TransArts - Johann Lurf

TransArts - Johann Lurf: Motion & Pictures
Eine Veranstaltung von TransArts - Transdisziplinäre Kunst

I will present an overview and excerpts of his moving image and still image artworks, including my most recent publication Stargazing in Cinema. My methods of challenging our perception and questioning already existing images are the focus of this talk. The applied practice in analogue film, stereoscopy as well as digital media will be framing the presentation.

Johann Lurf is known as an experimental filmmaker who cannot easily be subsumed under one style or category. His films examine various modes of (both human and technologically-aided) vision and motion, but his more formally-oriented filmic experiments are always accompanied by strong narratives that, however subtly, examine society, codes, norms, perception, and the history and development of cinema itself. Dabbling in short and feature-length films, analog and digital film, found-footage and his own shots, Lurf has made a wide variety of cinematic works, many of which have been featured in international film festivals and cultural institutions, notably the Sundance Film Festival and the Austrian Film Museum.
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, August 2018

Born in 1982 in Vienna, Johann Lurf has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and had an Erasmus term at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2008. He graduated from Harun Farocki’s film class in 2009. He received the State Grant of Austria for Video and Media Art and participated in the Artist-in-Residence programs at the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles 2011, the SAIC in Chicago 2015 and in Tokyo and Rotterdam 2016 as well as in Israel in 2019. In the same year he received the Berlin Scholarship of the Akademie of Arts Berlin.
His work has been recognised internationally with awards and is shown in numerous museums, exhibitions, cinematheques and festivals.