Let´s show moving images! with Lisa Kortschak Event

LISA KORTSCHAK
In the context of
Let?s show moving images!

with
Sirah Brutmann / Eitan Efrat
Linda Christanell
Richard John Jones
Margarethe Kollmer
Lisa Kortschak
Piotr Krzymowski
Alison O?Daniel
Marion Porten

Program
OszillEntreNous, HD Video, 16:9, color, sound, 14:57min, 2012
DETROIT OVERTURE, HD Video, 16:9, color, sound, 10min, 2015
DANCE DINNER & DOOM DOG, HD Video, 16:9, color, silent, 14min, 2015

Lisa Kortschak concerns herself with spaces, places and sounds. The video work “OszillEntreNous” documents an artistic intervention in the Vienna Musikverein. We see a golden concert hall, the pianist Paul Gulda and a large group of spectators in the rear-facing view. A Bösendorfer piano, prepared by the artist, is being played. However, in the concert hall there are no sounds; the audience are wearing in-ear headphones. As we contemplate the video a different sonic scenery is revealed to us: whispers, coughs, throats cleared and rustlings, the mechanical sounds of the piano keys… In “DETROIT OVERTURE” eight cars perform a concert, the camera films them from a static position. Blinkers, horns, slamming doors, windscreen-wipers and sounds from radios gradually develop an impressive soundscape, the cars drive past and return, dance duets, trios and quartets. Black. “DANCE DINNER & DOOM DOG” is a closeup, a portrait. We see the artist herself. In complete silence a stream of expressions play across her face. The title, decomposed to single words, functions simultaneously as chapters and performance direction.

The screening will be accompanied by an artist talk and a music set by Denice Bourbon.

Lisa Kortschak is a Vienna based fine artist and musician who combines video, sound, music and performance in her works. 2008-2012 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was recognized for her video OSZILLENTRENOUS. In her practice she researches the fields opening up between digital video-layer and live-concert/ performance as well as between performance and documentation while continuing an interest in performative shifts and unexpected processes provoked by artistic interventions. http://lisakortschak.klingt.org/

Let?s show moving images! is a series of screenings conceived by Katharina Aigner and Barbara Kapusta for topkino in Vienna. Over a year works by eight local and international artists will be screened - Marion Porten, Margarete Kollmer & Piotr Krzymowski, Linda Christanell, Richard John Jones, Sirah Foighl Brutmann / Eitan Efrat, Lisa Kortschak and Alison O´Daniel. http://filmandtext.tumblr.com/

Denice Bourbon has lived in Vienna since 2002. Solo performances and collaborations etc. with CLUB BURLESQUE BRUTAL, CLUB GROTESQUE FATAL, Gender Crash. In 2013 her book ?Cheers! Stories of a fabulous queer femme in Action? was published by Zaglossus Publishing. She continues to write the columns ?lesben.nest? in an.schläge magazine (since 2008), and ?Queer as Hell? in Plastic Bomb (since 2015). She pursues her passion for music with the bands Projekt ME and JANE DOE.