ALEXANDRA
REILL:
A TRILOGY OF INTERACTIVE REAL-TIME PERFORMANCES@upgrade!zagreb
When:
Friday,
June 7, 2013, 7 PM
Where:
Booksa,
Martićeva 14d, Zagreb
In the years 2010-2012, Alexandra Reill developed a
trilogy of interactive media performances reflecting the contemporary relevance
of Walter Benjamin, Hans Richter and Bertolt Brecht in an information age
digitizing itself in manifold ways and at the same time struggling with
turbulent economic difficulties. Now kanonmedia is invited by upgrade!zagreb to
stage a media lecture on the interactive mechanisms and the dramaturgical
structures of the trilogy:
#WB: quoting Walter Benjamin
An analogue-digital
reading
A print compilation and
real-time performance reflecting the contemporary relevance of the media
theorist and philosopher Walter Benjamin. The structure of facebook as a social
networking tool and magazine with decentralized notes,essays and media
publications, in a mixture of private and public statements coming from all
kinds of content fields, enhanced the concept of short daily updating and
interactive communication to collectively create an associative publication on
life and oeuvre of Walter Benjamin.
More info on:
http://www.kanonmedia.com/portfolio/publications/benjamin_paris.html
Tribute to Hans Richter
More info on:
http://www.kanonmedia.com/
Tribute to Hans Richter
A participative
audiovisual enactment
on contemporary
issues of the artistic sovereign
Oscillating between the
conscious creation of fiction and unconscious narration, improvised performance
and collective artistic action; reflecting the role of the artist as so-called
professional and that as a political sovereign; exploring aesthetic deepening
and social action, the interactive audiovisual enactment Tribute to Hans Richter
is an appreciation of the aesthetic work and the political attitude of the
Dadaist and early experimental filmmaker Hans Richter. In a common experience
with the audience, it reviews the Dadaist approaches developed in the beginnings
of film history in terms of their contemporary relevance for Expanded Cinema in
the second decade of the 21st Century.
More info on:
http://www.kanonmedia.com/portfolio/richter.html
Blessed Simonida from the Brilliant Grounds
More info on:
http://www.kanonmedia.com/
Blessed Simonida from the Brilliant Grounds
An audiovisual enactment on
contemporary issues of the political sovereign referring
to Brecht
Simonida is a Romni who works and lives at Hotel am Brillantengrund, the name of the hotel describing its location in a quarter of Vienna which once was the most wealthy industrial quarter of the city. Simonida enjoyed thorough education but to make a living she works as a waitress but knows poverty very well. She is aware of the plight of those who struggle for daily bread, but she is convinced that people – however they want to live or however they can make a living - deserve a life of prosperity and recognition. She tirelessly fights for the rights of the disenfranchised, but her battle is getting tougher in a capitalism being as shattered as ruthless. Simonida is stretched to her limits. Does this struggle make sense at all?
More info on:
http://www.kanonmedia.com/portfolio/simonida_vom_brillantengrund.html
Simonida is a Romni who works and lives at Hotel am Brillantengrund, the name of the hotel describing its location in a quarter of Vienna which once was the most wealthy industrial quarter of the city. Simonida enjoyed thorough education but to make a living she works as a waitress but knows poverty very well. She is aware of the plight of those who struggle for daily bread, but she is convinced that people – however they want to live or however they can make a living - deserve a life of prosperity and recognition. She tirelessly fights for the rights of the disenfranchised, but her battle is getting tougher in a capitalism being as shattered as ruthless. Simonida is stretched to her limits. Does this struggle make sense at all?
More info on:
http://www.kanonmedia.com/
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Photo
Sources:
Left: video still frame out of Blessed Simonida of the Brilliant
Ground, photo: Sascha Osaka, 2012.
Center: Warren Rosenzweig reading out
of #WB: quoting Walter Benjamin, photo: Lisa Sperber,
2010.
Right:
video-interactive ipad in Tribute to Hans Richter, photo: Sascha Osaka,
2012.
All rights
reserved.
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press contact:
Alexandra Reill
call: ++43[0]6991 820 70 03
mail to: alexandra.reill@kanonmedia.com
write to: 12/24,
Richtergasse, A 1070 Vienna
visit: http://www.kanonmedia.com
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