Herwig Weiser - Moving Image & Talk

Filme/ Videos
LARCHER VS. KITTLER, 1997, 3’37

UNTITLED (BIRDS), 1993, 36’’
UNTITLED (TESTBILD), 1993, 3’09
UNTITLED (THAI), 1993, 5’19

UNTITLED (SCHELLERER), 1997, 1’44
UNTITLED (BERGISEL), 1996, 40’’
UNTITLED (FALLING), 1997, 2’20
UNTITLED (OLYMPIA), 2001, 4’25

UNTITLED (MANTEL), 1995-1997/2011, 4’36
DIE VERLASSENE RUHEZONE EINES ASSISTENZHEILIGEN, 1996/2000, 4’35
ENTRÉE, 1999, 8’34’

UNTITLED (SARNTAL), 2013, 1’36
UNTITLED (SPIEGELTUXER), 2011/2015, 6’49
FULL NYLON JACKET, 2013, 1’39
HAUS DER REGIERUNG, 2018, 11’

The spectrum of Herwig Weiser's artistic works ranges from installations and machines to film/video and sound to drawings. The moving images that he has been producing for around thirty years (and which are consistently conceived from the single image) are not primarily conceived for the cinema space: they are created in connection with performances, installations, live acts, and often in collaboration with fellow artists from other disciplines. And to a certain extent they themselves remain in motion as "material" that can (re)manifest itself in different forms.
As the media theorist Friedrich Kittler pointed out in LARCHER VS. KITTLER (1997), he keeps on saying: In computer-assisted art at the latest, the end-final product is over - in this respect, this evening with Herwig Weiser is a rare snapshot. We invite you on an almost chronological tour through the artist's cinematic oeuvre, in the course of which connecting lines and loops emerge and continuities haunt us. Surprises included. (I.R.)

Free admission!

Moderation: Isabella Reicher 

 Talking Screen aims to explore the question of the diverse forms of presentation of films in the exhibition context, but also the cross-media interferences with other artistic practices. The presentation formats, conceived together with the guests, are deliberately kept open and are intended to include multifaceted varieties of (performative) self-presentation as well as to enable a critical discourse on cinematic formats & forms. As a respective setting, a combination of films, conversation and micro-exhibition is intended for one evening.

A cooperation between Künstlerhaus Wien and sixpackfilm