Visit to NOW<->FUTURE?
Book presentation, film screening & workshop
05.06.2023–06.06.2023
Bern University of the Arts
Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern, Switzerland
Conceived by: Enar De Dios Rodríguez, Annemarie Hahn, Nathalie Koger
The series is a collaboration between Bern University of the Arts / Master Art Education Program / Annemarie Hahn and The Golden Pixel Cooperative.
NOW<->FUTURE? is the title of this year’s networking meeting of art education students from all over Switzerland at the Bern University of the Arts.
05.06.2023 · Book Presentation
You’ll Never Work Alone: Collective Infrastructures in Moving Images
Start: 6 PM
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Location: Bern University of the Arts, Fellerstrasse 11, Small Auditorium, 3027 Bern
And via Zoom at:
https://phbern.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YpdeCopjwqGNafYQW5au4UEtjJishI6PUA
Presented by Enar de Dios Rodríguez & Nathalie Koger (from The Golden Pixel Cooperative/Vienna), and as a guest, Katja Lell (University of Cologne).
The publication explores the potentials and challenges of collective cinematic and artistic work and raises the question of shared infrastructure through international and local perspectives of theorists and practitioners.
Our guest, Katja Lell, will present her text: On Overturned Charis, Soft Pillows, and (Dis-)comfort with Accomplices - Thoughts on Queering Film Education.
Spatial intervention in dialgue with Katja´s Lell book contribution with objects by Nathalie Koger and Wolfgang Obermair from the installation Places that are only built as signs from a distance. Up close, they have no name., 2018.
Publication: The Golden Pixel Cooperative: De Dios Rodríguez, E., Koger, N., & Schwitzer, M. (Eds.). 2022. You’ll Never Work Alone: Collective Infrastructures in Moving Images. SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR..
06.06.2023 · Film Screening
Frame Works. Educational Contexts and Moving-Image Works
Start: 9:15 AM
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Location: Bern University of the Arts, Fellerstrasse 11, Auditorium, 3027 Bern
Artists: Adelita Husni-Bey, Nathalie Koger
The screening showcases two films: Postcards from the Desert Island, 2010-11 by Adelita Husni-Bey and The Video Conference of the Animals by Nathalie Koger. Created with children and young people in educational contexts, these films explore ethics of coexistence in symbolic and imaginary forms. It will be followed by a Q&A session with Nathalie Koger.
Additionally, the film Vestiges (an archipelago) by Enar De Dios Rodríguez will be on view at Bern University of the Arts, as part of the networking week NOW<->FUTURE.
FILMS
Adelita Husni-Bey: Postcards from the Desert Island, digital video, color, sound, 2010-11, 23 min.
The film Postcards from the Desert Island by Adelita Husni-Bey showcases her collaboration with a self-managed public elementary school in Paris. During a three-week workshop, the artist invited children to transform their classroom into a deserted island. The film documents how the group of children embraces a social life in the no man’s land, and it portrays their engagement with some of the key principles and unresolved issues of self-management.
Nathalie Koger: The Video Conference of the Animals, 2023, Video 4K, color, sound, 2023, 30 min.
The Video Conference of the Animals by Nathalie Koger is a 30-minute documentary-fiction in which narratives from the children’s book “The Conference of the Animals” by Erich Kästner are transposed and appropriated into the present era: the Anthropocene. The work was developed together with a group of children and teenagers from a school in Germany as well as some individual pupils from Austria.
Enar De Dios Rodríguez: Vestiges (an archipelago), HD video, color, sound, 2020, 40 min.
Vestiges (an archipelago) by Enar De Dios Rodríguez is an audiovisual essay that investigates humans’ insatiable demand for sand, the most extracted natural resource after water. A poetic narrative maze where colonialism, dredging machines or land reclamation projects emerge.
06.06.2023 · Workshop
Introduction into Research Tools of Internet Based Images, Moving-Image Works and Related Matter
Start: 11 AM
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Location: Bern University of the Arts, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern
Facilitators: Enar De Dios Rodríguez, Annemarie Hahn, Nathalie Koger
The workshop serves as an introductory overview of online archives that could be useful for research, artistic and teaching purposes for the students. Following that, we will engage in a hands-on, playful, and imaginative exploration of the medium of sound, focusing on the themes of the networking week: How does the future I envision sound? How can the manifesto we write during the networking week sound?
Please bring (if available): audio recording device or mobile phone, laptop with audio software.
Image credits:
1st image: Adelita Husni-Bey: Postcards from the Desert Island, 2010-11, Video still © Husni-Bey
2nd image: publication: The Golden Pixel Cooperative: De Dios Rodriguez, E., Koger, N., & Schwitzer, M. (Eds.). 2022. You’ll Never Work Alone: Collective Infrastructures in Moving Images. SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR. Book cover and banderole © bildrecht Vienna, 2023 / Nathalie Koger
Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, The Golden Pixel Cooperative, and the Bern University of the Arts.