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we sat rigid
except for the parts of our bodies that were needed for production Sandra Lahire - Celeste Burlina 09/04 - 29/05/2022 opening 08/04, 18:00 Grazer Kunstverein is delighted to present we sat rigid except for the parts of our bodies that were needed for production, an exhibition that convenes the work of the late British experimental filmmaker Sandra Lahire (1950-2001) and the Italian artist and designer Celeste Burlina (b. 1988). Coming from two distinct eras of feminist practice, their piercing meditations on the porosity of the body, labor, and environmental trouble enter into joint fabulation. we sat rigid… is host to six recently restored films by Lahire. Her galvanizing handling of the celluloid moving image addresses the ways in which capital and patriarchy mold and deplete vital faculties of the (female) body, the earth, and ultimately the moving image itself. Celeste Burlina responds by way of an architectural intervention and echoes Lahire’s cinematic exploration of mining, industrial production, and female labor. Attentive to the ways infrastructure enables or obstructs the gathering of bodies and their circulation, Burlina’s proposition cuts through the three galleries of the Kunstverein. At once, the structure serves as a support for Lahire’s moving image and interrogates the body of the Kunstverein as such. On the occasion of the exhibition, Grazer Kunstverein will publish we sat rigid…, the first in a series of small volumes of correspondence, responses, and conversations. It includes contributions by Celeste Burlina, Tom Engels, Laura Guy, Calla Henkel, Charlotte Procter, Kerstin Schroedinger, and Miriam Stoney. we sat rigid… is the first exhibition curated by Grazer Kunstverein’s newly appointed Artistic Director, Tom Engels. It also marks the start of the collaboration with Julie Peeters, graphic designer, and Sophie Rentien Lando, web developer. The exhibition is developed with the support of LUX, London. Exhibition Events Soft Resource concert by Rosa Anschütz, 08/04, 21:00 In Resonance: The Golden Pixel Cooperative and Sandra Lahire screening and conversation, 09/04, 17:30 at Schubertkino A Lifeline of Lovers’ Conversations screening and conversation, 10/04, 14:00 Linear X performance program, 13-15/05 |
 Sandra Lahire, Serpent River (still), 1989. Courtesy of the artist and LUX, London |
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