[spectre] transmediale.03: newsletter - screenings and lectures

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Newsletter 24.01.2003

transmediale.03
[play global!]
Artistic Strategies for the Global Game
More program information:
http://www.transmediale.de

Screenings and Lectures
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1. transmediale.03 - Screenings
2. Peter Greenaway: The Tulse Luper Cases
3. Heidrun Holzfeind: the day after tomorrow
4. Ressler / Azzellini: disobbedienti
5. Chong / Cornaro: The End of Travelling
6. Permanent Transit / 'Holiday Camp' Woomera
7. Howrah Howrah / Sarajevo Guided Tours
8. transmediale.03 - Lectures

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1. transmediale.03 - Screenings

A sizable part of the videos, which have been submitted for the transmediale
Award, are documentaries dealing with the festival's motto 'Play Global!'
Therefore the screenings are divided in two categories for the first time: T=
he
competition screenings show thematically arranged artistic works, while the
documentary screenings compile videos, which use the media for both, an
artistically and documentary approach. The special screenings show works, wh=
ich
earn a particular conception, as for example the 'Best of
transmediale.03'-selection.

All screenings take place in the House of World Cultures.
(John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, www.hkw.de)
Admission: EUR 5, reduced EUR 4

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2. Peter Greenaway: The Tulse Luper Cases

'The Tulse Luper Suitcases' is an ambitious audiovisual project by director
Peter Greenaway (uk/nl); films, DVDs, television, the Web, books, interactiv=
e
DVDs and an exhibition are combined to stage the story of the picaresque
adventures of Tulse Luper. The Tulse Luper Suitcases covers some sixty years=
 of
recent history from 1928 when Uranium was discovered, to the collapse of the
Berlin Wall in 1989. Tulse Luper is caught up in a life of prisons. Luper us=
es
his prison time inventing projects in literature, theatre, film and painting=
,
and engaging with his jailers in all manner of plots and adventures. 
The central
exhibit of the conference is a collection of 92 suitcases. 92 appropriately
being the atomic number of Uranium, the element that in the 20th century
replaced the value of Gold after the bombing of Hiroshima. At the
transmediale.03 Peter Greenaway will speak on the background and full scope =
of
The Tulse Luper Suitcases project.

Presentation: Peter Greenaway gb/nl) - The Tulse Luper Suitcases
Wednesday 5. February, 16.00 hrs
House of World Cultures

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3. Heidrun Holzfeind: the day after tomorrow

'The Romanians' Aurelia and Peter Plischa came to Austria in 1990 to escape =
the
dictatorship in Romania. They discuss the current political and 
social situation
in Romania and their life in Austria, their work at the local factory, their
sorrows and dreams.
'Corviale, il serpentone' offers glimpses into the life of occupants of the =
1km
long housing complex in the periphery of Rome. The inhabitants discuss probl=
ems
like the mismanagement, lack of infrastructure and prejudices which 
characterise
Corviale as a ghetto with high unemployment, criminality and drug abuse.
'Three Things I like' is a portrait of Fabian, a 19 year old Mexican who liv=
es
in New York and works as a busboy in an Italian restaurant. He is most worri=
ed
about money and his career, how to pay for school, rent, internet and his
passion: sneakers. What he likes the most about the USA, he says grinning, a=
re:
the opportunities, McDonald=92s and the green bills ...

Special Screening [01] Heidrun Holzfeind - the day after tomorrow
The Romanians, 15:00, Corviale, il serpentone, 34:00, Three Things I 
like, 14:00
Sunday, 2. February, 21.00 hrs

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4. Ressler / Azzellini: disobbedienti

Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations agains=
t
the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. The 'Tute Bianche' were the white-clad
Italian activists who used their bodies - protected by foam rubber, tires,
helmets, gas masks, and homemade shields - in direct acts and demonstrations=
 as
weapons of civil disobedience. At the G8 summit in Genoa the 'Tute Bianche'
decided to take off their trademark white overalls and instead blend in the
multitude of 300,000 demonstration participants. The transition from the 'Tu=
te
Bianche' to the Disobbedienti, the disobedients, also marked a development f=
rom
'civil disobedience' to 'social disobedience.' The repressive actions by the
police force in Genoa brought the practice of social disobedience in from th=
e
streets to the most diverse social realms.

Screening Documentary [01] disobbedienti
Oliver Ressler (at) in cooperation with Dario Azzellini (it): 
disobbedienti, 54:00
Saturday 1. February, 12.00 hrs

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5. Chong / Cornaro: The End of Travelling

'The End of Travelling' investigates the impact of globalisation on Asian
contemporary art. It observes the phenomenon of an increasing interest in As=
ian
art, the importance of the political aspect of the work in relationship to
post-colonial histories and the overall relationship to the international ar=
t
market. The documentary is constructed around interviews with artists 
Heri Dono,
Ken Lum, Lee Wen and Wong Hoy Cheong, exploring their practice as well as
uncovering the personal stories involved while they produce work in differen=
t
urban conditions around the world.

Screening Documentary [03] The End of Travelling
Heman Chong, Isabelle Cornaro (sg/fr): The End of Travelling, 53:00
Monday, 3. February, 18.00 hrs

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6. Permanent Transit / 'Holiday Camp' Woomera

'Permanent Transit' is a journey through 10 countries between East and West,
glimpsed only through the frames of various windows. These constantly shifti=
ng
landscapes are woven together with multiple layers of everyday sounds and th=
e
scraps of a dozen stories from the lives of ex-patriots, exiles, refugees,
itinerants, children of divorce and children of immigrants. All of these
documentary elements ultimately feed into and complement the absurd,
appropriated, overarching narrative of a traveller who becomes trapped in no
man's land between the borders.

Ali and Baqir, two young Afghan refugees and ex-inmates of the 
Woomera detention
center, share stories from their four-year long journey for asylum. They are
Hazara, a religiously persecuted minority in Afghanistan, who fled from the
Taliban, through various countries. They talk about their life and experienc=
es
in Woomera, and discuss the insecurity of living under a restricted three-ye=
ar
visa, after being released from this prison. The pivotal action of the
documentary is the 2002 Woomera detention centre outbreak, which represents =
a
significant protest against the political construction of national borders.

Screening Documentary [05] Permanent Transit/ 'Holiday Camp' Woomera
Mariam Ghani (us): Permanent Transit, 21:30
drive-by-shooting, tallstoreez productionz (de), 'Holiday Camp' how is your
liberation bound up with mine? 47:00
Tuesday, 4. February, 12.00 hrs

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7. Howrah Howrah/Sarajevo Guided Tours

Howrah Station is the central station of Calcutta, India and one of the larg=
est
stations in Asia. Apart from its importance as a junction for transients and
cargo transports, Howrah Station epitomises the circuit of life of a major
Indian city. - The Film Howrah Howrah has been awarded as Best Documentary a=
t
the Interfim Short Film Festival, Berlin 2002.

Portraits of public spaces in Sarajevo and their inhabitants, private 
and public
history are woven into a fabric of architectural impressions, individual
perspectives and ideas as well as structural, factual data concerning everyd=
ay
life in a city still associated primarily with images of siege and destructi=
on.

Screening Documentary [06] Howrah Howrah/Sarajevo Guided Tours
Till Passow (de): Howrah Howrah, 26:00
Isa Rosemberger (at): Sarajevo Guided Tours, 30:38
Wednesday, 5. February, 12.00 hrs

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8. transmediale.03 - Lectures

=46ranziska Nori (de): I Love You, Samstag 1. Februar 12.00 Uhr
Dieter Daniels, Marius Babias (de): Kunst als Sendung, Sonntag 2. 
=46ebruar 15.00 Uhr
Manuela Pfrunder (ch): Neotopia, Sonntag 2. Februar, 19.00 Uhr
Monika Fleischmann (de): netzspannung.org, Sonntag 2. Februar, 20.00 Uhr
micromusic (ch): microbuilder community construction kit, Montag 3. Februar
15.00 Uhr
Isabelle Arvers (fr): Curating New Media in a Game Room, Dienstag 4. Februar
13.00 Uhr
TOI (ch): Harddisc Holidays, Dienstag 4. Februar 17.00 Uhr
Tania Ruiz Gutierres (co/cl): Morphoscopy of the Transient, Dienstag 4. Febr=
uar
19.00 Uhr
Lynn Hershman (gb) - Agent Ruby, Wednesday 5. February 18.00 hrs

All Lectures take place at the House of World Cultures, admission is free.

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transmediale.03
[play global!]
1 - 5 february 2003
international media art festival berlin
http://www.transmediale.de
info@transmediale.de
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