Künste Berlin, room 115, Hardenbergerstrasse
Text by Elisabeth von Samsonov

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Corridor X by Angela Melitopoulos (to be confirmed)
date: 19. January, 10 am – 2 pm
location: Universität der Künste Berlin, room 115, Hardenbergerstrasse

Mon. 26.10, 4 Pm Meeting of all students ex-douglas-steyerl! welcome all new students! Room115

2009-10-21T08:59:00.000-07:00

What`s Up with the Klasse?
We want to discuss what was happening the last months, where we are now and what can happen in the future.

Greetings Yara

Information WS 2009/2010 Angela Melitopoulos

2009-10-21T08:31:00.000-07:00

Room 115, Universität der Künste Berlin Hardenbergstr. 33 (public)
(Please check email klassedouglas before each event)

Lectures
Screens of Perception
Felix Guattari and the Cinema of the Institutional Psychotherapy

The lectures will bring together films and theoretical text on the subject of Felix Guattari and the Cinema of the Institutional Psychotherapy. Inputs can be given for the Glossarial on December, 1st in which some of the theoretical concepts of Felix Guattari are discussed point by point. Inputs on artistic strategies can be given any time. During the semester, works and projects by Angela Melitopoulos will be shown and discussed on two different dates.

Dates : 10. November, 10 am – 2 pm
16. November, 10 am – 2 pm
24. November, 10 am – 2 pm
1. December, 10 am – 2 pm
7. December, 10 am – 2 pm (guests Maurizio Lazzarato & Francois Pain)
15. December, 10 am – 2 pm
5. January, 10 am – 2 pm
11. January, 10 am – 2 pm
19. January, 10 am – 2 pm

Roundtables (Klassentreffen)
Room 115, Universität der Künste Berlin Hardenbergstr. 33
(Please contact Yara Spaett for your participation and your inscription in the schedule. (raum98_114@yahoo.de)

The roundtable format is organized as a collective discussion platform for students to present their projects and discuss them with the plenum. Each presentation is linked to two additional collaborative inputs with students of the class, colleagues or invited guests. The first operates as a ‚respondent’ (bringing up crucial points / questions in relation to the topic), the second elaborates a short input on artistic practice, technical questions or on a theoretical question that relates to the presented project. The short inputs should be prepared together with the student lecturer beforehand. After the presentation, all participants of the roundtable are invited for discussopn. We can schedule two presentations for each roundtable.

Dates : 19. October, 2 pm – 5 pm
9. November, 2 pm – 5 pm
23. November, 2 pm – 5 pm
14. December, 2 pm – 5 pm
21. December, 2 pm – 5 pm
4. Januar , 2 pm – 5 pm
18. Januar , 2 pm – 5 pm

Tutorials
Tutorials are scheduled after the lectures. Please contact raum98_114@yahoo.de!

Technical Tutorials

2009-10-21T08:28:00.000-07:00

Seminare im Wintersemester 09 / Seminars in winter 09

hello everybody,

below the seminars for the next semester. The after effects and the color management workshops have limited space, the students from the class have precedence, but i'll have to know in the next two weeks if you want to attend, so let me know.

bests
++ christoph

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Stilistische Elemente im Film
Filmemachen ist vielleicht eine der komplexesten Formen um etwas künstlerisch auszudrücken - es gibt tausende von Ebenen und Elementen die zusammen den endgültigen Eindruck beinflussen.
Wir werden verschiedene Beispiele aus der Geschichte des Kinos anschauen und besprechen wie stilistische Elemente beim Film eingesetzt werden können.
Dieses Seminar ist nicht so sehr als Anleitung zum Filmemachen gedacht, sondern soll Erkenntnisse und Inspirationen geben wie verschiedene Ansätze zu sehr verschiedenen Resultaten führen können.
Themen sind unter anderem:
- Auflösung
- Kamerabewegungen
- Plansequenzen
- Mise-en-scène
- Cadrage
- Perspektive
- Licht und Schatten
- Ton und Stille
- Schnitt

Stylistic elements in film
Making a film is possibly one of the most complex forms to express something artistically - there are a myriad of different layers and elements that influence the final impression.
Looking at many different examples from the history of cinema, we'll be discussing stylistic elements that can be used in creating films.
This seminar is less meant to be a how-to in film making, but rather to provide insights and inspiration about how various approaches can give completely different visual and emotional results.
Topics include:
- Scene breakdown
- Camera movements
- Sequence Shots
- Mise-en-scène
- Cadrage
- Perspective / Viewpoint
- Light and shadows
- Sound and Silence
- Editing

Do.
14:00 bis 18:00
14tägl
15.10.2009 bis 04.02.2010
Ha33 - 115

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Farbtheorie und Farbmanagement in digitalen Medien
Die Wahrnehmung von Farbe wie wir sie wahrnehmen hat hängt ebenso von psychologischen und philosophischen Faktoren ab wie von mathematischen und physikalischen.
Dieses Seminar soll dazu dienen die darunterliegenden Prinzipien und Probleme zu verstehen und wie digitales Farbmanagement benutzt werden kann um die Farben konsistent zu halten.
Im ersten Teil geht es dabei mehr um die theoretischen Grundlagen während im zweiten die Anwendung auf digitale Kameras, Scans und Prints diskutiert werden soll.

Colour theory and management in the digital media
The appearance of colours as we see them has just as much to do with philosophy, psychology and perception as it has with science and mathematics.
This seminar is intended to help understanding the underlining principles and problems and how to use digital color management to keep colours consistent. The first part will be more about the theory behind it, in the second we'll look on how to apply it in practice considering digital cameras, film scans and printing.

Mi.
13:30 bis 16:30
wöchentl.
21.10.2009 bis 11.11.2009
Ha33 - 098

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Arbeiten mit After Effects
After Effects hat sich von einem Programm das hauptsächlich für motion graphics verwendet wurde zu einem der vielseitigsten Werkzeuge für die Film und Video post-produktion weiterentwickelt. Es kann unter anderem zur Titelherstellung verwendet werden, zur Farbkorrektur, für komplexes Compositing bis zu Arbeiten in 3D Räumen.
Dieser Workshop soll dazu dienen einen Überblick zu geben was alles gemacht werden kann und ist an Studenten gerichtet die interessiert sind an der fortgeschrittenen Bearbeitung von Film und Videomaterial. Gute Kenntnisse in Photoshop und den Grundlagen von digitalem Video werden vorausgesetzt.

Working with After Effects
After Effect has matured from an application focused mainly on motion graphics to one of the most powerful film and video postproduction tools. It can be used for many different things like creating titles, doing color correction, complex compositing, and even 3D setups.
This workshop is meant to give an overview of what can be done and is targeted at students who are interested in learning advanced manipulation of film and video footage. Good knowledge in Photoshop and the principles of digital video is required.

Mi.
13:30 bis 16:30
wöchentl.
25.11.2009 bis 16.12.2009
Ha33 - 255