UPDATE: Simon Starling’s Class Visits Goethe-Institut
25 and 26 Apr 2013, 1.30 – 6 pm and 7 – 9 pm
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
On April 25th and 26th, Simon Starling and his students invite everyone interested to participate in open workshops and sharing of experiences in the form of a collaborative market, joined by a member of the Superflex artist group, Rasmus Nielsen.
The two-day program:
During both of the days, a “Market” platform is presented. A reading corner with a small selection of books previously published by the students, a viewing station with videos taken by the students in Vietnam during the project, plus an ongoing workshop focused on techniques of building the class’ mobile tent.
The tent, as the central and modular space of the project, is being constructed with bamboo, fabric and principals of Tensegrity (which uses isolated parts compressed within a net of continuous tension to make a very light collapsable structure). As a group of artists each with there own approaches, a continual pressing of the reset button occurs through discussions and questioning the best responses to each step along the way. The tent as on-going process can be re and deconstructed on this occasion for feedback and input from all people in attendance, where questions of participation, conflict and spatiality can also be challenged and negotiated.
At Noon On Thursday and Friday, please join us for a mutual dialogue about experiences and perceptions of public and private space and how they may relate to the street as a dynamic threshold. The Städelschule students, coming from different backgrounds and countries, start with threads that lead from simple activities happening in the streets of Hanoi — like crossing, eating and gathering — which at the first glance appear to be in a contrast with the same activities in Europe. We would like to start from these points to discuss how such activities reflect understandings of urban participation, movements and flows of public/space, and how such activities are respected, demarcated and reflected.
We hope these discussions could shift into a productive activity during the second day of the event, involving the publication and film group of the students and participants.
On Thursday and Friday, two open participatory exercises will take place, during the “Market” hours, focussing on methods of filmmaking and documentation:
1) Visitors will be invited to generate a simple narrative, a story in any form to be told or retold. Basic guidelines for a Goal>Conflict>Resolution system of image-based storytelling will be provided, and participants will create three short images or ‘shots’ that, assembled together represent a narrative whole.
2) Participants will take to the streets of Hanoi, equipped with a ‘wearable’ camera – a device that records a video image from a perspective other than the traditional human ‘eye level’. A set of simple instructions will lead participants through the city, whilst the camera makes decisions of its own.
The results of these exercises will be continually screened for the visitors at Goethe Institute.
On Thursday, there will be a reading session with local writers where any participants are invited to share their writings to be read and discussed together.
25th April:
13.30 – 18.00 | ‘Market’ – different workshops in the courtyard of Goethe-Institut as described above
16.00 – Reading session together with local writers
19.00 | Talk and screening by Rasmus Nielsen (from the artist group Superflex)
26th April:
13.30 – 18.00 | ‘Market’ – different workshops in the courtyard of Goethe-Institut as described above
17 – 17:30 | ‘Terrain Minimalism’ – Audio/Visual Performance by Jol Thomson
19.00 | Filmscreening and discussion between Simon Starling and Nguyen Trinh Thi with Q&A in the courtyard of Goethe-Institut, among others:
– Film by Nguyen Trinh Thi
– Film by Simon Starling: „Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima)“
(English with Vietnamese subtitles)
For more detail, please visit: www.goethe.de/vietnam, http://masvietnam.tumblr.com/ or http://www.staedelschule.de
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