What’s Up! Hits the streets…
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Thanks to everyone who came to the shows, supported the project, and to all of the artists.
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VIENNA: MAY 8-10, 2011
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MONTREAL: JUNE 8, 9, 2010
WINNIPEG: JUNE 11, 12, 2010
What’s Up Vienna! What’s Up Montreal! stretches beyond the borders of national identities to encourage collaborations between two cities.
Debut collaborations include:
- The trio of ANGELICA CASTELLO, BILLY ROISZ, and STEVE BATES.
- Filmmaker KARL LEMIEUX and Viennese turntablist dieb 13 in a stripped down duo highlighting connections between light and sound.
- DAVID BRYANT, KEVIN DORIA, and MARTIN BRANDLMAYR in a highly anticipated trio.
PAST:
- • Montréal’s HYENA HIVE and DIDI BRUCKMAYR in an all out meltdown (Montréal).
- • Montréal’s MARTIN TÉTREAULT, one of the world’s premiere improvising turntablists, will perform for the first time as a duet with dieb 13.
- • Austrian artists MICHAELA GRILL and BILLY ROISZ partner their unique video languages in a debut performance with TIM HECKER.
- • Winnipeg’s MICHEL GERMAIN in a trio setting with Radian’s MARTIN BRANDLMAYR and turntablist dieb 13.
- • crys cole brings her subtle electronics to the table with Christof Kurzmann’s laptop and clarinet excursions.
PERFORMANCES
JONATHAN PARANT
ANGELICA CASTELLO
dieb13
BILLY ROISZ
DOUGLAS MOFFAT
crys cole
MARTIN BRANDLMAYR
KARL LEMIEUX
DAVID BRYANT
KEVIN DORIA
STEVE BATES
DIDI BRUCKMAYR
dieb13
MICHAELA GRILL
crys cole
TIM HECKER
MARC-ALEXANDRE REINHARDT
CHRISTOF KURZMANN
MARTIN BRANDLMAYR
michel germain
MARTIN TETREAULT
BILLY ROISZ
RADIAN
NTSC
FILM AND VIDEO
VIENNA - 2011
8.5.2011
Austrian Filmmuseum
Augustinerstr.1, 1010 Wien, 20.30
Film Screenings
Daïchi Saïto | Karl Lemieux
Live Cinema
Karl Lemieux | David Bryant | Kevin Doria | Jonathan Parent
Programme:
Daïchi Saïto: Chiasmus (2003) 16mm, bw, mono, 8 min
An exploration into perceptual processes in the act of seeing and listening, Chiasmus takes film as a metaphor for the breathing body, through the intercrossing of the medium and fragmented images of the body in movement. The rhythm and tension created by the interplay between sound and image, and their disjunction and conjunction, aspire to an organic and sensual moment where inside becomes outside, and outside inside.
Daïchi Saïto: Chasmic Dance (2004) 16mm, bw, silent, 6 min
A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest themselves as a series of rapid abstract movements. Alluding to the cosmic dance of Shiva, the film is an expression of primal rhythmic energy, moving dialectically but without sublimation. Regeneration ignites destruction, and transformation invites mutation, through clashes of opposing modes such as video/film, surface/depth, and light/darkness.
Daïchi Saïto: Blind Alley Augury (2006) Super 8, color, silent, 3 min
Mile-End backstreet juxtaposed vision.
Daïchi Saïto: All That Rises (2007) 16mm, color, mono, 7 min
Juxtaposition of seeing and sounding, sky and stone and all that’s in between. A short walk in an alleyway, to hear vision sounding images, blessed with light and darkness.
Daïchi Saïto: Green Fuse (2008) Super 8, color, silent, 3 min
Green Fuse was shot in one day in a park, all edited in-camera. An impromptu visual poem revealing the perceptual transformation of space through a series of juxtaposed images of one single site seen from different viewpoints.
Daïchi Saïto: Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (2009) 35mm, color, Dolby SR, 10 min
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis is Saïto’s second collaboration, after All That Rises, with composer/violinist Malcolm Goldstein, who composed and performed for the film the original structured improvisation score, Hues of the Spectrum. The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in Montreal. Using the images of maple trees in the park as main visual motif, Saïto creates a film in which the formations of the trees and their subtle interrelation with the space around them act as an agent to transform viewer’s sensorial perception of the space portrayed. Entirely hand-processed by the filmmaker, Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis, with Goldstein’s contrapuntal violin, is a poem of vision and sounding that seeks certain perceptual insight and revelation through a syntactical structure based on patterns, variations and repetition.
Karl Lemieux: Mamori (2010) 35mm, bw, 5.1 Dolby Digital, 8 min
In the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, Lemieux set out to capture the textures of tropical vegetation and its various transformations under different lights. The result is an experimental animated film, produced by the coming together of two forms: the acoustic abstraction of Francisco López’s original music and the visual abstraction of the images. Back in the studio, Lemieux refilmed his original digital photos, one photogram at a time, with a 16-mm camera. He did photochemical tests on expired colour film and kept only the resulting black-and-white images. The final product: a subtle physical sensation that takes shape through the rhythm of the images, sounds and editing.
Karl Lemieux: Mouvement de Lumière/ Motion of Light (2004) 16mm transfer to Digi Beta, bw and color, mono, 8 min
Motion of light, which is comprised of noise music and lines hand-painted directly onto the film, attempts to break free of a visual and sound-based order through abstraction, thereby initiating a process centred on inner sensation. A radical proposition of power inherent in film.
Karl Lemieux: Western Sunburn (2007) Digi Beta, bw, stereo, 10 min
Western Sunburn is a re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.
Intermission
Live Cinema
Karl Lemieux: 16mm projektores
David Bryant: guitar, elektronic
Kevin Doria: bass, elektronic
Jonathan Parent: elektronik
Following the film screening the Filmmuseum will be transformed into a space filled with unsettling beautiful images and sounds that will be improvised by Karl Lemieux together with the musicians David Bryant (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, set fire to flames), Kevin Doria (Growing) and Jonathan Parent (Fly Pan Am). Using four 16mm projectors as his instruments Lemieux will transform the filmloops with mechanical and chemical means. Together with the melancholic fragility of the music this creates a hauntingly dark and levitational atmosphere which will open your eyes, ears and hearts.
PAST EVENTS…
MONTREAL - 2010
JUNE 8 - PROGRAMME 1: EXCESSIVE BODIES
The obsession with the naked body and all its secretions runs throughout the history of Austrian avantgarde filmmaking. From Vienna’s Actionist movement where the body served as provocative tool to demolish a conservative society to new tendencies in performance art where the male nude is recontextualized in a postfeminist discourse up to digital disfigurations of the video material itself, this programme assembles works that will make your body shiver!
Running time: 38 minutes
chronomops Tina Frank 2005, 2 min, video
Art & Revolution Ernst Schmidt Jr. 1968, 2 min, 16mm
*1 Albert Sackl 1997, 2min 30, 16mm
in the mix Jan Machacek 2008, 4 min, video
remote…remote… VALIE EXPORT: 1973, 12min, 16mm
10/65 Selfmutilation Kurt Kren 1965, 5 min 30, 16mm
my personality hates me! Didi Bruckmayr, Michael Strohmann 2007, 5 min, video
ragtag Billy Roisz: AVVA:, 2006, 5 min, video
JUNE 9 - PROGRAMME 2: THE MYSTERY OF PERCEPTION
The curiosity about what constitutes a filmic image is the focal point of the works in this program. Poetic yet analytical reworkings of Hollywood films, found-footage extravaganzas and reductionism to the smallest filmic component possible: pure absence and presence of light. Be prepared to see the world differently!
Running time: 43 minutes
passage à l’acte Martin Arnold 1993, 12 min, 16mm
Outer Space Peter Tscherkassky 1999, 10 min, 16mm
trans Michaela Grill, Martin Siewert 2003, 9 min, video
<frame> [n:ja] 2002, 5 min, video
Arnulf Rainer Peter Kubelka 1960, 6 min 30, 16mm
Tradition is the Handling on of Fire, Not the Worship of Ashes Gustav Deutsch 1999, 1 min, video
WINNIPEG - 2010
JUNE 11 - PROGRAMME 1: EXCESSIVE BODIES
Art & Revolution Ernst Schmidt Jr. 1968, 2 min, 16mm
*1 Albert Sackl 1997, 2min 30, 16mm
in the mix Jan Machacek 2008, 4 min, video
remote…remote… VALIE EXPORT 1973, 12min, 16mm
10/65 Self-mutilation Kurt Kren 1965, 5 min 30, 16mm
my personality hates me! Didi Bruckmayr, Michael Strohmann 2007, 5 min, video
JUNE 12 - PROGRAMME 2: THE MYSTERY OF PERCEPTION
chronomops Tina Frank2005, 2 min, video
passage à l’acte Martin Arnold 1993, 12 min, 16mm
Outer Space Peter Tscherkassky 1999, 10 min, 16mm
ragtag Billy Roisz: AVVA 2006, 5 min, video
trans Michaela Grill, Martin Siewert 2003, 9 min, video
<frame> [n:ja] 2002, 5 min, video
Arnulf Rainer Peter Kubelka 1960, 6 min 30, 16mm
Tradition is the Handing on of Fire, Not the Worship of Ashes Gustav Deutsch 1999, 1 min, video
DOUGLAS MOFFAT - Vienna Phonograph
Vienna Phonograph attempts to lay the rough surfaces of one landscape over the other - revealing contrasts of micro-topography, texture and sound. In a previous work Montreal Phonograph, the surfaces of the city were recorded with the aid of an all-terrain record stylus. The recordings, cut into a vinyl record, reduced the surface of the city to a scale that could be played on a standard turntable. A similar transmutation is planned for Vienna. Following the contours of the Ringstraße inwards to the centre pin of the Pestsäule, the all-terrain stylus will be employed a second time - to lift up the surface layer of sound from the inner circles of the city. An audio visual performance will bring together these two surfaces - Montreal and Vienna. A vinyl record of the muddy surfaces of Montreal are played back then mixed against the rough scrapings of Vienna. Side by side, two point-of-view video recordings follow the events as each city is traversed in twelve minutes.
DAICHI SAITO, Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis
See description in “Film and Video” this page.
KARL LEMIEUX, Mamori
VINCENT CHEVALIER, COVER
This video explores the play between two definitions for the word “cover”. Chevalier performs a version of a song by rock singer PJ Harvey by hugging a set of speakers against his body while the music plays. This gesture changes the sonic character of the music to produce a “cover” of the original song. It also serves to stifle some of Harvey’s extreme vocals. By inhabiting this space between between repetition and protection, Chevalier raises questions regarding the nature of performance, authenticity, and control within musical production.
(HD Video, sound, 5:00,
2010)
DANIEL OLSON, Noisemaker
A somewhat defective motor taken from a toy record player shot in extreme close-up and recorded through a contact microphone, transforming a small domestic object into something that looks and sounds more like a large industrial apparatus.
(1999, colour, stereo sound, 7:00)
DIANE MORIN, Effondrements
In commenting on Effondrements, the artist speaks of events. They are certainly tragic, as the object vanishes as soon as it appears. But they are also disappointing – the anticipated destruction of the light – revealed object never comes about. Despite the explosion, nothing blows up, nor is anything destroyed. In an exemplary photographic moment, the explosion here serve only to make visible an object lying still in the darkness and to reveal it as an image of that object disappearing before our eyes. In Effondrements, Diane Morin clearly demonstrates her penchant for the non-spectacular. She turns our attention toward a series of anti-events, where a silent wait in obscurity leads to a tale of repeated vanishings. - Nicole Gingras, translation Ron Ross
DAICHI SAITO, Blind Alley Augury
See description in “Film and Video” this page.
