Parallax Views on Architecture: Franz Pomassl
Montag, 27. Mai 2013 - 19:00 Uhr
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Franz Pomassl will give an introduction to his artistic approach, in his lecture he will reflect on the relation between sound, space, perception, physics, and the body based on a selection of his site-specific sonic installation works for the public space and beyond.
His work has been widely shown and performed in several essential exhibition projects on the contemporary art and sound scene worldwide in leading museums and public spaces such as Manifesta 2 Luxemburg (1998), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2002/2010), Arsenal Centre of Actual Art Nizhny Novgorod (2007), MUMOK Vienna (2008), TBA21 Vienna (2011-2012), ZKM Media Museum Karlsruhe (2012-2013) and at major festivals including ARS Electronica Linz (1997/2008), Sonar Barcelona (2002), MUTEK Montreal (2005), Sonic Acts Amsterdam (2008/2013), Steirischer Herbst Graz (2001/2012), Donaufestival and Kontraste Krems (2013).
Franz Pomassl is an sonic artist, electronic musician, sound curator, academic lecturer and researcher. He is a founder and head of the Research Laboratories for Sound/Soundstudio at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he is a lecturer on Sound and Art at the Institute of Fine Arts. He is a co-founder and member of autonomous research consortia ISSA (International Society for Sonic Arts) and IKT (Department of Art and Technology), runs the record label Laton.
Parallax Views on Architecture
Parallax is the displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object caused by a new line of sight. We all use this difference to gain depth perception. Astronomers use it to define the distance and outline of far away objects. Meanwhile Slavoj Zizek argues that the parallax gap causes not only an “epistemological” shift in the subject's point of view, but always reflects an “ontological” shift in the object itself, as subject and object are inherently mediated.
In seeking the oscillation between focus and productive indeterminacy, this year’s lecture series at the Institute of Art and Architecture examines the production of space from multiple points of view. And as nearby objects have a larger parallax than distant ones, we invite artists and researchers working in our immediate proximity–artists and researchers within the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna–who look at the subject of architecture and urbanism implicitly or explicitly in their work. As a result the lecture series will offer an array of alternate positions coexisting within the Academy and create a platform for transdisciplinary discussions at the intersection between art and architecture. (Stefan Gruber)
Lectures:
18.03.2013 Elke Krasny, Curator
15.03.2013 Andreas Spiegl, Theorist
25.04.2013 Nicole Timm, Scenographer
27.05.2013 Franz Pomassl, Sound Artist
10.06.2013 Moira Hille, Artist