Lecture-Performance: From MTV to Future Cinema

In a lecture-performance created in collaboration with Eva Fischer (Civa / sound:frame), Claudia Larcher opens up the echo chamber from which her images emerge. Through a multi-part score, Larcher’s films—including *Everytown* (2007) and *Clar9000* (2005, created with Leo Peschta)—are placed in dialogue with references spanning science fiction, MTV aesthetics, body horror, and critical theory. These connecting lines create a space of associative resonance, revealing the influences, motifs, and conceptual frameworks that shape Larcher’s work. Key reference points from her formative years include Pipilotti Rist’s early self-portrait work *I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much* (1986); the "cinema of the body" found in Claire Denis’s films, featuring cinematography by Agnès Godard (e.g., *Trouble Every Day*, 2001); VALIE EXPORT’s cinematic explorations of body politics; Björk’s cyborg-pop apocalypse *All Is Full of Love* (directed by Chris Cunningham, 1999); and Chris Marker’s still-image-based post-apocalyptic film *La Jetée* (1962). Somewhere in between lies *The End* (2025)—Larcher’s film about the end of cinema, set within the movie theater itself—conceived in collaboration with curator Eva Fischer.

Claudia Larcher in conversation with Eva Fischer

Admission to the talk is free; a voluntary solidarity contribution of 1 euro is welcome, with proceeds benefiting the *Kulturpass* initiative.