Akademie-Gespräch: Reale Verhältnisse | Gespräche und künstlerische Beiträge

In the organizer's words:

What does "real" mean in art? What tools, means and ways of thinking characterize artistic work? The academy talk "Real Conditions" asks how artists perceive their surroundings and translate them into form, proportion and composition.

What does it mean in art to be "factual" in a particular way? The word "real", derived from the Latin res, "thing", leads to the realisms that occupy the arts - social, economic, political readings, but not only. Artists track down phenomena, reveal manifestations and create events that can be arranged and combined in a network of "factual" relationships.

From the perspective of different artistic disciplines, we discuss how real relationships shape not only artistic work, but also our perception of the world. The participating academy members will bring artistic contributions.

With:
Carola Bauckholt, composer and director of the Music Section of the Akademie der Künste
Klemens Gruber, Professor of Intermediality at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna
Johanna M. Keller, Program Officer of the Academy of Arts
Helke Misselwitz, director and director of the Film and Media Art section
Cécile Wajsbrot, writer and deputy director of the literature section

Welcome: Manos Tsangaris, President of the Academy of Arts and composer

Moderation: Manos Tsangaris and Anh-Linh Ngo, Vice President of the Academy of Arts and architecture journalist

Artistic contributions among others:

Carola Bauckholt: In gewohnter Umgebung III for cello, piano and video, playing time approx. 10 min
Performers: Caspar Johannes Walter (cello) and Małgorzata Walentynowicz (piano)

Cécile Wajsbrot reads from: Oratorio
- It is night.
- April night.
- Spring.
- The Mediterranean.
- The vacation sea, calm and tideless.
- Without low tide, without high tide.
- On this night, as on others, moving shapes emerge on the black surface, following the waves.
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In German language