This program invites audiences to trace sound as a constitutive, structuring element of video works and to challenge its relationship with the image: Which prompts which? Sound becomes an active authority, gains material presence, and propels narratives or makes them possible in the first place. It acts as a temporal continuum, sets the rhythm of the editing, and provides atmosphere. It facilitates movement and space. Sometimes it acts as a “glue” or supporting structure. Like an infrastructure, it makes almost everything possible unseen.

Program

Dora Budor, Noah Barker, Chase Manhattan, 2021–2022, 11 min
Ulrike Müller, Mock Rock, 2004, 3 min
Lis Rhodes, Dresden Dynamo, 1971, 5 min
Charles Atlas, What I Did Last Summer, 1991, 12 min
Artjom Astrov, Juice, 2022, 4 min
Henry Hills, Commute, 2024, 9 min
Milena Langer, Desire, 2023, 4 min
Klara Lidén, 550 Jamaica Ave., 2004, 3 min
Steve Reinke, Squeezing Sorrow From an Ashtray, 1992, 6 min

Presented by Chantal Kaufmann

Chantal Kaufmann is an artist living and working between Vienna and Zurich. She studied at the Zurich University of the Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Kaufmann’s artistic practice explores the link between image and language and their joint production of meaning in the exchange between author and recipient. Her video works were shown at Viennale, Kunsthalle Bern, and mumok cinema. Recent venues of her solo exhibitions include DOCK 20 in Lustenau, Memphis Linz, and Kunstverein Gartenhaus in Vienna. She is a founding member of the artist-run spaces UP STATE in Zurich and Shoefrog in Vienna. She currently teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.