SCHIRN MAG
About the resistance of our bodies
By Daniel Urban
Hypnotic dances and hybrid beings in cyberspace: Video artist Johanna Bruckner transforms the human body into digital matter.
DOUBLE FEATURE
The monthly Double Feature sees itself as a platform for various trends and forms of expression in film and video art production. For more than seven years, the SCHIRN has invited national and international film and video artists to present a work from their own oeuvre, followed by a film of their choice. In conversation with the curators Katharina Dohm and Matthias Ulrich as well as guest curators, they provide a comprehensive insight into their creative work, and in particular into their interest in film. Films and video works by over 60 artists have already been shown at the SCHIRN. In 2019 the public can look forward to contributions from artists including Mikhail Karikis, Pedro Barateiro and Mario Pfeifer. The videos and conversations with artists who have participated so far, including Monira Al Qadiri, Bianca Baldi, Eli Cortiñas, Gery Georgieva, Beatrice Gibson, Andrew Norman Wilson, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Ani Schulze, Timur Si-Qin, Paul Spengemann, Pilvi Takala, and Holly Zausner, can be accessed via the SCHIRN’s YouTube channel under the title “Double Feature Conversations.” The SCHIRN MAGAZINE also regularly provides discursive contributions with an editorial focus on video art to accompany the Double Feature series.
RATHER THAN PRESENTING THE WORKS AS OBJECTS IN AN EXHIBITION ROOM, “DOUBLE FEATURE” CREATES A CINEMA-LIKE VIEWING SITUATION THAT FOCUSES SOLELY ON THE SCREEN.
NEXT EVENT
Angel Vergara
Angel Vergara makes video paintings. He uses mostly found footage that is projected onto a screen and places a pane of glass in front of it on which he paints. The photographs of the painted and overpainted glass panes in front of the film material erase the painterly act, they merely show the respective intermediate painting results and double the picture into an original and an associative one. Vergara combines art history with pop history, immerses the light show of a pop concert in a sunset or connects Marcel Broodthaers with Claude Monet's Impressionist garden.
In the SCHIRN, Angel Vergara presents three of his works: "Les belles idées reçues" (2020), "and yes I said yes I will Yes. (2012) and "Feuilleton, the seven deadly sins" (2011), as well as a film of his choice after a conversation with SCHIRN curator Matthias Ulrich.
JOHANNA BRUCKNER
The multimedia work of Johanna Bruckner, born in Austria in 1984, takes up the discourse between society and the individual, which is designed by new technologies, and asks about the influences and dependencies of information and the apparently autonomously operating communication systems. The concrete human body comes to the fore in the performative works and illustrates the conflict between affirmation and resistance, between becoming a machine and posthuman existence. In her new video work she dissolves the bodies into synthetic particles and connects them to space.
SCHIRN MAG
About whistling protests and music for giraffes
By Daniel Urban
What happens when the instruments are swapped in an orchestra? And how do animals react to pieces of music? Annika Kahr’s video works explore the...
ANNIKA KAHRS
Sound as a communications tool forms a central theme in the work of Annika Kahrs. Her performances, films, photo series and installations are often based on musical productions conceived as playful experimental setups. Music as a verbal form of expression functions at the same time as an outlet and a metaphor in all of this. At the Schirn, the artist will be showing her film the lord loves changes, it’s one of his greatest delusions (2018, 16 Min.), in which she adapts two pieces by American composer Julius Eastman.
HELEN KNOWLES
In her multimedia pieces, British artist Helen Knowles addresses the interface of virtual and physical narratives. The themes she chooses range from birth to the economy to artificial intelligence. The artist often works collaboratively and actively involves numerous players in her productions.
SCHIRN MAG
Can you assign guilt to artificial intelligence?
By Daniel Urban
What happens when algorithms endanger human life? Video artist Helen Knowles addresses the responsibility of artificial intelligence.
RORY PILGRIM
Rory Pilgrim’s artistic practice challenges the specifics of how we come together, speak with each other, listen to each other and with which we strive for social change by exchanging personal experiences. The artist links music, activism, spirituality, technology and community in collaborations that involve various methods of dialogue. They open up a space in which the meaning of comprehension and reciprocal care are renegotiated.
