Alena Williams. Akademie Schloss Solitude @ Motto Berlin. 31.05.2010
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Book presentation:
»LIGHT IS A KIND OF RHYTHM« BY ALENA WILLIAMS
Time travel: 1929, 2009. An interval of approximately 80 years exists between the films of the 1920s and those of the present moment that are discussed in this book. LIGHT IS A KIND OF RHYTHM began as a series of screenings at the Institut im Glaspavillon der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, which was lead by Heike Föll with Philipp Ekardt, Matt Saunders, Jan Kedves, and Katarina Burin. It traces the relationship of light to the moving image from an early moment in the history of film – seen in the work of Viking Eggeling, László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Hans Richter, and Ralph Steiner – to that of the present day. The featured contemporary artists – Jan Hammer, Jutta Koether, Andreas Wutz, Die Tödliche Doris, and Matthias Müller – return to an earlier aesthetic engagement with cinema; in their films, videos and digital slides, the moving image offers an alternative mode for thinking through abstraction. Static paintings, collages, and walls are reconstituted as animate, reflective objects, while transient light effects are extracted from life and assigned entirely new meanings.
Keyed to a wider international audience with interests in critical theory, film/media studies, and contemporary art, LIGHT IS A KIND OF RHYTHM includes an essay setting out a theoretical background for the analysis of the interrelation of cinema and aesthetic reception, as well as three new English translations of seminal articles by the film theorist Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) and interviews with each of the contemporary artists.
Book design by Schroeter und Berger and Christian Werner
Published by merz&solitude, Stuttgart, December 2009
http://www.merzundsolitude.de/projektiv/light-is-a-kind-of-rhythm
http://millecompany.com/light-rhythm/
On sale among others at Motto, Berlin; Pro qm Berlin; bbooks, Berlin; Printed Matter, New York; and at selected events.
EVENING PROGRAM
Readings and the following Film Projections:
* Ralph Steiner H2O, 1929, 35 mm, b/w, silent, 9 minutes
* Jutta Koether Metalist Moment, 2006/2007, digital slide show, 7.30 minutes, loop
*Conservation on Kracauer, Expressionism, and Living Time with Wolfgang Müller: Die Tödliche Doris Die Gesamtheit allen Lebens und alles Darüberhinausgehende (The Sum of All Life and Everything Beyond), 1987 Super-8, 1.83 – 2.44 seconds (variable)
Total run time: 30 minutes
AUTHOR
Alena Williams is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin. She is currently completing her dissertation »Movement in Vision: Cinema, Aesthetics, and Modern German Culture, 1915–1930« at Columbia University in New York, and is a fellow in the research group »Media of History« at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Previously, she was a fellow within the art, science & business program at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Her upcoming traveling exhibition on the land art, films, video, and site-specific installations of the American artist Nancy Holt will open at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia in Fall 2010.
+ Other Akademie Schloss Solitude publications will also be on display
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