Carola Dertnig

About the artist

Born in Innsbruck, lives and works in Vienna. Was a participant in the 1997 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. She is currently teaching Performance Art at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna and has been teaching as a Guestprofessor at Cal ARTS in Los Angeles. Dertnig´s video work has appeared in several exhibitions and festivals at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Oberhausen, New York and the Secession in Vienna.

Films

  • Some Exercise In Complex Seeing Is Needed, 3'

    This three-minute film is marked with cultural “isms” of the past two centuries. This can be taken both as its fault and its merit. The daring swimmer submerges and emerges, alone against the water's current, but is she actually against the current of meanings produced in the audio layer? The fear of being overwhelmed by them is indeed a bother, one wishes to escape, and the current is relentless. It makes its way mercilessly into the ears with its monotonous rhythm. The framework for this performance was made with the “rhythmisms” of several artistic generations.

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