Self-Timer Stories
dal 16/6/2014 al 7/9/2014
Segnalato da
16/6/2014
Self-Timer Stories
Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
This group exhibition shows works from the Federal Austrian Photography Collection in interplay with international positions from the field of extended photography. The leitmotif is the creation of a self-portrait via self-timer: a practice reciprocating with technical developments and showing itself in the release cables appearing in the compositions, the digital remote-control release, or the extended hand.
Artists: AA Bronson, Renate Bertlmann, Katrina Daschner, Carola Dertnig, VALIE EXPORT, Sharon Hayes, Matthias Herrmann, Birgit Jürgenssen, Friedl Kubelka, Roberta Lima, Anja Manfredi, Dorit Margreiter, Michaela Moscouw, Laurel Nakadate, Lilo Nein, Carolee Schneemann, Peter Weibel, Hans Weigand, Martha Wilson, Francesca Woodman
Curator: Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Exhibition Design: Dorit Margreiter
This group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, titled Self-Timer Stories, shows works from the Federal Austrian Photography Collection – situated in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg - in interplay with international positions from the field of extended photography.
The leitmotif of this exhibition is the creation of a self-portrait via self-timer. This practice, popular both in everyday life and in art, reciprocates with technical developments and shows itself in the release cables appearing in the compositions, the digital remote-control release, or the extended hand. In the moment of the camera’s clicking (which is even artificially reproduced in digital photography) the “I as autotimer” becomes prevalent and thus marks the relationship of subject and world, which has always been inseparably linked with the media.
The choice of the medium for publishing self-portraits – mere photography, slide show, or as a book – makes the private matter shown therein public. In contemporary social media intimate and personal matters, which people wish to present and put on display, ultimately are only staged and performed for the camera. The publication of the private, also in autobiographies, harbors a moment of fictionalization.
Therefore, the exhibition demonstrates how discourses on identity and photography in de-fixation mode, which do not necessarily focus on the subjects but rather the relationship between image and gaze, can be used as an emancipatory artistic tool to intervene in visual politics.
The exhibition will be presented in an extended version at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, in November 2014.
Supporting and Partnering Institutions of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York: AirBerlin, Artisanal Cellars, Arts Division of the Federal Chancellery, Esterházy Winery, RB International Finance (USA) LLC, Stiegl.
Image: AA BRONSON & MATTHIAS HERRMANN, Untitled (2000). 6 analog prints, 11 in x 13 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artists
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EXHIBITION OPENING: TUESDAY JUNE 17, 2014, 6PM - 8PM. For the exhibition opening Martha Wilson will perform a re-enactment of her work "Self-Portrait" (1973).
Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street - New York, NY 10022
Open Daily, JUN 18 - SEP 8, 10AM - 6PM. Free Admission