Contemporary Notes:
Rio Bravo invites the audience of Kopenhagen Contemporary to a series of notes from our time.
Program:
Friday September 3, 8 pm, Ulrika Pii Zeuthen presents a compilation of films from the collective Outrage and Rebellion. Ulrikas quote:
“I think one of the best introduction to the purpose of 0&R are the words said by the French philosopher Sylvere Lotringer in Fergus Daly's beautiful contribution, Matter & Memory : We are eaten up by all the perception that we have, we become receivers, we don't perceive anything, that's what the problem is, we don't perceive because we are assaulted with elements of perception, we are living in an enforced image world, we end up not having the time to perceive anything. Before Capital was invisible, now it's visible in every single instant, in every single image, not through the image itself but the exchangeability of it, exchangeability of the news, exchangeability of ideas - because we see everything but we don't not just remember everything, there is no time to register anything. For there to be memory there have to be traces, unfortunately it's at the very root of perception that erasure occurs so memory itself has become impossible, now we are not even cluttered by anything because nothing penetrates, we live in an armour, we are protected by all that, this kind of indifference, apathy that we have in relation to things - they don't touch us. We are just targeted and we try to defend ourselves against the bombardment. There's a war going on and it's called modern society.
Sylvere Lotringer"
Saturday September 4, 8 pm, the artist Tif Sigfrids, who is on residency at Rio Bravo, will present her take in the contemporary with an evening of seven karaoke song sung by as many people that show up.
Sunday September 5, 4 pm, there will be a info meeting where you have the chance of getting updated with different reports from important activist voices:
One way of dealing with Kopenhagen Contemporary’s arrangement could be by observing the actual political landscape in wish the art-scene, among other scenes, is operating...
The info meeting at Rio Bravo wishes to enlighten some of the observations of contemporary Copenhagen from some of the people and groups who actually work and live here with issues that directly involve people affected of the political climate today.
Following groups have responded on the invitation:
Forældrer mod politibrutalitet
Welcome!
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Theater LABLAB at Rio Bravo (all in Danish..!)
Saturday 24 of August 2.30 pm and 8 pm and Sunday 25 of August 3 pm and 5 pm. Tickets and meeting point; VILDSKUD 2010 Festival
Velkommen til VILDSKUD 2010 - årets vigtigste uafhængige teaterbegivenhed!
VILDSKUD er uafhængig, fordi scenekunstnerne udfordrer de etablerede teatre. Vi skal ikke forholde os til et fastlagt repertoire, belægningsprocenter, eller bugnende budgetter. Med kunsten som eneste drivkraft opstår en sjælden kompromisløshed, der kombineret med ustoppelig skabertrang og hårdt frivilligt arbejde giver ny spændende scenekunst. VILDSKUD har eksisteret siden 2003 og bliver hvert år arrangeret og afviklet af aktive scenekunstnere fra det uafhængige teatermiljø omkring teaterHUSET.
”Bare lad som om I er hjemme”. Vennerne holder middag, og du er inviteret. Som fluen på væggen kommer tilskuerne helt tæt på. Med MÅLTID tager LabLab igen fat i den private lejlighed som spil- lerum i en teaterform, der kunne kaldes Theatre Verité.
Teatergruppen LabLab er en blandet gruppe af nuværende og tidligere studerende, med primært afsæt fra Afdeling for Dramaturgi, Institut for Æstetiske Fag, Århus Universitet.
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Rio Bravo is happy to announce it's first visiting artist in residence sponsored by the Danish Arts Council (DIVA).
Tif Sigfrids will be joining us from Los Angeles for five months, beginning in September. During her time at Rio Bravo she'll help to arrange activities in the space and spend time planning a larger project that involves bringing together independent publishing groups from various places, including writers from LA based Semiotext(e), for a month of events that will include talks, performances, and a publication produced collectively by all of the visitors to the space and YOU!
For more information on Tif's work, you can visit her website; tifsigfrids.com
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Dancing With Tears In Their Eyes Two Times Birthday Celebration
Join us for our two times birthday celebration party with dancing & performances by: Trine Mee Sook, Mathias Kryger & Sophie Dupont.
From 8pm // Performance from 9pm //
We have bubbles, cup cakes and DJ Oli Viagra + DJ Fluff!
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Wanna join an urban game? - Teleconnection Teledirection (Copenhagen) is looking for players! English artist collaboration Townley & Bradby are in Denmark organizing an urban game that will range across the streets of Copenhagen.
The game is being realized in collaboration with Lars Mathisen and Tijana Miskovic and hosted by Rio Bravo.
The game takes place on Wednesday June 30, 2010 from 12.00 pm and lasts 3 – 4 hours. Starting point is Rio Bravo (Vestervoldgade 7, 3tv, 1552 Copenhagen V).
In the first part of the game, players explore the city alone, but linked to a partner by means of the mobile phone. Each player follows directions (LEFT, RIGHT, U-TURN, etc) texted to them by their partner. The effect is to confuse and misdirect the players' exploration of the city.
In the second part of the game, players gather back at the staring point for a discussion led by the artists. The discussion will produce a collaborative map, turning the experiences of the players into a single pyschogeographic portrait of Copenhagen, as it appeared to those players, on an afternoon in early summer.
Wanna join in?
Find more information about the event and follow the project via the Facebook group or by contacting Tijana Miskovic (+45 60623669/ mail@tijanamiskovic.com)
Teleconnection Teledirection is a free event but since the game is limited to more or less twenty players, we will have to ask you to sign up by emailing your name and contact information to mail@tijanamiskovic.com before Monday June 28 2010.
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Thursday the 10th of June at 8 pm, Rio Bravo will screen "The Impossible – Pieces of fury" (120 min) by the French activist and experimental documentary director Sylvain George. This film is presented by Ulrika Pii Zeuthen.
The Impossible – Pieces of fury: Influenced by Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dostoyevsky and Benjamin, this film sets out to bear witness to the discriminatory policies that shape our society, the “hellish“ lives of certain political groups (migrants, immigrants, workers, students, the unemployed…). Through a minority perspective, this film creates a critical path of mythical and majority realities : bare life, state of emergency… ; and directly examines the question of rebellion and insurrection : overload, the loss of identity, undecidable reconfiguration….Thus, by dialectic reversal, “off-premises“ that cannot be assimilated are made visible: bodies - impossible.
The film is divided into five parts: I. Niggers Wood (Je brûle comme il faut !), II. Ballad For A Child (On ne te tuera pas plus que si tu étais cadavre), III. Je me suis armé contre la justice (Burn ! Burn ! Burn !), IV. Le Temps des assassins (Fire Music), V. Tu resteras hyène etc. (The book of the damned).
Réalisateur : Sylvain George 2009 - Mini DV, Super 8 mm, 16 mm - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - France - 120' Image : Sylvain George - Son : Sylvain George - Montage : Sylvain George Production, distribution : Noir Production (noirproduction@no-log.org, +33(0)650309669)
Sylvain George is a young director, poet and activist. After completing his liberal arts studies (MA in Philosophy, Political Science and Film) and taking a number of shortcuts, he began making poetic, political and experimental film essays, dealing primarily with immigration
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The month of May at Rio Bravo facilitates some public research.Rio Bravo is going to be the research hub for too programmer this month. Come and take part in Ulrika’s film research prior to here programming for the Danish film institute, or listen to Hugos proposal examining notions of community, participation, collaboration, and social and public movements.
Ulrika Pii Zeuthen is a freelance programmer at the Cinematheque of the Danish Filminstitute. She has a special interest in experimental film and in the crossover between art cinema and activism. Ulrika will extend her program throughout the year but in May she invite the audience to take part in here research by watching some of the films she might put on the program of the Film Institute.
Ulrika Pii Zeuthen program will start the second week of May - more information will come.
Hugo Hopping is an American visual artist based in Los Angeles and Copenhagen with a long praxis in social/political art. He will present a series of lectures on the practices of political services in the art field called SUMMER READING FOR EVENTUAL PEOPLE or THREE LECTURES AS A PROPOSAL FOR AN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL OF CRITICAL INQUIRY. The workshop will include the reading of texts, artwork, still images, video, and sound. READING LIST WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE WORKSHOP.
Hugo Hopping will be offering three lectures as a proposal for an independent school of critical inquiry this month every Thursday at 19:00 starting on May 6th.
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Film Night with ash stranded artists; Michel Auder and Michael Stickrod show their films Thursday 22 April. Starting 19.00
Video allowed Michel Auder to translate Warhol’s talent for making the banal glamorous and the glamorous banal into a diary practice which Auder himself did not consider fine art. His earliest works are travel logs and endearing portraits of friends including Hannah Wilke, Alice Neel, Annie Sprinkle, Eric Bogosian, Louis Waldon, and Larry Rivers. The label “video artist” was applied retroactively when Auder began exhibiting his work in 1980. At that time, he produced a series of works including scripted biographical material and video collages appropriating material from television. As the quality of video cameras improved and access to editing facilities increased, Auder’s skills as an auteur became more apparent.
Michael Stickrod’s videos are mesmerizing constructions of personal family documentations that range from reel-to-reel audio recordings of his mother’s memories, to scans of her paintings, to video that Stickrod shot observing his parents’ daily lives. The woven portraits of his father and mother become non-linear and abstract statements on life lived in the day-to-day. Jarrett Gregory of the New Museum writes, “The films capture a Depression-era sensibility and are reminiscent of works by American playwrights Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller, both of whom have investigated the struggle for autonomy within a family and the dissolution of the American Dream.”
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COMEDY NIGHT hosTed by TIF SIGfRIDS, tuesday 20 APril, 19.00-21.00
"An Evening of Jokes to Entertain The Woman Upstairs"
There was a minor conflict during the first evening at Rio Bravo where the woman upstairs complained of noise and asked what kind of space we were planning on having here. We told her there would be performances and other things like yoga classes, movie nights, and meetings of many types. She asked if there would be applause...
An Evening of Jokes to Entertain the Woman Upstairs is an evening of
professional comedy performed by amateurs. A group of artists have been
invited to take the stage and deliver routines based on a wide range of
topics, addressing topics like being white, being gay, to asking the age-old
question of why God created herpes.
These jokes aren’t being told for the first time, but it’s the first
time you’ll hear this group of people telling them.
Surely you'll laugh... maybe you'll even clap, and if the woman upstairs comes down to complain we'll tell we made the night for her and maybe that's all it will take to resolve the conflict of the first night at Rio Bravo.
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Talk given by the curators of Castillo/Corrales on their show BREAKING POINT: KATHRYN BIGELOW'S LIFE IN ART(shown at Signal in Malmö).
Talk start monday 12 April at 19.00 here at Rio Bravo
Citing the press material from Catillo/Corrales: "Breaking Point traces Kathryn Bigelow’s trajectory in art in the 1970s and subsequent progression into the contemporary popular cinematic landscape starting in the mid 1980s. The exhibition starts with Lawrence Weiner’s video of a young Bigelow reading aloud in a mise-en-scène similar to a romantic post-Nouvelle Vague sequence. We then follow her path from contributions to The Fox journal and the early issues of Semiotext(e) to Cinématographe and L’Ecran Fantastique, from collaborating with The Red Krayola and New Order, from quoting Jurgen Habermas and Mao Tse-Tung to casting Jamie Lee Curtis and Angela Bassett, from participating in the 1976 Venice Biennale to the 2010 Academy Awards, where her 2009 film The Hurt Locker is an award frontrunner."
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Opening PARty at/for Rio Bravo, saturday 3 ApriL (2010)
Opening night; a great party...