theory kit

Eating Rawness - Jean Matthee

2008-01-30T21:10+00:00

“Man tries to satisfy his need for aggresion at the expense of his neighbour, to exploit his work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to appropriate his goods, to humiliate him, to inflict suffering on him, to torture and kill him”. (Feud); To find the path of desire is to encounter on routethe bad character of the drives, settled at the heart of all subjects who have to recognise it. Who am I? “You are the waste that fails in the world through the devil's anus.” (Martin Luther); Radical forms of sublimation are attempts to confront and transform the bad character of the drives, salvation holds on by a thread.

Narratives of Nudity

2007-12-08T02:35+00:00

How far can you go within a genre called Exploitation? Stephanie Rothman, known as the first women director in the Roger Corman Clan, talks about the thin lines between MPAA standards, exploitation standards of sex and nudity and her own political visions and aesthetical ambitions.

Exploitation vs Avantgarde

2007-12-08T01:44+00:00

Two different approaches to film-making and -production: a retrospective view on Hollywood and its B-pictures and a current perspective on independent structures - a dialogue between Stephanie Rothman and Nina Menkes, invited by Viennale 07. But as different as the cinematographic structures, chosen by the directors, may be, there is some important mutual ground for Rothman and Menkes: the strive to communicate feminist ideas.

Liam Gillick: Day 5

2007-06-23T21:54+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: Relations of equivalence - three potential endings. May 11th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Liam Gillick: Day 4

2007-06-23T18:14+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: Reconfiguring the recent past. May 10th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Liam Gillick: Day 3

2007-06-23T06:15+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: Reoccupation, recuperation and aimless renovation. May 9th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Liam Gillick: Day 2

2007-06-23T02:25+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: Redundancy following the lure of infinite flexibility. May 8th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Liam Gillick: Day 1

2007-06-23T00:24+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: The day before closure of an experimental factory. May 7th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Kutlug Ataman in Conversation with Galit Eilat

2007-03-09T01:43+00:00

Galit Eilat, director of Digital ArtLab, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, interviews Kutlug Ataman at the occasion of the opening of “De-Regulation" in Herzliya, Museum of Contemporary Art. “De-Regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman” is an ongoing exhibition project that brings the work of Turkish filmmaker and video artist Kutlug Ataman together with a visual essay by Stefan Roemer and several archives of documentary materials from Istanbul. The show is curated by Irit Rogoff.

Martha Rosler: Art & Social Life, the case of Video Art, opening lecture (12.10.06)

2007-03-05T22:20+00:00

Seminar 2 Martha Rosler: Art & Social Life; the case of Video Art opening lecture, december 10th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Walid Raad and Jalal Toufic : The withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster. Opening Lecture (31.01.2007)

2007-03-05T20:33+00:00

Seminar 3 - Day 1 Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster Opening lecture January 31th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Boris Groys: After the Red Square, opening lecture (10.30.06)

2007-03-05T15:41+00:00

After The Red Square a seminar with Boris Groys opening lecture, october 30th 2006 unitednationsplaza, berlin

The Power and the Glory

2007-02-14T11:36+00:00

The 11th B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture, by Prof Giorgio Agamben, delivered at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi on Thursday, 11th of January, 2007. Prof Giorgio Agamben, renowned philosopher, engages in particular with language and social conflicts. He teaches at the Universita IUAV di Venezia, College International de Philosophie, Paris. Among his books are: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive and The Open: Man and Animal. His most recent works are: State of Exception, and The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans.

On Collaboration, Participation and Piracy

2006-10-12T15:49+00:00

This panel with Irit Rogoff and Lawrence Liang, moderated by Florian Schneider, took place on Oktober 11th 2006 in the context of the Workshop on "Collaboration". The Workshop took place at the Steirischer Herbst, from Oktober 7th - 13th 2006 and discussed and explored different notions on collaboration.

Steal this Film

2006-08-24T12:28+00:00

In 2006, a group of friends decided to make a film about filesharing that *we* would recognise. There have been a few documentaries by 'old media' crews who don't understand the net and see peer-to-peer organisation as a threat to their livelihoods. They have no reason to represent the filesharing movement positively, and no capacity to represent it lucidly. We wanted to make a film that would explore this huge popular movement in a way that excited us, engaged us, and most importantly, focussed on what we know to be the positive and optimistic vision many filesharers and artists (they are often one) have for the future of creativity. Hopefully you'll enjoy the first part of Steal this Film ('stockholm, summer 2006'). It achieves some, but by no means all, of our goals. To continue we need your help. this film is free for you to share, watch on your dvd player or on your ipod, or show in cinemas. But if you like the work we've done and want us to carry on, use our donate link to send us a couple of dollars or euros. We will start making the second part straight away, and release it on this site and on major bittorrent trackers, when it's done. Each part, we estimate, will take about 2 months to complete. the plan for the second part is on our wiki. Feel free to add suggestions. The league of noble peers. august 2006 - à nous la liberté!

De-regulation: Kutlug Ataman and Irit Rogoff in conversation

2006-04-09T11:20+00:00

The video shows a slightly edited recording of the conversation between the theorist Irit Rogoff and the artist Kutlug Ataman. It was held at the occasion of the opening of the exhibition curated by Rogoff "De-regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman" which is shown in MUHKA Antwerp, from March 16 till May 28 2006. The exhibition project brings together a body of work by the contemporary Istanbul/London based Turkish artist, Kutlug Ataman including 7 multiple and single screen installations by Ataman: Never My Soul, Vicious Circle, Twelve, 1 + 1 = 1, TV Room, Martin is Asleep, and Women Who Wear Wigs. This is the first time a range of works by this innovative artist have been assembled together in continental Europe. The exhibition created an open field which collates many materials; a visual essay by the German artist and theorist Stefan Roemer, Istanbul based theorist Nermin Saybasili has gathered together an archive of wedding culture among the many different ethnic groups in the city, while London based academic and conceptualiser of the exhibition Irit Rogoff has assembled film posters from Turkey’s rich film culture and numerous images of Ataturk, which are a prevalent feature of the Istanbul urban landscape.

Archipelago of Exception

2005-12-09T14:36+00:00

The cartography that describes this archipelago of state-of-exception extraterritorial spaces, leads us to reflect upon the scope of the sovereignty of the traditional State and also upon the nature of power, the validity of political rights and the value of human life in an increasingly interdependent world. The closing session of the conference "Archipelago of Exception - Sovereignties of Extraterritoriality" from november 10 to 11, 2005, in CCCB Barcelona, features Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, and as a respondant, Giorgio Agamben, Professor of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts and Design, University IUAV of Venice.

Antonio Negri

2005-07-14T14:19+00:00

The two directors of the film, Alexandra Weltz and Andreas Pichler, explore the background of Antonio Negri. They research for biographical, theoretical and historical points of decision makings and portray an unusual life between philosophy and revolt. In meetings with Negri and its political fellows and friends the film shows continuities and breaks from the 60's to today.

Claire Denis: Vienna Conversation

2005-05-11T22:25+00:00

In May 2005, the Film Museum in Vienna has presented the work of French filmmaker Claire Denis – arguably the most important woman working in cinema today. The video contains the full recording of a 1.5 hours long conversation between Claire Denis and the Austrian film critics Michael Omasta and Isabella Reicher on Saturday, May 7th, 2005 Claire Denis has dedicated herself to an uncompromising aesthetic in which sensory experiences, physicality and "musical images" are given priority over conventional narrative schemes. At the same time, her work revolves around key issues of the present: blurred gender distinctions; transgressions of social and cultural boundaries; the dissolution of national identities in the postcolonial era; and finally, the essential topic of sexuality and (filmic) desire.

Slavoj Žižek: The Spectator´s Malevolent Neutrality

2005-04-22T13:32+00:00

Slavoj Zizek is philosopher and Psychoanalyst from Ljubljana. His lecture on the specific roles of viewers and doers is entitled "The Spectator´s Malevolent Neutrality" and was held on June 8, 2004 during the Theaterformen festival in Brunswick (DE).

Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet in conversation

2005-04-22T13:15+00:00

Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet talk about Ford, Fassbinder and their own films at the Viennale Filmfestival in Vienna, on October 19th, 2004. The conversation with Hartmut Bitomsky, Tag Gallagher, Jean-Pierre Gorin and Hans Hurch is in german, parts in english and french.

Eric Alliez: Anti-Oedipus – Thirty years on

2005-04-21T16:35+00:00

Eric Alliez presents "Anti-Oedipus – Thirty years on" at the international summer academy in Frankfurt on August 24, 2004.

Deportation Class

2005-04-08T15:25+00:00

The Deportation Class campaign is being introduced as an example of new forms of political engagement. Worldwide networking, performativity and speed, extensive use of new media, humor and a cleverness is outlining their strategy of image pollution.

Organizing the Unorganizable

2005-03-28T01:50+00:00

Between union and social movements, three different approaches of migrant labor organizing are being introduced: The Garment Workers Center Los Angeles, the "Justice for Janitors" campaign and DEBUG, a silicon valley temp workers group.

Irit Rogoff: Academy as potentiality

2005-03-23T17:03+00:00

On Saturday, March 19th, 2005, the last day of MODE05, Irit Rogoff joined for a lecture on "Academy as Potentiality". Irit Rogoff is Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmith’s College, London. Most recently she participated in the international exhibition project "Academy".