09.02.–15.04.2012
1 Picture in CaféCult
Opening: February 8, 2012, 7 p.m.
As part of the exhibition series at CaféCult #53 Johannes Gierlinger is presenting a new work.
The focal point of the exhibit is ostensibly the short film Broken Time from 2011. Broken Time is a 48 second 16mm found footage film that was reworked by hand. However, only the YouTube link that refers to the artist’s cinematic work can be seen in CaféCult.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQtTFeOgZuU
This kind of presentation attempts to work around the spatial limitation of a projection and to refer to its seemingly endless archive. The film is no longer in the foreground, instead the question of accessibility and propagation of artistic projects. The link thus refers to new forms of presentation, interactive virtual spaces, and forms of projection that are apparently becoming obsolete in traditional exhibition spaces.
But the virtual space not only opens up new forms of showing, but also new ways of monitoring and getting an overview of art’s reception. How often is the link clicked? Do people write comments, and what are they? Is this form accepted at all?
Johannes Gierlinger, born in 1985 in Salzburg, lives and works in Vienna. Johannes Gierlinger studied digital media at the University of Applied Science in Salzburg and at Bilgi University in Istanbul from 2007-2010. He has been studying under Constanze Ruhm at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna since 2011. Gierlinger predominantly works in the field of essay, experimental, and documentary film as well as visual arts. www.johannesgierlinger.com
Photo: Andrew Phelps
