UdK Seminar: city country film

Cosplay, parcours, yarn bombing, and other (occasionally more decorative) forms of appropriation bear witness to the urge to utilize the city as a stage. But how is power and where are conflicts revealed? The creative classes, armed with coffee cups, cluster through the image-city. Isn't it the case that the indebted cities have meanwhile become the venues of fights for the "right to the city"? Has the city become "our factory"? Is it all about "condensed diversities" or Profitopolis? The UdK seminar held by Madeleine Bernstorff examines documentary and performative image practices in the city, using historical and contemporary film examples addressing the production of space. Based on camera machines, texts and images, at issue are social and physical landscapes, undefined wastelands and the "second nature" of nature. (Madeleine Bernstorff) (May 11 & 12)