Vorträge und Diskussionen im Rahmen der Ausstellung
/ Accompanying Programme

Nine Points of the Law
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Nine Points of the Law
Image Power Property Conditions

im Ausstellungsraum der
NGBK, Oranienstr. 25, 10999 Berlin
http://www.ngbk.de/

The exhibition Nine Points of the Law examines the relationships between
the creation, possession, and marketing of photographic and filmic images
as well as the power exercised in the well-targeted use of images before
the backdrop of cultural and economic developments. The exhibition
presents the work of both artists and activists in which visual worlds
both in and out of the art context are examined and the organizations
responsible for the distribution of images are brought into focus.
The title of the show refers to the English saying "Possession is nine
points of the law," referring to the often precarious causality between
(image) possession and control. The exhibition focuses on media images,
their use and control. Who owns the images? Who has control over them? Who
can use them, and how? Who has access to them? Who can alter them?
Quintilian's claim that "he who has power over images has power over
people" still remains true today. Using the controlled distribution of
images, economic strategists like Bill Gates as well as international
politicians and their media advisors install and maintain political and
economic power. In a world in which there is a seemingly almost unlimited
access to images, where visual worlds that have become similar due to
processes of globalization are omnipresent and invade structures of
everyday life, a world where cultural and ideological power is defined by
images, new methods have to be devised and learned in order to cope with
these developments and new realities.

Participating artists: 0100101110101101.org, Mircea Cantor, Minerva
Cuevas, Marine Hugonnier, Elke Marhöfer & Barbara Frieß, Klub Zwei, Bülent
Sangar, Christoph Weber, Zevs

Following lectures and discussion will be held in the exhibtion:

Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 7 pm.
autonome.afrika.gruppe, lecture and discussion

Thursday, September 2, 2004 at 7 pm.
Konrad Becker, Public Netbase, "Kultur und Kontrolle: Semiotische Politik
in der Infosphäre," lecture and discussion

Thursday, September 9, 2004 at 7 pm.
Detlef Hoffmann, "Von der Lust und Last der Bilderflut", lecture and
discussion led by Mirjam Wenzel

Sunday, October 3, 2004 at 4 pm.
"Bilderpolitik als Krieg mit anderen Mitteln," Linda Hentschel in
conversation with Anja Osswald.

The lectures will be held in German.