Prisoners of Venus. A Video Exhibition
Exhibition, Studio Building, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Opening: March 21, 2016, 7 p.m., Live Act by NAPALM TREE.
Exhibition: March 22–24, 2016
Curators: Lisa Stuckey & Anna Schachinger
Looped cognitive objects (thoughts, images, sounds, actions), affective technologies, the miracle of destruction, rituals between document and enactment, sexy gadgets, the fetishized mouth, patterns overlaying the fragmentary montages...
Prisoners of Venus features these recurring motives within the visual and rhetorical interdependencies of the various narratives. Some of the moving images function as objet trouvé, while others are carefully assembled placing an emphasis on their association to one another. This becomes evident both in the singular videos and the curatorial process.
Ecstatic bodies and topographies as if in trance – induced by oneself or others – perform a certain otherworldliness over biographic plateaus. The impression of a common filmic unconscious of the seven pieces is evoked, only separated by floating screens plunged in bluish light, the unconscious exists nowhere else but on the filmic surface itself.
– Lisa Stuckey –
Exhibition Publication: download as pdf
Videos
Beginning of a New Age by Minda Andrén
Business Crush by Isabella Mcguire
Spacerabbit by Jenny Palén
Prisoner of Venus by Emma Pryde
Bamboo Bamboo by Jessyca R. Hauser
Tripping in the Dunes by Anja Morell
Ancient Powers by Victor Lizana
Installation views © Gelardo & Palasciano
