An art exhibition at the MUSA in Vienna tries to challenge our daily obsession
with bodily “beauty” > full text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
Archive for Austria
“Beauty Contest”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, beauty, exhibition, Vienna on 10 March 2012 by delclemAttacks, re-interpretations & body images
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, experimental film, retrospective on 28 February 2012 by delclem
Until 27 March every Tuesday is a must-go movie day on which the Viennese organisation sixpackfilm takes a closer look at the development of Austrian experimental cinema in the Filmhauskino. >More info (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
“Whores’ Glory”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bangladesh, documentary, film, Mexico, Michael Glawogger, prostitution, sex workers, Thailand on 26 February 2012 by delclem
“Whore’s Glory is the last movie in Austrian director Michael Glawogger’s trilogy about the globalization of the proletariat, which also includes Megacities (1998) and Workingman’s Death (2005). It deals with prostitution inside three culturally different environments (Thailand, Bangladesh, Mexico), stepping deeper into the world’s oldest profession than any film before.” >MORE / interview, stills, trailer
(c) bturn, 2012 (reblogged)
Undead anniversary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, cultural history, Enlightenment, Medvedja, Serbia, Vampire, Vampirism on 22 February 2012 by delclem
The European vampire is celebrating his/her/its birthday.
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On a winter day 280 years ago, a creature came out of its dark graves in the Balkans, into the bright day of the “enlightened” European public: the vampire.
Mozart : Vienna = love/hate
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Mozart, Music, Vienna on 17 February 2012 by delclem
“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, most probably Austria’s most famous composer ever, is famous all over the world. Equally well-known is the fact that he often experienced financial difficulties. It would be incorrect, however, to assume that his debts were solely the result of his extravagant lifestyle. The temporary exhibition ‘Between Fear and Hope – Mozart’s rise and fall in Viennese society’ in the historic Mozarthaus in the first district shows how his career was not all a bed of roses.”
>article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
“Naked Glory”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Great Britain, Lucian Freud, painting on 15 February 2012 by delclem
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1913, Austria, cartoon, Vienna on 12 February 2012 by delclem
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
Gesamtkunstwerk in Vienna & London
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, exhibition, Gesamtkunstwerk, Vienna on 5 February 2012 by delclem
“The 21er Haus, a museum which opened in Vienna last November, is dedicating its second exhibition to the utopia of the “total work of art”; this aims at inspiring discourse.” Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
WW2 Eyewitnesses from the Weinviertel
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, history, National Socialsm, Second World War, Soviet Union, Weinviertel on 4 February 2012 by delclem
“In the new documentary by Simon Wieland Heil Hitler – Die Russen kommen (‘Heil Hitler – The Russians Are Coming’) eyewitnesses recount their individual stories under the swastika and Soviet star. Following a successful road tour through the Weinviertel in Lower Austria, the film will be on general release in Austria from 27 January.” Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
FAUST is Austrian Russian
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alexander Sokurov, Austria, Faust, Germany, Goethe, Johannes Zeiler, Russia on 22 January 2012 by delclem
“There are only few literary figures that are always good at enflaming passions and inciting debates. One of these immortals is Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Faust. The desperate scholar has conquered countless theatres and his pact with Mephisto has been sealed in a number of films.
Most recently, the Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov developed a fascinating new interpretation of the myth for his film Faust for which he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival … The alchemist, who teeters on the brink of the abyss, is wonderfully played by Viennese actor Johannes Zeiler.”
> interview (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
delirium clemens 