Adina Camhy – Films, prints, live concert & talk

Free Admission!

Passage, 2023, 5 min.
Carter, 2022, 15 min.
Mensch Maschine Or Putting Parts Together, 2019, 8 min.

Moderation: Dietmar Schwärzler

Adina Camhy works at the interfaces of various media forms of expression - from sound and video, text, performance and spatial intervention to drawings and prints. The building of bridges (Passage), the productive allowing of omissions/holes (Crater) and the attempt to place individual parts in a relationship and put them together (Mensch Maschine Or Putting Parts Together) already outline her methodology on the basis of the individual film titles that will be presented on this evening.

The final images of the elaborate essay film Crater show a plastered area on a room wall, which is painstakingly covered and smoothed over several times with putty. The path to this final sequence of the film, executed with a steady hand, is spanned by image and sound sources - from NASA educational videos, sketches/images of the Ramon Crater in the Negev Desert of Israel or satellite recordings of the Sedan Crater in the atomic bomb test area of Nevada, from deceptive optical illusions. In Mensch Maschine Or Putting Parts Together, a birthday present from her mother becomes the starting point for a feminist journey through time into electronic music and military technology; in Passage, Camhy explores the landscape of Mars with the help of a 360-degree panoramic photograph taken by NASA's Perseverance rover in 2022 - the largest image of the planet's surface to date. It is always interwoven, multi-perspective thought experiments that are combined with accentuated sound fragments in her works and lay incredibly fascinating tracks. They characterize Camhy's meticulous investigations and meandering searches for clues. In addition to the presentation of textile and lenticular prints created in the context of the films Passage and Crater, Camhy will perform a 15-minute live concert that will get your heart pumping. Enjoy. (ds)

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 enable a critical discourse on film formats and forms. The setting will be a combination of films, talks and micro-exhibitions for one evening.

A cooperation between Künstlerhaus Wien and sixpackfilm