[Screenings]: Harun Farocki, April 13 — 5 May 5, 2022, UP Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines

From April 13 to May 5, 2022, the UP Vargas Museum and the Coincidences in Prepositions project present Harun Farocki. Screenings at the UP Vargas Museum in Manila, Philippines.

From the UP Vargas Museum press release:

“The first presentation of Farocki’s films in another context begins in the midst of openings and closures. Public health measures recently relaxed, borders restoring their hold of mobility over people; in a metropolitan research university, at a museum whose heritage ranges from making collection to doing experimentation, the Farocki screening is anything but an exhibition of art.

Many of our contemporary conditions have been rehearsed by Farocki as content, style and form in his artistic projects. They surface to be methods and devices that we have come to accept in the rubric of the ‘politics of images.’ This is one way to approach his practice. But what if Farocki’s inscriptions in pictures as well as his discursive editing of cinema’s structure are assembled today to function like a triage that organizes the order of treatment and the entry to further analysis?

Harun Farocki. Screenings is a screening program that takes a singular artistic output to be a system of resonances and descriptions that a new audience can be immersed in. As if a triage, the public that consumes Farocki also screens the vitality of and the need for the artist’s political propositions, sociocultural articulations and historical interventions today. One possible question that they could ask: are we meeting at the same emergencies? Or: can these images be patient of our own understanding of themselves that they will accept coincidence instead of representation, for example, to be a kind of relationship?

Part of Coincidences in Prepositions, a publication program conceptualized to review questions, propositions and solutions that have been set up in the dis/continuities of many colonial milieus, the presentation of Farocki in the Philippines reinforces a theory in the migration of images and screens that the artist had critically deconstructed in his studies of image production: images emerge in our time. In Harun Farocki. Screenings, museum visitors can organize the itinerary of images in a new context. The arrival of underdeveloped and perpetually deficient political images now have a chance to be emergent again.”

Harun Farocki. Screenings is organized by Renan Laru-an and titre provisoire (Cathleen Schuster/Marcel Dickhage), initiators of Coincidences in Prepositions in partnership with the Harun Farocki Institut and the Philippine Contemporary Art Network. Funded by the Goethe-Institut.
The screenings are supported by Antje Ehmann/Harun Farocki GbR.

Harun Farocki. Screenings is open to the public everyday.
Please sign-up here to book your seat in the screening. Kindly await our email confirmation regarding your reservation.

Screenings Program
Daily screening at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Opening: Wednesday April 13

“Bedtime Stories: Bridges”; “Bedtime Stories: Ships”; “Bedtime Stories: Railways”; “Bedtime Stories: Cats,” 1977
“About Narration,” 1969
“The Expression of Hands,” 1997

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Thursday April 21

“The Appearance,” 1966
“The Words of the Chairman,” 1967
“The Taste of Life,” 1979

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Friday April 22

“In Comparison,”2009
“Silver and the Cross,” 2010

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Saturday April 23

“Inextinguishable Fire,” 1969
“Industry and Photography,” 1979

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Tuesday April 26

“Film Books,” 1986
“Images of the World and the Inscription of War,” 1988

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Wednesday April 27

“Respite,” 2007
“War at a Distance,” 2003

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Thursday April 28

“Something Self Explanatory (15x),” 1971
“The Interview,” 1997

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Friday April 29

“The Creators of Shopping Worlds,” 2001
“Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life,” 1972
“Their Newspapers,” 1968

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Saturday April 30

“The Campaign Volunteer,” 1967
“Bedtime Stories (1-4),” 1976-1977
“Workers Leaving the Factory,” 1995

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Wednesday May 4

“About Narration,” 1995
“As You See,” 1986

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Thursday May 5

“The Expression of Hands,” 1997
“Two Paths,” 1966
“The Words of the Chairman,” 1967
“Their Newspapers,” 1968
“Inextinguishable Fire,” 1969
“Silver and the Cross,” 2010

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More screenings to come this week and in the week starting May 2 will be announced here and on the UP Vargas Museum Facebook page.