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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> dear friends<br>
please come and visit<br>
LIVING ARCHIVE<br>
at KW, Berlin<br>
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** martin<br>
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LIVING ARCHIVE<br>
Exhibition within the framework of the festival LIVING ARCHIVE<br>
6.–23.6.13<br>
Opening: Wednesday, 5.6.13, 17 h<br>
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Within the framework of the festival LIVING ARCHIVE, KW Institute
for Contemporary Art exhibits the results of the project LIVING
ARCHIVE – ARCHIVE WORK AS CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC AND CURATORIAL
PRACTICE. The project was initiated in das 2011 by Arsenal –-
Institute for Film and Video Art e. V., and offered artists,
curators and other researchers the opportunity to develop a
contemporary approach to the archive over a period of two years.<br>
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The participants present their research and their responses to
Arsenal’s collection with screenings, installations, collections
of materials and performances. On view are artistic as well as
academic approaches to the archive, founded 50 years ago and
containing about 8000 cinematic works.<br>
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The exhibition shows examinations of found footage in form and
content, as well as reflections on the archive as a medium and on
archival processes. Susanne Sachsse for example scrutinizes,
inspired by a record of Brecht’s DIE MUTTER at Berliner Ensemble
theater from 1958, what “serious ladies” might actually mean.
Stephan Geene shows in a performance and a film the failure of
staging a performative act. Film theorist Sabine Nessel and her
class accompany the documentary short film WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS
SHOE (Les Blank, 1980) with footage, drawing connecting lines,
providing background information and creating new relations.
Martin Ebner translates films schematically into objects
containing individual information on length and structure, and
Florian Zeyfang engages with the image between the cut of two film
shots.<br>
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The exhibition LIVING ARCHIVE is part of the festival of the same
title, and is accompanied by a diverse events program.<br>
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Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art celebrates its 50th
anniversary with the LIVING ARCHIVE festival. Over one month,
project participants present the results of their two years of
work in and with the archive. Apart from the exhibition at KW, the
festival will include book and DVD presentations, film programs,
performances, compositions as well as lectures and discussions
inviting to a vital and critical lecture of film history at
Arsenal.<br>
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art<br>
Auguststr. 69<br>
D-10117 Berlin<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.kw-berlin.de">www.kw-berlin.de</a><br>
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