18.08.2021
Lectures/Events
Wed, 18 August 2021, 9pm
Purgatories of Learning. Programm curated by Antje Ehmann (DE).
Harun Farocki, How to Live in the FRG, 1990, 83 min
Selected short films from the project Labour in a Single Shot (Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki, 2011-2014; since 2018 with Eva Stotz and Luis Feduchi).
Oleksiy Radynski, Putin, Moskau 2013
Bani Khoshnoudi, Frida Kallejera, Mexiko City, 2014
Thomas Amman, Nina Kennel, Venusia, Genf 2012
Aleksandra Chciuk, Sirens, Lodz 2013
Eva Stotz, Street Work at Night, Marseille 2018
Yakov Afuta, Bread and Water, Tel Aviv 2012
Gladys Lizarazu, Pulpo, Marseille 2018
Paola Barreto, Baba, Rio de Janeiro 2012
Sandra Calvo, Pedro Antoranz, Mary, Mexiko City 2014
approx. 2 min each
Harun Farocki’s 1990 film How to Live in the FRG depicts West Germany as a purgatory of learning & repetition—life as a test case. Also selected short films from the project Labour in a Single Shot also take up this theme in variation: here work is shown as practising, rehearsing and performing.
Harun Farocki, How to Live in the FRG, 1990
Photo: Courtesy of the artist