SCHOOL OF MEDIA ARTS Professor Angela Melitopoulos
Artistic practice Critical reflection Knowledge-based teaching Exhibition practice
CAKI entrepreneurship course for MFA 2nd year students (mandatory)
SEMESTER PROGRAM - SPRING 2019 (February 1 – June 30) Mandatory
DATE TIME TEACHING
FEBRUARY
Semester Graduating students (tutoring, meetings etc.)
February 4 LAB COURSES
February 5 LAB COURSES
February 6 LAB COURSES
February 7 LAB COURSES
February 8 LAB COURSES
February 12 10 - 17 CONTINUATION OF THE WORKSHOP, WHICH STARTED WITH DAY 1 AND 2 IN JANUARY DAY 3 Workshop with Kerstin Schroedinger: Narration and Material: seminar on artistic research methods
Based on artistic research on colonial and neocolonial entanglements of the local textile industry, in the seminar we aim to disentangle the history of specific products (such as dyes, fabrics, clothes) and discuss their participation in such colonial structures (in chemistry, fashion, and others) and their global effects. We will document site visits to industrial sites, workshops, archives and collections and collect materials in sound, image, text and movement. With the collected material we create a mapping for a discursive discussion about the limitations of a national framework of historiography and memory politics.
Tuesday January 15 10-13 uhr artist presentation Rainbow’s Gravity (Video, 2014, in collaboration with Mareike Bernien) and Bläue (installation 2017, video and 6-channel audio) with a focus on artistic research methods
14-17 uhr workshop 1 teil on Danish textile industry and Denmark’s colonial history research seminar Introduction: what do you know about it, where do you know it from, and why do you know it? collecting the places, colours, materials, designs read excerpts from Taussig, What color is the sacred? Esther Leslie, Synthetic Worlds Christina Sharpe, On Blackness and Being Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton Aihwa Ong, Spirits of Resistance Anni Albers, Tactile Sensitivity Karen Barad, On Touching videos: Statues meurent aussi (and its remakes), Resnais/Marker Intermittent Delight by Akosua Adoma Owusu https://vimeo.com/18611914 Wendelien van Oldenburg: https://vimeo.com/74722388 Alain Resnais, Le Chant du styrène Ala Younis Nefertiti Project https://vimeo.com/49019886
(those who can’t attend the workshop on tuesday, need to read the texts and watch the videos by themselves, i will send a definite list by wednesday)
Wednesday January 16 10-13 introduce work in progress DNCB (installation/performance, video, audio, 16 mm, 2018) The Song of the Shirt (film and exhibition project, work in progress) discussing forms of research/documentation/recording: sound, image, movement, text (and decide on them for the workshop) form 3 or more groups (by interest and knowledge) decide on self-conducted research, site visits, materials, formats (groups can be something like this: group 1 sound recording/field recording & industry/labour (visit factory, museum of labour, weaving workshop, market) group 2 video/photography & colour (visit material lab, visit colour workshop, visit markets, clothing shops, design museum) group 3 drawing/movement/text & history record movements with drawing or text (visit cast collection at the West Indian Warehouse, visit National Archives)
14-17 site visits/city walk The Royal Cast Collection at the Westindian Warehouse toldbodgade 40 and more warehouses
February 12 10-12 workshop 2nd part meet at classroom, gather material and look at and discuss material
13-16 visit Material workshop at Academy of Design (to be confirmed) visit weaving workshop..
16-17 regroup
February 13 10-17 studio setting: arrange material together image + sound movements + image sounds + movements needs beamer, speakers, screen, tripod, camera, microphone discuss outcomes revisit texts and discuss in groups relate texts to the materials write voice overs, work with movements to interfere with the projections, use colour gels, fabrics, lights, curtains, threads, drawing and other materials to make combinations…
Kerstin Schroedinger is an artist working in video, sound and performance. Her historiographic practice questions the means of image production, historical continuities and ideological certainties of representation. Her works and curatorial practice are often collaborative. Recent works include The Alleged Body (performance), shown at Images Festival Toronto, and Les Complices* Zurich in 2017, Fugue (Film, 2015), as well as Rainbow’s Gravity (Video, 2014, GFTA-funded 2013) and Red, she said (Video, 2011) both with Mareike Bernien.
(read more https://schroedinger.blackblogs.org/category/about/)
February 13 10 - 17 Workshop with Kerstin Schroedinger - CONTINUES DAY 4 SEE DAY 3 ABOVE
February 14 10 – 13 Department meeting • Teaching • Rundgang • DSR • To/from the School Council • Other business February 14 15 – 17 Reading group (Haraway)
February 19 10 – 15 MANDATORY FOR 2ND YEAR MFA STUDENTS CAKI course: “The Art of Start Up – professional development, career and business planning” Pernille Skov and Christina Wilson “Getting started” • Business forms • Setting up a professional frame for your artistic practice • Portfolio February 20 10 – 15 MANDATORY FOR 2ND YEAR MFA STUDENTS CAKI course: “The Art of Start Up – professional development, career and business planning” Pernille Skov og Maiken Ingvordsen “Visibility” • Pricing • Customer base • Network, team, partnerships • Branding • Marketing & PR February 22 10 – 15 MANDATORY FOR 2ND YEAR MFA STUDENTS CAKI course: “The Art of Start Up – professional development, career and business planning” Pernille Skov and Marianne Zander Svenningsen “Financial modeling” • Money flow • Keeping your books • Tax and VAT February 26 10 – 15 MANDATORY FOR 2ND YEAR MFA STUDENTS CAKI course: “The Art of Start Up – professional development, career and business planning” Pernille Skov and Maiken Ingvordsen “Moving forward” • Financing wheel • Revenue models • Pitching your business • Your business plan February 26 10 – 17 Workshop with Eyal Sivan A workshop about the role of the imaginary in the construction of collective memory in the nation state. In this 4 day long workshop we will see his research methodologies, look at Sivan’s archive of historical film documents about the early history of the Palestinian-Israelian conflict and discuss the role of the eye witness, camera/sound recorder and different strategies of montage.
Eyal Sivan will show a few of his major documentary film projects the possibility of re-narrating archives by using experimental documentary practices.
We will look at the following films:
THE SPECIALIST, portrait of a modern criminal 1999 Documentary| 128 min | 35mm | B&W | 4:3 | Dolby SRD | 1999 ROUTE 181, Fragments of a journey in Palestine-Israel 2003 Documentary | 272 minutes | Video | Color | 16:9 anamorphic | Stereo | 2003 JAFFA, the orange's clockwork 2009 Documentary | 88 minutes | Video | Color | 16:9 anamorphic | Stereo | 2009
Eyal Sivan, is a documentary filmmaker and theoretician based in Paris. Born in 1964 in Haifa Israel and grow up in Jerusalem. After exercising as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv, he leaves Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. Since he is sharing is time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, Sivan directed more than 10 worldwide awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. He publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation. He is teaching at the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and he is member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique Editions.
(Read more … https://www.eyalsivan.info/ )
February 27 10 – 17 Workshop with Eyal Sivan - CONTINUES
February 28 10 – 17 Workshop with Eyal Sivan - CONTINUES
MARCH
March 1 10 - 17 Workshop with Eyal Sivan - CONTINUES
March 6 All day Studio visits with guest teacher
March 7 All day Studio visits with guest teacher
March 11 LAB COURSES
March 12 LAB COURSES
March 13 LAB COURSES
March 14 LAB COURSES
March 15 LAB COURSES
March 26 10 – 15 MANDATORY FOR 2ND YEAR MFA STUDENTS CAKI: “The Art of Start Up – professional development, career and business planning”
Pernille Skov “Catching Up”
March 26 All day Studio visits with guest teacher
March 27 All day Studio visits with guest teacher
APRIL
April 3 10 – 17 Workshop with Narimani Mari 3.4.-.7. 4. (to be confirmed) A workshop with Narimane Mari, an Algerian film producer and director, known for her films Bloody Beans (2013), Le fort des fous (2017) and Roundabout in My Head (2015). In the workshop, students of the Media School will focus on the direction of a short semi-documentary and semi-fictional film narrative realized with in the academy. Narimane Mari is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her poetic and innovativ work is combining fiction and documentary strategies, combining research, improversation and an experimental mis en scene. Her last movie Le Forts des Fous was shown in the documenta 14. She is also an important film producer in Europe for artistic cinematic formats.
Narimane Mari was born in Algiers in 1969 and began her activity in France in 1990 with two consulting agencies in communication Devarrieux Villaret and Nogood Industry, of which she is a co- founder. In 2001, she produced her first cinema film, L'ARPENTEUR, which won the Jean Vigo award. In 2010, she founded, in Algeria, ALLERS RETOURS FILMS in order to produce engaging documentaries and fictions. In 2014 she directed Bloody Beans her first feature film of fiction and won the CPH Dox Award. Bloody Beans is taking a surprisingly effective experimental stance, Narimane Mari obliquely comments on Algeria’s War of Independence in a quasi-hallucinatory reverie.
April 4 10 – 17 Workshop with Narimani Mari - CONTINUES
April 8 All day Studio visits
April 9 10 – 13 Department meeting • Teaching • Rundgang • DSR • To/from the School Council • Other business
April 9 Afternoon Studio visits
April 10 10 – 12 Reading group (Judith Butler – Frames of War)
April 10 Afternoon Studio visits
April 11 All day Studio visits
April 12 All day Studio visits
April 12 OPENING OF AFGANG 2019 EXHIBITION (Graduating students’ process of establishing the exhibition through the spring semester)
MAY
May 2 All day Study trip / crit class with external adviser
May 3 All day Study trip / crit class with external adviser
May 4 All day Study trip / crit class with external adviser
May 5 All day Study trip / crit class with external adviser
May 6 All day Study trip / crit class with external adviser
May 7 All day Study trip / crit class with external adviser
May 8 All day Study trip / crit class with external adviser
May 12 All day Studio visits with Angela
May 13 All day Studio visits with Angela
May 14 All day Studio visits with Angela
May 21 10 – 13 Department meeting (DISCUSSION OF NEXT SEMESTER PROGRAM) Agenda: • Planning of fall semester program • Teaching • Rundgang • DSR • To/from the School Council • Other business May 21 14 – 16 Reading group (Judith Butler – Frames of War)
May 27 10 – 17 Workshop with Rosa Barba A 3 day workshop with Rosa Barba about her conceptual, cinematic art practice that 'recasts the viewer’s own staging as an act of radical and exhilarating reversal’ (https://www.rosabarba.com/exhibitions/)
Rosa Barba’s work is a subtle interrogation into and co-option of industrial cinema-as-subject, via various kinds of what might be understood as “stagings”—of “the local,” the non-actor, gesture, genre, information, expertise and authority, the mundane—and removals from a social realism within which they were observed, and which qualifies them as components of the work, to be framed, redesigned, represented. (Ian White)
May 27 All day Studio visits with Angela
May 28 10 – 17 Workshop with Rosa Barba - CONTINUES
May 28 All day Studio visits with Angela
May 29 10 – 17 Workshop with Rosa Barba - CONTINUES
May 29 All day Studio visits with Angela
JUNE
June 12 10 - 13 Department meeting (EVALUATION OF TEACHING) Agenda: • Evaluation of teaching during the school year • Teaching • Rundgang • DSR • To/from the School Council • Other business June 14 3 p.m. RUNDGANG opening
June 16 All day End of semester crit class
Juen 17 All day End of semester crit class
June 18 All day Excursion to ?
June 18 18 Dinner
June 28 14.00 Diploma ceremony
Workshop with Ho Tzu Nyen (not fixed yet) Workshop with Irena Haiduk (not fixed yet) 8 film screenings with Tinne Zenner (not yet scheduled)