Friday 7 June | 14:00-17:00

Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD

Performing Theory is a series of Master Classes aims to present a wide variety of approaches to the artistic production of ideas in audio-visual form. We are inviting performance artists and moving image makers whose work (written, performed, filmed) manifests theoretical innovation. The latter part of the 20th century produced body of Anglo-American writing and work that are recognised today as canonical as with Hollis Frampton, Maya Deren, Peter Gidal for example. With this series we want to produce a sample of this kind of interplay between ideas and creating that are underway today. In so doing, we hope to open the field of play between theory and works to create new conversations.

Please join us for an artist Master Class with Constanze Ruhm to hear her speak on her recent investigations into the role of “rehearsal” when understood as a methodology, a modus operandi, a medium, a site of representation and reflection for artistic production processes, as well as an instrument for critique of institutional power relations.

About Constanze Ruhm

Born in Vienna and lives between Vienna, Berlin and Paris. Artist, film maker, author, curator. She graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts (Vienna/Autria) and Städelschule / Institute of New Media (Frankfurt/Germany). Since 1996, she has been teaching internationally as professor for Film and Video (Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach; Merz Akademie Stuttgart; Art Institute Boston/Lesley University); since 2006 she is tenured professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has been exhibiting internationally as well as curating numerous exhibitions, most recently PUTTING REHEARSAL TO THE TEST in collaboration with Sabeth Buchmann and Ilse Lafer (VOX Centre de l’image contemporain / Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery / SBC Gallery Montréal 2016 ). She curated numerous film programs and screens her works in international film festivals on a regular basis. She organised as well as participated in symposia, gave workshops, presentations and lectured in Europe, the USA and the Middle East.

Her installations, films and publications investigate the relation of various time based formats between cinema and new media, their history and theory often with an emphasis on the subjects of casting, rehearsal and scripts, as well as a focus on issues of representation, performativity and the archive from a feminist perspective.

Terms and conditions

By registering below you are requesting a place on this training programme or selected sessions that form part of the programme. A member of the CHASE team or the workshop leader will contact you in due course to confirm that a place has been allocated to you. If you no longer require a place, please email enquiries@chase.ac.uk as soon as possible so your name can be removed from the registration list.

If you are allocated a place but can no longer attend, please cancel your eventbrite registration (information on how to do this can be found here) or email enquiries@chase.ac.uk so that your place can be reallocated. CHASE training is free to attend and events are often oversubscribed with a waiting list. Failure to notify us of non-attendance in good time (ideally 5 days prior to the workshop/programme) means your place cannot be reallocated and may result in your access to future CHASE training being restricted.

The training is open to:

CHASE funded and associate students,
Arts and Humanities PhD students at CHASE member institutions,
and students and members of staff at CHASE partner institutions
Arts and Hum PhD students (via the AHRC mailing list)

Registrations are closed

Performing Theory (Master Class with Constanze Ruhm)