<videovortex> Audio Visual Research Workshop - "Kuhle Wampe Revisited"

[Geert Lovink]

Audio Visual Research Workshop - "Kuhle Wampe Revisited"

With the New Yorker Collective Red Channels

How is it possible to invent new forms of solidarity in times of   
imposed
capitalist absurdity? How can we define new spaces of struggle   
against the
suffering of budget cuts, mass unemployment and nationalist  threat?  
And not
what is to be done, but how is it to be done?

“Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns The World” was a communist avant-garde   
cinema project
conceived in the Berlin summer of 1932, under an  atmosphere of no  
money, no
time, and extreme political oppression.  Immediately censored after  
its release
by both the German state and the  Soviet Union, Kuhle Wampe explores  
the tension
between the petite  bourgeoisie family and the principle of collective
solidarity.
We hope to facilitate a collective  response to the film, open to all.

Using video as our primary means of  documentation, we invite  
everybody to
collaborate with us on this  research project, which is open to any  
media or
practice.

We want to reimagine, retrace, remix, reenact, and reload Kuhle Wampe.
We want to film, perform, intervene, interrogate, walk, bike and sing  
Kuhle
Wampe.
We want to create a cinematic compilation of our collective responses  
to Kuhle
Wampe.

Free. Bring equipment if you have it.
Languages: German, English, Denglish.

Sign up to participate: martyna at redchannels.org
For details regarding time and place:
http://redchannelsinberlin.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/kuhle-wampe-revisited/

More information about the Berlin event series "Suicide or Solidarity"  
by Red
Channels:
http://redchannelsinberlin.wordpress.com/--