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Video: „Me & Aids“, Artur Żmijewski, 1996

Kontakt - films and videos of the Art Collection of Erste Group on the VIENNAFAIR 2010

With its focus on “Film and Art”, VIENNFAIR 2010 presents in the special exhibition “Borrowed Time” curated by its artistic director Edek Bartz, films and videos mainly from private collections. In the framework of VIENNAFAIR’s film focus, film and video works from the art collection “Kontakt. The art collection of Erste Group” will be shown daily.

„Borrowed Time“: daily from 12 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Kontakt - films and videos: daily from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Kontakt - films and videos of the collection of Erste Group
Curated by Georg Schöllhammer
Production: Walter Seidl

Program:
Peter Weibel,  „grüß gott“, 1967/1972, Video, s/w, 45 sek
Tomislav Gotovac,  „Pravac“ (Stevens-Duke)/„Straight Line“ (Stevens-Duke), 1964, 16 mm s/w, 6 min 40 sek.
VALIE EXPORT,  „Cutting“, 1967, Expanded Cinema/Screen Action, s/w, Sound 2 min 5 sek
Peter Weibel,  „Multimedia 1“ , 1969, Videoaktion, s/w, 3 min 10 sek
Tibor Hajas,  „Öndivatbemutató“/Self Fashion Show, 1976, 35 mm s/w, Sound, 14 min 9 sek
Natalia LL,  „Consumer Art“ , 16 mm, Farbe, Sound, 15 min, 53 sek
Sanja Iveković,  „Meeting Point“, 1978 s/w, 6 min 6 sek
Dalibor Martinis,  „Open Reel“, 1976, s/w, Sound, 3 min 40 sek
Hans Scheirl,  „Straßenbilder“ , 1979, Super 8 mm, 11 min
Rasa Todosijević,  „Was ist Kunst Marinela Kozelj?“, 1978, s/w, Sound, 16 min 20 sek
Artur Żmijewski,  „Me & Aids“, 1996, Video, Farbe, 6 min 40 sek
Josef Dabernig, Markus Scherer  „Timau“, 1998, 16 mm, s/w, Sound, 20 min
Carola Dertnig,  „Revolving Door“, 2001, Video, Farbe, Sound, 2 min 2 sek
Dorit Margreiter,  „Jock“, 2001, Video, Farbe, Sound, 2 min 30 sek

Artur Żmijewski * 1966 in Warsaw, Poland, lives in Warsaw

Me and AIDS, 1996

Three people – a woman and two men (Eliza Twarog, Mariusz Maciejewski, and the author himself) – perform a painful ritual: time after time, they violently slam into each other. Their naked bodies are directly exposed to pain. Slow-motion makes the bodies look as if they are shaking like jelly. Żmijewski said that the most important event in this film was the collision of two people, reminding us of the dangers of life, especially those related to sex. 'Two men start running towards one other. They collide violently, with a thump. Another run, another collision, bang... They fall over. Now the two men slam into a woman. Another loud thud. Well, encounters with others can be painful.' Here a fatal illness becomes the physiological equivalent of an existential drama. The film was conceived for an exhibition of the same name, organized by Żmijewski and his teacher Grzegorz Kowalski in 1996 in Warsaw (Stolica Cinema, Warsaw; a.r.t. gallery, Płock).