Split Reality

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© Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg © Bildrecht, Photo: Werner Kaligofsky

VALIE EXPORT

Split Reality, 1970

"Video-Gedicht" nach einer Demonstration von 1970, "Intermedia", "Expanded Cinema"

Video installation Video player, video monitor, video, black and white, sound, record player, single-record including cover (Frank Sinatra "Strangers in the Night") Metal rack, 120 x 69 x 60 cm 2 min 40 sec

GF0000236.00.0-1995

Artwork text

1967: project for a demonstration: a record is played, inaudible to the audience. I listen to it with earphones and sing for the audience. (Strangers in the Night, Sinatra). Reproduction of a reproduction qua directness. (VALIE EXPORT)

Lending history
2011 Bregenz, AT, Kunsthaus (KUB) 2007 Vienna, AT, Österreichisches Filmmuseum 2005 Munich, DE, Haus der Kunst 2005 Zagreb, CRO, Galerija Klovicevi Dvori 2004 Sevilla, ES, Centro Andaluz de Arte Cont. (CAAC) 2004 Geneva, CH, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain 2003 Paris, F, Centre de la Photography 2002 Berlin, DE, Freie Akademie der Künste 2002 Aarau, CH, Forum Schlossplatz 2001 Los Angeles, CA, USA, Museum of Art St. Monica 2000 Innsbruck, AT, Galerie im Taxispalais