Underskog

Oslo poesifilm – festival for digital og visuell poesi – inviterer til to døgn med gratis filmvisninger, presentasjoner, kortforedrag, soundworks, urfremføringer, intervjuer og performances på Kunstnernes hus, Litteraturhuset, Kunsthallen og Tronsmo bokhandel 15-17. November.

PROGRAM:

FREDAG 15. NOVEMBER:

Tronsmo bokhandel:

16.00: Kenneth Goldsmith/USA talks to Birgit Hatlehol about his latest book Seven American Deaths and Disasters. Free.

Kunsthall Oslo:

19.00: If we had to ask for permission we wouldn’t exist: A brief history of UbuWeb – talk by Kenneth
Goldsmith/usa, the founder of UbuWeb. Hosted by nyMusikk. Free.

LØRDAG 16. NOVEMBER:

Kunstnernes hus, auditorium:

13.00: From collector to archivist: A personal narrative by Kenneth Goldsmith/usa. Remarks by Patricia
Tomaszek /Germany Rasmus Dahl Vest /Denmark. Free.

Litteraturhuset, wergeland:

15.00: Highlights of european poetryfilms: Dart– based on a poem by Alice Oswald, video by Marc Tiley/ England, 2012 (19:00). Video by Sigrun Höllrigl/ Austria, 2013. Free.

13.00: What is the word – a poem by Beckett, video by Hannaleena Hauru/Finland, 2013 (4:40 ) jumbo
shampoo or Joerg Bungee vanished on the rope – text by Hubsi Kramar refers to a classic Dada text
from 1920. Viviente, video by Ivalo Frank/ Greenland, 2013 (5:47) Your memory is my freedom,
video by Marie Silkeberg/Sweden and Ghayath Almadhoun/Syria/ Sweden, 2012 (5:41). Free.

16.15: Highlights of baltic films: Multimedia-artist Gabriele Labanauskaite/Lithuania presents multiretrospective of Baltic Poetry Movie scene, united by geographical positions, but varying by expressive styles and tools. From animation to vidoe’s poetry is expressed with love, lyricism and sense of humour. Chess Queen – text by Gabriele Labanauskaite (Avaspo), video by Solveiga Serova,(7:08),Rain– text by Tomas Adrikonis, video by Jurate Gacionyte, (1:15), The Only Bigger Mammal – text by Vaiva Grainyte, video by Saule Norkute. The poet and graphic designer Asto Künnap/ Estonia presents Black Ceiling (Must Lagi) Estonia’s first animated selection of poetry. Seven short films full of feeling illustrating works by Estonian poets, © 2007 Eesti Joonisfilm, The Very Last Cigarette– text by Asko Künnap, video by Kaspar Jancis, (1:46), Lights In the Night– text by Arvi Siig, video by Heiki Ernits, (2:06), Tablemat of Baltic Sea– text by Aleksander Suumann, video by Ülo Pikkov, (2:14), Vegetated Director– text by Andres Ehin, video by Priit Tender, (2:30), I Feel A Life Long BulletIn The Back of My Head – text by Jüri Üdi, video by Priit Pärn. (2:20). Free.

Kunstnernes hus, second floor:

19.30: Dialogue for aerophones– a noncreative composition by Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim/Norway. Musicians: Yumi Murakami, Christine Lorentzen, Daniel Weiseth Kjellesvik, Hanne Rekdal, Kristine Tjøgersen. Free.

Kunstnernes hus, auditorium:

20.15: Writing After Conceptual Writing, Kenneth Goldsmith/ usa shows his favourite works of moving images. (45:00) Free.

21.30: Sounds for soloists, soundwork by Cia Rinne/Finland, 2010 (15:00) Redshift, video and performance by Johannes Heldén/ Sweden, 2009 (7:00) Confessions, videos by Ignas Krunglevicius/ Lithuania, 2010 (12:00). Free

22.30: Highlights of nordic poetryfilms natyr, videopoem by Ottar Ormstad/Norway, 2013(4:45), Every Body, poem
by Monica Aasprong/ Norway, video by Ebba Bohlin/ Sweden, 2013 (12:00), Bølgeslag–poems by Tor Ulven, animation by Kristian Pedersen/Norway, 2013 (2:00) The very last cigarette – poem by Asko Künnap/ Estonia, animation by Kaspar Jancis/ Estland, 2007 (1.46) Kennara með köldu blóði, animation by Eiríkur Örn Norðdah/Iceland, 2007 (2:37), The Höpöhöps of Bök, animation by Eiríkur Örn Norðdah/ Iceland, 2010 based on a poem by Christian Bök (4:18) Free.

Kunstnernes hus, second floor:

23.30: Museumis a work in progress, and a collaboration between Hans Petter Blad, Sven Erga and Morten Cranner/Norway. Possibly a play, maybe a concert, definitively a series of poems that might become a book. Point of departure is the looting of the Iraq National Museum during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. (30:00) Free.

SØNDAG 17. NOVEMBER:

Kunstnernes hus, auditorium:

12.00: I Look to Theory Only When I Realize That Somebody has Dedicated Their Entire Life to a
Question I have Only Fleetingly Considered– lecture by Kenneth Goldsmith/USA. Free.

13.00: Artistic practises in the digital field: Cia Rinne/ Finland, Monica Aasprong/Norway, Johannes
Heldén/Sweden, Ignas Krunglevicius/ Lithuania, Merete Pryds Helle/Denmarkand Eirikur Ôrn
Norddahl/Iceland talk about their digital and visual works. Free.

14.30 Rasmus Vest/Denmark:The Blogged I – blogpoetry as self-production. Free.

15.15 Patricia Tomaszek/germany: Ottar Ormstad – between stillness and motion – a close up at Ottar
Ormstads oeuvre of work. Free.