Stedelijk University - The Moving Image in the Museum: The Cinema Experience Relocated Theory — 16 Oct until 11 Dec 2016 Stedelijk UNIVERSITY annually offers a short lecture series on the Sunday afternoon on current topics in contemporary art theory and the museum world. This first edition is provided by Professor Thomas Elsaesser (Emeritus Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and since 2013 related to, among others, Columbia University, New York). During the series The Moving Image in the Museum: The Cinema Experience Relocated, Elsaesser will investigate the way in which contemporary art is increasingly making use of film, video and the history of cinema. The five sessions are highlights of a series of lectures which Elsaesser gave earlier this year at Columbia University. During the past three decades, cinema has redefined itself in several ways: as a post-photographic medium, as global entertainment, and as a still significant public sphere. But it has also entered the museums, galleries and art spaces as a major attraction, a space of self-reflection and a means of activist intervention. Classic directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Luc Godard are granted museum retrospectives, along with major exhibitions featuring contemporary filmmakers (Abbas Kiarostami, Chantal Akerman, Harun Farocki, Agnes Varda, Johan Grimonprez). Often, these exhibitions highlight fundamental incompatibilities and exposing inherent contradictions of encounters between contemporary art and cinema. The migration of moving images (and sounds) into the museum may signal that the cinema has finally come to be recognized as the art form of the 20th century. Consequently, cinema has earned the right to enter into the traditional institutions of patronage, artistic heritage and cultural patrimony. But the move may also constitute a kind of ‘takeover bid’ and confirm the much-heralded ‘death’ of cinema, predicated on making the cinema ready for archival preservation and embalmed obsolescence. The course will ask how complementary, contradictory or productively challenging are the ‘black box’ and the ‘white cube’ in such a new arrangement of space, duration and spectatorship? Besides case-studies, general topics will include: projection, appropriation, obsolescence, the archive, found footage, documentary and the essay film.

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  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Activiteiten/Lezingen/Muziekuitvoeringen], film, video, beeld- en/of geluidsdrager