Moving Bodies & Motion Capture

Bild: Harun Farocki, Serious Games III: Immersion, 2009, Videostill

As part of the exhibition Holding Pattern, HMKV will host a lecture by author and reader in film studies Erika Balsom (King’s College, London). In her talk, Erika Balsom will explore Harun Farocki’s unfinished project Moving Bodies, which examines the capture and analysis of movement through technical media.

Drawing on Farocki’s collected film material, Balsom will offer insights into the fragmentary ideas behind this final, unrealized work. She will contextualize Moving Bodies within Farocki’s later projects, such as Parallel I–IV (2012–2014), in which the artist investigated how technical apparatuses record, control, and represent movement.

The lecture will be followed by a discussion with Thomas Venker (Kaput Magazin), which will also include a conversation about Harun Farocki.

Admission is free. No registration is required. The event will be held in English.

 

Erika Balsom

Erika Balsom is a Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of four books, including After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation (2017, Columbia University Press) and TEN SKIES (Fireflies Press, 2021). Her writing has appeared in venues such as Cahiers du cinéma, Cinema Scope, e-flux, Grey Room, New Left Review, and Screen. With Hila Peleg, she is the editor of Documentary Across Disciplines (MIT Press, 2016) and Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image (MIT Press, 2022). In 2022/23, she was the co-curator of “No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image” (HKW Berlin/Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw).

Thomas Venker

 

Thomas Venker is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of Kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop (Insolvency & Pop) and co-curator of the Köln ist Kaput concert series of the magazine; before starting Kaput in 2014 he was for 14 years Editor in Chief of Intro Magazine – Intro was in 2008 awarded with the Grimme Online Award for its (back then) futuristic webpage. Kaput was in 2015 awarded with the Rocco Clein award as best music magazine, followed in 2016 with the award as „best experiment“ by Verband Unabhängiger Tonträgerhersteller VUT and three Anchors for outstanding music editorials works by the Reeperbahnfestival Hamburg in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Currently Thomas is also part of the editorial team of Chart – Notes to consider magazine and writes frequently for a portfolio of magazines and daily newspapers – and moderates panels and symposia for cultural institutions. Besides his journalistic work Thomas Venker teaches music journalism and artist marketing (coming from an sociologic perspective – he studied Politicial Sciences and Sociology in Stuttgart) at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Bochum / Essen, the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and the University of Paderborn.  Thomas Venker is managing the audiovisual art performance project Phantom Kino Ballett (Sarah Szczesny & Lena Willikens). He lives and works in Cologne.

The event takes place as part of the Kleiner Freitag event series in the cinema of the Dortmunder U on level 0.