ART CITIES:Salzburg -The People’s Cinema

Martin Arnold, Whistle Stop, 2014, Courtesy the artist

Involving over 60 participants from around the world, “The People’s Cinema” includes an exhibition, 3 cinematic pavilions and 3 lectures, the project examines the intersection and relationship between cinema and contemporary art. Exploring a few “essences” of cinema, as relating to artists’ praxis, “The People’s Cinema” circumnavigates certain cinematic moments that occupy our psyche and our viscera.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Salzburger Kunstverein Archive

The project “The People’s Cinema” engages artists who work with this vast material and who produce artwork that acts out the dreamwork of moving pictures. The project appears as a collective phantasmagoria throughout the spaces of the Salzburger Kunstverein. The space of cinema and the cave of associations it bears also presents wandering ghosts and spells of sensations that urge our desires and create new ones. One might imagine the object emerging from the screen that itself contains a dream. When one enters into this object, into its ripe and dark interior, one may find there another screen presenting familiar and non-familiar forms. Exhibition: The work of 15 Contemporary artists is presented in the Main Hall, Kabinett Space, Red Room, and surroundings of the Salzburger Kunstverein. A participatory project by artist-in-residence Anna Witt also is on presentation. Cinema Pavilions: 3 cinema pavilions, including one outdoors designed by Erika Hock, house montaged films selected by international artists, film-makers, writers and curators. The central themes presented to frame the pavilions’ content are “Road to Damascus”, “Eternal Return” and “The Object”, the clips have been ordered to follow a loose narrative structure.  Lecture Series: Köken Ergun & Jesper Just 26/7, Anna Witt 9/8/16, Omer Fast 1/8/16 (all lectures start 20:00)

Info: Curators: Séamus Kealy and Vaari Claffey, Salzburger Kunstverein, Künstlerhaus, Hellbrunner Straße 3, Salzburg Duration 23/7-11/9/16, Days & Hours of the exhibition Tue-Sun 12:00-19:00, www.salzburger-kunstverein.at

Beatrice Gibson, The Tiger’s Mind, 2012, courtesy of the artist, Laura Bartlett Gallery-London and LUX-London
Beatrice Gibson, The Tiger’s Mind, 2012, courtesy of the artist, Laura Bartlett Gallery-London and LUX-London

 

 

Elizabeth Price, User Group Disco, 2009, Courtesy of the artist and Mot International-London/Brussels
Elizabeth Price, User Group Disco, 2009, Courtesy of the artist and Mot International-London/Brussels

 

 

Sung Hwan Kim, Washing Brain and Corn, 2010, Courtesy of the artist
Sung Hwan Kim, Washing Brain and Corn, 2010, Courtesy of the artist

 

 

Shana Moulton, MindPlace ThoughtStream, 2014, Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Gregor Staiger-Zürich and Galerie Crèvecoeur-Paris
Shana Moulton, MindPlace ThoughtStream, 2014, Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Gregor Staiger-Zürich and Galerie Crèvecoeur-Paris

 

 

Tamara Henderson, Accent Grave on Ananas, 2013, Courtesy of the artist and Rodeo-London
Tamara Henderson, Accent Grave on Ananas, 2013, Courtesy of the artist and Rodeo-London

 

 

Andrei Tarkovsky, The Mirror, 1975, Salzburger Kunstverein Archive
Andrei Tarkovsky, The Mirror, 1975, Salzburger Kunstverein Archive

 

 

Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, 1978, Salzburger Kunstverein Archive
Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, 1978, Salzburger Kunstverein Archive

 

 

Camille Henrot , Dying Living Woman, 2005, © ADAGP Camille Henrot, Courtesy of the artist and kamel mennour-Paris
Camille Henrot , Dying Living Woman, 2005, © ADAGP Camille Henrot, Courtesy of the artist and kamel mennour-Paris

 

 

Peter Tscherkassky, The Exquisite Corpus, 2016, Courtesy of the artist
Peter Tscherkassky, The Exquisite Corpus, 2016, Courtesy of the artist

 

 

Michelangelo Antonioni L’Eclisse, 1962, Salzburger Kunstverein Archive
Michelangelo Antonioni L’Eclisse, 1962, Salzburger Kunstverein Archive