The Audain Visual Artist-in-Residence program of the School for Contemporary Arts is pleased to welcome Andreas Bunte as an artist-in-residence this fall.
Bunte will carry on his own research while in Vancouver as well as interact with the students and faculty and members of the community. All are welcome free of charge at the events below.
Andreas Bunte, artist talk
Wednesday, October 1, 6pm, free
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, World Art Studio
149 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver
Andreas Bunte is a Berlin-based artist who has over the past years worked within the format of short experimental film and film installations, which frequently incorporate a variety of other media such as collages, architectural structures, sound, and texts. His installations and films examine how the interplay of architecture, technology, ideology and the human body produces different physical and psychological spaces. Bunte’s process is at once meticulous and highly imaginative, blending fiction with historical fact in order to give rise to analytical and visionary narratives. His current interests are in the genre of so-called Scientific-Research-Film and its attempt to subjugate film to the idea of utmost realism. His research focuses on the genre’s use of filmic grammar, its narrative structures as well at how its concept of “realism” relates to most recent philosophical developments such as object-oriented ontology or speculative realism.
“Deformation of Glass:” roundtable discussion with Andreas Bunte, joined by Christopher Pavsek and Judy Radul
Wednesday, October 8, 6:30pm, free
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Room 4390
149 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver
Andreas Bunte will show a selection of clips from scientific research films and related visual material. For Bunte, films and videos made for scientific research escape certain conventional languages of cinema and open conversations into media’s role in “empirical observation.” The discussion will consider the films in relation to their pretense of being pure visual information. Against their supposed task of visual demonstration, the films’ visual intensity and focus sometimes have the effect of heightening the sense of hors champs (off-screen space) and an unexpected narrative drive emerges. The conversation will consider these films in relation to recent philosophical struggles with “object oriented ontologies” and how material states unavailable to human perception might be recognized. In the case of some of these films, the camera as a form of machine vision comes to the fore. In terms of contemporary production, the work of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, and specifically the 2012 video Levianthan—shot with lightweight, remotely positioned cameras on a fishing trawler—will also be a node of conversation.
Bunte’s Audain Residence is in partnership with the Or Gallery and Republic Gallery, Vancouver, and SFU Galleries.
About Audain Visual Artist in Residence
This program brings artists and practitioners to Vancouver who have contributed significantly to the field of contemporary art and whose work resonates with local and international visual art discourses. The visiting artists interact with the students and faculty of the School for the Contemporary Arts as well as the broader visual arts and cultural communities and the community-at-large. In keeping with the experimental nature of the School for the Contemporary Arts the terms of engagement are open and change from artist to artist. The cornerstone of the residency is the sharing of artistic research. The program is generously funded by the Audain Foundation Endowment Fund.
