Talks: June 1–4, 2016
Fair: June 2–4, 2016
Festival: May 26–June 10, 2016
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As one of the main features of LOOP Barcelona—a unique event dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image—this year’s edition of the Talks will focus on the still-debated relationship between artists’ films and cinema. Spanning those practices that have been variously identified as “expanded cinema,” “cinema of exhibition” or “gallery film” as well as experimental filmmaking, the debates will address the encounter or conflation between the two industries and center around three main lines of investigation:
–Exhibiting Cinema, or the eternal debate on how to better display artists’ films and videos in the gallery space, relate with cinematic codes and implement new curatorial practices;
–”Modes of Film Practice” or the “cluster of historically bound institutions, practices and concepts that form a context within which cinematic media are used”* and that can be deployed to understand avant-garde and experimental filmmaking as well as artists’ films;
–Artists in Transition, or a study of those creative practices that sit on the fence between video art and cinema.
* According to Jonathan Walley (London, 2007), these modes of film practice are to be identified with: Production and Distribution; Exhibition and Aesthetics.
Sessions and speakers
Wednesday, June 1
Opening session at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies
6–7:30pm
Harun Farocki. Empathy and Labour in a Single Shot
Labour in a Single Shot is a video production workshop and the latest research project by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki on the subject of labour in its different forms. In the context of the opening of Harun Farocki.Empathy at the Fundació Tàpies, a major retrospective dedicated to the late German filmmaker and seminal contemporary artist, author and curator Antje Ehmann will introduce the project and talk extensively about its conception.
Thursday, June 2
9:30–10:30am
Exhibiting Cinema
Departing from the first Spanish survey dedicated to media artist Anthony McCall at the Fundació Gaspar (Solid Lights and Performance), curator and art critic Gloria Moure will talk about the exhibition of cinematic sculpture or three-dimensional cinema in the art space.
11am–12:30pm
Talking Galleries’ capsule
The specialised platform Talking Galleries presents a discussion on collaborative models of film production, from the perspective of the gallerist, the artist and the producer.
Friday, June 3
9:30–11am
Passages de l’image
Finding its starting point in the pivotal exhibition Passages de l’image held at the Centre Pompidou in 1990, the session will deal with the evolution of the practices related with the exhibition of artists’ films and videos up until today, and feature the participation of curators Christine van Assche (Centre Pompidou) and Raymond Bellour (CNRS), artist David Claerbout, and art writer and lecturer Erika Balsom (King’s College, London).
11:30am–1pm
Ways of Filmmaking
The conversation between film and video artist Malcolm Le Grice and Erika Balsom will constitute an occasion to review and celebrate Le Grice’s trajectory as an artist and researcher and his involvement in the London Filmmaker’s Cooperative in the year of its 50th anniversary.
Saturday, June 4
1:30–2:30pm
Harun Farocki Institut (HaFI)
Antje Ehmann along with artist Filipa Cesar and curator Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Artistic Director, Arsenal, Berlin) presents the activity and mission of the newly founded Harun Farocki Institut.
**Please note, the program might be subject to changes. Check our website for updates.
Talks tickets (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday): 90 EUR
Tickets for the LOOP Fair & Talks can be purchased at the venue or online. Early birds for online purchases will be available up until May 8. Please check the “Talks“ section on our website to know more.
