Susi Jirkuff
dal 6/12/2005 al 20/1/2006
Segnalato da
6/12/2005
Susi Jirkuff
Kunstbuero, Wien
This Is How We Do. An installation comprised of a combination of animation on video and drawings. In the animated video, which is based on portrait drawings, place and/or time interact to curious or even banal effect. The animations address cultural irritations, false assumptions by so-called 'others', subjective truths and the breaches that arise unexpectedly when different sets of givens collide.
This Is How We Do
In the exhibition 'This Is How We Do' Susi Jirkuff presents an installation comprised of a combination of animation on video, drawings and the video of the same title.
In the animated video, which is based on portrait drawings, place and/or time interact to curious or even banal effect. The animations address cultural irritations, false assumptions by so-called 'others', subjective truths and the breaches that arise unexpectedly when different sets of givens collide.
The location, its treatment in the media, the identity that can be created on the basis of a location and one's own appropriation of the familiar or the unfamiliar are behind Susi Jirkuff's work. By collecting images from newspapers, magazines or television she has amassed a repertoire of stories that she mixes with her own or combines to create subjective narratives. The process of appropriation occurs via the drawings, which provide something like a movement into the image, looking around in a strange space.
Video animation is a medium that allows this approach to be taken a stage further, the videos themselves also operating independently as work. So, too, the archetypical visual languages of different genres flow into the animations. The filtering out of stereotypical sequences of images, themselves producing a generally legible language, serves as a wrench with which to split the images and the contents that they transport.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS 2001-05:
2001: 'This is my House', RAIN Project, Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles; 'Cry', Kunsthalle 8, Vienna; 'HALLWAY', RAIN Project, MAK-Galerie, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; video screening, The Premises, Johannesburg; 2002: SUPERMOVER, RAIN Project, Houston Photography Festival, Texas; 'Within/Without Appearences', Linke Wienzeile 4, Vienna; 'About Being Away', Upper Austrian Landesmuseum, Landesgalerie Linz; 'Fundamentalisms of The New Order', Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen;
2003: 'Tricky Women', animation festival, Vienna; 'Echo Sparks', video show, ars electronica center, Linz / screening Kunstbuero,
Vienna; 'Present Perfect', Galerie gb agency, Paris; 'Ach, Himmel, es ist verspielt', A9 ForumTransEuropa,MQ; 4D, RAIN Project, Havanna Biennial 2003; '21er', 20er Haus, Vienna; 2004: 'I make you dance, Motherf*****, Galerie 5020, Salzburg; Feel It, Screening 2nd Nov., Futuregarden, Vienna / screening and billboard; 2005: 'Tricky Women 2005', animation festival, Vienna; 'Populism', CAC Vilnius, Stedelijk Amsterdam, Frankfurter Kunstverein; 'Mooimarkshow- Vienna-Johannesburg', Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; 'Lebt und arbeitet in Wien 2', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austrian Embassy in Tokyo; 'Never seen in... Warsaw', 11th WRO Biennial, Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw; 'Orphans of the Void', Sala Rekalde, Bilbao; Liste 05, Basel; 'Clip Clash', EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 2005, Osnabruck; Media Art Friesland; 22. Kassel Documentary & Video Festival; Revohot Film Festival, Israel; 'City of Women', Laibach (selection from 'Tricky
Women'); 'UTOPIE:FREIHEIT', competition entry 'Black Vienna' (with Leon Koffi), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna.
Opening: WED 07 DECEMBER FROM 7pm
Galerie Kunstbuero
Schadekgasse 6-8
A-1060 - Vienna
WED-FRI 15.30-19.30, SAT 13.00-15.00