around and around

The cinematic has always maneuvered in the charged field of visibility and its disruption or dissolution. Images appear and produce an order of visibility, yet to the same degree, cut and montage, slowing down and speeding up, superimposing and suppressing simultaneously drive this order to a border that it both constitutes and threatens, or at the very least, questions.

around and around by Annja Krautgasser refers to this border in multiple ways: there is, for one, the horizon, both end and unknown beginning, the division of the world, the demarcation of the field of view; there is also the...

around and around / française

De tout temps, le travail filmique a été soumis aux forces contraires de la perceptibilité visuelle et de la désorganisation de cette dernière, voire de sa dissolution. À mesure que les images apparaissent et instaurent un ordre visible, cet ordre même, à travers le découpage des séquences et le montage, lutilisation du ralenti ou de laccéléré, les fondus enchaînés ou les fondus de fermeture, se voit repoussé jusquà une zone-frontière où ses éléments constitutifs, préservés ou menacés, sont tout au moins remis en question.

À de nombreux égards, Around and Around dAnnja Krautgasser se réfère à cette zone-frontière, quil sagisse de...

Asymmetrical Focus (EN)

Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue. Galerie Stadtpark, Krems. 22.5. - 12.7. 2009

Text: David Komary

The exhibition Asymmetrical Focus continues to explore the topics of asymmetrical negotiations and considerations of space theory. Previous shows, Impermanent Geometry (2008) and Interfering Contours (2009), explored the constitution of spatiality in the context of the media; this show looks more precisely in the context of the motion picture film based image. While Miriam Bajtala and Annja Krautgasser focus on the specifics of the filmic and performative, their resulting media construction cannot be reduced to a technical/mechanical level. The artists investigate the basic constituents of the cinematographic...