Claire Fontaine at The Audain Gallery

 Human Strike Within Moving Images: Lecture and Screening  with Claire Fontaine - Saturday, November 24, 7 pm

 Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, Simon Fraser University, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts As the Audain Artist in Residence for the fall of 2012, the Paris-based "collective artist" Claire Fontaine (aided by her "assistants" Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill) worked with students from the MFA Program at the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU and the MFA in Visual Art Program at the University of British Columbia, screening a selection of films and leading a series of seminars exploring the notion of the "human strike." Claire Fontaine's engagement with the students culminates in a final presentation and dialogue, featuring a talk and a screening of excerpts from the films she selected.

Please join us for this free public event.

If you would like to watch the films in advance, Claire Fontaine's selection included:
Marco Bellocchio - Devil in the Flesh (1986)
Tamar Yarom - To See if I'm Smiling (2007)
Lech Kowalski - East of Paradise (2005)
Silvano Agosti - One Can Live of Love (D'amore si vive) (1984)
Jean-Luc Godard - La Chinoise (1967)
Sam Green and Bill Siegel - The Weather Underground (2002)
Ralph Arlyck - Sean (1970)
Other suggested films:
Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch - Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Claude Lanzmann - Sobibor (2001)

The notion of the human strike emerged out of the context of Italian feminism in the 1970s. It is an all-encompassing form of action challenging the fundamental contours of everyday life, moving through the politics of labour to the level of human social reproduction. An explication of the human strike can be found in these texts, available online, by Claire Fontaine:
Human Strike Within the Field of Libidinal Economy and Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike: A Few Clarifications.
Please also visit the exhibition Carelessness Causes Fire at the Audain Gallery, the first solo exhibition in Canada by Claire Fontaine, running until December 22, 2012. Carelessness Causes Fire is realized with the support of the Consulat général de France in Vancouver.