Nov 20, 6 pm

Alexander Vaindorf / Boris Buden

Participatory observation. An obligation to construct a fair account of the social experience

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With a critical outlook on collectively shared documents, construction and interpretations of truth, the works of Alexander Vaindorf focus on individuals (selective memory) and form narrative formats to articulate time fragments of our current history. The talk does not discuss the existence of «ultimate truth» (shared by us all), but rather notions of hidden social memory and multiplicity of subjectivity—every individual being a carrier of his/her own truth. It sheds light on ideas and attempts to capture a truthful sense of reality with examples of KinoPravda (Dziga Vertov), «Cinema of Truth», cinéma vérité (Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin), Direct Cinema (Frederick Wiseman and the Maysles
Brothers).

Conversation with Boris Buden.

Alexander Vaindorf, born 1965 in Odessa, former USSR, has been living and working in Stockholm since 1987. Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts in 2000 at Columbia University, New York. Recent exhibitions: Manifesta 7 – The Rest of Now, Bolzano section; Gyumri Biennial in Armenia; 4th Ars Baltica Triennial, Casino Luxembourg; URBAN CONCERNS at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa; Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Künstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria; Narration in Swedish Contemporary Art, Sweden; Bfact: Tirana and Istanbul Biennale (2003).
www.alexandervaindorf.com

Boris Buden, studied philosophy in Zagreb and cultural theory at HU Berlin.
His essays and articles cover topics of philosophy, politics, cultural and art criticism. Among his translations into Croatian are two books of Sigmund Freud. Buden is the author of Barikade, Zagreb 1996/1997, Kaptolski Kolodvor, Beograd 2001 and Der Schacht von Babel, Berlin 2004, (Vavilonska jama, Beograd 2007).
boris.buden(at)gmx(dot)net