Teaching period: 16th – 20th October, 2023
Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus
Teacher(s): Joen Vedel
ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)
Number of available places for KUNO students: 6
Level: BA /MA (all years)
Requirements: no previous knowledge needed
Course description:
Over the course of this week-long workshop, I propose to engage with video-live editing (a sort of VJ’ing) as a practical tool for the experimentation with the representation of time and together reflect on how one can make an image of a historical process still unfolding messily in the present. To help orient our collective production, I suggest starting the week by looking at some examples of radical media experiments from the past, in addition to a presentation of my own work and use of the live-editing equipment. Further on, I would like to share a reading of the theoretical and discursive framework related to this, namely the notions of now-time and contemporaneity. Halfway through, I suggest changing into a more practical mode while slowly starting to record and gather moving image material for the live TV broadcast. The week culminates with a live-edited broadcast, in which all forms of participation and technical tasks are equally important. And finally, I propose to spend some time watching our live-edited moving-image experiment and talk about the experiences we have made along the way. As such, the course aspires to a collaborative model of working together, with artistic expressions, methods, and techniques to be discussed and developed through improvisation, archival research, studio-recordings, collages, readings, and video-documentation from the field. With the ambitious aim of being contemporary with contemporaneity, NOW-TIME TV offers an aesthetics of potentiality open to different temporalities, political geographies, and momentary constellations of chance-encounters, glitches, and traces of everyday life.
Background:
For the past 10 years, I have been developing a performative method of video live-editing – normally deployed in live TV – as a materialist investigation into the temporal aspects of various forms of political events. Drawing on media theories and philosophical debates on historicity, contemporaneity, the event and its aftermath, I have used video live-editing as a way to collapse the temporalities of production and presentation, in order to connect the representation of events with the event of their presentation. Most recently, I’ve created a series of live TV programs for a local TV station in Kassel, as part of my contribution to Documenta 15, documenting and reflecting on the event of this mega-exhibition while it took place.
Bio:
Joen Vedel is a visual artist, writer, and organizer, educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, and currently a PhD candidate at the Art Academy in Trondheim, working on an artistic research project titled In Search of Now-Time: Live-editing as a mode of research.
Application deadline: 10th September, 2023
How to apply: Please send a short motivation (mention also your full name, home university, study level, contacts) as an attachment to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “NOW-TIME TV: a collective moving image experiment” in an email subject title.
Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.
In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu
