Das Filmforum der HBK präsentiert im Sommersemester 2012:
Dienstag | 29.05.12 | 19:00 h
Zu Gast: Daniel Cockburn
"All The Mistakes I've Made"
(Gastprofessor Daniel Cockburn präsentiert seine Performance) (in English)
“I will discuss my film/video work in terms of the aesthetic and ideological missteps I have made. It will perhaps be shown that my regrets constitute a parallel body of work.”
- Daniel Cockburn
The art world is bursting with events where artists present an anthology of the highlights of their career to a slightly bored audience. The Canadian filmmaker/artist Daniel Cockburn gladly turns this tradition around, scrutinizing the popular medium of the artists’ talk in a critical, yet humorous way. In his performance, “All The Mistakes I’ve Made”, he explains his oeuvre in terms of his own creative and moral errors in judgement. Building from these mistakes, he examines to what extent his inability to properly judge is representative of a negative trend in contemporary art and cinema.
PERSONALIE:
Writer / Director / Video Artist DANIEL COCKBURN has been making short films and videos since 1999; combining narrative film with video art, they have been screened at festivals and galleries worldwide. In 2009, Pleasure Dome presented an international tour of a retrospective of his short works, and he was a resident of the DAAD's Berliner Künstlerprogramm filmmaker residency. He is currently Guest Professor (2011-2012) at HBK Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig, Germany.