People will come if the pictures move (The Program), Sun. Jul. 27, from 17:00, 2025
In the words of Nora Schultz
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How much time do we have?
Pay attention… time is running out.
On Sunday the 27th of July our publication will be launched* with a sequence of performances & appearances in honour of the artworks in the spaces AE.24 & AE.25, the balcony opposite, & the hallways directly nearby. We hope to offer voice to the thoughts & processes of the present.
Those present will be:
CARMEN
Chalo Schwaiger
EDWKW
Eunji Song
focus baby
Giovanni Pozzobon
Inyoung Chung
Irin Ha
Jakob Langreiter
Léa Manoussakis di-Bona
Lily Tischer
Philippe Hansen
Romi Schnitzler
Shaghayegh Chamani
Yiyuan Zhang
Yonas Moeller
Young Ju Ha
Including all those who join us,
…& all those who are absent.
Your absence is an active one.
For more than a year now we have been paying attention, & also thinking about duration.
How much time do you have?
That time has its paradoxes will be evident to whomever has thought about it at any length. Thought is itself entangled in time. It takes time. The fact it takes place in the present is a complicated notion in that its ‘present’ is plastic. It takes time (& space) & stretches, bends & compresses it.
For more than a year now we have been paying attention to the work of Tony Conrad & his associates. Our time has been named COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT since April last year.
We began with Conrad’s Yellow Movies (1973). 3 modified versions of these movies adorn the outsides of 3 parts of the publication we have made. The friends & associates of Conrad, along with some of the people that have inspired & accompanied us during during this time also adorn these outsides with the sentiments.
We’d like to thank each & all of them:
Constance DeJong
Anne Turyn
Nora Schultz
Klasse Schultz AdBK Wien
Enver Hadzijaj
Anke Dyes
Stefanie Hamann
Adrian Djukić
Martin Beck
Will Holder
Florian Hecker
Nadja Ayoub & Kunstraum Schwaz
Larry 7
Some echoes of our PRESENT are printed on the pages of People will come if the pictures move (The Publication), Stammhaus Verlag (2025).
Previous & upcoming events include:
People will come if the pictures move (The Rehearsal), Feb. 1st 16:00––20:00, 2025
People will come if the pictures move (The Program), Sun. Jul. 27, ab 17 Uhr, 2025
*People will come if the pictures move (The Publication) will be available at a discounted price of 35 Euros during the launch.
