[artinfo] Dis-economy of life/Cinema Suitcase

[Artpool Art Research Center]

Cinema Suitcase
DIS-ECONOMY OF LIFE :: Artpool P60, Budapest :: November 15 and 17, 2006
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CINEMA SUITCASE (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"DIS-ECONOMY OF LIFE"
Migratory Aesthetics, Travelling Concepts & Organization of Economic  
Life
Travelling Video Installation: International Collaborative Media Project

Curated by: Marko Stamenkovic (O3ONE, Belgrade),
in cooperation with Peter Fuchs (Artpool, Budapest)

Artpool P60 – (Budapest VI., Paulay E. u. 60.), 15 and 17/11/2006
OPENING: Wednesday, November 15, 2006, at 6pm

LECTURES:
Marko Stamenkovic (O3ONE – Belgrade): “The Decentralized World and  
the Arts”, Wednesday, November 15, at 6pm
Peter Fuchs (Artpool – Budapest): "Dis-economy of Art / The Art of  
Dis-economy" Friday, November 17, at 6pm
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ABOUT THE PROJECT:
The 4-screen video installation Nothing is Missing attends to the  
people never talked about, all but invisible, who most poignantly  
suffer the loss of the departure of migrants from their communities:  
the mothers. Colony is a tale of a lost system of production, of  
colonization and hierarchy and the politics surrounding the work of  
individuals whose lives became entwined in a global vision. The film  
opens but does not answer the question so crucial to the contemporary  
world: is the overcoming of colonialism ever able to avoid neo- 
colonialism? The film is political in its critical presentation of  
both past ideals and contemporary alternatives. Two films, made by  
the collective, explore the impact of the current repressive politics  
of migration on individual lives (Mille et un jours; Access Denied).  
While the former film is an experimental narrative that balances  
classical form with Arabic tradition, and a joyful present with  
recent and past trauma, the latter film also questions the ways this  
political climate affects the possibility to make art.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Cinema Suitcase is an international group of filmmakers pursuing  
projects of experimental social documentary. Coming from a diversity  
of fields in the visual arts, they seek to facilitate the self- 
narration of their subjects, always encountered on the basis of a  
great intimacy, rather than constructing their stories for them. This  
approach enhances the performative quality of filmmaking as a  
collective process. The group consists of (in alphabetic order):  
Mieke Bal, Zen Marie, Thomas Sykora, Gary Ward, Michelle Williams.

ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Marko Stamenkovic (1977). Art historian, critic and curator based in  
Belgrade (Serbia).
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The program in Budapest is realized in the framework of the exhibition
NETWORK RECOLLECTIONS (1986-2006)
organized by Artpool Art Research Center
http://www.artpool.hu/Network/


Artpool P60 –Budapest (Hungary)
Budapest VI., Paulay E. u. 60.
http://www.artpool.hu
http://www.artpool.hu/P60/about.html