Six Tuesdays After Film as a Critical Practice

Six Tuesdays After Film as a Critical Practice is a series of ‘talks’ that explore ways in which we might understand film to be a critical practice from international and intergenerational perspectives. It will include Emily Wardill interviewing Peter Gidal, Emily Roysdon presenting a specially conceived performative work. Rosa Barba’s two-projector scultpure/sound work Western Round Table 2027 is shown alongside a selection of original recordings from the 1949 Western Round Table on Modern Art featuring contributions from Marcel Duchamp, Frank Lloyd Wright and Arnold Schoenburg. There is an interactive presentation of the German television programme Reformzirkus (1970) in which Alexander Kluge intervenes to expose not only the construction of the programme itself but also cultural and social prejudice. The writer and academic Tom Holert begins the series with a presentation of his recent video Ricostruzione: Dissertori/Libera (Towards a Historical Fable about Modernist Architecture and Psychology) (2007, co-authored with Claudia Honecke, commissioned by Manifesta 7) and a discussion about the relation between the critical practices of writing and art making on Tuesday 3 February.
Six Tuesdays… is curated by Ian White.