UiT Norges arktiske universitet, Harstad. Class room 1 (to the left when you enter the building from the street).
Free of charge.
Seminar on Jean-Luc Godard by art historian Nicolas Siepen.
“Jean-Luc Godard was one of the poster boys of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), which caused a cinematic revolution. He was a master of Avant-Garde Cinema, a political activist operating and experimenting with sound and images, and a visual artist who fled cinema (moving stories) to produce as independent as possible in maximal distance to the commercial cinema of his time. Godard invented new approaches to cinematic language and its capitalist conditions. By doing so, he landed within the flux of the moving images themselves as an artistic genre, developing rapidly in the course of the democratization of the technical gadgets available to everybody. Due to this new accessibility of technology, he experimented with video and television and later formats like the museum and the internet. On the occasion of his death, I would like to introduce and discuss some of Godard's contributions to the history, development, practice, and theory of moving images.”
Nicolas Siepen
Nicolas Siepen will hold a three day morning seminar at Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival. Read more about it by clicking on this sentence. The seminar will respond to and actively engage with the 'moving image' programme of the festival. This seminar on Godard is part of this three day morning seminar.
Nicolas Siepen born 1966 in Cologne, is a Berlin based artist, filmmaker and theoretician. He writes frequently on post-structuralism, marxism, film and current questions of new forms of capitalism and left politics.
As a art critic he has written for numerous publications, including Springerin, Texte zur Kunst, FAZ. He is co-founder of the bookstore and publishing house b_books which was part of Documenta 12 and publishes books on art, film, performance, urbanism, queer theory, activism and politics. He is member of The Performing Arts Forum (PAF) in France. In the 1990s he was part of the artist group KlasseZwei and the band ZigarettenRauchen and participated in various international exhibitions and filmfestivals, among them Berlinale and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Between 2009 and 2016 he was Professor of visual arts at the Academy of Contemporary Arts in Tromso, Norway.