08.05.2009-24.05.2009
Tue-Sun 10am-6pm

Eröffnung
07.05.2009, 7pm
Space02

A Secret Understanding Produced by Forma   

A Secret Understanding is about the elective affinity between art and music. The exhibition brings together a group of rather personal and yet very differently presented films by various international media artists tackling familiar music titles in unfamiliar interpretations. The films that come out of the process are to some extent disconcertingly detached and yet at the same time extremely intimate takes on the musical originals, covering the whole gamut of visual approaches from animation through video sampling to media art. The exhibition thus provides insight into a range of musical styles behind a public veneer of both sentimentality and a touch of irony.

The programme was originally curated and produced by Forma in 2007 for an event in Trafalgar Square in London in league with the ICA.

 

Filme:

• Star Spangled Banner Recurring by Graham Dolphin, with Star Spangled Banner Recurring by Jimi Hendrix
  Courtesy of the artist and SEVENTEEN
• Doug Fishbone, with Also Sprach Zarathustra by Eumir Deodato
  Footage by Billabong Odyssey courtesy Billabong
  Footage by Shark Park courtesy Greg Huglin Films
  Footage by Biggest Wednesday, Blackwater and Teahapo's courtesy TB Productions
• Nick Jordan, with Norwegian Wood by Cornershopp
• Clare Langan, with I Gaer by Sigur Rós
  Supported by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board
• Oliver Laric, with versions of Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Torsten Lauschmann, with Sway by Dean Martin and Julie London (Rip–Off Artist Remix)
• o/68 by Lia and @c, from O Superman (for Massenet) by Laurie Anderson
• Erik van Lieshout, with Kingdom Come by Jay–Z
• Jane and Louise Wilson, with Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Cat Power
• Am I Relapsing? by Young–hae Chang Heavy Industries, with Everyone's Got to Learn Sometime  by Beck

All films produced by Forma and commissioned by ICA for Beck's Fusions, 2007; total running time approx. 45 mins.

http://www.forma.org.uk

 

In cooperation with springnine. For visitors of the festival the Kunsthaus Graz offers a reduced ticket for € 2.50!