Art, truths, and immanence
"Art is rigorously co-extensive with the truths that it generates." The first theory session of the new semester links back to the close reading of Alain Badiou's "Fifteen theses": http://kit.kein.org/node/87 After a brief introduction into the concept of immanence we are going to work further on the theoretical and practical challenges of art as an immanent practice as well as its ethical and esthetical challenges.
Immance: An introduction
We are meeting in art and common space for a first introductory session into the semesters overall topic of immanence. It is rather an informal getting together than a lecture; the goal is to reconnect to the conversations of last semester and to make plans for the new one.
Orphee
Screening: Orphee, 95 min., France 1950
The magic of cinema is fully realised in Jean Cocteau's Orphee - one of the finest films from one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. A contemporary account of the Greek myth, set in post-war Paris, Orphee is a work of haunting beauty that follows the poetic logic of a dream. It tells of a famous poet's love affair with Death, a mysterious princess, as he follows her through a mirror into the underworld in search of inspiration. Poet, novelist, painter, playwright and film-maker, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) worked in many different artistic media. The breadth of his talent and the depth of his vision finds full expression in Orphee: Hades looks like occupied Paris; messages from the after-life are broadcast from car radios; and Death drives round in a vintage Rolls Royce accompanied by leather-clad bikers.
Jean Cocteau's master piece is screened with the feature commentary by Roland-Francois Lack.
Program for session #5.1
"Art is rigorously co-extensive with the truths that it generates." The first theory session of the new semester links back to the close reading of Alain Badiou's "Fifteen theses". After a brief introduction into the concept of immanence we are going to work further on the theoretical and practical challenges of art as an immanent practice as well as its ethical and esthetical challenges.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4
3 PM to 8 PM
Studiovisits and tutorials
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
10 AM to 1 PM
Studiovisits and tutorials
2 PM to 5 PM
Immance: An introduction
We are meeting in art and common space for a first introductory session into the semesters overall topic of immanence.
7:30 PM
Screening: Im not there, 135 min, USA 2007
"Im not there" is certainly the most exciting film of this season. Directed by Todd Haynes it depicts seven distinct stages of the life of singer and song writer Bob Dylan whose character is played by Marcus Carl Franklin, Ben Whishaw, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, and Cate Blanchett. Dylan's music is played by various artists just as his persona is presented by a whole cast of actors. The ambiguity between fact and fiction is pushed further and further...
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
10 AM to 1 PM
The constitution of the void. Lecture and debate (part 1)
3 PM to 5 PM
The constitution of the void. Lecture and debate (part 2)
7:30 PM
Screening: Orphee, 95 min., France 1950
The magic of cinema is fully realised in Jean Cocteau's Orphee - one of the finest films from one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. A contemporary account of the Greek myth, set in post-war Paris, Orphee is a work of haunting beauty that follows the poetic logic of a dream. It tells of a famous poet's love affair with Death, a mysterious princess, as he follows her through a mirror into the underworld in search of inspiration. Poet, novelist, painter, playwright and film-maker, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) worked in many different artistic media. The breadth of his talent and the depth of his vision finds full expression in Orphee: Hades looks like occupied Paris; messages from the after-life are broadcast from car radios; and Death drives round in a vintage Rolls Royce accompanied by leather-clad bikers.
Jean Cocteau's master piece is screened with the feature commentary by Roland-Francois Lack.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7
10 AM to 1 PM
Studiovisits and tutorials
The constitution of the void (part 2)
The constitution of the void. Lecture and debate (part 2)
The constitution of the void: Destruction, creation, ex nihilo
The constitution of the void. Lecture and debate (part 1)
This is not a Dylan movie
New York Times writer Robert Sullivan has published a great long piece on Todd Haynes new movie: "You could begin the story of Todd Haynes’s Dylan movie at the very beginning, about seven years ago, while Haynes was driving cross-country in his beat-up old Honda. But since Todd Haynes’s film about Dylan is as much about Todd Haynes as it is about Dylan (or maybe even more); and since Haynes is a filmmaker who, in midcareer at age 46, is doing his best to take the experimental into the multiplex; and, further, since those who don’t like the film are likely to consider it a kind of gorgeous indulgence, a bizarre experiment, the temptation is to skip the ordinary narrative introduction and begin at the end, or very near the end, in this case in the last few days of filming, on the outskirts of Montreal, where, way in the back of a dark and cavernous and disused factory, there was a white glowing light, like something in a dream. We begin then with an image — an image that is all about, believe it or not, the relationship between Haynes and his film, between Dylan and Haynes, between the artist and the subject he is trying to portray."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07Haynes.html?_r=2&pagewanted...