Programming of a series of three-hour evenings with film analyses / lectures / talks / workshops on artistic approaches to media / participatory production | creative writing | dramaturges in the fine arts / communication arts / artistic research for Warren Rosenzweig‘s Salon Living Room
concept | text alexandra reill, status: 17/02/2020
production kanonmedia / living room | vienna 2020 [production stopped because of the covid-19 quarantines]
Programming [*]
Please note: At the time being the following text is available in German only.
Film Screenings / Electronic Sound Performance TRACES IN TIME
Screening [of two] short films [in combination with two electronic sound performances] [**]
STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY THE CAT HAS NINE LIVES and white chairs /
Electronic sound performance by eargazm and Arthur Denisson
Moderator: Alexandra Reill
Total duration: approx. 60 minutes, followed by a get-together
Cp. [… https://www.kanonmedia.com/traces-in-time/] [**]
[…] [**]
Film Screenings + Film Analysis
STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY THE CAT HAS NINE LIVES and white chairs
Screenings [00:11:31:17 and 00:08:31:–] + film analysis focusing on the psychological phenomenon of dissociation + brainstorming talks on the current repercussions of idolizing the principle of individualization on identities cultivated in capitalist societies
Moderator: Alexandra Reill
STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY THE CAT HAS NINE LIVES
[… https://www.kanonmedia.com/strange-flowers-splash-or-only-cats-have-nine-lives/] [**]
white chairs
https://vimeo.com/86597860
Lecture + FAQs + Discussion
ON STRUCTURING COMMUNICATIVE ART PROJECTS IN PUBLIC SPACES
On structuring communicative art projects in public spaces and their possibilities for direct intervention
Lecture: Alexandra Reill presents three of her projects:
Velden re_visited
[… https://www.kanonmedia.com/velden-re_visited-en/] [**]
Salon Volkertmarkt
[… https://www.kanonmedia.com/salon-volkertmarkt/] [**]
REAL ONES ALWAYS SURVIVE or WOULD WE SAY NO?
[… https://www.kanonmedia.com/would-we-say-no-i/] [**]
Lecture + FAQs + Discussion
ON COMMUNICATION ARTS AND PERFORMANCE IN ARTISTIC RESEARCH
Structuring art projects from the field of communication arts and performance with regard to their significance in the contemporary discourse on the concept of “Artistic Research”
Lecture: Alexandra Reill will give an introductory lecture on current scientific definitions of “Artistic Research,” followed by a presentation and structural analysis of her projects:
Working on the Mirror
https://www.patachronique.com/permanent-archiv/working-on-the-mirror/
Circles. The Labs
[… https://www.kanonmedia.com/umkreisungen-2/] [**]
Lecture + FAQs + Discussion
on contemporary discourses concerning the relevance of artistic work today
and their significance in contemporary discourse, focusing on the social roles of artistic creation and the roles of artists in contemporary societies. The lecture is based on research questions from the artistic research projects Umkreisungen [Circles] [**] and Anrisse.
Lecture: Alexandra Reill
Cp. [… https://www.kanonmedia.com/anrisse/] [**]
Lecture + Joint Discussion
on dramaturges in the visual arts and contemporary possibilities for experimental writing in the age of AI and social mining
Lecture: Alexandra Reill, with an introductory joint talk on the “Heroe’s Journey” according to Campbell and Vogler, and a presentation of [… the analytical model she developed as part of the] [**] project never forget how fragile people are
Cp. never forget how fragile people are [installation]
[… https://www.kanonmedia.com/never-forget-how-fragile-people-are-2/] [**]
Reading + Joint Discussion
Blessed Simonida from the Brilliant Grounds following Brecht
The text version […] follows Bertolt Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards and served as the basis for the real-time staging of the same title at the Hotel am Brillantengrund in 2012.
Before the reading, the audience is invited to take notes on the text version. Based on these notes, contemporary possibilities for political sovereignty will be discussed together after the reading.
Reading and moderation: Alexandra Reill
Cpa. Blessed Simonida from the Brilliant Grounds
[… https://www.kanonmedia.com/blessed-simonida-from-the-brilliant-grounds/] [**]
Note: There is a rough cut of a film adaptation of the production, which has not been released. Playing this […] [**] version without sound could provide the visual backdrop for the reading.
WORK LAB
EXPERIMENTAL WRITING AND DRAMATURGICAL STRUCTURES OF TEXT TAPESTRIES
Screening Dreams That Money Can Buy
- Lecture on experimental writing
- Reading of the text version Tribute to Hans Richter + joint discussion
Introductory lecture on dramaturgical layout possibilities and the significance of text collages / text tapestries in experimental writing
Screening Dreams That Money Can Buy by Hans Richter
Brief analysis of the film at a glance
Reading of the text version Hommage an Hans Richter [EN: Tribute to Hans Richter]: The text version […] by Alexandra Reill […] [**] follows Hans Richter’s film Dreams That Money Can Buy and served as the loose basis for the real-time staging of the same title in the Rinderhalle Neu Marx in 2012.
Before the reading, the audience is invited to take notes on the text version that follows. Based on these notes, structural syntheses such as antagonisms in the field of tension between poetic production and factual writing will be discussed together after the reading.
Lecture, reading, and moderation: Alexandra Reill
Cp. Tribute to Hans Richter
[… https://www.kanonmedia.com/tribute-to-hans-richter/] [**]
Note: There is a documentary film about the production Tribute to Hans Richter.
An Evening of Collective Card Playing as an Artistic Barcamp on the Social Roles of Artists Between the Poles of Cooperation and Competition
CLOUDS IN THE SHARK POOL
In small groups, participants discuss quotes from art history and art theory and try—as in a UNO game—to combine two cards to hand in to the moderator, explaining what prompted them to combine them and earning points for doing so. Once the small group has no more cards, their round is over, and they can continue discussing openly until the other groups have finished theirs. Afterwards, the points earned by each group are announced and entered into the list of rounds. This ultimately determines the final winning group.
The card game itself is structured in its evaluation categories according to the catalog of factors valid in the scientific discipline of happiness research. However, the awarding of success points according to these categories proves in practical application that this can only be done arbitrarily, i.e., from the completely individualized and thus authoritarian perspective of the moderator(s), thereby negating the meaning and possibility of practicability. Nevertheless, it is to be expected that the players will accept the assessment…
In this collective real-time production, CLOUDS IN THE SHARK POOL reflects on the role of artists and cultural creators as a medium caught between cooperation and competition—an antagonism that is one of the cornerstones of ongoing scientific debate. Where do artists stand today? In the ongoing convergence of humans and media, we can foresee a medialization of identity and thus a synchronization of individuality, raising the question of whether not only information itself is a medium, but also the artist, indeed humanity itself.
Cp. [… https://www.kanonmedia.com/clouds-in-the-shark-pool/] [**]
Lecture
ON THE DEVELOPMENT PHASES OF AN EXPERIMENTAL FILM ABOUT THE PLAGUE, METAPHYSICS, AND CRUELTY
[… Currently] Alexandra Reill is working on the concept for the experimental film RETREATING IN SOLITUDE […] [**]. It is a film—as Antonin Artaud says about theater—about plague, metaphysics, and cruelty. Development was halted by COVID-19.
In this lecture, she presents her content-related, dramaturgical, and formal approaches to the composition of a film, which she conceives as a narrative in the form of a soundscape; as a cinematic narration that—by combining realistic images and sounds taken from everyday life with abstract ones, by merging voice-overs and soundtracks into soundscapes, by bringing factual analysis and poetry closer together—is dedicated to the vulnerability of being human. It is always as it is …
Note on planning before C-19: The production of the film was to be submitted […] [**] in 2020, but the submission has been postponed, so no preliminary work or production of materials may be started. However, there is sufficient source and research material in the form of photos, videos, illustrations, and text that can be referred to in the lecture.
Listening + Piece Analysis
Stephan Crasneanscki + Patti Smith: THE PEYOTE DANCE
Audio play following Antonin Artaud, featuring Patti Smith and Werner Herzog. Soundwalk Collective 2019
Screening + Work Analysis
THEMES AND ARTISTIC APPROACHES OF MEREDITH MONK
With respect to the film PETER GREENAWAY: FOUR AMERICAN COMPOSERS: MEREDITH MONK
Vgl. http://www.ubu.com/film/greenaway_monk.html
Screening + Film Analysis
Agnès Varda: LES PLAGES D‘AGNES
https://archive.org/details/2471LasPlayasDeAgnesAngeeParaZoowoman.website
Screening + Film Analysis
Chris Marker: La Jetée (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLfXCkFQtXw
Screening + Film Analysis
Georges Perec, Bernard Queysanne: UN HOMME QUI DORT
Screening + Film Analysis
Werner Herzog: Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (1974)
[*] Note: The order of the proposals is neutral and does not indicate any preferences. The texts are not formulated in a press-ready manner, as the document was intended for internal communication only.
[**] text editing / inserts 2025