1968/2008

REVOLUTION I LOVE YOU at Centre for Contemporary Art Thessaloniki 5 May - 14 June 2008

@ Centre for Contemporary Art Thessaloniki

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Revolution I Love You
1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy

5 May- 14 June 2008

Curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Opening reception:
Monday 5 May, 2008 7pm
Opening speech by Syrago Tsiara

Revolution, I Love You” is a slogan from May “68 that recalls the exuberance, deep desire for change and belief in the possibility of freedom illuminating a precious moment of universal revolt.   The exhibition investigates 1968 as an interlude of liberty and global resistance, focussing on the interplay between the politics of the street, radical philosophy, and the explosion of creative responses in the period. It considers the modalities of the unrest across Europe against the backdrop of contrasting economic and political systems in East and West.

The exhibition brings together works created in the immediate aftermath of 1968, more recent artistic responses to the legacy of that world-changing year, as well as current approaches to contemporary social and political struggle. The participating artists are: Mladen Stilinović, Tamás St.Auby, Zofia Kulik, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Oliver Ressler, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Miklós Erhardt, Heath Bunting, Marko Lulić, Tamás Kaszás, Jean-Baptiste Ganne and Nancy Davenport.

Exhibition publication:

Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy considers the interconnection of art, politics and philosophy in 1968 across a divided Europe. It is a mosaic of interviews, statements and essays by prominent theorists, historians, curators, cultural workers and artists that shows the multipolar and interrelated experience of that extraordinary year. Contributors include: Katja Diefenbach, Simon Ford, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Rajko Grlić, Jens Kastner, Kostis Kornetis,Viktor Misiano, Łukasz Ronduda and Gaspár Miklós Tamás.

Published by MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University with CACT Thessaloniki and Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Budapest in English, Greek and Hungarian. ISBN:  978-1-905476-34-3. Distributed by Cornerhouse www.cornerhouse.org/

Days of 68:

The exhibition is one of a number of events being organized under the title «Days of “68», in association with the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the historical review Historein, and will feature a special film season (5-15 May, at the Olympion), and two conferences (4 May in Thessaloniki and 5-6-7 May in Athens).

The director of the Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art, Syrago Tsiara explains: «We do not believe the time has come to consign the events of May “68 to the museum. We are trying to find whatever has retained the vitality of that extraordinary year and can still give meaning to contemporary life. Even if the political causes championed in that month of May, forty years ago, have – in many cases – been utterly lost, the fact remains that society has undergone radical changes. Sexual liberation, the radicalization of the feminist movement, the claiming of equal political rights, the anti-war and green movements have defined, to a great extent, the way we think and act today as actively engaged citizens».

The exhibition will travel to Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Budapest 12 September - 19 October 2008 www.trafo.hu/ and International Project Space Birmingham 13 November – 19 December 2008 www.internationalprojectspace.org/

CACT – Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art
Warehouse Β1 in the Port of Thessaloniki
www.cact.gr/

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/world/europe/30france.html

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Retour sur mai 68 at the France Chicago Center, University of Chicago

http://fcc.uchicago.edu/events/mai68.html

See especially:

May 5

4:00 pm
Cobb Hall, #307
5811 S. Ellis

KRISTIN ROSS
(NYU)

“Art is What Makes Life More Interesting than Art: May ‘68 and Militant Cinema”

Immediately following the discussion there will be a roundtable discussion with the participation of Jennifer Wild (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago), Tamara Chaplin, (History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Maggie Flinn (French and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Leora Auslander (History, University of Chicago).

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The cinema rises
Friday 21 Mars 2008
Years 68
The single place invites the people which miss for Night 68

We do not commemorate 68, us did not know 68. We have only the nostalgia of the future. Happening and total art, insurrectionary militancy and revolutionary homosexual face, black power and radical feminism will compose a cinematographic against-cultural newspaper “of the years 68″, which involved in their wake a deep upheaval of the relationship between art and policy, with the force inalienable, contradictory, and always alive.

Meet-discussion at the end of projection in the presence of Jean-Michel Humeau, Lionel Soukaz, Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quiros.

Programming : The people which miss (Kantuta Quiros and Aliocha Imhoff)Nantes, France

http://www.lepeuplequimanque.org/en/nuit68

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Out of the Vault 2008

Friday, May 16, 7pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Cassidy Theater
78 E. Washington Street., Chicago
Free

Out of the Vault - Year of Confrontation revisits the turbulent week in August 1968 when the Democratic National Convention turned Chicago into the frontlines of a larger political and social conflict. The world had already experienced the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the May uprisings in Paris, the brutal quelling of the Prague Spring and intensifying bloodshed in Vietnam. Occurring under the watchful cameras of the news media, the protests and riots in Chicago shocked the nation and further polarized the opposing forces of authority and protest. Chicago Film Archives is honored to present the premiere of three newly preserved prints from the Film Groups Urban Crisis series. Among the films featured in Out of the Vault 2008 are four newly preserved films from the Film Group’s Urban Crisis and the New Militants series.

The Right to Dissent: A Press Conference, 1968, 9 minutes, live action, black and white, sound
This film examines the struggle between citizens right to express their political views and the limits regulated by the City of Chicago. As the right to dissent collides with the suppression of political expression to preserve order, the violence that erupts becomes inescapable.

Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Avenue, 1968, 11 minutes, black and white, sound
On Wednesday afternoon the legal gathering of demonstrators at Grant Park turns into an unruly scene of teargas and swinging nightsticks when a line of police officers charge the crowd. Social Confrontation further captures the hostile clashes in front of the Conrad Hilton and the ensuing war of words on the Convention floor.

Law and Order vs. Dissent, 1968, 11 minutes, live action, black and white, sound
At a press conference on Thursday, August 29th a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department attempts to influence the media coverage of the previous night’s violence. Incorporating interviews with Mayor Daley and various representatives of the police, this film closely examines methods of propaganda and political spin.

What Trees Do They Plant
In response to a perceived imbalance of the media’s coverage, the City of Chicago hired Henry Usijima, an industrial filmmaker in Park Ridge, to make this film for television distribution in a hurried 5 days. Barely two weeks after the end of the convention the program screened on 140 stations across the nation. Appealing to the moderate middle of the road viewer shocked by the images of the convention, it focuses on the violent intentions of the protestors and ties them to international communist forces through interviews with police officers harmed in the disturbances, news footage intended to indict protesters with their own words, and secret police surveillance films. (Henry Ushijima Productions for the City of Chicago, 1968, 60 minutes, DVD from original broadcast 2″ tape. The DVD of What Trees Do They Plant is mastered from an original broadcast tape shown in 1968, therefore having a different image quality from the preserved films from the Urban Crisis series.)

Out of the Vault 2008 is co-presented by Chicago Film Archives and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

Chicago Cultural Center: 312-744-6630

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April 21

6:00 pm

Rosenwald Hall, University of Chicago campus

Film Screening

Grands soirs et petits matins

William Klein, 1978, 83 minutes

French director William Klein, weaves compelling original footage from various sources (barricades, assemblies, confrontations, etc.) into a compelling visual narrative that captures the spirit of Mai 68. Forty years after the first protests ignited the streets of Paris, this oft-cited and unanimously applauded documentary film still provides unique insight into this pivotal moment. A must-see for all campus francophile modern history aficionados planning the next revolution.

Sponsored by France Chicago Center

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DIVERSIONS: A FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO
8-11 MAY 2008
FILMHOUSE, EDINBURGH

DIVERSIONS is a new festival of experimental film and video organised jointly by Filmhouse cinema and the Film Studies section of the University of Edinburgh.

The festival will begin with an historical introduction to experimental cinema, led by Pip Chodorov, filmmaker, founder of Revoir video and co-founder of L’Abominable, an artist-run independent film lab in Paris (Thursday 8th, 6pm). This section will involve a selection of recent French works: ‘Didam‘ (Olivier Fouchard and Mahime Rouhi, 1999-2000, 16mm, 11’), ‘Fenêtres’ (Michele Bokanowski, 2004, 16mm, 9’) and ‘Faux Mouvements‘ (Pip Chodorov, 2007, 16mm, 12’)

This year’s programme also involves a special section on May ‘68 (Sunday 11th, 1pm & 3pm), including three films of the period that approach the events from different perspectives:

‘Détruisez-vous’ (Serge Bard,1968, Digibeta, 75′) Filmed a month before the outbreak of the student riots in May 1968, Serge Bard’s striking film, the first to be produced by the Zanzibar group (which included, amongst others, Philippe Garrel and Jackie Raynal), takes its title from a ‘68 slogan “Aidez-nous, détruisez-vous”. Its loose narrative, which centres on the monologues of its disenchanted characters, played by Alain Jouffroy and Caroline de Bendern, is periodically interspersed with visual shocks and unsettling theatrical tableaux that anticipate the violent call to action that came shortly after.

‘Le Soulèment de la jeunesse’ (Maurice Lemaitre, 1969, 16mm, 25′) Maurice Lemaître was one of the key members of Lettrism, a literary and artistic movement created by Isidore Isou in the 1940s. In this film, documentary footage of the riots are set to a varied soundtrack, in which Isou’s economic theory of ‘le soulvèment de la jeunesse’, delivered by Lemaître, is accompanied by the voices of général de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou and the rhythmic chants of the Lettrist poets.

‘Cinétracts‘ (Chris Marker et al, 1968, 16mm, 20′) Made by politically committed film-makers to serve as agit-prop for the events of May ‘68, these films rely exclusively on stills rather than documentary footage, yet the sense of contrast and movement is very strong and the films very effectively make their point, they attempt to catch the spirit, rather than the fact, of the May Revolution. And although made anonymously, one can detect the hands of Godard, Marker et. al. (LUX)

Renowned experimental filmmaker, critic and author of Le Cinéma Lettriste 1951-1991 (Paris: Paris Expérimental, 1992) Frédérique Devaux will be present to introduce Lemaitre’s film. She will also be presenting some of her own works, including the recent series of autobiographical films set in Kabylia, Algeria (Saturday 10th, 3.30pm)

For more information please visit: http://www.diversionsfilmfestival.co.uk or contact Kim Knowles (festival organiser): K.Knowles@ed.ac.uk

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SDS screening: Brother Outsider: Bayard Rustin Mon. 4/21 7PM Stuart 105

Monday, April 21, 2008, 7PM
University of Chicago
Stuart Hall, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave. room 105

http://www.platypus1917.com

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The UK’s independent left magazine “Red Pepper” takes on the legacy of 68 in its latest issue: “1968 The Mysterious Chemistry of Social Change.”In this issue, Mike Marqusee argues that the left doesnt need to be nostalgic for 1968.

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