Urban Research at Directors Lounge 2013

<body> <table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="10" summary=" " align="center"> <tr><td> </td><td><a name="top"><img src="images/shim.gif" width="1" height="10" border="0" alt=" "></a></td><td width="10" v-align="top"> <img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td></tr> <tr><td width="10" v-align="top"> <img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td> <td width="580"> <img src="images/UR2013flyer.jpg" width="816" height="540" border="0" alt="Urban Research 2013" title="Urban Research 2013"> </td> <td><img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="10" summary=" " align="center"> <tr><td> </td><td><a name="umw-en"><img src="images/shim.gif" width="1" height="120" border="0" alt=" "></a></td><td width="10" v-align="top"> <img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td></tr> <tr><td width="10" v-align="top"> <img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td> <td width="580" class="text"> <p class="sub"><a href="#umw-de"> </a></p> <h4><b>Urban Research:</b><br> <b>Artists Exploring Contemporary Urban Space</b></h4> <p>Urban Research is a film and video program curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge 2013. Urban Research encompasses explorations of public space, the conditions of urban life, and interventions in the urban sphere, by international film and video artists using experimental, documentary, abstract, or fictive forms.</p> <p>City life and modernity have been as strongly connected as film and architecture, two art practices, which had a strong impact in shaping the character of the 20th century; playing a major part in establishing and shaping the myth of metropolitanism, the myth of modern art, and of course including the work of self-mystification. During the twentieth century both broadcast radio and cinema embraced the ideological myths of regimes of power. In post-modern, post-histoire, and post-industrial art practice, the controversy between l'art pour l'art and political activism became even more pronounced, their opposition may have been just the flip-sides of one coin, while each side promulgated their part of mythologies, these were capitalized on more by the art market than they were appreciated by centers of power or by a critical public. </p> <p>However more recently, a different, more critical practice has developed and a growing number of artists have become concerned with distinct ideas about the changing social and spatial frameworks of the city. Avant-garde film of the 50's and 60's and it's more current reception may or may not have given new inspirations to these critical art practices. Those artists intervene in, irritate, and question the conventionally received myths. While the digital revolution, globalization and the spreading financial crises have had a direct effect on the quality of urban living space, artists use both analogue and digital media to question common narratives and produce new observations.</p> <p><a href="http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" title="Directors Lounge Program"><img src="images/orangeSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="Link to" title="Link to">  Directors Lounge 2013</a><br> <a href="http://www.naherholung-sternchen.de/contact.php" target="_blank" title="Contakt und map for Naherholung Sternchen"><img src="images/orangeSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="Link to" title="Link to">  Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte</a><br> directly behind Cinema International und Rathaus Mitte, off U-Bahn Schillingstr. </p> <p> Saturday, 9 February 2013, 18:00<br> <a href="framesURprogram1.html" target="_top" title="Urban Research Programme 1"><b>Habitats, Homelands and Bridges</b>  <img src="images/blueSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" alt="Link" title="Link" border="0"></a><br> Urban Research Programme I<br> With:<br> Carlo Zanni, Chris Bravo, Deborah Phillips, Ezra Wube, Henry Gwiazda, Janus Victoria, Kevin T. Allen, Lindsay Bloom, Paul Turano, Rhayne Vermette, Stephany Gray, Telemach Wiesinger, Vanessa Renwick </p> <p> Monday, 11 February 2013, 19:00<br> <a href="framesURprogram2.html" target="_top" title="Urban Research Programme II"><b>Personal Histories and the City's Future</b>  <img src="images/blueSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" alt="Link" title="Link" border="0"></a><br> Urban Research Programme II<br> With:<br> Alexander Isaenko, Benna Maris Gaean, Claudia Larcher, Gong Wenbo, Karl F. Stewart, Kristin Lucas, Laura Kraning, Michael Poetschko, Sandra Becker01 </p> <p> Friday, 15 February 2013, 18:00<br> <a href="framesURprogram3.html" target="_top" title="Urban Research Programme III"><b>Interventions, Transforming Public Space</b>  <img src="images/blueSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" alt="Link" title="Link" border="0"></a><br> Urban Research Programme III<br> with:<br> Filipe Afonso, Garielle Le Bayon, Jaime Rguez Lopez, Jan Simanek, Katze und Krieg, Kika Nicolela, Kollektiv Graukarte, Laura Kissel, Nuno Escudeiro, Ondrej Mlady, Phillipp Hartmann, Signe Theill, Vladimir Turner, Vojtech Fršhlich, </p> <p><a href="framesURprogram4.html" target="_top" title="Urban Research Loop Programme"><b>Loop Programme</b>  <img src="images/blueSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" alt="Link" title="Link" border="0"></a><br> Playing during days of Urban Research Programme<br> with:<br> Alice Bradshaw, Barbara Hindahl, Markus Jeschaunig, Rouzbeh Rashidi </p> <p><a href="framesURprogram4.html" target="_top" title="Special Screen Program Details"><b>Urban Research Special Screen</b>  <img src="images/blueSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" alt="Link" title="Link" border="0"></a><br> We will show some work in "Wohnzimmer" in the Basement<br> Times to be announced!<br> with: Anna Okrasko, Dan Boord, Daniel Kštter, Invisible Playground, Irene Pacini, Kerem Saltuk Luis Valdovino, Mark Street, Mayye Zayed, Nadav Assor, Pablo Mollenhauer, Rose Butler, Sasha Waters Freyer</p> <p><a href="http://richfilm.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" title="Urban Research Entries"><img src="images/URentries.jpg" width="208" height="125" border="0" alt="Urban Research Entries Blog" title="Urban Research Entries Blog" align="left"> Click here</a> to go to the blog on <br> Urban Research Entries<br> Find a sneak preview <br> with stills and descriptions of <br> submitted filme </p><br clear="all"> <p><a href="http://www.directorslounge.net" target="_blank" title="Directors Lounge">http://www.directorslounge.net</a> </p> <p><a href="../currentUpload/index.html" target="archive" title="back to richfilm news"><img src="images/blueSignBack.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="Back">  Back to Richfilm News</a></p> <p><a href="framesIndex.html" target="_top" title="Back to front"><img src="images/blueSignBack.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="Back">  Back</a></p> <p><a href="#top" title="up"><br><img src="images/orangeSignUp.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="up"></a></p> </td> <td><img src="images/shim.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=" "></td></tr> </table> </body>