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Fellow members of the Berlin queer community mourn together the loss of their dead friends due to substance abuse and the mental health crisis as well as the loss of urban safe spaces in general. By sharing personal materials, stories, and honest criticism about the club scene, working on this film becomes a means of healing for this group of friends. Resembling glow-in-the-dark fungi, they radiate light together as a network of support and care, they transform dead bodies and memories into a collective structure that sustains future living.

Sarnt Utamachote (????? ????????) is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator based in Berlin. They are a co-founder of un.thai.tled, an artist collective from the German-Thai diaspora, and curated many film events and exhibitions regarding postcolonial histories, Southeast Asian diaspora and activism. Regarding their research in migration trajectories to West/East Germany, they have curated many research-based exhibitions such as Where is my karaoke? (2022 in D21 Leipzig; 2023 in Museum of visual arts Leipzig MDBK, 2024 in House of world cultures HKW Berlin) on the Vietnamese, Laos and Cambodian migrants in GDR (German Democratic Republic). On the other side in FRG (Federal Republic Germany), stories of sexualized Thai and Filipina women are found in Beyond the kitchen: Stories from the Thai Park (2020 in district museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf), and In nobody’s service (2024 in Galerie Wedding Berlin). They curated the intervention “Forgetting Thailand” (2022) at exhibition “Nation, Narration, Narcosis” (curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers) Hamburger Bahnhof: Museum of Contemporary Arts. Their short documentary films deal with intimacies and structures of Berlin queer kinship, sociality and collectivitiy. These are Sonic Reverbs (2022), I Am Not Your Mother (2020) or Soy Sauce (2020) have been screened internationally. I don’t want to be just memory (2024) won the Dok.Composition Award at Dokfest Munich 2022 and NEBULAE Award to represent German film projects at DocLisboa 2022. It has its world premiere at 74th Berlinale Forum Expanded. Currently they work as a film programmer at Short Film Festival Hamburg, Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin (2022-) and Sinema Transtopia. This includes other cinema-related projects such as symposium and international cinema joint-project “Cinema of commoning” (2022) at Sinema Transtopia (and 8 other cities around the world), “Imagining Queer Bandung” (with Popo Fan and Ragil Huda, 2021) workshop series and “un.thai.tled Film Festival Berlin” (with Rosalia Namsai Engchuan, 2019-now) at Sinema Transtopia Berlin. They also worked on and edited various music videos, online contents and short films such as Hundefreund (2022), which was nominated for National German Short Film Award 2022.

« Remote Occlusions » prend pour source des extraits d’un manuel d’appareil photo, qui détaille ce que le fabricant attend de l’appareil photo, tandis que le film présente les cas où l’appareil refuse ces intentions et ces attentes. Les images qui composent « Remote Occlusions » proviennent de caméras qui ne sont pas protégées par un mot de passe, disponibles sur des annuaires Internet qui publient les flux en direct de ces caméras. C’est dans cette zone grise éthique que les annuaires agissent comme des médiateurs qui rendent publics des flux privés. ___ Pas de scintillement. Pas de bruit. Pas d'artefacts. Pas de lumières vives projetant des ombres. Pas de brouillard, de nuages, d'arbres ou de bâtiments. Pas de personnes se déplaçant lentement ou immobiles pendant de longues périodes. Pas d'objets en mouvement dont l'apparence est similaire à celle de la cible dans les zones d'intérêt. Pas d'objets ondulants qui provoquent une modification continue de l'image dans la zone d'intérêt, par exemple une prairie avec de hautes herbes. La cible doit avoir une hauteur minimale de 30 pixels, soit au moins 1/10 de la hauteur de l'image. Le corps de la cible doit être visible sur au moins 3/4 de sa hauteur. La cible doit avoir une superficie minimale de 100 pixels et rester dans la zone d'intérêt pendant au moins 1 seconde. La cible doit également présenter une différence suffisante par rapport à l'arrière-plan, c'est-à-dire une différence de couleur d'au moins 5 % ou une différence de luminosité d'au moins 10 %. L'image doit avoir une résolution de 640x360, 640x480, 320x180 ou 320x240 pixels et doit être en orientation paysage avec un format 16:9. La caméra doit être installée à une hauteur comprise entre 3 et 5 mètres et l'objectif de la caméra ne doit pas être sale, humide ou embué. La précision attendue correspond à des conditions environnementales et d'installation idéales. Rappel : 95 %

Utkarsh is a filmmaker and writer from Delhi, India. His work has recently been programmed at EXiS, Seoul (Korea), 2024; Festival ECRÃ, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), 2024; FICUNAM 14 - Umbrales/Threshold, Mexico City (Mexico), 2024; Berlinale - Forum Expanded, Distant Connections, Berlin (Germany), 2024.

In August 2016, one of the largest dalit anti-caste protest-rally happened in recent history of India. The 10-day rally marched from Ahmedabad to Una in solidarity with four people who had been flogged in Una in an act of caste-related violence. Chalo Una is an intimate look at the remains of this rally. Shot three years to the date of the original rally, the film retraces its path, going to various sites of village meetings, protests, and so on. The film is an invitation to the audience to revisit and to be with the rally. The high-speed shots of these sites of protest are not only acts of memory but also are a trigger for another temporality, one that is disconnected from when it was shot. Retellings and memories of various people involved with the rally are layered with the images to further evoke the ghosts of this protest.

ujjwal kanishka utkarsh is a Phd-in-Practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He has been trying to develop a form that emerges out of the observational cinema tradition and he continues to do that through his PhD project. For ujjwal, this has resonances with John Cage's ideas of beauty and he has explored that through various forms and themes. He has looked at ideas of nothingness, of being in transit and also at labour practices, specifically at peculiar farming practices. In his current ongoing work, he is trying to see if and how through this form he can look at and reflect upon political activity. In the current political situation, where the space for voice of dissent is rapidly diminishing, truth is either viewed very simplistically and reality as objective or the post modern perspective renders all truth relative and all reality socially constructed. In this context, this is also an exploration to see if such ideas of observational form could create a space that avoids pitfalls of both these seemingly untenable theoretical extremes.

Located in the middle of nowhere, the salt pans of Kutch (Gujarat, India) have only saline water and no regular supplies. The farming months of October to March witness the salt farmers - the Agariyas, live by the salt pans. For these months the farmers visit their village homes once every fortnight to bathe and collect their supplies. mrigtishna is an attempt to see the salt farmer`s life up close, to step beyond the mirage.

A post graduate in Film & Video from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Ujjwal Utkarsh has been involved in film-making at several stages and in various capacities. Having worked in a range of places including the Bombay Film & TV Industry and the Developmental Sector, he now makes independent films while teaching Film Direction at the School of Film & TV, Rohtak, Haryana. His films have been showcased in various national and international festivals. Primarily a film-maker, he has been experimenting with his own practice and loves to dabble in other forms like photography, sound and theatre.

Soul of the Foot est un triptyque sur la métamorphose, retraçant la mémoire à travers des territoires cosmiques, domestiques et urbains. Le film s’ouvre sur des images d’archives de l’éclipse solaire de 1999, un événement céleste qui jeta son ombre sur ma ville natale d’Amasya quelques jours avant un tremblement de terre dévastateur. Ce moment de lumière et d’ombre devient un axe de transformation, où l’histoire semble se recalibrer elle-même. Le deuxième mouvement se situe en 2005, à travers un film familial qui capture l’intimité quotidienne : une grand-mère en prière, une tante préparant un agneau sacrificiel, les douces conversations de ma mère et de ma sœur. Les gestes personnels résonnent ici dans le murmure plus large d’une nation rêvant de l’Europe, où le domestique et le politique s’entrelacent. Le dernier mouvement s’aventure dans l’Istanbul contemporain, filmé en 16mm. La ville vibre au rythme des élections, des hommes kurdes sur un vapur, des enfants qui jouent, des musiciens de rue, une manifestation ukrainienne et des émissions de radio nationalistes. Entre les montagnes brumeuses d’Amasya et la lumière fracturée d’Istanbul, le film cherche un retour mythique, un pouls d’appartenance suspendu entre mémoire et dislocation.

Mustafa Uzuner est cinéaste basé à Montréal, Québec, et doctorant à l’Université York. Son travail croise l’archive, la mémoire et le cinéma expérimental. Son dernier film, Soul of the Foot, a remporté le Prix New Visions au RIDM 2025.

Une mère et sa fille se dirigent vers un jardin public. La mère, que des problèmes conjugaux préoccupent, en oublie de faire attention à sa fille qui joue sur une balançoire. Pendant ce temps, un homme à moto fonce furieusement à travers les rues trépidantes de la ville. Entre ces deux séquences, une scène montre un jeune garçon attendant qu?on vienne le chercher à la sortie de l?école. Deux jeunes mères pénètrent dans le parc avec une très jeune fillette qui tient un ballon rouge. Même si cela ne trouble en rien la préoccupation qui absorbe la mère dans ses pensées, sa fille est attirée par le ballon rouge. Les deux enfants s?observent l?un l?autre et sont pris du désir de lier connaissance, mais ils doivent avoir la permission des parents. La fillette au ballon rouge fait le premier pas et avance vers la balançoire. Elle s?approche, tend le ballon rouge à la petite fille en signe d?amitié et retourne vers les deux femmes. La petite fille à la balançoire lance un regard vers sa mère, quêtant l?autorisation de jouer avec le ballon. Parmi le chaos des conflits internes qui agitent l?esprit de la mère, et le bruit assourdissant de la circulation, la petite fille à la balançoire disparaît en marchant hors du jardin, tenant toujours le ballon rouge.

Vahid Vahed est né en 1959 à Téhéran (Iran). Il étudie au lycée puis à l´université en Angleterre entre 1975 et 1981. Il fait des études d´ingénieur civil puis de communication, avec la photographie et le cinéma en majeure. Vahid habite en Allemagne où il travaille pendant 3 ans comme éditeur et photographe, avant d´immigrer en Australie en 1984. Depuis son arrivée en Australie, Vahid a déjà travaillé comme journaliste, chargé de cours à l'Université, producteur/réalisateur cinéma et TV, commissaire d´exposition, et artiste vidéo. Il a également obtenu plusieurs diplômes : Associate Diploma, Charles Sturt University (Production Télévisée et Son), Bachelor of Fine Arts, College Of Fine Arts UNSW (Son, Performance et Installation) Master of Art, College Of Fine Arts UNSW (Art Temporel). Entre 1998 et 2003 il travaille pour le Ministère NSW (New South Wales) des Arts en tant que Multicultural Arts Officer, et est Directeur Artistique et Fondateur du Auburn International Film and Video Festival for Children and Young Adults (création d´un festival pour enfants et jeunes adultes, 1998) et CINEWEST (1999). En 2002 Vahid est élu Vice Président du CIFEJ (Centre International du Film pour Enfants et Jeunes Adultes), une organisation internationale conçue et mise en place par l´UNESCO et l´UNICEF en 1955. Vahid obtient le titre de membre pour deux ans au Conseil Australien pour les Arts, à la suite de ses recherches et pour avoir initialisé et favorisé les pratiques de développement culturel communautaire, et pour avoir encouragé les projections dans le cadre local, régional, national et international entre 2003 et 2005.

Une fraction de temps dans l'histoire présente de l'Europe unifiée où des personnes ne sont pas seulement exclues, mais aussi assujetties à une "forme moderne d'esclavage". L'illustre, une journée de Dziga Vertov à Moscou, après la Révolution sociale de 1917. Ce film décrit le travail des émigrés de l'ancienne Union Soviétique passant leur seul jour de congé, le dimanche, dans le Parco di Resistenza à Rome.

Né en 1965 à Odessa, f. CCCP, vit et travaille depuis 1987 à Stockholm. Education 2001-2002 Royal Art Academy, Stockholm. Post-Diplômé. 1998-2000 Columbia University, New York. Visual Arts, MFA 1999-2000 Columbia University, New York. Department Sociologie. 1995-1998 Konstfack University, Stockholm, BFA Expositions récentes et scéances: 2006 Exposition solo -Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Exposition Solo - Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen Innsbruck. 2005; 10ème Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; 51st Court Métrage Festival Oberhausen. 2004 Venise Architecture Biennale, Russian pavilion; 2003 ?Narration in Swedish Contemporary Art?, Suède; B-fact: Biennale deTirana et Istanbul; `It is hard to touch the real`, Kunstverein Munich, 26ème Festival du Film de Gothenburg.

Instead of following and depicting actions of others ?Border lessons? utilizes a subjective experience through ?birdfollower? who makes a camera recording while crossing the border in to European Union. This travelogue discloses the instructions, private and secret details behind an effort to migrate over to a better life. Previously undocumented from a first person point of view the daring journey becomes evidence, a bold statement and manual on how to cross the border without getting trapped. Consequently camera lenses are used not only to register the scenes, but moreover as a binoculars to make necessary observation for reconnaissance, as well as a device to find and put on record marked signs and walking paths.

Alexander Vaindorf (*1965 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a Russian-Swedish artist and filmmaker, currently living in Stockholm. Raised in Moscow, USSR he studied at Konstfack University and Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and received his MFA degree from Columbia University/Visual Arts in New York in 2000.

"Kids (group D)" est un film sur et avec les enfants de Chernobyl, apportant une réflexion sur la réalité du point de vue d'adolescents, une réalité qui se concentre sur eux par des événements qu'ils n'ont jamais vécus. L'ensemble est filmé en Ukraine durant l'été 1999, dans un sanatorium où j'ai vécu un mois avec les enfants ayant le statut identifiant de Chernobyl, groupe D (D désigne qu'il s'agit d'enfants). Leurs familles vivaient aux alentours de la centrale de Chernobyl et ont été évacuées vers différentes villes après l'explosion. Les 13 enfants du film sont tous nés juste avant ou après l'accident, et leurs souvenirs sont un amalgame des informations véhiculées par leurs familles, les médias et l'école. Le film expose "leurs" impressions des événements qui ont suivi le désastre, et comment cela a affecté leur génération. En contraste avec l'image véhiculée par les médias, les enfants ressemblent à n'importe quels adolescents et parlent de leurs idées pour le futur, ainsi que des réactions de la société envers eux.

ALEXANDER VAINDORF Il est né en 1965 à Odessa. Depuis 1987, il vit et travaille à Stockholm. Formation 2001-2002 : Etudiant de troisième cycle à la Royal Art Academy, à Stockholm. 1998-2000 : Maîtrise des beaux-arts, SoA/Visual Arts, à l'Université de Columbia, à New York. 1999-2000 : Etudes au Département de Sociologie à l'Université de Columbia, à New York. 1995-1998 : Licence des beaux-arts au Konstfack University College, à Stockholm.

Footage of different remote locations is manipulated to create an experience of one, generic place where two white Westerners, two local guides and a donkey are on an endless search through this ?unknown? landscape.

ALEXANDER VAINDORF Born 1965 in Odessa, f. CCCP, since 1987 lives and works in Stockholm. Education 2001-2002 Royal Art Academy, Stockholm. Postgraduate. 1998-2000 Columbia University, New York. SoA/Visual Arts, Master of Fine Arts. 1999-2000 Columbia University, New York. Sociology Department. 1995-1998 Konstfack University College, Stockholm, BA of Fine Arts.

Le film relate la création, sur deux ans, du premier texte théâtral de Toni Negri (philosophe et homme politique italien). "Essaim", mis en scène par Barbara Nicolier, retrace le parcours d’un militant à la recherche d`un moyen de résistance qui ne soit pas la guerre. A 71 ans, après avoir connu l`exil et la prison, Toni Negri se lance dans une expérience inédite. Le film montre la mise en scène de cette parole au théâtre.

Après des études à l'Ecole Audiovisuelle de Toulouse (ESAV) de 1994 à 1998, il entreprend un travail de recherche sur le cinéma burlesque (DEA à l`université Paris 3) pour lequel il travaille sur le film "No sex last night" de Sophie Calle. Depuis 2000, il travaille au Théâtre National de la Colline où il s'occuppe de la communication internet et vidéo. Dans le cadre de la revue électronique, il collabore avec Jacques Bonnaffé, Pascal Rambert, Daniel Danis, Jacques Roubaud, Michel Vinaver et Edward Bond. Parallèlement, il réalise "Triomphe de la suffisance" (court-métrage de fiction, 16 mm). Il travaille occasionnellement à l'Espace Confluences (projection de "Route 181" d'Eyal Sivan, rétrospective Marcel Ophüls, soirée courts-métrages). En 2003, il rencontre Toni Negri à Rome. De ces entretiens, naîtront un spectacle "Essaim", mis en scène par Barbara Nicolier et le film "Sciame / Swarm / Essaim - passage du sens à la scène".

Human behaviour in contrast to machines (animals) is influenced by events in the past, as far back as these experiences may lie. Therefore there exists a psychic paratime parallel to the objective time, where the prayers of anguish and guilt, the inability to win, deformations which rip open the skin, becoming aware of oneself, have their constant effects. I demonstrate something which represents past and present.

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.

This work documents a ritualistic performance concerned with Ansemia, or the inability to either express or understand gesture. Using symbolic materials - hot wax, a knife, a dead bird - as well as text, VALIE EXPORT investigates human expression, and how communication can fail. "I had used my mouth to take the knife from the podium, holding it in my mouth, (the knife is language, the naming of things, its separates the subject from the object) using it to cut."

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.

Like in “Split Reality”, the personality conveyed by a medium in this performance tape appears to be schizophrenic. Two video cameras and a mixer make possible a closed-circuit action that demonstrates not only the differences in the way the viewers perceive a person who is physically present in the room and simultaneously electronically reproduced, but also how the image is manipulated by its electronic conveyance. The camera zooms in and out, subjecting the performer's monitor likeness to permanent alteration. Specific synthetic sounds are linked to the picture: optically close = loud sound and rapid tone repetition, optically remote = quiet sound and slow tone repetition. The work is arranged in 6 parts: 1. space position, 2. split images, 3. space position composition, 4. split image composition, 5. body, 6. body composition.

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.

This 16mm film reflects EXPORT`s dialogue with the medium film: "Back then I was occupied with trying to find out how you can use this small machine to do things with various formal, artistic or performance-like sequences on celluloid: cross-fading, rewinding and starting over again, not having any clear pictures. In this project I was interested in moving towards the camera and moving away again."

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.

In “Sehtext: Fingergedicht” (Visual Text: Finger Poem) VALIE EXPORT communicates with her fingers. Sign language, as an elision of word and gesture, is investigated in this performance-to-camera work. The artist writes: "The body as carrier of information, in order to convey both spiritual and physical contents, is the reflected image of the internal/psychological and of the external/institutional reality."

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.

This video was made for a commission EXPORT received from the Theater an der Wien opera house for an installation on the occasion of the Mozart Year 2010. It shows in short intervals various bars of music, behind each one changing number combinations - 13, 167, 123, 16, 4 etc. - and two dice that roll into the picture displaying various numbers of dots. EXPORT's hand can be seen now and then, reaching for the dice. The images are accompanied by melodies played on a soprano saxophone. The springboard for this video work is a manuscript attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart titled "Anleitung zum Componieren von Walzern vermittels zweier Würfel" ("Instructions for Composing Waltzes Using Two Dice"), published posthumously in 1793. Mozart's interactive composition piece is based on a system for a musical dice game invented in the mid-18th century which is the oldest known method for combining numbers with the help of a random generator, in this case, dice. In this video, EXPORT summons connections to earlier photographic works and installations in which dice and randomness play a central role.

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.

In this video poem VALIE EXPORT speaks to the screen; the body-language action involving her loud, sensual, breathy voice is the main event, while the semantic content as "love-poem" is deliberately more of an afterthought. The focus is instead on the moment of not saying something out loud, of pre-linguistic expression. Only when the viewer follows step-by-step the letters breathed onto the glass pane as well as the performer`s head movements does a sentence become decipherable, which says: "I love you".

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.

At the 2007 Venice Biennale, I did a 12-minute performance in the Arsenale that showed the vocal folds of my throat while I was speaking. It was called “the voice as performance, act and body”. After a camera was inserted through my nose, the image was shown on large monitors so that you could see my vocal folds in the process of speaking. It was my own text that I read in German, a poetic text about the origin of language. “What is the anatomy of language?” I asked. My answer was just as much a body performance as any of my earlier works. Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no surface of the body independent of its interior. It’s obvious that the outside of the body is always connected to the inside, to thought processes and to an internal anatomy. (VALIE EXPORT)

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.

The rebellious voice, the split voice. The voice is suture, the voice is seam, the voice is cut, the voice is tear, the voice is my identity, it is not body or spirit, it is not language or image, it is sign, it is a sign of the images, it is a sign of sensuality. It is a sign of symbols, it is boundary. It speaks the “Split Body”, it is hidden in the clothing of the body, it is always somewhere else. The breath of life is its source. (VALIE EXPORT: Segment from the spoken text)

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.

As usual, the film is “shown” in the dark. But the cinema has shrunk somewhat – only two hands fit inside it. To see (i.e. feel, touch) the film, the viewer (user) has to stretch his hands through the entrance to the cinema. At last, the curtain which formerly rose only for the eyes now rises for both hands. The tactile reception is the opposite of the deceit of voyeurism. For as long as the citizen is satisfied with the reproduced copy of sexual freedom, the state is spared the sexual revolution. “Tap and Touch Cinema” is an example of how re-interpretation can activate the public. (VALIE EXPORT) This outdoor action on Munich's Stachus square translates the concept of expanded cinema and the cinema's fairground roots into the “first immediate women’s film”, as the artist describes her “Tap and Touch Cinema”. “Public” accessibility – restricted to 30 seconds per person – is noisily proclaimed by Peter Weibel. A direct demonstration of cinema as a projection space for male fantasies, this still ironic transgression of the border between art and life is an early indication of VALIE EXPORT’s often risky, but always resolute, deployment of her own body in later works.

VALIE EXPORT, Prof. Dr. h.c.media and performance artist, filmmaker born in Linz, lives and works in Vienna VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism. VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. 1967 invention of her artist name VALIE EXPORT: an artistic concept and logo to be written in capital letters only VALIE EXPORT takes part at the documenta 12 2007, and documenta 6, 1977, in Kassel 1985 nomination of EXPORT's feature film “Die Praxis der Liebe”, screenplay and direction, for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival Since 1975 curatorial projects, international symposiums, exhibitions and film programmes Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect. Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale, Venezia; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria. Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sydney, New York, etc.