HAUNTINGS – GHOST BOX MEDIA.
SECRET AND UNCANNY PRESENCE IN MEDIA, ART AND POP / SEPTEMBER 25th – DECEMBER 17th 2011
Opening: SEPTEMBER 25th 2011 / 11:00 am
Kunstverein Medienturm / Graz, Austria
ARTISTS: Yto Barrada / BIT Bureau of Inverse Technology / Minerva Cuevas / Leif Elggren / Michael Esposito & Carl Michael Von Hausswolff / Harappian Night Recordings / Julian House / Mike Kelley / Scanner / Jakob Kolding / Claudia Larcher / Moon Wiring Club / Baron Mordant / The Otolith Group / Walid Raad / Dr. Konstantin Raudive / Markus Schinwald / Zineb Sedira / Alejandro Vidal / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The open, electronic archives of our time radicalise this suspicion even further, as there is hardly a media artefact left that isn’t haunted by a ghost of the past. What are the characteristics of this secret presence or uncanny absence in contemporary art? How is the facticity of the simulacrum, the “presence of a ghost” (Jacques Derrida) manifested? What undead beings haunt an art whose main characteristic is its claim to contemporaneity? What “sinister resonances” (David Toop) are currently at work here?
Based on a small cross-section of a wide range of media, visitors can experience all the things that continue to pursue and haunt us in today’s art forms.
HAUNTINGS – SONIC SPECTRES.
GHOSTS, SHADOWS AND REVENANTS IN TODAY'S MUSIC
CONCERT SERIES / OCTOBER 6th – 8th, 2011 / generalmusikdirektion
ARTISTS: Harappian Night Recordings, Demdike Stare, Leyland Kirby, Dopplereffekt, Vindicatrix, Shackleton
For around five years now, the expansive field of music between Sampledelica and Dub Noir has been operating under the name of “Hauntology”. What these artists in this heterogeneous scene have in common is their work with ghostly echoes and vintage sounds from the past, sometimes interpreted as the projection of a lost future. Characteristically, they have a penchant for paranormal (media) phenomena, invoking their uncanny closeness in many different ways. In addition, they often play with effects of intimacy and distance and tap into pools of references from obscure film and television soundtracks. An exploration of music aesthetics, that has long since cast off its retro label.
HAUNTINGS – CINEMA
Hölle Hamburg (Peter Ott / Ted Gaier, 2008)
FILMSCREENING / 10.10.2011 / Cinema Hotel Mariahilf
Agitprop as a revenant grown savage, revolt and voodoo or the invocation of a past in the service of a future that deserves this name. Talk following with Ted Gaier & Thomas Edlinger
