May Symposium (21 - 23 May 2010)Saturday 22 May, 11am Bettina SteinbrüggeModes of Curatorial Practice: Moving between art, cinema and performanceBorders between art and cinema are becoming increasingly impermeable, and it is the condition of mutability that informs every aspect of this lecture. In the 1960s and 1970s, experimental film work gave way to video art, once the introduction of video cameras and the technology of moving-image reproduction became economically accessible. For the past fifty years, the love/hate affair between the two has triggered vital aesthetic, social and political responses that constantly renew the way we understand our age. Critical debates about new ideas of representation, fuelled by the collapse of disciplinary boundaries, have created a new model of specificity – one that created a new kind of consideration towards the space of projection or exhibition.   Using the example of Forum Expanded, a division of Berlin International Film Festival, this lecture reflects about curatorial practice in the intersection of art and cinema, between the classical format of a film festival and the cinematic practices in the context of art and other fields. For curating moving images, it is essential to understand the technical development of the media, the various genealogies that attend the moving images, and the broader context in which the work arises.  Bettina is a freelance curator, writer, lecturer and publicist in Berlin. She studied art history, English philology and comparative literature. From 2001-2008 she directed Halle für Kunst Lüneburg eV, supervised the artist-in-residency Schloss Bleckede and taught art theory and curatorial practice at the University of Lüneburg in the Department of Cultural Theory.Lately she was curator of “Zero Gravity - The Architecture of Social Space” (Plovdiv, Bulgaria); and since 2009, she is co-curator of Forum Expanded, a division of the Berlin International Film Festival and in 2010/2011 is responsible as associated curator for the artistic program of “La Kunsthalle Mulhouse” in France.Her last publications, published at JRP / Ringier, are “Cooling Out - On the Paradox of Feminism”, “Outlandos”, the first monograph of Jeanne Faust and together with the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Génève “EDU TOOL BOX”, a book on art education. Bettina Steinbrügge writes for catalogues and various art publications such as the magazines Art South Africa, or IDEA, and sits on juries, such as the “International Competition of the Outdoor Gallery of the City of Gdansk” since 2005. Bettina is presenting with the support of the Goethe Institut.  May Symposium

May Symposium
(21 - 23 May 2010)

Saturday 22 May, 11am
Bettina Steinbrügge
Modes of Curatorial Practice: Moving between art, cinema and performance

Borders between art and cinema are becoming increasingly impermeable, and it is the condition of mutability that informs every aspect of this lecture. In the 1960s and 1970s, experimental film work gave way to video art, once the introduction of video cameras and the technology of moving-image reproduction became economically accessible. For the past fifty years, the love/hate affair between the two has triggered vital aesthetic, social and political responses that constantly renew the way we understand our age. Critical debates about new ideas of representation, fuelled by the collapse of disciplinary boundaries, have created a new model of specificity – one that created a new kind of consideration towards the space of projection or exhibition.  

Using the example of Forum Expanded, a division of Berlin International Film Festival, this lecture reflects about curatorial practice in the intersection of art and cinema, between the classical format of a film festival and the cinematic practices in the context of art and other fields. For curating moving images, it is essential to understand the technical development of the media, the various genealogies that attend the moving images, and the broader context in which the work arises.

 Bettina is a freelance curator, writer, lecturer and publicist in Berlin. She studied art history, English philology and comparative literature. From 2001-2008 she directed Halle für Kunst Lüneburg eV, supervised the artist-in-residency Schloss Bleckede and taught art theory and curatorial practice at the University of Lüneburg in the Department of Cultural Theory.

Lately she was curator of “Zero Gravity - The Architecture of Social Space” (Plovdiv, Bulgaria); and since 2009, she is co-curator of Forum Expanded, a division of the Berlin International Film Festival and in 2010/2011 is responsible as associated curator for the artistic program of “La Kunsthalle Mulhouse” in France.

Her last publications, published at JRP / Ringier, are “Cooling Out - On the Paradox of Feminism”, “Outlandos”, the first monograph of Jeanne Faust and together with the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Génève “EDU TOOL BOX”, a book on art education. Bettina Steinbrügge writes for catalogues and various art publications such as the magazines Art South Africa, or IDEA, and sits on juries, such as the “International Competition of the Outdoor Gallery of the City of Gdansk” since 2005. 

Bettina is presenting with the support of the Goethe Institut.  

May Symposium

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