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Jacqueline Goss

How to Fix Reality

26 May 2005
19:00

Location: Voormalige Rechtbank
€15

Jacqueline Goss, media artist and professor of Media and Performing at the Massachusetts College of Art, presents her own work during this critically oriented evening. Goss’s fascination with Soviet politics is clearly evident in the films being shown.

She gives this theme a completely personal interpretation by focusing on the ways in which reality is represented, and on how people create new realities through language, cartography, diagrams, or images. “Representing reality means controlling it and possibly bending it to your will.” This notion lies at the heart of Goss’s video work.

In addition to her own work, Goss will also present various pieces by kindred artists such as Neil Goldberg, Jenny Perlin, Harald Hund & Paul Horn, and Owen Land. These artists, too, cast a critical eye on social spheres and on representation in general.

Literary scholar and Mediamatic editor Arie Altena will interview Jacqueline Goss during the presentation, while house chef Patrick Faas provides a matching three-course dinner with a Russian touch.

How to Fix the World

In the central film of the evening, How to Fix the World, she humorously contrasts the orally transmitted reality of farmers in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan with the political idealism and progress-driven thinking of socialist “missionaries” involved in literacy projects.

There There Square

In her work There There Square, the map of America appears in many variations: cartographers, travelers, and saboteurs each have their own version.

The 100th Undone

The 100th Undone is Goss’s personal prehistory for the human clones of the future. The piece is a love letter to the individual in an era of genetic engineering and artificial reproduction.

Jacqueline Goss Arie Altena Patrick Faas

Jacqueline Goss

― Artist

Jacqueline Goss makes movies about scientific systems and how they change the ways we think about ourselves. Her work has shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York Film Festival, and International Film Festival at Rotterdam, among many other venues. She is a recipient of awards from the Alpert Foundation and Creative Capital. Goss teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts program at Bard College in the Hudson Valley of New York.      

Arie Altena

― Moderator

Arie Altena writes about arts and new media. He works as an editor/researcher for the V2_Archive in Rotterdam (since 2007) and is a member of the editorial staff of the Sonic Acts Festival (since 2004). His articles are regularly featured in magazines such as De Gids, OPEN and Metropolis M, and he co-edited the Sonic Acts publications Unsorted, Thoughts on the Information Arts  (2004), The Anthology of Computer Art (2006) and The Cinematic Experience (2008). In 2006, he worked as a researcher on the Ubiscribe project at the design department of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht where he edited the print-on-demand publication Pervasive Personal Participatory, Ubiscribe 0.9.0 (2006). He cycles several thousands of kilometers a year on his racing bike, preferably without computer and GPS. Over the past three years, his blog developed into an archive of his cycling travels: ariealt.net/blog.

Patrick Faas

Patrick Faas is an internationally renowned food historian, lecturing and teaching all over the world. His column in the Dutch newspaper, Volkskrant, is hugely popular and has been published as a collection with a foreword by Midas Dekkers. He is a contributor to the Oxford Symposium on Food and History every year and is known for his book "Around the Roman Table" (1994).

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