Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Presented in person by members of CAE
In conjunction with the exhibition SEIZED, Hallwalls presents an
evening of shorts by Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). This program is
a look back at the juvenilia of the collective. Rarely do these films see
the dark of theater, not just because they were intended to be parts of
larger multi-media events, but because they are extremely awkward works.
This selection of shorts includes: Shorts; Mirror of Reduction; Baudrillard's
Lasso; Godard Revisited; Misappropriation (After Andy Warhol); Indefinite
Concrete Material; Speed and Violence; Excremental Culture; Hyperbole
and Insubordination; An Immortal's Distractions; Less than
Utopia; Crystals and Praxis; Isou's Chisel; Ideological
Virus; Sign of Desire; Foucault's Paradox. They are emblematic
of the group's eight-year struggle to harmonize the dialogue between theory
and practice. Apocalypse and Utopia was the last video that CAE made
(although the group has recently been using video once again). When the
Web went on-line in that year, CAE abandoned video in favor of graphic user
interfaces. Five theorists (Autonomedia Collective, Arthur and Marilouise
Kroker, Greg Ulmer, Tom Kalin, and CAE) attempt to live theoretical interpretations
of culture in this "associational documentary."
Some publications related to this event:
June, July and August, 2008 - 2008