curated by_Tony Oursler: "Lapsed Cinematic"

Nach einem erfolgreichen Start im Jahr 2009 wird curated by_vienna heuer zum zweiten Mal in Wien stattfinden: Für das Projekt 2010 haben die 20 teilnehmenden Galerien diesmal KünstlerInnen eingeladen, zum Thema "art&film" Ausstellungen in ihren Galerieräumlichkeiten zu kuratieren.These artists live in the wake of the lapsed cinematic. That is to say, simply, that the linear spectacle of classical, cinematic narrative has expired. Erik Aalto, Martin Murphy and J.D. Walsh, are unique in their endeavor to find new meaning in the syntax of installation and moving image, finding themselves at the forefront of both art and cinema in this “Lapsed Cinematic” moment. A characteristic that seems to separate them is their insistence on putting the viewer at the center of the experience. The artists are comfortable navigating this subjective hall of mirrors, created by the viewer’s projected desires. These artists are willing to validate this aspect of human nature, thus mining a new paradigm for the moving image.

Aalto invites the viewer to enter his cryptic, yet pop-cultural schematic installation, which traces the interaction between three characters embodied in the abstract forms of a pyramid, circle and square. Murphy is concerned with culturally shared memory and epistemological perceptions of time, exemplified by his work in which one moment of an automobile accident is extruded into an endless moment. Walsh captures a “synaesthetic system between the sound and the image” as he is "tuning meaning" through his dexterous editing and collapsing of visuals, gesture and sound.