Fama Facing Trial: Words as Currency
Artistic-curatorial research project by Lisa Stuckey, 2020
Fama Facing Trial: Words as Currency is a multilingual work that contrasts (media-)architectures of law and jurisdiction with Fama, allegory of rumor, poetically responding to global “transitional justice” processes.
Installation views: kunst-dokumentation.com
Projection I: X-Y-Z
HD Video, b/w, 24 min
Concept, Editing: Lisa Stuckey
Camera: Manuel Carreón López
Drawing: Eva Kraler
Projection II: Fama Facing Trial
HD Video, b/w, 12 min, Multilingual EN/FR/GE/IT
Concept, Montage: Lisa Stuckey
Camera: Manuel Carreón López
Sound Design: Jakob Kolb
Fama’s Voices: Kelsey Baker, Julia Boog-Kaminski, Hannah Bruckmüller, Miles Russell
Text Fragments:
Vergil, Aeneis, 1952
Ovid, Metamorphosen, 1999
Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, 1986
Avital Ronell, Finitude’s Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium, 1994
Courtroom Drama Audio Footage:
Anatomy of a Murder, 1959
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961
Film Permit – Thanks to:
Österreichisches Filmmuseum
Wiener Stadthalle
Schlosspark Grafenegg
Funding – Thanks to:
Sofie und Emanuel Fohn Stiftung
Videostills Fama Facing Trial