Simian presents a talk with the curatorial duo Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff and a screening of Twilight City (1989) by Black Audio Film Collective.
(DA) I samarbejde med Artweek, Copenhagen Photo Festival og Copenhagen Architecture Festival præsenter Simian en talk med kuratorduoen Elisa R. Linn og Lennart Wolff / 'km temporaer', samt en screening af filmen Twilight City (1989) af Black Audio Film Collective.
I forbindelse med Simians nuværende udstillinger Planned City Cinema og Irma Hünerfauth – Speaking Boxes, vil Linn og Wolff præsentere en talk og introduktion til udstillingerne, der er skabt i dialog med hinanden.
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Program:
14:00 Bar med drikkevarer og snacks
14:15 Talk og introduktion til udstillingerne
15:00 Screening af filmen Twilight City (1989) af Black Audio Film Collective
16:00 Baren er åben
Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC), der blev oprettet i 1982 og opløst i 1998, bestod af sorte britiske multimediekunstnere og filmskabere. John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, Reece Auguiste, Trevor Mathison, David Lawson og Edward George producerede prisbelønnede film, fotografier, lysbånd, video, installationer, plakater og interventioner. I løbet af deres karriere arbejdede BAFC inden for og mellem medierne kunst, film og tv og har deltaget i udstillinger som From Two Worlds (Whitechapel Gallery, 1986), The British Art Show (Hayward Gallery, 1990), Documenta X (1997) og Documenta XI (2002). Dannelsen af Black Audio Film Collective var en reaktion på den sociale uro i Storbritannien i 1980'erne: Under indflydelse af den samtidige debat om postkolonialisme og sociale teoretikere som Homi Bhabha og Stuart Hall fokuserede de på undersøgelser af sort identitet og kultur og omarbejdede dokumentarfilmen for at artikulere nye stemmer i britisk film.
Skabt tre år inde i Thatcher-vældet, indfanger Black Audio Film Collectives Twilight City (1989) genopbygningen af London, hvor havne og boliger for arbejdere og indvandrere må vige for tårnene i det nye finansielle knudepunkt Canary Wharf. Fundne optagelser, panoreringer over byen, interviews med folk som Homi Bhabha samt breve og beretninger fra den fiktive journalist Olivia, der forsker i 'The New London and the Creation of Wealth', væves sammen i et tæt visuelt og lydmæssigt værk, der fungerer som en 'udgravning af psykiske og historiske lag'.
Elisa R. Linn er forfatter, kurator og underviser, og er bosiddende i Berlin. Hun er med-direktør for Halle für Kunst Lüneburg og underviser på Leuphana Universitet. Linn er uddannet på Whitney Independent Study Curatorial Program og er i gang med en ph.d. i filosofi under ledelse af Marina Gržinić på Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Hun har blandt andre bidraget til publikationer og tidsskrifter som Starship, Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, BOMB, Jacobin og Journal for the History of Knowledge.
Lennart Wolff er arkitekt, kurator og underviser bosiddende i Berlin, og er uddannet fra Architectural Association i London. Siden 2018 har han været med til at lede AA Visiting School Zurich 'Exhibiting Architecture"' Hans arbejde omfatter kuraterede udstillinger, offentlige kunstprojekter, arkitekturkommissioner og udstillingsarkitekturer, nyligst til en udstilling af LaToya Ruby Frazier på Kunstverein Hamburg. Siden 2012 har Linn og Wolff drevet det kuratoriske og kunstneriske projekt 'km temporaer'. Seneste udstillinger, performances, screeninger og foredrag har fundet sted på Petzel Gallery og Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York (2023), Architecture Museum at the Technical University of Berlin (2022), Barnard College/Columbia University, New York (2022), Museo Nivola, Sardinien (2020), National Gallery Prague (2018), Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2018), South London Gallery (2018) og Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018).
Irma Hünerfauth – Speaking Boxes
Planned City Cinema
Kurateret af Elisa R. Linn og Lennart Wolff
Udstillingsperiode: 19. maj – 9. juli, 2023
Åbningstider: fredag, lørdag og søndag: 12:00 – 17:00
(EN) In collaboration with Artweek, Copenhagen Photo Festival and Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Simian presents a talk with the curatorial duo Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff / 'km temporaer', as well as a screening of the film Twilight City (1989) by Black Audio Film Collective.
In connection with Simian's current exhibitions Planned City Cinema and Irma Hünerfauth - Speaking Boxes (link: https://fb.me/e/KIntjTle), Linn and Wolff will present a talk and introduction to the exhibitions, which are created in dialogue with each other.
Read more about the exhibitions at ssiimmiiaann.org
Program:
14:00 Bar with drinks and snacks
14:15 Talk and introduction to the exhibitions
15:00 Screening of the movie Twilight City (1989) by Black Audio Film Collective
16:00 The bar is open
Inaugurated in 1982 and dissolved in 1998, Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC) was comprised of black British multimedia artists and film makers. John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, Reece Auguiste, Trevor Mathison, David Lawson and Edward George produced award winning film, photography, slide tape, video, installation, posters and interventions. Throughout their career, the BAFC worked within and between the media of art, film and television, participating in exhibitions such as From Two Worlds (Whitechapel Gallery, 1986), The British Art Show (Hayward Gallery, 1990), Documenta X (1997) and Documenta XI (2002).’ The formation of the Black Audio Film Collective, was a response to the social unrest in Britain in the 1980s: Influenced by contemporary debate on post-colonialism and social theorists such as Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, they centered around investigations of black identity and culture and reworked the documentary to articulate new voices in British cinema.
Made three years into Thatcherite rule, Black Audio Film Collective’s Twilight City (1989) captures the redevelopment of London, where docks and housing for workers and immigrants gave way to the towers of the new financial hub Canary Wharf. Found footage, city vistas, interviews with the likes of Homi Bhabha as well as letters and accounts of the fictional journalist Olivia, who is researching the creation of wealth in the new London, are interwoven into a dense visual and audio fabric of psychic and historical layers.
Elisa R. Linn is a writer, curator, and educator based in Berlin. She is the co-director of the Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, and teaches at Leuphana University. Linn is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Curatorial Program and pursuing a PhD in Philosophy under the supervision of Marina Gržinić at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her writing appears in publications and magazines such as Starship, artforum, Texte zur Kunst, BOMB, Jacobin, and the Journal for the History of Knowledge, among others. Lennart Wolff is an architect, curator, and educator based in Berlin and a graduate of the Architectural Association, London. Since 2018, he has been co-running the AA Visiting School Zurich “Exhibiting Architecture.” His work encompasses curated exhibitions, public art projects, architecture commissions, and exhibition architectures, such as recently for a show by LaToya Ruby Frazier at Kunstverein Hamburg. Since 2012, Linn and Wolff have run the curatorial and artistic project km temporaer. Recent exhibitions, performances, screenings, and lectures have taken place at Petzel Gallery and Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York (2023), Architecture Museum at the Technical University of Berlin (2022), Barnard College/Columbia University, New York (2022), Museo Nivola, Sardinia (2020), National Gallery Prague (2018), Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2018), South London Gallery (2018), and Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018).
Irma Hünerfauth – Speaking Boxes
Planned City Cinema
Curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff
Exhibition duration: May 19 – July 9, 2023
Opening hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 12:00 – 17:00