The Official Journal of the Screen City Biennial
Volume 1, Fall 2017 With aims of establishing a theoretical, analytical and exploratory extension of the Screen City Biennial and deepen out perspectives to the biennial’s framework of activities, the first volume of the SCB Journal departs from the theme Migrating Stories. This is a theme evoking notions of globalisation, post colonialism, diaspora and cultural…
Read MoreMaeve Connolly What role does site play in the telling of ‘migratory stories’, and in art practices that are characterised by extension and expansion, but also attentive to borders and ‘logistical media of coordination, capture, and control’[1]? Documentary has, particularly since 2002, emerged as a privileged form for artists (and activists) to engage with…
Read MoreNilgün Bayraktar We, the uncountable, doubling each checkboard square, your sea we pave with bodies, so many that you’d walk on it. You cannot count us: if you try, we multiply, we children of this horizon, washing us up, spilling us out. —Erri de Luca, The Uncountable[1] In Richard Mosse’s Incoming (2016), a film…
Read MoreTeresa Dillon The artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles wrote in her MANIFESTO FOR MAINTENANCE ART 1969!: “Two basic systems: Development and Maintenance. The sourball of every revolution: after the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” In this one sentence, Ukeles sums up the tensions between our drive on one hand…
Read MorePeter Weibel Any protest, any insurrection, any indignation, any revolution faces today a new situation: the global web of social media. Anything, what in former times, has been restricted to be only a local event, nowadays, by the nearly simultaneous dissemination, can become a global event. The social media function as a magnifying glass…
Read MoreCatrien Schreuder The aim to bridge the gap between art and everyday life has been present on the foreground of much of the art production in the twentieth century. Artistic developments ranging from cubist collage, Dadaist ready-mades, surrealist bricolage, interdisciplinary happenings and Fluxus events up to postmodernist appropriation of the visual languages of…
Read MoreAnnika Wik Moving images dance across a façade in central Stockholm. Sharp light is cast through a window of the hotel building opposite the street. A place that is ordinarily more sombre is illuminated by beams of light that gather into projections onto the façade. Film images are shown directly on the wall, with…
Read MoreResearch text developed on the basis of a curatorial roundtable in March 2017 on the concept, place and value of Expanded Art in public space today. The text compiles a mix of discussion quotes, comments, theoretical reflections, and prepared statements by roundtable participants and the audiences. The discussion was recorded. Cited participants: Trude Schjelderup…
Read MoreHow may art, as autonomous manifestation and a domain intimately related to human experience, take part in the technological development of cities today? The Screen City Biennial developed out of curiosity and attention to the meeting between expanded moving image art and the urban domain. While the urban context is undergoing profound transformations with…
Read MoreA conversation about augmented reality, magic and the consequences of global warming in Stavanger Stavanger, March 2017 Tanya Toft Ag: For some, Augmented Reality is an unfamiliar concept; for others, it is Pokémon Go. But I would like us to expand on this, and dig into some of the more sophisticated aesthetic potentials…
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