News Summer 2014
Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung | Artist-Talk des Graduiertenkollegs
Collaboration: Real Life and Mediated Experience
Saturday, June 28th, 2014, 5.30 to 7.30 pm
Vierte Welt, Berlin-Kreuzberg (Kottbusser Tor)
Adalbertstr. 96, first floor gallery accessible via exterior staircase
The University of Potsdam’s Graduate Program Visibility and Visualization: Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge invites you to an artist talk with Phil Collins, Diedrich Diederichsen, and Sabine Eckmann.
Collaboration: Real Life and Mediated Experience takes Collin’s practice of engaging various local subjects and communities as its point of departure to discuss the artistic yet also social meaning and political valence of collaborative practices in art, theory, and everyday life. Be it that Collins invites people to develop their rolls of 35mm film free of charge in exchange for the right to incorporate select images into his Free Fotolab, or that he sets up a phone booth in one of Cologne’s homeless shelters allowing everyone to make free calls based on the condition that the conversations be recorded and potentially appropriated anonymously for the artist’s work, Collins often draws on collaboration as a means for artistic engagement. In doing so, he is very aware of the potentially exploitative and exposing quality of such practice; yet, he deliberately pushes this effect in order to further reflect upon the power dynamics at hand. Important aspects of his works further concern processes of mediatization, the specifics of different media formats and their place in popular culture.
Talks and discussion will be in English.
For further information about the lecturers please consider the link on the left side.
Saturday, June 28th, 2014, 5.30 to 7.30 pm
Vierte Welt, Berlin-Kreuzberg (Kottbusser Tor)
Adalbertstr. 96, first floor gallery accessible via exterior staircase
The University of Potsdam’s Graduate Program Visibility and Visualization: Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge invites you to an artist talk with Phil Collins, Diedrich Diederichsen, and Sabine Eckmann.
Collaboration: Real Life and Mediated Experience takes Collin’s practice of engaging various local subjects and communities as its point of departure to discuss the artistic yet also social meaning and political valence of collaborative practices in art, theory, and everyday life. Be it that Collins invites people to develop their rolls of 35mm film free of charge in exchange for the right to incorporate select images into his Free Fotolab, or that he sets up a phone booth in one of Cologne’s homeless shelters allowing everyone to make free calls based on the condition that the conversations be recorded and potentially appropriated anonymously for the artist’s work, Collins often draws on collaboration as a means for artistic engagement. In doing so, he is very aware of the potentially exploitative and exposing quality of such practice; yet, he deliberately pushes this effect in order to further reflect upon the power dynamics at hand. Important aspects of his works further concern processes of mediatization, the specifics of different media formats and their place in popular culture.
Talks and discussion will be in English.
For further information about the lecturers please consider the link on the left side.