Premiere of the Kontakt Video Portraits (2022)
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Since 2020, the publicist and dramaturge Claus Philipp and the artist Manuel Gorkiewicz have been working in response to a commission by the Kontakt Collection to conduct and film conversations with Central and Eastern European artists and intellectuals who have contributed to a more comprehensive understanding of the artistic and social milieus, realities, and developments in this geographic and cultural sphere.
The first 15 Kontakt Video Portraits were presented to the public at the Viennese cinema Admiral Kino on 9 June 2022.
The Kontakt Collection and its research activities focus on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European artistic output that has accompanied the social and political developments of the past several decades and has been contributing important neo-avantgarde works to the history of art since the late 1950s. Numerous artists, curators, and theoreticians became contemporary witnesses to the processes of transformation associated with the key years of 1968 and 1989, processes that also fundamentally changed art.
The Kontakt Video Portraits shed light on these influences and the ways in which they have affected artistic, literary, and theoretical work, thereby continuing the tradition established by other art historically significant Austrian projects such as the “portraits of artists” curated by Peter Kogler for “museum in progress,” with its impressive panorama of international artistic perspectives from the 1990s, and Wilhelm Gaube’s oeuvre of around 250 artist portraits from the 1960s and 1970s.
So far, interviews have been conducted with the following individuals: Edek Bartz, Josef Dabernig, Katrina Daschner, Silvia Eiblmayr, Sanja Iveković, Anna Jermolaewa, Peter Kubelka, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Franz Schuh, Clemens Setz, Goran Trbuljak, What, How & for Whom/WHW, Werner Würtinger, and Želimir Žilnik. This series is to be expanded by new contributions on a continual basis.
The first 15 Kontakt Video Portraits were presented to the public at the Viennese cinema Admiral Kino on 9 June 2022.
The Kontakt Collection and its research activities focus on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European artistic output that has accompanied the social and political developments of the past several decades and has been contributing important neo-avantgarde works to the history of art since the late 1950s. Numerous artists, curators, and theoreticians became contemporary witnesses to the processes of transformation associated with the key years of 1968 and 1989, processes that also fundamentally changed art.
The Kontakt Video Portraits shed light on these influences and the ways in which they have affected artistic, literary, and theoretical work, thereby continuing the tradition established by other art historically significant Austrian projects such as the “portraits of artists” curated by Peter Kogler for “museum in progress,” with its impressive panorama of international artistic perspectives from the 1990s, and Wilhelm Gaube’s oeuvre of around 250 artist portraits from the 1960s and 1970s.
So far, interviews have been conducted with the following individuals: Edek Bartz, Josef Dabernig, Katrina Daschner, Silvia Eiblmayr, Sanja Iveković, Anna Jermolaewa, Peter Kubelka, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Franz Schuh, Clemens Setz, Goran Trbuljak, What, How & for Whom/WHW, Werner Würtinger, and Želimir Žilnik. This series is to be expanded by new contributions on a continual basis.