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Tribute VALIE EXPORT
@Ars Electronica 2020
10. bis 13. September
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Die Praxis der Liebe VALIE EXPORT
Austria / Germany 1984
The Practice of Love color, 90 min
German
Opening Film
Eine engagierte Journalistin wird mit VALIE EXPORT’s third feature is an
dem männlich dominierten Machtapparat in anti-romance in which the heroine, between
den Medien und der Politik konfrontiert: Ihre two relationships, gradually discovers that
Recherchen werden nicht veröffentlicht, und both are impossible, not because the sub-
bleiben nur für sie selbst und ihr Privatleben jective processes of “love” are defective, but
relevant. Dies gilt für die Aufdeckung eines because the social matrix in which both her
internationalen Waffenschmuggelrings, in male lovers operate is corrupt: in this film, the
den ihr Geliebter involviert ist (zeitgleich pas- male world and its power structures cancel the
sierte die Noricum-Affäre in Österreich) und possibility of love beyond the matter of sexu-
für einen Beitrag über bezahlte Sexdienste. ality. Export makes use of techniques drawn
Videoüberwachungbilder aus dem städti- from her earlier experimental cinema, video
schen Raum, Foto- und Videokunstpassagen and conceptual photography to expand the
verstärken die düstere Stimmung im Wien possibilities of narrative feature filmmaking.
der 1980er-Jahre. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer) (Gary Indiana)
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Screenplay Producers
VALIE EXPORT VALIE EXPORT, Hermann Hendrich,
Cinematography Christoph Holch,
Jürgen Schmidt-Reitwein Thomas Wullenweber
Editing Production
Juno Sylva Englander VALIE EXPORT Filmproduktion,
Sound Königsmark & Wullenweber
Johannes Paima Filmproduktion Hamburg, ZDF
Music World Sales
Stephen Ferguson, Harry Sokal sixpackfilm
Cast Austrian Rights
Adelheid Arndt, Rüdiger Vogler, sixpackfilm
Hagnot Elischka, Günther Nenning, World Premiere
Gary Indiana Berlinale 1985
Menschenfrauen VALIE EXPORT
Austria 1979
Human Females color, 116 min
German
Der Journalist Franz (Klaus Wildbolz) In Human Females, EXPORT ad-
versucht seine drei Geliebten und die Ehe- dresses the sociopsychological conditions of
frau (Susanne Widl) bei der Stange zu hal- women and the clash of changing gender iden-
ten und pendelt von einer vernachlässigten tities in contemporary society through the
Frau zur nächsten. Unwissentlich befördert story of journalist Franz S., who is dating four
er damit bei zweien ein utopisch anmutendes women at once, following a tightly clocked
Streben nach Solidarität und Unabhängigkeit. schedule. Little by little the women catch wind
Das feministische Anliegen der Befreiung von of Franz’s game. (MoMA)
entfremdenden Rollenbildern wird bei Men- “VALIE EXPORT achieves in Human
schenfrauen nie ohne Ironie vorgeführt. Der Females what Godard strove for but failed in
Film vereint bravourös Elemente der Farce, his Every Man for Himself – a human view of a
der Komödie, des Melodrams und der politi- woman’s place in a man’s world.”
schen Kritik mit experimentellen filmischen (Seattle Film Festival)
Ideen. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
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Screenplay Cast
Peter Weibel, VALIE EXPORT Reneé Felden, Maria Martina,
Cinematography Susanne Widl, Klaus Wildbolz,
Wolfgang Dickmann, Karl Kases Christiane von Aster, Hilde Pilz,
Editing Lukas Resetarits
Tina Frese, Friedl Mayer Producer
Sound VALIE EXPORT
Herbert Prasch Production
Music VALIE EXPORT Filmproduktion
bananen & zitronen, World Sales
interpreted by monsti-ingrid sixpackfilm
wiener and VALIE EXPORT, Austrian Rights
zither: Karl Swoboda, sixpackfilm
Hotel Morphila Orchester World Premiere
Berlinale 1980Unsichtbare Gegner VALIE EXPORT
Austria 1976
Invisible Adversaries color & black and white, 110 min
German
Anna, Fotografin und Videojourna- Dancing a forlorn quickstep along the
listin in Wien, hört im Radio von der Invasion interface between dreams and waking, Anna
unsichtbarer Wesen – den Hyksos –, die die surfaces to that sinister sound of white noise
Menschen in Besitz nehmen wollen. Immer on the radio informing her that aliens, or
stärker wird sie von dem Grauen verfolgt, at least Invisible Adversaries, have invaded
dass Personen ihres Umfeldes bereits eine human beings. Noticeably blasé about this
fremdgesteuerte Bewusstseinsform ange- looming revelation, she seems to regard it as
nommen haben. Sie nutzt ihren Beruf, um yet more evidence of the way that modern life
sich und andere in ihrer Wahrhaftigkeit zu disfigures its artists, men dump on women,
hinterfragen. Die Auflösung der Identität the police hit you on the head, and Kreisky’s
Annas aufgrund hypersensibler Wahrneh- Austria represses everyone.
mungssteigerung und surrealer Wach- (TimeOut London)
traumbilder veranschaulicht EXPORT unter
Einbeziehung einiger früherer künstlerischer
Arbeiten. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
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Screenplay Cast
Peter Weibel Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel,
Cinematography Dr. Josef Plavec, Monika Helfer-
Wolfgang Simon Friedrich, Helke Sander
Editing Producer
Herbert Baumgartner, VALIE EXPORT
Juno Sylva Englander, Production
VALIE EXPORT VALIE EXPORT Filmproduktion
Sound World Sales
Klaus Hundsbichler sixpackfilm
Sound collage Austrian Rights
Hans Hartl, Rainer Kalchauser sixpackfilm
World Premiere
Berlinale 1977Das Bewaffnete Auge — Zoltan Pataky
Austria 1984
VALIE EXPORT im Dialog mit color, 135 min
German
der Filmavantgarde
Mit der TV-Serie Das Bewaffnete Auge In her three-part series VALIE
wendet sich VALIE EXPORT einer jener Gat- EXPORT takes a look at the themes of
tungen zu, die im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fern- “staged space - staged time”, “real movement –
sehen nicht mehr existieren. Anhand von movable reality”, and “structural film”. Using
Filmbeispielen u.a. von Wojciech Bruszewski, numerous examples from films by, among oth-
Sergei Eisenstein, Maya Deren, Kurt Kren, ers, Wojciech Bruszewski, Sergey Eisenstein,
Yvonne Rainer, Alfred Hitchcock, Linda Maya Deren, Kurt Kren, Yvonne Rainer, Alfred
Christanell und Marc Adrian werden narra- Hitchcock, Linda Christanell and Marc Adrian,
tive und nicht-narrative Erzählformen unter- narrative and non-narrative forms of story-
sucht und gegenübergestellt. Adrian wird telling are examined and compared. The
auch via eines „Live-Interviews“ in die Sen- advanced level of this film is also indicated
dung geschaltet, wo er Produktionsbedingun- by the numerous quotes from Christian Metz,
gen, Methodik und Zeitgeist anhand seiner Charles S. Peirce, Vsevolod I. Pudovkin and
Arbeit zu erläutern versucht. Ferdinand de Saussure.
(Dietmar Schwärzler, sixpackfilm) (Dietmar Schwärzler, sixpackfilm)
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Shown together with “Im Dialog” Screenplay World Sales
(see page 160) VALIE EXPORT sixpackfilm
Cinematography Austrian Rights
Walter Hendl, Johann Weninger, sixpackfilm
Hans Georg Havlik World Premiere
Editing ORF/Kunststücke 1984
Rudolf Pfabigan
Sound
Johann Riedl
With
VALIE EXPORT, Marc Adrian
Producer
Ewald Hontsch
Production
ORF/KunststückeProgram #1 Selbstportrait
Distribution:
mit Kopf
sixpackfilm
sixpackfilm.com Self-Portrait with Head
VALIE EXPORT AT 1966/67
black and white, 4 min
In her earliest preserved cine-
matic work, VALIE EXPORT presents her-
self in slow motion. The makeup and wig
tell of disguise and acting, and are simul-
taneously beautiful and terribly stony like
the anonymous woman’s head.
(Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
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...Remote…Remote… Hauchtext:
Liebesgedicht
Breath Text: Love Poem
VALIE EXPORT AT 1973 VALIE EXPORT AT 1970—1973
color, 10 min black and white, 2 min
In one of the most radical body VALIE EXPORT uses deep breaths
actions in the history of art, VALIE to breathe the sentence “I love you” on a
EXPORT performs a compulsive, bloody sheet of glass that to the viewer of the
act of self-mutilation triggered by trau- video feigns the illusion of her breathing
mas of the past. Photography, sound, and directly on the surface of the display or
film interact on the formal and the the- screen. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
matic level. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)Body Tape Hyperbulie
VALIE EXPORT AT 1970 VALIE EXPORT AT 1973
black and white, 4 min black and white, 7 min
The glass of the TV monitor and The naked artist crawls through an
the glass plate that is actually touched are obstacle course of electrified wires, touch-
experienced as one and the same in Body ing them deliberately and frequently. The
Tape. This conceptual video presents lan- violence and pain the woman inflicts upon
guage as a hierarchically commanding herself causes her nakedness to be devoid
authority in relation to other human forms of any eroticism. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
of expression. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
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Body Politics Asemie – die Unfähigkeit, sich durch
Mienenspiel ausdrücken zu können
Asemie or the Inability to Express One-
self through Facial Expressions
VALIE EXPORT AT 1974 VALIE EXPORT AT 1973
black and white, 3 min black and white, 7 min
A demonstration of the prede- EXPORT holds that everything
termined nature of common behavior not in accordance with the norms of com-
between the sexes: connected by a rope munication is considered pathological and
tied around their bodies, man and woman compulsive even though these “disorders”
move on two escalators. belong to the reality of the human being.
(Brigitta Burger-Utzer) One of these alleged pathologies serves as
the origin of this action.
(Brigitta Burger-Utzer)the voice as Sehtext:
performance, act Fingergedicht
and body Visual Text: Finger Poem
VALIE EXPORT AT 2007 VALIE EXPORT AT 1973
color, 11 min black and white, 2 min
The documentation of a perfor- Words are just one form of human
mance at the 2007 Venice Biennale shows expression, sign language being one of
how a laryngoscope was inserted through many others that are underrepresented in
the nose, into the throat of the artist, so our society. The meaning of what is shown
the glottis – the inside – would be brought can be read in its full wording only at the
to the outside during the act of speaking. very end. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
(Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
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Mann & Frau & TAPP und
Animal TASTKINO
Man & Woman & Animal
VALIE EXPORT AT 1970—73 VALIE EXPORT AT 1968
color, 8 min black and white, 2 min
Instead of the holy trinity: father, The title of EXPORT’s probably
son, holy spirit, instead of the profane best known performance in public space
trinity: mother, family, state, instead of the already is a reference to Expanded Cin-
social trinity: father, mother, children, the ema. The picture of the action became an
film treats the real trilogy in three sections. iconic photograph, as it deprives touching
What unites man and woman (not alone for the female breast of its sexual fantasy.
sure, but what is being concealed) is the (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
history of nature. (VALIE EXPORT)Program #2 Gedichte
Distribution: Poems
sixpackfilm
sixpackfilm.com
VALIE EXPORT AT 1966—1980
black and white, 8 min
Poems, written and performed by
VALIE EXPORT
I was born at the hospital which
belongs to the city of Linz
I suckled at the breast which
belongs to my mother (…)
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Adjungierte Facing a Family
Dislokationen
Adjunct Dislocations
VALIE EXPORT AT 1973 VALIE EXPORT AT 1971
black and white, 10 min black and white, 5 min
This film – originally only present- In her first work for TV, EXPORT
able as a triple projection – is based on a warns of the loss of communication within
performance at various locations. VALIE the family caused by television. While
EXPORT moves around, with two cameras watching the tube, the child has to keep
tied to her body and the third one follow- their mouth shut. The film was devised
ing the performer. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer) as an intervention to be shown during the
news. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)i turn over the Ein perfektes Paar oder die
pictures of my voice Unzucht wechselt ihre Haut
Lust
in my head
VALIE EXPORT AT 2009 VALIE EXPORT AT 1986
color, 12 min color, 12 min
The distilled version of the pub- A commissioned TV work on one
lic performance is reduced to the medical of the 7 deadly sins, indecency, is used
images of VALIE EXPORT’s glottis, philos- by VALIE EXPORT to make a statement
ophizing, in a broken voice, about the on the capitalization of the world and the
libidinous relationship towards her voice: human body and acted out, for a change,
oh how intense the utterance. as a shrill comedy. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
(Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
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Syntagma
VALIE EXPORT AT 1983
color, 18 min
The discrepancy between a wom-
an’s physical sensation and the object-
ness of her body as soon as it is looked at
or (re)presented in images is most clearly
demonstrated in Syntagma. The piece of a
true master! (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)Sie können auch lesen
