The Offset, Aside, But is a series of four films, each of them running independently for two weeks at Kunstsaele. It takes its title from the common printing process where images and text are transferred from one surface to the other in order to ultimately fix them on the final carrier. This image stands as an analogy for the transfer from thought to action, from the idea to the final piece and considers the possibility of gaps, shifts, overlappings, deflections that might occur in this process. The final print is that which comes to our attention as the form that the initial idea has taken and includes as such the development of the idea in the given medium and the partly coincidental, partly controlled explorations of the possibilities to experiment with the dialectics of concept, staging, capturing and cutting. The four films by Alex Hubbard, Ryan Trecartin, James Nares and John Smith explore open processes of imagining, capturing, and producing stories and identities between plan, improvisation and coincidence.
In collaboration with Salon Populaire.
Supported by: www.kunstsaele.de and
The project The Man Who Wasn’t There, conceived by THE OFFICE, takes the characteristics of a barber shop as a starting point for both its narration and format. A barber shop is a half public / half private place, where the relation between a barber and his client can become confident and even intimate, and, to some extent, paradigmatically represents a masculine (and assumedly partly homoerotic) world par excellence.
The project The Man Who Wasn’t There doubles this intimate dialogue between men: As an all female organization, THE OFFICE takes the chance of organizing a project at THE BARBER SHOP to dive into the space’s past and create our own fantasy of this world women are no part of, presenting a selection of films and videos, which all deal with men’s reflections on male role models, stereotypes or on the positions men are assigned to by and in society.
The Barber Shop gives carte blache to curators and independent programmers to propose an ephemeral project.
The Barber Shop aims the creation of debate between artistic praxis and research upon multiple contexts, proposing a renewed set of discussion themes, through the participation of agents from diverse countries and backgrounds. Casual encounters provoking a reflexive dialogue and the establishment of a local community of shared interests are main concerns of this project.
The Barber Shop is a project by Margarida Mendes.
http://thisisthebarbershop.blogspot.com/With the generous support of the Goethe-Institut Lissabon
Blow up my town
A project by Ellen Blumenstein (THE OFFICE)
@ THE KNOT
The evening with films selected by Ellen Blumenstein starts from THE KNOT´s interest in the public sphere, its structures and the exploration of different strategies in relating to space. BLOW UP MY TOWN borrows its title from the first movie by the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman ( Saute ma ville , 1968), and expands the topic by investigating the relation between the individual and differing notions of space - public space, as well as political, social, or economic space. In general, the idea of space is connected to a concrete/visible location and the possibility of relating to it. BLOW UP MY TOWN, though, deals with the difficulties to locate, and in the subsequent effort to define and handle a specific kind of space at all.
