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19/4/2005

European Media Art Festival 2005

Different Venues , Osnabruck

European Media Art Festival 2005

Exhibition until May 15th
For the 18th time one of the largest multi media events will take place in Osnabrück: For five days the European Media Art Festival (EMAF) presents current trends and latest developments in international media art.

Under the motto 'Document', the EMAF shows 225 experimental films and videos, around 50 installations and offers numerous lectures, presentations and discussions, thus documenting its status as one of the most important forums for current media art. With 'Document' the EMAF will shed light upon artistic work as the document of a creative process and focuses on media artistic approaches to documentary forms. In a time of increasing circulation of digitised images and heated discussions concerning their genuineness the EMAF examines if in a flood of media images authenticity still exists.

Exhibition
The exhibition in the Kunsthalle Dominkanerkirche shows with its 12 installations of international artists the span of artistic approaches to 'DOCUMENT'. Sometimes entertaining, as Julika Rudelius with “train”, sometimes close to reality as Avi Mograbi in “Detail”, sometimes provoking as Santiago Sierra with “Line” or with a self-ironic smile as in Hartmut Jahn’s “Switch Off the TV Set!”.

In Train Julika Rudelius observes a group of youths on their way home late at night in the suburban railway, talking about their girlfriends. The camera documents their showy fuss, apparently unnoticed. Here the filmmaker discovers a group of want-to-be machos. Or is it really different? Everything just staged? At an Israeli checkpoint somewhere in Palestine Avi Mograbi oberserves a bizarre scene of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On one side a Palestinian family, a bleeding woman in their midst. On the other side the Israeli soldiers hidden in an armoured vehicle. The Palestinians ask for the allowance to visit the hospital. The Israeli soldiers just answer “Go away”, invisible behind the barred screens of their jeep. An everyday scene from Palestine, a Detail, the work’s title, from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The video-installation 250cm Line Tattoed On Six Paid People by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra is the document of an extraordinary event of art. In Havana he paid six men out of work to let them have tattooed a running through line onto their backs. The video, taken without any emotionalism or sympathy, becomes the document of this unique act of art. Schalten Sie den Fernseher ab! (Switch Off the TV Set!) demands media artist Hartmut Jahn, presenting a voluptuous document of the Fluxus movement on twelve monitors. In the end of the 50s scientists and artists revolutionized the image of the world: they found their expression in Fluxus and action art. Artists like John Cage, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Ben Vautier or Carolee Schneemann confused the world of art with their playful wit, bubbling spirit and anarchic clarity. With his Bewegtbilder (Moving Images) Egbert Mittelstädt decouples time and place. His ‘slit scan’ technique just records movements in a concrete, ‘recognizable’ way onto the film material. Anything unmoved, however, is comprised to abstract, coloured stripes. Thus in a fantastically calm floating of colour structures a tension arises between unsharpness and image, between concrete and abstract elements of the image. Mittelstädt are presented in the lobby of hellmann worldwide logistics and PCO.

Peter Greenaway
With Peter Greenaway we welcome one of the most distinguished and influential filmmaker, media philosopher and artist of the world. In alive talk on Saturday, April 23rd, Greenaway presents his latest multimedia mammoth project The Tulse Luper Suitcases (TLS) and explains his vision of "post-cineastic film". TLS is a work of almost encyclopaedic dimension combining books, DVDs, an internet platform, an exhibition, 16 TV films and three motion picture films. It spans a period of sixty years and tells the story of uranium - no. 92 in the periodic table of the elements. TLS is also the story of ficticious artist and writer Tulse Luper, who entangled in the history of the 20th century spends most of his life in prison, leaving behind his oeuvre in 92 suitcases that turn up one after the other across the world. Greenaway will introduce the project and present the three motion picture films that are part of TLS - The Moab Story (2003), From Sark to Finish (2003) and Vaux to the Sea (2004) - in person at the EMAF. At the congress of the EMAF three of his colleagues will describe the projected TLS-exhibition and the internet platform. In EMAF exhibition in the Dominikanerkirche visitors can play at three terminals of the Tulse Luper Suitcases - The Game and this re-live episodes of the title hero's life.

International film and video programme
With its film programme, comprising around 225 contributions, the EMAF is the only festival in the whole of Germany that spans the whole range of experimental media creativity. The classic short film section ranges from alchemic film processing to current music clips from the digital box. In the long form, many promising newcomers are represented, such as the American Jonathan Caouette with "Tarnation", alongside experimental Old Masters such as Wilhelm Hein ("You killed the Undergroundfilm or The Real Meaning of Kunst bleibt bleibt") and Klaus Wyborny ("Lieder der Erde / Teil 2"). With You killed the Underground film or The Real Meaning of Kunst bleibt bleibt by Wilhelm Hein the EMAF presents one of the pioneers of German experimental film. His revue-like film consists of material that he has collected over the last ten years. A burlesque show of aesthetic strategies and possibilities of survival for alternative filmmaking, which he will personally present and discuss. With Bye Bye Tiger Hélèna Villovitch and Jan Peters have made their personal road-movie. Over a period of several years, Jan Peters recorded his auto(bahn) journey to his partner Hélèna Villovitch and has now woven these images into a fanciful story. A rally with a bunch of friends and relatives of experimental cinema. Tarnation is a raw and sensual display of self-destruction and rebirh that announces the arrival of an exceptional new cinematic visionary. The camera as life-raft. Jonathan Caouette's spellbinding debut Tarnation re-imagines the whole idea of what a documentary can be. His devastating yet hopeful vision is a haunting and beautiful examination of restless souls. Caouette has been documenting his life since he was eleven years old. With Tarnation, he weaves a psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots, Super-8 home movies, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic re-enactments to create an epic portrait of an American family torn apart by dysfunction and reunited through the power of love. On Sunday, April 24th, the EMAF awaits his visitors with a cineastic highlight: Triage is the title of this extraordinary collaboration of grand old man Michael Snow and filmalchemist Carl Brown independently shot a film for this double projection. Composer John Kamavaar provides an audio collage of 9/11 sound bits - greetings from Dada.

Special Harun Farocki
An extensive special is dedicated to Berlin-base film maker Harun Farocki. The programme contains Unextingushable fire (1969), one of the most important Agitprop-Filme of the anti-Vietnam movement. Here Farocki takes on many of the themes that will play an important role in his later works: technology, war, scientist's involvement in the economy of war. Also part of the programme: Wie man sieht (1986), Die Schulung (1987), Die Bewerbung (1997), I thought, I was seeing convicts (2000) a.m.m. For the installation Auge-Maschine I-III (Eye-Machine I-III), which will be exhibited, the director links footage from the Gulf War to images from the world of consumerism, demonstrating how military image technology is used for control systems in our everyday world of consumption.

Retrospective
In the retrospective on Owen Land EMAF also offers its viewers the rare opportunity to rediscover films that had vanished from the scene for decades. Land (formerly known as George Landow) is regarded as one of the most original American film-makers of the 60s and 70s, whose early material films are considered to be "structural films", even though he rejected any kind of film theory with wit and irony. From his beginnings he dedicated himself to the structure of the film material without losing touch of his larger topic such as religion, psychoanalysis, the pressures of a materialistic societyand filming panda bears.

Performance / Live Cinema
Reqoil Displaced Peaceoff is a unique combination of cinema and concert where sound and images are equally important, mixed live by artists Pure and Dekam. The performance, which is available on DVD from Pure´s label dOc, consists of three movies with the visuals from DeKam and the music from Pure. Together they tell abstract narratives by improvising, sampling and carefully re-working their recordings into new compositions. Each piece of the trilogy holds its own unique style, and is technically superb. As a whole, the trilogy acts as a strong, dark, complimentary statement.

Congress
The University Open Day marks the start of the congress: On April 21st media and art academies present their departments. Besides Prof. Bjørn Melhus and Prof. Joel Baumann from the Kunsthochschule Kassel, the creative-pool desFilmeurs from the University Osnabrück will present itself. Prof. Hanno Baethe presents the faculty media and design from FH Hannover. Prof. Mischa Schaub closes with the presentation of the virtual HYPERWORK-nomadix- project from the FHBB Basel. On Friday (April 22nd) Ilias Marmaras presents the network The Making of Balkan Wars: the Game. Afterwards the roundtable Media-Art-Market of experts will discuss the central question regarding the conveyance and marketing of media art: How can the opportunities of media art be improved on the art market? Subsequently Hanne Beate Ueland, Oslo Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, presents Yoko Onos Horizontal memories. The Congress takes on the motto 'DOCUMENT' on Saturday (April 23rd): Stephan Oriach presents his Film Orlan – Carnal Art. Jens Hauser asks in his talk When Bodyart goes Bioart: From Performance to Document – a Classic?, before Adrian Heathfield in his presentation Traces of Events examines the relationship between Live-Art and ist traces in documents, critical essays and visual media. The day closes with Michael Bautes speech On Harun Farocki.

StudentForum
In addition to this years EMAF programme the StudentForum presents a worthwhile selection of student works from all over the world which gives insight in current ways in media art. Each year the EMAF offers students of international universities the opportunity to present their works in a professional environment. This years´ cooperation partner is the Kunsthochschule Kassel whose objects and istallations will be on display in the former DGB-building. In addition the student forum curates three own film and video programmes. The STUFO-Party starts on Thursday, April 21st at 22:30 in Qlisse, the EMAF-Party takes place in Rosenhof on Saturday 23rd at 23:00.

Awards
Traditionally, the Federal Association of German Film Journalists award the German Film Critique Award for the best German experimental film of the year. Furthermore, the € 2,500 EMAF Award will again be given this year for a pioneering work in media art.

ADMISSION
Festivalpass + catalogue € 35 (€ 25 reduced)
5er-ticket € 15 (€ 12)
Single Ticket € 4 (€ 3)
Exhibition € 4 (€ 3)
Festival catalogue € 7

SPECIAL EVENTS
Live Talk Peter Greenaway € 10 (8 €)
Stufo Party € 5
EMAF Feierabend € 7

The EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL is funded by // nordmedia - Die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH // City Osnabrück // Federal Ministry for Science and Education // EU Commission - MEDIA Programm // Ministry of Foreign Affairs // Lotto foundation Lower Saxony // British Council // Ambassy Canada // Ambassy of the Netherlands // pco Personal Computer Organisation // hellmann worldwide logistics // IBM // Stadtwerke Osnabrück // VGS Consulting GmbH // avency // De:Bug // as well as donations from other sponsors. The EMAF is a member of the European Coordination of Film Festivals E.C.F.F.

Image: PETER GREENAWAY The Tulse Luper Suitcases

Locations

LAGERHALLE
INFO-COUNTER
INTERNATIONALES FILM- / VIDEOPROGRAMM
RETROSPEKTIVE OWEN LAND
WERKSCHAU HARUN FAROCKI
Rolandsmauer 26
F +49 (0) 541 – 3 38 74 40
20. – 23. April 2005 / 12:00 – 02:00 h
24. April 2005 / 12:00 – 22:00 h

KUNSTHALLE DOMINIKANERKIRCHE
AUSSTELLUNG ›DOCUMENT‹
MEDIA LOUNGE
Hasemauer 1
F +49 (0) 541 – 3 23 21 90
20. April 2005 / 19:30 h Eröffnung
21. – 23. April 2005 / 10:00 – 22:00 h
24. April 2005 / 10:00 – 20:00 h
26. April – 15. Mai 2005 / Di – Fr: 11:00 – 18:00 h
Sa & So 10:00 – 18:00 h
Montags und 1. Mai geschlossen

HAUS DER JUGEND (HDJ)
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FORUM
KONGRESS / PERFORMANCES
Große Gildewart 6 – 9
21. – 23. April 2005 / 11:00 – 23:00 h

CINEMA ARTHOUSE
SPECIAL DOCUMENT
WERKSCHAU HARUN FAROCKI
PETER GREENAWAY: THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES
Erich-Maria-Remarque-Ring 16
21. – 23. April 2005 / 15:30, 17:30, 22:30 h / Kino 5
23. April 2005 / 15:30, 17:30, 19:30, 23:15 h / Kino 3

DGB-GEBÄUDE
AUSSTELLUNG DES STUDENT FORUM ›HELDEN DER KÜNSTE‹
Neuer Graben 39
21. – 23. April 2005 / 10:00 – 22:00 h
24. April 2005 / 10:00 – 18:00 h

ROSENHOF
FEIERABEND /
Rosenplatz 23
23. April 2005 / 21:00 h music clips
22:30 h Feierabend

QLISSE
STUFO-PARTY
Neulandtraße 10

PCO / DCC HELLMANN
EGBERT MITTELSTAEDT ›BEWEGTBILDER‹
Hafenstraße 11
21. – 23. April 2005 / 10:00 – 22:00 h

PFERDE HABEN KEINE FLÃœGEL
OFFIZIELLE EMAF-BAR
Am Kamp 81 / 83

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