[Ticst] Take the Square film - Tuesday 2/19 6pm

[Natalie Knight]

Hi all,

I misspoke: it's the North American premiere of Tessler's film, not the
world premiere. But a premiere nonetheless! Info below on the film
screening Tuesday night, and a link to the STAG library here:
http://thestaglibrary.tumblr.com/#43338849924.


[image: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 || 6:00pm The STAG Library presents the
North American premier of Oliver Ressler’s TAKE THE SQUARE (2012;
88min) The 3-channel video installation “Take The Square” is based on
discussions conducted with activists from 15M in Madrid, the Syntagma
Square movement in Athens and Occupy Wall Street in New York. Re-enacting
the format of the working groups of the protest movements, four to six
activists discuss with each other as a group in front of a camera. The
discussions cover issues of organization, horizontal decision-making
processes, the importance and function of occupying public spaces and how
social change can occur. The films were shot in the spring of 2012 in those
places used by the movements of the squares for meetings and working
groups: the Plaza de Pontejos, a quiet square in the immediate vicinity of
the central Puerta del Sol in Madrid; at Plaza de la Corrala, a meeting
place for the neighborhood assemblies of Lavapiès in Madrid; in Syntagma
Square, the central assembly and demonstration point in front of the
Parliament in Athens; and in Central Park in New York, where Occupy Wall
Street held the “Spring Awakening 2012”. for more information ||
http://www.ressler.at/take_the_square/ Oliver Ressler is a Vienna-based
artist and activist who produces films, posters, billboards,
billboard-objects, and magazines that intervene directly in public urban
spaces and address political issues through different methods. These works
attempt to support progressive social processes and to contribute toward a
change in society. http://www.ressler.at/ This screening is in association
with Jeff Derksen’s seminar “Space/Scale/Culture: Literature
and the Production of Space” at Simon Fraser University. To provide
further context for the conversation that will follow you can read any of
the following texts: Brian Holmes. Profanity and the Financial Markets: A
User’s Guide to Closing the Casino ||
http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/profanity-and-the-financial-markets/
Margrit Mayer. Social Movements in the (post-) Neoliberal City ||
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3bl9bv Eric Kluitenberg. Legacies of Tactical
Media: The Tactics of Occupations: from Tompkins Square to Tahrir ||
http://www.sendspace.com/file/l7g4eq]


 *Tuesday, February 19, 2013 || 6:00pm*

The STAG Library presents the North American premier of

*Oliver Ressler’s*

*TAKE THE SQUARE* (2012; 88min)

The 3-channel video installation “Take The Square” is based on discussions
conducted with activists from 15M in Madrid, the Syntagma Square movement
in Athens and Occupy Wall Street in New York. Re-enacting the format of the
working groups of the protest movements, four to six activists discuss with
each other as a group in front of a camera. The discussions cover issues of
organization, horizontal decision-making processes, the importance and
function of occupying public spaces and how social change can occur.

The films were shot in the spring of 2012 in those places used by the
movements of the squares for meetings and working groups: the Plaza de
Pontejos, a quiet square in the immediate vicinity of the central Puerta
del Sol in Madrid; at Plaza de la Corrala, a meeting place for the
neighborhood assemblies of Lavapiès in Madrid; in Syntagma Square, the
central assembly and demonstration point in front of the Parliament in
Athens; and in Central Park in New York, where Occupy Wall Street held the
“Spring Awakening 2012”.

*for more information* ||  <http://www.ressler.at/take_the_square/>
http://www.ressler.at/take_the_square/

*Oliver Ressler* is a Vienna-based artist and activist who produces films,
posters, billboards, billboard-objects, and magazines that intervene
directly in public urban spaces and address political issues through
different methods. These works attempt to support progressive social
processes and to contribute toward a change in society.

<http://www.ressler.at/>http://www.ressler.at/

This screening is in association with Jeff Derksen’s seminar
“Space/Scale/Culture: Literature and the Production of Space” at Simon
Fraser University. To provide further context for the conversation that
will follow you can read any of the following texts:

Brian Holmes. *Profanity and the Financial Markets: A User’s Guide to
Closing the Casino*
||<http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/profanity-and-the-financial-markets/>
http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/profanity-and-the-financial-markets/

Margrit Mayer. *Social Movements in the (post-) Neoliberal City*
||<http://www.sendspace.com/file/3bl9bv>
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3bl9bv

Eric Kluitenberg. *Legacies of Tactical Media: The Tactics of Occupations:
from Tompkins Square to Tahrir* ||  <http://www.sendspace.com/file/l7g4eq>
http://www.sendspace.com/file/l7g4eq
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