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Research Interest
For a considerable number of established artists, curators, media theoreticians, academics in literature and others, narrative or the story(line) is trivial. It is a myth and an illusion – to be avoided or to be deconstructed by theoretical or aesthetic means. At the same time the so-called free market offers advice in the form of (predominantly American) how-to-books and film schools, which (seek to) reaffirm the current formats. These sources – so it is claimed – teach what it takes to write a successful script/screenplay for instance.
Our thesis is that detailed and practical knowledge of narrative and the formats in which they occur – the ability to write a TV cop show, a musical or a tabloid story – have to be paired with critical awareness, media- and format-theoretical analysis (as well as epistemological flair), in order to investigate the narrative’s potentialities/potentials under the new techno-cultural conditions (media-convergence/the convergence of media).
Narrative as a meaning-giving instance is a social and medial reality and it is not productive to trivialize it in the wrong places.
The FADE TO BLACK Project
is an experimental archives and video project that offers new methods of work and production using digital technology and the potential of Web 2.0.
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The formatLabor
developes new formats for the digital age.
The formatLabor
explores communications and the use of media and investigates their epistemological, cognitive and aisthetic meaning.
The formatLabor
develops experimental social and media formats and working methods. We are particularly interested in the relationship between author and method, knowledge and society and the consequences of the universal media convergence.
The formatLabor
experiments with different formats like video and audio installations, open screenings, radio sessions, live TV, theory disco, scenical readings, mini radio, narrative Vj-ing, temporary architecture and sound arrangement, with New Music as palm court music or with theory theatre. In our events we also present or perform format experiments, which in the traditional sense do not belong to any kind of theatre (i.e. book-, journal-, radio and collective writing projects) or which are held in other places (i.e. performances in public spaces, passer-by interviews a.o.).
The formatLabor
organizes different events, lectures, colloquia and seminars, exhibtions, live shows and performances and Salons.
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