21.10.2010
19,00 Uhr

 

Artist Talk / Kino
Springen und Schnitzen
Walter Steiner
 

Walter Steiner war lange Zeit der einzige relevante Skipringer der Schweiz bevor Gold -Simi an Weltmeisterschaften und Olympiaden abräumte.

1974 drehte der Regisseur Werner Herzog mit " Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner" einen Dokumentarfilm über Steiner. Darin spricht der Skispringer unter anderem über seine Schnitzerein, die er bis in die 90er Jahre anfertigte.

Walter Steiner erklärt seine Skulptur

Wir freuen uns ausserordentlich , das s der heute in Schweden lebende Walter Steiner für ein Gespräch ins Corner College kommt. Er wird über seine künstlerische Arbeit sprechen und über die Dreharbeiten mit Werner Herzog berichten. Das Gespräch wird moderiert von Stefan Wagner.

Anschliessend an das Gespräch wird im Kino "Die Obsessionen des Bildschnitzers Steiner" (Werner Herzog, BRD 1974) gezeigt.

Posted by Delphine Chapuis Schmitz

02.03.2012
19,00 Uhr

 

Artist Talk
Rein Wolfs in conversation with Danh Vo
Danh Vo , Rein Wolfs
 

The relationship between curator and artist is the most decisive and probably most complex factor in the development of an exhibition project . Notions like trust, accomplishment and responsibility are keystones in the strengthening of this relationship. The curator is profiling his exhibition program, is choosing the artists, is setting up the best possible spatial, financial, physical and other necessary conditions and is responsible for the mediation of the artistic message. In a small series of talks, Rein Wolfs (Artistic Director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel/Germany) will invite artists who hold a strong and specific position in the force-field of curating.

Danh Vo (1975, Vietnam, resides 2012 in Basel) presented in his solo-show JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI at Kunsthalle Fridericianum among other pieces a duplicate (original technique of hammered copper; original size and weight) of the Statue of Liberty, entitled WE THE PEOPLE. The exhibition touched fundamental questions in terms of production, finances and logistics, next to more philosophical and political questions. After the show in Kassel, parts of WE THE PEOPLE (will) appear in other exhibition spaces (New Museum New York, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Art Institute and Renaissance Society Chicago, etc. ).

Danh Vo discusses with Rein Wolfs the 'Making of WE THE PEOPLE' and the different questions being evoked by this seminal piece.

A conversation organised by The Postgraduate Programme in Curating , ZHdK.

Posted by Delphine Chapuis Schmitz

14.02.2013
20,00 Uhr

 

/ Artist Talk / Kino
Printemps Érable
Studentenproteste in Québec
Érik Bordeleau
 

The strength of Printemps érable-protests is rooted in anonymity. The movement allows the common to flow through dispersal, reaching into the solitude of each protester. Each one recognizes her situation in that of the others; affective resonance is transmuted to a point of fusion. Repression can only break up linear collectivities; here, at every turn, at every corner, the common returns in a swarm.

In the wake of the Quebec student movement against tuition hikes an entire public mobilization has lead to a resurgence and insurgence of active political engagement of Quebec's population in spring 2012. The protests tie together not only problems of a culture of indebted men but also environmental and social issues throughout all strata of society. Insurgence is an expression, a movement of thought becoming a movement of felt sensation. Based on struggles against social isolation for the last decades Printemps Érable underline s contemporary transversal modes of activism beyond ideological boundaries making the complexity of relation felt in their emergence (y). Writer, theorist and activist Érik Bordeleau will show the film "Insurgence" followed by a discussion with the audience.

> Synopsis Insurgence

Posted by Delphine Chapuis Schmitz