Walk this way

Gary Carsley will present the serial self in multiple identities and the art & life of Leigh Bowery.

Activism and Representation

A public screening and discussion that focuses on the deployment of political imagery in the media and its consequent cultural reification in cinema and art.

David Selden in discussion with Astrid Proll (former member of Baader Meinhof/ RAF) and Iratxe Jaio.

Activism and Representation - Films/Lectures II

Given that one of the conscious intentions of political violence is to create an image which might focus the attention of the global media, it must enter into some kind of transaction with the economy of signs.

What is the nature of this transaction? How is the meaning of these images affected by the subsequent glosses and perspectives imposed upon it?

As these images are themselves subject to cultural reappropriation, how are they to be read as they drift from their specific political and historical contexts towards aesthetic discourse?

Following a screening of Iratxe Jaio's video A 24 hours a day Revolution and Astrid Proll's book, Pictures on the Run 67-77, Iratxe Jaio, Astrid Proll and David Selden will address questions of authorship and authenticity in relation to the presentation of the political in contemporary art. By exploring these issues with the audience, the discussion will focus on the deployment of political imagery in the media and its consequent cultural reification in cinema and art.

Afscheid van Kollum

A film by Annemarie van Zweeden is the starting point for the debate: 'Fight or Flight'

Films/Lectures III
‘Afscheid van Kollum’
(Goodbye Kollum) a film by
Annemarie van Zweeden
55 minutes

Much has changed in the Netherlands in the last five years, especially regarding the policies surrounding immigration and of course most recently, the expulsion of 26,000 refugees. With the impending Inburgeringswet (naturalization law), the question of identity surrounding what is considered Dutch and how that will be determined and tested, is now the course of discussion for not only peoples of all ethnicities living within the Netherlands, but for the European community as well as the globalized world.

Following the film/documentary Afscheid van Kollum ( 55 minutes) a concluding debate about migration, marginality and otherness will be conducted by moderator Heidi Lobato with the audience, about these unseen others in society. Film director van Zweeden has recently returned from a trip to Africa and will talk about her experiences in Congo where she has revisited the asylum seekers who where deported from the Netherlands back to their countries of origin.

Documentary maker Annemarie van Zweeden was awarded in Cologne the Television Prize Civis Europe 2001 for her film: Het schone van Dromen