Loops

Tutor:

Martin BLAŽÍČEK

Synopsis:

Instructor: Pavel Büchler, coordinator Martin Blažíček

Date and Time: 4-6.11. 2009, FAMU, CAS

Assignment: 100 % participation, 1credit

Annotation: http://cas.famu.cz/openeye

4. 11. - 6. 11. 2009, FAMU, Smetanovo nábřeží 2, CAS

Start on 4. 11., 14:00.

Prerequisites:

Study Objectives:

Outline and Syllabus:

Creative workshop with Pavel Büchler

Wed 4th Nov. - Fri 6th Nov., FAMU, Smetanovo náb.2, CAS 4th floor

Start on Wed 4.th Nov 14:00, further appointments to be discussed

Modul in english.

Lecturer: Pavel Büchler (uk)

http://cas.famu.cz/openeye

Pavel Büchler is a Czech born artist, lecturer and writer, living in the United Kingdom since 1981, where he is also a Research Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. Summing up his own practice as „making nothing happen“, he is committed to the catalytic nature of art - its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as ultimately strange. His subtle interventions and wry texts are concerned with revealing the accepted and everyday as ultimately bizarre. A key-operative mode in Pavel Büchler?s praxis is a reinvention of storytelling, long-time peeled away from the surfaces of modern and contemporary art or too often replaced by mere testimony. Büchler works with old technology, audio recording, light and the material and mental presence of texts in his installations that deal with the emergence of experience and meaning in art.

Büchler?s work evolves around two fundamental concerns: time and the manipulation of found materials. Concerned with the distortions of language, he gives a critical attention to the gaps in communication, fascinated as he is with the limits of the communicative properties of visual language. He often addresses the question of the legitimacy of communication in addition to its ephemeral and long-lasting nature. Diary 2001, (2003), is a single diary page on which the artist made entries for each day for a whole year, resulting in a surface that has become textured and bruised, full of unintelligible information.

Buchler has recently shown in, among others, „Whatever Happened to Social Democracy?“ (co-curated with Charles Esche, Rooseum, Malmö, 2005), „Off-Key“ (Kunsthalle Bern, 2005), the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005), „The Grand Promenade“ (National Museum of Modern Art, Athens, 2006), „ITCA 2008“ (National Gallery, Prague), „Frieze Projects 2008“ (Frieze Art Fair, London), „Involved“ (Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai, 2008), „A Mancha Humana“ (CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, 2009) and in solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern (2006), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2007) and objectif_exhibitions/MuHKA, Antwerp, (2007). His work is represented in London by Max Wigram Gallery, Tanya Leighton Gallery in Berlin, a new monograph on his work, Absentmindedwindowgazing, was published in summer 2007 by Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam.

http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/profile/pbuchler

http://www.kunsthalle-bern.ch/en/agenda/exhibition.php?exhibition=3

Evaluation: 1 cr., active participance in workshop

Capacity: 8

Requred technical skills:

Ability to edit basic video in Final Cut Pro, or your own laptop with an alternative video editing software.

Study materials:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr (optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)