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PAVILION UNICREDIT /for English please scroll down Joi, 25 Februarie 2010, 19.00 ARTIST TALK MARTIN KRENN: FILME DESPRE ARTA SI ACTIVISM Nascut in anul 1970 la Viena, Martin Krenn urmeaza studiile Universitatii de Arte Aplicate si ale Conservatorului. Este preocupat cu precadere de arta in spatiul public si arta multimedia, lucrarile lui accentuand intrebari legate de societatea civila si confruntarea cu istoria recenta. Krenn este de asemenea profesor la Universitatea de Arta din Viena. Filmele lui Martin Krenn se situeaza la granita dintre documentatie, participare si instigare politica. âIn Between the Movementsâ, cea mai recenta serie video a artistului, la care lucreaza din anul 2007, se concentreaza asupra fenomenului de relationare globala si a impactului acesteia asupra teoriei si practicii rezistentei de stanga. Telul nu este insa nici acela de a oferi o vedere de ansamblu a âmiscarilor anti-globalizareâ, nici acela de a livra concepte prefabricate despre configurarea unei âlumi alternativeâ, ci de a se dezbate interogari concrete, aflate la intersectia marilor proiecte globale. Se discuta, de exemplu, posibilitatile, dar si dificultatile care se ivesc in comunicarea dintre grupuri cu background-uri diferite. Convorbirile purtate cu diferiti protagonisti sunt punctul de plecare ale unor filme create impreuna cu acestia. Toti participantii au fost invitati sa influenteze alcatuirea filmului, atat la filmari cat si la montaj. Cooperarea cu subiectii filmelor, proveniti din contexte geografice si activistice diferite, faciliteaza descoperirea diferitelor perspective ale opozitiei si constituie un exemplu al productiei de cunoastere colaborative. âNote despre opozitieâ (2006) este un film documentar despre miscarea de rezistenta impotriva fascismului in anii '30 si '40 in Austria, Spania si FranÈa. Protagonistul filmului este austriacul Harry Spiegel, care in anii '30 a luptat in Spania de partea republicanilor impotriva lui Franco. Adoptand metoda reconstituirii unor vechi fotografii si secvente de film, documentarul incearca sa aduca in centrul atentiei reprezentarea filmica si transmiterea istoriei. Seria fotografica si scurt-metrajul âTirana Toursâ (2007) aduc in discutie un album fotografic comunist, aparut in anul 1990 la Tirana, in patru limbi. 17 ani mai tarziu, Martin Krenn a fotografiat din nou localitatile din imaginile acestui album. Un interviu cu fotograful imaginilor originale, Petrit Kumi, completeaza seria fotografica. Tema proiectului sunt mecanismele retoricii si imagisticii ideologice si modul in care ele continua sa influenteze prezentul. Martin Krenn va fi prezent la vizionarea fragmentelor din filmele amintite si va sta la dispozitie pentru intrebari. www.martinkrenn.net Acest proiect este sustinut de FORUMUL CULTURAL AUSTRIAC. Multumiri speciale: Karin Cervenka. --- Thursday, 25 February 2010, 19.00 ARTIST TALK MARTIN KRENN: FILMS ON ART AND ACTIVISM Born in 1970, in Vienna, Martin Krenn attends the University of Applied Arts and the Conservatory. He is particularly interested in art in public space and multimedia art, his work focusing on questions regarding the civil society and its confrontation with recent history. Krenn also teaches at the University of Art in Vienna. Martin Krenn's movies are situated at the border between documentary, participation and political action. "In Between the Movements", his latest video series, started in 2007, focuses on the global relational phenomenon and its impact on the theory and practice of leftwing resistance. Its goal is neither to offer a complete picture on the "anti-globalization" movements, nor to deliver prefabricated concepts on the configuring of an "alternative world", but to debate concrete questions, at the crossroads of major global projects. For instance, the possibilities and the difficulties that arise in communicating with groups of different backgrounds are discussed. Conversations led with different protagonists are the starting point of films created in collaboration with them. All the participants were invited to influence the creation of the film, both in the filming as well as the editing process. Cooperation with the films' subjects, coming from different geographical and activist contexts, enable the discovering of different perspectives on opposition and represent an example of production of collaborative knowledge. "Notes on opposition" (2006) is a documentary film on the resistance movement against fascism in the '30s and '40s in Austria, France and Spain. The main character is the Austrian Harry Spiegel, that fought in Spain in the '30s alongside the republicans that opposed Franco. Adopting the method of recreating old photographs and film sequences, the documentary tries to focus on filmic representation and the transmission of history. The photographic series and the short film "Tirana Tours" (2007) discuss a communist photography album, edited in 1990 in Tirana, in four languages. Seventeen years later, Martin Krenn took pictures of the locations shot in the album. An interview with the photographer of the original images, Petrit Kumi, completes the photographic series. The theme of the project are the rhetorical and ideological image mechanisms and the way they continue to influence the present. Martin Krenn will be present at the screening of the film fragments mentioned above and will be available for a questions and answers series. www.martinkrenn.net This project is supported by the AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM. â Special thanks Karin Cervenka. Image: Videostill from "In between the Movements/NO G8", 2007. Courtesy of the artist. --- PAVILION UNICREDIT center for contemporary art & culture Sos. 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