We. 28.09 - Apología/Antología: Video Itineraries through the Spanish Context

The edition, in different formats, comes to remedy the lack of a retrospective publication that meets prominent productions of practices in this country. Apología/Antología is available in two formats: a DVDbox with 5 dvd accompanied by a booklet and an online platform. The online platform contains 250 works freely accessible works of experimental moving image by Spanish artists and filmmakers. The result is a diverse overview of audiovisual artistic production across Spain, intended to facilitate knowledge, research, teaching and distribution.

The presentation of this ambitious project at Beursschouwburg will take the form of a workshop, and a screening aimed at sharing the challenges that an anthological project is bound to and the strategies that were set up in order to face them.

www.apologiantologia.net

Image: Actuació d’Ocaña i Camilo (1977)

Programme Apología/Antología, We. 28.09 in Beursschouwburg: 

- 16:00 - 19:00: "Software decisions of making an online viewing platform". Workshop conduced by Nicolás Malevé and Michael Murtaugh - more details

- 20:30 - 21:00: Public presentation Apología/Antología conduced by Eli Lloveras, Anna Manubens - more details 

- 21:00 - 22:30: Screening program Camilo and Ocaña curated by Alberto García del Castillo - more details 

Reservations:
The programme of Apología/Antología is free of charge.
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For more upcoming film & video events check the bottom of this email or click here. 

PROGRAMME DETAILS

16:00 - 19:00: "Software decisions of making an online viewing platform" - workshop conduced by Nicolás Malevé and Michael Murtaugh  
free - book your place - more info

During this workshop, we will take the Apología/Antología platform as a starting point to discuss the various questions one encounters when publishing a large series of video works on the net. We will explain the various philosophical and technical choices we have made and focus particularly on three main topics: the material and technical constraints, the classification of a large set of videos, and the possibilities opened by algorithmic techniques to navigate differently the Apología/Antología database. We would like the workshop to be a moment of discussion as well as a moment of practical experimentation. If possible, please bring a laptop with you.

Nicolas Malevé is a visual artist, computer programmer, and data activist who lives and works between Brussels and London. MConstant is a non-profit, artist-run organization based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media, and technology. The artistic practice of Constant is interdisciplinary and inspired by many themes such as collaborative work, technological innovation, pipelined networks, software infrastructures, data-exchange, algorithms, experimental archives, new forms of (re)presentations, copyright alternatives, (cyber)feminism, and the ethics of the web.

Michael Murtaugh designs and researches community databases, interactive documentary, and tools for new forms of reading and writing online, and teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. 

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20:30 - 21:00: Public presentation Apología/Antología conduced by Eli Lloveras, Anna Manubens
free - book your place (1 reservation for both the presentation at 20:30 and the screening at 21:00) - more info

Eli Lloveras, a graduate in Fine Arts, has been one of the four members of YProductions, a cultural production company that has worked in culture-related production, management research and training. Over the years, she has worked in the following areas: artistic production, the culture economy, cultural work, research into culture, cultural reviews, cultural policies and innovation in culture. All of these topics have been discussed in debate symposiums such as Estrategas in Barcelona, editorial projects like Producta50 or Innovación en Cultura (2009, ed. Dream Traffickers), audiovisuals projects like Bastante Tengo Conmigo Mismo and working structures like the platform for the dissemination and distribution of the HAMACA video, a project that she has directed since 2009.

Anna Manubens was recently appointed Head of Public Programmes at CAPC musée d’art contemporising in Bordeaux. She previously worked as a freelance curator, writer and producer. From 2013 to 2016 she lived between Barcelona and Brussels where she worked for the artist-run organisation Auguste Orts, dedicated to the production of, and thinking around artists’ films. Her recent curatorial projects include: When you Fall Into a Trance (La Loge, Brussels, 2014), Moving Image Contours, co-curated with Soledad Gutiérrez, (Tabakalera, San Sebastián, 2015), Hacer cuerpo con la máquina: Joachim Koester, (Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona, 2016) and Visceral Blue (La Capella; Barcelona, 2016). She was associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) from 2013 to 2016 and was formerly artistic director of LOOP Festival for the editions of 2011 and 2012.

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21:00 - 22:30: Screening program Camilo and Ocaña curated by Alberto García del Castillo 
free - book your place (1 reservation for both the presentation at 20:30 and the screening at 21:00) - more info

A program comprised of two videos by the Barcelona-based libertarian collective for the appropriation of audio-visual means of communication Video-Nou. Actuació d’Ocaña i Camilo (1977) is a portrait of anarchist, artist, thespian and cross-dresser Ocaña, her best-friend Camilo, the underground cartoonist Nazario and more friends performing, making themselves up, touching each other and hanging out together. Ocaña. Exposició a la Galería Mec-Mec (1977) is a report by Ocaña of her exhibition at Mec-Mec gallery; he sings, dances and recites poetry in the company of Camilo, the camera operator and others. These videos are accompanied by the reading of a selection of passages containing Esther Newton’s vivid and loving portrayals of her friends Tiger, Billy, Tris, Godiva, Lola, Jim, Jean, Dodi Turner, Bo Sutter, Wanda, Jane, Judy, Gus, Tim, Bonnie and others in her essay Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (1972).

Curator and writer Alberto García del Castillo composed this program an online platform Apología/Antología. Alberto writes and curates about communitarian, feminist and queer matters; Alberto’s last publications are: Merman (with Steev Lemercier, upcoming), “Oslo” (with Lars Laumann, in Girls Like Us magazine, 2016), Midpoint (with Laurie Charles, Louise Osieka and Marnie Slater, 2016) and Retrospective (2014); Alberto also recently co-curated the arts festival La Kermesse héroïque (with Louise Osieka, 2016), the symposium Pollination. Pansies. (2015) and is the co-curator the arts platform Buenos Tiempos, Int. (with Marnie Slater, founded in 2014).

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More upcoming film & video events: 

* 28.9 - 22.10, 12:00 - 22:00: Black Box Screening - Anton Vidokle (RU) - The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun.
EXTRA: Intro + collective screening session + fingerfood on We. 28.09, 20:00. 
More info & registrations (free)

* 6.10 - from 19:00 to 23:00 (7 sessions): Clémentine Coupau (FR) - Common Moods. Location: At Marriott Hotel
Rue Auguste Orts 3, 1000 Brussels.
More info & registrations (free - limited capacity)

* 20 & 21.10, 18:00 - 22:30: Koen Theys (BE) - Serial Drummer Girl. Premiere. 
more info

* 12.10 - 22.10, 12:00 - 22:00: Ane Hjort Guttu (NO) - Time Passes. 
EXTRA: Intro + collective screening session + fingerfood on We. 19.10, 20:00
more info & registrations

Check out the full film & video programme on our webiste.