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CONTEXT FORM TROY / KONTEXT FORM TROJA. Junge Szene 03, Secession, Vienna, 18. Sep. ­ 16. Nov. 2003 All pictures by Manuel Gorkiewicz

Helvetica. Catalog by "Zeitschrift" i.e. Christian Egger, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Christian Mayer, Yves Mettler, Magda Tothova, Ruth Weismann, Alexander Wolff.

Isabella Schmidlehner 2, 34, 73, Rubrik 5, Misha Stroj 6, Michael S. Riedel/Dennis Loesch 10, 92, Valentin Carron: 4 croix 15, Jutta Koether: &c 19, Wade Guyton 26, Justin Beal invited by Mai-Thu Perret 30, Pierre Leguillon 32, 47, 71, Titelblatt 33, Constantin Luser: bettermustcome 40, Interview mit Daniel Baumann 44, Matthias Herrmann 48, Mathilde Rosier 54, Umfrage 58, Das Nichts 60, Robert Ku ´mirowski 62, Lucy McKenzie 66, Kalin Lindena 74, Vorwort / Preface 78, Scott Myles: TRIGGERTONIC.TV 79, Telefax 85, Trisha Donnelly: vortex 86, Roland Kollnitz: spotted sculptures: palmtree 88, Impressum 95, 96

Views of the exhibition

Mai-Thu Perret

Isabella Schmidlehner

Wade Guyton

Misha Stroj

Valentin Carron

Trisha Donnelly

Canadian Rain, 2002
8-mm-Film, transferred to DVD, 6 min loop /
Super 8 auf DVD kopiert, Loop 6 minutes

For Donnelly, the titular character of “El Cid, 2000, represents the body as vessel, recipient of the ideological projection of others.”6 In the work, she transposed the eponymous Opera into a silent light composition, reducing the experience to a rhythmic pattern of flashes, leaving us to project the sound. The flashes of light also mimic flashes of knowledge—the blink of time in which we might experience a rush of elusive interpersonal comprehension. Elizabeth Thomas, Exhibition Curator
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/empathetic/essay.html

At the end of the group show Kontext, Form, Troy Autumn 2003,
Trisha Donnelly asked the visitors to lie down in the Vienna Secession’s totally
darkened main hall and concentrate on the song The Battle of Boro-
dino. In a voice that is gentle yet insistent she asked them to become
immersed in the sounds, to go along with the whirl of notes and sur-
render themselves to the vortex of the music. After the song had been
played again and again, the artist, her voice once again insistent, asked
whether everyone had experienced the maelstrom. Ten minutes after
everyone had said they had, the lights went on. Donnelly now invited
them all to follow her to the small garden behind the Secession buil-
ding and walked straight to a tree behind which stood a man in black
trousers and white shirt in the dark and cold night. Donnelly drew him
forward and called out to the people, “He’s been standing there for the
past three years yet none of you has ever noticed him!” Slowly the
stranger withdrew into the dark.

Zum Abschluss der Gruppenausstellung „Kontext, Form, Troja“ im
Herbst 2003 in der Wiener Secession forderte Trisha Donnelly die
Besucherinnen und Besucher auf, sich im gänzlich verdunkelten
Hauptraum hinzulegen und auf das Lied „The Battle of Borodino“ zu
konzentrieren. Mit eindringlicher Stimme forderte sie einen auf, sich
ganz und gar in die Töne zu versenken, dem Strudel zu folgen und sich
dem Wirbel der Klänge zu überlassen. Mehrere Male wurde das Lied
neu abgespielt, die Künstlerin fragte mit eindringlicher Stimme, ob
nun alle den Wirbel erfahren hätten. Als alle so weit waren, ging nach
etwa zehn Minuten das Licht an, und Donnelly lud die Leute ein, ihr
nach draußen in den kleinen Park hinter dem Secessionsgebäude zu
folgen. Dort steuerte sie auf einen Baum zu, hinter dem, in der Kälte
der Nacht, ein Mann in schwarzer Hose und weißem Hemd stand.
Donnelly zog ihn hervor und rief den Leuten zu: „Seit drei Jahren steht
er nun hier, und niemand von euch hat ihn bisher bemerkt.“ Langsam
entfernte sich der Unbekannte.

Constantin Luser

Michael Riedel / Dennis Loesch Oskar von Miller-Strasse

Robert Kusmirowskji

Pierre Leguillon

Robert Kollnitz

Mathilde Rosier

Lucy McKenzie

Scott Myles

Kalin Lindena

Helvetica. Catalog by "Zeitschrift" i.e. Christian Egger, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Christian Mayer, Yves Mettler, Magda Tothova, Ruth Weismann, Alexander Wolff.

Isabella Schmidlehner 2, 34, 73, Rubrik 5, Misha Stroj 6, Michael S. Riedel/Dennis Loesch 10, 92, Valentin Carron: 4 croix 15, Jutta Koether: &c 19, Wade Guyton 26, Justin Beal invited by Mai-Thu Perret 30, Pierre Leguillon 32, 47, 71, Titelblatt 33, Constantin Luser: bettermustcome 40, Interview mit Daniel Baumann 44, Matthias Herrmann 48, Mathilde Rosier 54, Umfrage 58, Das Nichts 60, Robert Ku ´mirowski 62, Lucy McKenzie 66, Kalin Lindena 74, Vorwort / Preface 78, Scott Myles: TRIGGERTONIC.TV 79, Telefax 85, Trisha Donnelly: vortex 86, Roland Kollnitz: spotted sculptures: palmtree 88, Impressum 95, 96

Sunday, 16 Nov 2003, 4.30 p.m.
Performance by Trisha Donnelly

Sunday, 16 Nov 2003, 3 p.m.
Slideshow screened by Pierre Leguillon

Saturday, 15 Nov 2003, 3 p.m.
Slideshow screened by Pierre Leguillon

Friday, 14 Nov till Sunday, 16 Nov 2003
Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16, exhibition

Thursday, 13 Nov 2003, 6 p.m.
Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16, film evening

Thursday, 6 Nov 2003, 11 p.m.
Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16, club in Ramien, Gumpendorfer Str. 9, 1060 Vienna

Thursday, 6 Nov 2003, 6.30 p.m.
"Das trojanische Modell als Arbeitsprinzip" (Urte Schmitt-Ulms)

Thursday, 23 Oct 2003, 6.30.p.m.
Guided tour through the exhibitions with Rike Frank and Urte Schmitt-Ulms

Thursday, 25 Sep 2003, 6.30 p.m.
Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16, Premade Club/Recording 101103

Saturday, 20 Sep 2003, 6.30 p.m.
Slideshow screened by Pierre Leguillon

Thursday, 18 Sep 2003, 6.30 p.m.
Slideshow screened by Pierre Leguillon

Thursday, 18 Sep 2003, 6.30 p.m. CONTEXT, FORM, TROY
Exhibition Discussion with Daniel Baumann (curator of the exhibition) and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen (Director of the Acadamy of Fine Arts, Vienna). An event of Friends of the Secession