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30/5/2002

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Migros Museum, Zurich

The Video Essay in the Digital Age
Symposium und Video Screenings

Friday - Sunday, 31. Mai - 2. Juni 2002

An essential particularity of the video essay is the compression of time and levels of meaning, mediated through a dense configuration of image, text and sound tracks.
Today, this multi-layered, discursive video genre situates itself in the context of new communications media and digital production which open new dimensions to image technologies and means of diffusion. The video essayist practice also responds in content to an increasingly complex society.
Thus, the primary concern of audiovisual essayists is not to represent visible realities but to test conceptual connections through the articulation of rather untangible social and cultural transitions.
The diverse ways in which this working method expresses itself in the combination of precise observation and recording, subjective narration, and theoretical reflection will be the subject of the symposium.

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Friday, 31. Mai

18:30 Begrüssung Heike Munder
Einführung Ursula Biemann

19:00 Double Viewing - Über die Bedeutung des «pictorial turn» für den ideologiekritischen Umgang mit Bildmaterial
Jan Verwoert

20:30 Nachtessen: Paella von Stefan Reiner

22:00 Video Screening
History and Memory Rea Tajiri, 1991, 32 min.
Alexia, Tran T. Kim-Trang, 2000, 10 min.
These Are Not My Images, Irit Batsry, 2000, 78 min.

Saturday, 1. Juni

11:00 Video-Essayismus. Zur Theorie des Übergängigen Jörg Huber, anschliessend im Gespräch mit Elisabeth Bronfen

12:15 Zum Wechsel der Dispositive
Christa Blümlinger

13:30 Mittagspause

14:30 Memory and History: Reels, Tapes or Windows?
Nora Alter

15:30 «...but I don't want to talk about that»:
Postcolonial and Black Diaspora Histories in Video Art
Rinaldo Walcott

16:30 Pause

17:00 Panel moderated by Samir with presentations by Walid Ra'ad: Civilizationally, we do not dig holes to bury ourselves: excerpts from an interview with
Souheil Bachar
Hito Steyerl: The Empty Center

19:00 Nachtessen: Wok von Timon Erdt

20:30 Digitale Montage und Weben: Eine Ökologie des Gehirns für Maschinen-Subjektivitäten.
Sound Performance-Vortrag von Angela Melitopoulos und Maurizio Lazzarato

22:00 Video Screening
Sea in the Blood, Richard Fung, 2000, 26 min.
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Johan Grimonprez 1997, 68 min.

Sunday, 2. Juni

11:00 Monologues of Disembodiment. Figures of Discourse in Steve Reinke's Video Work
Paul Willemsen

12:00 Take my Essay, Please Take my Essay:
Wit and its Relation to Intellectual Intent
Steve Fagin

Pause

13:30 The Essay as Form - Video as an Instrument to Touch the Real Panel introduced and moderated by Sören Grammel with presentations by
Mathilde ter Heijne: For a Better World
Ursula Biemann: Performing Borders: the Transnational Video
Tran T. Kim-Trang: Blindness and its Metaphors

Information:
Institut für Theorie. Telefon +41 1 446 26 52. email info@ith-z.ch / http://www.ith-z.ch

and migros museum. Telefon +41 1 270 20 50.

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