The Order of Things
12, 19, 26 september 2008, Muhka_Media, Antwerp.Film program in the context of the exhibition with the same title at MuHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (11th September 2008 > 4th January 2009).
Curated by Stoffel Debuysere and María Palacios Cruz.
From September 11th until January 4th MuHKA presents The Order of Things, an exhibition about the uses of image archives and other manifestations of a classificatory or 'encyclopaedic' impulse in contemporary art. Within this context, MuHKA_media will host six screening programs dealing with the recuperation and reconfiguration of 'found' images in film and video. The makers of these works use bits and scraps from the media reality surrounding us as a basis for the construction of new meanings, in search of a poetry of movement, a syntax of fragmentation, bringing divergent elements together in a system of construction in which they belong: cinema. Based on a series of codes and axioms, cinema can be subject to multiple forms of ideological appropriation, both cinematographic and meta-cinematographic, as well as on a micro-level - each shot is itself a succession of frames. In these film and video works the meaning and the hierarchy of images become subordinated to a new logic, a subversive, narrative or totalizing order taken out of the 'infinite cinema', the world in/as images.
go to www.courtisane.be or www.diagonalthoughts.com for the full programme
visit also www.muhka.be
12.09.2008 About Time
Arthur Lipsett retrospective (Introduced by Brett Kashmere)
20:00
Very Nice, Very Nice, 1961, 16mm, b&w, sound, 7'
A Trip Down Memory Lane, 1965, 16mm, b&w, sound, 12'
21-87, 1964, 16mm, b&w, sound, 10'
Free Fall, 1964, 16mm, b&w, sound, 9'
Fluxes, 1968, 16mm, b&w, sound, 24'
22:30
N-Zone, 1970, 16mm, b&w, sound, 43'
Strange Codes, 1972, 16mm, b&w, sound, 23'
19.09.2008 De/Coding Poetics of Collage
20:00
Abigail Child, Surface Noise, 2000, 16mm, colour, sound, 18'
Alan Berliner, Everywhere at once, 1985, 16mm, colour, sound, 10'
Frank & Caroline Mouris, Frank Film, 1973, 35mm, colour, sound, 9'
Bruce Conner, A Movie, 1958, 16mm, b&w, sound, 12'
Chick Strand, Loose Ends, 1979, 16mm, b&w, sound, 25'
William Farley, Tribute, 1986, 16mm, b&w, sound, 7'
22:30
Simon Pummell, Bodysong, 2003, 35mm, colour, sound, 83'
26.09.2008 Dis/Order On Axioms and Images
20:00
Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick � ��-, 1966-67, 16mm, colour, sound, 11'
Morgan Fisher, ( ), 2003, 16mm, colour/b&w, silent, 21'
Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Mosaik Mécanique, 2007, 35mm, b/w, sound, 9'30''
Christoph Girardet, Random Cuts, 1993, video, colour, sound, 3'20''
Lenka Clayton, Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet, 2002, video, colour, sound, 20'
22:30
Hollis Frampton, Zorns Lemma, 1970, 16mm, colour, sound, 60'
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