Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz

Sun, 4 May 2014 18:30
at PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art

On view
4 May 2014

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz

On Sunday 4 May at 18:30, two films by the artist duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz (Switzerland/Germany), Toxic (2012) and To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation (2013), will be screened at PRAXES, followed by a three-way discussion between the filmmakers and Falke Pisano.
Toxic explores ideas of toxicity—substances and people that threaten and destabilize conventional notions of purity and stability—to propose a question: what happens if film and photography, instead of chemical substances, are understood from a perspective of toxicity? Questioning the possibilities and limits of a politics of musical and filmic forms, the second filmed screened features six performers who follow the score “To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation“—a piece that values unpredictable and unknowable possibilities by not specifying pitches and rhythms, so that nothing is known in advance of making the music.

Falke Pisano’s exhibition Cycle is curated by Elena Tzotzi and the PRAXES Directors. As always, admission at PRAXES is free. Dancing and intoxicated behavior permitted, love potions and other drinks for purchase.