december 6th, 7th, 8th
9h30
Universität / Haute École
for student applications
The topic of our 3 day workshop will be to question
positions of viewing and speaking alongside the re-reading of de/conceptual
modes of artistic production. Through presentations, filmscreenings and reading
sessions we’d like to discuss alternative ways of knowledge production and
formats of representation as a result of translational processes.
We kindly ask the participating students to prepare a
10-minutes presentation of their artistic, curatorial and/or theoretical work to
be held during the workshop. We consider the presentation itself as a format of
translation of the artwork. Participating students should question common
presentation formats and try to explore different positions of speaking,
viewing, (re-)presenting and translating their artistic practice.
We provide texts by Walter Benjamin on translation and
Jacques Rancière on emancipating knowledge production and the role of the
spectator, that should be read in preparation for the workshop.
Links
Short bio :
In their collective practice Simone Schardt & Wolf Schmelter analyse genealogies of institutional critique and site specifity with the concept of exhibition as artistic medium. Since 2003 they have initiated Kinoapparatom, an instant cinema on the move to present artistic films at specific sites. In 2007 they developed Surprise*Surprise in cooperation with Les Complices*, Zurich, a series of interventions, a multilayered comment on exhibition practice.
Literature
Walter Benjamin: «The Translator’s Task», in: TTR: traduction, terminologie, rédaction, vol. 10, no 2, 1997, p. 151-165, translated from german by Steven Rendall (Org. «Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers», in: Illuminationen, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp 1972)
Jacques Rancière: The Ignorant Schoolmaster. Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, Stanford: University Press 1991, translated from french by Kristin Ross (Org. Le maître ignorant : Cinq leçons sur l'émancipation intellectuelle, Paris: Fayard 1987)
Chapter 1:
«An Intellectual Adventure», p. 1-8
«The Emancipatory Master» and «The Circle of Power», p. 12-18
Jacques Rancière: The Emancipated Spectator, Lecture at the Fifth International Summer Academy in Frankfurt/Main in 2004, reprinted in slightly revised form in: Artforum, March 2007
These texts can be downloaded here. (11MB)
Remarks
bilingual: english/german