Shooting Pictures (Bullet Time)
A cross-genre cooperation with the Volkstheater Wien and the Vienna Art Week on the occasion of the premiere of BULLET TIME – The Birth of Cinema from the Mind of a Murderer at the Volkstheater.
Zachary Formwalt, Daniele Genadry, Prof. Dr. Lisa Gotto, Alexander Kerlin, Prof. Dr. Bernd Stiegler, Matthias Seier as well as Saskia Te Nicklin, Michael Höpfner and students of Art and Time | Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna will present their positions.
Program
18h: Admission
18:30: Short introductory lecture
BULLET TIME – Who was Eadweard Muybridge? by Alexander Kerlin Alexander Kerlin, author of the play BULLET TIME, introduces the audience to the life and work of Eadweard Muybridge and his era in a short lecture with image examples and anecdotes.
19h: Discussion
“A bloody picture is better than no picture at all.” Eadweard Muybridge as a ghost of the present with film scholar Lisa Gotto and photo historian Bernd Stiegler, moderated by Matthias Seier The film scholar Lisa Gotto (University of Vienna) and the literary scholar and photo historian Bernd Stiegler (University of Konstanz) discuss Muybridge and the birth of the moving image, about images and murderers, the patriarchal violence of the cult of genius and a present in the endless stream of images in conversation with dramaturge Matthias Seier.
20h: Break & Drinks
20:30h: Artist talk and film screening
Unsupported Transit by Zachary Formwalt The video artist and filmmaker Zachary Formwalt presents his video work UNSUPPORTED TRANSIT (2011). A new stock exchange building designed by Rem Koolhaas is being built on a gigantic construction site in Shenzhen. The film links Eadweard Muybridge's early sequential photographs with the principle of time-lapse photography and Karl Marx's idea of capital, which seems to move "of its own accord".
21:15h: Artist talk Danielle Genadry in conversation with Michael Höpfner
The large-format paintings by the Lebanese-French artist Danielle Gendary repeatedly refer to iconic motifs from Muybridge's landscape photographs in the American West. Her work explores the potential of images to create their own temporality and to sharpen our view of presence and transience. In conversation with artist and photographer Michael Höpfner, she explains her work and her inspirations.