3 day morning seminar
Friday 14 - Sunday 16 October
Venue: UiT Norwegian Arctic University, Harstad
9.00 - 11.00 Friday (class room 2)
9.00 - 11.00 Saturday (class room 1) - session on Godard.
10.00 - 12.00 Sunday (class room 1)
Venue: UiT Norwegian Arctic University, Harstad, classrom 2
Nicolas Siepen will hold a three-day morning seminar at Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival. The seminar will respond to and actively engage with the 'moving image' programme of the festival. It will be structured around three, two hour long sessions every morning during the festival, where the group will be joined by artists involved in the festival. The members of the group will be invited to actively participate in the sessions, and reflect upon their own work if applicable. Seminar participants will also attend the festivals screenings free of charge, and draw upon and interrogate their responses to these – extending from themes, issues, curatorial premises and the festival’s structure itself to individual works as they relate to a developing, ongoing conversation around contemporary moving image practices.
The seminar is for artists, filmmakers, curators, writers, researchers, students and others engaged with film and moving image within their own practice. Also people who have no professional link to film and moving image, but who are interested in learning more about the field, are invited. Participants will be expected to attend every session and to fully contribute in determining the programme through a combination of open, critical response and self-reflection.
Saturday the seminar will focus on Godard. For more info please go hear.
Language: english.
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.