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No Home Movie

No Home Movie

by Chantal Akerman
Introduction by Oskar Hallberg
Thursday 9 June 2016
7pm

No Home Movie (2015), 115min

“This film is above all about my mother, my mother who is no longer with us. About this woman who arrived in Belgium in 1938,… »

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Minia Biabiany

29 April–19 June 2016
Opening Friday 29 April 7-9pm

A beginning. To open, to introduce.

An artist is invited to live and work in our city for three months. We call it a residency. It is an open invitation, extended in the… »

An Injury to One

An Injury to One

by Travis Wilkerson
Introduction by Oskar Hallberg
Tuesday 12 April 2016
7pm

An Injury to One (2002), 53min

An Injury to One reconstructs the unsolved murder of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, and provides a corrective—and absolutely compelling—glimpse of a… »

The Image and the machine: a cultural inquiry into contemporary forms of perception

The Image and the machine: a cultural inquiry into contemporary forms of perception

Lila Lee-Morrison
Thursday 7 April 2016
7pm

Contemporary applications of machine vision involve processes that often, obscure human perception, whether through bureaucratic procedures of blacking out information as in the case of drone warfare or through the mathematical abstractions of perceptual algorithms as… »

On Kunsthalle Athena and South as a State of Mind

On Kunsthalle Athena and South as a State of Mind

Marina Fokidis
Sunday 6 March 2016
5pm

Marina Fokidis is a curator and writer based in Athens, Greece. She is the founding and artistic director of Kunsthalle Athena, which started as an experimental platform and is now taking its permanent form, and the… »

Something eerie

Something eerie

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Graeme Arnfield, Ieva Epnere, David Kasprzak,
Daria Melnikova, Tadasu Takamine

26 February–17 April 2016
Opening Friday 26 February 7-9pm

I don’t know if you’ve noticed my absence, or maybe you have become used to it. It’s hard to calculate how… »

Appunti per un'Orestiade africana

Appunti per un’Orestiade africana

by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Introduction by Oskar Hallberg
Thursday 11 February 2016
7pm

Appunti per un’Orestiade africana / Notes for an African Orestes (1970), 71min

A film about an idea for a film never made: Pasolini journeys to post-colonial Africa to develop a… »

Hermann Scherchen: alles hörbar machen. An introduction.

Hermann Scherchen: alles hörbar machen. An introduction.

Luca Frei
Wednesday 3 February 2016
7pm

Luca Frei will give an introduction to his long-term project about German conductor Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966) and his pioneering research in electroacoustics in Gravesano, Switzerland. Frei will discuss his role in the project as visual artist,… »

Water hollows stone

Water hollows stone

Pauline Oliveros, Ilias Papailiakis

20 November 2015–14 February 2016
Opening Friday 20 November 7-9pm

Listening is the foundation of social relations, of politics and of negotiations. It is the foundation for an articulation of opposition, the basis for protest and affirmation. A lack thereof… »