Lectures:
12.10.2005 Malcolm F. Miles: University of Plymouth (Reader in Art & Design, School of Art & Performance)
Title: 'Society as a work of art?'
"Society as a work of art?" In his paper to the Dialectics of Liberation Congress in London, in July 1967, Herbert Marcuse used the phrase "society as a work of art".
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic
14.11.2005 Bernd Fischer, filmmaker, Berlin
Film: 'Grüße aus Dachau'/ »Greetings from Dachau«
»Greetings from Dachau« Germany, 2003 directed by: Bernd Fischer Length: 82 min.
Bernd Fischer, a young film-maker, grew up in Dachau, introduces the place with the world notorious name. He 's taking us on a tour through his hometown and he asserts: a permanent tragic-omedy happens here constantly, represented by tourists and inhabitants, by witnesses of the past and by their heirs. In front of the scenery of the omnipresent, crushing, instructive history the location trys to be "normal".
21.11.2005 Liz Bachhuber, artist and professor at the MFA, Weimar
introduction of her work
born 1953 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, lives and works in Weimar and Bourguignon, France
1993-present professor of fine art in sculpture and installation at the Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
1980-present participation in international solo and group exhibitions as well as works and commissions in public space
1990 Grant to work, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) USA
1987-89 National Studio Program grant, P.S. 1, New York, USA
1984 Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn
1979-83 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Meisterschülerin)
1972-79 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (BFA, MA)
www.uni-weimar.de/mfa
28.11.2005 Dr. Ute Holl, film historian, Weimar/Hamburg - Ronald Hirte, archiologist and historian, Weimar
Title: Buchenwald: texts/images/films (Texte|Bilder|Filme)
Lecture and talk
Ute Holl has been working as an independent documentary filmmaker since 1988. From 1993-1995 she worked as an editor for the segment 'Film and Theatre' at the North German Broadcasting Corporation. In 1998 she made the documentary film "Inside Out". In 2001 she published her doctoral thesis "Cybernetics and Cinema. The media theory of Maya Deren in connection with a history of the cinematography movement." Since April 2001, she has been pursuing post-doctoral studies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.
Studium der Neueren Geschichte, Klassischen Archäologie und Ur- und Frühgeschichte an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; 1998 Magister Artium; seit 1998 Mitarbeiter der Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora; 1999 Mitarbeit an mehreren Ausstellungen im Kontext von Europas Kulturstadt Weimar; 2001-2005 Bearbeiter des DFG-Projekts "Digitale Verzeichnung eines Sammlungsbestands archäologisch gewonnener Realien" und dessen Publikation als Inventar und (auszugsweise) als Katalog im World Wide Web; 2001-2006 Lehraufträge an den Universitäten Weimar und Bamberg; 2003-2005 Co-Veranstalter der Medienkunst- und Hörspielfestivals raste und audiofunken; 2004 Co-Kuratorenschaft der Ausstellung "Überreichweiten"; 2005 Co-Kuratorenschaft der Ausstellung "The Social Collector"; seit 2005 Stipendiat des Graduiertenkollegs Mediale Historiographien.
http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/kuenstlichewelten/personen/holl/holl.html
05.12.2005 Dagmar Demming, artist, Erfurt
introduction of her work
Born in 1951, studied at the UDK Berlin until 1989, numerous national and international exhibitions and projects. Teaching at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (1994-97), Art Academy Oslo, Norway (1998-2004), since 2004 at the University of Erfurt, Faculty of Art Education, since October 2004 she is the vicepresident for Study and Research.
http://www.manifesta.org/manifesta4/de/projects/artist1556.html
12.12.2005 Martin Schönfeld, Büro Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Berlin
Title: Examples of active types of memory
In most cases a monument closes the process of a public discussion about history and its meaning for the society. A monument often is the final point of a memory….
http://www.bbk-berlin.de/cms/site/cat33.html
14.12.2005 Horst Hoheisel, artist, Kassel / Berlin
Introduction of his work
http://www.zermahlenegeschichte.de
http://www.HorstHoheisel.net
16.01.2006 Dusica Drazic, artist, Serbia & Montenegro / Sam Hopkins, artist, Great Britain
Title: Young Serbians (normality and beyond)
Young Serbians (normality and beyond) is a brief interlude into the tumultuous past two decades of contemporary Serbian art. The lecture encompasses a broad thematic approach with a critique of the work of selected contemporary practitioners. The question is posed; to what extent are these works, or indeed any work, located within a specific national context?
30.01.2006 Kathrin Becker, curator, Berlin
Title: From 'De/construction of Monument' (Sarajevo) to 'Displaced. Interventions/interactions in public space'
During 10 days in October 2005, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein realised the Project "Displaced. Interventions/nteractions in public space" in response to the project "De/construction of Monument", which has been taking place in Bosnia-Herzegovina within 2004 and 2005. Both projects were organised in cooperation with relations, a project on the initiative of the Federal Cultural Foundation.
http://www.nbk.org/Ausst/2005/displaced.html
06.02.2006 Felix Ensslin, philosopher, curator, dramaturg, author, lecturer, working
Berlin
Title: Art and commemoration
Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition, 30.01.05 - 16.05.05, Kunstwerke Berlin and more
http://www.kw-berlin.de/english/program_frameset.htm