2010: Sealed Time in Video Art & Videorama: Artclips from Austria Exhibition Flyer

Still, from: Thomas Draschan, Freude, 2009, Courtesy of the artist.

ARTCLIPS FROM AUSTRIA 奧地利短片

Para/Site 藝術空間–香港上環普仁街4 號地下–開放時間：星期三至星期日 12:00-19:00 (公眾假期休息) Para/Site Art Space – G/F, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Open: Wed-Sun 12:00-19:00. Closed on public holidays.

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ARTCLIPS FROM AUSTRIA 奧地利短片 Opening 開幕酒會 (Friday) 16 July 2010, 7pm. （星期五）二零一零年七月十六日，晚上七時正。 Exhibition Date 展覽日期 17 July – 5 September 2010. 二零一零年七月十七日至九月五日。 Venue 地點 Para/Site Art Space Gallery 2, G/F, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. 藝術空間展覽場 2，香港上環普仁街 4 號地下。 Curator 策展人 Angela Stief Organized by 主辦 Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna) Videorama assembles Austrian single channel video and film works most of which date from the past ten years. Relying on both sophisticated and simple means, the artists, often working with existing pictures from the field of art or the everyday world, included short film, animated film and documentary pieces. While Nicolas Jasmin appropriates, abstracts, and develops his conceptual film works by using fragments from movies, the candle of Franz Schubert’s animation recalls Gerhard Richter’s great art and Sonic Youth’s realm of pop culture.

The screening version of the exhibition Videorama, which might be divided into the sub-categories “Narrations,” “Extensions,” and “Clips,” comprises short films which not only lure us into fictitious creative and surrealist worlds like Markus Schinwald’s work, but also allow us to experience the artists’ pleasure in their act of story-telling like in the case of Josh Müller’s contribution. Based on dolly drives, stationary camera set-ups, and documentary strategies, the videos by Paul Divjak, Leopold Kessler, Dariusz Kowalski, and others reveal unusual locations as well as socio-political content and, above all, atmospheric conditions.

Here we are being confronted with contemplative pictorial epics alongside images that are exciting and full of suspense. This languid lingering on images provides a marked contrast to the main focus of the program on clip-like videos by such artists as Tina Frank/Peter Rehberg, Thomas Draschan, Susi Jirkuff, or Axel Stockburger that promise amusing entertainment while displaying structural similarities to music videos and advertising clips. Thomas Draschan, BitteBitteJaJa, and Axel Stockburger sample fragments to arrive at a new whole that unfolds as a digital montage in orchestral juxtapositions or sequences.

The pictures shown in Videorama go against the tide of the times in a sometimes perfectionist, sometimes trashy way. While Rudolf Polanszky may sometimes reveal absurdities far beyond the accepted and draw on the eccentric and the world of outsiders, Erwin Wurm’s filmic One Minute Sculptures and Anna Jermolaewa’s Affentheater, for example, evince a definite sense of humor that hits the nail on the head.

Videorama comes to Hong Kong as the result of an exhibition exchange between Para/Site Art Space and Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna).

Videorama 集合了奧地利過去十年的單頻道錄像及電影作品。藝術 家以精簡的手法製作與生活息息相關的影片，包括短篇電影、動畫 及紀錄片。Nicolas Jasmin 挪用電影片段去趨生及發展他的概念電 影，Franz Schubert 的動畫重新踏足 Gerhard Richter 的藝術及 Sonic Youth 流行文化的領域。 Videorama 將作品分類為敍事和剪輯片段，其短片不但給觀眾帶來 Markus Schinwald’s 的虛幻創意及超現實世界，還讓觀眾體驗眾多 藝術家如 Josh Müller 等說故事的樂趣。 Paul Divjak, Leopold Kessler, Dariusz Kowalski 及其他藝術家以移動式 攝影、定鏡及紀錄片等手法，把讓人沉思的敍事詩及刺激懸疑的影 像放置在一起，為觀眾揭示不尋常的地域、其社會政治面貌及社會 氣氛。 其他影片為 Tina Frank / Peter Rehberg, Thomas Draschan, Susi Jirkuff 及 Axel Stockburger 等藝術家的作品，結構與音樂錄影 及廣告的架構類同，內容輕鬆有趣，與前者的沉重節奏做成強烈感 官對比。Thomas Draschan, BitteBitteJaJa 連同 Axel Stockburger 把影 像碎片巧妙地並列放置、先後排序精選部份，以數碼剪輯創作全新 作品。 Videorama 展出的作品都與時間逆向前進，時而唯美、時而蹩腳。 Rudolf Polanszky 展示常人無法接受荒誕，Erwin Wurm 的 One Minute Sculptures 及 Anna Jermolaewa 的 Affentheater 等作品中的幽默則 一針見血。 Artists 藝術家 Renate Bertlmann, BitteBitteJaJa, Paul Divjak, Thomas Draschan, Tomas Eller, Tina Frank / Peter Rehberg, Rainer Ganahl, Nicolas Jasmin, Anna Jermolaewa, Susi Jirkuff, Leopold Kessler, Dariusz Kowalski, Sabine Maier, Josh Müller, Rudolf Polanszky, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Station Rose, Markus Schinwald, Veronika Schubert, Franz Schubert, Hubert Sielecki, Axel Stockburger, Erwin Wurm.

List of Works 作品名單 Susi Jirkuff – People Who Like Bonnie Tyler, 2009, Courtesy of the artist. Video: the artist; Composition: Jim Steinman. • Anna Jermolaewa – Affentheater, 2002, Courtesy of the artist. • Erwin Wurm – Adelphi Sculptures (shortened version), 1999, Courtesy of the artist. • Rudolf Polanszky – Musikalischer Affe II, Gedächtnis und Musik, Wiener Fassung, 2006, Courtesy of Galerie Konzett, Vienna. • Susi Jirkuff – Hold us down, 2005, Courtesy of the artist. Video: the artist; Music: Mark Rae + Steve Christian feat. The Congos. • Hubert Sielecki – Buchfabrik, 1996, Courtesy of the artist. • Gerwald Rockenschaub – Untitled, 2001, Courtesy of Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. • Thomas Draschan – Freude, 2009, Courtesy of the artist. • Tina Frank / Peter Rehberg – Starlight 1, 2003, Courtesy of the artists. Video: Tina Frank; Sound: Peter Rehberg. • Axel Stockburger – Aleph Series - Love, 2004, Courtesy of the artist. • Axel Stockburger – Aleph Series - Hate, 2004, Courtesy of the artist. • Nicolas Jasmin – Breaker, 2002. Courtesy of Collection Myung-il Song, Vienna. • Nicolas Jasmin – Male Trouble (fear of fear), 2002, Courtesy of Collection Myung-il Song, Vienna. • Dariusz Kowalski – Interstate, 2006, Courtesy of the artist. • Tomas Eller – Electricnight (excerpt), 2002, Courtesy of the artist. • Markus Schinwald – 1st part conditional, 2005, Courtesy of the artist. Video: der Künstler; Music: Ginger Dellenbaugh; Produced by Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. • Sabine Maier – Kúpele Central, 2005, Courtesy of the artist. • Renate Bertlmann – D29-X, 2002, Courtesy of the artist. Video: the artist; Music: Curd Duca. • Renate Bertlmann – Formationen, 2001, Courtesy of the artist. Video: the artist; Music: Curd Duca. • Renate Bertlmann – Alien, 2002, Courtesy of the artist. Video: the artist; Music: Curd Duca. • BitteBitteJaJa – Cadavre Exquis Vivant – Erasmus von Rotterdam, 2009, Courtesy of the artists. • BitteBitteJaJa – Cadavre Exquis Vivant – Henri Becquerel, 2009, Courtesy of the artists. • BitteBitteJaJa – Cadavre Exquis Vivant – Kaspar Hauser, 2009, Courtesy of the artists. • Anna Jermolaewa – The way up, 2008, Courtesy the artist. • Rainer Ganahl – DadaLeninBicycle, 2008, Cortesy of the artist. • Leopold Kessler – Depot, 2005, Courtesy of Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna. • Josh Müller – le ton et la musique, 2006/08, Courtesy of the artist. • Paul Divjak - Souvenir, 1995, Courtesy of the artist. • Veronika Schubert – Tintenkiller, 2009, Courtesy of the artist. • Station Rose – Naturband, 1985/86, Courtesy of the artists. • Franz Schubert – Kerze, 2008, Courtesy of the artist.