TEXTS BY STUDIO FOR PROPOSITIONAL CINEMA


Essays

Fabulist Manifesto

Ancient Knowledge Survival Kit

Cameral Manual

in relation to a Spectator:

from the Spectator (to Jeff Wall)

General Conditions for the Production and Exhibition of Images



Scripts

The Storytellers' Fountain

LIBRETTO: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light.

& faintly heard (as it sinks, slowly):
with
The Tenderness of Maggots

IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:

Cut With Some Scenes of Cinematography: A Sonata for Two Women

TO THE SPECTATOR: (Manet)

Scenes at an Inauguration (collaboration with Keren Cytter)

ON THE FIGURE IN RELATION TO REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEMS

BETWEEN THE SOUP & THE CLOUDS & IN EQUAL MEASURE:

FADE IN: A TRACKING SHOT

In Like a Lion, Out Like a Leech: A Lecture in Ten Scenes

In Like a Leech, Out Like a Lamb: A Lecture in Ten Scenes



Contracts

License Agreement for 'Cut with Some Scenes of Cinematography: A Sonata for Two Women'

Focal Vocabulary Index



Speeches

AS WATER DISSOLVES SUGAR: (for Paris Internationale)

TO THE SPECTATOR: (for Tanya Leighton, Berlin)

IN DARK AGES: (for Keren Cytter)

WITHIN THE REGIME OF OPTICS: (for Natalia Hug, Cologne)

GET DRUNK! (for Good Forever, Düsseldorf)

When the cast invades the streets tonight... (for Taylor Macklin, Rome)

Culture is an endless cigarette... (for Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr)

Communiqué from the Dark Ages (for Between Arrival & Departure, Düsseldorf)

YOUR IDEOLOGY IS OUR PLAYGROUND (for Alex Wissel and Jan Bonny)

In a culture... (for Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen)

CURTAINS UP! (for New Theater, Berlin)

CUT! (for Alex Wissel)

HARK! (for Tanya Leighton, Berlin)

A door left open... (for Quadriennale Düsseldorf)

INAUGURATION! (for Kunstverein Düsseldorf)



Posters

ALTERATIONS IN DAYLIGHT: HYPOTHETICAL GESTURES: INDISTINCT SHADOWS

A QUANTITY OF LIGHT . . . A REVERBERATING OF METALS . . . A SEQUENCING OF MOMENTS . . .

BEHOLD!




TEXTS ABOUT STUDIO FOR PROPOSITIONAL CINEMA


Essays

Laura McLean-Ferris, Camera Grammatica, Camera Austria, 2019

John Miller, What Is a Cinematic Moment?, Kestner Gesellschaft, 2017

Aaron Peck, EXCEPT PERHAPS A CONSTELLATION: The Temporal Poetics of Studio For Propositional Cinema, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, 2017


Exhibition Reviews

Moritz Scheper, Frieze Magazine, November 2017

Noah Barker, Mousse Magazine, 2017

Aaron Peck, Artforum, Vol. 55, No. 4, December 2016

Louisa Elderton, Artforum, September 2016



Articles

Pablo Larios, Report from the Rhein, Frieze, Issue 184, Jan/Feb 2017

Elodie Evers, 5 Shows On Our Radar, Spike Magazine (online), May 2015

Stephanie Bailey, (A)non-Proposition: A Conversation with Studio for Propositional Cinema, Rhizome, September 2013