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

[Natalie Knight]

and it's ressler, not tessler. did i say i could copyedit?

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Natalie Knight <knightnr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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