When: Thursday 2 June 2022
Time: 20:00-22:00 hrs
Location: Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4 in Amsterdam
A ticket costs ten euros and gives access to the screening and the accompanying talk (English spoken).
All proceeds from the screening will go in favor of the Emergency Support Initiative, launched to help the members of the artistic and cultural community in Ukraine finding themselves in need. The
main goal of the fund is to offer support to people residing in the
country and to provide them with immediate financial relief under the
conditions of war, occupation and/or relocation.
Programme
20:00 Introduction and welcome
20:10 Talk: Media Witnessing in times of crisis by Florian Göttke
20:40 Filmscreening curated by Serge Klymko, the founder of the Emergency Support Initiative. 90’
The screening will feature a series of
recent works by moving image artists based in Ukraine. All of the works
have been created in the past two months; giving a raw and immediate
insight into the filmmakers’ current practices. The works provide an
intimate portrayal of individuals and groups caught up in bureaucracy
and war.
The films remind us of the importance of
filmmaking in times of crisis and the necessity to make visible and keep
traces as acts of resistance. They blatantly show the political
dimensions of film and visual culture and the potential of artists’
moving image practices as a medium of communicating, relating, and
knowing.
If you cannot attend the physical screening,
but still want to support the fundraiser, you can make a direct
donation via this link (we will gather payments and send them as one
transfer)
HomeCinema is a video
broadcasting platform for moving image works by young and emerging
artists, created by Carmen Dusmet Carrasco and Andrea Gonzále.
Florian Göttke is a visual
artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. He combines visual
modes of research (collecting, close reading, and image montage) with
academic research to investigate the functioning of public images and
their relationship to social memory and politics. Göttke has exhibited
internationally, has written articles for academic journals and art
publications. His book Toppled, an iconological study of the toppled
statues of Saddam Hussein, was nominated for the Dutch Doc Award 2011.
Göttke obtained a PhD Artistic Research at
the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Art Institute in 2019. His
dissertation entitled “Burning Images: Performing Effigies as Political
Protest” investigates the peculiar practice to hang or burn
effigies—scarecrow-like puppets representing despised politicians—as a
form of political protest. His dissertation, which will be published at
the end of 2020 with Valiz, Amsterdam, combines two discursive
narratives: a linear text and a parallel assemblage of images. Image
narrative and text are like the two voices in a musical composition,
each in turn taking the lead to introduce themes, structure the work,
direct the reader, set tempo and rhythm, halt the attention or
accelerate the flow.
Serge Klymko has been a
practicing curator, cultural manager, researcher, and writer working on
the intersection of visual and performative art, music, and urban
ecosystems research over the last 10 years. In the last 5 years, he has
curated a number of cultural and art projects in Barcelona, Geneva,
Karlsruhe, Kyiv, Prague, Tbilisi, Vienna, and Warsaw working with a wide
range of artists and theoreticians. Serge is one of the organizers of
Kyiv Biennial, an international forum for art, knowledge, and politics
that integrates exhibitions and discussion platforms. From the beginning
of the war, he founded ESI – Emergency Support Initiative
launched to help the Ukrainian artistic community under unprecedented
conditions. MA in Cultural Studies, based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
About Tactical Media Room
The Tactical Media Room (TMR) is an
initiative of Waag Futurelab and Institute for Network Cultures (HvA),
founded in late February 2022 after the Russian invasion in Ukraine. In
collaboration with hackers, artists, designers and researchers in The
Netherlands, TMR aims to support independent tactical media,
journalists, newsrooms and civic initiatives from Ukraine, Russia, and
Belarus.
As a temporary Amsterdam-based platform, TMR
brings together different forms of expertise in the fields of
journalism, media activism, arts, and research. A group of currently
fourty members addresses topics and activities that vary from Russian
disinformation, censorship and propaganda research to mapping platform
geopolitics, support regarding hardware and online services by ISP’s and
hosting providers, tech knowledge exchanges (from satellite phones to
cyber security), and practical aid support.