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

[Stephen Collis]

I've seen this film - interesting for sure. It's all people sitting around talking. The Spanish in particular are pretty amazing.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Natalie Knight" <knightnr at gmail.com>
To: ticst at lists.resist.ca
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:43:00 PM
Subject: [Ticst] Take the Square film - Tuesday 2/19 6pm



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 . 





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/ 

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 

_______________________________________________
Ticst mailing list
Ticst at lists.resist.ca
https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ticst