“Sound and Image in Media Installation, two opposites fighting for attention” Sound goes everywhere while the image is more or less a projection on a static screen. The attention span needed to hear and see is vastly different for sound and image. The workshop will experiment with those differences and demonstrate how you can use space to induce and motivate the gallery viewer to various modes of participation within the works displayed in the gallery.  The artist will show PRESENCE a film installation that premiered at the Berlin Biennale in April 2008 to introduce the concepts explored in the workshop. The title of the Biennale (bb5) was When things cast no shadow.

The workshop is open for BA and MA students from all disciplines. An active participation is required, therefore please send an rsvp to Fleur van Muiswinkel at fleur@oca.no before 8 May with a small introduction on your own work and motivation. Refreshments will be served during the workshop. Please notice that Babette Mangolte will hold two lectures, on Wednesday 6 and Wednesday 27 May 19:00 at OCA, Nedre Gate 7.

Biography of Babette Mangolte

Artist/Filmmaker b.1941 in France, lives and works in New York, NY Babette Mangolte

The French-born, New York-based experimental filmmaker Babette   Mangolte was one of the first women accepted into the cinematography   programme at L'École Nationale de la Photographie et de la   Cinématographie in Paris, founded by Louis Lumiére, in 1964. She   discovered cinema with the New Wave and moved to New York City in   1970, where she worked as the cinematographer for Chantal Ackerman and   Yvonne Rainer among others. In her work as director from the 1970s,   Mangolte focused on performance documentation, working with artists   such as Richard Foreman, Robert Whitman, Trisha Brown and Lucinda   Childs. Her early film work was a self-examination as to what it means   to be a spectator, but also an experiment in narrative filmmaking.   Among the films directed by Mangolte are 'What Maisie Knew' (1976),   'The Camera: Je or La Camera: I' (1977), 'Four Pieces by   Morris' (1993) and 'Seven Easy Pieces' (2007). Her films are in the   collections of the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of   Modern Art in New York, the Deutsche Kinematek, Berlin and the   Cinéathèque Royale de Belgique in Brussels. The first retrospective   dedicated to her work took place in 2000 in three German cities -   Berlin, Hamburg and Munich - and was organised by Madeleine Bernstorff   and Kleus Volkmer from the Munich Film Archives. Her second   retrospective was in New York in September 2004 at the Anthology Film   Archives.

Workshop “Sound and Image in Media Installation, two opposites fighting for attention”
OCA´s ISP resident Babette Mangolte
Friday, 15 May at 10:00
OCA Studio 2, Nedre gate 7