Kurt Ralske “Rediscovering Futurism 1920-1929”
Dumbo Arts Center
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This video installation by Kurt Ralske is part of the 8th edition of video_dumbo.
This year video_dumbo will take place in two venues:
Dumbo Arts Center:
The video installation Kurt Ralske: Rediscovering Futurism 1920-1929 from May 2 - 31.
Eyebeam, Art+Technology Center:
On view from May 14 - 25, video_dumbo will present fourteen video screening programs, alongside eight installation works under the title Re-Return to Sender.
About Rediscovering Futurism 1920-1929:
The Futurist movement, established by Marinetti in 1909, advocated a passion for technology and for fascism. Its direct influence was slight, but its twin obsessions defined the cultural life of pre-WWII Europe.
The newly rediscovered films of Eugen Schüfftan, created in the 1920s, reveal the lingering Futurist currents in Weimar Germany. Schüfftan, the cinematographer and special effects artist for Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” (1927), developed a complex technique of optical printing. His radically experimental films envision a curious world of machine-time and machine-space.
“Rediscovering German Futurism 1920-1929”, a project by Kurt Ralske and Miriam Atkin, boldly rewrites history. By presenting new interpretations of the cultural flows of the past, it inquires into our present-day perspectives on technology and power.
About the artists:
Kurt Ralske’s video installations and performances enact a dialogue with history: an exploration of the past that proposes a new view of the future. Kurt is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, and has received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin. He teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design in the MFA Digital + Media department.
Miriam Atkin was born in Buffalo, New York. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and is a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Schedule
from May 02, 2013 to May 31, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-05-02 from 18:00 to 21:00
Live music performance by Daniel Carter on sax and Kurt Ralske on flugelhorn