VIDEONALE.scope #8

All day | Storys and experiments in Film | Cologne

VIDEONALE.scope #8

Organizer: Videonale e.V.

 

With contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Marwa Arsanios, Sadie Benning, Anouk De Clercq, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Eli Cortiñas, Thirza Cuthand, Kevin J. Everson, Scott Fitzpatrick, Dora García, General Idea, Karissa Hahn, Ayesha Hameed, Barbara Hammer, Stefan Hayn, Adam Shingwak Khalil & Zack Khalil, Vika Kirchenbauer, Kristin Lucas, Nour Ouayda, Adrian Paci, Sondra Perry, Doug Porter, Seth Price, Yvonne Rainer, James Richards, Emily Wardill, Gernot Wieland, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Akram Zaatari, Katarina Zdjelar and Aaron Zeghers & Lewis Bennett.

This year’s edition of VIDEONALE.scope is dedicated to the body as an object of cinematic narrative and experimentation. On view will be works from the 1960s to the present that explore the human body, its collective extensions and more-than-human coexistences.

We increasingly experience our bodies as diffuse-as psychophysical entities that are increasingly technologically and economically developed, that must withstand growing social and political tensions, but that also branch out in increasingly diverse ways, making a multitude of possible identities and constellations conceivable and real. How does this body relate to itself and to other bodies? What notions of desired and undesired bodies, but also of new alliances, can emerge? How can bodies be mobilized as sites of the collective, the decentered or resistant, as “anti-bodies” directed against their increasing control and commodification?

For a present in which bodies are experienced primarily as fragile and fluid, the heroic body experiments and narcissistic self-explorations of earlier generations of artists can hardly provide new insights. The selected films therefore tend to take the path of an observational, questioning, and performative approach to one’s own and others’ experiences of the body, their representability, and their political implications.

Instead, they design multiple, opaque, deceptive surfaces to complicate the readability and usability of bodies, or work with doubles and avatars that play on the gaps between the individual and the collective, history and the present, nature and technology. They test the limits of sensory perception and body memory, illuminating old and new strategies of their manipulation and control. They explore the intimacy of observation and touch and show how the blind spots of groups and communities are articulated in the care of living and dead bodies. Last but not least, they describe how marginalized bodies become stakes in the value circuit of artistic labor, and call for new forms of social representation.

ADMISSION
5 Euro / 3 Euro (reduced)
Combiticket (2 programs) = 8 Euro/ 4 Euro (reduced)
Scope-Ticket (all events) = 24 Euro/ 12 Euro (reduced)

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