[Nettime-nl] Harun Farocki - Immersion - exhibition STUK Leuven, Belgium

[| pieter-paul mortier | stuk | artefact | <pieter-paul.mortier@stuk.be>]

expo HARUN FAROCKI


Harun Farocki began his career as a film director and was editor of  
Filmkritik, a magazine in which (from 1974 to 1984) he articulated an  
important set of theoretical ideas about the image. Employing a wide  
range of media, his own work analyses the convergences of war,  
economics and politics within the social space. In parallel to this,  
since the early 1990s he has been making video tapes and  
installations concerned with the production and processing of images  
in the media and the institutions that disseminate them.

STUK co-produced (in collaboration with Jeu de Paume in Paris) his  
new work Immersion. For this video installation Farocki visited a  
workshop organised by the Institute for Creative Technologies, a  
research centre for virtual reality and computer-simulations. One of  
their projects concerns the development of a therapy for war-veterans  
suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Farocki is interested  
in the use of virtual realities and games in the recruting, training  
and now also therapy for soldiers. In this exhibition Immersion is  
shown together with Inextinguishable Fire (1969) and the Eye/Machine  
trilogy (2000-2003).

STUK arts centre
Naamsestraat 96
3000 Leuven
Belgium

Opening: sat 2 May 09 . 19:00
Open: 10 May - 14 June 09
wed-thu 14:00 - 21:00
fr-sat-sun 14:00 - 18:00

http://www.stuk.be/expo/detail/57083/language/en


| pieter-paul mortier | stuk | artefact |

___ naamsestraat 96
___ b - 3000 leuven

| t: +32 |0|16 320 307
| f: +32 |0|16 320 330
| m: +32 |0|497 04 04 51
| e: pieter-paul.mortier@stuk.be

stuk arts centre | www.stuk.be
artefact | www.artefact-festival.be





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