Image of Rescue I Rescuing the Image
February 10–11, 2018
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1)
Stresemannstr. 29
10963 Berlin
T +49 30 25900427
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By and with Herman Asselberghs, Alice Creischer, Georges Didi-Huberman, Andreas Dzialocha, Tobias Hülswitt, Dieter Lesage, Kadir “Amigo” Memis, Marie-José Mondzain, Georg Seeßlen, Andreas Siekmann, Oraib Toukan, Christian von Borries, Ina Wudtke, Tirdad Zolghadr a.o.
In spring 2016 the Berlin artist Christian von Borries was part of a search-and-rescue team on a civilian rescue boat off the coast of Libya. Due to the presence of a variety of media teams he found himself confronted with a setting that no longer had very much to do with rescuing refugees. Whenever there was a need to capture poignant images, helping took a back seat. For the team, rescuing people was first and foremost interesting narrative material for a film. The project Image of Rescue | Rescuing the Image is an attempt to analyse and reflect on the dimension of visual politics in such undertakings and the reporting connected with it. The time-based media selected by the participating artists and theorists, each lasting ten to fifteen minutes and in a set designed by Arno Brandlhuber, is meant to formulate a series of artistic and theoretical answers to specific questions on visual politics in/of the “refugee crisis.”
Stage design by Arno Brandlhuber.
Dieter Lesage is a professor of political theory and philosophy of culture at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound (RITCS) in Brussels. He published a dozen books on nationalism, racism, multiculturalism and globalisation. Together with Ina Wudtke, he curated several international group exhibitions, among which A Portrait of the Artist as a Researcher (Vienna & Brussels, 2007-2008) and Black Sound White Cube (Berlin, 2011) as well as The Very Last Judgment Triptych (Vienna, 2014), featuring artists Jill Magid, Sanford Biggers, Jenny C. Jones, Jacques André, Marusa Sagadin, Sven Augustijnen, Herman Asselberghs, Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann and Minouk Lim, among others. His latest book is Art, Research and Politics. Essays in Curatorial Criticism 1999-2014, Brussels, (SIC), 2015. Dieter Lesage lives in Berlin.
Christian von Borries is a musician, composer, producer and film director who lives and works in Berlin. His work has been commissioned by Lucerne Festival, Kunstfest Weimar, Volksbühne Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, and documenta 12, and his films have won prizes in Marseille and Hamburg. He just co-curated the tech art fair A BETTER VERSION OF YOU in Seoul (2017). Together with Andreas Dzialocha he is AI Unit.
Production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds
