The Generali Foundation presents Symposium Beyond the Frame. How and Why on May 11–12, 2012, 4–7pm.
With Rainer Bellenbaum (critic, film maker), Sabeth Buchmann (art historian, art critic, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Morgan Fisher (artist), Gabriele Jutz (film theorist, University of Applied Arts Vienna), Philippe-Alain Michaud (art historian, film curator, Centre Pompidou, Paris), and Constanze Ruhm (artist, professor at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Moderation: Christian Höller (art critic, Vienna)
Morgan Fisher’s oeuvre is rooted in the context of structural film, and some of his earliest works in fact constitute paradigmatic examples of that genre. Its primary concern was a reflection on the medium itself, its specific qualities and mode of functioning, a general description that leads to a series of questions: How may the filmic apparatus, its components, or the constraints imposed by the film industry ever be fully exposed in a way that would produce more than just “yet another piece of film”? How may the medium be engaged so as to “expand” it, revealing its limits and limitations from the inside, as it were? How do Fisher’s films operate with materials (found footage as well as pictures shot for the purpose) without lapsing into an aesthetic of composition? And finally, which precursors to a post-conceptual painterly and, more generally, image-producing practice may we discover in Fisher’s early filmic works? Questions such as these mark the point of departure for the two-day symposium Beyond the Frame: How and Why; extensive discussions of individual aspects of his filmic oeuvre will chart approaches to his later, “non-filmic” works and open up perspectives on other cultural artifacts as well.
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