Kaleidoscreen
dal 8/4/2008 al 10/4/2008
Segnalato da
Katharina Cibulka
Philipp Fleischmann
Paul Grundorfer
Muzaffer Hasaltay
Julia Hohenwarter
Steffen Jørgensen
Robert Kjær Clausen
Allan Nicolaisen
Christoph Kolar
Philipp Leissing
Johann Lurf
mara (Serigne Mor Niang)
Kader Muzaqi
Jascha Novak
Franziska Pflaum
Linda Reif
Patrick Schabus
Christine Schorkhuber
Jennifer Tische
Diana Baldon
Matthias Michalka
Dorit Margreiter
8/4/2008
Kaleidoscreen
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Wien
An environment conceived by students of the Art and Architecture Department within which a programme of videos by artists of the Academy is screened. Kaleidoscreen revisits such ideas to question why auditoriums did not historically exploit the power to gather people together and did not take on the same role that projection screens later would.
Diana Baldon in conversation with Matthias Michalka (art historian and Curator for New Media Art, Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna), Stuart Comer (Curator of Film, Tate Modern, London), and Dorit Margreiter (artist and Professor for Video and Video Installation, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Artists: Katharina Cibulka, Philipp Fleischmann, Paul Gründorfer, Muzaffer Hasaltay, Julia Hohenwarter, Steffen Jørgensen, Robert Kjær Clausen and Allan Nicolaisen, Christoph Kolar, Philipp Leissing, Johann Lurf, mara (Serigne Mor Niang), Kader Muzaqi, Jascha Novak, Franziska Pflaum, Linda Reif, Patrick Schabus, Christine Schörkhuber, Jennifer Tischer
Auditorium: Ernst Gruber, David Stöger and Alexandre D’Aram
As a tribute to the seminal experiments in cinema design by Austrian precursors like Friedrich Kiesler and Peter Kubelka and the “cinema palaces” built in Europe and North America during the 1920s and ’30s, this show presents an environment conceived by students of the Art and Architecture Department within which a programme of videos by artists of the Academy will be screened. In the years when cinema display looked into perfecting the power of filmic illusion, Walter Benjamin explored the modalities of the “collective” and “distracted” perception of the public.
Seventy years on, we have grown familiar with the ubiquity of projection screens pervading the contemporary media environment. Kaleidoscreen revisits such ideas to question why auditoriums did not historically exploit the power to gather people together and did not take on the same role that projection screens later would. This group exhibition proposes an alternative model that abolishes the fix ed viewpoint of the classical perspective to play instead with a sense of disorientation. It attempts to turn the attention back to cinema-going as a social experience to be consumed in semi-obscurity, highlighting the viewers’ physical presence as a form of collective escapism opposed to the bodiless, spaceless sensation of celluloid space or the purist black box machine for film viewing.
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Schillerplatz 3, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 9 - 11 April 2008, daily 11:00 a.m. - 18:00 p.m.
free admission