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Where is Cinema?
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Where is Cinema?

15.11.2019

Archive Books presents the new publication of Anouk de Clercq at Wolf Kino. This book is compiled of portraits of film initiatives from around the world, interwoven with conversations with adventurers who have rebooted movie theatres or built them up from the ground, in the hope that it can be an inspiring compendium for future cinema builders, filmmakers, film curators and film lovers.

Discoteca Flaming Star
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Discoteca Flaming Star

31.10.2019

Banner presentation and book launch of Sticky Stage – A Book as Evidence & Script for Future Performances. It gives evidence to Sticky Stage, specified on the basis of the case study at DISTRICT in Berlin. It is a path for future performances. The book is an archive of the performance and a documentation of what will be.

The Storyseller
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The Storyseller

27.10.2019

A reading by artist Assaf Gruber with Tina Pfurr and Caroline Clifford, the main actresses of his film The Conspicuous Parts. The reading accompanied with extracts from Gruber’s films, explored together with the audience possible readings and interpolations of his work with his publication The Storyseller.

Ankersentrum (surviving in the ruinous ruin)
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Ankersentrum (surviving in the ruinous ruin)

01.10.2019

This publication is part of Natascha Süder Happelmann’s artistic contribution for the German Pavilion and was released in May on the occasion of the opening. Comprising a series of texts, drawings and photographs, it deals with unstable forms and possibilities of survival, tumultuous self-organisation, resistance and commoning in what could be called ruinous spaces: spaces that have created conditions or actualities that are irreversible or irreparable.

The Performativity of the Book
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The Performativity of the Book


15.07.2019

Cos’è la performatività del libro? Cercare il movimento della performance all’interno del libro e allo stesso tempo fuori da esso, disconoscerne la qualità di oggetto finito perché il libro non sia mai un fine ma solo un passaggio. A partire da o verso la forma libro, pensarne la performatività può significare capire come il processo di traduzione preveda alcuni codici nascosti e riveli alcune formule segrete in grado di dissolvere schematismi rigidi in processi sempre più fluidi, oppure rimettere in discussione i ruoli, i tempi di attivazione e gli spazi di relazione che portano alla realizzazione del libro stesso.

Gaddafi in Rome
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Gaddafi in Rome

14.07.2019

In June 2009 Muammar Gaddafi and Silvio Berlusconi met in Rome to celebrate the Italy-Libya Treaty on Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation and discuss the Bilateral Agreements on migration and fuel trade. As the event sparked several protests, it caused a media frenzy in Italy that brought to the fore the controversial relations between the two countries. Attempting to turn an archive of live news updates produced during the meeting into a script, this performative lecture strives to dissect the memory of this event and the way it was reported.

After Cinema book release & Uchronia film premiere
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After Cinema book release & Uchronia film premiere


20.06.2019

Reading performance by Ali Darsa and musical intermezzo by Amen Feizabadi. Book launch of After Cinema followed by the film premiere of Uchronia (2019). The publication comprises short stories, screenplays and poems in analogy to five films of Azin Feizabadis ten-year long series A Collective Memory.

In Search of Archives
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In Search of Archives

23-26.01.2019

In Search of Archives inquires into contemporary notions and practices of the archive in postcolonial constellations. While the state of archives in former colonial settings is continuously marked by limited access, dispersed documents and repressed histories, contemporary art and research have been opening various ways of appropriating, (re)collecting and rendering visible the diverse traces and memories, creating new meanings of the past for the present and the future.