Angela Melitopoulos, who held a lecture on The Temporality of Escape at the EMERGEANDSEE 2009 Conference, will show a video installation at the Berlinale Forum:

Assemblages is an audiovisual research project about Félix Guattari and his revolutionary psychiatric practice, his political activism as well as his ideas concerning ecosophy and his interest in animism especially in the Brazilian and Japanese context.
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The installation, a coproduction with Maurizio Lazzarato, will be shown at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Opening February 10). Angela Melitopoulos will also take part in a panel on “Performing, Rambling, Thinking” at Forum Expanded Talk on February 17.

EMERGEANDSEE would be nothing without all the great work that we get sent. Starting this year, the festival will feature three sections: Film screenings, audiovisual exhibition and our conference, all three consisting of contributions from all over the world.

Hybrid Metropolis: in between spaces

The 2010 topic is centered around social and urban spaces. Space does not have to be taken literally here, as theorists have established alternate concepts, bringing cultural backgrounds, different life concepts and hybrid identities into focus.

In big cities, social issues, contrast and processes show very clearly, that’s why EMERGEANDSEE 2010 focuses on the Hybrid Metropolis.

Film screenings / exhibition

EMERGEANDSEE has been a pure short film festival for the past 9 years. But we have always felt that there is great audiovisual work that we want to show but that only works off the cinema screen. Loops, still images, interactive installations, audio experiments – our exhibition will extend the possibilities to approach the topic.

The call for entries is for both sections, submission deadline is April 15 2010.

Conference

As we had wanted theoretical reflection to play a part of our festival, we have already established an accompanying conference two year ago. Discussing the future of the moving image (2008) and adopted/adapted images (2009), brilliant people have presented their thoughts and ideas to an interested audience.

If you are researcher, theorist or practitioner wishing to contribute a presentation on our 2010 topic, please have a look at the call for papers.

EMERGEANDSEE 2010 will take place at an extraordinary place, the Stattbad Wedding. Don’t jump off the pool edge!

Stattbad Wedding

We chose the Café Wendel next to the subway station “Schlesisches Tor” for our regular meetings. Nice, warm place to create strategies, think about ideas and sit in airplane seats. The 2010 festival is only five months away, so stay tuned for further updates.

EMERGEANDSEE at the Café Wendel, Kreuzberg

EMERGEANDSEE at the Café Wendel, Kreuzberg