March 4 – 13, 2010Architecture and Its Discontents

Film program
Curated by ADAM SZYMCZYK
March 4 - 13, 2010
Two days of public talks by Adam Szymczyk and special screenings March 4 and 5 at 6 pm.

Addressing the present urban condition and reality of the built environment, contemporary artists mine the promises and conflicted legacy of the mythos of modernist architecture, its promises and conflicted legacy.

ADAM SZYMCZYK is a curator and writer born in 1970 in Poland. In 1997, he was one of the founding members of the Foksal Gallery Foundation (FGF) in Warsaw. In 2003, he was appointed Director and Chief Curator of the Kunsthalle Basel and, in 2008, he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin Biennial, entitled "When Things Cast No Shadow."

SCREENING PT. I
4 MARCH
6 PM: INTRODUCTION BY ADAM SZYMCZYK
6.30 PM – 9 PM: SCREENINGS

CYPRIEN GAILLARD, The Lake Arches, 2007, 1'43''
MICHEL AUDER, It's Hard to be Down When you're Up, 1979 (released 2005), 21'
GORDON MATTA-CLARK, Clock Shower, 1973, 13'07''
BEATRICE GIBSON & ALEX WATERMAN, A Necessary Music, 2008, 20'
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI, Humaniora, 2003, 12'
FILIPA CÉSAR, Allee der Kosmonauten, 2007, 8'17''
ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI, Sen Warszawy (A Dream of Warsaw), 2005, 18'
MONA VATAMANU & FLORIN TUDOR, Praful (The Dust), 2006, 6'08''
PEDRO BARATEIRO, Falta-me Espaço (Lack of Space), 2007, 1'36''
CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER, Silberhöhe, 2003, 10'

SCREENING PT. II
5 MARCH
6 PM: INTRODUCTION BY ADAM SZYMCZYK
6.30 PM – 9 PM: SCREENINGS

MONA VATAMANU & FLORIN TUDOR, Procesul (The Trial), 2004-5, 37'24''
PEDRO BARATEIRO, Travelogue, 2006, 5'16''
JORDI COLOMER, Avenida Ixtapaluca, 2009, 6'09''
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI, Dahiet Al Bareed, District Of The Post Office, 2002, 6'
JOHN SMITH, The Black Tower, 1987, 22'54''
GORDON MATTA-CLARK, City Slivers, 1976, 15', mute
MICHAEL AUDER, T.W.U. Richard Serra, An Unsolicited Video by Michel Auder, 1980-82, re-edit 2002, 14'
CYPRIEN GAILLARD, Pruitt Igoe Falls, 2009, 6'58''

DAY PROGRAM
MARCH 6-13
2,30 - 7 PM

2,30 HEIDRUN HOLZFEIND, Corviale, Il serpentone, 2001, 34'
3,30 HEIDRUN HOLZFEIND, Za Zelazna Brama (Behind the Iron Gate), 2009, 55'
4,30 CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER & MAYA SCHWEIZER, Metropolis, Report from China, 2006, 42'
5,30 GORDON MATTA-CLARK, Automation House, 1972, 32'
6,30 SABINE BITTER & HELMUT WEBER, Living Megastructures, 2003-4, 25'

* The films presented during the screenings will be also visible during the day program. / I film presentati nel corso degli screening saranno anche visibili durante il programma diurno.

Media Partner: Abitare.


Thanks to:

Argos, Brussels
CoNCA, Barcelona
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
LUX, London
Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Jocelyn Wolff, Paris