SCHIFFE AUS SAND
DESERTS & BACKBONES
an experimental documentary film on mediated realities
Screening:
Where:
Group of Media Experts / BSA
Landesgerichtsstrasse 16, A 1010 Vienna
When:
June 22, 2009, 7 pm
Afterwards:
Discussion with the film maker Alexandra Reill
still photo: alexandra reill, 2003
an african girl talking about lifestyles in the context of abundances as much as redundances, about the meaning of religion in the context of poverty and consumerism, about the meaning of emotions in the context of isolation and communities, exchange and communication ... a girl talking about love and life ...
a physicist talking about the relationship of order and chaos, energetic resolutions and genetic diversities, entropic emptiness and the need to compete, conquer and win a civilization knowing about the fictitious character of media realities, a civilization knowing that over-information and the equalizing of value systems produce indifference, a civilization maybe knowing that it has become redundant itself and fighting extinction ...
DESERTS & BACKBONES is a documentary film researching the question whether there is a will beyond human will, beyond rational will ... using the method of interviewing in combination with the formal language of audiovisual mixing for the dramaturgical juxtaposition of peoples’ outlooks on life either defined by such imaginations as fate and religion or by self-determination and autonomy ...
VERANTWORTUNG?
RESPONSIBILITY?
a sound installation and panel against daily racism
in the framework of the Municipality Festival 1070 Vienna
Where:
7*stern with sound on Siebensternplatz
Siebensterngasse 31, A 1070 Vienna
When:
June 9th - 11th, 2009, 7 pm - 10 pm
Opening Panel:
7*stern, June 9th, 7 pm
photo by christian watzke, 2006
Speakers:
Siglinde Bolbecher, Frauen AG der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (ÖGE)
Gilda Horvath, ORF Volksgruppenredaktion
Hikmet Kayahan, Bündnis gegen Rechtsruck
Bülent Öztoplu, Expert on Integration
Moderator: Alexandra Reill, media professional
Opening words by Madeleine Reiser, Bezirksvorstehung-Stv. 1070 Vienna, and Warren Rosenzweig, Jewish Theater Austria.
(3) Kerstin Kellermann, Abendland in Vampirs Hand, in: Die Presse, May 27, 2009; Translation: Alexandra Reill
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Christian Watzke, 2006
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/watzke/339881287/in/set-72157594452576428/
User Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.de
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 accepted by and now available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=alexandra+reill
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
ECHTE GEH'N NICHT UNTER
oder WÜRDEN WIR NEIN SAGEN? IV
REAL ONES ALWAYS SURVIVE
or WOULD WE SAY NO? IV
A tour against racism and polemics in every day language and thinking through a few districts of Vienna in June 2009
council housing in Vienna, photo: alexandra reill/christian perl 2005
Not least in the light of recent events in Austria, the media artist Alexandra Reill together with the social worker Karin Gruber take to the street with their socio-cultural project REAL ONES ALWAYS SURVIVE or WOULD WE SAY NO? IV. The interdisciplinary team tours the districts Leopoldstadt, Landstraße, Margareten, Neubau, Alsergrund, Ottakring and Donaustadt – the vast majority of these districts being working class neighbourhoods. At street fairs, traffic junctions and in markets the team distribute to people in the street [post] cards with images and text quotations out of the media showing the bluntness of prejudices and populist arguments used by racist forces at all times.
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Alexandra Reill/Christian Perl, 2005
Place and Time
9th district: Alsergrund: June 6, 2009
at the Südwind festival in the old AKH
11 am to 6 pm
7th district: Neubau: June 7, 2009
at the street fair in Stiftgasse on Spittelberg
1 pm to 10 pm
2nd district: Leopoldstadt: June 12, 2009
in front of the church Nepomukkirche on Praterstraße
10 am to 2 pm
5th district: Margareten: June 13, 2009
on Margaretenplatz
10 am to 5 pm
3rd district: Landstraße: June 19 but because of rain NOT on June 20, 2009
in front of the subway station Rochusgasse on Rochusmarkt
3 pm to 7 pm
as an installation in public space on Genochmarkt in cooperation with MIK
6 pm to 11 pm
16 th district: Ottakring: because of rain NOT on June 20, 2009 BUT ON June 27, 2009
at the farmer's market on Yppenplatz
10 am to 2 pm
kanonmedia,
non - profit org for new media, 12/24, richtergasse, 1070 vienna, t: ++43
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