The comprehensive theoretical book, traces the evolution of Swiss experimental film addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, video, expanded cinema, and performances, national scene and international influences, with a special focus on how art schools and festivals were decisive for its development.
An attempt to offer an overview of the development of Swiss experimental film practices, it includes essays, among other key protagonists and spaces of diffusion, on Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos, Peter Liechti, Hans Helmut Klaus Schoenherr, Clemens Klopfenstein, the role of cinema at the Kunstalle Bern during Harald Szeemann’s curatorship, Annette Michelson, Tony Morgan, and Kurt Blum.
This pdf is a shortened version of the book Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland published by JRP|Editions in 2020. It contains the texts originally written in German and translated for the English edition.
subTexte 18
384 pages, jrp|editions , 2020
ISBN 978-3-03764-550-5
With essays by Renate Buschmann, Gabriel Flückiger, Michael Hiltbrunner, Ute Holl, Simon Koenig, Thilo Koenig, Vrääth Ohner, Thomas Schärer, Fred Truniger.
The publication was preceded by the research project «Swiss Film Experiments 1950-1988», which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the following exhibition «Film Implosion! Experiments in Swiss Cinema and Moving Image» at FriArt, Kunsthalle Fribourg and the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich.
The comprehensive theoretical book, traces the evolution of Swiss experimental film addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, video, expanded cinema, and performances, national scene and international influences, with a special focus on how art schools and festivals were decisive for its development.
By deciphering the fragility and ramifications of historical genealogies and challenging them by modern and scientific approaches, the book proposes an active archeology of Swiss experimental cinema, making visible the main characteristics of its specific history – a history which developed in parallel to the international evolution of marginal cinema, albeit fragmentary, often delayed, and with powerful personal, institutional, and geographic idiosyncrasies. Taking those as methodological starting points for their reflection, the editors describe Swiss experimental film as “minor cinema,” quoting American scholar Branden W. Joseph.
An attempt to offer an overview of the development of Swiss experimental film practices, it includes essays, among other key protagonists and spaces of diffusion, on Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos, Peter Liechti, Hans Helmut Klaus Schoenherr, Clemens Klopfenstein, the role of cinema at the Kunstalle Bern during Harald Szeemann’s curatorship, Annette Michelson, Tony Morgan, and Kurt Blum.
subTexte 18
384 pages, jrp|editions , 2020
ISBN 978-3-03764-550-5
Der Band erörtert Begriffe, die die ästhetische Theorie und Praxis von Milo Raus International Institute of Political Murder IIPM beschreiben, reflektieren und in einen allgemeinen Kontext stellen. Historisch-kritische, repräsentationstheoretische und handlungstheoretische Aspekte künstlerischer Akte werden – ausgehend von konkreten Projekten, Arbeitsproblemen und philosophischen Erwägungen – programmatisch verhandelt. Die untereinander kommunizierenden Überlegungen stellen dabei bewegliche Denk-Figuren dar, die präzise Blicke auf die Methodik «realistischer» künstlerischer Arbeit mit historischer und politischer Analyse vereinen.
Reihe Denkt Kunst / subTexte 13
272 Seiten (PDF), Diaphanes, 2017
ISBN 978-3-0358-0040-1
Jeden Sommer beteiligen sich Tausende von Menschen am Abenteuer «Freilichttheater» und setzen dafür ihre Freizeit ein. Was geschieht, wenn ein professionelles Theaterteam auf einen Ort und seine Bewohner trifft, um ein gemeinsames Theaterprojekt zu entwickeln? Das Freilichttheater setzt auf neue Verfahren, wie dieses Buch dokumentiert: Es teilt die Autorschaft der Inszenierung im künstlerischen Team, mit den Darstellenden, mit der Bevölkerung, mit dem Raum. Es greift lebendige Traditionen auf und bewahrt sie durch Wandel.
Lebendige Traditionen der Schweiz Band 3 / subTexte 11
264 Seiten, hier + jetzt, 2015
ISBN 978-3-0-3919364-6
It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are acoustically represented have been clarified: we phonate and articulate. Using our vocal chords, we produce a vocal sound or noise which is then shaped into a specific vowel sound by the resonances of the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal cavities, that is, the vocal tract. Accordingly, the acoustic description of vowels relates to vowelspecific patterns of relative energy maxima in the sound spectra, known as patterns of formants. The intellectual and empirical reasoning presented in this treatise, however, gives rise to scepticism with respect to this understanding of the sound of the vowel. The reflections and materials presented provide reason to argue that, up to now, a comprehensible theory of the acoustics of the voice and of voiced speech sounds is lacking, and consequently, no satisfying understanding of vowels as an achievement and particular formal accomplishment of the voice exists. Thus, the question of the acoustics of the vowel – and with it the question of the acoustics of the voice itself – proves to be an unresolved fundamental problem.
subTexte 12
280 pages, Peter Lang, 2016
978-3-0-3432031-3
