In Adjunct Dislocations (1973), for example, the artist is transformed into a technologically-enhanced entity. Strapping an 8 mm cameras to her chest and back, Export traversed a number of different environments, moving erratically in a purposely wayward trajectory while filming both ahead and behind. Having herself filmed in the process, the resultant piece projects all three ...
All the shots of the slapstick comedy “A Film Johnnie” (USA, 1914) are shown simultaneously in a symmetrical grid, one after the other. Each scene, from one cut to the next, from the first to the last frame, is looped. A pulsing visual polyrhythm is produced as a result, because of the shots’ varying lengths. The total length of the mosaic film corresponds precisely to that of ...
Hyperbulie is a performance work that pushes the body to its physical extremes. The performance elements are first established: a framework of wires are connected to electric batteries. VALIE EXPORT appears and makes contact with live electricity as she negotiates the wire construction.
The nature of communication between the sexes is predetermined in our society. The politics of behavior that our society imposes upon men and woman can be demonstrated in physical form.
The escalator, consisting of stairs moving downward, demonstrates the existing communication systems in five separate phases. A man and a women are connected by a rope tied around their bodies.
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On a weekend in June 1983, in what was deemed a “country outing,” an impressive number of Berlin-based artists went to a small German village to give the local residents a taste of Berlin’s avant-garde art scene. Back in Berlin, the footage was manipulated to produce an “experimental examination.”
We glide into Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik,” soon to abandon standardized paths of conventional representational film and encounter a few seconds of passionate sensorial film – an example of what I would like to call “physical cinema.” The thesis: Mister Mozart would have enjoyed it. (Peter Tscherkassky)
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