Screening of 'The Last Days of the Ceauşescus'
Milo Rau's film 'The Last Days of the Ceausescus' will be screened at the 3rd Fanatika International Theatre Documentary Festival, 2014.
Pro Helvetia presents 'The Last Days of the Ceauşescus' for the 3rd edition of Fanatika International Theatre Documentary Festival in February 2014.
The Last Days of the Ceauşescu's
Written by Milo Rau
Directed by Milo Rau and Marcel Bächtiger
A Production of IIPM - International Institute of Political Murder
Romanian (English subtitles), colour, Digi Beta/HD, 72 min
Ahmedabad February 07, 08 & 09
Vadodara February 14, 15 & 16
For updated schedule visit: fanatika.in/fitd-festival/
Partner: Fanatika International Theatre Documentary Festival, Alliance Fran aise d'Ahmedabad and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council
The images of the condemnation and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena on Christmas Day in 1989 are etched deeply in the collective unconscious of several generations of television viewers. Exactly 20 years after its occurrence, the famous show trial was re-enacted in a historically reproduced setting. The film interweaves the stage production with interviews conducted with eyewitnesses and archive material and takes a look backstage in the Odeon Theater in Bucharest.
In 2009, The Last Days of the Ceauşescu's enriched the German-language theatre with a new political format: reenactment - the artistic reconstruction of real historic events, a technique that had been fashionable in the visual arts for a long time. Milo Rau collaborated with his fellow director Simone Eisenring to translate the methodology of 'reenactment' effectively onto the stage. Basing the play on an original video recording, Rau reenacted the trial of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena on Christmas Day 1989. The piece sparked considerable controversy. Although some critics recognised the artist's immense potential as an innovator, others appeared to be uneasy at the work's aesthetic realism, a mode that was particularly unusual on the independent theatre scene. At a fundamental level, some commentators asked themselves what was to be gained from a performance if it purportedly did nothing more than reproduce a trial that had been documented on film as faithfully to the original as possible.
‘Also the real thing' at INSERT2014'
Also The Real Thing is a collaboration between the Indian artist and theatre director Zuleikha Chaudhari and Swiss theatre director Boris Nikitin.
'Also the real thing", a collaborative presentation by Zuleikha Chaudhari and Boris Nikitin at INSERT2014
Date: 1 February, 3 to 6 February 2014 / Time: 12 - 5 pm, each day
INSERT2014 opening on 31 January 2014
Venue:
Auditorium and Library, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1, CV Mess, Janpath, New Delhi
'Also The Real Thing' is the first collaboration between the Indian artist and theatre director Zuleikha Chaudhari and Swiss theatre director Boris Nikitin. The project creates an artistic and sociological perspective on the cultural constructs of two highly codified spaces: the theatre and the library.
These spaces are treated as spatial installations. Both as places of representation are carried to extremes and the fictional character of the real situation - architecture, politics of the gaze, codes of behaviour - are revealed. The rules, assumptions and undiscussed agreements - the framing of both spaces/places becomes experiential and sensual.
Also The Real Thing establishes a look on "theatre" and "library" as remarkable cultural inventions, "sculptures" and strange places. They become installations - pieces of art.
About INSERT 2014
The presentation 'Also The Real Thing' is part of INSERT2014. INSERT2014 unfolds a series of unexpected encounters with contemporary art in the public domain. Within its purview, several exhibits, symposiums, workshops and performances will take place over one month at cultural sites across Delhi, bringing together a diverse group of international experts and contemporary artists to inaugurate a re-thinking of the city's cultural infrastructure.
More: insert2014.org
Partners / Organisers: Part of INSERT 2014 / supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council; Artistic directors: Raqs Media Collective, presented by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Swiss Author Monica Cantieni to visit India
Pro Helvetia New Delhi has invited Swiss author Monica Cantieni to read from her book recently translated into English in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.
Pro Helvetia New Delhi has invited Swiss author Monica Cantieni to read from her book recently translated into English in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.
The Swiss Author Monica Cantieni will be reading from her book The Encyclopedia of Good Reasons which has been translated by Donal McLaughlin as part of Seagull Books Swiss List.
The tour will include German author Thomas Lehr as well as translator Mike Mitchell, who has translated Thomas Lehr's book September, which is part of Seagull Books German List.
Mike Mitchell, translator of Max Frisch's Drafts for a Third Sketchbook , also part of the Swiss List will be speaking on translating Max Frisch and other Swiss authors.
Programme:
Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, Kolkata
Date: 13 January 2014
Entry: As per festival rules
For details visit: www.kolkatalitfest.in/
Long Night of Literature, New Delhi
Date: 16 January 2014
Venue: India International Centre
Entry: Open to all
Workshop, with students of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University
Date: 17 January 2014
Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru University
Entry: students only
Mumbai
Date: 20 January 2014
Venue (tbc)
Pune University's Centenary Celebrations, Pune
Date: 23 January 2014
Venue: Pune University
Entry: Open to all
Brief on author:
Monica Cantieni, born in Thalwil, Switzerland, lives in Wettingen (Switzerland) and Vienna. She works for SRF, Swiss Radio and Television and has received various literary grants and scholarships for her short stories. With her debut novel Grunschnabel she was the finalist for the Swiss Book Awards 2011. The translation of the same, The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons, is part of the Swiss List published by Seagull Books and supported by Pro Helvetia. Amongst her other published works is Hieronymus' Kinder as well as a large number of short stories in periodicals and anthologies. Monica Cantieni has also received numerous literary grants and awards.
Photo credit: Monica Cantieni photos: © FRESHPIXEL, Manuel Fischer
Partners: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, Seagull Books, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, India International Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Delhi and Pune University.
Peter Fischli to deliver talks in Delhi & Mumbai
Peter Fischli will deliver the keynote at the Inlaks Fine Arts Awards. He will also speak at the India International Centre in Delhi and at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum.
Peter Fischli, one of the greatest living artists of our times, is on a visit to India on the invitation of Pro Helvetia New Delhi.
Delhi
Dialogue between Peter Fischli and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, artist, Raqs Media Collective on
Popular opposites and contradictions in the work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Date: Monday, February 03, 2014
Time: 1830 hrs
Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi (Conference Room I /1st floor, IIC main building).
Entry open to all.
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Mumbai
Lecture by Peter Fischli on
"Popular opposites and contradictions in the Work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss "
Date: Thursday, February 06, 2014
Time: 1800 hrs
Venue: AV&E Centre in the Museum Plaza, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum.
Entry open to all.
During his visit Peter Fischli will deliver the keynote at the Inlaks Fine Arts Awards in Mumbai and will be presenting the awards. This event is by invitation only.
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Peter Fischli invited by India Art Fair 2014
India Art Fair has invited well known Swiss artist Peter Fischli for the Speaker's Forum. Swiss artist Peter Fischli will be in conversation with Sarnath Banerjee, Graphic Novelist, Artist and Film Maker.
Topic: The Artists' Panel / "Things in their true light." "We do take steps to show things in their true light" said Peter Fischli in 2006, at the time of the Fischli Weiss retrospective at Tate Modern. For 33 years, until the death of David Weiss in 2012, Fischli/Weiss heralded a language of the everyday that drew upon humour and observation as staple content. Sarnath Banerjee, graphic novelist will speak with Peter Fischli on humour and its possibilities in art.
Date: Friday 31 January 2014
Time: 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Venue: NSIC Exhibition Grounds, New Delhi 110020
Entry: As per India Art Fair rules
Peter Fischli
Peter Fischli, born in Zurich 1952, is part of the artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss, often shortened to Fischli/Weiss. They have been collaborating since 1979 and are considered one of the world's top contemporary artists. Their work has been executed in a variety of media, including sculpture, film, and photography. The duo is perhaps best known for the 1987 film "The Way Things Go" (Der Lauf der Dinge) which was described by The Guardian as being "Post Apocalyptic". Fischli and Weiss won the Golden Lion prize at the 2003 Venice Biennale. A retrospective of their work was held at the Tate Modern, London, in 2006, and travelled to the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. David Weiss passed away in 2012 at age of 65. Peter Fischli works and lives in Zurich.
ALSO in June 2014
Screening of "The Way Things Go" at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum as part of VIDEO ART on 7, 14, 21, 28 June 2014 (more)
http://www.indiaartfair.in
Delhi SoundWords | Call for writings on Sounds
Delhi SoundWords | Call for writings on Sounds of Delhi with Swiss artist Salomé Voegelin
Delhi SoundWords is a guest edition of Salomé Voegelin's regular blog soundwords.tumblr.com, to be published in connection with the Sound Reasons Festival II. This blog writes the soundscape, sonic events and occurrences of the everyday through listening: working from the heard into words to draw attention to the listening process and how we participate in our acoustic environment. The blog illuminates what a transcription of listening can produce, how it can narrate our surroundings differently, leading to different insights, sensibilities and consequences about the world we live in and how we live in it.
Artists, audience members participating in Sound Reason Festival as well as all listeners are invited to contribute with blog-entries, to make their listening of Delhi heard. The aim is to provide a different image of the city, one made from the relationships, processes and materials forming below the surface of the visible; to explore the landscape through its sound, to hear it as an environment, a timespace place that does not afford us a vista but grants us access to the mobility of its own production.
This phonographic project will be presented in London as part of "Points of Listening" a listening project organised by Mark Peter Wright and Salome in conjunction with CRiSAP (Centre for Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice) from 2014
mail@salomevoegelin.net |
www.soundwords.tumblr.com |
soundreasons.in/delhi-soundwords/
Long Night of Literature 2014
Swiss author Monica Cantieni along with German author Thomas Lehr and translator Mike Mitchell to participate in this year’s edition of Long Night of Literature.
Swiss author Monica Cantieni will be reading from her book The Encyclopedia of Good Reasons which has been translated by Donal McLaughlin as part of Seagull Books Swiss List in New Delhi at the Long Night of Literature 2014.
The evening will include German author Thomas Lehr as well as translator Mike Mitchell, who has translated Thomas Lehr's book September, which is part of Seagull Books German List.
Long Night of Literature, New Delhi
Date: 16 January 2014 at 7 pm
Venue: India International Centre
Entry: Open to all
Monica Cantieni
Monica Cantieni, born 1965 in Thalwil, Switzerland, lives in Wettingen (Switzerland) and Vienna. She works for SRF, Swiss Radio and Television and has received various literary grants and scholarships for her short stories. With her debut novel Grunschnabel she was the finalist for the Swiss Book Awards 2011. The translation of the same, The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons, is part of the Swiss List published by Seagull Books and supported by Pro Helvetia. Amongst her other published works is Hieronymus' Kinder as well as a large number of short stories in periodicals and anthologies. Monica Cantieni has also received numerous literary grants and awards.
Thomas Lehr
Thomas Lehr, born in 1957 in Speyer, has lived in Berlin since 1979. Before becoming a writer he studied biochemistry and science at the Freie Universität Berlin and worked as a programmer in a
science library. He has received a number of literary honors, including the Wolfgang-Koeppen-
Preis (2000) and the Art Prize of Rheinland-Palatinate (2006). In 2012 he was appointed as a new
member of the Arts Academy (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin. Since 1993 he has published 8 books. His novel "September" shortlisted for the "German Book Prize" in 2010 has been translated into English and is part of the "German List" by Seagull Books, Kolkata.
Mike Mitchell
Mike Mitchell was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and studied German and French at Oxford University. He taught English at Riyad University, then German at Reading and Stirling Universities. In 1995 he took early retirement to concentrate on his work as a literary translator and has published over 70 books in translation, mainly from German, some from French. He lives in Argyll, Scotland.
Partners:
www.iicdelhi.nic.in
www.prohelvetia.in
www.goethe.de/newdelhi
Monica Cantieni's book translated and published by Seagull Books
Swiss List – Monica Cantieni's 'The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons' translated and published by Seagull Books
With the latest addition to the Swiss List published by Seagull Books, the number of books in English by Swiss writers now on the stands is twelve.
Swiss List - Monica Cantieni's 'The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons' translated and published by Seagull Books
The publication of the Swiss List in partnership with Seagull Books is an effort to bring Swiss literature to readers around the world. An extension of the initiative "Moving Words", the Swiss List has had demonstrable impact. Audiences across the globe now have access to Swiss Literature and literary translators from varying nationalities have had the opportunity to network and engage with Swiss writers. The number of translations of Swiss literature will continue to increase, with Seagull Books looking at publishing another few titles by year end. Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council supports translation.
The Swiss List comprises of the following titles:
'The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons' by Monica Cantieni
Translated by Donal McLaughlin
'On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest' by Urs Widmer
Translated by Donal McLaughlin
'Death in Persia' by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Translated by Lucy Renner Jones
Noah by Hugo Loetscher
Translated by Samuel P. Willcocks. Synopsis
My Mother's Lover by Urs Widmer
Translated by Donal Mc Laughlin
My Father's Book by Urs Widmer
Translated by Donal Mc Laughlin
Correspondence by Frisch/Dürrenmatt's
Translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte
Invitation to the Bold of Heart by Dorothee Elmiger
Translated by Cathy Derbyshire Lyric
Novella by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Translated by Lucy Renner Jones
All the Roads are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole
'Drafts for a third Sketchbook' by Max Frisch
Selected Essays by Friedrich Durrenmatt’s
Links www: www.seagullindia.com/books/defaultnew.asp
Partner: Seagull India - www.seagullindia.com
