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Multi-perspective Vision in Film, Literature and Visual Arts

Saturday, May 16, 2020 – Sunday, May 31, 2020

Symposium
Online Program
In German and English

Online program with Martin Beck, Volker Pantenburg, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Marlene Streeruwitz, Klaus Theweleit, Luca Vitone

The online program Reality – Fiction at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) focuses on artistic practices that explore hidden dimensions of reality in the interplay of reality and fiction, and which allow the not-yet-conceived, the not-yet-perceived, or even the historically repressed to become visible.


The attempt to take possession of the world of objects and images by means of speculative narratives and to formulate new perspectives on politics and society can be found in numerous aesthetic practices. In Éloge de l’amour (In Praise of Love, 2001), one of Jean-Luc Godard’s later works, the filmmaker refers to the philosopher Henri Bergson: “You can only think about something if you think of something else.” As one of the most influential directors of the 1960s and key proponent of the Nouvelle Vague art film movement, Godard created a cinematic language that rejects illustrative gestures and relies instead on a multi-perspective view committed to critical analysis of the present.


Godard’s late films refer to a way of seeing that does not yet exist or is still developing — viewing in layers with an archaeological eye, which does not structure the world from a center, but rather offers an imaginative historical orientation in numerous directions. Based on Godard’s visual language, the contributions to the online program Reality – Fiction discuss how history, social movements, suppressed forms of existence, excluded knowledge, and the transgression of boundaries are formulated in film, literature, and visual art in a multi-perspective way.



Program

Saturday, May 16, 2020 – Sunday, May 31, 2020


Catastrophies and Memory. Reality-Fiction in the late films of Jean-Luc Godard

Klaus Theweleit (Cultural theorist, Freiburg)

Text contribution

In German


Fictional formations running through reality

Volker Pantenburg (Professor of Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin; Harun Farocki Institute, Berlin)

Text contribution

In German


Psychosis as an instrument of knowledge production

Marlene Streeruwitz (Writer and director, Vienna, London and New York)

and Martin Beck (Philosopher, curator, and author; research fellow Berlin University of the Arts)

Reading and conversation

In German


Romanistan

Luca Vitone (Artist, Milan)

Film and conversation with Ana Teixeira Pinto (Cultural theorist and writer, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem; Leuphana University Lüneburg)


About the participants:

Martin Beck

lives in Berlin and is a philosopher, curator, and writer in the field of visual arts.

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Volker Pantenburg

lives in Berlin and has been Professor of Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin since October 2016.

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Ana Teixeira Pinto

is a writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin.

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Marlene Streeruwitz

(*1950 in Baden / Austria) lives in Vienna, Berlin, London, and New York and works as a writer and director.

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Klaus Theweleit

(*1942 in Ebenrode / East Prussia) lives in Freiburg and is a literary scholar, cultural theorist, and writer.

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Luca Vitone

(*1964 in Genoa) lives in Berlin and Milan, where he has taught at the Nuova Accademia Belle Arti since 2006.

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