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Recording Against Regimes Exhibition, 6 23 March, 2013 Video art and films generated by changes in Poland in the 1980s, Germany in the 1990s and in Egypt now! EXHIBITION / OPEN AIR CINEMA / OPEN PUBLIC DISCUSSION Recorded images that are created as a personal or collective expression against political regimes during significant political changes are the counter-weight for those generated by the official media. They operate on many different levels. Recording the reality of life under oppressive regimes may be a matter of personal documentation or a deliberate attempt to communicate with the wider world. Articulation of the difference between official information and individual reality is an act of civil resistance against official propaganda. The documentary becomes a factor of change: the regimes have no more monopoly on information and thus lose control. The recorded document remains when the revolution is over and can often be interpreted not only by its content but also by the type of device used. On the more sophisticated level, video art and experimental cinema are continually using new approaches and forms of presentation. The viewer, shaken from accustomed visual habits, experiences new forms of perception and becomes more critical. The geo-political context, the tools and their accessibility to artists and to the large public, and the means of diffusion have obviously changed through time and space. In Poland and Germany in the 1980s and the 1990s access to recording equipment was rare and access to distribution even more difficult. Very often, artists who did have access to a camera experimented with it naturally by focusing their lenses on the closest political and social realities. But twenty to thirty years later in Egypt, everyone could do it through personal devices and social platforms. Egyptian artists, filmmakers and ordinary witnesses of events have produced and are still producing thousands of gigabytes of footage that is becoming material for documentaries, short films, and videos. Many of them await usage. Videos and films included in the exhibition are not considered so much as a genre but more as a means to investigate the changing role and influence of visual technology and the different ways the moving image and its perception can be expressions of resistance. Exhibition of Experimental Short Films Jozef Robakowski Cinema is Power Piotr Bikont Double Stumble Zygmunt Rytka Retransmission Jacek Niegoda The Dissenter Antal Lux Mauerläufer Egon Bunne Everything Changes Hartmut Jahn A Double German Fantasy Heba Amin My love, for you, Egypt, increases by the day Bassem Yousri Pulse Mosireen The People Demand the Fall of the Regime Open Air Cinema Open panel discussion at Bayt al-Sinnari, Sayeda Zeinab Square, Cairo The event is organised by ARCHiNOS Architecture (www.archinos.com) in cooperation with WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland (www.wrocenter.pl). The project is co-funded by the European Union as part of its annual Cultural Cooperation Programme in Egypt. It is additionally supported by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cairo, and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Cairo. Project director: Agnieszka Dobrowolska Curator: Klio Krajewska --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hartmut Jahn Seelingstr.14 14059 Berlin Tel.: +49.176.48283010 -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
