Posts tagged sixteenth
INTERVIEW WITH ADAM ENGLER

“I believe in the principles of democracy and realize that it can only work with a good education. In this case, it is necessary to be awake and aware of the system’s complexity and to choose means of expression that also reflect the historical context of the territory in which I work. If I subsequently present it in another country, different perceptions occur in the viewer, and the work, by relocating, acquires a new dimension. Context, always important, is what should be available here.”

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CAPITALISM MAKES MONSTERS OF US ALL

She was ecstatic when she was offered this job. Finally, a position that completely aligned with her values as a human rights protector. Her years of unpaid work had finally been compensated. At last, the emptiness, the gaping vacuum, that she would feel at the centre of her chest most nights before dozing off to sleep, would be filled. A rewarding job! What more could she want?

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MIRROR, MIRROR

As Florentina Holzinger devised her own Divine Comedy, at Kunsthalle, Tscherner also creates an alternative story about the great Narcissus. Compared to Holzingers’s work, the performance is also based on a narrative story, mythological background: Mirror, mirror concept based on the fairy tale of Snow White, and on the Greek myth of Narcissus, both stories connected with mirrors and virtual images. Narcissus in this way conducts a concentrate of his own virtual image, as it refers back to his role in Greek mythology where he eventually falls in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life.

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PLACES WE LOVE

Places we love exist only in us is the opening sentence in a poem by Ivan V. Lalic. This video series is a project where I ask different people to tell their stories about belonging. Every episode contains 3 art workers of younger generations having creative control over how they want to be filmed, where, and what they want to speak about. In this episode, you will see Miloš Vučićević, Kata Martincsák, and Eugénie Desmedt trying to share their thoughts and build a mirror for collective self-reflection.

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