AKTIONSART is pleased to present a screening of Untitled (2010), by Sue de Beer, and A Little Wonder (2010), by Rainer Judd, curated by Julia Fryett for KINO TOTAL. Both films will be screened consecutively at Bourouina Gallery in Berlin on Saturday, May 14th, from 11am – 6pm, and distributed on the KINO TOTAL website for the duration of the exhibition.

KINO TOTAL is a reference about movies and moving images and its relations to recipients from the art world. Artists, critics and gallerists were asked to present their movie, clip or video of particular interest.  KINO TOTAL presents the selected movies in a private screening room in a daily changing program.

Curatorial Statement

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.” -Aldous Huxley

These two short films present personal content through intimate portraiture and public form through an embeddable distribution model.

Julia Fryett

About KINO TOTAL

The project includes participations from: Guido W. Baudach, Thea Djordjadze, Julia Fryett, Katharina Grosse,Mark Guisbourne, Eberhard Havekost, Lothar Hempel, Georg Herold, Birgitta Homburger & Florian Lambl, Gregor Hildebrandt, Niels Borch Jensen, Birte Kleemann, Alexander Koch, Nicola Kuhn, Matt Lambert, Ulrich Loock, Jonathan Meese, Dominikus Müller, Henrikke Nielsen, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Thibaut de Ruyter, Aurel Scheibler, Michael Sailstorfer, Karin Sander, Société, Heidi Specker, Birgit Sonna, Ute Stuffer, Heinz Peter Schwerfel, Annika von Taube, Yann Toma, Monika Branicka & Asia Zak.

KinoTotal is initiated and organized by Amel Bourouina and Markus Draper.

Bourouiana Gallery is located at Charlottenstrasse 1-2 , 10969 Berlin

Each year, Six Scents Parfums invites six fashion designers to create a limited edition fragrance based around a central concept. In addition, a group of artists are invited to interpret the theme through film. Six Scents Series Three represents an exploration into the nature of childhood memories and each of the films portray the unavoidable transition from innocence to experience. Series Three features fragrances by Alexis Mabille, Mary Katrantzou, Junn.J, Rad Hourani, N.Hoolywood and Ohne Titel presented in individually numbered boxes, each containing a DVD of short films curated by Carmen Zita that includes artwork by Alia Raza, Rainer Judd, Olaf Breuning, Sue De Beer, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Heather Sommerfeld, Tim Richardson, Lucas Michael and James Widegren.

A Little Wonder, by Rainer Judd, was inspired by Martin Prechtel’s quote, “All wars are the result of a failure to grieve.” This short autobiographical film explores creativity as a passageway out of an environment of conflict, as a young girl uses her imagination to escape a hostile argument between her parents. The abstract narrative concludes with the young girl drawing as the camera pans up to show the artist as the grown child.

Sue de Beer’s Untitled, began as an exploration of memories of perfume bottles resting on the bathroom sinks of favorite hotels, and plays out as an arresting image of a young woman slowly removing her clothes in a hotel room.

The artworks are available to view on Vimeo and will also be shown in high quality on MUBI.

Six Scents Series Three will be offered in a limited quantity of 3,000 units and will be available at over 220 retailers worldwide including Opening Ceremony (New York), Seven New York (New York), Lucky Scents (Los Angeles), Liberty (London), Colette (Paris), 10 Corso Como (Seoul & Milan), and Adelaide (Tokyo) for $149.00 each.

A portion of the proceeds from Series Three will be donated to War Child. War Child works tirelessly to help children whose lives have been torn apart by conflict, providing them with the means to build a brighter future.

Carmen Zita has extensive experience working as an art advisor, an independent curator and an editor. She presently works for The Heller Group, a premier art advisory firm that specializes in advising some of the world’s most prominent collectors in Post-War and Contemporary art.

For media inquiries please contact info@aktionsart.org

Feature is presented both on an online cinema, MUBI Garage, and Big Screen Project, an outdoor cinema in midtown Manhattan.  A sequence of artist interviews and educational materials will also be released in MUBI Garage Production Notes.

The first program, Feature I, presents work by artists Burt Barr, Sue de Beer, Jeremy Blake, Rainer Judd, Jillian Mayer, Michael Lee Nirenberg and Carlo Zanni. On view are the online global premieres of Sprinkler (2010) and Dolly Shot Twice (2000) by Burt Barr; Untitled (Claire Buckingham) (2010) by Sue de Beer; Winchester Redux (2004) by Jeremy Blake; A Little Wonder (2010) by Rainer Judd; and Divorcees (2010), by Michael Lee Nirenberg.

Feature launches Friday, November 12th, 2010 on MUBI and will rotate on an ongoing basis on Big Screen Project. The first week of screening times for Big Screen Project are Wednesday, 11/17, 11:30 AM; Friday, 11/19, 9:00 AM; and Saturday, 11/20, 9:30 PM. For the most current schedule of screenings, visit the Big Screen Project calendar.

MUBI
MUBI is an online destination to watch, discover, and discuss independent, international, and classic cinema. At its core, MUBI is an online movie theater that makes great films from around the world easily accessible through high quality video streaming. MUBI recently launched a PlayStation Application in over 18 countries that allows anyone with a PS3 to watch MUBI films directly on their TV. MUBI Garage is a laboratory, a factory, a series of arguments and discussions and actions towards a new direction in independent filmmaking. The Garage is a call for manifestos in the form of the moving image.

THE BIG SCREEN PROJECT
The Big Screen Project’s outdoor digital arts and culture wall is a 30 ft. x 16.5 ft. HD screen located in a public plaza behind at 6th Avenue between 29th and 30th Street in New York City. The content shown is eclectic ranging from the best in the arts, cinema, and new media to sports and video gaming. The vision is to expose the general public to fresh cultural content and to raise awareness, entertain, and inspire. The screen shows a diverse schedule of daily programming organized into conceptual blocks.

For media inquiries please contact info@aktionsart.org

]]> http://www.aktionsart.org/archives/424/feed 0 http://www.aktionsart.org/archives/377 http://www.aktionsart.org/archives/377#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:04:15 +0000 AKTIONSART http://www.aktionsart.org/?p=377 This interview was published in the December 2010 issue of The Art Street Journal.

The text can also be viewed here.

AKTIONSART and American Patrons of Tate present Bill Viola in conversation with Stuart Comer, Curator of Film at Tate Modern. The artist will be discussing his upcoming video installation commission for St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, opening in Spring 2011.

Following is an excerpt of the artist speaking about his installation for the Venice Biennale in 2007.

May 23, 2010

Crosby Street Hotel, New York

AKTIONSART presents Sue de Beer at the Crosby Street Hotel: a private screening of “The Quickening” and “Sister” in the movie theater, followed by a conversation with the artist and Alissa Bennett.

Sue de Beer has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in such venues as the New Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, PS1/MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, Marianne Boesky, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Los Angeles, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Neue Gallerie in Austria, the MuHKA Museum in Antwerp, and the Museum of Modern Art, Busan, in Busan, South Korea. De Beer’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Goetz Collection. She received her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1998 and lives and works in NYC.

Writer Alissa Bennett’s work has appeared in exhibition catalogues at Anton Kern Gallery, Team Gallery, and numerous small press publications and literary quarterlies. She wrote the script for Sister, which we just saw. Her work is regularly commissioned by Sue de Beer as well as fellow video artist Aida Ruilova. Alissa lives and works in New York.

AKTIONSART and American Patrons of Tate present “Collecting Video Art”, a panel discussion with the world’s foremost video art collector, Pamela Kramlich, Jack Lane (Director, New Art Trust) and Frances Morris (Head of Collections, Tate). The conversation will focus on how Mrs. Kramlich and her husband collect new media and partner with cultural institutions to preserve and share their collection with future generations. Sir Nicholas Serota, director of Tate, will join us.

Pamela and Richard Kramlich founded the New Art Trust in 1997 with the goal of advancing media arts through the support of research and scholarship in the field. NAT has since formed a partnership with three major museums – MoMA, SFMOMA, and Tate – dedicated to public education and intensive research related to the special requirements of media artworks.

"TV Buddha", by Nam June Paik

AKTIONSART presents “Street Tapes”, a film screening that surveys how artists use new technologies to investigate urban life and public space. The contemporary genre of street art is traced from the moment when the Lumiere brothers invented the cinematographe and created the first motion picture in 1895. Long before moving image became defined by commercial filmmaking, artists used the camera to create non-narrative shorts and capture ephemeral images of city life. While not commonly related to contemporary notions of street art, these early films are an integral component of the historical lineage.

The program title references the ‘street tape’ style of filmmaking that emerged in the early seventies in New York City when Andy Mann began to use the first portable videocassette recorder, the Sony Portapak. Following his lead, other artists such as Gordon Matta-Clark took this new technology to the streets and developed a style that emphasized art as real life, with a minimum of editing and acting. Though the technology and methods of interacting with the street constantly change, the artists included in this screening all share the common ideology that provokes street art. The same impetus that drove the Lumiere brothers to capture images of the street translates to contemporary practice utilizing new media and digital distribution platforms such as YouTube and mobile phones. The work presented moves between traditional fine art boundaries and represents documentation, performance, fine art objects, experimental film and commercial feature films.

FILM SCHEDULE

Lumiére Brothers, “Workers Leaving the Factory”, 1895
Lumiére Brothers, “Demolition of a Wall”, 1896
Lumiére Brothers, “New York: Broadway at Union Square”, 1896
Rainer Judd, “Instant End”, 1988
Kama, “Escalator Animation”, 2009
Gordon Matta-Clark, “Splitting”, 1974
Vhils, “Scratching the Surface”, 2009
Andy Mann, “One Eyed Bum”, 1974
JR, “Extrait Women Are Heroes”, 2009
Robin Rhode, “Unfufilled (Spade for Spade)”, 2005
Robin Rhode, “Empty Pockets”, 2008
Sam 3, “Water Kiss”, 2008
Duke Riley, “Belmont Island S.M.E.A.C.C.”, 1995
Barnstormers, “Scrounge”, 2006
Blu and David Ellis, “Combo”, 2009

Curated by Julia Fryett and Sara and Marc Schiller.

Still from "Women are Heroes", by JR