The idea of this session is to discuss different concepts of artist's subjectivity and i am really looking forward very much to tie up to the great spirit of the first session two weeks ago.

THEORY KIT 2

5.-8.2.2007
Portrait: configurations of the self and strategies of mirroring

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

14:00 Art&architecture space
Collaborative reading

"The author function" by Michel Foucault, excerpt from the 1977 work, "What is an Author?"

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

10:00 Art&architecture space
"Self portrait in a convex mirror"

In this session we will have a look at two artworks with the same title: "Self portrait in a convex mirror". The first one is a small painting by Renaissance artist Francesco Parmegianino painted on a convex piece of poplar wood, probably in 1523/24. The second one is a famous postmodern poem by John Ashbery, written in 1973/74. "The Francesco Parmigianino's celebrated anamorphic self-portrait becomes, as the object of elaborately digressive meditation, a skewed representation of a skewed representation. This itself comprises, in its intense mimetic function, another sort of figurative mirror in which the self-portrait of the artist generates an image of the poet at work, and thereby of anyone at the rest of life." (John Hollander: The Gazer's Spirit).

Movie Screening
19:30 Art&architecture space

Ghosts (Gespenster), Germany 2005

Director: Christian Petzold, Screenplay: Christian Petzold · Harun Farocki with Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing, Benno Fürmann

Françoise keeps going back to Berlin. Each time, she hopes to somehow find her daughter who was stolen there years ago. Her compassionate husband Pierre has once again come to patiently stand by her. Nina is a vulnerable girl, alone in the world except for the social workers at the home for problem teenagers. She finds an ally in reckless Toni, a tough young woman who grabs what she wants to survive. Together they experience a fleeting moment of intimacy, an instant of happiness. During her desperate search across the city, Françoise comes across Nina. The resemblance is uncanny. She has the same scar on her ankle...

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8

10:00 - 18:00
Studiovisits