EVENTS
PROBLEMATISING REALITY
Encounters between art and philosophy
Programme 2: (de)framing the frame
with Sarah Lewis-Cappellari and Kerstin Stakemeier
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Auditorium 2
23.11.2023, 18h30
Terence Dixon, Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970) film still
Film:
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970, 26 min.)
by Terence Dixon
Discussion:
Sarah Lewis-Cappellari, Kerstin Stakemeier
Artworks, especially those that comprise documentary material, can offer a particularly challenge to our sense of reality. While the indexical link to what they address grants images and sounds a specific credibility, the artist’s aesthetic, thematic and political choices and self-reflexive stance may generate a critical assessment of the very constitution of reality. At such point, art meets philosophy. To reflect on the relationship between the factual world and its subjective understanding, questioning hegemonic claims to objectivity and problematising the inherent contradictions of society are inherently philosophical issues.
The second edition of Problematising reality – Encounters between art and philosophy is a partnership between CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, IFILNOVA (CineLab) / FCSH / UNL and Maumaus / Lumiar Cité. This is a series of six discussion sessions and four seminars taking place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, focusing on the moment when art and philosophy establish productive dialogues, proposing diverse approaches to contemporary thought. Each discussion session departs from a partial or full exhibition of works of art in the medium of film, accompanied by a reflection led by theorists, researchers or artists.
The second discussion session takes place in November and brings together the researchers Sarah Lewis-Cappellari and Kerstin Stakemeier in a reflection prompted by the viewing of Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970), by Terence Dixon. Tense, defiant, discursive: A meeting with James Baldwin doesn’t quite go according to plan for a group of white filmmakers in this rarely seen, Paris-set short film. An illuminating snapshot of Baldwin’s intellectual commitment that bristles with friction and ideas. The film will be presented in a recently restored print.
Sarah Lewis-Cappellari (Dominican Republic/EUA) is a researcher, dramaturg and teacher whose work engages the interface of performance, contemporary art, colonial visual economies and Black and Caribbean Studies. Lewis-Cappellari recently received a PhD in Performance Studies from UCLA. Previously she was based in Berlin, where she worked with the art & science collective Mobile Academy Berlin as one of its primary curators and researchers. Sarah has also researched and worked with collaborative art practices as a member of the performance collective LEWIS FOREVER (which presented work at Performance Space 122 and the New Museum in NYC, among other venues), and independently with SOIT in Brussels, Agora and Sophiensaele in Berlin and Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf.
Kerstin Stakemeier is an educator at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and in 2017 published Entgrenzter Formalismus. Verfahren einer antimodernen Ästhetik (Debordered Formalism. Devices of an antimodern Aesthetic) with bbooks. Together with Anselm Franke she realized ‘Illiberal Arts’ (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2021) and ‘lliberal Lives’ (Stiftung Moderne Kunst Ludwig Forum Aachen 2023). With Bill Dietz she authored the book Universal Receptivity (2021), with M. Ammer, E. Birkenstock, J. Nachtigall and S. Weber, the exhibition series and journal Class Languages (2017–18). With Marina Vishmidt she wrote Reproducing Autonomy (2016). They are working on a second book.
Session duration: 120 Min. | M/12
Entry is free and limited to the number of seats available.
Film spoken in English and subtitled in Portuguese; the discussion will be in English, with simultaneous translation to Portuguese.
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Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 10h00 to 13h00,
14h30 to 19h00
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Upcoming:
Manthia Diawara
AI: African Intelligence
Batoto Yetu Portugal, Caxias
01.12.2024, Sunday, 11h00
The ticket price is €8.00 and includes lunch, with required registration at batotoyetu@gmail.com, indicating name and telephone number.
Current:
Problematising Reality
Programme 6
Beyond the White Screen
Film:
Les mains libres (1964) by Ennio Lorenzini
Discussion:
Émilie Goudal, Zineb Sedira
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Auditório 3, 31.10.2024 | 18h30
Current:
Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021
24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth
Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock
Current:
Luisa Cunha
ODD
28.09. – 22.12.2024
20.01 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition
16.03 | 17h00 Talk between Dozie Kanu
and Simon Thompson
Current:
ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS
Sid Iandovka & Anya Tsyrlina with Leslie Thornton & Thomas Zummer
A combined exhibition between
Lumiar Cité and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg.
Lumiar Cité
27.04. – 28.07.2024
Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
18.05. – 28.07.2024
27.04. – 28.07.2024 | Lumiar Cité
18.05. – 28.07.2024 | Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
A co-production by Lumiar Cité
and Artium Museum
14.10 | 17h00 Book launch with talk between
Alejandro Cesarco and
Miguel Wandschneider
| 18h00 Opening of the exhibition
Current:
Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz
24.03. – 24.09.2023
Upcoming:
Lumiar Cité
14.10.2023 – 14.01.2024
Collaboration:
The Educational Web
Kunstverein in Hamburg
01.04. – 06.08.2023
Closed 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January
Arne Kaiser and Jürgen Bock
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
In co-production with Lumiar Cité:
Alejandro Cesarco
Other Recent Examples
24.03. - 24.09.2023
Artium Museum
The Educational Web
31.03. - 06.08.2023
Kunstverein in Hamburg
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar.