Susan Mogul: Programm 2

Mogul is Mobil Volume III Redux US, 1975/2022, DCP, b/w, 5 min.

Dear Dennis US, 1988, DCP, color, 5 min.

Driving Men US, 2008, DCP, color and b/w, 68 min.

When she moved from New York to Los Angeles, she had to get a driver's license to become, as the artist smugly puts it, a "Hollywood mogul". With the slogan "Mogul is Mobil", she produced a postcard (mail art), which she sent to all her acquaintances. Dear Dennis, on the other hand, is conceived as a video letter to Dennis Hopper, with whom she shared a dentist. Driving Men presents an intimate treatise - a video diary - of Mogul's relationships with men, whether sexual, friendly or familial. Her participation in the feminist movement, her protest against the Vietnam War, her support of "Black Power" and her Jewish identity also include self-reflexive artistic practices that reveal "the personal is the political" as a very subversive attitude. (Dietmar Schwärzler)

Photo: Austrian Film Museum