Programm

TDB Freitag, 6. November 2009
 
[Infotext nur auf Englisch]

17:00 - Opening Remarks
by Stephen Kovats (artistic director of transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin ) and Can Togay (director of Collegium Hungaricum Berlin)
 
17:30 - Introduction to the Transitland Archive/ Screening Programme
by Margarita Dorovska (InterSpace Association Sofia, Bulgaria; project manager Transitland) and Kathy Rae Huffman (curator Transitland)
 
18:00 - The Aesthetics of 1989: Mauerfall and Romanian Revolution
Discussion with Gusztáv Hámos (filmmaker) and Hito Steyerl (filmmaker)
Moderation: Doreen Mende (critic and jury member transmediale Award 2010)
 
1989 marked massive political upheavals within Germany and Romania that changed the world order. Simultaneously, mainstream media underwent a shift in its respond to political and social changes. Images of Germans tearing down the wall and crossing from East to West and West to East flooded televisions around the world, while television itself played a crucial role in the Romanian Revolution. These images partly defined how a generation related to media and understood political changes. Video artists responded and participated in this evolving visual language. This discussion explores how artists take their cues from mainstream media to create documentaries, essay films and personal narratives that dig a bit deeper into the politics behind the images and question how and what they convey to the public.
 
19:30 drinks break
 
20:30 Eastern Contemporaries: The Young Artists
Discussion with Hajnal Nemeth (artist), Sophia Tabatadze (artist) and Anri Sala (artist)
Moderation: Diana McCarty
 
The "reunification" of East and West Europe in the 90's took place parallel to an optimistic era in the commercial art world along with a surge in financial support for contemporary art across East Europe. Governments and Non-Governmental agencies alike were keen to support cross cultural dialogs that opened communication between East and West. Somewhere between the art world trends of Identity Politics and the hunger for Young Artists, a generation of art students were able to negotiate crumbling infrastructures and participate in contemporary art practices, finally becoming professional artists. Can international art discourses collide with social and political realities to produce compelling works that are informed by global cultures? Informed, smart and cool, these artists fluidly cross disciplines, borders and discourses in ways unimaginable before the changes of 1989. The discussion is on what the political changes of the past twenty years have meant in terms of mobility, education and professional art production.
 
22:00 – 00:30 Late Night Screening
Screening the Transitland archive with an introduction by project curator Kathy Rae Huffman. Screening in two parts, each 60 minutes.
 
Hajnal Németh (hu)
Striptease or not?
2002,  3 min
 
Sophia Tabatadze & Nadia Tsulukidze (ge)
Khinkali Juice
Georgian National Anthem
2006,  1.34 min
 
Anri Sala (al)
Intervista
1998,  26 mins
 
Sophia Tabatadze (ge)
Self Interview as Eastern and Western Europe
2004,  11  Min
  
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23:15   Part Two: Performing the Transition (60 min)
 
Kai Kaljo (ee)
Loser
1997,  1.24 min
 
Natalija Vujošević (me)
Pink Confession
2001,  4.20 min
 
Dan Acostioaiei (with Ann Wodinski) (ro)
Essential Current Affairs
2002,  3.57 min
 
Martin Zet (cz)
Red Daddy
2003,  5.14 min
 
Adrian Paci (al)
Turn on
2004,  3.30 min
 
Vladimir Nikolic (rs)
Rhythm
2001,  10.45 min
 
Elena Kovylina (ru)
Waltz
2001,  10 min
 
Nebojša Šeric Shoba (ba)
Shovel
1997,  4.34 min
 
Sona Abgaryan (am)
Untitled
2001,  4.44 min
 
Szabolcs KissPál (ro/hu)
Anthem
2001,  5.10 min
 
Gordana Andjelic-Galic (ba)
Mantra
2006,  5'12''
 
The programme closes at 1:00 am.

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