Let´s show moving images !

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Let’s show moving images! was a series of screenings conceived by Katharina Aigner and Barbara Kapusta for Topkino in Vienna. Over a year works by eight local and international artists were screened - Marion Porten, Margarete Kollmer & Piotr Krzymowski, Linda Christanell, Richard John Jones, Sirah Foighl Brutmann / Eitan Efrat, Lisa Kortschak and Alison O´Daniel.

Let´s show moving images! was kindly supported by Bundeskanzleramt Österreich; in co-operation with Topkino, Film Fonds Wien, waystone film and Europe Cinemas.

Let´s show moving images! says thank you to all the participating artists, to Christiana Lugbauer for the graphics, to Samuel Forsythe for the translations and to Nikolaus Ruchnewitz, Marlene Stefanie Engel, Christian Hetlinger, Anna Barfuss and Denice Bourbon for the music sets. Another big thank you goes to the audience for showing up, watching and discussing films with us.

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Some photos from the double screening program 24 & 25.06, 8pm at Topkino

with video works by Alison O´ Daniel and Lisa Kortschak

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fragment: Lisa Kortschak reading her sound poem “Then all go dead still”

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23.06.2016: rehearsing with Lisa Kortschak for her Let´s show moving images! screening...

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Let´s show moving images! Lisa Kortschak

25.06.2016 / 8pm

Topkino Rahlgasse. 1 1060 Vienna

www.topkino.at

Program

OszillEntreNous, HD Video, 16:9, color, sound, 14:57min, 2012 DETROIT OVERTURE, HD Video, 16:9, color, sound, 10min, 2015 DANCE DINNER & DOOM DOG, HD Video, 16:9, color, silent, 14min, 2015

Lisa Kortschak concerns herself with spaces, places and sounds. The video work "OszillEntreNous" documents an artistic intervention in the Vienna Musikverein. We see a golden concert hall, the pianist Paul Gulda and a large group of spectators in the rear-facing view. A Bösendorfer piano, prepared by the artist, is being played. However, in the concert hall there are no sounds; the audience are wearing in-ear headphones. As we contemplate the video a different sonic scenery is revealed to us: whispers, coughs, throats cleared and rustlings, the mechanical sounds of the piano keys... In "DETROIT OVERTURE" eight cars perform a concert, the camera films them from a static position. Blinkers, horns, slamming doors, windscreen-wipers and sounds from radios gradually develop an impressive soundscape, the cars drive past and return, dance duets, trios and quartets. Black. "DANCE DINNER & DOOM DOG" is a closeup, a portrait. We see the artist herself. In complete silence a stream of expressions play across her face. The title, decomposed to single words, functions simultaneously as chapters and performance direction. The screening will be accompanied by an artist talk and a music set by Denice Bourbon.

Lisa Kortschak is a Vienna based fine artist and musician who combines video, sound, music and performance in her works. 2008-2012 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was recognized for her video OSZILLENTRENOUS. In her practice she researches the fields opening up between digital video-layer and live-concert/ performance as well as between performance and documentation while continuing an interest in performative shifts and unexpected processes provoked by artistic interventions. http://lisakortschak.klingt.org/ Let’s show moving images! is a series of screenings conceived by Katharina Aigner and Barbara Kapusta for topkino in Vienna. Over a year works by eight local and international artists will be screened - Marion Porten, Margarete Kollmer & Piotr Krzymowski, Linda Christanell, Richard John Jones, Sirah Foighl Brutmann / Eitan Efrat, Lisa Kortschak and Alison O´Daniel. http://filmandtext.tumblr.com/ Denice Bourbon has lived in Vienna since 2002. Solo performances and collaborations etc. with CLUB BURLESQUE BRUTAL, CLUB GROTESQUE FATAL, Gender Crash. In 2013 her book „Cheers! Stories of a fabulous queer femme in Action“ was published by Zaglossus Publishing. She continues to write the columns “lesben.nest” in an.schläge magazine (since 2008), and “Queer as Hell” in Plastic Bomb (since 2015). She pursues her passion for music with the bands Projekt ME and JANE DOE.

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Let´s show moving images! Alison O´Daniel

24.06.2016 / 8pm

Topkino Rahlgasse. 1 1060 Vienna

www.topkino.at Program The Tuba Thieves - Scenes 5, 6, 60 (Hearing 4’33”) HD Video, 9min52sec The Tuba Thieves - Scene 22 (Full Scene - The Deaf Club) HD Video, 6min16sec The Tuba Thieves Scene 55 - The Plants Are Protected HD Video, 12min5sec The Tuba Thieves - Scene 48 and 57 (Nyke and the New York Kite Enthusiasts) HD Video, 10min19sec The Tuba Thieves - Scenes 46 & 47 (Centennial HS bus/football game) HD Video, 7min41sec I really love film, cinema and storytelling. Since 2013 Alison O’Daniel has been working on her film-project "The Tuba Thieves”. The process involved in making the film is perhaps as exciting as the feature film itself, as the artist, working in stages, independent from support and budgets, progresses continuously; if the money is unsatisfied then there is a pause, if there is more funding then a new scene is filmed. The working process determines not only the form of the story, but contributes to its writing. It is unclear when “The Tuba Thieves” will be completely finished; for the evening in Topkino we will show six previously completed scenes from the film. Central to the work is NYKE, and her relationship to drums. Around her Alison O’Daniel builds a tightly woven net of references and links to concerts, the majority of which can be reenacted. The title “The Tuba Thieves” relates to a series of thefts in Los Angeles, in which a great many Tubas were stolen from public schools: I had to think about all the students, sitting in their music lessons without instruments and in my thoughts they were just listening, the thefts allowed an education of listening. Alison O’Daniel was born in Miami, FL and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. In 2010, she received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine. She holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and a Post Graduate diploma of Fine Art from Goldsmith’s College, London. She currently has a solo exhibition Room Tone, on display in NYC as part of Art in General's New Commission series. She has been featured in solo exhibitions at Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles (2013) and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest (2015). O’Daniel’s feature-length film Night Sky premiered at the Anthology Film Archive in conjunction with Performa 11 as part of theWalking Forward-Running Past show at Art in General, and has been presented with live musical or Sign Language accompaniment at venues including The Aspen Museum of Art, MOCAD (Detroit), NYU, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and High Desert Test Sites. Writing on O’Daniel’s work has appeared in Artforum, The L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, and ArtReview. O’Daniel has received grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Art Matters, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and the California Community Foundation. http://www.alisonodaniel.com/ Let’s show moving images! is a series of screenings conceived by Katharina Aigner and Barbara Kapusta for topkino in Vienna. Over a year works by eight local and international artists will be screened - Marion Porten, Margarete Kollmer & Piotr Krzymowski, Linda Christanell, Richard John Jones, Sirah Foighl Brutmann / Eitan Efrat, Lisa Kortschak and Alison O´Daniel. http://filmandtext.tumblr.com/

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“ Working across film, sculpture, performance and music, I ask audiences and collaborators to navigate, de-construct and re-imagine sound. My current project The Tuba Thieves is composed of narrative film, performance and sculptures based on commissioned musical scores that were made in response to an epidemic of tuba thefts occurring in Los Angeles high schools over the past three years. I am hard of hearing and collaborate with deaf and hearing composers, skateboarders, marching bands, actors and artists, with the intention to build a poetic sensitivity to loss and abundance of sound and its impact on social situations. “ (Alison O´Daniel about her artistic practice)

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“ My art and research emphasizes process-based explorations of multi-sensory perception and prioritizes collaborating with people who have varying lived experiences along the spectrum of sound and hearing. I also draw upon my own experiences with limited access to sound. I wear hearing aids and lip-read and have been cultivating a body of work that pushes film, sound, performance and sculpture beyond the aural and visual into the corporeal, experiential and tactile. My goal is to examine the politics of production, representation, and reception regarding sound and acts of listening. I utilize visual musical scores, closed-captions, soundtracks, and storytelling as fluid modes of perception or as assistive listening devices that encourage the viewer to navigate between form, concept, object, sound, and narrative. My recent work has developed with deaf and hearing musicians, skateboarders, marching bands, composers, athletes, actors and artists whom I ask to navigate, de-construct and re-imagine sound. “ (Alison O´Daniel about her artistic practice)

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Trailer “Night Sky” by Alison O´Daniel, we´ll screen some of her videoworks in June at Topkino Vienna

https://vimeo.com/12865622

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UPCOMING & also the last two Let´s show moving images! screenings

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Let´s show moving images! with Sirah Brutmann and Eitan Efrat, 30.04.2016, 7pm at Topkino Vienna... it was a blast!

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Let´s show moving images! / Sirah Brutmann and Eitan Efrat

30.04.2016 / 7pm

Topkino Rahlgasse. 1 1060 Vienna

www.topkino.at

Work on and with archives stands at the center of the collaborative films of Sirah Brutmann und Eitan Efrat. For both Printed Matter and Journal, photographs from the image archive of press photographer Andre Brutmann were used as departure points.

In Printed Matter we see a pair of hands repeatedly laying contact sheets onto a lightbox, and a voice offscreen comments on the images. On the contact sheets we see political demonstrations and State meetings, but also very personal family scenes. We travel through Israel and Palestine between 1982 to 2002; political events are reactivated, and to some extent, so are the images of Sirah Brutmann’s childhood.

In Journal, a sequence shot shows us a track through an exhibition. In the exhibition hangs a row of variously sized photographs; the camera wends its way through an otherwise empty room, lingeringly observing the photographs. Depicted are official visits to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. The manoeuvres of the handheld camera are connected to physical exertion and concentration, from time to time we can hear the laboured breathing of someone behind the camera.

For Nude Descending a Staircase, Brutmann and Efrat have edited together videos found on the internet. They are recordings of pilgrimages: arrival in Portbou/Spain, a trip through the city, and, finally, Dani Karavan’s 1994 memorial to Walter Benjamin, “Passagen”. For minutes at a time we see through a camera lens that appears to descend on a single point, the steep steps of the memorial that lead down to the sea.

Program

Printed Matter

16mm, 4:3, color, mono & stereo sound, 29", BE, 2011

Journal

HD video,16:9, color, stereo sound, 16", BE, 2013

Nude Descending a Staircase

HD video, 16:9, color, stereo sound, 18“, BE, 2015

Sirah Brutmann and Eitan Efrat will present their films, followed by a public discussion and a DJ Set by Anna Barfuss in the topkino bar.

Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat, both born 1983 in Tel Aviv, are collaborating since several years creating works in the audiovisual field. Their films have been shown among others at Oberhausen Film Festival, Rotterdam Filmfestival, Courtisane Festival and New Horizons. Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat are currently living and working in Brussels.

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Let’s show moving images! is a series of screenings conceived by Katharina Aigner and Barbara Kapusta for topkino in Vienna. Over a year works by eight local and international artists will be screened - Marion Porten, Margarete Kollmer & Piotr Krzymowski, Linda Christanell, Richard John Jones, Sirah Foighl Brutmann / Eitan Efrat, Lisa Kortschak and Alison O´Daniel.

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Anna Barfuss's work focuses on moving images. She also initiates and curates exhibitions in different venues and formats, to explore interfaces to sound and performance and to trace political meaning in different contexts.

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Richard John Jones talking

Talk with Richard John Jones & Cory Scozzari in the frame of "Lets show moving images!" 21.11.2015 at Topkino in Vienna.

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Let´s show moving images! / Richard John Jones

21.11.2015, 8pm

Topkino Rahlgasse. 1 1060 Wien

www.topkino.at

PROGRAM

Proh-soh’pa-peer, HD Video, color, sound (English), 11:31min, 2009

Windstärke Fünf (The Summit of Sex), HD Video, color, sound (English), 10:26min, 2013

All Closing And Dyke Bar And Everything Ending And Not And Death To The Ahistoric Vacuum, HD Video, color, sound (German/English, OmdU/OmeU), 24min, 2015

Following the screening will be a public talk with Richard John Jones and Cory Scozzari and a Music Set by DJ Angel

Richard John Jones, born 1986 in Chesterfield/UK, lives and works as an artist in Marseille and London. He was the Co-Director of artist-run organisation Auto Italia South East in London from 2010-2012. His work has been featured at ICA London, Arnolfini, Bristol; The Power Plant, Toronto; Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo and the British Film Institute, London. http://rjj.website/

Let’s show moving images! is a series of screenings conceived by Katharina Aigner and Barbara Kapusta for Topkino in Vienna. Over a year works by eight local and international artists will be screened - Marion Porten, Margarete Kollmer & Piotr Krzymowski, Linda Christanell, Richard John Jones, Sirah Foighl Brutmann/Eitan Efrat, Lisa Kortschak and Alison O´Daniel.

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