[spectre] 6-8 Nov 2009 | Transitland Destination Berlin: Eastern & Central European Video Art at .CHB Berlin

[stephen kovats]

Dear Spectrites!

We would like to invite you to join us for Transitland Destination  
Berlin (TDB) this weekend at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB).

 From today afternoon, Friday, 6 November until Sunday evening, 8  
November 2009 - so just prior to the 20th anniversary of the fall of  
the Berlin Wall - TDB celebrates the launch of the digital  
Transitland video archive comprising Eastern European video art from  
the past 20 years!

A three-day special programme of discussions, performances, and  
screenings curated by Diana McCarty (programme) and Kathy Rae  
Huffmann (screenings) will deliver a context to the archive, which  
itself will simultaneously be made accessible to the public by hands- 
on viewing stations at the .CHB. Highlighting the ongoing work of  
"New Europe", TDB moreover premieres the 5 commissioned video works  
of the Transitland project as well as the Transitland publication.

Below a brief overview of the programme. For more detailed  
information on complete schedules for Friday - Sunday, content,  
artists and participants please go to the links below:

http://transitland.eu
www.transmediale.de

TDB Programme 6 - 8 November 2009

.CHB | Dorotheenstr. 12 | 10117 Berlin | Free entry

TDB Friday, 6 November

17:00 - Opening Remarks
by Stephen Kovats (artistic director of transmediale festival for art  
and digital culture, Berlin )
and Dr. Vera Baksa-Soós (Moholy-Nagy Galerie at CHB, Direction)

17:30 - Introduction to the Transitland Archive/ Screening Programme
by Margarita Dorovska (InterSpace Association Sofia, Bulgaria;  
project manager Transitland)
and Kathy Rae Huffman (curator Transitland)

18:00 - The Aesthetics of 1989: Mauerfall and Romanian Revolution
Discussion with Gusztáv Hámos (filmmaker) and Hito Steyerl (filmmaker)
Moderation: Doreen Mende (critic)

20:30 Eastern Contemporaries: The Young Artists
Discussion with Hajnal Nemeth (artist), Sophia Tabatadze (artist) and  
Anri Sala (artist)
Moderation: Diana McCarty

22:00 – 00:30 Late Night Screening
Screening the Transitland archive with an introduction by project  
curator Kathy Rae Huffman. Screening in two parts, each 60 minutes.


TDB Saturday, 7 November

15:00 Transitland Publication Presentation
Extensive presentation of the publication accompanying the  
Transitland project by the editor of the book Edit Andras (Ludwig  
Museum Budapest).

16:00 Transitland Commission Presentations
Transitland project commissioned 5 new video works by young artists  
from the "New Europe". The worksand the artists will firstly be  
introduced and presented by Stephen Kovats (artistic director of  
transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin)

18:00 - Reunification and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: Images from the  
Wars.
Discussion between Dunja Blazevic (Director of the Sarajevo Centre  
for Contemporary Art) and Boris Buden (Theorist)

21:00 - Integration Impossible: Performative Video Talk by Tanja Ostojic

22:00 - 01:00 Living in Your Time: Party with Tigrics
Tigrics (Robert Berezneyei) joins up with András Szönyi (both  
Hungary) to combine the finest electronic music with electronic piano  
for an inspired and engaging musical extravaganza. Drinks available  
at the bar.


TDB Sunday, 8 November

12:00 - Kanal X Brunch with Norbert Meissner
Presentation of DIY television, utopic visions of media, a bit of  
nostalgia and a Berlin brunch.

14:00 - 19:00 Transitland Screening Program in 3 parts
14:00 – 15:30  In the streets
15:45 – 17:00  Traumas and transitions
17:30 – 19:00  Journeys



Transitland EUROPA is a collaborative EU Culture 2007 project  
organised by InterSpace [Sofia], transmediale [Berlin] and ACAX/ 
Ludwig Museum [Budapest] to create a video archive of 100 works  
spanning the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The archive  
of 100 works includes works, produced in the period 1989-2008 and  
newly commissioned videos (produced in 2009). The works have been  
selected by a jury of external experts and curators. The output  
includes archive jukeboxes and thematic compilations that travel to  
different venues in Europe, a website for international information,  
a print publication as well as a DVD compilation of the commissioned  
videos. TDB is the final Transitland event following a combination of  
screenings and discursive events in Bulgaria, Hungary and associated  
partners’ locations.


Discussions from Transitland Destination Berlin will be broadcast on  
Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin.



www.transitland.eu
www.transmediale.de
www.hungaricum.de
www.i-space.org
www.ludwigmuseum.hu
www.herbstradio.org



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stephen kovats
artistic director
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