Readings

Thursday 11 May, 14:00-17:00pm
Introductions / Curation and Criticism

• Oberhausen Manifesto, 1962.
• Lars Henrik Gass, “Compiling a Selection of Films Is not An Artistic Strategy, It Brings Such Strategy To Light,” OnCurating 23 (2014).
  

 
Friday 12 May, 9:30-11:30am
Exhibition: Concept, Institution, History

• Tess Takahashi, “Experimental Screens in the 1960s and 1970s: The Site Of Community,” Cinema Journal 51, no. 2 (Winter 2012), 162-167.

 
Saturday 13 May, 9:30am-12:00pm
Perspectives on Archives

• Annette Groschke, Martin Koerber and Daniel Meiller, “Who Is Going to Look at That? Experiences, Possibilities, and Pitfalls of Keeping Experimental Film in a Mid-sized Film Archive,” The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists 12, No. 1 (Spring 2012): 128-135.

 
Sunday 14 May, 9:30am-12:00pm
Featured Artists: Barbara Sternberg and Bjørn Melhus

• Barbara Sternberg, “AND…” and “Blindspot: film in the gallery”.
• Stefan Heidenreich, Beyond Control: Freedom and Authority in the Work of Bjørn Melhus, ed. Marie-José Sondeijker (West Den Haag, 2015).

 
Monday 15 May, 9:30am-12:00pm
Strategies of Political Engagement

• Nat Muller, “No Show: Refusal as Critique,” in Aesthetic Justice: Intersecting Artistic and Moral Perspectives, eds. Pascal Gielen and Niels Van Tomme (Amsterdam: Valiz, 2015), 277-289.

Suggested Reading

• Genevieve Yue, “Living Cinema: Experimental Film and the Academy,” Cineaste (November 24, 2014).
• Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, “Introduction: The Documentary Attitude,” in Documentary Across Disciplines, eds. Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg (Berlin: Haus Der Kulturen der Welt and Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press, 2016).
• Hito Steryl, “Beginnings,” e-flux 59 (November 2014).
• Boris Groys, “Self-Design, or Productive Narcissism,” Narcissism Issue, Ecocore 5 (December 2016): 81-85.