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Film to note

Dutch American film maker

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TLC panel at EMAF

The info about the panel is also listed there. It's Saturday, April 27 at 11am.

Here a short info on the panel:

Together with the curators and artists of the second edition of SPECTRAL. Unburdened Recollections we are going to talk about the works shown, the process of their performance and the work involved in their research and reconstruction. At the same time, we would like to discuss questions about issues of documentation, archiving and the distribution of Expanded Cinema and the ethical dimensions regarding the reconstruction and presentation of works in this field.

The moderation will be by Cèline Ruivo. Here a short bio: Céline Ruivo holds a doctorate in cinema and teaches film archive conservation at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She has focused her academic research on early cinema, colour and pre-cinema. She was director of film collections at the Cinémathèque française between 2011 and 2020 and is currently pursuing film restoration projects with European cinémathèques. Cinegraphies, les femmes de la tempête is her first documentary film dedicated to the female avant-garde, a style of cinema that has long fascinated her. She is now vice president of Domitor and until 2023, member of the FIAF technical commission. 

I have included Cinzia in cc. Last year, each curator began with a brief presentation (maximum 10 minutes) to provide additional context about the work, the reenactment, and any potential questions or difficulties. After each presentation, the moderator prepared questions and facilitated a conversation. Therefore, since you, Louise, and Cinzia will be presenting "Horror Film," it would make sense for you three to coordinate who will present what aspect. It would be great if you could present "Teaching and Learning Cinema," your methodology behind it, and how the collaboration with Malcolm and Cinzia was established.

here is the info on the website with the date/ time:

Cinzia will talk about:

In my 10min presentation I will focus on Horror Film, I will describe the performance for those who don't know it and talk about my experience with its reenactment. I will probably quote your manual but I'll leave to you the full description of your amazing work.

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Aust Soc Archivists lightning talk 5 Sep 2023 Melbourne

Proposed Title: Participatory archives in Australia - adding to the knowledge base Abstract details, max 300 words - What are the details? Provide an abstract or other description of what your proposed contribution will cover and involve: Participatory appraisal has been discussed amongst archivists for decades. There is literature reporting on experiences in the UK and the US but there is limited reportage of the practice of building archives with communities in Australia. In January 2023 a project focused on a low-social capital suburb in Canberra was exhibited. This lightning talk reports back with some insights. A challenge for participatory appraisal identified through this project was scale – if successful, the volume of content quickly becomes overwhelming. Another challenge is the responsibility that goes with accepting content from contributors. Expectations are set up that the content will be used or shared. And crucially, participation means everyone. Strategies are needed to connect with contributors that goes beyond relationships in easy reach for the archivist based on existing connections. Recognising who is likely to be overlooked and thinking about how the project might connect with the aspirations of those community groups offered a starting point in this project. Demonstrating that those voices are wanted and welcome is another part of the puzzle. Some strategies include partnerships and focusing on community events where there has been broad participation. A final lesson comes from social engaged art, a practice that focuses on community participation. This calls on the archivist to recognise their standpoint, the worldview they bring. Our sector has recognised that collections and building them is not neutral. For archivists, there remains much to do to work out how to meaningfully share that power and authority as collections are built.  I am submitting a proposal for the following:: Lightning Talks – informal short talk of 7 mins plus 5 minutes for Q & A My contribution fits in with the conference theme as follows: The challenge of developing archival collections with communities is ongoing, this short talk makes a contribution to that discussion.  The format of my presentation is: Lightning talk presenting 3 key challenges and some strategies to address them. 

Brief biography (max. 200 words): Dr Louise Curham is an archivist, artist and lecturer in the Libraries, Archives, Records and Information Science discipline at Curtin University. As an archivist, Louise worked for over a decade at National Archives of Australia in audiovisual preservation and government information. Other work in archives and records has been in community archives and museums. As an artist, Louise has been part of Australia’s experimental and media arts scene since 1992

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International Seminar of Documents, Records and Archives October 2023

In October 2023, I gave a presentation to this event organised by the Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia, the National Archives of Indonesia.

Here are my slides

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ArtsACT Kambah Turns 50 - application for Arts Activities funding - Feb 2024, Louise Curham support material

Images: maximum ten images (note, several were uploaded with the application)

Video files: maximum three files, and not more than six minutes in total (none included in the application)

Here's a link to my CV.

Some projects from the past two years ...

curating the Antics Hair Microcinema in Canberra with screenings featuring interstate and international work

Canberra Art Biennial 2022 - short film performances

Kambah at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Jan Feb 2023

Compost Film with B Turner and UK Fredericks at Belconnen Arts Centre in the University of Canberra group show

Images:

In the exhibition Kambah, I used pinhole photography and cyanotypes as a way to investigate the visual experience of Kambah. I photographed everyday scenes. The intention in using old media was to represent things we in Kambah see every day using a process that makes them look different, to encourage residents to think more about these places and what they mean to them.

The following two images were exhibited in 'Kambah' Jan/Feb 2023 at Tuggeranong Arts Centre. Both are produced using Harman direct positive paper in a homemade pinhole camera, built during the Covid pandemic lockdowns.

This image is one of the cyanotypes:

The Kambah exhibition, an installation shot, left to right: Paul Collis poem (commissioned for the exhibition), pinhole camera on plinth, 7 enlargements of pinhole images of Kambah, sitting circle for conversations with visitors and community members, Bennet family 16mm home movie provided by the NFSA, pinhole originals (5x4 inch, clusters of 6-9 images), cyanotypes of plants of Kambah (5 x4 inch, cluster of 9 images).

Media related to the exhibition:

Brian Rope in the Canberra Times 10 Feb 2023

Living Arts Canberra blog, 28 Jan 2023, audio interview

ArtSound FM interview, ABC Canberra Sunday morning interview, Feb 2023.

Reflective article related to the exhibition, ABC Canberra Sunday morning 17 Dec 2023 related to this article.

The purpose of this exhibition was to work towards the 50th anniversary of the suburb Kambah in 2024. It was also to develop entries for the Kambah Peoples Map, in development by me since 2020. The map uses a locative media tool developed by artists in Belgium and Spain. it allows a curated map primarily for use on a mobile phone while in a set location, here's a link to the work-in-progress map.

Here's a screenshot:

Other key work of mine

Since the early 2000s, a strand of my practice focuses on re-enacting 1970s media art in the artist/archivist collaboration with Lucas Ihlein under our nom de plume, Teaching and Learning Cinema (T:LC). In this image Lucas is setting up for Horror Film 1, a work by British artist Malcolm Le Grice from 1971. TLC carries out this re-enactment process as a way to learn about the work which we then document in instruction manuals, or 'user's manuals' as we call them.

Using old media to produce works on paper:

Here's a still from the project from 2008 Waiting to Turn into Puzzles. This image formed part of a musical score prepared in collaboration with composer David Young.

Here's an image from my 2015 solo exhibition at PhotoAccess in Canberra, A Film of One's Own [Archive Fever].

This is an AO sized work (larger than a metre) made from scanning an entire short 16mm handmade film:

My film work using old media, 16mm and super 8, is known and used by Australia's experimental music community. The films must be performed live, so they have some presence in the experimental film community, but that is limited due to that requirement for liveness.

Here's an example:

And one more:

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Excellent DIY film publication by Esther Urlus who does beautiful things making emulsions

https://www.filmlabs.org/docs/toboldlygo.pdf

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Autumn Fog 4.9 and 5.0

Autumn Fog 5.0 was used by Lucas in July 2019. He made paper annotations.

I resolved the A3 version of 4.5 used by Robert Agostino, Peter Humble and Richard Tuohy were more useful because

the fold allows them to fit inside a 16mm film can, useful for distribution

the A3 layout allows the user to see the whole set of insructions at once.

However, performance in Sep 2022 in the Canberra Art Biennial with Horror Film 1 showed me that the 5.0 layout with one opening per shot was easier to use because of the larger size and font.

Going back over the files in Nov 2023, I find:

updates were made using Lucas' notes to 4.9, an A3 version.

updates were made in InDesign for a version 5.0 update.

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The two roles of records and archives – accountability and heritage, a seminar at Vokasi Universitas Indonesia, 6 Sep 2023

I was a guest of the records management program at Vokasi UI, hosted by Mrs Wiwiet Mardiati.

Title: The two roles of records and archives – accountability and heritage

Abstract:

Archives and records play two roles in society. One role is to support business, government and organisations to be efficient and show how decisions are made and what work is done. The other role is to support societies’ memory by keeping some information long term as archives.

There have been different approaches over time by archivists and records managers to sharing these tasks. Sometimes lines have been drawn and archivists have looked after old records and records managers have looked after current ones. Since computers were introduced in Australia, archival thinking has been applied to managing current records. This has been to make sure archivists can be advocates for looking after the records that must be kept long term as archives. The thinking here was that in the fragile environment of computers, early intervention by archivists working with or as records managers was crucial. Otherwise, archives could easily be lost. 

Records get kept in Australia for both business reasons and for memory reasons. What drives organisations to keep them? Legislation is one factor – our archival authorities have laws that require government records to be kept, including archives. There are also laws that affect business records in different industries and sectors. But this focus on compliance delivers mixed results. The records community in Australia is putting more emphasis on supporting bigger organisational goals, finding compliance has limited effect. Louise will share observations about why records are kept drawing on professional practice she has observed during her teaching, focusing on the drivers beyond compliance and business efficiency. It is a challenge to teach these twin roles of records in accountability and cultural heritage to students. Louise will share some of the approaches she takes and the content she covers. Finally, Louise will foreshadow some opportunities for dialogue between teachers of archives and records in Australia and Indonesia. 

Bio:

Dr Louise Curham is a lecturer in the Libraries, Archives, Records and Information Science discipline in the Curtin University iSchool. Louise leads teaching in the archives and records area. Louise joined the tertiary sector in 2020 after two decades working in government information, community records and audiovisual collections. She has held policy and project-based roles at the National Archives of Australia (2002-2007; 2009-2019) and the Australian National Maritime Museum (2008-9). Louise's research focuses on objects that elude meaningful digitisation. Louise is an accredited professional member of the Australian Society of Archivists and a past council member. She is actively involved in Australia’s records management community and the international digital preservation and audiovisual archives communities. 

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TunaBlue live scribe graphic artist in Fremantle

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Arts ACT 2 minute video

Here's what the Kambah sheep look like:

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Arts ACT support material July 2023

Installation view of the exhibition Kambah at Tuggeranong Arts Centre 2023. Works left to right: pinhole camera, pinhole enlargements, video projection of 1970 home movie of Kambah Station, pinhole images, cyanotypes, pinhole images (obscured).

Frame enlargements of pinholes of local scenes in Kambah.

There were many public programs in the exhibition, here's the media release. Here are some of the events on Facebook:

The exhibition brought together stories and experiences of Kambah people into a digital map. Users navigate to the map on their digital phone and walk around exploring Kambah by the map entries (not an app, just a web browser, light and user friendly). This was supported by a 2020 ArtsACT Homefront grant. Here's a link to the map (still a work in progress).

The new project 50 Sheep for 50 Years will be part of the exhibition 'Kambah Turns 50' at Tuggeranong Arts Centre in Aug 2024. Here's the info about that exhibition:

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Theatre in Indonesia

'I am because you are: you are because I am': an interview with Rendra. [by Vergburgt, Ron.]

Australasian Drama Studies, Issue 25Oct 1994

1992 workshops with Entre'Act in Jakarta https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/143271

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Compost film

1-2 arms length tests June 2023 temp range

Ursula

small bench FOGO bin with juicing residues had no action within 3 weeks.

in wet rotating compost - in one week, lots of activity, took it out and washed it. Bin in partial shade, afternoon sun.

Labelled strips.

Bethaney

1-2 arms length tests

small bin, coffee grounds, quite brown, onion, banana peel etc. No impact on life in bin, worms, salted fly lavae etc.

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Wordpress changes - filmography + talks

Dance films: Knee Deep in Thin Air 1992; Fugue in Pursuit of Flight 1994; Slipped 1997; Doona Grrl, Transparent 2000

Other films: The Princess & The Pea 2000; Tenho Saudades (with Peter Humble) 2004; Conimbla 2009

Vimeo feed - lots of experimental works there.

Left: Louise presents a paper co-authored with Lucas Ihlein at the Australian Society of Archivists conference 2015 , paper titled 'Tending the archive'.

Centre: Artist Laura Hindmarsh and Teaching and Learning Cinema's Lucas Ihlein prepare to shoot Laura's version of Man With Mirror, (Guy Sherwin, 1976) using TLC's (Wo)Man With Mirror User's Manual, while anthropologist Diana Glazebrook takes field notes. Body to body transmission formed the centre of 'Tending the archive', a talk by Louise at the Australian digital humanities conference in Hobart in June 2016.

Right: Participants in a film workshop at PhotoAccess in Canberra, April 2016. Ways to explore teaching screen practices through process formed the centre of the 'The filmmaker is present ...', a talk at the Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association confernce in Canberra in July 2016.

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Wordpress site changes - solo exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

A Film of One's Own [Archive Fever], PhotoAccess, 2015, Canberra; A Film of One’s Own [Fugue Solos], Performance Space 2005, NZ Film Archive Media Gallery Wellington 2006, Te Manawa ART Palmerston North, NZ 2006.

Old Things Are New Again, BankART 1929, Yokohama, Japan, 2007

Floodgate (2006) College Gallery, QUT in the OtherFilm Festival, 2006

Moving Still Life Blackwood Gallery Melbourne 1999, UNSW Hutchison Gallery 2002, Kudos Gallery Sydney 2004

Herbaceous, NZ Film Archive Auckland, 2003

Selected Group Exhibitions

Slowing Down Time, Belconnen Arts Centre 2015, Articulate Project Space, Sydney Mar 2014 & FCA Gallery, Wollongong Aug, 2014

Still Life | Moving Fragments, Belconnen Arts Centre; Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney 2012

Teaching and Learning Cinema, (Wo)Man With Mirror re-enactment of artwork from 1976 by Guy Sherwin 2009 ongoing

Teaching and Learning Cinema, Long Film for Ambient Light re-enactment of artwork from 1975 by Anthony McCall during a residency at Performance Space, Sydney 2007

Propositions and Game Plans, Melbourne International Arts Festival, 2007

Kudos Gallery 10th birthday exhibition, Sydney, 2007; Young Blood, Kudos Gallery 2004

Masters of COFA, Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney, 2004

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Wordpress site changes - live

Selected Performances

The Film Remains the Same, You are here 2014;

Spartak at CCAS Nov 2014

Unconsious Archives at Café Oto, London with Alison Blunt, June 2013;

Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre with Alister Spence Trio, April 2013;

Jazz at the Loft, Canberra with Alister Spence, Raymond McDonald & Shoeb Ahmad, Jan 2013;

SoundOut Festival, Canberra 2013, 2014

Melbourne International Arts Festival, Soak, with the Australian Art Orchestra, 2010

Jazz Visions Festival, Sound Lounge, Sydney, 2010

Smack Bang Festival, Red Rattler, Sydney, Jan 2010

NZ International Film Festival- Frames Per Second A Film of One's Own, Auckland, 2009

Waiting to Turn into Puzzles at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2008

Val Camonica Pieces, Victorian Arts Centre, 2007

OtherFilm annual festival, Brisbane 2006-8;

NowNow annual exploratory music festival, Sydney, 2006-9