FILM "Conceptual Paradise – There is a place for sophistication" at Max Mueller Bhawan - 6th March 09

  • Time : 6:30 pm
  • Duration : 100 mins.
  • Event Details : 'Conceptual Paradise – There is a place for sophistication' A German Film by Stefan Römer. Stefan Römer will be present at the film screening. He is open for discussions after the film.
  • The film essay “CONCEPTUAL PARADISE : There is a place for sophistication”, traces out the debates that allowed the intellectual art movement of “Conceptual art” to emerge in the 1960s and led to the most relevant questions in art today. In the film, artists/ Curators/Theorists speak about their own artistic practices and the socio-historical development of the various conceptual art movements. Within the frame of a three-year film research project, the filmmaker Stefan Römer conducted interviews with numerous outstanding international artists and curators. In engaging in intellectual exchanges before the camera, he is able to develop a special filmic mode of reflecting on the state of international contemporary art.
  • Year : 2005
  • About Stefan Römer : He is a German artist, art historian and professor. Stefan Römer is active as an artist and author with the action fields de-conceptual art, criticism of the space, image and text relationships in art and new media and interculturality. He works with film / video, photography, installations, paintings and performances.
  • Artists in the film among others: John Baldessari, Hartmut Bitomsky, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Luis Camnitzer, Jan Dibbets, Valie EXPORT, Stano Filko, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Shilpa Gupta, Hans Haacke, Július Koller, Joseph Kosuth, Sonia Khurana, David Lamelas, Sol LeWitt, Marcel Odenbach, Yoko Ono, John Miller, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Peter Weibel, Lawrence Weiner,
  • Curators/Theorists: Alexander Alberro, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Sabeth Buchmann, Charles Harrison (Art & Language), Geeta Kapur, Geert Lovink, Seth Siegelaub, Gregor Stemmrich.
FILM "Conceptual Paradise – There is a place for sophistication" at Max Mueller Bhawan - 6th March 09 FILM "Conceptual Paradise – There is a place for sophistication" at Max Mueller Bhawan - 6th March 09 Reviewed by rohit malik on Friday, March 06, 2009 Rating: 5

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