Screening elephy – Things Shared

Daten

– Österreichisches Filmmuseum

Beschreibung

The Brussels-based artist collective elephy presents three programs that extend the curatorial vision of their exhibition Living Apart Together (November 13 to December 14, 2024) at Kunsthalle Exnergasse to create connections and correspondences between their own works and other Belgian and Austrian artworks. Here, past and present meet in a dialogue between elephy films and Austrian creations, curated by the artists of elephy: Rebecca Jane Arthur, Chloë Delanghe, Eva Giolo, and Christina Stuhlberger.

Some share a provisional quality. Technology whirs, as if warming up for future use. Elsewhere, a white screen installed among Californian trees is a proposal, perhaps to imagine. Assorted modes of production (filmic, fruitful, lactic) rhyme and half-rhyme through tactile montage in one. Meanwhile in another, a body sleeps anywhere where there is lemony light.

Some share a muted shade of grey, a gradation of snow's white, melted and made sludge. That intermediate color belongs to something elemental here, and mineral there. (It starts to ossify.) Look – gray describes city streets too. Skyscrapers in New York, however, become host to surprise red/green/blue. Here in Vienna, comparable high-rise structures are crumpled and critiqued.

Some share an interest in family history. Yet whether seeking out a lost sibling, or embracing a Filipino mother tongue, or distributing an inherited tongue twister to today's Londoners, these sisters and daughters diminish blood-relation sameness. Even a film that studies a famous woman and her four children across an hour recognizes the tenuousness of family resemblance.

Beginnings, connections, a somnolent pause. Chromatic correlations, then spatial, personal, linguistic. Bringing together works from filmmakers who practice in Austria and Belgium, and complementing a parallel show at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, elephy have created a program in which difference as much as correspondence is the through-line. Here, the through-line frays and multiplies. It thickens. It twists. Here, one through-line is the simple fact of togetherness. They share the space of the program, and an audience in you. (Laura Staab)

[Quelle: https://web.archive.org/web/20250825104820/https://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1726451427479]

Do 14.11.2024, 18.00 Uhr, 20.30 Uhr
In Anwesenheit von Christina Stuhlberger, Cosma Grosser, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Tomash Schoiswohl

18.00 Uhr Program 1 (73’)
Cosma Grosser – Matterinplace_II, 2'
Christina Stuhlberger – Saying Not Said, 18'
Dora Maurer – Hétpróba, 53'

20.30 Uhr Program 2 (65’)
Rebecca Jane Arthur – Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer, 47'
Tomash Schoiswohl – Jumping Hochhäuser, 18'

Fr 15.11.2024, 20.30 Uhr
In Anwesenheit von Eva Giolo, Antoinette Zwirchmayr & Viktoria Schmid

20.30 Uhr Program 3 (35’)
Antoinette Zwirchmayr – Am frostigen Atlas,6’26
Viktoria Schmid – Achtung/Hallo 35, 2’
Chloë Delanghe – VID-20200603-WA008.mp4/VID-20200603-WA009.mp4, 2’
Eva Giolo – Gil, 5’
Viktoria Schmid – A proposal to project in 4:3, 2’
Viktoria Schmid – NYC RGB, 7’
Eva Giolo – The Demands of Ordinary Devotion, 12’
Antoinette Zwirchmayr – House and Universe, 3’44

[Quelle Programm: https://web.archive.org/web/20250512213827/https://www.wuk.at/programm/living-apart-together/]

Beteiligte

Rebecca Arthur, Chloe Delanghe, Eva Giolo, Cosma Grosser, Dóra Maurer, Viktoria Schmid, Tomash Schoiswohl, Christina Stuhlberger, Antoinette Zwirchmayr, elephy (Kurator/in)

Ausstellungen / Veranstaltungen

2024 Living Apart Together, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, KEX, Wien