STILL / MOVING / STILL

28 March - 7 June 2009 / Opening: Saturday, 28 March 2009
STILL / MOVING / STILL is the main exhibition of the festival. This exhibition aims to initiate a debate on the history and contemporary status of slide projection. Slides are well known to a large number of people, particularly within family circles. Millions of people can recall watching slide presentations in private settings, typically holiday snapshots or family histories. Through the development of digital imagery and the digital slideshow on the computer, slide projection has since been in a rapid decline. Today we often look back on slide projections and the surviving images with a certain sense of nostalgia. Over the past twenty years, there has been considerable debate about the role of projected images in art institutions. The image has been strongly influenced by experimental film, cinematographic installations, digital photography, and light boxes. Within this context, one medium has until now escaped the attention of theoretical inquiry, namely that of slide projection. It is the goal of this exhibition to change this situation, and to show how this medium always has been (and still is) a vital contributor to this ongoing discussion. The historic dimensions together with the resurrection of a contemporary following, makes this exhibition not only a stimulating exercise, but also a very necessary one. That an experience as this takes place in Knokke-Heist, which is a place that has played an important role in the history of the photographic and cinematic image, offers an extra dimension to this exhibition. The collaboration between the curator and Knokke-Heist was the occasion for a rarely seen dynamic in Europe with respect to a medium that has received little attention until now.

Participating artists: Robert Barry, Lothar Baumgarten, David Blamey, Marcel Broodthaers, Matthew Buckingham, David Bunn, Daniela Comani, Peter Downsbrough, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ceal Floyer, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick, Shumona Goel, Dan Graham, Tamar Guimaraes, Mischa Kuball, Hilary Lloyd, Mary Lucier, Anthony Mc Call, Simon Dybbroe M¿ller, Jonathan Monk, Dennis Oppenheim, Pablo Pijnappel, Wolfgang Pl ager, Erik Schmidt, Billy Sullivan, Lisa Tan, Sofie Thorsen, Markus Wirthmann, and Florian Zeyfang.

Marc Gloede is the curator of STILL / MOVING / STILL. He is a film scholar, independent curator and critic. He has curated numerous exhibitions and film series on topics of the projected image, film + architecture. film + art, such as, Andy Warhol: A factory (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg/Arsenal) and The Art of Projection at the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof. Since 2001 he has been the Co-Director of the Wild Walls Film Festival (Berlin, Los Angeles, London, and New York). He is the curator for the Art Basel film program, has been invited curator for the Experimenta Festival 2007 in Mumbai/Bangalore, India, and curated the film program at The J. Paul Getty Museum, LA, for the exhibition, Please Be Seated , 2008. He is widely published in his field and is a regular contributor for Art in America.

Location: Laguna Hall Duinbergen / Krommedijk 57 / 8300 Duinbergen - Belgium

see also
www.ccknokke-heist.be
www.fotofestival.be

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