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09 08 2016  6 p.m.

Seeing Images, Hearing Voices

Rainer Fuchs, Lecture
Rainer Fuchs
photo: mumok photo archive

"Keren Cytter’s films don’t offer a conventional kind of narrative cinema. Rather, they pursue the grammatical and media rules governing the ways that films are constructed. Most of her films are about the human relationships between her protagonists, as well as the way that the media industry and society mark our memories and emotions. In the process, images and language don’t intertwine or affirm each other. Instead, they are separate and overlap each other in strands of images and texts. Images and voices don’t swallow each other up, but remain independent, and can be perceived in the ways that the films construct order and make connections. In addition, the plots of Cytter’s films always refer to the film, rather than to specific kinds of action. By reflecting on media and with her poetic, experimental understanding of text, Cytter refers to a film/literary tradition that can also be found here at home, for instance, in the films by Ernst Jandl." Rainer Fuchs

Rainer Fuchs studied art history, history and philosophy at Graz and Vienna. He is Deputy Director and head of exhibitions at Museum of Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna (mumok). Realised exhibitions are "Exhibition“ 1994, "Self Construction“ 1996, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres“ 1998, "Lois Weinberger“ 1999, "John Baldessari“ 2005, "Ryan Gander“ 2006, "Keren Cytter“ 2007; "Mind Expander“ 2008, "Malerei: Prozess und Expansion“ 2010, "Aktionsraum 1“, 2011, "Dan Flavin“ 2012, "Poesie der Reduktion“ 2012, "Marge Monko“ 2013, "Raum und Wirklichkeit“ 2014, "John Skoog“ 2015 and others. Publications on modernism and contemporary art have a focus of work on history of concepts and reception of expressionism and the classical modernism, and linguistic-analytical and conceptual art movements since the 1960s.

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