Levanger Kino Project

19 September 2014, 19. 30 pm / 9-11 Mai 2014, Festiviteten Kulturhus & Kino, Kirkegt. 18, Levanger

Levanger Kino Group / Nomeda Urbonas

The Levanger-Kino project investigates forms of performative pedagogy that through a series of film making workshops and other events suggests a temporal transformation of the historical Levanger Cinema theater into an public art production center and an arena for participation. The project aims to revisit and re-animate the process of “obsolete” film-making, employing archival approaches as pertinent to research based and critical artistic practice. During the spring 2014 Levanger-Kino Group invited citizens of Levanger to participate in the production of a collective portrait of their town through reenactment of the first films ever shown in Levanger: “Prins Fridolins naese og film” ( The Nose and Film of Prince Fridolin) , “En hones Liv” ( The Life of a Hen) , “Kvindelige Chaufforer” ( Female Drivers) , “George Washington” ( Geaorge Washington) and  “Madras (bilder fra Ostindien)” ( Madras, pictures from East India) .
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The Cinema in Levanger is the oldest cinema still in operation in Norway. Now its future in the town center is uncertain. The questions at stake are: will the cinema be moved to the mall area, “Magneten”? Is it really
necessary to have a cinema in Levanger when the one in the neighboring municipality is “better”? What does the film and cinema culture still existing in the historic building mean to us? Should it be preserved forgotten or reinvented?

* Levanger-Kino Group is an experimental art initiative started at Art and Common Space, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art: Eva Ballo, Joana Bruno, Carlos Alberto Correia, Alienor Fabry, Saman Haghighivand, Elizabeth Krogh, Inger
M. H. Laustsen, Claudia Marzocchi, Anne Lisa Moen, Veronica Riget Alsing,Carina Roesicke, Anita Wagner and Nomeda Urbonas**, also with the participation of Anne-Karin Furunes, Simon Harvey and Andreas Schille. More at:
www.nugu.lt/RnD

** Nomeda Urboas is an artists and co-founder of Urbonas Studio – the interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public space and culture in the face of overwhelming privatization, stimulating cultural and political imagination as tools for social change. Often beginning with archival research, their methodology unfolds complex participatory works investigating the urban environment, architectural developments, and cultural and technological heritage. Their interdisciplinary practice explores the conflicts and contradictions posed by the economic, social, and political conditions of countries in transition.

 

 

9-11 Mai 2014

Levanger Kino Group

Festiviteten Kulturhus & Kino, Kirkegt. 18, Levanger