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<\/p>\nABOUT DEPICTING LOVE<\/p>\n
Love is rather a relative notion. Rarely is it the object of serious study, although it is omnipresent in music, film, literature, drama and, of course, life. The word calls to mind a very mixed range of associations, from the most irredeemably kitsch marketing strategies to the most intimate facets of our existence or the icons that make up our collective memory. Translated into images: the hearts and Cupids in the window-displays on Saint Valentine\u2019s Day, the attractive young couples used to promote the sale of all kinds of products (holidays, cars, cosmetics, perfumes, tobacco, drinks, etc.), memories of our own personal experiences, the kiss of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca\u2026<\/p>\n
The concept of love is bound up with essential notions such as identity, social and personal relationships and politics. From the scientific point of view, it is seen as a relative notion. The researches and explanations of psychologists, sociologists, economists, biologists and anthropologists serve to create the small individual pieces of a puzzle that makes sense when it is observed in its entirety. Thus, psychoanalysts interpret amorous behaviour as the product of our early experiences as children, biologists reduce it to a series of chemical reactions, sociologists explain new forms of personal relations as a reaction to the appearance of new diseases, and even economists observe a link between the frequency of affairs in the work environment and the company\u2019s end-of-year balance sheets.<\/p>\n
Depicting Love engages the notion of love from a number of different perspectives. The project takes as its starting point an essential book by Roland Barthes A Lover\u2019s Discourse: Fragments(1). Perhaps the most significant thing about this book is its formulation, which questions the different ways of reporting the experience of the subject as lover. The book is articulated on the basis of notions (ordered from A to Z) that the author defines in terms of both theoretical and personal approaches.<\/p>\n
On a formal level, the project Depicting Love consists of two clearly differentiated parts: – a programme of screenings that takes seven key notions from Barthes\u2019 book in order to present video projects by international artists in conjunction with feature films; – a DVD compilation of new productions by a dozen international artists, created specifically for this context.<\/p>\n
In this way, the project Depicting Love takes the form of a kind of mobile \u2014and thus versatile and dynamic\u2014 exhibition. At the same time this format reflects the present reality of our increasingly standardized societies in which the mobility and the questioning of the sense of \u2018place\u2019 have come to be seen as priority factors. In this context, too, the experience of the image is inescapably associated to the image in movement. Depicting Love, the programme of screenings being presented over seven consecutive days, is made up of a score of video projects by different artists and seven films that, from their different times and contexts, have reflected on the subject of love and are now being screened in relation to seven key notions from Roland Barthes\u2019 A Lover\u2019s Discourse. Thus, the programme entitled Affirmation consists of projects by Zbig Rybczynski, Pipilotti Rist, Chris Cunningham and Annika Str\u00f6m. Ulay\/Abramovic, Yael Andr\u00e9 and Sadie Benning, among others, have addressed the Barthesian idea of Encounter. Rivane & Sergio Neuenschwander, Valie Export and Rui Cal\u00e7ada Bastos are included in the programme entitled Letter, while Heman Chong and Jordi Moragues, among others, have engaged with the notion of Signs. The projects by Lutz Mommartz, Bas Jan Ader and Nuria Channel explore the idea of the Unbearable. Bj\u00f8rn Melhus, A. P. Komen\/Karen Murphy, Sophie Calle & Greg Shephard and Gino Rubert are featured in the programme Unknowable. Finally, Christian Jankowski, Lorna Simpson and Vito Acconci have centred on the idea of Waiting. The selection of films screened during the sessions includes Darling (1965) by John Schlesinger, Brief Encounter (1945) by David Lean, Stephen Frears\u2019 Dangerous Liasons (1989), and A Short Film About Love (1988) by Krzysztov Kiesslowski, among others. The DVD Depicting Love brings together a series of new projects that use photography, drawing, the moving image, text, sound, Internet links and other possibilities too numerous to list here suggested by the artists invited to take part in this project: Chema Alvargonz\u00e1lez, Mart\u00ed Anson, Maurycy Gomulicki, Leiko Ikemura, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Yves Netzhammer, Mabel Palac\u00edn, Susan Philipsz, Francesc Ruiz, Jan Rothuizen, Sam Samore and Young-Hae Chang. The variety of proposals and approaches here \u2014ludic, ironic, poetic, critical or committed\u2014 combine to create a multifaceted definition of the notion of love and provide a release from the prejudices that trivialize or deny the political transcendence of issues that engage deeply with the individual dimension and the realm of personal subjectivity.<\/p>\n
(1) Translation from French: R. Howard, J. Cape, London, 1975; Original edition: Roland Barthes, Fragments d\u2019un Discours Amoureux, Paris, 1975; Editions du Soleil.<\/p>\n
(text booklet)<\/p>\n
LOVE LOVE LOVE: Love is in the Air. All is full of Love. All you need is Love… Love is omnipresent in music, film, literature, theatre and, of course, life. Although the notion of love is bound up with essential praxes such as identity, social and personal relationships and politics, it has rarely been the object of serious study. From the scientific point of view, it is regarded as a relative notion. The researches and explanations of psychologists, sociologists, economists, biologists and anthropologists serve to create the small individual pieces of a puzzle that makes sense when it is observed in its entirety. Psychoanalysts see amorous behaviour as the product of our early experiences as children, biologists reduce it to a series of chemical reactions, sociologists explain new forms of personal relationships as a reaction to the appearance of new diseases, and even economists note a link between the frequency of affairs in the work environment and the company\u2019s end-of-year balance sheets.<\/p>\n
Depicting Love seeks to engage this notion from a number of different perspectives and at the same time sets out to raise some crucial issues. The project Depicting Love, which consists of a programme of screenings and the present DVD, takes as its starting point a seminal book by Roland Barthes, Fragments d\u2019un Discours Amoureux (Editions du Soleil, Paris, 1975). Perhaps the most significant thing about this book is its formulation, in questioning the different ways of communicating the experience of the subject as lover. Barthes proposes a portrait (structural more than biographical) in which the subject who loves speaks to her\/himself, in confrontation with the loved subject, who does not speak. The book is articulated on the basis of notions (ordered from A to Z) that the author defines in terms of both theoretical and personal approaches.<\/p>\n
Chema Alvargonz\u00e1lez, Mart\u00ed Anson, Maurycy Gomulicki, Oliver Held, Leiko Ikemura, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Mabel Palac\u00edn, Susan Philipsz, Francesc Ruiz, Jan Rothuizen, Sam Samore and Young-Hae Chang are the twelve international artists who have taken up the invitation to create a new work using Barthes\u2019 book as a point of departure, inspiration or reflection. In this way, the DVD Depicting Love takes the form of a kind of mobile \u2014and thus versatile and dynamic\u2014 exhibition in which the contributions of the artists, in a wide variety of formats, assume the status of original projects.<\/p>\n
The affirmation of love (in spite of all), the absence of the loved one and the interminable waiting, the desire that the loved one meet our expectations, the uncertainty of the signs, the elation of the first encounter free from the difficulties that every affective relationship entails, the uncontainable desire, the enigma that the other represents and the burdens of the past that we all carry with us are among the aspects that the artists explore in their projects.<\/p>\n
The variety of proposals and approaches here \u2014ludic, ironic, poetic, critical or committed\u2014 combine to create a multifaceted definition of the notion of love and provide a release from the prejudices that trivialize or deny the political transcendence of issues that engage with the individual or personal dimension.<\/p>\n
(texts screening program)<\/p>\n
Depicting Love, the programme of screenings being presented over seven consecutive days, is made up of a score of video works by different artists and seven feature films that, from their different times and contexts, have reflected on the subject of love and are now being screened in relation to seven key notions from Roland Barthes\u2019 A Lover\u2019s Discourse: affirmation, encounter, letter, sings, unbearable, unknowable and waiting.<\/p>\n
The variety of proposals and approaches here \u2014ludic, ironic, poetic, critical or committed\u2014 combine to create a multifaceted definition of the notion of love and provide a release from the prejudices that trivialize or deny the political transcendence of issues that engage deeply with the individual dimension and the realm of personal subjectivity.<\/p>\n
Screening Program:<\/p>\n
Affirmation
\n(Against and in spite of everything, the subject affirms love as value. Bejahung \u2013 Entgegen und trotz allem bejaht das Subjekt die Liebe als Wert)<\/p>\n
Depicting Love, 2004. DVD. 3\u201908\u201d – Oliver Held
\nImagine, 1986. DVD. 3\u201920\u201d\u2013 Zbig Rybczynski
\nI am a victim of this song, 1995. DVD. 5\u2019 – Pipilotti Rist
\nAll is Full of Love, 1999. DVD. 4\u201912\u201d – Chris Cunningham
\nTen New Love Songs, 1999. DVD. 22\u2019 \u2013 Annika Str\u00f6m
\nDarling – John Schlesinger. GB 1965. 35 mm. 122\u2019<\/p>\n
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Encounter
\n(The figure refers to the happy interval immediately following the first ravishment, before the difficulties of the amorous relationship begin. Begegnung \u2013 Die Figur bezieht sich auf die gl\u00fcckliche Zeit unmittelbar nach der ersten Verz\u00fcckung, bevor sich noch die Komplikationen der Liebesbezeiehung bemerkbar machen)<\/p>\n
Depicting Love, 2004. DVD. 3\u201908\u201d – Oliver Held
\nIt wasn\u2019t love, 1992. DVD. 20\u2019 – Sadie Benning
\nRelation in space, 1976. DVD. 14\u201952\u201d – Ulay\/Abramovic
\nOne Night, 1997. DVD, 26\u201909\u201d \u2013 Jordi Moragues
\nHistoires d\u2019Amour, 1997. DVD. 60\u2019 \u2013 Yael Andr\u00e9
\nBrief Encounter \u2013 David Lean. GB 1945. 35 mm. 86\u2019<\/p>\n
Letter
\n(This figure refers to special dialectic of the love letter, both blank (encoded) and expressive (charged with longing to signify desire). Brief \u2013 Die Figur zielt auf die besondere Dialektik des Liebesbriefes ab, der leer (codiert) und zugleich expressiv ist (von dem Bed\u00fcrfnis getragen, das Verlangen mitzuteilen))<\/p>\n
Depicting Love, 2004. DVD. 3\u2019 08\u201d- Oliver Held
\nQuadrifoglio, 2000. DVD. 7\u201956\u201d – Rui Cal\u00e7ada Bastos
\nBreath Text: Love Poem, 1970-73. DVD. 2\u201930\u201d \u2013 Valie Export
\nLove Lettering, 2002. DVD. 6\u201922\u201d – Rivane & Sergio Neuenschwander
\nDangerous Liasions – Stephen Frears. USA\/GB 1989. 35 mm. 120\u2019<\/p>\n
Signs
\n(Whether he seeks to prove his love, or to discover if the other loves him, the amorous subject has no system of sure signs at his disposal. Zeichen \u2013 Sei es, da\u00df es ihm seine Liebe beweisen will, sei es, da\u00df es sich zu entr\u00e4tseln m\u00fcht, ob der Andere es liebt: dem liebenden Subjekt steht keinerlei sicheres Zeichensystem zur Verf\u00fcgung)<\/p>\n
Depicting Love, 2004. DVD. 3\u201908\u201d – Oliver Held
\nLove Story, 1998. DVD. 2\u201930\u201d – Antoni Abad
\nPale Testament, 1999-2000. DVD. 8\u20198\u201d – Heman Chong
\nA Short Film about Love – Krzystov Kiesslowski. P 1988. 35 mm. 87\u2019<\/p>\n
Unbearable
\n(The sentiment of an accumulation of amorous sufferings explodes in this cry: \u201cThis can\u2019t go on…\u201d. Unertr\u00e4glich – Das Gef\u00fchl einer H\u00e4ufung von Liebesk\u00fcmmernissen zerbirst in dem Aufschrei: \u201eEs kann nicht, es kann nicht so bleiben\u201c)<\/p>\n
Depicting Love, 2004. DVD. 3\u201908\u201d – Oliver Held
\nI am too sad to tell you, 1971. DVD. 1\u201957\u201d \u2013 Bas Jan Ader
\nBasic Kit, 1994. DVD. 4\u2019 – Nuria Canal
\nAls w\u00e4r\u2019s von Beckett, 1976. DVD. 20\u2019 \u2013 Lutz Mommartz
\nLe Roman de Werther \u2013 Max Oph\u00fcls. F 1938. 35 mm. 85\u2019<\/p>\n
Unknown
\n(Efforts of the loving subject to understand and define the loved one \u201cin itself\u201d, by means of some standard of character type, psychological or neurotic personality, independent of the particular data of the loving relationship. Unbegreiflich \u2013 Versuche des liebenden Subjekts, das geliebte Wesen \u201ean sich\u201c zu verstehen und im Sinne des charakterologischen, psychologischen oder neurotischen Typs zu definieren, unabh\u00e4ngig von den besonderen Gegebenheiten der Liebesbeziehung)<\/p>\n
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Depicting Love, 2004. DVD. 3\u201908\u201d – Oliver Held
\nThe Love Loop, 2002. DVD. 2\u201926\u201d \u2013 Gino Rubert
\nDas Zauberglas, 1991. DVD. 6\u2019 \u2013 Bj\u00f8rn Melhus
\nLove Bites, 1998. DVD. 11\u2019 \u2013 A.P.Komen \/ Karen Murphy
\nDouble Blind (No sex last night), 1992. 35 mm. 76\u2019 – Sophie Calle & Greg Shephard
\nLe Mariage d\u2019Alex \u2013 Jean-Marie Teno. C\/F 2002. 35 mm. 45\u2019<\/p>\n
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Waiting
\n(Tumult of anxiety provoked by waiting for the loved being, subject to trivial delays (rendezvous, letters, telephone calls, returns). Erwartung \u2013 Angstaufwallung, die durch das Warten auf das geliebte Wesen ausgel\u00f6st wird, nach Ma\u00dfgabe kleiner Versp\u00e4tungen (Verabredungen, Telephonanrufe, Briefe, Heimkehrverz\u00f6gerungen))<\/p>\n
Depicting Love, 2004. DVD. 3\u201908\u201d – Oliver Held
\nLet\u2019s get Physical\/Digital, 1997. DVD. 20\u2019 \u2013 Christian Jankowski
\nCall Waiting, 1997. DVD. 13\u201911\u201d \u2013 Lorna Simpson
\nDie Ehe der Maria Braun – Rainer Werner Fassbinder. D 1978. 35 mm. 120\u2019<\/p>\n
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