UPCOMING EVENTS
Concrete Poetry, Concrete Book: Artists' Books in German-Speaking Space after 1945
Exhibition January 17 - March 17, 2017
The Joseph Regenstein Library
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc
Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery
January 17 - March 17, 2017
AS FLUXUS ARTISTS EXPLORED participatory strategies that disrupted conventions of art and everyday life, the artist's book emerged as a way to anthologize action-based art, and as a site of experimentation with cognitive, visual, and tactile experience. Drawing on the remarkable collection in the University of Chicago Library, this exhibition considers how artists in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland reconfigured the materials and form of the book. Works of concrete poetry tested the material display of language, focusing on the object-quality of letters and words, and adopted, in turn, unusual formats, as in Gerhard Rühm's unbound kinetic book bewegung (motion, 1964). In activating the process of reading, artists' books also often deemphasize textual cognition, foregrounding instead touch and materiality, as exemplified in Wolf Vostell's enigmatic 20-pound Betonbuch (Concrete Book, 1971). This exhibition is curated by PhD candidate Caroline Lillian Schopp, and will form part of the University of Chicago campus-wide "Concrete Happenings" festival during 2016-2017. Visit the Special Collections website for more information about the exhibit.
Festival du Film Francophone & Suisse/French World Film Fest & Switzerland
Two Chicago Premieres!Saturday, March 25, 2017
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
54 W. Chicago Avenue
Pre-registration $15 for all three films!
#FrenchWorldFest
Saturday, March 25 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.54 W. Chicago Ave
With English subtitles
$15 for all three films
Along with African music, coffee, maple leaf cookies, Swiss wine and cheese at intermissions!
11:00 a.m : Henri Henri (2014, 100 min, Canada) by Martin Talbot
Quebec's version of Amélie is a love story featuring an orphan, Henri, who looks after lighting and changes light bulbs in the convent where he was raised. "I like to put light in people's lives" Henri tells Hélène, the beautiful clerk with a dark secret..."Light"-hearted and de"light"ful!
En français
11h00 : Henri Henri (2014, 100 min, Canada) par Martin Talbot
Version québécoise d'Amélie, c'est une histoire d'amour avec en vedette, Henri, qui s'occupe de l'éclairage et des changements d'ampoules dans le couvent où il a été élevé. "J'aime mettre la lumière dans la vie des gens" Henri dira à Hélène, la belle commis au sombre secret...
Chicago Premiere!
1:00 p.m : Gangbé! (2014, 58 min, Switzerland/Benin) by Arnaud Robert
Poetic and funky, Gangbé! follows a brass band from the Republic of Benin traveling to the city of Lagos in Nigeria. In encounters with Femi Kuti and the contemporary ideals of Pan-Africanism, the Gangbé Brass Band find themselves immersed in a world of new ideas.
"The afrobeat of African integration!" --Le Monde
En français
13h00 : Gangbé! (2014, 58 min, Suisse/Bénin) par Arnaud Robert
Poétique et funky, Gangbé! suit une fanfare de la République du Bénin se rendant à la ville de Lagos au Nigeria. Dans les rencontres avec Femi Kuti et les idéaux contemporains du panafricanisme, the Gangbé Brass Band se trouve plongée dans un monde de nouvelles idées.
L'afrobeat de l'intégration africaine! -- Le Monde
Chicago Premiere!
3:00 p.m : Stop Over (2013, 90 min, Switzerland / France) by Kaveh Bakhtiari
In Athens, Amir's flat has become a place of transit for migrants from Iran like him. They all hope to reach other Western countries for a better life. Of Iranian origin himself, director Kaveh Bakhtiari stayed for one year in the flat with the film's characters, smuggling footage every month to Switzerland.
"Kaveh Bakhtiari lived for one year on strike with undocumented Iranians." --Télérama
En français
15h00 : L'escale (2013, 90 min, Switzerland / France) par Kaveh Bakhtiari
À Athènes, l'appartement d'Amir est devenu un lieu de transit pour les migrants d'Iran comme lui. Ils espèrent tous atteindre d'autres pays occidentaux pour une vie meilleure. D'origine iranienne lui-même, le réalisateur Kaveh Bakhtiari est resté pendant un an dans l'appartement avec les personnages du film, traffiquant les images en Suisse chaque mois.
Followed by a post-screening discussion about displacements.
This program is possible thanks to the Institut français and Société de développement des entreprises culturelles du Québec
Enter the Franco Raffle here!
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