contemporary art and media
For A Better Tomorrow: Submission Deadline extended till 1. Jan 2012
You asked for it and we´ve been listening. To ensure everyone can enjoy the holidays and celebrate the art of laziness we extended the chance to submit your work for The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge till the 1. of January 2012.
Your humble Team DL
The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2012
9th – 19th February 2012, 11 days of contemporary art, film and media
Naherholung Sternchen, right behind the Kino International
more soon, submit now
“I’m not supposed to speak to strangers, but we’ve met before”, 2011 from the series: “Once Upon A Time” by Julia Murakami, Alu-Dibond, lambda print under acrylic glass, 19.2 x 27.6 inch
Directors Lounge at the Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.) , World Heritage Site Zollverein
The Zollverein World Heritage Site – also known as “the world’s most beautiful coal mine” – today the most famous industrial monument and centre of the creative industry in the Ruhr area.
Building A12, Directors Lounge, Berlin with Ina Otzko, D. Kimm & Brigitte Henry, Marie Losier, Julia Murakami, Alexei Dmitriev, Guy Maddin, Coleman Miller, Alan Smithee, Triny Prada, Fabiana Roscioli, André Werner, Clint Enns, Usama Alshaibi and others …
contemporary art ruhr 2011, the innovative art fair
Zollverein XII World Heritage Site building A2, A6, A5, A12, A 7/ red dot design museum, outdoor area
official opening
Fri, 28 October 2011, 8 p.m. at Zollverein World Heritage Site in Essen, V.I.P.-Preview: 6 p.m.
public fair days
Sat, 29 October 2011, 12 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Sun, 30 October 2011, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
location
Zollverein XII World Heritage Site
Gelsenkirchener Straße 181
45309 Essen, Germany
day ticket
12,- € / 10,-€
DL: short cuts to Japan
Directors Lounge presents experimental films all around Japan
We will participate in this year´s 日本デ , the 10th Japan-Day in Duesseldorf, celebrating the 150 anniversary of Japanese-German diplomatic relations.
DL: Short Cuts to Japan, screened on october, 15 at the Black Box cinema will be dedicated to Japan in experimental cinema and video art. Films included will cover a wide range of “Japans”, from fictional to historical to personal…
films by Ciro Altabás, Marina Chernikova, André Werner, Yukihiro Taguchi, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Matthew Dotson & Bart Woodstrop, Anders Weberg & Robert Willim, GUP-py, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Akinori Okada & Masataka Ohta (pictured: Ansoku No Basyo, 2010)
curated by Julia Murakami
many thanks to Sascha Lueck and whiteconcepts for their support!
Black Box Kino im Filmmuseum , Schulstr. 4, 40213 Duesseldorf
October 15, 2011, 8 pm (admission free!)
program
Une Nuit Blanche dans le 11e
video works by Fabiana Roscioli, André Werner, Julia Murakami and Alan Smithee will be shown at the Mairie du 11.e as part of Contemporary Art Ruhr in Paris during the Nuit Blanche in Paris.
A special all-media, cross-cultural exhibition featuring the highlights from our partners, the C.A.R. art fair in Essen, Germany, alongside original contemporary artworks by French artists debuting at the Mairie du 11.e 2011 on October 1, 2011 from 7pm till 1am.
Mairie du 11.e, 12, Place Léon Blum, 75536 Paris, métro : Voltaire / Léon Blum
participating artists: Michael Camellini, Claude Chuzel, Christophe Dentin, Cyril Hatt, Peter Buchwald, Marta Colombo, SebastianFritzsch, Petra Göbel, Wanja Richter-Koppitz, Hans Joachim Kasselmann, Wolfgang Kleber, Kristin Loehr, Ralf Raßloff, André Chi Sing Yuen, Valentina Boneva, Steffen Müller, Thomas Koczok, Swoboda, milz: Simon Deeg and Andreas Picker, Laudius Lazzeroni, Manuel Schroeder, Tour de Vinyl, Philipp Schumacher, Fabiana Roscioli, André Werner, Julia Murakami and Alan Smithee…
A lounge at the Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma
Meet us at the lounge area of the MACRO (Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma) Testaccio for a special evening on Sunday, September 4th from 7pm on, with assorted video loops by Julia Murakami /Alan Smithee, André Werner and Fabiana Roscioli.
further details here
via artresort
3.-5. June at the Zollverein world heritage site
contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) is an innovative and dynamic fair format. Since 2006 C.A.R. comes two times a year, as a media art fair in summer, emphasizing video and media art, installations, performances, environmental sculptures, multimedia projects and contemporary photograpy. In autumn with a more classical art fair for contemporary art – C.A.R. . covers the entire spectrum of fine arts and their most important current influences.
We will present assorted highlights from the 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge, alongside new works, installations and photography. Due to the nature of an art fair we will focus on non-narrative and short works.
Artists included (just to name a few)
Julia Murakami, Michael Nyman, Joachim Seinfeld, André Werner, Alexei Dmitriev, Ofir Feldman, Nicolas Ramel, Octavian Fedorovici, Ron Diorio, Maria Niro, Bruce Knox, Kika Nicolela, Max Hattler, Michaela Nettell, Joanna Hoffmann, Claudia Guilino, Sergio Cruz, Patricia Shrigley, Eunjung Hwang, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Danny Warner, Eric Dyer, Ryley O´Byrne and the Happy Famous Artists
pictured: still from caustics, installation,Andre Werner, 2011
Experiments in Cinema v6.3!
Directors Lounge visits Experiments in Cinema:
On April 15th DL will hit the screen in Albuquerque with some of our favourite films by Keith Sanborn, Eric Dyer, Jean-Gabriel Périot, André Werner, Max Hattler and Ken Paul Rosenthal (Ken will be there in person!).
So if you are in New Mexico drop in to see what we’ve compiled. And don’t forget to watch the other programs (curated by our mate Bryan Konefsky, pictured here) that include the works by Gerard Freixes Ribera, Jodie Mack, Jeanne Liotta, Kerry Laitala, Wago Kreider, Marie Losier, Scott Stark and Martha Colburn.
Experiments in Cinema – Albuquerque’s annual celebration of international cinematic experimentation!
Witness cinema like you’ve never it seen before! Experiments in Cinema is an annual, Albuquerque-based festival that celebrates recent trends in international, cinematic experimentation and offers a variety of ways in which attendees might think about the history of media representation and participate in shaping future trends in cultural representation. To this end we are deeply invested in year-long outreach efforts where we travel our festival to schools around New Mexico to inspire a new generation of home grown filmmakers to create movies in ways we might never have imagined possible.
This 5 day event consists of film screenings, lectures, workshops and thoughtful dialogue, always.
We are screening assorted highlights at the prestigious Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) as part of NOT A CAR, a special all-media, cross-cultural exhibition featuring the highlights from our partners, the C.A.R. art fair in Essen, Germany, alongside original contemporary artworks by Los Angeles artists debuting at Gallery 825 on April 9, 2011. Exhibit runs through April 29, 2011.
program I
Alexei Dmitriev Dubus 4 min
Coleman Miller US Uso Justo 22 min 2005
Thorsten Fleisch DE Dromosphäre 10 min 2010
Nicolas Ramel FR A/V Sketch#3 40s 2010
Octavian Fedorovici RO Casablanca 1PM 1min 2008
Julia Smith US Grand Teton 4 min 1s 2010
Gunter Deller DE Riverrun and Touchdown 7 min 40s 2009
Ryley O´Byrne CA Maenad 2 min 45s 2010
Ron Diorio US Winter Wind 3 min 1s 2009
Maria Niro US Glitch Telemetry ca 3 min 2010
Kika Nicolela FR/BR Passenger 5min 2007
Bruce Knox DE Danger Global Warming 7min 3s 201
Sergio Cruz UK Hannah 5 min30s 2010
Ofir Feldman Poetic Account 1 min
Chema Garcia Ibarra ES The Attack Of The Robots From Nebula-5 6min 20s 2008
KRONCK (aka Maximilian Gerlach & Jessica Benzing) Thank You Third World
Max Hattler DE Spin 4 min 2010
Julia Murakami/Alan Smithee lost masterpieces #1 ((red) 2010
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program II
Chiara Ambrosio The Crossing 3min 31s
Chiara Ambrosio Whale 4 min 52s
Eric Dyer US Copenhagen Cycles 6 min 37s
Mark Maxwell Naturaleza Muerta 29 min 2011
Chiara Ambrosio Charon 12 min 16s Musical score Michael Nyman
Jean-Gabriel Périot 200-000 phantoms 10 min
in cooperation with Myriam Blundell Projects
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program III
A Journey Through The Symbols – selected video works by André Werner
The weary traveler must clear his own path through the thicket, must find the passages in this labyrinth of symbols. Here the glimpse of a distant female beauty, there a delightful garden; a gold-glittering speck of color draws the traveler and he finds himself entranced… The viewing of a shape, somehow familiar, sets the mind running at full force, tracing distant memories. Expectations crystalize into clear formulations; the eye strives to match the moving pieces into a distinct wholeness. But the process of pasting together the individual tiles, of trying to derive one whole unified object from this melting pot of images, fails. The arrayed bits of meaning waver and… dissolve.
All that remains are the pictures and colors, the shapes and our traveler’s imaginations – The journey carries on in the mind of the beholder. Anja Osswald
A Journey Through The Symbols combines videos from the last twenty years, many of them will be screened in US premiere