RAM Gallery
20th anniversary-exhibition

November 19th 2009 - February 14th 2010

active/inactive until February 14th 2010

(the impurest of all constructive acts):

An Architectural Ruin – the ultimate white cube.

15 student films challenge architecture’s traditional

limitations and dwell in expanded comprehensions

of time/space/place relationships.

Vernissage Thusday February 4th at 7pm

ARCHITECTURE AND FILM           

Fall 2009           

MORPHOLOGY

OF

BODY AND

SPACE

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Course-synopsis:

Architecture and Film:

The Development of Creative, Theoretical, Infrastructural and Operational Competence within the Field/Subject of “Architecture and Film; Morphology of Body and Space” as part of the Institutes Teaching and Research by Design-program.

“Architecture and Film” wants to investigate / produce competence within the subject.

The Production and Representation of Architectural Space in Film

The course starts with a brief historical, theoretical and philosophical discussion on film in general, and on kinetic representation of architectural space in particular.

You will be introduced to the field of investigation through lectures, literature and a series of films and video-art. Exercises in video-sketching* and video-editing will train your skills in the use of film/video-making tools and seek to strengthen your awareness for film as a media with the potential to influence, further understand and further develop architectural space.

The final exercise (a workshop in the elective course week) will search to produce kinetic architectural space / or spatial narratives on video.

The discussion of the studio together with its final results will be published.

                   Sketching

                            Architectural Space

                                              On Film

Biography

Rolf Gerstlauer is professor at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design and runs together with his partner a small atelier in Oslo. Studio Gerstlauer Molne’s works are on architecture, film, photography, dance/choreography and include now also noise-production. As an architect Gerstlauer has a love/hate relationship with the white cube, yet as a constructor and maker the extended exploded/imploded white cube represents the base for all of his creative works. Earlier confrontations with the white cube include works like: Momentum 2000 – nordic biennale of contemporary art Moss (with Moment Architecture), Oslo Kunsthall – Oslo Art hall 2000-2003, Contiguity 1999 – AHO, Architecture as Infrastructure – National Museum for Architecture Oslo (with StudioB3), ‘Timeroomchamber’ - Uri/Switzerland and ‘Headhunting’ - DogA/Dansens hus Oslo.