Setting A Performative Frame and Intersecting Fact and Fiction

Public lecture with Rosa Barba

As part of the fifth session of the RAW Académie, RAW Material Company invites you to a public lecture given by Rosa Barba on Friday 30th November 2018 at 5.30pm.

Rosa Barba proposes a journey from cinema to another kind of film through an objectification of a filmic ontology, into a hyper-space whose nature and limits remain to be defined. How do we create a performative setting where fact and fiction can be intertwined? The seminar interrogates the industry of cinema with respect to various forms of staging, such as gesture, genre, information and documents, taking them out of the context in which they are normally seen and reshaping and representing them anew.

About Rosa Barba

Rosa Barba (b. 1972; lives in Berlin) is an artist with a sculptural approach to film and the ways it articulates space, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship. Her works encompass films, sculptures, installations, text pieces, and publications grounded in the material and conceptual qualities of cinema. Questions of composition, physicality of form and plasticity play an important role in the perception of her work. She interrogates the industry of cinema with respect to various forms of staging, such as gesture, genre, information and documents, taking them out of the context in which they are normally seen and reshaping and representing them anew. Her film works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, and are indeterminately situated in time. They often focus on natural landscapes and man-made interventions into the environment and probe the relationship between historical record, personal anecdote, and filmic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty.