Alan Cicmak

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Opening Reception / 1st. of June 2010 / 7:00pm /

Bäckerstr. 4 / 1010 Vienna / Austria / 

until the 23rd of june

1925 / Eugene Atget “parc de sceaux“

Projective Ligaments artikuliert den Versuch filmische Narration in eine reale, räumliche Situation zu transformieren. Während im Film Narration durch die Technik von Schnitt und Montage konstituiert wird, legt hier die Skulptur den Blick auf die Erzählung fest.

Die Skulptur ersetzt die Zweidimensionalität der Projektionsfläche und bricht damit den Film in seiner ursprünglichen, narrativen Bedeutung. Während die Skulptur zum Entscheidungsträger wird, ist der Film nunmehr als beschreibendes Element zu sehen und entzieht sich somit seiner Rolle des Inhaltlichen. Narration drückt sich nicht mehr im Film aus, sondern in der Vereinigung zwischen Skulptur und filmischer Projektion.

Durch die Projektion an der Skulptur wird Narration in ihrer Brechung im Raum vollzogen. Filmischer Raum, filmische Zeit und Erzählung wird durch die Skulptur nicht nur reinterpretiert, sondern in dessen reinste Form zurückgeführt - in die Perspektive. Die räumliche Ausdehnung der Skulptur bedingt im selben Moment die Antizipation des Betrachters. Die äußere Form der Skulptur als Entscheidungsträger wird durch vorausgegangene Skizzen bestimmt. Die Skizzen formulieren im Wechselspiel zwischen Aussage und Inhalt den Kern der Skulptur.

Th, 21.01., 16.00-24.00 h

Fr, 22.01., 10.00-20.00 h

Sa, 23.01., 12.00-20.00 h

So, 24.01., 12.00-20.00 h

Art and Digital Media

Atelierhaus

Lehárgasse 6-8

1060 Wien

Austria  

Model / Projection-Body

Model

Window / Outside / Rear-Projection

Installation at the Schindler House

 (min. 6)

Garden sculpture for tent surface 

  Video documentation 05

Studies due to the project “THE SURFRIDGE PANEL“

On the 24th of July the documentary film “Conceptual Paradise“ by Stefan Römer will be screened as part of the CUTUP118 finissage.

Filmstill: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh 

Press Release for the Documentary Film Conceptual Paradise

In three years of filmic research, the artist and author Stefan Römer has interviewed numerous outstanding international artists with his film team. In engaging in intellectual exchanges before the camera, Stefan Römer is able to develop a special filmic mode of reflecting on the state of international contemporary art.

The film essay »Conceptual Paradise: There Is a Place for Sophistication« traces out the debates that allowed the intellectual art movement of Conceptual art to emerge in the 1960s and led to the most relevant questions in art today. The artists speak about their own artistic practices and the socio-historical development of the various conceptual movements. In so doing, it becomes clear that there can be no one valid definition of conceptual art, since a permanent engagement also makes up its theoretical and philosophical complexity, including for example the question of whether there can be art without an object.

In these discussions with the most interesting artists and art theorists alive today, the fiction and ideal of art as political engagement are brought to life. The history of art is a history of struggles around strategies of representation. This makes this film about Conceptual art also a film about filmmaking. Stefan Römer reflects in numerous passages of the film with the well-known German filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky about the documentary as a genre.

With the documentary essay Conceptual Paradise, Stefan Römer continues his analytic engagement with forms and modes of narrative for artistic documentation. Beside his extensive body of photography, his recent work includes the Super 8 film Corporate Psycho Ambient (235 media Köln on DVD 2004) and The Analysis of Beauty, a short film produced on the basis of single photographic montages (on the DVD Loop Pool by Graw Böckler, commissioned by Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2005). His filmic praxis extends back before the period of video activism in the mid-1990s, including interview videos, for example on the 1993 exhibition Unfair, and numerous multimedia punk performances in the 1980s.

Artists:
Vito Acconci, Art & Language (Michael Baldwin, Mel Ramsden), Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Hartmut Bitomsky, Mel Bochner, Gregg Bordowitz, Klaus vom Bruch, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Luis Camnitzer, Jan Dibbets, Mark Dion, Sam Durant, Valie EXPORT, Stano Filko, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Shilpa Gupta, Hans Haacke, Július Koller, Joseph Kosuth, Sonia Khurana, David Lamelas, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Locher, Marcel Odenbach, Yoko Ono, John Miller, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Peter Weibel, Lawrence Weiner, Stephen Willats, Heimo Zobernig

Curators/Theorists:
Alexander Alberro, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Sabeth Buchmann, Charles Harrison (Art & Language), Geeta Kapoor, Geert Lovink, Seth Siegelaub, Gregor Stemmrich.

Made possible with the financial support of Kulturstiftung des Bundes.  

Researchtable / Part of the exhibition CUTUP118

SERIES#001 / Projection body / single channel video installation / Alan Cicmak 08

78 RUE DES ARCHIVES

 75003 PARIS

VISION 80

Sketch due to the movie “Cottonline“