a real time audiovisual performance
reflecting the contemporary relevance of
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Korhan Erel, sound composer, Istanbul
in cooperation with
Alexandra Reill, media artist, Vienna
When:
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010, 8 pm
Where:
MAK - Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
Säulenhalle / MAK Columned Main Hall
julia margaret cameron
photographic study „Pomona“
alice liddell as young woman, lewis carroll 1872 (detail)
Malice in Sonderland deals with Lewis Carroll’s famous novel Alice in
Wonderland (1865). In their audiovisual performance, sound composer Korhan
Erel from Istanbul and Viennese media artist Alexandra Reill start with original
material from the 1933 Alice in Wonderland film directed by Norman Z. McLeod.
Using experimental digital methods, they examine the theme and the story of this profound fairytale and interpret it live at MAK NITE© with a phantasmagoric improvisation composed from digital images and abstract sound collages.
Erel and Reill question the societal relevance of Carroll’s bizarrely
adventuresome story. The artists’ research on the topic led them to formulate the title anew: Malice in Sonderland. Malice: this change in the wording refers to the desire to injure, to do damage, to act in a hostile manner. And Sonderland? What
characterizes capitalist societies today? What makes such worlds so special?
Must—and can—a “hero” or a “heroine” such as Alice find her bearings and
make her way in a society characterized by competition, in which one must fight
in order to ultimately prevail? What choices does an individual have in
unscrupulous societies that are oriented toward high performance?
Korhan Erel and Alexandra Reill pose these and numerous other questions on their journey through the twisted paths of Carroll’s Wonderland, and in doing so they create a “brave new world through the looking glass”.
Admission:
€ 9,90 incl. MAK Guide / € 7,90 / € 5,50
a c-print and online photo series
KOI Skies Series IV_1, alexandra reill, 2009
skies. no words.
Above the Skies
a screening night of experimental films
by Alexandra Reill, 2003 - 2010
airborne for 8 minutes, 2004
white chairs, 2003/2005
Above the Skies, 2006
Malice in Sonderland, 2010
When:
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010, 7 pm
Where:
Studio Leander Kaiser
Pernerstorfergasse 47/3b
A 1100 Vienna
free admission
ECHTE GEH'N NICHT UNTER
oder WÜRDEN WIR NEIN SAGEN? VI
REAL ONES ALWAYS SURVIVE
or WOULD WE SAY NO? VI
photo: alexandra reill / christian perl, vienna 2005
From April 13 to 23, 2010 the media artist Alexandra Reill meets with four cultural and social workers to discuss daily racism with people in the streets afresh. The tour against xenophia will take place on main streets in several "workers'" districts in Vienna.
The socio-cultural intervention against everyday racism already took place in June 2009 as a very successful tour through a number of districts of Vienna supported by the cultural commissions of the districts 1020, 100, 1050, 1090 and 1160 Vienna.
This time the tour is supported by:
Karl Renner Institut
Grüne Bildungswerkstatt
Grüne Bildungswerkstatt Minderheiten
Kulturkommission Simmering
Kulturkommission Stadlau
#WB: quoting Walter Benjamin:
Paris, die Hauptstadt des XIX. Jahrhunderts
online publication series on facebook
based on daily updates since august 3, 2009-
walter benjamin, paris 1937, dhm berlin
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, enhances the concept of short daily updating. Walter Benjamins essay Paris, die Hauptstadt des XIX. Jahrhunderts relates to interdependencies of media technologies coming up in XIX. century and having an influence of society and the arts in early XX. century. The essay is pioneering and many approaches of rethinking structures of society still seem to apply to the information age in its current states. the concept of daily short quotes on a social networking platform like facebook with its millions of members might be a socially effective contemporary approach to give appreciation to the ouevre of Walter Benjamin in all its contemporary relevance.
Art Following the Trend? Artists’ Voices.
Kunst im Trend. Artists’ Voices.
a study conducted by Alexandra Reill and produced by kanonmedia amongst international and Austrian artists on their self-understanding and definitions of their roles and functions in society as well as on their earning capacity and a research on contemporary developments of Creative Industries culture policies on EC- and national levels
German version now available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=alexandra+reill
new collection entries:
--- Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture of Austria / vie / a /09
--- Mediatheque of the Federal Chancellery Austria / vie / a / 09
heidulf gerngross, architect, A, 2007
Interviews and panels were performed regularly during 2006 – 2008 with international artists in conversation with Alexandra Reill focussing on their motivation to produce art, the targets of their art and their self-defintion of their roles and positions in contemporary societies, with a special focus on their financing models for the art production as well as their ways of life.
also visit:
http://www.kanonmedia.com/portfolio/voices.htm
kanonmedia,
non - profit org for new media, 12/24, richtergasse, 1070 vienna, t: ++43
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