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EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS
Alain Clavier (CA) aus den 1970er-Jahren ist Programmbestandteil auch der
Großen Konzertnacht.
Ein Schwerpunkt des BIG PICTURE Cinema ist dem bahnbrechenden
kanadischen Experimentalfilmkünstler Arthur Lipsett (1936–1986) gewidmet,
der mit seinen akribisch montierten, collageartigen Kurzfilmen
Regisseure wie Stanley Kubrick und George Lucas prägend beeinflusste.
Die Avantgardearbeit Very Nice, Very Nice besticht mit dem Zusammenspiel
von Fotografie und Sound, Trip Down Memory Lane als mit kuriosen
Schlagzeilen aus 50 Jahren arbeitendes explosives Remake der Vergangenheit.
21-87 gilt als Lipsetts Meisterwerk, das auf sehr spirituelle Weise den
Einzelnen in den Mittelpunkt stellt.
The BIG PICTURE Cinema screens films that feature literally inimitable images
of the world, and showcase human beings whose work crosses borders in
amazing and inspiring ways and brings to light new ways of seeing things in
the process.
“Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis” by Peter Sasowsky (US) is a portrait of Joe
Davis (US), a fascinating scientist, researcher and artist who as a matter of
principle ignores all academic boundaries and seamlessly combines artistic
practice with scientific work. Ars Electronica has once again honored him for
an outstanding work (bacterial radio, see page 48) in 2012. His experiments
and achievements have included using the vaginal contractions of ballet
dancers as a means of communicating with aliens in outer space, translating
poetry into DNA, and creating a sculpture to save the world. On October 10,
2010, 19,000 people in 160 countries cinematically documented episodes,
events and moments in their lives and made the footage available to serve
as elements of the largest collaborative film ever made. “One Day on Earth”
by Kyle Ruddick (US) interweaves the tragedies and triumphs, heartbreaking
conflicts and moments of love occurring simultaneously worldwide into
a “Big Picture” of humankind. In “Passage 2011,” Christian Schoen (DE)
Photo: One Day on Earth
Photos: National Film Board of Canada
documents the wacky trans-Alpine journey of two German artists to attend
the Venice Biennale. During a torturous three-week trek that was by no
means short on rain and snow, Wolfgang Aichner and Thomas Huber (DE)
schlepped a homemade boot on a route that included the Schlegeis Glacier
at an altitude of over 3,000 meters.
In “Whisper Down the Lane,” a group of Salzburg students headed by
Sebastian Frisch (DE) confront the half-truths and rumors about HIV and
AIDS that circulate in many African countries. The victims of this information
deficit are, above all, women and children. The film is part of a sensitive
consciousness-raising campaign. Dissatisfied with how her country’s mass
media was reporting on the Arab Spring, Austrian high school student
Agnes Aistleitner traveled at her own expense to Egypt to talk to people
on the streets and in marketplaces, and to form her own picture of what
was happening. The video she made, “state of revolution,” garnered her the
Golden Nica in the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 category.
“This is a Recorded Message” is still a highly relevant statement critical of
our consumption-oriented times. This short animated film made in 1973 by
filmmaker Jean-Thomas Bédard (CA) and composer Alain Clavier (CA) is on
the Big Concert Night program.
One of BIG PICTURE Cinema’s focal-point themes is the pioneering work
of Canadian experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett (1936-86), whose
meticulously edited, collage-like short films strongly influenced Stanley
Kubrick, George Lucas and other great directors. “Very Nice, Very Nice” is an
avant-garde work featuring brilliant interplay of photography and sound.
“Trip Down Memory Lane” works with 50 years of odd headlines to create
an explosive remake of the past. “21-87” focuses on the individual in a very
spiritual way and is considered Lipsett’s masterpiece.
Interface Cultures
Interface Cuisine
Do/Thu 30. 8. 10:00 – 19:00
Fr/Fri 31. 8. 10:00 – 17:30
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 10:00 – 15:30
So/Sun 2. 9. – Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:00 – 19:00
Brucknerhaus
Inspiriert von den Verbindungslinien zwischen Kunst und Kochen heißt
die Schau des Linzer Studiengangs Interface Cultures dieses Jahr Interface
Cuisine. Kochen und Kunstschaffen nehmen ausgesuchte Zutaten,
vermischen und vermengen sie zu Kreationen, die vertraut und zugleich
exotisch geprägt sind. Die verschiedenen im Studiengang vertretenen
Kulturen sind die Ingredienzien, die den Interface-Cultures-Studierenden
an der Kunstuniversität Linz als Gussform für ihre Werke dienen. Sie selbst
stammen aus verschiedenen Ländern und Kulturen. Durch den Austausch
mit anderen entsteht ein dynamisches kulturelles Mashup. Es kommt zu
einer Verschmelzung und Vermengung der Kulturen, aus der unerwartete
Verbindungen, schöpferische Mutationen und neuartige Interfacelösungen
hervorgehen.
Inspired by the connections between art and cooking, this year’s show
presented by the Linz Art University’s Interface Cultures program is entitled
“Interface Cuisine.” Both cooks and creative artists take selected ingredients
and combine them into creations that are familiar and exotic at the same
time. The various cultures represented in this program of study are the
ingredients that these undergrads have taken as their mold. In fact, the
students themselves also come from different countries and cultures. The
process of exchange with others results in a dynamic cultural mashup. The
upshot is blending and intermingling of cultures, the outgrowths of which
are unexpected connections, creative mutations and innovative interface
solutions.
Arbeiten / Works
230312 Qrmovie
Juan Cedenilla (ES)
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Ametropia
Havi Navarro (ES)
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Budapest Farmers Hack
Peter Eszes (HU)
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Error Stage in Five Layers
Lenka Klimesova (CZ), Maja Stefancikova (CZ)
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Eyeverse
Chiara Esposito (IT), Maruska Polakova (CZ)
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File Món
Cesar Escudero (ES)
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Fleischwolf
Ivan Petkov (BG)
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How do you do?
Roswitha Angerer (AT), Onur Sönmez (TR)
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Jason Shoe
Jaak Kaevats (EE), Onur Sönmez (TR)
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Made with Love
Veronika Krenn (AT)
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Magic Circle
Andrea Suter (CH)
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Monolith
Maša Jazbec (SI)
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Morimo
Justyna Zubrycka (PL)
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Poetry in Form of Movement
Alberto Boem (IT)
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Poo Printer
Fabrizio Lamoncha (ES)
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Synchronisis
Oliver Kellow (AU)
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Transparent Sculpture: Passages
Daichi Misawa (JP)
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You got the Power
Nina Mengin (AT)
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