Artists frequently incorporate elements from classic movies, cinematic techniques, and pop culture into their work. These references are often explored, questioned, or subverted through reenactment. Video artist Ming Wong exemplifies this approach, focusing on the reenactment of cult films in his work. His video installation Devo Partire. Domani / I must go. Tomorrow (2010, 19:55 min) is a queer adaptation of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film Teorema (Theorem, 1968), amplifying its social critique through irony. This event uses Wong’s work to explore the potential of artistic reenactment and provide a contemporary context for Pasolini’s social commentary. This engaging event begins with a screening and a performance. Attendees are encouraged to watch Teorema at Babylon Kino on October 27 before participating.

Conceived by Feben Amara and Karin Michalski, this event is a collaboration between the n.b.k. Video-Forum and the European Media Studies program at the University of Potsdam.

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Karin Michalski works as film and video art curator, artist and lecturer. Her curatorial work includes a contribution to the DFF (Deutsches Filminstitut Filmmuseum) Rhizome Film History: Queer Cinema - "counter-narratives" and cinematic experiments.

Ming Wong is a Berlin-based, Singapore born artist working with cinema and popular culture to consider the construction, reproduction and circulation of identity. Recent exhibitions include Ten Thousand Suns, Biennale of Sydney (2024); Signals: How Video Transformed The World, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); Pier Paolo Pasolini: Tutto è santo. The political body, MAXXI, Rome (2022); Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2022). His most recent performance piece Rhapsody in Yellow has been shown at steirischer herbst, Graz (2022), Berliner Festspiele and SpielArt Festival Munich (2023), Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen, Hannover, and Esplanade, Singapore (2024).