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Frame Within a Frame: Sylvère Lotringer at Haus der Kulturen der Welt

by Elvia Wilk
Eric Baudelaire, Catherine David, Marguerite Duras, Jean Eustache, Antje Ehmann/Harun Farocki, David Goldblatt, Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet, Hassan Khan, Thierry Knauff, Joachim Koester, Sylvère Lotringer, Vincent Meessen, Christine Meisner, Rabih Mroué, Peter Nestler, Olaf Nicolai, Melik Ohanian, Volker Pantenburg, Christopher Pinney, Ben Russell, Eszter Salamon, Florian Schneider, Efrat Shvily, Eyal Sivan, Hito Steyerl, Ito Takashi, Eduardo Thomas, Matsumoto Toshio, Jeff Wall, Wim Wenders, Klaus Wildenhahn, Christopher Williams at Haus der Kulturen der Welt May 31st, 2012 - June 3rd, 2012
Posted 6/25/12

As part of Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Berlin Documentary Forum last month, writer and theorist Sylvère Lotringer presented a three-part lecture series called Framing Death, examining changing representations of death in contemporary culture. In the third presentation, certainly the most ambitious and expansive of the series, Lotringer screened Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray’s 1980 film Lightning Over Water. The screening was interspersed with recordings of interviews Lotringer did himself with the... [more]

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Vectors of the Possible

by Andrea Alessi
Matthew Buckingham, Chto Delat/What is to be done?, Freee, Sharon Hayes, Elske Rosenfeld, Hito Steyerl, Runo Lagomarsino & Johan Tirén at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst September 12th, 2010 - November 28th, 2010
Posted 10/11/10

The Vectors of the Possible at BAK in Utrecht are not exactly spatial – that is, the directions they take are not based entirely in geography or place. More than anything their directions are temporal, with magnitudes comprised of political and social units. The exhibition, relating to next month’s 2nd Former West Research Congress, explores the concept of the horizon in art and politics. With such a loaded subject, guest curator Simon Sheikh has commendably organized a didactic and phil... [more]