[Nettime-nl] Lezing Tjebbe van Tijen in Club 11 Amsterdam: woensdag 18/10 Scrolls als Vertellende Beeldtaal

[Tjebbe van Tijen via Chello <t.tijen@chello.nl>]

Ik nodig je graag uit voor mijn visuele/audiotieve lezing
STROLL & SCROLL AS CONTINUOUS VISUAL NARRATIVE
a MediaMatic lecture by Tjebbe van Tijen

de lezing is in het Engels / toegang is gratis

Woensdag 18 oktober 2006; 20:30 uur
Club 11/CS Gebouw, Oosterdokskade 5 Amsterdam

(aan de oostzijde van het Centraal Station in hetzelfde gebouw waar het 
Stedelijk Museum tijdelijk gevestigd is; ingang via het resaturant op 
de 11e verdieping; de lift zit aan de rechter zijkant van het gebouw, 
zie website voor kaartje en plaatje)

http://imaginarymuseum.org/MMSlecture/index.html

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Landscape and sky, drifting clouds, flights of birds, flowing rivers, 
waving trees, the spectacle of sunset and sunrise, the span of 
twinkling stars, human and animal silhouettes over the horizon, all 
these might have been inspiration sources for the picture scroll. Raked 
sand, undulating cave walls, animal hides, tree bark, long leaves, 
battered fibers, woven threads, slabs of clay, wood and stone; all 
became carriers of information. Banners, buildings, impressions, 
paintings, scratchings, carvings, tapestry, frescos and friezes made 
the eye wonder and the spectator wander. Over time these information 
surfaces concatenated into vast picture trajectories on the walls of 
temple complexes, palaces and public buildings.

'Pompe', parades, processions and dances with iconographic objects 
carried around: banners, flags, statues and shrines lifted on 
shoulders. This physical and spatial 'promenade' became the subject of 
all sorts of linear visual representations, from simple circular scenes 
on pottery to combined picture and text stories on fibre materials and 
sculpted and painted sagas fixed in friezes and frescos.

Strolling & Scrolling are two ways of animating a continuous series of 
signs and pictures into a story. It is either the spectator that moves 
along the images or the other way around: a pilgrim walking and 
"reading" for days along the friezes of temples; be it Angkor Watt in 
Cambodia, or the Borobuddor in Java. The faithful reading bible stories 
from the frescos on the walls and ceilings of European churches. An 
Asiatic scholar unrolling a scroll with one hand and rolling it with 
the other, thus bringing into view a shifting poetic landscape of 
pictures and signs. The narrator of the Indonesian Wayang Beber, who 
shows, sings and tells a painting on a roll to his audience.

 A congregation of citizens of the French town of Bayeux witnessing in 
their church the yearly unrolling of seventy meters of embroidered 
tapestry depicting a historical battle.

 Visual narrative media stem from stories, and, are also memory devices 
that keep these stories alive. Some of them need a mediator: a shaman, 
priest, dalang, bhopo, benshi, Bänkelsänger, cantastorie, or other 
story singers and tellers, narrators and explicators. The original 
meaning of certain visual narratives may have been lost, though there 
are attempts to reconstruct something of their original message. Apart 
from that, there is always the personal and independent eye and mind of 
the beholder. Most tourists who visit temples, churches and other 
sacral sites, will use their own intuition, make up their own stories 
while taking in a 'visual narrative'.

Reversing our historical perspective on visual and narrative media, 
looking back from the present day digital immersive environment, the 
CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment), to the natural underground 
void of our forebears, one can discover conceptual analogies: the 
potter wheel and cinematic animation; paper scrolls and the panning 
movement in movies; harmonica like book pages and mechanical 
reproduction of sound; the reflection in water and optical devices of 
magic mirror, anamorphosis and camera obscura...

This visual lecture will attempt to give a concise overview of all 
these associations, linkages and some of the entertaining side stories 
that go with them.

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De lezing is ter gelegenheoid van de tentoonstelling "SCROLL: 40 years 
of visual narrative - an overview of Image scrolls by Tjebbe van Tijen" 
in de Gallerie van MediaMatic, begane grond  CS gebouw van 15 september 
tot en met 22 oktober 2006.
Openingstijden: donderdag tot en met zondag van 13- tot 17:30 uur.

Na afloop van de lezing kan de tentoonstelling bezocht worden.

Verdere informatie via:
http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-12226-en.html
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met vriendelijke groet

Tjebbe van Tijen

Imaginary Museum Projects
dramatizing historical information
http://imaginarymuseum.org

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