Urban Research at Directors Lounge 2012

<body> <table border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="10" width="750" align="center" summary=" "> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="*"><a name="a10"><img src="images/shim.gif" width="350" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></a></td> <td width="*"><img src="images/shim.gif" width="350" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td colspan="3" class="text"><h4>urban research on film - directors lounge 2012<br> film / video / installation </h4> </br> <a href="framesUrbanResearch.html" target="archive" title="program overview"><img src="images/blueSignBack.gif" width="13" height="13" align="left" border="0" alt="back"> Program Overview</a><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><a name="a10"><img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="10" border="0" alt=" "></a></td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text" colspan="2"> <h5>urban research<br> program 3:<br> activismo experimental: artists involved! </h5> <p>Saturday, 18th February 18:45 </p> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <p> In recent years, art has become increasingly political, again. The societies around the globe and even in Europe and the United States seem to wake up from the rigidity of the paralysing West-East conflict, and its aftermath, when there seemed to be no alternative to economic liberalism. Some artists take amazing risks to do public actions, others try to subvert written or unwritten laws in more subtle ways, however, in many ways, the society has become the material again for artists to experiment with. Furthermore, the cheeky and anarchist stance many artists have developed may have an influence on how the freedom to speech, which seems to be in jeopardy again, will be interpreted and used in the future.<br><br> The Center for Political Beauty published a video of a broker who accused herself to have blood on her hands by trading with food and vital goods. The video was spreading like an exploding bombshell, and made it to mainstream online news. Eduardo Srur and Vladimir Turner undertake provocative actions in the public sphere, which are so pointed and funny, they seem to be permissible. Daniel Künzler, Thomas Lüer and Brandstifter undertake more silent but still subversive art researches and interventions; Diane Nerwen documents an official rooftop vegetable garden in the heart of the city, unthinkable just a few years ago; and Matt Grau documents the public actions of a group that tries to put their environment under laugh therapy, successfully as it seems. </p> </td> <td class="text"><p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <p>Cesy Leonard DE Schuld. Die Barbarei Europas 16 min 00 2011<br><br> Eduardo Srur BR Bandit Bull 3 min 22 2010<br><br> Russell J. Chartier US Confined 3 min 34 <br><br> Daniel Künzler AT Inside Pockets Of The City 13 min 17 2011<br><br> Diane Nerwen US Up On The Farm 16 min 2011<br><br> Vladimir Turner CZ Dum Z Karet 2 min 36 <br><br> Sheldon Brown US The Scalable City 4 min 04 2007<br><br> Matt Grau DE Lachen in der U-Bahn 2 min 59 2011<br><br> Eduardo Srur BR Attack 3 min 34 2004<br><br> Brandstifter DE Ein kleines Stück Papier 10 min 00 2008<br><br> 77 min<br><br> OPENING OF THE SPECIAL EXHIBITION IN THE SCREENING THEATRE:<br><br> Brandstifter DE Asphaltbibliotheque Berlin 2011<br> Exhibition with lost and found sheets of paper<br><br> The installation "Asphaltbibliotheque Berlin 2011" at Directors Lounge works together with the screening of Brandstifter's documentation of his long term concept "Ein kleines Stück Papier" for Urban Art Research, displaying the gathered remains from Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg, Lichtenberg, Mitte and Neukölln from the "lost&found art research tour Hannover-Berlin" Easter 2011 as a brief sample of his huge collection that he archives from public space since 1998.<br><br> The Poetry of Papers "The Asphaltbibliotheque shows how poetic and many-layered artistic reordering can make an idea that is simple in itself. Brandstifter understands how to charge the profane with the poetic, and in so doing to provide playfully anarchic inspiration to conceive the everyday world as a freely formable work of art." (Martin Büsser, art critic, author, publisher, Testcard/Ventil Verlag)</p> </td> <td class="text"><p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td class="text"> <p align="right"><a href="#pagetop" title="page up">top <img src="images/blueSignUp.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="up"></a><br> <a href="http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/post/3195903651/urban-research-iii" target="_blank" title="Directors Lounge Programme"><img src="images/blueSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="Link" title="Link"> Directors Lounge 2012 daily program</a></p> </td> <td class="text" valign="middle"> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </body>