The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more

A Re-Enactment of the 1920s Debates presented by the Retro-Formalism Group in cooperation with Marxism in Culture (University of London) and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (University of Westminster) June 4.-5th 2015 Organised by David Cunningham, Anke Hennig, Anthony Iles more

Steve Sabella, born in Jerusalem in 1975, is a Berlin based artist who uses photography and photographic installation as his principle modes of expression. He is the holder of the Ellen Auerbach Award (2008) granted by the Akademie der Künste (Academy of the Arts) in Berlin and was one of the commissioned artists for the inauguration of MATHAF Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha where he presented a critical installation entitled Settlement - Six Israelis & One Palestinian. His artworks were shown in Les Rencontres d’Arles 2013. more

In unserem zweiten Workshop wollen wir den russischen Formalismus von den Avantgarden trennen. Zu diesem Zweck konzentrieren wir uns auf das Schicksal der formalistischen Theorie in den stalinistischen 1930er Jahren, die als Identifikation von Formalismus und avantgardistischer Kunst totalen Charakter annimmt. more дальше weiterlesen

John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) Shklovsky, Error and the End of Saint Petersburg more

From a dialectic perspective, portraits are seen to be the result of the application of distinct, expressive and constructive methods. Such a perspective examines how these methods can be combined in the overall structure of an artistic image to express the uniqueness and even the personality, the aura, of a piece of art. more дальше