Let’s stay Realistic

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Almut Rink, film still from "Foamywater – Ground Moving Makes the Sea Look Deeper", 2008
Almut Rink - ARTIST TALK

■ DATE:

FR, 17.06.2016 | 19:00

■ LOCATION:

Depot – Raum für Kunst und Diskussion
Breitegasse 3, 1070 Wien

■ CONCEPT AND REALIZATION:

The Golden Pixel Cooperative

■ SUPPORT:

In cooperation with depot – Raum für Kunst und Diskussion

■ CURATED BY:

Simona Obholzer and Marlies Poeschl

■ SPEAKERS:

Almut Rink
Almut Rink’s video works can be located at the intersection between real and virtual spaces. In the series of works she presents in this artist talk, she creates deceptively realistic landscapes using 3D rendering software. These spaces are critically examined in her concise texts. In doing so, she contrasts the claim to realism of formats such as online tutorials with the futuristic potential of digitally conceived landscapes.

Let's stay realistic.

Realism is not a form in itself, but an assertion, a method. To remain realistic does not mean to rest on a foundation of hard facts, but to continuously break that foundation down. This event series takes as its starting point the exploration of various modes of documentary work in the fields of fine arts, film, and sound. The emphasis is less on the elaboration of thematic focal points than on the question of which approaches, practices, and attitudes the invited artists, filmmakers, and musicians* approach the concepts of “fiction,” “reality,” “projection,” and “authenticity,” and which aesthetic forms emerge as a result.
As a nomadic platform, Golden Pixel Cooperative docks at various locations in Vienna in order to expand the cooperative's orientation in terms of content and to connect to other audiences.

The artist talk with Almut Rink takes place as part of the event series “Let’s stay realistic.”

■ Almut Rink

is a visual artist, living and working in Vienna. She is currently collaborating with Carola Platzek on the research project Orientation as Gardening (FWF-PEEK). Her recent exhibitions include Solid Growth, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo; Topophobia, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London; gugler forum melk, Melk; and Foamy Water, Austrian Cultural Forum London.

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