{"id":5921,"date":"2010-05-27T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2010-05-27T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:31:09","slug":"alena-williams-akademie-schloss-solitude-motto-berlin-31052010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=5921","title":{"rendered":"Alena Williams. Akademie Schloss Solitude @ Motto Berlin. 31.05.2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Book presentation:
\n\u00bbLIGHT IS A KIND OF RHYTHM\u00ab BY ALENA WILLIAMS<\/p>\n

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 Volksb\u00fchne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, which was lead by Heike F\u00f6ll 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, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 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 T\u00f6dliche Doris, and Matthias M\u00fcller – 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Book design by Schroeter und Berger and Christian Werner
\nPublished by merz&solitude, Stuttgart, December 2009<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.merzundsolitude.de\/projektiv\/light-is-a-kind-of-rhythm
\nhttp:\/\/millecompany.com\/light-rhythm\/<\/p>\n

On sale among others at Motto, Berlin; Pro qm Berlin; bbooks, Berlin; Printed Matter, New York; and at selected events.<\/p>\n

EVENING PROGRAM
\nReadings and the following Film Projections:<\/p>\n

* Ralph Steiner H2O, 1929, 35 mm, b\/w, silent, 9 minutes
\n* Jutta Koether Metalist Moment, 2006\/2007, digital slide show, 7.30 minutes, loop
\n*Conservation on Kracauer, Expressionism, and Living Time with Wolfgang M\u00fcller: Die T\u00f6dliche Doris Die Gesamtheit allen Lebens und alles Dar\u00fcberhinausgehende (The Sum of All Life and Everything Beyond), 1987 Super-8, 1.83 \u2013 2.44 seconds (variable)<\/p>\n

Total run time: 30 minutes<\/p>\n

AUTHOR
\nAlena Williams is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin. She is currently completing her dissertation \u00bbMovement in Vision: Cinema, Aesthetics, and Modern German Culture, 1915\u20131930\u00ab at Columbia University in New York, and is a fellow in the research group \u00bbMedia of History\u00ab at the Bauhaus-Universit\u00e4t 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.<\/p>\n

+ Other Akademie Schloss Solitude publications will also be on display<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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