FERMATE

Program

• Fermate. Ein Moment des Innehaltens: Gemeinsam mit dem Komponisten Brice Pauset und dem Künstlerduo Arotin & Serghei befragt Autor und Kurator Alexander Horwath das eben Gehörte.

Cast

• Brice Pauset: Gespräch
• Arotin & Serghei: Gespräch
• Alexander Horwath: Gespräch

For the artist duo AROTIN & SERGHEI and the composer Brice Pauset, Hitchcock's Vertigo is an occasion to reflect on the perception of signals, sign language and on the Infinite Screen – the image matrix of our time. In the pluridisciplinary project developed together with Klangforum Wien, WDR and IRCAM – Centre Pompidou Paris, elements of Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece are transformed into a new intermedial musical and visual composition. Starting from the shock scenario at the beginning of the film and the masterpiece's colour symbolism, the artists lead the viewers through a hypnotic course, like an endless zoom, through a sequence of 12 immersive sound and image worlds, into a microcosm of neurons, pixels and splintered sound particles. In doing so, they expose the DNA of cinematographic narrative structure and open up traditional thought patterns to multidimensional perspectives with their new language of signs, images and sound.

For Brice Pauset, Hitchcock's Vertigo represents "the quintessence of what cinema owes to psychoanalysis, transforming this relationship into an intense parable of cognition". His work follows the film in many details: "The mock plot, the Pygmalion effect, the obsession with repetition, the regressive fascination of the legend and the fall."

Parallel to the concert, drawings and intermedial images by AROTIN & SERGHEI will be shown at Galerie Wienerroither & Kohlbacher in Vienna.