PODCAST: LECTURE BY HANS BLOMQVIST ON FRANZ KAFKA

”Investigations of a Dog. Kafka as artist and mystic”

10 MARCH 2011

In his lecture ”Investigations of a Dog. Kafka as artist and mystic” Hans Blomqvist speaks about Kafka’s life and work and how it has been interpreted over time. Blomqvist also gives insight into Kafka’s original way of crafting his stories and his particular esthetic, in which mystical ideas take center stage.

Hans Blomqvist is a translator and author based in Gothenburg. Together with Erik Ågren he has translated Franz Kafka to Swedish for many years. Hans Blomqvist has written “Den oerhörda värld jag har i mitt huvud (The Tremendous World I Have in My Head)” in 2006, a book about Kafka’s literary technique and esthetic based on his own explorations about his writing and the compilation of essays “Gemenskapen har sina demoner och ensamheten sina (Community has Demons and So Does Loneliness)” published 2009.

Language: Swedish

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PODCAST: LECTURE BY JERZY J. KIERKUC-BIELINSKI

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25 2010

Sir John Soane: Architecture, Collecting and ‘…the Museum of museums…’

Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most innovative and forward thinking architects in British history. He was also one of Britain’s most important collectors of art and antiquities creating unprecedented installations of objects within his house. These have provided inspiration for many contemporary artists. Whilst looking at Soane’s architectural career this lecture will also focus on his equally important role as a collector.

Jerzy J. Kierkuć-Bieliński is curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. Richard Julin, Deputy Director at Magasin 3, opens the lecture by presenting the Magasin 3 collection. Language: English.

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LECTURE AND ARTIST TALK ABOUT THE STUDIO

You specify it, we fabricate it: The art of production

20 OCTOBER 2010

Wouter Davidts is professor of modern and contemporary art at VU University in Amsterdam and co-editor of the book “The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work”. The starting point for his lecture is the conceptualist turn in studio production that was initiated by Tony Smith’s ”Die”, a sculpture of which he ordered the production by telling the instructions over the phone to the steel company. The lecture is followed by an artist talk with Maria Hedlund and Carl Hammoud who share their view on the studio and work process. Moderator: Curator Tessa Praun. Language: English. (Image from Carl Hammoud’s studio)

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PODCAST: LECTURE BY SABETH BUCHMANN

THURSDAY MAY 6 2010

It is difficult to bungle a good idea
– Conceptual art and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings .

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LECTURE ON SMADAR DREYFUS BY ANNE KARPF

TUESDAY OCTOBER 27 2010

Smadar Dreyfus is interested in how meaning is both created and reconstructed at the intersection of the aural and the visual. In several of her works she has separated image and sound to present different perspectives on the same scene. Dreyfus investigates the voice as it embodies social relations and mediates between the individual and the collective. Often she uses real-life recorded material, but decisively eschews any documentary conventions.

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Lecture by Johan Grimonprez. May 28, 2009.
The point of departure for Grimonprez’ talk is his work ‘YouTube-o-theque’ – a collection of video clips taken from the Internet’s endless flow of information which illustrate his interest in how media influences our perception of reality. From this perspective, Grimonprez also discusses the making of his recent film Double Take. Language: English.
Part 1 (Duration: 36 min)
Part 2 (Duration: 40 min)

Lecture by Daniel McClean: “Art’s engagement with the law: from faking suicide to counting deaths”. Friday 8 May 2009.
Duration: 60 min, Language: English
Art may test the limits of social, moral and legal acceptance. Daniel McClean (curator and lawyer specialising in art law) will through current as well as examples from the 16th century art world speculate on what the co-existence of these models of artistic production/distribution within contemporary culture says about art, the law and the relationship between them. Works by Santiago Sierra will be a natural part of the lecture.

Lecture by Stellan Vinthagen: Creativity as resistance; on the research about resistance and the resistance’s practical creativity. 18 March 2009.
Duration: 60 min. Language: Swedish.
Ph D Stellan Vinthagen, senior lecturer in sociology and resistance activist in several resistance movements. Stellan teaches and does research on resistance techniques, tectics and strategies within social movements, action groups and among individuals in Sweden and the so called Third world. He is co-editor for the publication ‘Motstånd’ (released in April 2009 on Liber), and one of the founders to the global research network Resistance Studies (www.resistancestudies.org) and action project Ship to Gaza.

Conversation between Lisa Rosendahl and Elisabeth Millqvist, 5 March 2009.
Duration: 49 min. Language: Swedish.
An in depth conversation about Santiago Sierra’s artistry between Lisa Rosendahl, curator and director of the Baltic Art Center in Visby and exhibition curator Elisabeth Millqvist. Lisa Rosendahl has worked with Sierra numerous times.Santiago Sierra is an artist who leaves no one unmoved, and he is seen both as provocative and controversial. The conversation deals with the issues that comes up when working with Sierra.

Thursday Night Football at Magasin 3, November 27, 2008.
Duration: 40 min. Language: Swedish.
Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf, professor of art history at Stockholm University and Henrik Ystén, editor in chief for Offside Magazine will talk about their shared fascination with football.

Lecture by Sue Breakell, archivist, Tate, London. October 8, 2008.
Duration: 39 min. Language: English.
“Something of our own selves: talking archives”
In conjunction with the exhibition Christian Boltanski “Les archives” an evening was arranged around the theme of “heart and archive”. Sue Breakell takes as her starting point Boltanski’s use of archival forms and practices, and offers an archivist’s perspective on the nature and meaning of archives in contemporary culture. She also considers the generative possibilities of the use of archives in art practice, and the particular ways in which such traces speak to the individual experience of the viewer through a kind of “microhistory”.

Lecture by Cecilia Linde, professor and senior physician at ‘Hjärtkliniken’ Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset. October 8, 2008.
Duration: 30 min. Language: Swedish.
“A heart-specialist’s view on heartbeats”
In conjunction with the exhibition Christian Boltanski “Les archives” an evening was arranged around the theme of “heart and archive”. Cecilia Linde talks about our physiological and cultural knowledge of the heart in relation to her expert experiences.

Lecture by Fredrik Söderberg, May 22, 2008.
Duration: 40 min. Language: Swedish.
Fredrik Söderberg talks about artists and writers who have had a great impact on his work. He will also trace the birth of modern magic – beginning with The Order of the Golden Dawn and ending in Kenneth Anger’s work, with the film “Lucifer Rising” (1972) forming an important part. In addition he will mention British artist and magician Austin Osman Spare, the writer and mystic Aleister Crowley, the author H.P. Lovecraft and the cult horror film “The Wicker Man” (1973).

Lecture by Richard Julin, chief curator at Magasin 3. April 24, 2008.
Duration: 52 min. Language: Swedish.
Lecture by Richard Julin in connection with the Tino Sehgal exhibition at Magasin 3. Historical examples of immaterial art will be discussed from a personal perspective. Arthur Cravan, Valie Export and Yves Klein will be mentioned amongst others.

Lecture by Cecilia Sjöholm, senior teacher at Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm. February 28, 2008.
Duration: 44 min. Language: Swedish.
“Von Hausswolff’s Technologies: a Foucauldian reading”
Towards the end of his life Michel Foucault became interested in the power he linked to ‘technologies of the self’. One could say that Foucault try to formulate the self like a moral driving force outside of the system with which the individual is coded, socially and politically. Can one analyse Annika von Hausswolff’s images under this lense? Which conflicts are evident in her work? The lecture looks at von Hausswolff’s images using the notions of Foucault.

Lecture by Leif Wigh, former curator at Moderna museet. February 14, 2008.
Duration: 80 min. Language: Swedish.
“A look at the past. About older photographic technology and its users, 1839-1980″
In his lecture Leif Wigh talked about the technological and stylistic developments of photographic history’s different periods using examples from the exhibition. During the second half of the 19th century Julia Margaret Cameron developed a very personal artistic approach using the technology of her time. At first glance one could think that the Czech artist Miroslav Tichy was inspired by her approach. His self-constructed cameras are particulary exciting. There was also a trend among image-makers of the 1970′s of using old-fashioned cameras in order to achieve certain effects and moods in their images.

Panel discussion: Charles Esche and David Neuman. Moderator: Maria Lind, February 21, 2007.
2 parts, part 1: 51 min, part 2: 54 min. Language: English.
“What is the new role of collections?”?
In the 20th century, museums moved away from their roles as bearers of classical culture and collectors of historical knowledge towards becoming active players in contemporary culture through fast projects, commissioned art works, residencies and other forms of support for artists. Can the design, presentation and development of collections become part of this leap towards the production of new works, or will collections be sidelined by the expressions of contemporary art? Have private collections and institutions taken over part of the traditional role of the public museum in Europe as well? If so, how will this affect the relationship between artists and their financial backers and intermediaries?
The discussion at Magasin 3 is part of IASPIS series of seminars “Tendencies in time”.