code flow - events
20 October - 2 December 2007
at Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur
Accompanying program of lectures, screenings and discussions specially curated by Dimitrina Sevova
Program Details
Saturday, 10 November, 16h (4 pm)
Lecture and Presentation of Her Work: Alexis Hunter (artist, London), Radical Feminism in the 1970s (Sexual Warfare – Romantic Love and Sexual Hatred) (in English language)
Ca. 17h (5 pm), Screening: EINSPRUCH I-V (5 short films, Rolando Colla, 1999 / 2000 / 2002 / 2004 / 2007, 4 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 7 min, various languages, German titles), Jagdzeit / Hunting Season (Rolando Colla, 1994, 40 min)
Discussion with: Rolando Colla and Elena Pedrazzoli, Peacock Film, Zürich (in German language)
Alexis Hunter
The Model's Revenge I, 1974.
Courtesy of the artist
Saturday, 10 November, 16h (4 pm)
Lecture and Presentation of Her Work: Alexis Hunter (artist, London) Radical Feminism in the 1970s (Sexual Warfare – Romantic Love and Sexual Hatred) (in English)
Alexis Hunter will talk of the relevance of her 1970s photographic narratives to life today. The ‘Object Series,’ about the heterosexual female gaze and ‘Dialogue with a Rapist’ about racism and sexism on the street are still topical 30 years after they were made. She will also discuss the high suicide rate of young men in Europe and the answers Feminism might have to this problem.
“Her attempts to expose consumerism, especially to working-class women and poor-but-free artist women like herself, Hunter worked out her own political attitudes from her experience – neither documenting the experience of others nor coming from the top down as an “educator.” Rejecting the deadpan analysis of much male politicized art, she depends on a woman-to-woman view. Is this a fantasy? She challenges the viewer. Has it affected you as it has me?” (Lucy Lippard, Hands On, in: Alexis Hunter, Radical Feminism in the 1970s)
Rolando Colla
EINSPRUCH 3, film still
Ca. 17h (5 pm), Screening:
EINSPRUCH I-V (OBJECTION I-V)
5 short films by Rolando Colla
EINSPRUCH (OBJECTION): 1999, 4 min
EINSPRUCH II (OBJECTION II): 2000, 8 min
EINSPRUCH III (OBJECTION III): 2002, 9 min
EINSPRUCH IV (OBJECTION IV): 2004, 10 min
EINSPRUCH V (OBJECTION V): 2007, 7 min
“The increasingly aggressive polemic against foreigners and asylum seekers prevents a differentiated debate on a complex topic. And it increases the pressure against rejected asylum seekers. It is a fact that the Palestinian Khaled A. died on 3 March 1999 as he was being extradited at Zurich airport by officers of the Cantonal Police of Berne. The authorities do not seem to have been interested in a prompt investigation into the case. Even at the end of 1999 there was no public statement on the death of Khaled A.
In the five episodes of EINSPRUCH (OBJECTION) Rolando Colla investigates the various facets of state and societal racism and the ways migrants have found of dealing with it.
Jagdzeit (Hunting Season)
1994, 40 min, 35mm
Directed by Rolando Colla
Numerous prizes, among them the 1st prize “Prix SSR: Nouveaux talents suisses”, 1st prize of the jury for the best professional film at the 10th International Filmfestival Alpinale, as well as the 1st prize of the audience for the best film at the same edition of Alpinale.
Five young right-wing extremists incite each other to play a dangerous game: they go on a hunt for foreigners. Their target is a group of refugees, as well as Italian season workers attempting to build a future for themselves in Switzerland.
The accompanying program of events is organized with the support of Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Zug, and the Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Zürich.