In three years of filmic research\, the ar tist and author Stefan Romer has interviewed numerous outstanding internati onal artists with his film team.
In engaging in intellectual exchange s before the camera\, Stefan Romer is able to develop a special filmic mode of reflecting on the state of international contemporary art.
The fi lm essay Conceptual Paradise: There Is a Place for Sophistication traces out the debates that allowed the intellectual art movement of Concep tual art to emerge in the 1960s and led to the most relevant questions in a rt today. The artists speak about their own artistic practices and the soci o-historical development of the various conceptual movements. In so doing\, it becomes clear that there can be no one valid definition of conceptual a rt\, since a permanent engagement also makes up its theoretical and philoso phical complexity\, including for example the question of whether there can be art without an object.
In these discussions with the most interes ting artists and art theorists alive today\, the fiction and ideal of art a s political engagement are brought to life. The history of art is a history of struggles around strategies of representation. This makes this film abo ut Conceptual art also a film about filmmaking. Stefan Romer reflects in nu merous passages of the film with the well-known German filmmaker Hartmut Bi tomsky about the documentary as a genre.
With the documentary essay C onceptual Paradise\, Stefan Romer continues his analytic engagement with fo rms and modes of narrative for artistic documentation. Beside his extensive body of photography\, his recent work includes the Super 8 film Corporate Psycho Ambient and The Analysis of Beauty\, a short film produced on the ba sis of single photographic montages (on the DVD Loop Pool \, commissioned b y Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2005). His filmic praxis extends b ack before the period of video activism in the mid-1990s\, including interv iew videos\, for example on the 1993 exhibition Unfair\, and numerous multi media punk performances in the 1980s.
Artists: Vito Acco nci\, Art & Language (Michael Baldwin\, Mel Ramsden)\, Michael Asher\, John Baldessari\, Robert Barry\, Hartmut Bitomsky\, Mel Bochner\, Gregg Bordowi tz\, Klaus vom Bruch\, Daniel Buren\, Victor Burgin\, Luis Camnitzer\, Jan Dibbets\, Mark Dion\, Sam Durant\, Valie EXPORT\, Stano Filko\, Andrea Fras er\, Liam Gillick\, Dan Graham\, RenGreen\, Shilpa Gupta\, Hans Haacke\, J Koller\, Joseph Kosuth\, Sonia Khurana\, David Lamelas\, Sol LeWitt\, Thoma s Locher\, Marcel Odenbach\, Yoko Ono\, John Miller\, Adrian Piper\, Yvonne Rainer\, Allen Ruppersberg\, Ed Ruscha\, Martha Rosler\, Allan Sekula\, Pe ter Weibel\, Lawrence Weiner\, Stephen Willats\, Heimo Zobernig.
Curators/Theorists: Alexander Alberro\, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh \, Sabeth Buchmann\, Charles Harrison (Art & Language)\, Geeta Kapoor\, Gee rt Lovink\, Seth Siegelaub\, Gregor Stemmrich.
Made possible with the financial support of Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
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