No items found
Criticism / Reviews
Jeff Weber: An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, Roma Publications, Amsterdam 2018
in: Camera Austria International, no. 147 (2019), p. 86.
The black-and-white photograph spanning the full cover of this book shows an artist’s studio with the blinds of a large window and an overloaded working table. The front side depicts a small table with one of Jeff Weber’s Image Storage Containers (2010) and a 16mm film projector on top of it; next to a fan …
Read more…
Criticism / Reviews
Patrick Waterhouse: Restricted Images – Made With the Warlpiri of Central Australia, SPBH Editions, London 2018
in Camera Austria International, no. 145 (2019), pp. 92–93.
During the late nineteenth century, in the course of explorations to unknown territory, with the aim of mapping the last “blank” spots on the globe, the so-called “anthropological image” emerged. In the last decade, this white gaze onto the unknown has been under wide scrutiny, particularly within debates of postcolonialism or decolonization: image production always …
Read more…
Criticism / Reviews
Ana Hoffner & Kay Walkowiak: The Bacha Posh Project & Given—The Haunting Ghost, FÜNFZIGZWANZIG, Salzburg
in Camera Austria International, no. 142 (2018), pp. 75–76.
To what extent can artistic practices destabilize, defer, or extend normative categories? What is the potential of queer readings in processual approaches toward appropriation? With their open call for 2018, “Que(e)rverweise: Remix(e) & Referenzialität(en)” (cross[queer]references: remixe[s] & referentialities), 5020 investigates artistic positions whose works are characterized by the cracking, the dismantling, and the assembling of …
Read more…
Criticism / Reviews
Olga Chernysheva: Chandeliers in the Forest, Secession, Wien
In: Camera Austria International, Nr. 141/2018, S. 73–74.
ArbeiterInnen einer Glasluster-Fabrik konnten nicht mehr bezahlt werden und erhielten Kronleuchter als Entlohnung. Am Waldrand entlang einer von TouristInnen befahrenen Straße wurden diese edlen Stücke an einer einfachen Konstruktion aus Holzstöcken zum Verkauf angeboten. Diese Anekdote von Menschen, die nun mit Pragmatismus und Einfallsreichtum ihren Lebensunterhalt bestreiten müssen, hat Olga Chernysheva in der poetischen fünfteiligen …
Read more…
Criticism / Reviews
Where Are We Now? Retrospective Views, Presentiments & Departures into the Unknown, steirischer herbst 2017, various venues, Graz
in Camera Austria International, no. 140 (2017), pp. 69–71.
“They (the Nazis) were back. And they went as far as they were allowed to go. Within a couple of years, they had infiltrated parts of public life. In secret. Or, better: semi-publicly. My grandfather, the architect Fritz Haas, was one of the key characters of the veteran Nazi scene in Graz.”1 This was part …
Read more…
Criticism / Reviews
My Sweet Little Lamb (Everything We See Could also Be Otherwise), various venues, Zagreb
in: Camera Austria International, no. 137 (2017), pp. 77–78.
What could it mean to think about an art collection and connect it to reality—its past, its present, and its future? How to understand a collection that proposes to also be a body of knowledge on a period and place in time—but that currently witnesses how “alternative realities” have entered politics and shift towards a …
Read more…
Criticism / Reviews
Crisis as Ideology?, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien
in Camera Austria International, no. 135 (2016), pp. 80–81.
Various crises in late-capitalist Europe overlay each other: the financial crisis of 2008 was followed by multiple crises in a number of European states that continue to exacerbate the ongoing refugee crisis and terror threat posed by ISIS – to name but a few. “Today crisis has become an instrument of rule. It serves to …
Read more…
Criticism / Reviews
Regine Petersen. Find a Fallen Star, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 2015
In: Camera Austria International, Nr. 130/2015, S. 96–98.
2014 erschien im Textem Verlag das kleine Büchlein A Brief History of Meteorite Falls, in dem Regine Petersen auf rund 200 Seiten Dokumente anordnete, die von stellaren Ereignissen kosmischen Ursprungs wie Feuerbällen, Meteoritenfällen oder Sternschnuppen zeugen. Seit Aufzeichnungen über solche Vorfälle existieren, gaben sie Anlass zu Spekulation, führten zur Bildung von Legenden oder Erstellung von …
Read more…