Ann Oren in Conversation with
Viktor Neumann
Discussion in Connection with the Exhibition
Passage
9 December 2020
Maschinenhaus M0
Video Artist Talk
With her film shot on 16mm and transferred to video, the artist presents a portrait of both the horse’s body and the foley artist, while alluding to Eadweard Muybridge’s early film experiments in which he conducted motion studies on racehorses. As the character in the film, played by the gender fluid performer Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, seems to transform into a gender-defying centaur, Oren reflects on the boundaries between the human and the animal as well as on fictional gender roles and their transcendence.
As part of the exhibition, a discussion between Ann Oren and Viktor Neumann took place at the KINDL on 9 December 2020. Due to the current pandemic, it was recorded in camera.
Viktor Neumann (* 1985 in Berlin) is an art historian and curator. He has curated exhibitions and projects for institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Bildmuseet Umeå; Kunstmuseum Bonn; National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Yekaterinburg, and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. He was Curatorial Assistant for documenta 14 Public Programs and Assistant Curator for the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Recently, he was curatorial core group member of the Bergen Assembly 2019 and co-curator of the Parliament of Bodies. Currently, he is *Kurator-stipend of the Gebert Stiftung für Kultur and is working on exhibitions and projects for the Württembergischen Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Currently, he is guest professor for Curatorial Studies at the HfG Karlsruhe.
Ann Oren (* 1979 in Tel Aviv) lives in Berlin. Her films and video installations are shown inter-nationally at venues including the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (both 2020); the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2019); the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2016); the Wro Art Center Biennale in Wrocław (2013); the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2010) and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2006).
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