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CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007: Peter Hopkins Miller

Peter Hopkins Miller

October 26, 2007

Lecture: Pistoletto Performance Theater, 21.00

Peter Hopkins Miller makes films, film installations and film performances that focus on the irreducible elements of the cinema: lenses, light, flicker, intermittence, spectacle, spectators, projectors and projection. He is enthralled with exploring the parameters of these essential ingredients, in much the same manner as the magicians and showmen who first set the early cinema into motion with a series of Kinetoscope performances and Nickelodeon installations at the beginning of the last century.
Walter Benjamin predicts that, when a technology is replaced, it first ignites into the highest super-nova state that it can be and, in so doing, revisits and resembles its promised potential, its first state. This interest in exposing an increasingly digitized world to the inner workings of the analog cinema is driven by Miller‘s fascination with the mechanical devices that ushered in the age of film. He is drawn to the light of discovery that illuminated the industrial era, to the Rube Goldberg-like apparatuses that constructed it and to how accurately we thought they would measure our world. Ultimately, Miller creates novel, poetic conjugations of the language of media, to make new marvels out of old magic.

The Cittadel-Artist Lecture Series is part of the UNIDEE in Residence Program at the Pistoletto Foundation,
Biella, Italy. For more information, please contact Chelsea Tonelli Knight at chelsea@chelseaknight.com.

CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007: Roman Dziadkiewicz

“Kidnapping a Curator”, Video Still, 2004

Roman Dziadkiewicz

October 21, 2007

Lecture: Dictionary of Participatotory Strategies
Sunday, October 21, Pistoletto Performance Theater, 18.00

Roman Dziadkiewicz (1972) is an artist and co-founder/leader of the SAOZ Association (1999-2002) and 36.6foundation. He Conducts long-term studies and workshop projects bordering on artistic practices, social investigations, curatorial strategies and testing of forms of participations. Dziadkiewicz is Interested in the processes of the entanglement of art and creative processes in political and cultural contexts, the disintegration/disappearance of a work of art and the reconstruction and redefinintion of historical and multicultural traditions.
The transfiguration of physical spaces and cultural moments in Grimberg’s work produces uneasy performances of absence that question the meaning of memory, place, and attachment. The result is the realignment and play of the structure of fiction and space itself in a psychologically fractured world, in which the connection between secure meanings and official narratives is often distorted or lost.
Dziadkiewicz has realised a number of workshops, lectures and educational projects, e.g. at The Hungarian Art University (2007), The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2006), The Cleveland Institut of Art (2005), Technical University in Krakow (2007) and within World Social Forum Mumbay (2004). The author and editor of publications (poems, essays, visual essays) e.g. Tissues (1996), Group Think or Modern Masters (in: Zniewolony Umysl 2, 2006), Agora-Solidarnosc-SFX-Creative Commons-Publicznosc (2005). Selected art realisations: Imhibition (National Museum Krakow, 2005-2007), Robinson Crusoe or Stranger than Paradise (Spaces Gallery, Cleveland 2005), Luminescences/Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (CCA Kiev, Ukraine & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin 2006), Books/Apperception (Rauma Biennale 2006).

The Cittadel-Artist Lecture Series is part of the UNIDEE in Residence Program at the Pistoletto Foundation,
Biella, Italy. For more information, please contact Chelsea Tonelli Knight at chelsea@chelseaknight.com.

CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007: Eiko Grimberg

Eiko Grimberg

Fri, October 12, 2007

Studio Visits: TBA

Eiko Grimberg is a Berlin-based artist working in video and photography. His work shifts and detaches images and stories from their role as signifiers of cohesive histories. In Grimberg’s video of a deserted Wall Street in Post 9/11 New York (The Years to Come, 2005), the space of the image is folded into a mismatched historical narrative about a similar but changed series of events, and produces a sensation of dislocated anxiety.
The transfiguration of physical spaces and cultural moments in Grimberg’s work produces uneasy performances of absence that question the meaning of memory, place, and attachment. The result is the realignment and play of the structure of fiction and space itself in a psychologically fractured world, in which the connection between secure meanings and official narratives is often distorted or lost.
Eiko Grimberg received his MFA from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 2003 and is assistant professor at HGB.

The Cittadel-Artist Lecture Series is part of the UNIDEE in Residence Program at the Pistoletto Foundation,
Biella, Italy. For more information, please contact Chelsea Tonelli Knight at chelsea@chelseaknight.com.

CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007: Alain Verschueren

Alain Verschueren

October 12 2007

Lecture: Friday October 12, Pistoletto Basement Theater, 18.00
Studio Visits: Wednesday, September 26, 11–13.00, UNIDEE*
*Please sign up for one half-hour studio visit following the artist’s lecture

Alain Verschueren is an artist working in sculpture and performance. For the past
three years, he has carried glass greenhouses on his shoulders in different public
spaces in Belgium. Vershueren experiments with ideas about participation in the
world, walking on the street, always within a special structure where noise is less
aggressive and the perfume of plants brings comfort and relief against pollution.
Verschueren plans to bring his oases to different parts of the world as part of a
six month journey starting in 2009.

The Cittadel-Artist Lecture Series is part of the UNIDEE in Residence Program at the Pistoletto Foundation,
Biella, Italy. For more information, please contact Chelsea Tonelli Knight at chelsea@chelseaknight.com.