Vanishing Points

Presents, Phenomenology, Screening

Screening

■ DATE:

December 2014

■ LOCATION:

Limited Access Festival, Tehran

■ CONCEPT AND REALIZATION:

Nathalie Koger, Marlies Poeschl

■ ARTISTS:

Josephine Ahnelt, Jennifer Mattes, Simona Obholzer, Christiana Perschon, Liddy Scheffknecht, Barbara Schwertfuehrer, Katharina Swoboda und Nathalie Koger.

The program for the Limited Access Festival Tehran (2014) brings together video works that engage with questions of visibility, sight, and perception, as well as their aesthetic dimensions.

The Golden Pixel Cooperative, „Vanishing Points“, Kurzfilmscreening, Limited Access 5, Teheran, 2014. — The Golden Pixel Cooperative, “Vanishing Points", Screening Program Limited Access 5, Tehran, 2014.

The Golden Pixel Cooperative, „Vanishing Points", Nathalie Koger und Marlies Pöschl im Dialog mit Amirali Ghasemi, Kurator von dem Limited Access 5 Teheran, 2014. Foto: unbekannt — The Golden Pixel Cooperative, “Vanishing Points,” Nathalie Koger and Marlies Pöschl in dialogue with Amirali Ghasemi, curator of Limited Access 5 Tehran, 2014. Photo: unknown

The Golden Pixel Cooperative, „Vanishing Points", Nathalie Koger und Marlies Pöschl im Dialog mit Tala Vahabzadeh, Kuratorin von dem Limited Access 5 Teheran, 2024. Foto: unbekannt — The Golden Pixel Cooperative, “Vanishing Points", Nathalie Koger and Marlies Pöschl in dialogue with Tala Vahabzadeh, curator from Limited Access 5, Tehran, 2014. Photo: unknown

The Golden Pixel Cooperative, „Vanishing Points," 2014, Nathalie Koger und Marlies Pöschl im Dialog mit dem Publikum. Foto: unbekannt — The Golden Pixel Cooperative, “Vanishing Points", Nathalie Koger and Marlies Pöschl in dialogue with the audience, Limited Access 5, Tehran, 2014. Photo: unknown

This program of video works was curated at the invitation of Amirali Ghasemi specifically for the Limited Access Festival in Tehran in 2014. It brings together works by a younger generation of artists based in Austria.
The screening engages with questions of visibility, sight, perception, and their aesthetic dimensions. What does it mean to deconstruct vision? And what becomes visible in its place? In what ways does our ability to see shape our perception? And how do we perceive the world around us without sight, and how do we relate to it? In what ways does architecture determine our gaze, and how do we reflect ourselves? Which gazes do we direct our gaze toward? Should we shift perspectives?

“During my artist residency in Tehran, I realized that the visual culture there was structured very differently from what I was familiar with in Europe: the distribution of public and private in real and virtual spaces; the ways in which hiding something can open up new possibilities for expression or for coming together; and the fact that some images eluded my perception or interpretation. After returning to Austria, I transferred these experiences into works within my own environment.” (Marlies Poeschl)

Josephine Ahnelt: “Tic Tac” | 2011, Super 8 to HD, b&w, silent, 2:38 min
Nathalie Koger: “Internalized Image” | 2014, HD, colour, stereo sound, 3:52 min
Jennifer Mattes: “M.ANY” | 2009, HD, colour, sound, 8:23 min
Simona Obholzer: “6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.” | 2012, colour, silent, 5:15 min
Christiana Perschon: “Noema” | 2014, HD, colour, stereo, 29:00 min
Liddy Scheffknecht: “whiteout” | 2008, SD, 16:9, 1:18 min
Barbara Schwertführer: “DAS HAUS (The House)” | 2014, SD, colour, sound, 4:11 min
Katharina Swoboda: “Untitled (Flying Trees)” | 2013, HD, colour, sound, 3:00 min