kozek hörlonski in collaboration with Alexander Martinz
Demonic Screens I – Uninvited
Demonic Screens II – Arrival

Installation, Film / Commissioned work

Dates
21.9.–14.10.2018

Location
Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten
Graz

Production specifics
kozek hörlonski in collaboration with Alexander Martinz, Demonic Screens I – Uninvited (2017)
Installation and film

With the kind support of BKA-Medienkunst and Kunstraum Lakeside

kozek hörlonski in collaboration with Alexander Martinz, Demonic Screens II – Arrival (2018)
Installation and film

Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst

With the kind support of BKA-Medienkunst and University of Applied Arts Vienna

All great horror stories begin at home and in the heartland, whose imagery is uncanny if not terrifying after a 20th-century that has given the whole notion a nasty taint. This insight is the basis for Vienna-based artist duo kozek hörlonski’s ongoing project in collaboration with composer and media artist Alexander Martinz, Demonic Screens, whose second and most recent installment is a new commission for steirischer herbst. Continuing their broader interest in the historically charged and often genuinely disturbing elements of popular myths and folk culture, their short site-specific films propose something that could be best described as “Heimat horror.” The artists take the viewer on a filmic journey into the landscapes fetishized by the post-war Heimatfilm, a medium for kitschy, feel good, post-fascist patriotism in cinema. Its hauntingly beautiful mountainsides and landmarks now reappear as horror locations. In the first film, Uninvited(2017), they visited the region of Carinthia to look at motifs from the era of silent film, whose monsters dwelled in misty lakes and haunted castles. The project’s second part, filmed in the summer of 2018, goes to Graz and the surrounding unevenly industrialized region of Styria. Unearthing the contrasts between its idyllic vacation spots and cultural treasures on the one hand, and power plants, abandoned mines, and spoilt landscapes on the other, the artists haunt the typical places featured in the so-called urbanoia horror movies of the 1960–70s: shopping malls, small towns, factories, and summer homes populated by zombies, mutants, and your friendly neighborhood chainsaw-wielding psychopaths.

kozek hörlonski in collaboration with Alexander Martinz, Demonic Screens I – Uninvited (2017)
Installation and film

Concept and realization: kozek hörlonski, Alexander Martinz
Performers: kozek hörlonski, Alexander Martinz
Camera: Martin Musič
Editing, post production, sound: Alexander Martinz
Set design: kozek hörlonski
Assistance: Luca Malle

Special thanks: Burgverwaltung Hochosterwitz, Martin Oliver Sereinig, Fischereigemeinschaft Forstsee, Gutsverwaltung Frauenstein, Hemma Schmutz, Nora Leitgeb


kozek hörlonski in collaboration with Alexander Martinz, Demonic Screens II – Arrival (2018)
Installation and film

Concept and realization: kozek hörlonski, Alexander Martinz
Performers: kozek hörlonski, Alexander Martinz, Fiona Grassberger, Laura Grassberger, Matteo Wagnest, Timon Wagnest, Tonio Wagnest, Lenard Wagnest, Emanuel Skubida, Martina Menegon, Enrico Zago, Susanne Pessentheiner, Paul Fuchs, Hubertus Haidl, Felix Scheuer, Nadine Klar, Sarah A. Klaunzer
Camera: Martin Musič
Light: Christian Angermayr
Editing, post production, sound: Alexander Martinz
Set design and make-up: kozek hörlonski

Special thanks: Abenteuer Erzberg, Michael J. Greger, Kunsthotel Fuchspalast (St. Veit a.d. Glan), Österreichischer Skulpturenpark – Elisabeth Fiedler, Matta Wagnest (Labyrinth, 2006), IPG – ImmobilienPartnerGmbH, INSITU Geotechnik ZT GmbH, Jakob Schrotter (Wurzeljog), Viktor Schrotter, Johannes von Moltke

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