[spectre] Bitte um Forward: ÅMX.06 Midsommar Flicks, 16-18 June 2006, Malmö/Sweden

[christian schult]

Liebe Inke Arns, lieber Andreas Broeckmann,

Ich würde mich freuen wenn Sie angefügte Ankündigung zu den Open air film screenings in Malmö an die Abonnenten der SPECTRE-Liste weiterleiten würden. Ich bin Ko-Initiator des Programms in dessen Rahmen die Screenings stattfinden. 

Vielen Dank und mit besten Gruessen!

Christian Schult





ÅMX.06 Midsommar Flicks

Open air film screenings from 16 to 18 June 2006

Parking lot outside Signal
Södra Skolgatan 31 Malmö/Sweden
Free Admission


Friday 16 June 2006
19:00  Magnus Gertten and Stefan Berg: Far till staden. Sweden 2001, 57 min
20:00  Arbetarrörelsens filmkomitté: Vi och vår stad. Sweden 1938, 10 min
21:30  Max Kestner: Blue Collar White Christmas. Denmark 2002, 80 min

Saturday 17 June 2006
19:00	Susi Pietsch: La Llave de sus Sueños. Spain/Germany 2004, 59 min
20:30	Alina Rudnitskaya: Communal Residence. Russia 2002, 13 min
21:30	Jem Cohen: Chain. USA/Germany 2004, 99 min

Sunday 18 June 2006
19:00	Alexander Kluge: The Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless. West Germany 1968, 99 min
21:30	Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle. France 1973, 88 min


ÅMX.06 (Århus Malmö Exchange Programme 2006) in collaboration with exhibition space Signal invites you to the ÅMX.06 Midsommar Flicks, which takes place in the form of evening film screenings between 16-18 June 2006.  Eight films relating to the notion of public and public sphere are shown, and all screenings are free of charge and open to the public.

The film screening is an outcome of a four months reading group that met in Signal to read and discuss texts dealing with notions of public and public sphere.  As the group began to respond and question the various ideas on the formation of the public sphere posed by writers such as Jürgen Habermas, Michael Warner, Virginia Woolf, Henri Lefebvre, Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, this led to drawing parallels and connections about the role of cultural production from political, social, and personal perspectives.  Constructing a film program consisting of works made by some of the authors read in the reading group, or by others who touch upon the notion of public and public sphere, is an attempt to open the forum of discussion with a wider community of people and to consider together the spaces where the creative process, political and social action may meet.  

With the evening film screenings as a focal point, the ÅMX Midsommar Flicks will present in conjunction with the events, two additional materials that encompass the offshoots of ideas and discussions during the months of reading as a group, and additional relevant material.  One such component is a distribution of a booklet that houses research on the public and local context made by each of the participants, and a contribution by Gunnar Sandin and Annelie Nilsson (Los Angeles Islands).  The second is a consumable piece, rh-protocol, made by Finnish artist Piia Salmi, who has made a project of examining the communal gardens in and around Malmö, and has gathered rhubarb from various gardens that she has visited.  

The films presented point to notions of public and public sphere in urban contexts that are embedded in times of change, a change that is tending towards monolithic impositions rather than something that has risen from a plurality of voices below.  The collated material from the reading group presented with the screening is an attempt at a modest but a pertinent contribution to voices that can become a fabric of counterpoint to the mainstream.  The project wishes to provoke the inhabitants to reflect upon their everyday life and glean ideas or new ways of seeing and being that may become concrete manifestations.

For more information please contact

Signal
++46 (0)40 979210
info at signal-galleri.org
http://www.signal-galleri.org


The Århus Malmö Exchange Programme 2006 is initiated by Ditte Lyngkaer Pedersen, Jee-Eun Kim and Christian Schult, in association with C-SAM center for samtidskunst and rum46 in Århus, and Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art and Signal in Malmö

ÅMX.06 is supported by C-SAM via Århus Kulturudviklingspulje, Århus Amt, Critical Studies at Malmö Art Academy, NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art/Sleipnir Travel Grants and Signal.






















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