Leading up to Set Stage Screen: A Situated Video Channel, this online programme on 24 September invites artists and filmmakers Hannah Dawn Henderson, Safiq Nasution, Natalia Papaeva, Ashley Röttjers and Geo Wyeth & Jay Tan to introduce and reflect upon their work and the use of film and video, each using their own audiovisual languages and video format. 

Het Nieuwe Instituut joins the Porto Design Biennale 2021 (PDB’21) with For the Record: The Politics of Design in Music Video. This two-day programme of lectures and workshops takes place on 23 and 24 July in Maus Hábitos and Casa da Arquitectura. It will reflect on recent Portugese music videos and address various themes relating to the role of design in music video productions.

Tim Wes will release Face Me, his new music video, under the arcade of Het Nieuwe Instituut on Thursday 16 July at 10pm (sunset). The launch takes the form of a pop-up exhibition and short video programme. It follows For the Record: Urban Imaginaries, an event about representations of the city in music videos that was live streamed on June 11 with Tim as one of the speakers.

Set Stage Screen: Realities of Postproduction investigates how contemporary video culture operates as a public space for consumerism, activism and emancipation, by exposing existing realities and by imagining alternatives.

Rendering Climate examines how popular music videos take on urgent environmental issues, and discusses local and global imaginaries and visual communication strategies within artistic practice, activism and journalism. With creative director and musician Tom Burke, writer and activist James Westcott (Extinction Rebellion London) and Jarl Schulp (FIBER). The programme starts with a screening of Tom Burke’s music film From Here We Go Extreme (2019). The event is a collaboration with FIBER (Cartographies of the Vanishing Now).

For the Record: Designing Realities will examine the politics of production design in popular music videos during the Nederlands Film Festival. Recent music video releases of among others Janelle Monáe and Sevdaliza will form the basis for a debate on the articulation of political realities through production design and fashion. 

For the Record: Performing Gender will examine gender roles and feminist positions in popular music videos. Iconic videos of Madonna and Prince, as well as recent video releases of Sevdaliza and others, will form the basis for a debate on the articulation of gender through the cinematographic gaze and the performing body. 

Screen Spaces, a geography of moving image is an exhibition and lecture program within the For the Record series from 1 to 7 December 2018 in New York. The program explores video and time-based media, including net art, set-design, animation, video, reportage, music videos, television, CCTV and social media channels, as sites of reality production and circulation. By examining the material, spatial and political dimensions of the space of the screen and the territories it mediates, Screen Spaces aims to unveil the identities, ideologies and imaginaries that inform video culture today.

This is America, a video by Donald Glover, also known as Childish Gambino, will be examined and discussed during this event. References from the video will form the basis of a lively debate between scholars, artists and journalists about the status of racism and use of propaganda in modern day America. With Esperanza Denswil, Malique Mohamud, Marina Otero, Rob Schröder and Melanin Kris. Moderation by Shay Kreuger.