[Nettime-ro] Re-Visions of the Romanian Revolution in Arts and Media Theory

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Re-Visions of the Romanian Revolution in Arts and Media Theory
International Symposium, June 1-2, 2012 in Berlin

The
 Romanian Revolution of December 1989, which culminated in the execution
 of the dictatorial Ceausescu couple, still represents a challenge for 
historiography, cultural studies, social policy debates and artistic 
interventions.
The gradual accessibility of the film, sound and image
 documentation of the Ceausescu era and its eruptive end, give us a 
particularly clear reminder of the precarious nature of media 
documentation. The inherent potential of the medial document to break 
up every semantic determination â which plays out in the historical 
memory, in individual experience and in the official culture of 
remembrance â has not only been emphasized by prominent media theorist 
immediately following the events, but has also been utilized in various
 forms of artistic practice. Contrary to various standardizing or 
normalizing claims that impose already available orders upon the medial 
transmission of Socialism and its end these interventions bring out 
possibilities that enrich the discussion by productively valuing the 
disruptive power of images and breaking up the extant semantic overlays 
of historical events and processes.
The productive dimension of the 
medial archive, which takes us beyond questions of interpretation and 
reception, is in the focus of interest in this conference. Thus the 
symposium takes the Romanian Revolution and the media-theoretical 
discourse and artistic practices that developed in immediate response as
 the paradigmatic occasion to discuss the connection of pictorial media 
and historiography.


June 1, 2012 | 7.30 pm
Kino Arsenal, Potsdamer Str. 2, Berlin

AUTOBIOGRAFIA
 LUI NICOLAE CEAUSESCU (THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU, Romania 
2010, 180 min., Romanian with English subtitles); in presence of 
director Andrei Ujica

ÂFrom a formal point of view, THE 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU proves that it is possible to only 
use existing images to yield films focused on recent history, yet with 
an epic vein similar to that of the historical fiction cinema. This is 
an eminently syntactic endeavor, where montage plays a twofold part: 
mise-en-scene, as it builds scenes that do not exist as such in the 
rushes, and classical editing, connecting scenes together. (Andrei 
Ujica)


June 2, 2012 | 10 am
Galeria Plan B, Potsdamer Str. 77-87, Berlin

10 am
Introductory Note
Konrad Petrovszky (Berlin) & Tobias Ebbrecht (Weimar)

Two Regimes of Visibility after the Televised Revolution
Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (Cluj/Chisinau)

11.30 am
Coffee Break

12 am
Engendered Histories. A Comment on VIDEOGRAMS OF A REVOLUTION and THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU.
Susanne Wagner (Weimar)

The Revolutions of '89 in Romania and Poland. Comparing Intersections of Media and History
Przemyslaw Suwart (Weimar-Jena-Erfurt)

1.30 pm
Lunch Break

2.30 pm
Piata Universitatii - The Site of Perpetual Re-enactment. Self-mirroring and Difference
Raluca Voinea (Bucharest) & Bogdan Ghiu (Bucharest)

To Enact and Re-enact. Some Critical Remarks on a Current Artistic Practice
Maria Muhle (Stuttgart/ Berlin)

4 pm
Coffee Break

4.30
 pm
Excerpts from: The Last Hour of Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu (Die letzten Tage der Ceausescus) by Milo Rau

Panel Discussion: Re-Visions and Recreations of Romanian History in Film, Theatre, Video & Performance Art
Andrei Ujica; (Karlsruhe), Milo Rau (Cologne), Raluca Voinea (Bucharest)
Chair: Bert Rebhandl (Berlin)



Organized
 by the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Mediale Historiographien" at the 
Universities of Weimar, Erfurt and Jena with generous support by 
GALERIA PLAN B, Berlin.

The symposium is based on the recently 
published volume: Romanian Revolution Televised â Contributions to the 
Cultural History of Media edited by Konrad Petrovszky and Ovidiu 
Tichindeleanu (Cluj: Idea 2011).

Concept & Organization:
Tobias Ebbrecht & Konrad Petrovszky

Contact & Information:
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Mediale Historiographien"
tobias.ebbrecht@uni-weimar.de | www.mediale-historiographien.de


Locations:


Arsenal â Institut fÃr Film und Videokunst
Potsdamer Str. 2
10785 Berlin
www.arsenal-berlin.de


Galeria Plan B
Potsdamer Str. 77 - 87 (Tagesspiegel Geb.)
Building G, Second Backyard
10785 Berlin
www.plan-b.ro
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