Living Archive - KW

[Martin Ebner]

dear friends
please come and visit
LIVING ARCHIVE
at KW, Berlin

** martin




LIVING ARCHIVE
Exhibition within the framework of the festival LIVING ARCHIVE
6.--23.6.13
Opening: Wednesday, 5.6.13, 17 h


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.

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.

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.

The exhibition LIVING ARCHIVE is part of the festival of the same title, 
and is accompanied by a diverse events program.

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.


KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69
D-10117 Berlin

www.arsenal-berlin.de
www.kw-berlin.de

-- 
Martin Ebner
+49.157.36334383
www.martinebner.org
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