voiceoverhead
Contributed by A project by Achim Lengerer & Dani Gal on 12/01/2008 13:17 in Announcements
featuring: Casper Cordes, Harun Farocki, William Furlong, Sharon Hayes
Opening Reception: Saturday 12 January 2008, 21.00 hrs
Exhibition from 12 January – 1 March 2008
Location: SMART Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, Amsterdam
Opening hours: Tue – Sat, 12.00 – 17.00 hrs
29 FEBRUARY 2008:
voiceoverhead and guests: an evening of live-performances
In their collaborative practice Achim Lengerer & Dani Gal deal with audio-acoustics and storage media used for acoustic material. Their core interests are audio-recordings, particularly of language, spoken word and speech, original footage taken from radio-broadcastings or other archives. Their work found its multiple form in the project 'voiceoverhead' which is rooted in a record collection of approximately 350 records, including footage documenting political speeches and language orientated radio-programs. The records aurally cover historical events and were originally designed to function as “documentations of the real”. This notion of the 'documentary' has been questioned throughout the history of the medium itself and developed as one of the inherent debates around the emerging modes of reproduction in the late 19th century - the phonograph, film and photography. Starting with the early Lumière-movie 'Workers Leaving the Factory,' this discussion emerges. Harun Farocki has shown, in his 1995 video-essay on the Lumière-sequence, the complexity of a playful representational conspiracy between the audience/viewer, the document/documentarian and the documented beginning at the birth of the genre itself. This act of conspiracy takes place when any document from the archive is brought back to the public sphere as a kind of reenactment of a communicative and rhetorical figure.
Lengerer & Gal developed the idea ‘voiceoverhead’ in order to locate the record collection and their artistic practice within a broader context and to include the work of other artists, filmmakers and musicians working with archived language materials in multiple ways and diverging modes. So too do divisions exist in the cultural field: such as electronic music that is entrenched in elements of language and radio-sounds and there is a sub-genre of visual artists, filmmakers and documentarians who also focus their work in this area. Both fields are conceptually and practically applying different approaches to the given speech material: differences in working and presentation methods, as well as differences in distribution and public reception. 'voiceoverhead' presents, confronts and merges the approaches applied in these diverse cultural productions in the exhibition and in an evening of sound performances, taking place on Friday 29 February.
'voiceoverhead' is a co-production with the Jan van Eyck Academy.
http://www.smartprojectspace.net/
Douala in Translation.
Contributed by iStrike on 16/11/2007 13:59 in Announcements
A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials. Marilyn Douala Bell and Lucia Babina editors, with episode publishers (www.episode-publishers.nl).
Douala, the economic and cultural capital of Cameroon, is one of the most important cities in Central Africa. Informal settlements, micro-economies and spontaneous use of the public space have a primary role in the formation of its urban identity. This fast growing city is the context in which doual’art, a research centre of urban practices, has been operating for more than 16 years. Since 1991 the co-founders, Marilyn Douala Bell and Didier Schaub have fostered cultural projects and commissioned site-specific art interventions, using art and culture to develop collective processes of urban change.
The publication brings together cross-disciplinary analyses of Douala that seek to go beyond predictable and prejudicial views about African towns. Douala becomes a thrilling case study in which artistic practices engage and affect the cityscape.
With contributions by Lucia Babina, Edgar Cleijne, Marilyn Douala Bell, Emiliano Gandolfi, Christian Hanussek, Salifou Lindou, Dominique Malaquais, Lionel Manga, Nsame Mbongo, Zayd Minty, Giulia Paoletti, Iolanda Pensa, Didier Schaub, AbdouMaliq Simone, Kamiel Verschuren, Alexander Vollebregt, Silvia Viganò and Hervé Yamguen.
The publication will be released the first week of December 2007, and presented for the first time in Douala (Cameroon), during SUD - Salon Urbain de Douala, an international festival of artistic site-specific interventions, that is going to take place from the 9 up to the 16 December 2007.
Both the publication and the event SUD are collaboration projects by doual'art (www.doualart.org) and iStrike (www.istrike.net).
The book was made possible by Mondriaan Foundation, Prince Claus Fund and Fondazione Lettera 27/WikiAfrica.
paperback/ 256 pp/ ISBN 978-90-5973-071-7
Future eclipses
Contributed by Enough Room for Space on 01/11/2007 01:03 in Announcements
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