Panel and Screening / “Bulbs, Tubes, Beams, and Cobraheads”

Date: Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 7–9 pm
Location: Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn (map and directions here)
FREE. No RSVP necessary
Organized by the Goethe-Institut New York

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Please note: at 6:57, the introduction ends; there are 5 seconds of silence, followed by the the post-screening panel.

Please join us for an evening about (and with) artificial light that pitches hard against soft fascination and agitated against slow perception. A screening of 16 mm short films by artist Amy Granat, which self-reflexively engage the filmstrip and the light of the projector, will be combined with presentations by Gregor Jansen and Linnaea Tillett. Jansen, artistic director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and a curator specializing in new media art and lichtkunst, will focus on recent uses of artificial light as artistic material, while Tillet, a lighting designer and environmental psychologist, will walk us through her work on the city street and present a typology of the streetlamp. Sarah Demeuse will moderate.

This event is organized in parallel with “We Would Provide Complete Darkness,” an exhibition on view through 22 December at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 E 3rd St, New York. For more on the exhibition, see here.

This event has been made possible by a generous grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Beer for this event has been lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.

Cabinet is a non-profit organization supported by the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the Orphiflamme Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Katchadourian Family Foundation. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation by visiting here.