Who?
The Golden Pixel Cooperative (GPC) is an association for moving images, arts and media, active within both exhibition and cinema contexts. It was founded from the need to act collectively in a predominantly individual cultural landscape.
With a critical, feminist and antidiscriminatory approach, we work on the production, distribution, and presentation of artworks and discourses. We foster empowerment and solidarity by enabling exchange and support between artists, cultural workers, educators and thinkers. Collectively, we work on projects that have various formats such as screenings, exhibitions, symposia and publications.
Our aim is to engage with a wide range of audiences, and to collaborate with a variety of cultural organizations and initiatives. We seek to share resources and infrastructures, strive for inclusive formats of participation, and build upon shared knowledge. We strongly believe in the political potential of kinship, one that is driven by openness, equality and continuous learning processes.
The Golden Pixel Cooperative is an association based on sustainable structures and therefore new members are incorporated gradually. At the moment, the membership is upon invitation only and often evolves from shared interests, values and previous collaborations. The Golden Pixel Cooperative has compiled a video archive featuring works by members of the cooperative. We are happy to provide access to it upon request.
ARTIST INDEX
Christiana Perschon
Christiana Perschon (*1978) is a filmmaker and artist based in Vienna. In her artistic practice, she combines documentary and performative methods to create film portraits operating outside dominant norms of representation and regimes of gaze. She establishes collaborative settings, where interaction guides the dramaturgy and shapes the imagery, dissolving the hierarchy between who looks and who is looked at. In her works she builds a framework for her protagonists to appear, interact and create moving images together with her camera – to which she confers its own agency. She does not only deconstruct the objectifying patriarchal grasp on female bodies, she rather pays homage to inspirational resistant figures, to their working and living practices, weaving their singular paths within a transgenerational framework.
In her recent film “Shifiting Silence” Christiana Perschon spends time with Inge Dick, standing out against a twilight sky seemingly infinite, aboard an old barge, that causes the camera and the horizon to gently sway. Together they investigate the passage of time as it translates into shifts of color and light. In the film, sight cannot survey space. Instead, it touches upon metaphysical and planetary time.
MARLIES PÖSCHL
MARLIES PÖSCHL (b. 1982) is an artist, filmmaker, curator and educator. She is currently based in Vienna (AT) and works internationally. Pöschl teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As co-founder and chairperson of The Golden Pixel Cooperative, an association for moving images, she has developed artistic-curatorial strategies for exhibitions, screenings and projects in public space with a focus on feminism and ecology.
Shifting between artistic, curatorial and educational approaches, Pöschl is interested in art as a form of knowledge production. She understands filmmaking as social practice and often collaborates with actors from outside the art world in search for polyphonic narrations and open-ended dramaturgies. Recently, Pöschl has focused on ways in which western societies respond to the ‘care crisis’.
SIMONA OBHOLZER
Simona Obholzer is a visual artist working with graphic and time-based media, with a particular focus on the intersection of image theory, spatial perception, and embodied experience. Central to her work is the question of how visual stimuli can extend beyond optical reception to engage the body’s proprioceptive and somatic registers.
Through her installations she investigates the gaze as a motor of movement and sensation, drawing attention to the physicality of seeing and the immersive potential of images.
Her projects often investigate the thresholds between natural and constructed environments, using repetition, rhythm, and spatial framing to evoke sensory and spatial awareness.
Obholzer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the Department of Video and Video Installation, and at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Prize for Innovative Cinema at Diagonale Graz (2024), the Prof. Hilde Goldschmidt Prize (2022), and the Austrian State Grant for Video and Media Art (2021).
Her works have been exhibited and screened internationally, including at VideoEx Zurich (CH), Diagonale Film Festival (AT), Kassel Dokfest (DE), MUSA Vienna (AT), Kunsthalle Wien (AT), Kunsthaus Graz (AT), Kunsthalle Tirol – Taxispalais Innsbruck (AT), and S.Y.P Art Space Tokyo (JP).
MIRJAM BROMUNDT
Mirjam Bromundt lives in Vienna and works internationally as a film projectionist and cinema technician. She studied Graphic Design, Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Valencia, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work spans various areas of technical support at film festivals such as Rotterdam, Cairo, Oberhausen, Locarno, and Berlin, as well as projection at the Austrian Film Museum. In her artistic practice, she explores the construction of reality, the apparatus of cinema, and the cinematic space.
