Experiencing Interruptions?

Laboratory of the Exo/ Endo corpus

The film deals with organic and technical fibers, with hair, roads, high voltage wires, musical strings, tubes, cables, threads, lines and spouts as „paths of energy“ . In the guise of a contemporary techno-myth it projects a horizon of complex interrelationsships between bodies, powers and spaces. Its starting point or central set is the huge installation Elisabeth von Samsonow created for the Dominican Church in Krems, Lower Austria, in 2016. This installation consists of five monumental (violin)bridges, twelve strings of 24 m lenght and twelve automatic playing devices. This construction engages with the architecture of the church as its inner operator that likely turns the architectural body inside out. The logic of the film is based on association, caleidoscopic permutation and confusion. The sound uses original footage recorded during a performance in the installation in october 2016.

  • Elisabeth von Samsonow
    Director
  • Elisabeth von Samsonow
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Other
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 11, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    17,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Viennale
    Vienna
    Austria
    October 24, 2017
    short film roll
  • Athens Digital Art Festival
    Athens
    Greece
    May 21, 2017
    Experimental
  • Welcome to the Postfuture
    Venice
    Italy
    January 21, 2029
    selected video artwork
  • ZKM Karlsruhe
    Karlsruhe
    Germany
    June 23, 2917
    selected experimental video
Director Biography - Elisabeth von Samsonow

Elisabeth von Samsonow started teaching philosophy at the University in Munich in 1995 while she was a student in the studios of Eduardo Paolozzi and Daniel Spoerri who had held chairs at the Munich art academy that time. She won an upcoming artist prize of the State of Upper Bavaria in 1986. Since 1996 she holds the chair of philosophy and art anthropology at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her recent works comprise installations, videos and performances arranged around her sculptures, as „Xylo Twittering“ (Berlin 2013), „The Nervous System of the Earth“ (Vienna 2014), Living Currency (Thessaloniki 2014), „Horse’s Glory“ (ART BOX, MQ Vienna 2015), „DISLIKE MYSELF TERROR ACT/ WANT MYSELF BEAUTIFUL DESIRE SCULPT“ (MAK Vienna 2016) and „LES BALLETS RUSSES PRESENT THE ANTI ELECTRA OF ELISABETH VON SAMSONOW“ (Solyanka State Gallery Moscow 2017). Her video work „LABORATORY OF THE EXO/ ENDO CORPUS“ was screened at the THE PHOTOPHORE festival at Athens and at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2017), at the VIENNALE 2017 and in SPAZIO RODOTTO, Venice, at the occasion oft he show „Coming back tot he Postfuture“.

Elisabeth von Samsonow lehrte Philosophie an der Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität und war Gast in den Ateliers von Eduardo Paolozzi und Daniel Spoerri an der Akademie der bildenden Künste in München. Für Ihre Debütausstellung (1986) wurde ihr ein Förderpreis des Bayerischen Kulturministeriums zuerkannt. Seit 1996 hat sie den Lehrstuhl für Philosophische und Historische Anthropologie der Kunst an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien inne. Ihre jüngeren Arbeiten umfassen Installationen, Videos und Performances, die sie um ihre Skulpturen arrangiert, wie beispielsweise „Xylo Twittering“ (Berlin 2013), „The Nervous System of the Earth“ (Wien 2014), „Lebende Münze“ (Thessaloniki 2014), „Horse’s Glory“ (ART BOX MQ Wien 2015), „Dislike Myself Terror Act/ Want Myself Beautiful Desire Sculpt““ (MAK Wien 2016) und „Les Ballets Russes present: Anti Electra von Elisabeth von Samsonow“ (Solyanka State Gallery Moskau 2017).
Ihr Film „Laboratory of the Exo/ Endo Corpus“ wurde auf dem Digital Arts Festival in Athen (2017), am ZKM in Karlsruhe (2017), auf der VIENNALE 2017 und in der Ausstellung „Coming back to Postfuture“ im Spazio Ridotto in Venedig gezeigt (2018).

Filmografie:
Horse’s Glory (Austria 2015, 20‘26)
In the Forest (Austria 2016, 24‘10)
Laboratory of the Exo/ Endo Corpus (Austria 2017, 12‘40)
Spring Rites (Austria 2017, 15‘12)
THE PARENTS‘ BEDROOM SHOW (Austria 2018, 20‘)

www.samsonow.net
https://kunstanthropologie.akbild.ac.at


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Director Statement

My film wants to make you vibrate like an electric cable.