Arkipel 2016 - Ruth Noack

For this year’s edition of ARKIPEL - Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival – Ruth Noack, with the support of Goethe-Institut, assumes three roles at once. As key note lecturer she opens the Festival Forum, that adds a series of discursive events to the many festival films. As a curator she is featured with the program The Politics of Language that assembles ten short film by ten international filmmakers who show individual perspectives on the political potential of language. Centre piece of the program is Barrabackslarrabang by British video and film artist Imogen Stidworthy. The nine-minute film takes the audience on a poetic journey into two Liverpool pubs and into “Backslang”, a local underground slang. Ruth Noack is also part of the international festival jury and, alongside her colleagues from Indonesia, Japan and the USA, chooses the four best films of this year’s competition.

Before coming to Jakarta Ruth Noack is in Yogyakarta leading a discussion with young curators at Kunci Cultural Studies Center on August 14.

Ruth Noack is an artist and art historian who has been working as author, art critique, lecturer and exhibition maker since the 1990s. Her most famous role was that as the curator of documenta 12, which took place 2007 in Kassel, Germany. In 2012/2013 she was Head of the Curating Contemporary Art Program at Royal College of Art, London, in 2013/2014 Noack was Šaloun professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague and in 2014 lead the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course. Since 2015 she has been responsible for a Roaming Academy at DAI (Dutch Art Institute). Countless travels, exhibitions and lectures regularly take her around the globe.

Key Note Lecture
August 18, 2016, 10 AM, GoetheHaus
 
Film program The Politics of Language
August 25, 2016, 4 PM, Kineforum

ARKIPEL

The international experimental and documentary film festival ARKIPEL is running in it’s fourth year. It was founded 2013 by Forum Lenteng. Central idea is to show contemporary artistic and aesthetic tendencies and connect them with a critical discourse. Goethe-Institut and ARKIPEL have been collaborating since the first edition of the festival.