Stedelijk@jhm.nl  Tuesday 20 November 2012 at 20.00

William Kentridge

The Stedelijk Museum and the Jewish Historical Museum proudly present this special edition of the ongoing Stedelijk @ series, Stedelijk @ JHM, on the occasion of the exhibition William Kentridge: Black Box/Chambre Noire (July 16 -November 25, 2012 at the Jewish Historical Museum). During this evening Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13), and Thomas Elsaesser, noted film theorist and professor emeritus of film and television studies at the University of Amsterdam, will give a lecture about the work of South African artist William Kentridge.

Location: JHM Auditorium
Language: English
Entrance: Visitors only pay entrance to the museum
Reservations: It is necessary to make a reservation. Send an e-mail to the Stedelijk Museum  stating your full name, e-mail address, telephone number, and the date of the event for which you want to reserve a seat.

Program

7:30 pm    Doors open / welcome drink
8:00 pm    Welcome speech
8:10 pm    Introduction by Margriet Schavemaker, head of collections and research at the Stedelijk
8:20 pm    Lecture by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev about her experience working with Kentridge as artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13).
8:50 pm    Questions moderated by Margriet Schavemaker
9:05 pm    Lecture by Thomas Elsaesser about Kentridge's use of film as a medium in his work.
9:35 pm    Questions moderated by Margriet Schavemaker
9:50 pm    End

More information about the speakers:

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13), is a curator and writer based in Rome, Kassel, and New York. From 1999 to 2001, after organizing exhibitions as an independent curator in different countries, she was senior curator of exhibitions at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate. She was the chief curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin from 2002 to 2008 (and interim director of the museum in 2009). She was the co-curator of the first Turin Triennial in 2005 and artistic director for the 16th Biennale of Sydney in 2008. As a writer, she has been interested in the relations between historical avant-gardes and contemporary art and has written extensively on the Arte Povera movement, such as in her book Arte Povera (London: Phaidon, 1999). She published the first monograph on the work of South African artist William Kentridge (Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Serpentine Gallery, London; MACBA-Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 1998-99), and the first monograph on Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, including works done in collaboration with George Bures Miller (PS1, New York, 2001).

Thomas Elsaesser is professor emeritus of film and television studies at the University of Amsterdam and was a visiting professor at Yale University from 2006 to 2012. Currently, he is a senior research fellow at the IKKM in Weimar, Germany. He has authored, edited, and co-edited some twenty books, several of which have been translated, notably into German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Korean, and Chinese. His most recent authored books include Terror und Trauma (Berlin: Kadmos, 2007), Filmtheorie: An Introduction Through the Senses (Hamburg: Junius, 2008, Routlesge, 2010; co-author Malte Hagener), Hollywood Heute (Berlin: Bertz & Fischer, 2009), and The Persistence of Hollywood (New York: Routledge, 2012).

Margriet Schavemaker is an art historian, philosopher, and media specialist. After a career as a lecturer and assistant professor in the art history and media studies departments at the University of Amsterdam, she currently holds the position of the head of collections and research at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Schavemaker has written extensively on contemporary art and theory, edited and co-edited several edited volumes, such as Now is the Time: Art and Theory in the 21st Century (2009) and Vincent Everywhere: Van Gogh's (Inter)national Identities (2010), and is an acclaimed curator of discursive events and public programs.

William Kentridge is one of the most celebrated artists living today. Over the past few decades, he has developed a working method that fuses drawing, animation, collage, printmaking, and theater. His principal body of work comprises powerful charcoal drawings, which he transforms into animated films, drawing, erasing, and revising as he films. Kentridge's work is characterized by a strong social engagement, informed by his identity as a white Jewish South African and the son of politically engaged lawyers. He describes his work as "politically concerned, but distanced." His work, The Refusal of Time (2012), at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel this summer was one of the most highlighted works in the exhibition, and was met with worldwide critical acclaim.

The exhibition Black Box/Chambre Noire will be open to visitors during this Stedelijk @ JHM event.  

 

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