talk talk

Das Interview als künstlerische Praxis


Film screening, Discussion

Dates
26.9.–28.11.2009

Location
Kunstverein Medienturm
Graz

Production specifics
Koproduktion steirischer herbst & Kunstverein Medienturm, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Leipzig) & Galerie 5020 (Salzburg)

We live in a culture of constant talk – everyone is incessantly questioning their mutual achievements, their roles, their bodies, their passions. Interviews are the central agents of this self-discursification of society; they allow experts, people in general, and all manner of representatives to have their say. But the answers are becoming increasingly stereotypical, inauthentic and redundant: Everything that is said exudes the shallow pathos of an equivalence to which we can react only with indifference.

“talk talk” discusses interview methods and techniques in the context of contemporary art forms and shows that language, speech, talk, interview, confession, testimony and report are multifariously linked to visual practices. By means of a genealogy of the interview in contemporary art, the project sets out to explore the boundaries between self-discovery, interrogation, testimony and dialogue. Does art, amidst uniformity and talk, circulate a knowledge that opposes hegemonic discourses?

Kuratorin / Kurator: Marc Ries
Kuratorin / Kurator: Reinhard Braun
Kuratorin / Kurator: Hildegard Fraueneder
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Ursula Biemann
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Yvon Chabrowsky
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Dellbrügge & de Moll
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Jeanne Faust
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Andrea Fraser
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Jochen Gerz
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Klub Zwei
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Kathi Lackner
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Katarina Matiasek
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Alex McQuilkin
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Bjorn Melhus
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Antonio Muntadas
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Daniel Pflumm
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Oliver Ressler
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Dario Azzellini
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Julika Rudelius
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Axel Stockburger
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Kerry Tribe
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Ingrid Wildi

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