For the past 17 years, painter and graphic artist Jorgo Schaefer from Wuppertal, Germany has been an artist-in-residence at the New York Vision Festival, one of the world’s premier festival’s of avant-garde jazz, dance, poetry, film and visual art.
Steve Dalachinsky Can you explain a bit about your process and becoming an artist?
Jorgo Schaefer: My career as a professional artist started in 1970 at the Werkkunstschule (Wks, School of Applied Arts) in Wuppertal. At this time, the Wks was a highly regarded institution with a long tradition. It was not an art academy but arts were a key element. Artistic skills were taught as well as philosophy. Our freshman class consisted of 15 students and we were hanging out together day and night, influenced and inspired by the political and artistic movements of about 4 good years. Plus: Amsterdam was just around the corner...
Sd: When did you get interested in jazz and improvisation?...
Steve Dalachinsky Can you explain a bit about your process and becoming an artist?
Jorgo Schaefer: My career as a professional artist started in 1970 at the Werkkunstschule (Wks, School of Applied Arts) in Wuppertal. At this time, the Wks was a highly regarded institution with a long tradition. It was not an art academy but arts were a key element. Artistic skills were taught as well as philosophy. Our freshman class consisted of 15 students and we were hanging out together day and night, influenced and inspired by the political and artistic movements of about 4 good years. Plus: Amsterdam was just around the corner...
Sd: When did you get interested in jazz and improvisation?...
- 5/3/2017
- by steve dalachinsky
- www.culturecatch.com
London's Kinoteka Polish film festival will show the controversial director Roman Polanski's short films and early works
The Kinoteka Polish film festival has chosen its eighth annual incarnation in the UK for a retrospective dedicated to the country's most famous, and controversial, film-maker, Roman Polanski.
Timed to coincide with the release of his latest film, The Ghost Writer, Kinoteka will show a season of Polanski's short films, as well as early works in which he collaborated with the composer and jazz pianist Krzysztof Komeda.
As Polanski is still under house arrest in Switzerland, the festival is facing the controversy head-on: it will lead the Polanski segment with a screening of Marina Zenovich's 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which "challenges many of the myths which have built up" around the director's case. The films run in conjunction with an exhibition of rare Polanski film posters from across the globe.
The Kinoteka Polish film festival has chosen its eighth annual incarnation in the UK for a retrospective dedicated to the country's most famous, and controversial, film-maker, Roman Polanski.
Timed to coincide with the release of his latest film, The Ghost Writer, Kinoteka will show a season of Polanski's short films, as well as early works in which he collaborated with the composer and jazz pianist Krzysztof Komeda.
As Polanski is still under house arrest in Switzerland, the festival is facing the controversy head-on: it will lead the Polanski segment with a screening of Marina Zenovich's 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which "challenges many of the myths which have built up" around the director's case. The films run in conjunction with an exhibition of rare Polanski film posters from across the globe.
- 2/12/2010
- by Chris Michael
- The Guardian - Film News
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