MEDIA FORUM PROGRAMME

Exhibition at Moscow Museum of Modern Art «Expanded Cinema: part 1»

June 14 – July 3, 2011

Yermolaevsky lane, 17

 +7 (495) 231-3660

www.mmoma.ru

Exhibition at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture «Expanded Cinema: part 2»

June 25 — August 18, 2011

19A Ulitsa Obraztsova

 +7 (495) 645-05-20

http://www.garageccc.ru/

Presentations, performances, screenings and discussions:

June 24 –June 27, 2011

Media Forum at the Moscow International Film Festival has for the last twelve years been responsible for the borderline territory between cinema and contemporary art. According to the theorists and practitioners of the art of moving images it is exactly there that most interesting and promising events in screen culture are happening: multiscreen cinema is evolving, multimedia art works are created in real time mode and with active audience unteraction, new strategies of distribution and contextual analysis of video works are developing. Apparantly, this is the future of both cinema and video art as a whole.

This XII Media Forum presents what is probably the most ambitious project in all of its history — the Expanded Cinema exhibition chosen from the latest and most striking works on the verge of cinema and video art. Each of these works has its own interpretation of the moving images, its own method of working with the time and space of the screen. The organizers aimed to show the whole range of these art strategies and their distinctness, as they are special and very relevant now, having overtaken major art festivals worldwide. The expositions at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture are supplemented by sessions with the artists participating in the project, their lectures and workshops, live performances and live communication of the audience with the most outstanding art figures of our time.

JUNE 24

16:00 — Peter Weibel’s (Austria) lecture “AppArt: from Expanded to Mobile Cinema” at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

20:00 — opening of the “Expanded Cinema. Part 2” exhibition at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture: Isaak Julien (UK), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland) and Yang Fudong (China)

22:00 — Test Pattern multimedia performance by Ryoji Ikeda (Japan) at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

JUNE 25

16:00 — Fiona Tan (Netherlands): A lapse of Memory lecture at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

20:00 — opening of the “Expanded Cinema. Part 1” exhibition at Moscow Museum of Modern Art: Fiona Tan (Netherlands), Doug Aitken (USA), Johanna Billing (Sweden), Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann (Germany), Gary Hill (USA), Anri Sala (Albania/France), Leslie Thornton (USA), Ranbir Kaleka (India), Arev Manoukian (Canada), Boris Eldagsen (Germany), Yuri Kalendarev (Russia/Italy), Evgeny Ufit (Russia), Keren Cytter (Israel/Germany), Ilya Permyakov (Russia), TOT-Art group (Russia), Elena Kovylina (Russia), Almagul Menlibaeva (Kazakhstan), PROVMYZA group (Russia), Bluesoup group (Russia), Taus Makhacheva (Russia), Yuri Albert (Russia), Viktor Alimpiev (Russia)

20:00 — The Sons of a Bitch performance by Elena Kovylina (Russia) at Moscow Museum of Modern Art

JUNE 26

15:00 — presentation of the Expanded Cinema: Defining Borders edition at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

17:00 — Ranbir Kaleka (India): “...where time moves slowly” lecture at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

19:00 — Harun Faroki (Germany): “Some dissect a bird in order to eat it, others in order to discover how to fly” retrospective at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

JUNE 27

17:00 — presentation of the Media art course of the Media Art & Communications Workshops Academy at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

19:00 — Leslie Thornton (USA): “Some animals will pay attention to each other. Some will pay attention to the thing holding the camera” lecture at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

Organizers of the Media Forum: MediaFest and MediaArtLab Centre for art and culture

Co-organizers: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

Supported by: the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Mondrian Foundation (Netherlands), Goethe Institut, Moskau, Japan Foundation