Just wanted to repost about the
opening of the Douglas Crimp super shindig in Berlin to all you visitors wanting
to be at the most happening spots in town this weekend. Also my dirty white French boy friend Michel Belague and his Labor Berlin pals have a screening event so don't forget to scroll down to the bottom of this missive for info on that as well.
Yesterday I took my boss Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of Arsenal Institute fur film und VideoKunst to brunch at Osteria No1at Kreuzberger Strasse 71 for our yearly girlish get together. The weather was perfect as we sat on the spacious patio terrazzo engaged in gossip and repartee. The beautiful Miss Stefanie helped me forget all my family woes as i got a depressing emug from my older sister Teresita who lives in Hollywood and is suffering from severe bad health. Teresita also gave me the report on my nephews & nieces and their children and children's children and its all bad news as is such the state with life in Amerika these days.
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Dear CHEAP Friends,
I'm very happy to draw your attention to a few events this weekend that I co-organized to honor our friend, mentor and colleague Douglas Crimp. Together with Diedrich Diederichsen and Juliane Rebentisch, I organized a symposium that will take place at the Arsenal Cinema this Friday and Saturday, Aug. 29 & 30 (see schedule below). Friday night at the Arsenal Douglas will hold a lecture, the final chapter of his Memoirs project, mixing great gossip about the art and gay subcultures of New York in the late 1960s, early 1970s, with reflections on theory, art criticism and practice. His lecture will be followed by a screening of his friend Yvonne Rainer's film LIVES OF PERFORMERS and a reception.
But already on Thursday, the 28th, the Galerie Buchholz opens an exhibition that is based on Douglas's Memoirs (coming out in 2015). Christopher Müller from the Galerie worked closely with Douglas on this exceptional–and exceptionally packed-exhibition which brings together many of Douglas's interests, from minimalism to disco, from Mario Montez to Agnes Martin (ok maybe that isn't a great distance, but still...), from Daniel Buren to Fierce Pussy.
See info below. All events are free of charge, except for Douglas's lecture/Yvonne Rainer film screening. Please contact Arsenal to reserve tickets for that event.
Hope to see many of you at one or the other of these events honoring a scholar who taught so many of us that scholarship can be relevant to politics, and to our everyday social and sexual lives.
warmly,
Marc
I'm very happy to draw your attention to a few events this weekend that I co-organized to honor our friend, mentor and colleague Douglas Crimp. Together with Diedrich Diederichsen and Juliane Rebentisch, I organized a symposium that will take place at the Arsenal Cinema this Friday and Saturday, Aug. 29 & 30 (see schedule below). Friday night at the Arsenal Douglas will hold a lecture, the final chapter of his Memoirs project, mixing great gossip about the art and gay subcultures of New York in the late 1960s, early 1970s, with reflections on theory, art criticism and practice. His lecture will be followed by a screening of his friend Yvonne Rainer's film LIVES OF PERFORMERS and a reception.
But already on Thursday, the 28th, the Galerie Buchholz opens an exhibition that is based on Douglas's Memoirs (coming out in 2015). Christopher Müller from the Galerie worked closely with Douglas on this exceptional–and exceptionally packed-exhibition which brings together many of Douglas's interests, from minimalism to disco, from Mario Montez to Agnes Martin (ok maybe that isn't a great distance, but still...), from Daniel Buren to Fierce Pussy.
See info below. All events are free of charge, except for Douglas's lecture/Yvonne Rainer film screening. Please contact Arsenal to reserve tickets for that event.
Hope to see many of you at one or the other of these events honoring a scholar who taught so many of us that scholarship can be relevant to politics, and to our everyday social and sexual lives.
warmly,
Marc
28 August - 31 October 2014
Exhibition
opening on Thursday, 28 August, 7:00-9:00 pm
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstr. 30
10719 Berlin
Tel: +49-(0)30 88624056
Fax: +49-(0)30 88624056
Daniel Buchholz & Christopher Müller
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Symposium
Douglas Crimp
29. & 30. August im Kino Arsenal |
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(please scroll down for english version)
Before and After Pictures: Für Douglas Crimp Douglas Crimp ist einer der wichtigsten amerikanischen Wissenschaftler im Bereich Kunstgeschichte und Cultural und Queer Studies. Seine Bücher sind zentrale Bezugspunkte für Debatten zum Postmodernismus, sowie zur theoretischen und künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung mit AIDS und der Entwicklung einer queeren Filmtheorie. Sein Engagement als Kurator – vornehmlich für die bahnbrechende Ausstellung "Pictures" 1977 – leitete einen Paradigmenwechsel in der Kunstproduktion und der Kunstheorie ein. Um Douglas Crimp an seinem 70. Geburtstag zu feiern, haben Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch und Marc Siegel ein Filmprogramm und ein internationales Symposium im Arsenal organisiert, das in Zusammenhang mit einer von Christopher Müller und Daniel Buchholz kuratierten Ausstellung in der Galerie Buchholz stattfindet (Eröffnung: 28.8.). Beide Events beziehen sich auf Crimps Memoiren, die unter dem Titel "Before Pictures" 2015 erscheinen werden, und die eine autobiografische Reflexion über Kunst, Theorie und queere Subkulturen in New York in den 60er und 70er Jahren sind. Das Symposium wird Vorträge von Rosalyn Deutsche (New York), Jonathan Flatley (Detroit), Rachel Haidu (Rochester), Dirck Linck (Berlin), Juan Suárez (Murcia) und Crimp selbst beinhalten und eine Vorführung von LIVES OF PERFORMERS (Yvonne Rainer, USA 1972). Der erste Film der Tänzerin und Filmemacherin erkundet in einer Kombination aus Fiktion und Dokument das Gefühlsleben ihrer Tänzer. "Das Leben der Darsteller als reale Personen interessiert sie nicht, aber die Nuance, wie diese in den Sterotypen ihrer Rollen leben." (Heinz Emigholz) (Marc Siegel) "Before and After Pictures" ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe, die das Werk des Kunsthistorikers, Theoretikers, Kurators und Aktivisten Douglas Crimp würdigt, der in diesem August 70 Jahre alt wird. Ausgehend von Crimps Memoiren, die unter dem Titel Before Pictures 2015 erscheinen werden, sollen künstlerische, philosophische, queere und subkulturelle Praktiken von den 1960er Jahren bis in die Gegenwart rekonstruiert werden, zu deren Geschichte, Darstellung und Interpretation Crimp als Produzent, Aktivist, Zeuge und Beteiligter entscheidende Beiträge geliefert hat. Die Veranstalter – Daniel Buchholz, Diedrich Diederichsen, Christopher Müller, Juliane Rebentisch und Marc Siegel in Zusammenarbeit mit Galerie Buchholz, Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst, e.V., Tanz im August – sind alle Fans, Freund_innen, Kolleg_innen oder Schüler_innen, die an einem oder mehreren Orten Crimps Wege gekreuzt haben. Der in den 60er Jahren nach New York gekommene Douglas Crimp ist heute unbestritten einer der bekanntesten und einflussreichsten US-amerikanischen Intellektuellen der Gegenwart. Neben Tätigkeiten als Kurator (u.a. am Guggenheim), Kritiker (Art News) und Redakteur (October), hat er einige der zentralen Texte zu museologischen Fragen und der Theorie der Postmoderne (z.B. Über die Ruinen des Museums, 1996) verfasst. Er war eine der kritischsten und beharrlichsten Stimmen während der AIDS-Krise und hat wesentlich zur Entwicklung eines auf sie antwortenden Aktivismus innerhalb der Bildenden Kunst (z.B. AIDS Demo Graphics, 1990; Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, 2004) beigetragen, dessen Modelle auch in anderen politischen Konstellationen wirkmächtig wurden. Er zählt zu den Gründungsfiguren der geisteswissenschaftichen Disziplin der Queer Studies (AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism, 1988; How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video, 1991); in letzter Zeit ist er vor allem durch Aufsehen erregende Essays zum Tanz einerseits und zur New Yorker Underground-Kunst der 1960er Jahre andererseits hervorgetreten – vor allem zu Jack Smith, Mario Montez und Andy Warhol (z.B. Our Kind of Movie: The Films of Andy Warhol, 2012). Douglas Crimp hat immer wieder als Kurator seine Argumente erhärten können. Am einflussreichsten war gewiss die Ausstellung "Pictures" (mit u.a. Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Philip Smith and Jack Goldstein), die er 1977 im Artists Space in New York produzierte und die man ohne Übertreibung als den Beginn eines sowohl künstlerischen als auch kunsttheoretischen Paradigmenwechsels bezeichnen kann. Der von ihm gemeinsam mit Lynne Cooke entwickelte historische Überblick Mixed Use Manhattan (Reina Sofia, 2010) widmet sich dem New York der 1970er Jahre, als das damals von der Rezession gezeichnete Lower Manhattan zur Bühne für die Entwicklung neuer subkultureller und künstlerischer Praktiken wurde, die sich den urbanen Raum auf ihre Weise aneigneten. Crimps Memoiren werden nun zum Ausgangspunkt für eine von Christopher Müller in Zusammenarbeit mit Douglas Crimp entwickelte Ausstellung, die Crimps Perspektive auf ein halbes Jahrhundert der wechselseitigen Einflüsse zwischen Kunst und Subkultur entfaltet. Die Ausstellung, Pictures, Before and After, wird am 28.08. in der Galerie Buchholz eröffnen. Wenige Tage zuvor, am 24.08., wird Crimp bereits im Rahmen des Berliner Festivals Tanz im August zu Gast sein und dort in einem Gespräch auf die Tänzerin und Choreographin Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker treffen. An den Tagen nach der Ausstellungseröffnung (29. und 30.08.) wird im Berliner Arsenal zu Ehren von Crimp außerdem ein internationales Symposium ausgerichtet, auf dem neben Crimp selbst auch weitere intellektuelle Wegbegleiter_innen wie Rosalyn Deutsche (New York), Jonathan Flatley (Detroit), Rachel Haidu (Rochester), Dirck Linck (Berlin) und Juan A. Suárez (Murcia) sprechen werden. Nach der Keynote von Crimp (29.08., 19.30 Uhr) wird überdies der Film Lives of Performers (Yvonne Rainer, USA 1972) gezeigt werden. (Link zum Programm: www.galeriebuchholz.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Program-Douglas-Crimp.pdf) (Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch, Marc Siegel) Programm Fr 29.8., 14.00 – 17h 14h Grußworte: Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch & Marc Siegel 15.30h Vortrag von Rosalyn Deutsche (Barnard College, New York): Museum of Innocence 19.30h Vortrag von Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester, New York): Hotel des Artistes im Anschluss: LIVE OF PERFORMERS Yvonne Rainer USA 1972 OF 89‘ Der erste Film der Tänzerin und Filmemacherin erkundet in einer Kombination aus Fiktion und Dokument das Gefühlsleben ihrer Tänzer. „Das Leben der Darsteller als reale Personen interessiert sie nicht, aber die Nuance, wie diese in den Sterotypen ihrer Rollen leben.“ (Heinz Emigholz) Sa 30.8., 14 – 18h 14h Vortrag von Rachel Haidu (University of Rochester, New York): Lives of Complications 15h Vortrag von Dirck Link (Humboldt-Universität/ Freie Universität, Berlin): Camp Genius: On Irving Rosenthal’s Sheeper 16.30h Vortrag von Jonathan Flatley (Wayne State University, Detroit): Just Alike 17.30h Vortrag von Juan Suárez (University of Murcia, Spain): Grids, Folds, and Disco Der Eintritt zum Symposium ist an beiden Veranstaltungstagen frei. Weitere Termine: Do 28.8. – Fr 31.10. Galerie Buchholz, Pictures, Before and After – an Exhibition for Douglas Crimp Öffnungszeiten: Dienstags bis Samstags, 11 bis 18 Uhr In Zusammenarbeit mit Galerie Buchholz, Tanz im August und mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Before and After Pictures: For Douglas Crimp August 29 & 30, Cinema Arsenal Douglas Crimp is one the most important American academics in the field of art history and cultural and queer studies. His books form central points of reference for the debate surrounding postmodernism as well as on theoretical and artistic engagement with AIDS and the development of a queer film theory. His work as a curator – primarily for the groundbreaking exhibition "Pictures" in 1977 – ushered in a paradigm shift in artistic production and art theory. In order to celebrate Douglas Crimp on his 70th birthday, Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel have organized a film program and an international symposium at Arsenal that is taking place in connection with an exhibition curated by Christopher Müller and Daniel Buchholz at Galerie Buchholz (opening on 28.8.). Both events relate to Crimp's memoirs, which are to be published as "Before Pictures" in 2015 and form an autobiographical reflection on art, theory and the queer subcultures of New York in the 60s and 70s. The symposium will include presentations by Rosalyn Deutsche (New York), Jonathan Flatley (Detroit), Rachel Haidu (Rochester), Dirck Linck (Berlin), Juan Suárez (Murcia) and Crimp himself, as well as a screening of LIVES OF PERFORMERS (Yvonne Rainer, USA 1972, 29.8.). The dancer and filmmaker's first film explores the inner life of her dancers in a combination of fiction and documentary. "She is not interested in the life of the performers as real people, but rather about nuance, about how they inhabit the stereotypes of their roles". (Heinz Emigholz) (Marc Siegel) (29.–30.8.) "Before and After Pictures" is a series of events honoring the work of art historian, theorist, curator and activist Douglas Crimp who turns 70 this month. Departing from Crimp's Memoirs which will be published as "Before Pictures" in 2015, these events consider artistic, philosophical, queer and subcultural practices from the 1960s to the present. Whether as activist, editor, author, or participant, Crimp has played a key role in the construction, representation and interpretation of this history. The organizers, Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel, together with Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller of the Galerie Buchholz, the Arsenal Institut for Film und Video Art, and Tanz im August are all fans, friends, colleagues or students who have crossed paths with Crimp numerous times over the years. Douglas Crimp, who arrived in New York at the end of the 1960s and worked initially at the Guggenheim Museum and as an assistant to legendary fashion designer Charles James, is undoubtedly one of the influential American intellectuals of our day. Alongside his occassional but significant curatorial projects, and his work as critic (Art News, Art Forum) and editor (October), Crimp has written some of the central texts on museological questions and theories of postmodernism (e.g. On the Museum's Ruins, 1993). He was one of the most critical and persistent voices during the AIDS crisis and arguably the one whose theoretical insights most shaped the development of activist and artistic practices, even beyond the confines of queer and AIDS politics (e.g. AIDS Demo Graphics, 1990; Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, 2004). Moreover, Crimp's writing on AIDS cultural practices directly influenced the development of the scholarly field of queer studies (AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism, 1988; How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video, 1991). More recently, he has continued to attract international attention though his lectures and essays on contemporary dance and on the artistic practices that emerged in the New York Underground scene of the 1960s, mainly the work of Jack Smith, Ronald Tavel and Andy Warhol (e.g. 'Our Kind of Movie': The Films of Andy Warhol, 2012) Throughout his career, Crimp continuously corroborated his critical and theoretical insights with curatorial work. The 1977 exhibition Pictures (with, among others, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Philip Smith and Jack Goldstein), which he curated for Artist's Space in New York City, is the most influential in this respect in that it instituted a paradigm shift in artistic production and theorization. The historical overview that Crimp developed with curator Lynne Cooke in their co-curated exhibition Mixed Use Manhattan (Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2010) dedicated itself to New York City in the 1970s, the space of Lower Manhattan that was transformed by a recession into a stage for the development of new artistic practices. Crimps Memoirs serve as the departure point for an exhibition that Christopher Müller curated –in close collaboration with Crimp himself– and that unfolds Crimp's perspective on a half century of mutual exchange and tension between artistic and subcultural practices. The exhibition, "Pictures, Before and After", opens on August 28 at the Galerie Buchholz in Berlin and will run through October 31, 2014. On August 24, a few days before the opening, Crimp will be a guest of the dance festival Tanz im August, where he will hold a public discussion with Belgian dancer and choreographer Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker. On the two days following the exhibition opening, August 29 & 30, there will be an international symposium in Crimp's honor at the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art. Alongside Crimp, who will deliver as a keynote the final chapter of his upcoming Memoirs, there will be lectures by Rosalyn Deutsche (New York), Jonathan Flatley (Detroit), Rachel Haidu (New York), Dirck Linck (Berlin) and Juan A. Suárez (Murcia), as well as the three event organizers. Following Crimp's keynote, there will be a screening of Lives of Performers (Yvonne Rainer, USA 1972). (For the program, see: www.galeriebuchholz.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Program-Douglas-Crimp.pdf) (Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch, Marc Siegel) |
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LaborBerlin Summer Screening
SATURDAY AUGUST
30TH
Doors open at 7pm
Film screening at 8pm
Performances at 10pm
Party at 11.30pm
Am Flutgraben
Am Flutgraben 3
12435 Berlin
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LaborBerlin
present a program of new and recent films and performances by its members.
Though ranging widely in their approach they all show a commitment to exploring
the possibilities of film as an artistic language. The evening is organized in
two parts: the first one starts at 8 pm and consists of single screen films
made at the lab. The second part, starting at 10pm, consists of live film
performances.
Come celebrate
with us the beauty of hand-processed, do-it-yourself film! Doors open at 7pm.
Please feel free to come early, meet the makers, and hang out at the bar!
With
works by Miguel Mariño, Anja Dornieden & J.D.
González Monroy, Andreas Kebschull & Andreas Zech, Oscar
Kranc, Björn Spiedel, Jakob Kirchheim, Sadashivam Rao,
Viktor Dill, Distruktur, Doireann O'Malley, Klara Ravat
& Sicknife and Nikolaus Tscheschner.
LaborBerlin is a nonprofit, independent film collective, open to any and
every individual interested in artist-run initiatives and analogue film
practices. With this in mind, the goal of this event is to be an open
invitation to anyone that’s interested in preserving the artistic use of analog
film, and in supporting collective initiatives that seek to make these types of
practices open, accessible, non-hierarchical and non-commercial.