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Reading Capital with David Harvey
Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Geographer and social theorist David Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 1 for over 40 years. His lectures are now available online and provide a lively and accessible means of approaching one of the most essential and relevant political, economic and theoretical texts of modern times.

In collaboration with Stills, The History of Art department at The University of Edinburgh will host a series of open discussion sessions based around these video lectures. Participants will read the relevant section of the book in advance before watching Harvey’s lecture together and discussing the material. http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

If you would like to participate please email programme@stills.org

Venue: History of Art Common Room, Minto House, The University of Edinburgh, 20 Chambers Street, EH1 1JZ

Join us every second Tuesday for 12 weeks starting on 24 January 2012:
24 January 2012 ;7 February 2012; 21 February 2012; 6 March 2012; 20 March 2012; 3 April 2012; 17 April 2012; 1 May 2012; 15 May 2012; 29 May 2012; 12 June 2012; 26 June 2012

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The Globalisation and Art Lectures; Gail Day and Steve Edwards
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
6pm

For this lecture series art historians, photographers, artists and visual culture specialists have been invited to examine the intersections between art and the social realities produced by globalisation. All of the lectures are FREE.

To book a place on any of these free lectures please email programme@stills.org

Gail Day: Social Transitivity in Allan Sekula's The Lottery of the Sea
Focusing on Allan Sekula's video essay The Lottery of the Sea (2006), Gail Day considers the longstanding, but recently revived, problem of realism. Her talk explores the representational strategies used to negotiate a critical cognition of contemporary capitalism.

Steve Edwards: Some Brechtian Moments
Taking the re-evaluation of Bertolt Brecht's legacy as a starting point, Steve Edwards will use the radical aesthetics of the 1970s as a frame for thinking about Allan Sekula’s photo-text works.

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The Forgotten Space at Glasgow Film Theatre
Friday, 17 February 2012
11am

The sea is forgotten until disaster strikes, but perhaps the biggest seagoing disaster is the global supply chain which leads the world economy into the abyss. Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s award-winning film essay offers a lucid and lyrical document of worker's conditions, the inhuman scale of containerised sea trade and the secret lives of port cities.

Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, FREE

Presented as part of The Glasgow School of Art’s Friday Event lecture programme and screened in collaboration with Glasgow Film Festival. FREE

Still from The Forgotten Space
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Artist Talk and Screening; Hakan Akçura, Phuket: Two sides of the Islands
Saturday, 18 February 2012
4PM-6PM

The Agent Ria:registerdinart, Middle Eastern Film Festival event at Stills

Phuket: Two Sides of the Island, (2011), a video work by artist Hakan Akçura, will be showing on The Agent Ria:registeredinart channel as part of Edinburgh’s 2012 Middle Eastern Film Festival. This event invites the audience to a collective screening with the artist, where he will introduce this work and discuss his practice.

Phuket: Two Sides of the Islands. Sea Gypsies were the first people to settle in Phuket over 1000 years ago and still survive today selling fish, seashells and craft items to locals and tourists. Akçura’s documentary shows aspects of this community’s contemporary life and the precarious nature of sharing the waters of Thailand’s tourist paradise. 

Artist Hakan Akçura, originally from Turkey, now living and working in Sweden, has exhibited widely across Europe and the Middle East. Recent exhibitions & screenings include: Ars Retorica, Universite Paris 8, Paris;Where Fire Has Struck, DEPO, Istanbul; Videfesta’ 10, Goethe Institute, Ankara; Temps D’Images Festival 2010, Lisbon; and HEP, Sazmanab Project, Tehran.

The Edinburgh 2012 Middle Eastern Film Festival is on at The Filmhouse, 06 - 20 February. Further information is available through the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace. http://www.eicsp.org/

Hakan Akçura - http://open-flux.blogspot.com/

To book a place email programme@stills.org

the agent ria logo Image: Phuket: Two Sides of the Islands, Hakan Akçura, 2011 Video still

Phuket: Two Sides of the Islands, Hakan Akçura, 2011 Video sti
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The Globalisation and Art Lectures; Anu Pennanen
Thursday, 23 February 2012
6pm

For this lecture series art historians, photographers, artists and visual culture specialists have been invited to examine the intersections between art and the social realities produced by globalisation. All of the lectures are FREE.

To book a place on any of these free lectures please email programme@stills.org

Anu Pennanen, Gaze Value
Finish artist Anu Pennanen's work in film and photography deals with urban public space. Presented as a five-screen installation, her film The Ruins of the Gaze is set in Europe's largest transportation and shopping hub: Les Halles in Paris.

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The Globalisation and Art Lectures; Owen Logan
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
6pm

For this lecture series art historians, photographers, artists and visual culture specialists have been invited to examine the intersections between art and the social realities produced by globalisation. All of the lectures are FREE.

To book a place on any of these free lectures please email programme@stills.org

Owen Logan: Globalising the Spirtual Aristocracy: Refelections on Class, Art, and Gods
Owen Logan is producing a new photographic work examining the representation of resource related conflicts in the mass media for the final instalment of Stills' Social Documents series. The exhibition ECONOMY will open in January 2013.

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The Forgotten Space at Edinburgh Filmhouse
Monday, 5 March 2012
6pm

The sea is forgotten until disaster strikes, but perhaps the biggest seagoing disaster is the global supply chain which leads the world economy into the abyss. Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s award-winning film essay offers a lucid and lyrical document of worker's conditions, the inhuman scale of containerised sea trade and the secret lives of port cities.

The Filmhouse, Edinburgh, £7.50/£5.50 (Concession)

Still from The Forgotten Space
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The Globalisation and Art Lectures; Antigoni Memou
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
6pm

For this lecture series art historians, photographers, artists and visual culture specialists have been invited to examine the intersections between art and the social realities produced by globalisation. All of the lectures are FREE.

To book a place on any of these free lectures please email programme@stills.org

Antigoni Memou: Contesting Globalisation: Allan Sekula’s Waiting for Tear Gas
Antigoni Memou will discuss Allan Sekula’s project Waiting for Tear Gas (2000), a series of photographs that has been exhibited widely as well as appearing in the collective publication Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond. Taken during the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999, the images document the resistance to the limits of globalisation. Memou will place the series in opposition to other practices, including documentary photography, street photography and photojournalism, and in particular in relation with other contemporary photographic projects that engaged with the counterforce of neoliberal globalisation.

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