Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Lafia and Didi Fire, 2002). counters in Linz with rose-sellers, who Nazi Germany. It is characteristic for between her and “Franz” suffice to ba-
Two examples from a work biography offer flowers for sale in restaurants Dana Levy that this confrontation took lance the present and the past. History
with stations in several continents. in the evening. What represents to place with a focused gaze, without is not erased in this way: we have a
Levy has lived in the USA, studied in central European observers portraits resentment and at a very personal history, but history must not have us,
the UK, traveled by train from Peking of socially and economically discrimi- level. The video Time with Franz, as the Israeli writer Amos Oz has said.
to Mongolia, and she spent three nated people, usually invisible except with a soundtrack of recordings of the Finally After the End: elegantly
months in Linz. for the brief moment of waving them dilettante orchestra Linzer Philharmo- choreographed shots on five moni-
In the studio at O.K she edited mate- away (or, more rarely, sales transac- nie, tells of her friendship with a man tors of oil pumps in northern Lower
rial that she filmed during various tions), has an additional meaning for from Upper Austria, whose inherited Austria, their up and down movement
spiritual ceremonies in Israel, working Israelis. Many rose-sellers are Arabs, house contains cupboards and boxes set to the music of the sound of church
through the material and translating and in the image repertoire of the Isra- of photos with memorabilia from the bells in Linz. Made during the United
it into a circular projection (Last Mo- eli media, the Arab holds a projectile, period between 1938 and 1945, men in States’ war against Iraq, it is a pointed
ments Before). This post-production never a bunch of flowers. uniform, a tankard with a swastika. allusion: it is not only in the country
was only the beginning of an intensive It is clear that confrontations of a Levy’s camera attentively registers where Levy lives that the crossroads
phase of work. The photo series Un- different kind had to take place in all of that, yet a few shots from the for political decisions are named
titled Series documents Levy‘s en- Austria – in the territory of former window, a few sentences exchanged “economy” and “belief”.
After The End, 2003
5 DVDs looped, 5 Monitore/monitors
Installationsansicht/Installation shot
O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Videostills
Last Moments Before, 2003
Videostills
DVD, Tisch/table, 5 Lautsprecher/speakers
Sound Design by Michael Schweiger
Videoinstallation O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst
Untitled Series, 2003
7 Farbfotografien / color photographs
Je / each 21 x 28 cm
Artist in Residence
2003 Februar–May, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz/A
2001 October, Atlantic Center of the Arts, with Alan Berliner and
Andrea Wiess, Florida/USA
2000 July, New Media residency Polar Circuit 3, University of
Lapland, Rovenimi/FN
Dana Levy
26.2.-27.5.03
Das O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst The O.K Center for Contemporary
Oberösterreich ist ein Experimental- Art is an experimental laboratory
labor in Sachen Kunst. Es hat die in matters of art. It has especially
Herausforderungen an ein zeitgenössi- taken up the challenges that face
sches Kunsthaus in besonderer Weise an institution of contemporary art
angenommen und konzentriert sich today and focuses explicitly on
nicht nur auf die Präsentation, sondern the production of art works, rather
auch ausdrücklich auf die Produktion than on presentation. The Artists in
von künstlerischen Arbeiten. In den Residence programs offer a mostly
„Artists in Residence“-Programmen younger generation of transregionally
wird einer zumeist jüngeren Gene- interesting and internationally active
ration von überregional interessan- artists a public platform, infrastruc-
ten und international arbeitenden ture and laboratory situation in one
KünstlerInnen öffentliche Plattform, – from the development of an artistic
Infrastruktur und Laborsituation in idea to its implementation. The invited
einem geboten – von der Entwicklung artists, whose residence generally
einer künstlerischen Idee bis zu ihrer lasts three months, are discursively
Ausführung. Die im Regelfall dreimo- accompanied by the O.K curators
natigen Residence-Aufenthalte der and supported by an experienced
eingeladenen KünstlerInnen werden production team.
von den O.K-KuratorInnen diskursiv
begleitet und von einem erfahrenen
Produktionsteam betreut.