'STYLING OF THE SELF' - APRIL 2009
21 & 22 APRIL: SESSION WITH DIETER ROELSTRAETE AND WENDELIEN VAN OLDENBORGH
In his lecture, Dieter Roelstraete focused on 'styling on the self' in relation to, amongst others the following texts:
- Dieter Roelstraete, 'Poiesis makes perfect, notes on gesture'.
- Susan Sontag, 'on Style' in "Against Interpretation and Other Essays."
- Richard Sennett, 'The end of Public Culture' in “the Fall of Public Man”
Wendelien van Oldenborgh guided a workshop focusing on the topic of 'roles and repetition'.
Reading: Leo Bersani, "Almodovar's girls", on the performative and fluidly repetitive aspects of identity in the roles of women in Pedro Almodóvar's films in: "Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity", 2004.
In his lecture, Dieter Roelstraete focused on 'styling on the self' in relation to, amongst others the following texts:
- Dieter Roelstraete, 'Poiesis makes perfect, notes on gesture'.
- Susan Sontag, 'on Style' in "Against Interpretation and Other Essays."
- Richard Sennett, 'The end of Public Culture' in “the Fall of Public Man”
Wendelien van Oldenborgh guided a workshop focusing on the topic of 'roles and repetition'.
Reading: Leo Bersani, "Almodovar's girls", on the performative and fluidly repetitive aspects of identity in the roles of women in Pedro Almodóvar's films in: "Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity", 2004.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh will guide a workshop focusing on the topic of ‘roles and repition’
Reading: Leo Bersani, “Almodovar's girls”, on the performative and fluidly repetitive aspects of identity in the roles of women in Pedro Almodóvar's films in: “Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity”, 2004
Reading: Leo Bersani, “Almodovar's girls”, on the performative and fluidly repetitive aspects of identity in the roles of women in Pedro Almodóvar's films in: “Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity”, 2004
filmstill of 'Todo Sobre Mi Madre', directed by Pedro Almodóvar, 1999
Wendelien van Oldenborgh was born in Rotterdam. After graduating from Goldsmiths' College in London, she worked in Belgium and Germany for many years. Van Oldenborgh films communication and interaction between individuals, often against the backdrop of a unique (public) location. In this way her work investigates the political, social and cultural relationships in our society and how these are openly manifested through everyday social intercourse. Other works of Wendelien van Oldenborgh are at the moment shown at the Van Abbemuseum (Maurits Script, 2007) and the MuHKA in Antwerp (Lecture/Audience/Camera, 2008). An overview of her work, ‘As Occasions' was exhibited in TENT., Rotterdam in 2008.
Dieter Roelstraete was trained as a philosopher at the University of Ghent and currently works as a curator at the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA. His curatorial projects there include Emotion Pictures; Intertidal, a survey show of contemporary art from Vancouver; The Order of Things; and the collaborative projects Academy: Learning from Art and The Projection Project. His most recent curatorial project, The Thing, is part of a larger series of MuHKA-organized exhibitions titled All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, on view in the Belgian city of Mechelen.
Dieter Roelstraete was trained as a philosopher at the University of Ghent and currently works as a curator at the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA. His curatorial projects there include Emotion Pictures; Intertidal, a survey show of contemporary art from Vancouver; The Order of Things; and the collaborative projects Academy: Learning from Art and The Projection Project. His most recent curatorial project, The Thing, is part of a larger series of MuHKA-organized exhibitions titled All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, on view in the Belgian city of Mechelen.
