Back to the Future
dal 4/8/2013 al 10/8/2013
Segnalato da
4/8/2013
Back to the Future
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Art, Films, and Music. For its summer program KUB Arena is temporarily abandoning its space in the Kunsthaus, and instead exploiting the surrounding public spaces as a stage for open-air cinema and other events.
For its summer program KUB Arena is temporarily abandoning its ground floor space in the Kunsthaus, and instead exploiting the surrounding public spaces as a stage for open-air cinema and other events. A series of fictional visions of the future, of utopias, of dystopias, as well as space operas, from the advent of the science fiction genre in film through to the present day, will be screened at an open air cinema on Karl-Tizian-Platz between 5 and 11 August 2013, accompanied by concerts, performances, bar evenings, discussions, and dinners.
Departing from early animation films such as Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902; eng. Voyage to the Moon) by Georges Méliès, whose works are regarded as a »prophetical« foreshadowing of future developments in the science fiction genre, KUB Arena will be dedicating a whole week in August to a voyage through the fantastic, cosmic spheres of various eras.
A curated selection of films, predominantly based on novels dealing with a future which has meanwhile become the past, will be engaging in a dialogue with current artistic approaches as well as contemporary variants of the genre, such as Cloud Atlas (2012) by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, and Lana Wachowski, a film bridging several centuries that unites differing genres in one historical, science fiction, and fantasy epic. The KUB Arena’s program of films and events is therefore spanning a broad spectrum of possible translations of the relativity of time and space into tangible visions.
The program will not only be looking forwards but also backwards at both more, as well as less, speculative examples of cinematographic and artistic visions of the future, and also juxtaposing them against the background of our own present.
The program will be opened on August 5 by the performance duo SKILLS, Camilla Milena Fehér and Sylvi Kretzschmar, who for many years have been working on experimental scenarios in a crossover of electronic music and performance, treating grand utopian questions not so much discursively, but rather physically.
A further highlight will be the live concert by Matias Aguayo x Mostro on August 11, which will close the summer program. At this event the German Chilean musician and techno producer Aguayo working together with the band Mostro from Los Andes, Chile, will be presenting his most recent release on Cómeme, the album The Visitor, as well as other jointly produced music.
Image: Matias Aguayo x Mostro, Live in Bregenz, August 11, 2013
Communications
Birgit Albers ext. -413 b.albers@kunsthaus-bregenz.at
surrounding public spaces of Kunsthaus Bregenz
Karl-Tizian-Platz 6900 Bregenz Austria
open air cinema
Karl-Tizian-Platz 6900 Bregenz Austria