BREST - a performance-conference at Chez Bushwick, July 2009

BREST is a performance-lecture about the city of Brest, exemplary for any city that has experienced destruction and reconstruction.

In Brest, memories had been suppressed and set in concrete by modernitys architects. Now they are materializing in shape of water and cone, they penetrate the citys inhabitants and slowly bring about the stony citys dissolution. Old worlds mnemic images in form of postcards collide with modernitys utopian images, causing the collapse of matter and the junction of myth and reality.

The scientific lecture is undermined by poetry, fiction and the discrepancy between image and image legend. Archive material, personal observations, myth and Bergsons memory-cone are interwoven by narration to become a poetical analysis of the politics of images and the transformations of urban space. The performance also broaches the issue of official culture of remembrance and its inscription in public space as well as personal memory and perception of history.

This performance-lecture took place at Chez Bushwick in Brooklyn, July 25th 2009.
It was filmed by Claire Lesteven

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Brest
• Bettina
• Hutschek
• performance
• lecture
• conference
• art
• architecture
• memory
• postcards
• water