TUESDAY, MARCH, 20

10am - 2pm Studiovisits

3pm - 5pm Collaborative Reading:

Walter Benjamin: "The Author as Producer" (please contact me by email in order to receive a PDF file of the short article by Walter Benjamin)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH, 21

10am Lecture and debate: "Art as networks, networks as art"

7pm - 9pm Double feature:

"Dirty pretty things", Stephen Frears, 97 min, UK 2002

Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor Sneaky and is the sort of place where dirty business like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301199/

"The American Friend" (Der Amerikanische Freund), Wim Wenders, 127 min, Germany 1977

Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075675/