Am Freitag den 31.01.2020 besucht uns die tschechische Filmregisseurin Jana Chytilová an der Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe.

Mit ihrer eigenen Fernsehsendung ARTMIX und ihren Filmen über Kunst und Künstler zählt sie in ihrem Bereich zu den bedeutendsten FilmemacherInnen.

Es wird eine Präsentation und ein Gespräch geben – In der Blackbox um 12:00.

Am 8. Februar findet eine Ausstellung in einem alten Kloster in Tschechien statt, im GASK Museum in Kutná Hora bei Prag. Die Galerie der mittelböhmischen Region sammelt und stellt Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts aus. Studierende der HfG, die an Professor Bielicky‘s Seminaren „Go Public“ und „Data Driven Narratives“ teilgenommen haben, greifen parasitenartig in die laufende Ausstellung mit Performance, Installationen und audiovisuellen Medien ein, zum Teil manipuliert durch Echtzeitdaten.

On the 8th of February students of HfG that participate in Professor Bielicky‘s seminars „Go Public“ and „Data Driven Narratives“ exhibit their works in an old monastery in Czeck Republic, a well known museum named GASK.GASK – the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region is based at the Jesuit College in the town of Kutná Hora,
near Prague. It is an institution whose collection and exhibitions are focused on art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The works parasatically intrude an ongoing exhibition with performance, installations, audiovisual media, partly manipulated by real time data.

• DATA DRIVEN NARRATIVES

Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. Her work entangles narratives of power, cause and functionalism from philosophical theory, literature and real political events, exploring how the myths that seem necessary for an account of human agency are lived with, but can also be supplanted by a realist politics. Through entangling narratives of power and agency from philosophical theory, noir-ish narratives of TV shows like 24, CSI, the hard-boiled writing of James Ellroy and real political events, her artwork, in video, print and sculpture manifest an argument for a propositional art that executes another form of force to surpass the notion that art simply reflects and reproduces the status quo. The work traverses the aesthetic and philosophical paradigms of institutional, individualistic, metaphysical, rational and mythological authorities to propose a new realist politics of the artwork itself that can surpass the tragic consciousness and the ideal skepticism that has mutually championed and debilitated the value of art in Modern and contemporary culture. In this hard critique of liberal and neo-liberal cultural politics her work examines and produces the condition of language as forceand the force of language with the weight of a commitment to a future.

The Future Can Only Be Told in Reverse: How do we invent new time-based story forms that capture the recent shocks to our civilization?

How must the rhythm of time-based storytelling, and the media that it relies upon, change, to meet the shocks of our contemporary crisis. This crisis has taken fifty years to manifest, but it will dominate our lives for the next fifty years, mostly likely. These new modes of time-based story will not be post-modern, post-human, nor post-digital, or pos pop or cyberpunk. They are emerging after these have worn down.

         Over the course of three days, I will conduct lectures that introduce the history of our disaster, brick by brick; and then with the students, imagine what kind of world building and narrative strategies can possibly capture something that gigantic.

          Various terms from my work will be used to set up ways of archiving, ways of shaping these prototypes. Among the terms: emergent, urban industrial feudalism: contrapuntal media: scripted spaces: histories of forgetting, the charms of the lie; living in (ultra) violet.

What obviously lies ahead for the arts across media, once the shocks of 2008-2011 finally begin to shatter the Europe and the US that we knew as children? Clearly, in response, we must give up simply trying to be up to date. The compression of past/present/future is part of this collapse. The crisis has destroyed easy ways of re-inventing modernity. So we should look backwards as much as sideways—to locate surprising modes of story that prove themselves flexible enough for this workshop. We must decide on what philosophies are aesthetically viable anymore. (Readings will be assigned over the next few days, but can be changed as our group attacks this question.)

Most definitely, we must try to avoid the standard clichés about apocalyptic civilization. We must embrace a world view that is ethnographically dynamic. However, what narrative strategies (poetics, grammars) does that suggest– for time-based storytelling?

One fact is certain.  We must embrace how the Western Hegemony has ended. We are already living after it ended, after the sixties and seventies. After this hegemony fell, dialects of the West that were not at all western, began to appear. But they will take generations to fully develop.

In three days, and in a few weeks after, we can together invent a workbook for tackling these challenges. It will be archival, and also filled with architectonic notes; and with storyboards unlike what we usually see.

First Day: The Archaeologies of the present. This relies on a book that has been twelve years in the making, and thirty years before that. I will review the basic discourse around inequality, diversity, the precariat, the feudal condition.

Second Day: Together, we will imagine forms that shatter the modernist and postmodernist strategies, leave us somewhere fresh—in our practice, in our sketching out projects that can follow. I will review projects of my own, form the past twenty-five years. But they are merely my journey, not ours.

Third Day: We shape a space, or rather sketch out a space—imagining it inside ZKM– where this problem can be realized, where a prototype can evolve for the era to come; after the age of the nation states of the West fades. As a final deliverable, students will present a working archive together, imagining a single installation that can be understood as part of the cutting edge that is needed by 2020, in the midst of this crisis.

Over the course of each day, I will adjust my lectures in much the way that we are shaping our shared archive of prototypes and strangely apt examples. I will shift histories, and add different examples, in order to imagine a cultural history of 2020 and afterward—in cities, in politics, in media forms, in communities of artists.

17.1.2018 – 17:00

Students and teachers from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Art in Prague (especially the department of Center of Audiovisual Studies and the Documentary Film Departement) and TIME-BASED MEDIA Department, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem present several fresh new works: sonic interventions, 3D cinema, documentary, etc.

PROGRAM
BLUE AND RED RUMBLING – collective site specific sonic intervention
Michal Kindernay – Calendarium Caeli (live audiovisual composition)
Jakub Krejčí – Dominium
Ondřej Vavrečka, Miloš Vojtěchovský

Anna Petruželová – Puddles, I don’t know
Pavel Mrkus, Daniel Hanzlík, etc

tbc

FAMU: 5th OLDEST FILM SCHOOL IN THE WORLD. CAS department offers a wide range of courses “beyond cinema”: video installation, interactive works, locative and mobile media, VR, code based projects, conceptual artworks, multi-channel and multi-threaded sound and image practice, experimental documentary, database cinema.
http://cas.famu.cz/
http://old.famu.cz/eng
https://www.famu.cz/cs/katedry-obory/katedra-dokumentarni-tvorby/

TIME BASED ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN IN USTÍ NAD LABEM. THE STUDIO WORKS WITH THE VIDEO AS AN ARTISTIC MEANS, IN PROCESSING OF WHICH, MAINLY DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ARE USED. THE STUDY INCLUDES WORK WITH THE BASIC IMAGE COMPOSITION AND SOUND, AS WELL AS VIDEO PROJECTIONS IN SPATIAL CONTEXT, OR IN AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES.

STUDENTS USE TOOLS FOR VIDEO PROCESSING, COMPUTER ANIMATION, AND SOUND CREATION. DURING THE STUDIES, THEY GRADUALLY GET ORIENTED IN EDITING ENVIRONMENTS FROM THE SIMPLEST STEPS UP TO COMPLICATED APPLICATIONS.
https://fud.ujep.cz/en/

location: Lichthof,
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
Lorenzstr. 15, Karlsruhe
https://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de
info: milos.vojtechovsky@famu.cz