Focus on Heidrun Holzfeind: Programm 2

In her documentary work, Berlin-based Austrian filmmaker and visual artist Heidrun Holzfeind explores the interweaving of architecture, art and everyday life. In her films, the winner of the Camera Austria Award for contemporary photography questions architectural and social utopias and explores the intersections of history(ies) and identity(ies) associated with them. Holzfeind's works have been presented in renowned institutions worldwide, such as the MOMA in NYC or the Video Art Centre Tokyo, and have been shown at countless international film festivals.
Part two of the programme focuses on her outstanding two-part work the time is now, which takes a closer look at the Japanese improvisation/noise duo IRO: Toshio and Shizuko Orimo. While the two initially dedicated themselves to artpunk, after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 they turned to acoustic instruments, which they call ‘punk kagura’ in reference to kagura, i.e. music for the gods.
The film programme will be followed by an audience discussion with Heidrun Holzfeind.
Organisation and moderation: Lotte Schreiber

**20:30 PROGRAMME 2
the time is now. (2019, 48 min)**

Part I (2019, 20 min)
Japanese with English subtitles

The first part of the filmic diptych, which was first presented at the Vienna Secession in 2019, approaches the Japanese artist coupleIRO initially through architecture. Heidrun Holzfeind invites the two noise improvisersto appropriate a building complex by Takamasa Yosizaka. This action is followed by another improvised performance of piano, double bass and chanting, which is combined with documentary footage of street protests in resistance to US military installations and ends with the last, almost exorcistic punk concert by IRO in 1987.

Part II (2019, 28 min)
portrays the two performers in their artistic and philosophical careers. The film focuses on the mindset of the activist artist couple, who question themselves about their gender roles: a life that defies commerce and, with a few tricks of the trade, transforms the living space into a stage set for a traditional home with style.

****Installative projection in the ‘Saal 2’ loop at Foye**r

Friday market (2009, 8 min)**
Cairo. In a quiet long shot, the camera moves smoothly along abandoned railway tracks over the market.

The event is being realised in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the KKP Department of Art and Communicative Practice.

Film still: the time is now.