Luzie Meyer - Alexander Hempel - Martine Syms - Ghislaine Leung

Luzie Meyer, Voir Dire: Film Screening & Poetry Reading, in the framework of the lecture series Repetitions. Artistic Perspectives
October 30, 2024, 6pm
Auditorium, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna

For the film Voir Dire (2024), Luzie Meyer invited professional actor Maria Lehberg to one of Berlin's District Court Buildings, to re-enact a key scene from the 1979 courtroom drama "...And Justice for All" featuring Al Pacino. In the original film scene, defense lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Pacino) exposes the violence of the corrupt legal system in a spectacularly emotional monologue. Through repeated rehearsals and the recontextualization of the narrative with a female*-reading performer, and within a German courtroom, Voir Dire is a Ficto-Docu that deals with the ways in which individual cognitive biases and emotional investments play into the formation of normativity. Both her film and her subsequent reading, Luzie Meyer artistically explores repetition as a subject-forming device.

Concept and Organisation: Stefanie Kitzberger, Eva Maria Stadler & Jenni Tischer
Cooperation with Kunst and Wissenstransfer
Event in Englisch 

Performance by Alexander Hempel as part of the exhibition Ins Dunkle schwimmen. Abysses of the Creative Imperative

November 9, 2024, 6pm
Angewandte University Gallery Heiligenkreuzerhof 
Schönlaterngasse 5 / Grashofgasse 3, 1010 Vienna

In his performances, the artist Alexander Hempel deliberately plays with the expectations and attitudes of his audience. Through his performative gestures, he addresses his audience directly and thus involves them in his critical reflection, which is often aimed at an examination of social conventions and the institutional context in which the performance takes place. The interaction results in a blurring of the boundaries between art and everyday life, between private and public.

The event is part of the Vienna Art Week and will be held in German. 
Invited by Robert Müller and Cosima Rainer
Organisation: Egger-Karlegger and Manon Fougère

The African Desperate, Martine Syms, 2022
Screening and Conversation as part of the exhibition Ins Dunkle schwimmen. Abysses oft he Creative Imperative
November 14, 2024, 6pm
Angewandte University Gallery Heiligenkreuzerhof 
Schönlaterngasse 5 / Grashofgasse 3, 1010 Vienna

The African Desperate by artist Martine Syms offers a satirical critique of art institutions focusing on interpersonal dynamics and mechanisms of evaluation, categorization and exclusion. The film follows young Black artist Palace Bryant – portrayed by Diamond Stingily – during her time at an art school in upstate New York just before and after her graduation. After her final exam, Palace reluctantly attends the semester’s last party, setting off an absurdly funny odyssey. Syms uses hallucinatory images and ironically exaggerated situations to explore the desires of the “creative class” as well as the social and economic realities of the art world, while simultaneously challenging audience expectations.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Nanna Heidenreich and the artists Brooklyn J. Pakathi and Frida Robles Ponce.

The event is part of the Vienna Art Week and will be held in English.
Invited by Robert Müller, Cosima Rainer and Stefanie Kitzberger
Organisation: Egger-Karlegger and Manon Fougère

Ghislaine Leung, Questions, im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe Repetitions. Artistic Perspectives
January, 15 2025, 6pm
Auditorium, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna

Leung’s works often utilise their surrounding structures – exhibition space, temporal durational, regional location or organisational partners – as limits deployed through sets of conditions for each institution to perform the work. In her Questions talks, the artist takes the structure, and demand, of the artist talk to task, stipulating the requirement for no presentation to be given but there instead only be questions asked, to which Leung will respond accordingly.

Concept and Organisation: Stefanie Kitzberger, Eva Maria Stadler & Jenni Tischer
Cooperation with Kunst und Wissenstransfer
Event in Englisch